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Poems About Desire
Classic poems about desire, each in full with a plain summary and an original analysis.
Frost
Byron
Teasdale
Keats
Donne9 poems
After Apple-PickingMy long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree
Robert Frost
Lyric
Don Juan (Canto I — Selected Excerpts)I want a hero: an uncommon want,
Lord Byron
Fire and IceSome say the world will end in fire,
Robert Frost
Lyric
I Am Not YoursI am not yours, not lost in you,
Sara Teasdale
Lyric
La Belle Dame sans Merci“O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
John Keats
Ballad
So, We’ll Go No More a RovingSo we’ll go no more a-roving
Lord Byron
Lyric
The FleaMark but this flea, and mark in this,
John Donne
Lyric
The KissI hoped that he would love me,
Sara Teasdale
Lyric
Wild Nights – Wild Nights!Wild nights! Wild nights!
Emily Dickinson
Lyric
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