A couple lines

From my favorite pieces I've read this semester.

"I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree

Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me

Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse"

- "I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

"This is sound reasoning, I grant, in the mouth of the rich and short-sighted"

- "Vindication of the Rights of Men" by Mary Wollstonecraft

"In moody sadness, on the giddy brink,

I see him more with envy than with fear;

He has no nice felicities that shrink

From giant horrors..."

- "On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic" by Charlotte Smith

"But they are dead; those two are dead!

Their spirits are in heaven!

'Twas throwing words away; for still

The little Maid would have her will,

And said, Naw, we are seven!"

- "We Are Seven" by William Wordsworth (the only Wordsworth poem I liked)

"Water, water, every where

And all the boards did shrink;

Water, water, every where

Not any drop to drink"

- "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Coleridge

"Prisons are build with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion."

- "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" by William Blake

"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time

I have been half in love with easeful death,

Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme

To take into the air my quiet breath"

- Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats

Those are a couple excepts so far. My favorite has been William Blake's "Marriage of Heaven and Hell" and Robert Browning's dramatic monologues (Poryphyria's Lover, My Last Duchess, etc) which I didn't quote because really, the poems have to be whole to be as awesome.