Best Ottava Rimas
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1.
"Among School Children," by William Butler Yeats
11 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
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"O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,/ How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 1 point
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"Sailing to Byzantium," by William Butler Yeats
6 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
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"An aged man is but a paltry thing,/ A tattered coat upon a stick, unless/ Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing/ For every tatter it its moral dress"
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 1 point
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"Isabella, or The Pot of Basil," by John Keats
4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
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"O Melancholy, linger here a while!/ O Music, Music, breathe despondingly!/ O Echo, Echo, from some sombre isle,/ Unknown, Lethean, sigh to us--O sigh!"
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 1 point
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"Epigram XLI," by Sir Thomas Wyatt
4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
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"Made her own weapon do her finger bleed/ To feel if pricking were so good indeed."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 1 point
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"Don Juan: Canto the First," by Lord Byron
4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
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"Wedded she was some years and to a man/ Of fifty, and such husbands are in plenty;/ And yet I think instead of such a one/ 'Twere better to have two of five and twenty."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 1 point
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"Don Juan: Canto the Eighth," by Lord Byron
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"Don Juan: Canto the Twelfth," by Lord Byron
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"Don Juan: Canto the Second," by Lord Byron
0 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Don Juan: Canto the Eleventh," by Lord Byron
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"Don Juan: Canto the Fourth," by Lord Byron
-3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Epistle to Augusta," by Lord Byron
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"Don Juan: Dedication," by Lord Byron
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