Pioneer Valley Folklore Society Anthology
HAMLET'S LAST
SOLILOQUY (with sources) by Ted Melnechuk |
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Westward the course of empire takes its way; Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown; The curfew tolls the knell of parting day; I hate to see that evenin sun go down. Welcome the coming, speed the departing
guest Of perilous seas in faery lands forlorn. Lo, the poor Indian! Whose untutored mind, Sweet are the uses of adversity; |
Line | Source |
1 | George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, On the prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America |
2 | William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2 |
3 | Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
4 | W. C. Handy, Saint Louis Blues |
5 | Alexander Pope, The Odyssey of Homer |
6 | Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales |
7 | William Shakespeare, Hamlet |
8 | John Milton, Paradise Lost |
9 | John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale |
10 | Dante Alighieri, Inferno |
11 | William Shakespeare, Hamlet |
12 | Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot |
13 | Alexander Pope, Essay on Man |
14 | John Keats, Endymion |
15 | William Shakespeare, Hamlet |
16 | Charles Kingsley, A Farewell |
17 | William Shakespeare, As You Like It |
18 | William Shakespeare, The Tempest |
19 | William Shakespeare, Hamlet |
20 | William Shakespeare, Macbeth |