A damsel with a dulcimerIn a vision once I saw:It was an Abyssinian maid,And on her dulcimer she played,Singing of Mount Abora.Could I revive within meHer symphony and song,To such a deep delight 'twould win meThat with music loud and longI would build that dome in air,That sunny dome! those caves of ice!And all who heard should see them there,And all should cry, Beware! Beware!His flashing eyes, his floating hair!Weave a circle round him thrice,And close your eyes with holy dread,For he on honey-dew hath fedAnd drunk the milk of Paradise.I’m livin’ every day with the dead poets’ societyRioting inside my head, so it requires meTo keep every word I’ve read close beside meInspiring me to never go quietlyI’m posturing like I’m the offspring of Oscar WildeThe foster child of Geoffrey Chaucer; nowHip-hop’s the trial I face here, so I adopt the styleBut I've got to make clear that since my eighth yearI’ve been possessed by Shakespeare and William Blake’s spiritsAnd still I wait to hear a voice like T.S. Elliot’sAnd Percy Shelley is the first to tell me justHow to speak out of turn and keep my verse rebelliousI read Keats and learn from a grecian urnHow to reach eternity through the gyre where Yeats purnsSo I can meet Traherne, plus I’m a freak like BurnsWith his twenty-some children, though I’m still a young pilgrimAnd I’m buildin’ a temple from the skills my tongue’s yieldin’So I feel like John Milton; paradise is lostFor the thrill; I’m John Skelton crossed with WordsworthAnd my zeal is unwelcome in George Herbert’s churchI’m livin’ every day with the dead poets’ societyRioting inside my head, so it requires meTo keep every word I’ve read close beside meInspiring me to never go quietlyFor a challenge I’m known to approach talent shows withPoems that I stole from Edgar Allen Poe’s lipsOpium hits dope Alexander Pope’s witsI was Samuel Coleridge in a trance when I wrote thisAnd I awoke with the whole song doneI felt the soul of John Donne; Andrew MarvelTaught me to chase the sun; I can’t make it stand stillSo instead I’ll make it run, with puns denserThan Edmund Spencer’s, and modern lyricsModeled on Robert Herrick’s; when I dispense wordsIt’s like a forge is firin’, and I’m strikin’ the ironInspired by Lord Byron when I’m writin’ the SirenSong; evidence of desire went wrongAnd lost innocence; my memory’s goneIn a sense, Tennyson has been rebornIn a form with the fingerprints of Henry VaughnI’m livin’ every day with the dead poets’ societyRioting inside my head, so it requires meTo keep every word I’ve read close beside meInspiring me to never go quietlyAs a poet I’m conscious of the goals I accomplishThat I owe to accomplices, and when I’m feelin’ honestMy conscience bids me to admit to stealin’ sonnetStyles from Philip Sydney; I’m fulfillin’ a promiseI gave Dylon Thomas to rage against the dyin’Of light; I’m like Adonis: I’m still a noviceBut I already got the skills to thrill a GoddessOr start a riot in the heart; that’s why it’s poundingI’m Thomas Wyatt’s foundling; on Ezra Pound’s wingsI fly, quietly grounding my weight on the past’s crutchesI’m Robert Browning, and this rap is “My Last Dutchess”I’m puttin’ the last touches on the way it’s soundingIn strange surroundings my grasp clutchesFor balance; I spin words, recalling how fast structuresFell and splintered at my feet like Alan GinsbergThat’s how I’m ensured power of speech, and now I’ve been heardI’m livin’ every day with the dead poets’ societyRioting inside my head, so it requires meTo keep every word I’ve read close beside meInspiring me to never go quietlyLet me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments...Death, be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not so...In what distant deeps or skiesBurnt the fire of thine eyesOn what wings dare he aspireWhat the hand dare seize the fire...As holy and enchantedAs 'er beneath a waning moon was hauntedBy woman wailing for her demon lover...Who'd stoop to blame this sort of triflingEven had you skill in speech, which I have not...Well those passions read, which yet surviveStamped on these lifeless things...To whom thou sayest Beauty is Truth,Truth Beauty, that is all ye know on earthAnd all ye need to knowLet us roll all our strength and allOur sweetness up into one ballAnd tear our pleasures with rough strifeThrough the iron gates of lifeThus, though we cannot make our sunStand still, yet we will make him run
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