But the Church of England never made the appeal
to Donne's heart and
imagination
it did to George Herbert:
Beautie in thee takes up her place
And dates her letters from thy face
When she doth write.
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Envious day
Shall not give out that I have made thee stay,
And
foundered
thy hot team, to tune my lay.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Three armies have grown gray and old,
Fighting ten
thousand
leagues away from home.
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Li Po |
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O pilgrim,
wandering
not amiss!
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Emerson - Poems |
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I went back to my
mountain
to seek
my old nest, and you, too, went home, crossing the Wei Bridge.
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Li Po |
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--Nor will be, comrade, till it rain,
Or genial thawings loose the lorn land
Throughout
the field.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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--It is also in my orders
That your
illustrious
lady be admitted.
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Byron |
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Necessity
compels us to leave our old schemes, and few of us
have opportunities of being well informed in new ones.
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Robert Forst |
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These flings were
collected in "Les Chatiments," a volume
preceded
by "Les Contemplations"
(mostly written in the '40's), and followed by "Les Chansons des Rues et
des Bois.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Lanier's growth in
artistic
form.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Ye tapers, that would light the world,
And cast a shadow on the Sun--
Who still shall pour His rays sublime,
One crystal flood, from East to West,
When _ye_ have burned your little time
And feebly
flickered
into rest!
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Lewis Carroll |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Choked with oil of cedar
And scurf of plants, and weary and over-heated,
And sorry I ever left the road I knew,
I paused and rested on a sort of hook
That had me by the coat as good as seated,
And since there was no other way to look,
Looked up toward heaven, and there against the blue,
Stood over me a resurrected tree,
A tree that had been down and raised again--
A
barkless
spectre.
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Robert Forst |
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--We praise the things we hear with much more willingness than
those we see, because we envy the present and reverence the past;
thinking ourselves
instructed
by the one, and overlaid by the other.
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tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim;
The earth, restive, confronts a new era, perhaps a general divine war;
No one knows what will happen next--such
portents
fill the days and nights.
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Whitman |
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"
He holds him, and a hundred others takes
From the kitchen, both good and evil knaves;
Then Guenes beard and both his cheeks they shaved,
And four blows each with their closed fists they gave,
They
trounced
him well with cudgels and with staves,
And on his neck they clasped an iron chain;
So like a bear enchained they held him safe,
On a pack-mule they set him in his shame:
Kept him till Charles should call for him again.
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Chanson de Roland |
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in diseased flesh,
Ambition is
engendered
readily.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Must I go starved because some
stranger
dies?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Roundhead
and Cavalier!
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
Sleeping
Lyca lay
While the beasts of prey,
Come from caverns deep,
Viewed the maid asleep.
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blake-poems |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Villon |
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The Good God and the Evil God
The Good God and the Evil God met on the
mountain
top.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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EXULTATIONS,
continued
SONG
PLANH FOR THE YOUNG ENGLISH KING ALBA INNOMINATA
LAUDANTES
PLANH
CANZONIERE OCTAVE
SONNET IN TENZONE SONNET
CANZON: THE YEARLY SLAIN CANZON: THE SPEAR CANZON
CANZON: OF INCENSE CANZONE : OF ANGELS SONNET: CHI E QUESTA?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Perform no
miracles
for me,
But justify Thy laws to me
Which, as the years pass by me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
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work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I have heard that in
hitching
up the imperial drum carriage, it is not right to use a fine steed.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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>>
Et l'Ange,
chatiant
autant, ma foi!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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To
Theophile
Gautier
Friend, poet spirit, you have fled our night,
You left our noise, to penetrate the light;
Now your name will shine on pure summits.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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You ask again, do the healing days close up
The open
darkness
which then drew us in,
The dark that swallows all, and nought throws up.
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Imagists |
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sed postquam tellus scelere est imbuta nefando,
iustitiamque omnes cupida de mente fugarunt,
perfudere manus fraterno sanguine fratres,
destitit extinctos natus lugere parentes, 400
optauit genitor primaeui funera nati,
liber ut innuptae poteretur flore nouercae,
ignaro mater substernens se impia nato
impia non uerita est diuos scelerare parentes,
omnia fanda nefanda malo
permixta
furore 405
iustificam nobis mentem auertere deorum.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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Come, join the
melancholious
croon
O' Robin's reed!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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how
heedless
were the eyes
On whom the summer shone!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Dost thou know the weight of crime he takes upon
himself?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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as thou bad'st, we went
Through yonder oaks; there, bosom'd in a vale,
But built conspicuous on a
swelling
knoll 310
With polish'd rock, we found a stately dome.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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30
VII
The Cyprian came to thy cradle,
When thou wast little and small,
And said to the nurse who rocked thee
"Fear not thou for the child:
"She shall be kindly favoured, 5
And fair and
fashioned
well,
As befits the Lesbian maidens
And those who are fated to love.
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Sappho |
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And shall he miss
Of other thoughts no thought but this,
Harmonious
dews of sober bliss?
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Lewis Carroll |
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In 1593
occurred
the
trial of the 'three Witches of Warboys', in 1606 that of Mary Smith,
in 1612 that of the earlier Lancashire Witches, and of the later
in 1633.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Album Leaf
All at once, as if in play,
Mademoiselle, she who moots
A wish to hear how it sounds today
The wood of my several flutes
It seems to me that this foray
Tried out here in a country place
Was better when I put them away
To look more closely at your face
Yes this vain
whistling
I suppress
In so far as I can create
Given my fingers pure distress
It lacks the means to imitate
Your very natural and clear
Childlike laughter that charms the air.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The variation in printed characters between the dominant motif, a secondary one and those adjacent, marks its importance for oral utterance and the scale, mid-way, at top or bottom of the page will show how the
intonation
rises or falls.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"Wake," call the spirits:
But to
heedless
ears;
They have forgotten sorrows
And hopes and fears;
They have forgotten perils
And smiles and tears;
Their dream has held them long,
Long years and years.
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Christina Rossetti |
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'
'Thanks,
venerable
friend,' replied Geraint;
'So that ye do not serve me sparrow-hawks
For supper, I will enter, I will eat
With all the passion of a twelve hours' fast.
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Tennyson |
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Le premier habit noir, le plus beau jour de tartes
Sous le
Napoleon
ou le Petit Tambour,
Quelque enluminure ou les Josephs et les Marthes
Tirent la langue avec un excessif amour
Et qui joindront aux jours de science deux cartes,
Ces deux seuls souvenirs lui restent du grand jour.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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[40]
But once I pierced the mazes of a wood 145
In which a cabin
undeserted
stood; [41]
There an old man an olden measure scanned
On a rude viol touched with withered hand.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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That very Caesar, born in Scipio's days,
Had aimed, like him, by
chastity
at praise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft a-gley,
And lea'e us nought but grief and pain,
For
promised
joy.
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Golden Treasury |
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_The Fox_
The shepherd on his journey heard when nigh
His dog among the bushes barking high;
The
ploughman
ran and gave a hearty shout,
He found a weary fox and beat him out.
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John Clare |
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'Thou wouldst forget thus vainly to deplore
'Ills, which if ills can find no cure from thee,
The thought of which no other sleep will quell,
Nor other music blot from memory, _330
'So sweet and deep is the
oblivious
spell;
And whether life had been before that sleep
The Heaven which I imagine, or a Hell
'Like this harsh world in which I woke to weep,
I know not.
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Shelley |
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the
copyright
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The
Portuguese
prince even visited the Kingdoms of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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FAUST:
Schweben
auf, schweben ab, neigen sich, beugen sich.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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my poor heart's
inexplicable
swell!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Behold man's river now; it has
travelled
far
From that divine loathing, and it is made
One with the two main fiends, the Dark and Cold,
The faithful lovers of mankind.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Riddel--is much obliged to her for her
polite
attention
in sending him the book.
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Robert Forst |
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At last the lady takes leave of the knight by
catching
him
in her arms and kissing him (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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His brain is the
ultimate
brain.
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Whitman |
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+------------------------------------------------------------+
SEA GARDEN
The editors and publishers concerned have kindly given me
permission
to
reprint some of the poems in this book which appeared originally in
"Poetry" (Chicago), "The Egoist" (London), "The Little Review"
(Chicago), "Greenwich Village" (New York), the first Imagist anthology
(New York: A.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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HISTRION
r
i N:
great
At times pass through us,
And we are melted into them, and are not Save
reflexions
of their souls.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The
hierodule
opened her mouth
and said unto Enkidu:--
"Eat bread, oh Enkidu!
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The
_Electra_
has none of the imaginative
splendour, the vastness, the intense poetry, of that wonderful work.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Thus
rendered
by
Fanshaw--
_Neptune disclos'd new isles which he did play
About, and with his billows danc't the hay.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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heedless
how the weak are strong,
Say, was it just,
In thee to frame, in me to trust,
Thou to the Syrian couldst belong?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But Enid ever kept the faded silk,
Remembering
how first he came on her,
Drest in that dress, and how he loved her in it,
And all her foolish fears about the dress,
And all his journey toward her, as himself
Had told her, and their coming to the court.
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Tennyson |
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Rude scoffer of the
seething
outer strife,
Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright,
Deem, if thou wilt, such hours a waste of life,
Empty of all delight!
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Sigh
My soul, towards your brow where O calm sister,
An autumn dreams,
blotched
by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a melancholy garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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You who
consoled
me in funereal night,
Bring me Posilipo, the sea of Italy,
The flower that pleased my grieving heart,
And the trellis where the vine entwines the rose.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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remarks,
"it
survives
in the phrase 'Old Nick' .
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Beowulf |
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You muste, you muste endeavour for to cheere
Youre harte unto somme
cherisaunced
reste.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I wonder if when years have piled --
Some thousands -- on the cause
Of early hurt, if such a lapse
Could give them any pause;
Or would they go on aching still
Through
centuries
above,
Enlightened to a larger pain
By contrast with the love.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Soft o'er the surface creep the lustres pale
Tracking with silvering path the
changeful
gale.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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begirt with bowers
And shouting with a
thousand
rills.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Loud was the lightsome tumult on the shore;
Oft Music changed, but never ceased her tone,
And timely echoed back the measured oar,
And
rippling
waters made a pleasant moan:
The Queen of tides on high consenting shone;
And when a transient breeze swept o'er the wave,
'Twas as if, darting from her heavenly throne,
A brighter glance her form reflected gave,
Till sparkling billows seemed to light the banks they lave.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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But she, with many tears and moans,
Besought
him not to mock her.
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James Russell Lowell |
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En ung trop biau leu arrive,
Au darrenier, ou je trouve
Une
fontaine
sous ung pin;
Mais puis Karles le fils Pepin,
Ne fu ausinc biau pin veus,
Et si estoit si haut creus,
Qu'ou vergier n'ot nul si bel arbre.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Cain--_Dublin
University
Magazine_
Boaz Asleep--_Bp.
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Hugo - Poems |
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SAS}
The Bands of Heaven flew thro the air singing & shouting to Urizen [the lord ]
Some fix'd the anvil, some the loom erected, some the plow
And harrow formd & framd the harness of silver & ivory
The golden compasses, the
quadrant
& the rule & balance
They erected the furnaces, they formd the anvils of gold beaten in mills
Where winter beats incessant, fixing them firm on their base
The bellows began to blow & the Lions of Urizen stood round the anvil
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And the leopards coverd with skins of beasts tended the roaring fires
Sublime distinct their lineaments divine of human beauty {Erdman notes that there is a pencil line here followed by erased pencil lines in the right margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The passion of love had fallen from the high
estate it once possessed and become the mere
relaxation
of the idle
moments of a man of fashion.
| Guess: |
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Alexander Pope |
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"
"I don't see
anything
very striking in the fact that a woman of eighty
refuses to gamble," objected Naroumov.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Revenge induced her ev'ry thing to tell,
Though she were
implicated
with the belle.
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La Fontaine |
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The gilded youth flocked around him,
neglecting
society, preferring the
charms of faro to those of their sweethearts.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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and my fears
Draw swiftly o'er mine eyes a mist fulfilled of tears,
When I behold thy frame
Bound, wasting on the rock, and put to shame
By
adamantine
chains!
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Aeschylus |
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access to the full terms of the Project
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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They look in every
thoughtless
nest
Where birds are covered warm;
They visit caves of every beast,
To keep them all from harm:
If they see any weeping
That should have been sleeping,
They pour sleep on their head,
And sit down by their bed.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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At the very least it has enriched the thought of humanity with
some
imperishable
lines.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For Love doth use us for a sound of song,
And Love's meaning our life wields,
Making our souls like
syllables
to throng
His tunes of exultation.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Can you not let them rest, those sacred ghosts
Of our dead selves—yes, yours and mine and theirs Who knew not life, yet wept its utmost cares And laughed more joys than all
creation
boasts?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Luxurious here, Ulcinda's harvests smile,
And here, disdainful of the seaman's toil,
The whirling tides of Jaquet furious roar;
Alike their rage when swelling to the shore,
Or, tumbling backward to the deep, they force
The boiling fury of their gulfy course:
Against their headlong rage nor oars nor sails,
The
stemming
prow alone, hard toil'd, prevails.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Next much more affable, with
courteous
lore
Seasoning her answers to his suit, replies;
Nor looking at the king, sometimes forbore
To fix upon his face her pitying eyes.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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That thou wouldst spout a little
streamlet
o'er 720
These sorry pages; then the verse would soar
And sing above this gentle pair, like lark
Over his nested young: but all is dark
Around thine aged top, and thy clear fount
Exhales in mists to heaven.
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Keats |
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And thus one stanza,
perhaps the finest as poetry, becomes the
biography
of his soul:
"There was a time when, though my path was rough,
This joy within me dallied with distress,
And all misfortunes were but as the stuff
Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness:
For hope grew round me, like the twining vine,
And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine
But now afflictions bow me down to earth:
Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth;
But oh!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I
therefore
resolved to follow such a pious example and
made straight for the pap.
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Aristophanes |
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Our lofty spars were down,
To bide the battle's frown
(Wont of old renown)--
But every ship was drest
In her bravest and her best,
As if for a July day;
Sixty flags and three,
As we floated up the bay--
Every peak and mast-head flew
The brave Red, White, and Blue--
We were
eighteen
ships that day.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Few names could evoke a wider expression of passing regret at their
appearance in the
obituary
column; for until his health began to fail he
was known to an immense and almost a cosmopolitan circle of acquaintance,
and popular wherever he was known.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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such an one was I--
The wind it
whistled
to my bone.
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Tennyson |
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Stephen Crane |
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