Oh! that the desert were my dwelling place.

-Lord Byron,
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto IV, 1816





Eyes of the Ocean

Still as a slave before his lord,
The ocean hath no blast;
His great bright eye most silently
Up to the Moon is cast--

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner





Ghastly Crew

They raised their limbs like lifeless tools--
We were a ghastly crew.

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1798





Fields Laid Bare

Thou saw the fields laid bare and waste,
An'weary winter comin'fast,

-Robert Burns,
To a Mouse, 1785





Etheral Flames

Yet am not I deterr'd, though high the theme,
And sung to harps of angels, for with you,
Ethereal flames! ambitious, I aspire
In Nature's general symphony to join.

-James Thomson,
A Poem Sacred to the Memory
of Sir Isaac Newton
, 1727





The Flathouse Roof

I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine.
But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.

-Nathalia Crane, The Flathouse Roof





Two Moons

Secure, with only two moons listening,
Until the whole harmonious landscape rang

-Edwin Arlington Robinson,
Mr. Flood's Party






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