Sir William Stevenson (1530 - 1575) was a English poet. Born in Durham, England, he became a clergyman and author. Famous quotation: "I am so wrapped, and throughly lapped of jolly good ale and old! " Gammer Gurton’s Needle: Drinking Song (attributed to Stevenson and to Still) The Columbia World of Quotations.
i used to think
I used to think
The mind essential in the body, even
As stood the body essential in the mi...[read poem]
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The mind essential in the body, even
As stood the body essential in the mi...
back and side go bare
Back and side go bare, go bare,
Both foot and hand go cold;
But, bell...[read poem]
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Both foot and hand go cold;
But, bell...
be still. the hanging gardens were a dream
Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream
That over Persian roses flew to kiss
The curl&e...[read poem]
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That over Persian roses flew to kiss
The curl&e...
sir, say no more
Sir, say no more.
Within me 't is as if
The green and climbing eyesight of a cat
Crawled near my mind's poor birds.
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Within me 't is as if
The green and climbing eyesight of a cat
Crawled near my mind's poor birds.
service
Chide me not, darling, that I sing
Familiar thoughts and metres old:
Nay, do not scold...[read poem]
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Familiar thoughts and metres old:
Nay, do not scold...
tho' lack of laurels and of wreaths not one
Tho' lack of laurels and of wreaths not one
Prove you our lives abortive, shall we yet
Vau...[read poem]
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Prove you our lives abortive, shall we yet
Vau...
live blindly and upon the hour
Live blindly and upon the hour. The Lord,
Who was the Future, died full long ago.
Knowledg...[read poem]
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Who was the Future, died full long ago.
Knowledg...
six o'clock
Now burst above the city's cold twilight
The piercing whistles and the tower-clocks:
For d...[read poem]
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The piercing whistles and the tower-clocks:
For d...
i hear a river thro' the valley wander
I hear a river thro' the valley wander
Whose water runs, the song alone remaining.
A rainbow stands and summer passes under.
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Whose water runs, the song alone remaining.
A rainbow stands and summer passes under.
leave him now quiet by the way
Leave him now quiet by the way
To rest apart.
I know what draws him to the dust alway...[read poem]
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To rest apart.
I know what draws him to the dust alway...
the passions that we fought with and subdued
The passions that we fought with and subdued
Never quite die. In some maimed serpent's coil...[read poem]
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Never quite die. In some maimed serpent's coil...
mnemosyne
It 's autumn in the country I remember.
How warm a wind blew here about the ways!
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How warm a wind blew here about the ways!
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near helikon
By such an all-embalming summer day
As sweetens now among the mountain pines
Down to the c...[read poem]
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As sweetens now among the mountain pines
Down to the c...
you say, columbus with his argosies
You say, Columbus with his argosies
Who rash and greedy took the screaming main
And vanish...[read poem]
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Who rash and greedy took the screaming main
And vanish...
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