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Fate

76 poems

The fate you cannot escape: poems about destiny, from ancient tragedy to doomed loves. Read them on Loëly.

“No one cares less than I” [Bugle Call]

Edward Thomas

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A Hymn

Harriet Monroe

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A Sea-Spell

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Arabesque

Emma Lazarus

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Ask Me No More

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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At Lulworth Cove a Century Back

Thomas Hardy

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Before Marching and After

Thomas Hardy

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Book I

Publius Virgile

L’ÉNÉIDE

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Book I - O parent goddess

Homère

L'iliade

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Book I - Tell me, oh Muse, of that ingenious hero

Homère

L'Odyssée

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Book I - The wrath of Peleus' son

Homère

L'iliade

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Book II - Fly hence, deluding Dream

Homère

L'iliade

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Book II - The phantom said; then vanished from his sight

Homère

L'iliade

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Book III - Approach, my child, and grace thy father's side

Homère

L'iliade

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Book III - Atrides then his massy lance prepares

Homère

L'iliade

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Book IV - Such were his Looks, so gracefully he spoke

Publius Virgile

L’ÉNÉIDE

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Book IV - Thus, while he spoke, already She began

Publius Virgile

L’ÉNÉIDE

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Book IX - When we got to the land, which was not far

Homère

L'Odyssée

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Book V - Thereon he gathered his clouds together, grasped his trident

Homère

L'Odyssée

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Book VI - Then thus reply'd the Prophetess Divine

Publius Virgile

L’ÉNÉIDE

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Book X - Thence we went on to the Æolian island

Homère

L'Odyssée

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Book XI - Then came also the ghost of Theban Teiresias

Homère

L'Odyssée

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Book XII - We reached the noble island of the sun-god

Homère

L'Odyssée

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Book XIX - Listen, then, to a dream that I have had

Homère

L'Odyssée

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Book XVI - Lie there, Patroclus

Homère

L'iliade

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Book XVIII - A flood of tears, at this, the goddess shed

Homère

L'iliade

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Book XX - When Hector viewed the unhappy Polydore

Homère

L'iliade

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Book XXIV - The sacred sire of gods and mortal man

Homère

L'iliade

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Canto III - Once more upon the waters!

George Gordon Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Chance

Helen Hunt Jackson

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Days

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Destiny

Emma Lazarus

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Experience

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Failure

Rupert Brooke

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Fate

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Follow Thy Fair Sun

Thomas Campion

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For ever, Fortune

James Thomson

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Golden Silences

Christina Rossetti

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Hap

Thomas Hardy

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It Might have been

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Let me arise

Mary Montgomerie, Lady Currie

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Lines

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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On a beautiful youth stuck blind by lightning

Oliver Goldsmith

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On a Pair of Dice

Jonathan Swift

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On my First Son

Ben Jonson

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Robert Fulton Tanner

Edgar Lee Masters

Spoon River Anthology

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Romeo and Juliet - Prologue

William Shakespeare

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Saturday's Child

Countee Cullen

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Song - O me the time is come to part

Mary Wroth

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Song 5 - Time only cause of my unrest

Mary Wroth

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Sonnet 38 - What pleasure can a banished creature

Mary Wroth

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Sonnet 7 : On His Being Arriv'd To The Age Of 23

John Milton

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Sonnet 90

William Shakespeare

Sonnets

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Sonnet to evening

Mary Robinson

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Sonnet to Evening

Mary Robinson

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Sonnet to Ingratitude

Mary Robinson

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Sonnet XVII

Anna Seward

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Sonnet XXV

George Santayana

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The Berg (A Dream)

Herman Melville

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The Bracelet of Grass

William Vaughn Moody

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