Skip to content
ReadingWillow structured literacy program for Australian students
Poetry Library

— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

Read full poem →

adverb

in a way that is correct and exact; without error

“She measured the ingredients accurately to ensure the cake turned out perfectly.”

Know more →

XVIII

14 lines
John Milton·1608–1674
✦
yriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal BenchOf Brittish Themis, with no mean applausePronounc't and in his volumes taught our Lawes,Which others at their Barr so often wrench:To day deep thoughts resolve with me to drenchIn mirth, that after no repenting drawes;Let Euclid rest and Archimedes pause,And what the Swede intend, and what the French.To measure life, learn thou betimes, and knowToward solid good what leads the nearest way; 10For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains,And disapproves that care, though wise in show,That with superfluous burden loads the day,And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
✦