So long as men can breathe,

or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this
gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18
by William Shakespeare

A little learning is a
dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the
Pierian spring.
Essay on Criticism
by Alexander Pope

And yet, by heaven, I think my

love as rare
As any she belied with false
compare.
Sonnet 130
by William Shakespeare

Do not stand at my grave and

cry:
I am not there; I did not die.
Do not stand at my grave and weep
by Mary Elizabeth Frye

Proclaimed the time was

neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted
with the night.
Acquainted with the Night
by Robert Frost

Of childish days is upon me,

my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of
remembrance, I weep like a
child for the past.
Piano
by D.H. Lawrence

For I have sworn thee fair and

thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as
dark as night.
Sonnet 147
by William Shakespeare

Of the wide world I stand

alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to
nothingness do sink.
When I have fears that I may cease to be
by John Keats

The Heroic Couplet