NEIGHBOUR
A flannel
petticoat
display'd the elf.
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In regard to its measure, it may be noted that if all the verses were
like the second, they might
properly
be placed merely in short lines,
producing a not uncommon form; but the presence in all the others of
one line-mostly the second in the verse" (stanza?
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on thy hoary shore,
Fortress
of falling empire!
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It was
forbidden by act of Congress--here I had not the
slightest
intention
of telling a lie.
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Poe - 5 |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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The great Li Po is no
exception
to this rule.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thus they ope
Their snowy lips, and speak unto each other,
In the
primeval
language, lost to man.
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Longfellow |
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[_He
embraces
her and hurries away_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Shall I
subscribe
with pencil, pen or graver?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Here and there the watch-towers knell it
With a sullen significance,
Heard of the few who hearken
intently
and carry an eagerly upstrained
sense.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Greyhounds
on leash and bears and lions also,
Thousand mewed hawks and seven hundred camels,
Four hundred mules with gold Arabian charged,
Fifty wagons, yea more than fifty drawing.
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Chanson de Roland |
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My boy was by my side, so slim
And
graceful
in his rustic dress!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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They look upon his eyes,
Filled with deep surprise;
And
wondering
behold
A spirit armed in gold.
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blake-poems |
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'Tis not wise until the latest hour
To enjoy delight's
ephemeral
dower:
Birds to southern seas have taken flight,
Fading flow'rs wait till the snows alight.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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This is a crucial set of revisions,
reflecting
some ambiguity about the relation between "shadow" and "spectre".
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Blake - Zoas |
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Unauthenticated
Download
Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Yuhua Palace 327 Imperial expeditions went not so far as Alabaster Pool,1 20 his traces are here in the aftermath of carved walls.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Thither Duessa bad him bend his pace: 25
For she is wearie of the
toilesome
way,
And also nigh consumed is the lingring day.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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In abandoned cities foxes and badgers talk, in deserted
villages
tigers and leopards contend.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But though today valour
deserves
this,
I would prove an enemy to your honour
To grant him now the prize of his valour.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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In thick jungles of green, this gyration,
My
centrifugal
folly,
Through roaring dust and futility spattered,
Will find its own repose.
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Imagists |
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THIS ETEXT IS
OTHERWISE
PROVIDED TO YOU "AS-IS".
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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When the whole host of hatred stood hard by,
To watch and mock thee shrinking, thou hast smiled[hy]
With a sedate and all-enduring eye;--
When Fortune fled her spoiled and
favourite
child,
He stood unbowed beneath the ills upon him piled.
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Byron |
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Armee etrange aux cris severes,
Les vents froids
attaquent
vos nids!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Whichever
the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly
and gently and safely by day or by night,
He has the pass-key of hearts, to him the response of the prying of
hands on the knobs.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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ON such a point we readily should say,
Long live the fools who wit so well
display!
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La Fontaine |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Keats - Lamia |
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e vnbuxum,
chastise
wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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omnia si facias_:
quem
plerique
secuti sunt
LXXXVIII
Quid facit is, Gelli, qui cum matre atque sorore
prurit et abiectis peruigilat tunicis?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Thanatos is the servant of Hades, a "priest" or sacrificer, who is sent to
fetch the
appointed
victims.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Meantime let all in
Thessaly
who dread
My sceptre join in mourning for the dead
With temples sorrow-shorn and sable weed.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A
delicate
odour is borne on the wings of the morning breeze,
The odour of deep wet grass, and of brown new-furrowed earth,
The birds are singing for joy of the Spring's glad birth,
Hopping from branch to branch on the rocking trees.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Canzon: Spear
Or might my
troubled
heart be fed UpOn the frail clear light there shed>
Then were my pain at last allay'd.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Or
cormorants
plunging one by one, cutting
The flood, pearls flying from their wings?
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Copyright
laws in most countries are
in a constant state of change.
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Wilde - Poems |
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There was a
deliberate
clash,
an effect of burlesque; but of course the clash must not be too brutal.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Chor: Thy words to my remembrance bring
How Succoth and the Fort of Penuel
Thir great Deliverer contemn'd,
The matchless Gideon in pursuit 280
Of Madian and her
vanquisht
Kings;
And how ingrateful Ephraim
Not worse then by his shield and spear
Had dealt with Jephtha, who by argument,
Defended Israel from the Ammonite,
Had not his prowess quell'd thir pride
In that sore battel when so many dy'd
Without Reprieve adjudg'd to death,
For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth.
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Milton |
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Go not, lest ye draw 540
Disaster
down and woe on your own heads.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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7 or
obtain
permission
for the use of the work and the Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Wilde - Poems |
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What welcome should Ulysses at your hands
Receive, arriving
suddenly
at home,
Some God his guide; would ye the suitors aid,
Or would ye aid Ulysses?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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On
that
classification
depended the distribution of political power.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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XVI
"The ox toils through the furrow,
Obedient
to the goad;
The patient ass, up flinty paths,
Plods with his weary load:
With whine and bound the spaniel
His master's whistle hears;
And the sheep yields her patiently
To the loud-clashing shears.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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_ Adonis was a
beautiful
youth beloved
of Venus.
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Keats |
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In haste there came the Queen forth, Bramimound;
"I love you well, sir," said she to the count,
"For prize you dear my lord and all around;
Here for your wife I have two brooches found,
Amethysts
and jacynths in golden mount;
More worth are they than all the wealth of Roum;
Your Emperour has none such, I'll be bound.
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Chanson de Roland |
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There is no
resemblance
whatever between Byron's _Cain_ and Alfieri's
_Abele_.
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Byron |
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charities and charitable
donations
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States.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The more, then, the
telluric
ground is drained
Of heat, the colder grows the water hid
Within the earth.
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Lucretius |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He faces
the horror;
realises
it; and tries to surmount it on the sweep of a great
wave of religious emotion.
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Euripides - Electra |
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(_Waves her shawl, and shrieks
with wild intensity) My--my_ Master
Builder!
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Well,
altogether
gript by the being of love.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The smitten rock that gushes,
The
trampled
steel that springs;
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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We have stooped down to their level
By
infecting
them with evil,
And their scorn that meets our blow Scathes aright.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
When the tired glutton labours through a treat,
He finds no relish in the sweetest meat,
He calls for something bitter, something sour,
And the rich feast concludes
extremely
poor:
Cheap eggs, and herbs, and olives still we see;
Thus much is left of old simplicity!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that
which the locust hath left hath the
cankerworm
eaten; and that which
the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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PART II
His
shipmates
cry out against the ancient Mariner, for killing the bird of
good luck.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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389, or they may be lines in the present
poem, which Wordsworth wrote at first for the 'Highland Girl', but
afterwards
transferred
to this one.
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William Wordsworth |
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Snugly retired in yet dew-laden bowers,
This sweetest
specimen
of rural flowers
Displays, red glowing in the morning wind,
The powers of health and nature when combined.
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John Clare |
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And not for all our questioning 10
Shall we
discover
more than joy,
Nor find a better thing than love!
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Sappho |
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And not for all our questioning 10
Shall we
discover
more than joy,
Nor find a better thing than love!
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Sappho |
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L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
My
brothers
who live after us,
Don't harden you hearts against us too,
If you have mercy now on us,
God may have mercy upon you.
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Villon |
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Only despise all human wit and lore,
The highest flights that thought can soar--
Let but the lying spirit blind thee,
And with his spells of
witchcraft
bind thee,
Into my snare the victim creeps.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"Look, look," they cry, "she is not dead, she
breathes!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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With what
enchantment
and power
Does it not come upon mortals,
Learned or heedless!
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Sappho |
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Auch dein Geruch wird sich ergetzen,
Dann wirst du deinen Gaumen letzen,
Und dann
entzuckt
sich dein Gefuhl.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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One
desperate
splash--and no use to me
The noose that swung!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last glimmers of day
A face like all the
forgotten
faces.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Though fled be Marsilies,
He's left behind his uncle, the alcaliph
Who holds Alferne, Kartagene, Garmalie,
And Ethiope, a cursed land indeed;
The
blackamoors
from there are in his keep,
Broad in the nose they are and flat in the ear,
Fifty thousand and more in company.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Translated
from the Swedish by
STORK, author of "Sea and Bay," etc.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Of
Provence
and far halls of memory,
Lo, there come echoes, faint diversity
Of blended bells at even's end, or
As the distant seas should send her
The tribute of their trembling, ceaselessly Resonant.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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THE EXILE
FROM THE PERSIAN OF KERMANI
In
Farsistan
the violet spreads
Its leaves to the rival sky;
I ask how far is the Tigris flood,
And the vine that grows thereby?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Who looked could see a harrow's threatening teeth,
But lost in night was
everything
beneath.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Stroud,
Who was horribly jammed in a crowd;
Some she slew with a kick, some she scrunched with a stick,
That
impulsive
old person of Stroud.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Veiled from the sun in a hollow of the forest,
He sinks down; stretched out on a level stone,
Cleans his paw with a broad lick of his tongue
Blinks golden eyes dull with sleepiness;
And, as his inert forces, in imagination
Make his tail flicker and his flanks quiver,
Dreams himself deep in some green plantation,
Leaping, and plunging
dripping
claws forever
Into bullocks' flesh as they bellow and shiver.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Is it
because they are
ignorant
of good?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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You are more
beautiful
than they are.
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Imagists |
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_I once pierced the flesh
of the wild-deer,
now am I afraid to touch
the blue and the gold-veined
hyacinths?
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Imagists |
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And to the temple, in al hir beste wyse,
In general, ther wente many a wight,
To herknen of
Palladion
servyse;
And namely, so many a lusty knight, 165
So many a lady fresh and mayden bright,
Ful wel arayed, bothe moste and leste,
Ye, bothe for the seson and the feste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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If the lorn bird complain, or rustling sweep
Soft summer airs o'er foliage waving slow,
Or the hoarse brook come
murmuring
down the steep,
Where on the enamell'd bank I sit below
With thoughts of love that bid my numbers flow;
'Tis then I see her, though in earth she sleep!
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Petrarch |
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The Landlord
answered
only: "These
Are logs from the dead apple-trees
Of the old orchard planted here
By the first Howe of Sudbury.
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Longfellow |
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From the Prelude ix
SEEK not to know which song or saying yields
The palm of praise or garland at the feast,
What yester tempest blew through arid fields,
Now lies 'mid laurels in the
hallowed
Bast.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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THE PATCHWORK BONNET
Across the room my silent love I throw,
Where you sit sewing in bed by candlelight,
Your young stern profile and
industrious
fingers
Displayed against the blind in a shadow-show,
To Dinda's grave delight.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Soon spreads the dismal shade
Of Mystery over his head,
And the
caterpillar
and fly
Feed on the Mystery.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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(The Pole looks at him
haughtily
and departs in
silence.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Ma se le
svergognate
fosser certe
di quel che 'l ciel veloce loro ammanna,
gia per urlare avrian le bocche aperte;
che, se l'antiveder qui non m'inganna,
prima fien triste che le guance impeli
colui che mo si consola con nanna.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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For that Thou givest my soul some pride,
Not
grudging
sorrow for a mate,
For this my wild and lovely bride
I thank Thee, just, compassionate.
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Tennyson |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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These are your relatives, believe:
Those whom we ought to love, caress,
With spiritual tenderness;
Whom, as the custom is of men,
We visit about
Christmas
Day,
Or by a card our homage pay,
That until Christmas comes again
They may forget that we exist.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Blow, swiftly blow, thou keel-compelling gale,
Till the broad sun withdraws his
lessening
ray;
Then must the pennant-bearer slacken sail,
That lagging barks may make their lazy way.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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He now but waits the wind to waft him o'er,
With
boundless
treasure, from Thesprotia's shore.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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But who'd have thought a burly lout like Morris
Would join the
brabble?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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It is the
spectator
and not life that art really mirrors.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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For this
Magalhaens
petitioned in vain.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Keats - Lamia |
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mæg þæs þonne
of-þyncan
þēoden
Heaðo-beardna .
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Beowulf |
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