Text of the Poem | The Sun Rising by John Donne Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late school boys and sour prentices, Go tell court huntsmen that the king will ride, … Read more
Text of the Poem: The Sick Rose O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. Introduction of the Poem: The Sick Rose is one of William … Read more
Text to the Poem | Ode to a Nightingale My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: ‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine … Read more
Text of the Poem: The Holy Thursday Twas on a Holy Thursday their innocent faces clean The children walking two & two in red & blue & green Grey-headed beadles walkd before with wands as white as snow, Till into the high dome of Pauls they like Thames waters flow O what a multitude … Read more
Among Chaucer’s pilgrims, there were two female characters, one from ecclesiastical class and second from common domestic society of females. Chaucer satirizes both characters for their non-feministic attitude towards life and one is religiously corrupt and second is morally corrupt. Let us analyze both characters individually. The Nun (Prioress) in Canterbury Tales Like the other … Read more
Text of the Poem | Ode to Autumn Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, … Read more
John Donne was an English poet, a soldier, and a scholar. He was born on January 22, 1572, in London. His family was a recusant Roman Catholic, and at that time, that religion was illegal in UK. His father’s name was the same as him. Donne received his early education privately. He joined Hertford College, … Read more
Text of the Poem: The Little Black Boy My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child: But I am black as if bereav’d of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree And sitting down before … Read more
Text of the Poem: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say The breath goes now, and some say, No: So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move; ‘Twere profanation of … Read more
Text of the Poem | The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No … Read more