Full well I know that natural wisdom nought,
Love, 'gainst thy power, in any age prevail'd,
For snares oft set, fond oaths that ever fail'd,
Sore proofs of thy sharp talons long had taught;
But lately, and in me it wonder wrought--
With care this new
experience
be detail'd--
'Tween Tuscany and Elba as I sail'd
On the salt sea, it first my notice caught.
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Petrarch |
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What guilty spirit, in what
shrubbery
dim,
Heard not the stirring summons of that hymn?
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Poe - 5 |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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Where it was
impossible
to get money, he was
mollified by appeals to his lust.
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Tacitus |
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In everie merriemakeyng, fayre or wake,
I kenn'd a perpled lyghte of Wysdom's raie;
He eate downe
learnynge
wyth the wastle cake.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I hastened to take leave of
the
Commandant
and his family.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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sacred to the fall of day
Queen of
propitious
stars, appear,
And early rise, and long delay
When Caroline herself is here!
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Golden Treasury |
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"
He weeps by the side of the ocean,
He weeps on the top of the hill;
He purchases pancakes and lotion,
And
chocolate
shrimps from the mill.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Deborah and Jael, famously named,
Like rich lands
enriching
the city their master,
Bring thee now their most golden honour.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The
subsequent
periods
need not much concern us.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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ADMETUS (_who has
recoiled
in his amazement_).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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GD}
Over the joyful Earth & Sea, and
ascended
into the Heavens {It looks as though a strike line crossing out this line has been erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Its technique was exact, complex,
extremely
elaborate,
minutely regulated; yet the essential fires of sincerity, spontaneity,
imagination and passion were flaming with undiminished heat behind the
fixed forms and restricted measures.
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Sappho |
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"
Urged by the precepts by the goddess given,
And fill'd with
confidence
infused from Heaven,
The youth, whom Pallas destined to be wise
And famed among the sons of men, replies:
"Inquir'st thou, father!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Hast heard of this wild man who laughs at laws--
Charged with a thousand crimes--for warlike deeds
Renowned--and placed under the Empire's ban
By the Diet of Frankfort; by the Council
Of Pisa
banished
from the Holy Church;
Reprobate, isolated, cursed--yet still
Unconquered 'mid his mountains and in will;
The bitter foe of the Count Palatine
And Treves' proud archbishop; who has spurned
For sixty years the ladder which the Empire
Upreared to scale his walls?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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My heart replied: It's never enough
We'll never have had enough of sadness:
And don't you see that changeableness
Makes past pain dearer to us, and
sweeter?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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158;
_Prophecy
of Dante_, and _Marino
Faliero_, iv.
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Byron |
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What coral, what lilies, and what roses,
In seeming, my open hand discloses,
Now, with twin
caresses
stroking her.
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Ronsard |
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unbending
Fortitude, _70
Freedom, Devotedness and Purity!
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Shelley |
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Lifelong our stumbles, lifelong our regret,
Lifelong our efforts failing and renewed,
While lifelong is our witness, "God is good:"
Who bore with us till now, bears with us yet,
Who still remembers and will not forget,
Who gives us light and warmth and daily food;
And gracious promises half understood,
And glories half unveiled, whereon to set
Our heart of hearts and eyes of our desire;
Uplifting us to longing and to love,
Luring us upward from this world of mire,
Urging us to press on and mount above
Ourselves and all we have had experience of,
Mounting
to Him in love's perpetual fire.
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Christina Rossetti |
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WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE
A
SHROPSHIRE
LAD
I
1887
From Clee to heaven the beacon burns,
The shires have seen it plain,
From north and south the sign returns
And beacons burn again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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He now
resolved
to take in fresh water by force.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Why am I the
neighbour
always
Of those who force to sing thy trembling strings?
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Rilke - Poems |
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He sails
in the vast Triton, who amazes the blue
waterways
with his shell, and
swims on with shaggy front, in human show from the flank upward; his
belly ends in a dragon; beneath the monster's breast the wave gurgles
into foam.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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e
emperour
al-so
Ne my?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Refusing to take part in the first crusade of 1098, he was one of the leaders of the minor Crusade of 1101 which was a
military
failure.
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Troubador Verse |
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Far in a lonely nook, beside the sea,
At an old swineherd's rural lodge he lay:
Thither his son from sandy Pyle repairs,
And speedy lands, and
secretly
confers.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Now at thy soft
recalling
voice I rise
Where thought is lord o'er Time's complete estate,
Like as a dove from out the gray sedge flies
To tree-tops green where cooes his heavenly mate.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Where care and sorrow, impotence and crime,
Languor, disease, and
ignorance
dare not come: _10
O happy Earth, reality of Heaven!
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Shelley |
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Let him go free, and you will get a good
ransom; but for an example and to
frighten
the rest, let them hang me,
an old man!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Broken oars and
floating
thwarts entangle them,
and the ebbing wave sucks their feet away.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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ise freres don also; prechen aboute ylome,
ffor of
prechyng
it wor?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Had you not slyly come to guard me now,
I should have died of fright
outright
I know.
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Hugo - Poems |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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NEW LOVE AND OLD
IN my heart the old love
Struggled
with the new;
It was ghostly waking
All night thru.
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Sara Teasdale |
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But the man
remembered
his mighty power,
the glorious gift that God had sent him,
in his Maker's mercy put his trust
for comfort and help: so he conquered the foe,
felled the fiend, who fled abject,
reft of joy, to the realms of death,
mankind's foe.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Man, friend, remain a
Cromwell!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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She visits
Serenely
down the busy stream
the Boot-maker.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Hop-Frog, clinging to the
chain as it rose, still
maintained
his relative position in respect to
the eight maskers, and still (as if nothing were the matter) continued
to thrust his torch down toward them, as though endeavoring to discover
who they were.
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Poe - 5 |
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e pure
pentaungel
wyth ?
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Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Arise my knights o' th' battle; I create you
Companions to our person, and will fit you
With
dignities
becoming your estates.
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Shakespeare |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information
and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Given this form and this story, the next
question
is: What did Euripides
make of them?
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Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to
organize
the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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This fashion of riding, these games
Ascanius
first revived, when he girt
Alba the Long about with walls, and taught their celebration to the Old
Latins in the way of his own boyhood, with the youth of Troy about him.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Wish not to fill the isles with eyes
To fetch thee birds of paradise:
On thine orchard's edge belong
All the brags of plume and song;
Wise Ali's sunbright sayings pass
For proverbs in the market-place:
Through
mountains
bored by regal art,
Toil whistles as he drives his cart.
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Emerson - Poems |
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WITH all her art th'
enchantress
could not find,
A charm to guard her 'gainst the urchin blind;
Though she'd the pow'r to stop the star of day,
She burned to gain a being formed of clay.
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La Fontaine |
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A damp and death-like odour from the hollow
--Where all must slumber--rises, yet I follow
Thy wafture still, which fire
enkindles
new
And Thy great love which ever watches true.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
XIII
Sleep thou in the bosom
Of the tender comrade,
While the living water
Whispers in the well-run,
And the
oleanders
5
Glimmer in the moonlight.
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Sappho |
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No more those ghastly, deathful nights amaze,
When Rome wept tears of blood in Scylla's days:
More horrid deeds Ulysses' towers[277] beheld:
Each cruel breast, where
rankling
envy swell'd,
Accus'd his foe as minion of the queen;
Accus'd, and murder closed the dreary scene.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Abundance
of berries for all who will eat,
But an aching meat.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Thy dove, thy darling little pet
On whom a sister's heart was set
Afar is borne by cruel fate,
For
evermore
is separate.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The
swarming
flies hummed on the putrid side,
Whence poured the maggots in a darkling stream,
That ran along these tatters of life's pride
With a liquescent gleam.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Or what man might with-in the chambre dwelle, 165
If I to him rehersen shal the helle,
That
suffreth
fair Anelida the quene
For fals Arcite, that did hir al this tene?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And in the silence
I hear a woman's voice make answer then:
"Well, they are green,
although
no ship can sail them.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Whereat some one of the
loquacious
Lot--
I think a Sufi pipkin--waxing hot--
"All this of Pot and Potter--Tell me then,
Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Such is he, but for me
A mere court flatterer who was doom'd to be,
Unmark'd amid his kind,
Till, in my school, exalted and made known
By her, who, of her sex, stood
peerless
and alone!
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Petrarch |
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LXXI cum LXX
continuant
codices, nullo spatio relicto
1 _Si qua_ (_quo_ Laur.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Milton |
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Pourtant, sous la tutelle invisible d'un Ange,
L'Enfant
desherite
s'enivre de soleil,
Et dans tout ce qu'il boit et dans tout ce qu'il mange
Retrouve l'ambroisie et le nectar vermeil.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The world was made for man, but made
Wisely a steep difficulty to be climbed,
That he, so labouring the stubborn slant,
May step from off the world with a well-used courage,
All slouch
disgrace
fought out of him, a man
Well worthy of a Heaven.
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Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Ed ei: <
sovra la faccia, non mi sarian chiuse
le tue cogitazion,
quantunque
parve.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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_
The night--that follow'd the disastrous blow
Which my spent sun removed in heaven to glow,
And left me here a blind and desolate man--
Now far advanced, to spread o'er earth began
The sweet spring dew which
harbingers
the dawn,
When slumber's veil and visions are withdrawn;
When, crown'd with oriental gems, and bright
As newborn day, upon my tranced sight
My Lady lighted from her starry sphere:
With kind speech and soft sigh, her hand so dear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Your
obedient
nephew,
R.
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Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Victory comes late,
And is held low to
freezing
lips
Too rapt with frost
To take it.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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this strange man has left me
Troubled
with wilder fancies, than the moon
Breeds in the love-sick maid who gazes at it,
Till lost in inward vision, with wet eye
She gazes idly!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_ There the Shadow from the throne
Formless with infinity
Hovers o'er the crystal sea
Awfuller than light derived,
And red with those
primeval
heats
Whereby all life has lived.
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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No, neither he, nor his
compeers
by night
Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Tattiana more than ever burned
With
hopeless
passion: from her bed
Sweet slumber winged its way and fled.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Oeneone
Your wishes thwart one another,
alternately!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Shapes of doors giving many exits and entrances;
The door passing the
dissevered
friend, flushed and in haste;
The door that admits good news and bad news;
The door whence the son left home, confident and puffed up;
The door he entered again from a long and scandalous absence, diseased,
broken down, without innocence, without means.
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Source: |
Whitman |
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There are few circumstances
relating
to the unequal distribution of
the good things of this life that give me more vexation (I mean in
what I see around me) than the importance the opulent bestow on their
trifling family affairs, compared with the very same things on the
contracted scale of a cottage.
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Robert Forst |
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Here and no further learning's
channels
ran;
Still, neighbours prize him as the learned man.
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Source: |
John Clare |
|
Baldazzar, it
oppresses
me like a spell!
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Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Could I unto thy fever have applied,
By longer sojourn here, a remedy,
I in thy service would have lived and died,
Nor would have been an hour away from thee:
But seeing how my stay
increased
thy woe,
I, who could do no better, fixed to go.
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Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Bluemner uersus
sic
distribuebat
1.
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Latin - Catullus |
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So have I seene a
Dolthead
place a stone, 335
Enthoghte to staie a driving rivers course;
But better han it bin to lett alone,
It onlie drives it on with mickle force;
The erlie, wounded by so base a hynde,
Rays'd furyous doyngs in his noble mynde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to
darkness
and to me.
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Golden Treasury |
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His
excellence
is now acknowledged; but, even while
admitted, not duly appreciated.
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Shelley |
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Tut nicht ein braver Mann genug,
Die Kunst, die man ihm ubertrug,
Gewissenhaft und punktlich
auszuuben?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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A man sees only what
concerns
him.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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at his lyf was almest ydo,
ffor
siknesse
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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4 Lord God of Hosts, how long wilt thou,
How long wilt thou declare
Thy
*smoaking
wrath, and angry brow *Gnashanta.
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Milton |
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Houghton, Mifflin & Company 4 Park Street Boston
NOTICE
So scarce are back num bers of CONTEMPORARY
Here is what literary critics say about
Contemporary
Verse:
"Slender in bulk — but it contains good poems.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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She was dressed always in
clinging
dresses of Eastern silk, and
as she was so small, and her long black hair hung straight down
her back, you might have taken her for a child.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I shall not see thy sad, sad
sounding
shore,
France, save my duty, I shall all forget;
Amongst the true and tried, I'll tug my oar,
And rest proscribed to brand the fawning set.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Do you see
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Of all the Grecians what
immortal
name,
And whose bless'd trophies, will ye raise to fame?
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Iliad - Pope |
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