Gedichten uit de wereldliteratuur/Engelse gedichten eerste versregel
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- "Best image of myself, and dearer half" (John Milton: Paradise Lost)
- "Come, madam, come, all rest my powers defy"
- "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee/ Mighty and dreadful"
- "Do not go gentle into that good night"
- "Do not stand at my grave and weep"
- "Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Of five long winters!"
- "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"
- "I had a dream, which was not all a dream"
- I went alone into a shepherd's boat
- "Let the bird of loudest lay, On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste wings obey."
- "Marke but this flea, and marke in this"
- "Not marching now in fields of Thrasymene" (Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus)
- "Of comfort no man speak! Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs"
- "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit"
- "Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze"
- "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"
- "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,"
- "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
- "Sing Heav'nly Muse"
- "The curtains were half drawn, the floor was swept"
- "To be or not to be, that is the question" (versdrama)
- "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"
- "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright / In the forests of the night"
- "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote"
- "Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships"
- "Whose woods these are I think I know"