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An Indescribable Mid-Autumn Night
William He
By William He

In multi-warped time,
Proteus strolling in a differently shaped...
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The Thought That Lingers: Part One
Karl Constantine FOLKES
The Joycean world of Ulysses…
of Proteus…
confronts me with despair;
enthralls me with its void;
of thought that sheds no...
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The world is too much with us; late and soon
William Wordsworth
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
  Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed...
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Annus Mirabilis, The Year Of Wonders, 1666
John Dryden
So hear the scaly herd when Proteus blows,
And so to pasture follow through the...
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At The Abbey Theatre
William Butler Yeats
Is there a bridle for this Proteus
That turns and changes like his draughty...
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Courtier And Proteus.
John Gay
The murmuring waters ran and broke;
Proteus arose, and him bespoke:
 
"Come ye from court, I...
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Elegy III. Anno Aet. 17. On The Death Of The Bishop Of Winchester (Translated From Milton)
William Cowper
And all the herds of Proteus are thy...
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Epistles To Mr. Pope. Epistle I.
Edward Young
How justly Proteus' transmigrations fit
The monstrous changes of a modern...
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Letter To Maria Gisborne
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Magical forms the brick floor overspread,-
Proteus transformed to metal did not make
More figures, or more strange; nor did he take
Such shapes...
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On The Ice Islands Seen Floating In The German Ocean
William Cowper
In ages past, old Proteus, with his droves
Of sea-calves, sought the mountains and the groves;
But now, descending whence...
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Orlando Furioso Canto 9
Ludovico Ariosto
He of old Proteus' hears the cruel use
But feels such pity for Olympia fair,
Wronged by Cymosco, who in prison...
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Riddles By Dr. Swift And His Friends
Jonathan Swift
Proteus on you bestow'd the boon
To change your visage like the moon;
You sometimes half a face...
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Staffa
John Keats
fire
I have hid from mortal man;
Proteus is my...
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The Bees and Flies
Rudyard Kipling
The story of the secret won
From Proteus by Cyrene's son--
How the dank sea-god showed the swain
Means to restore his hives...
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The Dunciad: Book I.
Alexander Pope
Hence bards, like Proteus long in vain tied down,
Escape in monsters, and amaze the...
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The Epilogue
Richard Lovelace
Disguises would make PROTEUS stil the same:
Humours so rarely humour'd and exprest,
That ev'n they should thinke 'em so,...
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XVI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Thou wild, lost Proteus, strangling and...
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The Spleen
Anne Kingsmill Finch
Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind,
 Who never yet thy real Cause cou'd find,
Or fix thee to remain in...
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The World
William Wordsworth
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
  Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed...
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The World Is To Much With Us
William Wordsworth
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
  Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed...
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They say — priests say
Lesbia Harford
Would you be satisfied,
Proteus mine,
Just to be loved
When your hair was curled,
As Earth is beloved
When earth is...
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Written In Early Youth. The Time,--An Autumnal Evening
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Or mine the power of Proteus, changeful...
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