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| 2491. | The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3 by Alexander Pope | | Close by those meads, for ever crown'd with flow'rs,
Where Thames with pride surveys his rising tow'rs,
There stands a structure of majestic frame,... |
| 2492. | The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4 by Alexander Pope | | But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd,
And secret passions labour'd in her breast.
Not youthful kings in battle seiz'd alive,
Not scornful... |
| 2493. | The Rape of the Lock: Canto 5 by Alexander Pope | | She said: the pitying audience melt in tears,
But Fate and Jove had stopp'd the Baron's ears.
In vain Thalestris with reproach assails,
For who ca... |
| 2494. | Two Or Three: A Recipe To Make A Cuckold by Alexander Pope | | Two or three visits, and two or three bows,
Two or three civil things, two or three vows,
Two or three kisses, with two or three sighs,
Two or thre... |
| 2495. | You Know Where You Did Despise by Alexander Pope | | You know where you did despise
(Tother day) my little Eyes,
Little Legs, and little Thighs,
And some things, of little Size,
You know where.
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| 2497. | Prosody 101 by Linda Pastan | | When they taught me that what mattered most
was not the strict iambic line goose-stepping
over the page but the variations
in that line and the ten... |
| 2498. | The Happiest Day by Linda Pastan | | It was early May, I think
a moment of lilac or dogwood
when so many promises are made
it hardly matters if a few are broken.
My mother and father ... |
| 2499. | Self-Portrait by Linda Pastan | | After Adam Zagajewski
I am child to no one, mother to a few,
wife for the long haul.
On fall days I am happy
with my dying brethren, the lea... |
| 2500. | Jump Cabling by Linda Pastan | | When our cars touched
When you lifted the hood of mine
To see the intimate workings underneath,
When we were bound together
By a pulse of pure ene... |
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