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Poem by Samuel Johnson
Lines
Wheresoe'er I turn my view,
All is strange, yet nothing new;
Endless labour all along,
Endless labour to be wrong;
Phrase that time has flung away,
Uncouth words in disarray,
Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
1777
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson's other poems:- To Myrtilis - The New Year's Offering
- To Mrs. Thrale on Her Completing Her Thirty-Fifth Year
- Parody of a Translation from the Medea of Euripides
- To Miss --
- On Hearing Miss Thrale Consulting with a Friend About a Gown and Hat
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John Keats Lines ("UNFELT unheard, unseen") Thomas Hood Lines ("Let Us Make a Leap, My Dear") Robert Burns Lines ("I MURDER hate by field or flood") 1790Thomas Hardy Lines ("Before we part to alien thoughts and aims") John Lockhart Lines ("When youthful faith hath fled") Joseph Drake Lines ("Day gradual fades, in evening gray") George Morris Lines ("O Love! the mischief thou hast done!") Oliver Holmes Lines ("COME back to your mother, ye children, for shame") Francis Thompson Lines ("O tree of many branches! One thou hast") Thomas Talfourd Lines ("HOW simple in their grandeur are the forms ") John Reade Lines ("I KNELT down as I poured my spirit forth by that gray gate") Samuel Coleridge Lines ("RICHER than miser o’er his countless hoards") William Wordsworth Lines ("STRANGER! this hillock of misshapen stones") Ebenezer Elliott Lines ("FROM Shirecliffe, o’er a silent sea of trees") Letitia Landon Lines ("She kneels by the grave where her lover sleeps") William Watson Lines (" Go, Verse, nor let the grass of tarrying grow") Richard Trench Lines ("When we are dark and dead")
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