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Subject - Beauty
Some of these poems attempt to define
beauty or to explore the intangible qualities that make something
beautiful, others simply extol the virtues of something that the poet
finds beautiful.
Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?' - Carl Sandburg
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Beauty
by Mathilde Blind
can beauty survive mortality?
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I Love All Beauteous Things
by Robert Bridges
man is drawn to beauty
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"For Beauty Being the Best of All We Know"
by Robert Bridges
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My Star
by Robert Browning
not everyone perceives the same beauty
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Seeking Beauty
by W. H. Davies
to seek beauty gives life meaning
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Pied Beauty
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
seeming imperfections actually create beauty
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God's Grandeur
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
God ceaselessly renews the earth's beauty even when it is marred by man
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
by John Keats
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
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Ode on Melancholy
by John Keats
beauty is the consequence of transience
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A Thing of Beauty
by John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
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Beauty
by John Masefield
what is the most beautiful?
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When Thy Beauty Appears
by Thomas Parnell
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Sonnet CXXX: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
by William Shakespeare
it is love which creates beauty
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Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thou, that to human thought art nourishment
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Amoretti Sonnet III
by Edmund Spenser
beauty so intense that words fail
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Beauty
by Edward Thomas
beauty lies in nature
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What Cunning Can Express
by Edward De Vere
Her virtues so do shine
As day unto mine eyne.
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Beauty
by Elinor Wylie
beauty is innocent and wild
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