[730] A hideous spectre that Hecate was supposed to send to
frighten
men.
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Judith is nigh, who, mid a host in arms,
With gentle accents and
alluring
charms
Their chief o'ercame, and, at the noon of night,
From his pavilion sped her venturous flight
With one attendant slave, who bore along
The tyrant's head amid the hostile throng;
Adoring Him who arms the feeble hand.
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BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE1
SIMON ZELOTES SPEAKETH IT
SOMEWHILE
AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION
FA' we lost the goodliest fere o' all
L For the priests and the gallows tree?
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THE
PARLEMENT
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letters than to examine the writings of the ancients, and not to rest in
their sole authority, or take all upon trust from them, provided the
plagues of judging and
pronouncing
against them be away; such as are
envy, bitterness, precipitation, impudence, and scurrilous scoffing.
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Everything takes place, in sections, by supposition;
narrative
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consurgite contra;
nimirum Oetaeos
ostendit
noctifer ignes.
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Let some bring me a
beautiful
and magnificent tunic for the
wedding.
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Aristophanes |
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It was sweet to hear your note,
I'll not deny,
When April set pale clouds afloat
O'er the blue tides of sky,
And 'mid the wind's
triumphant
drums
You, in your white and azure coat,
A herald proud, came forth to cry,
"The royal summer comes!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,
'Thus far the miles are
measured
from thy friend!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Neither call the
giddiness
of it in question, the poverty
of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden wooing, nor her sudden
consenting; but say with me, I love Aliena; say with her that she
loves me; consent with both that we may enjoy each other.
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Why swear at all, thou false Duke
Leopold?
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this Errours den,
A monster vile, whom God and man does hate: 115
Therefore
I read beware.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XXXVII
So
frequently
his mind would stray
He well-nigh lost the use of sense,
Almost became a poet say--
Oh!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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That nightingale, who now melodious mourns
Perhaps his children or his consort dear,
The heavens with
sweetness
fills; the distant bourns
Resound his notes, so piteous and so clear;
With me all night he weeps, and seems by turns
To upbraid me with my fault and fortune drear,
Whose fond and foolish heart, where grief sojourns,
A goddess deem'd exempt from mortal fear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I went to thank her,
But she slept;
Her bed a
funnelled
stone,
With nosegays at the head and foot,
That travellers had thrown,
Who went to thank her;
But she slept.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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50
Respecting Man, whatever wrong we call,
May, must be right, as
relative
to all.
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corne
Of him, and the iniury, as I doe wonder 30
How
_Euerill_
bore it!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Skinner, who gratified her wishes, and the
wishes of every Scottish song, in this most
excellent
ballad.
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Is there one Frank, that you to hang
committeth?
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Chanson de Roland |
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, I determined to
undertake
the
responsibility of publishing it during my own life, rather than impose
upon my successors the task of deciding its fate.
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"
In September 1796, nearly six years before this sonnet was written, the
fate of the old
Venetian
Republic was sealed by the treaty of Campo
Formio.
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Ronsard |
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O turn again, fair Ines,
Before the fall of night,
For fear the moon should shine alone,
And stars unrivalltd bright;
And blessed will the lover be
That walks beneath their light,
And
breathes
the love against thy cheek
I dare not even write!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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But HE--
The poet who, with spirit-kiss
Familiar, had long claimed for his
Whatever
earthly beauty is,
Who also in his spirit bore
A beauty passing the earth's store,--
Walked calmly onward evermore.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I've served a cruel and ungrateful lord:
While lived my
beauteous
flame, my heart be fired;
And o'er its ashes now I weep expired.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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THE
STEDFAST
STARRE, the Pole-star, which never sets.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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There sleeps as true an Osmanlie
As e'er at Mecca bent the knee; 730
As ever scorned
forbidden
wine,
Or prayed with face towards the shrine,
In orisons resumed anew
At solemn sound of "Alla Hu!
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Byron |
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"
And a seventh said, "I have such a clear idea how
everything
will
be, but I cannot put it into words.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Tacitus |
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Perhaps some languid summer day,
When drowsy birds sing less and less,
And golden fruit is
ripening
to excess,
If there's not too much sun nor too much cloud,
And the warm wind is neither still nor loud,
Perhaps my secret I may say,
Or you may guess.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Riddled am I by
onslaughts
and attacks
I thought I could forestall;
I reared and braced myself to shelter them
Before I heard them call.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The very air from the South seemed to us
redolent
with death.
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Poe - 5 |
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Nor do we doubt but that we can,
If we would search with care and pain,
Find some one good in some one man;
So going
thorough
all your strain,
We shall, at last, of parcels make
One good enough for a song's sake.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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In all her letters,
written in exquisite English prose, but with an ardent imagery
and a vehement sincerity of emotion which make them, like the
poems, indeed almost more directly, un-English, Oriental, there
was always this intellectual, critical sense of humour, which
could laugh at one's own
enthusiasm
as frankly as that enthusiasm
had been set down.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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III
You tossed a blanket from the bed,
You lay upon your back, and waited;
You dozed, and watched the night revealing
The thousand sordid images
Of which your soul was constituted;
They
flickered
against the ceiling.
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T.S. Eliot |
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(HORACE, _anxious to get
away, walks fast one minute, halts the next, whispers something to his
attendant
slave, and is bathed in perspiration all over.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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O'er plains the rivers wind,
And reach the sea; the bee, by
instinct
driven,
Finds out the honeyed flowers; the eagle flies
To seek the sun; the vulture where death lies;
The swallow to the spring; the prayer to Heaven!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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whose vales and
mountains
round 1820.
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William Wordsworth |
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28 what
feelings
are there in this heart?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The
Countess
(in her own right) of Burlatz, and of Beziers, be-
ing the wife of
The Vicomte of Beziers.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In vain: the stars are glowing wheels,
Giddy with motion Nature reels,
Sun, moon, man,
undulate
and stream,
The mountains flow, the solids seem,
Change acts, reacts; back, forward hurled,
And pause were palsy to the world.
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Emerson - Poems |
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KEARNEY AT SEVEN PINES EDMUND
CLARENCE
STEDMAN
[Sidenote: May 31, 1862]
So that soldierly legend is still on its journey,--
That story of Kearny who knew not to yield!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Onde l'altro lebbroso, che m'intese,
rispuose al detto mio: <
che seppe far le
temperate
spese,
e Niccolo che la costuma ricca
del garofano prima discoverse
ne l'orto dove tal seme s'appicca;
e tra'ne la brigata in che disperse
Caccia d'Ascian la vigna e la gran fonda,
e l'Abbagliato suo senno proferse.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The silence of that
dreamless
sleep
I envy now too much to weep;
Nor need I to repine
That all those charms have pass'd away
I might have watch'd through long decay.
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Golden Treasury |
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) I could give
you many
instances
to the contrary, though not from memory.
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Li Po |
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9, 77 II 13;
_uttakkalu_
< _uttakkaru_, Ebeling, KTA.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Modern editors
substitute
for the brackets the direction 'Aside',
which is not in the Folio (1616).
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John Donne |
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I wonder if the
courtiers
at the Western Capital know of these
things, or not?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Fog in the valleys; on the mountains snowfields, ever new,
That only melt to send down waters for the liquid hell,
In which, their strongest sons and fairest
daughters
vilely fell!
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Hugo - Poems |
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And dost thou ask what secret woe
I bear,
corroding
joy and youth?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Thou shalt protect them in Thy tabernacle from the
contradiction
of tongues.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
But Psyche,
uplifting
her finger,
Said--"Sadly this star I mistrust--
Her pallor I strangely mistrust--
Ah, hasten!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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SEMPER EADEM
<< D'ou vous vient, disiez-vous, cette
tristesse
etrange,
Montant comme la mer sur le roc noir et nu?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_ 'Tis decreed, 260
That, without further repetition of
The Question, or continuance of the trial,
Which only tends to show how stubborn guilt is,
("The Ten," dispensing with the stricter law
Which still prescribes the Question till a full
Confession, and the
prisoner
partly having
Avowed his crime in not denying that
The letter to the Duke of Milan's his),
James Foscari return to banishment,
And sail in the same galley which conveyed him.
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Byron |
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"
The great symbols of
Solitude
and of Death enter into the poet's work.
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Rilke - Poems |
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swylce eal Finns-buruh
fȳrenu
wǣre
(_as if all Finnsburh were afire_).
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Beowulf |
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[Edward Nielson, whom Burns here
introduces
to Dr.
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Robert Forst |
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They go, eating the azure,
Sometimes
vegetables
too,
Hard-boiled eggs, and mandarins,
And rice as white as their costume.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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All your coaxing will only make
a bitter fruit--
let them cling, ripen of themselves,
test their own worth,
nipped,
shrivelled
by the frost,
to fall at last but fair
with a russet coat.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I had no cause to be awake,
My best was gone to sleep,
And morn a new politeness took,
And failed to wake them up,
But called the others clear,
And passed their
curtains
by.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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It would be sweet to find her alone,
While she slept, or
pretended
to,
Then a sweet kiss I'd make my own,
Since I'm not worthy to ask for two.
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Troubador Verse |
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Or an Eye of gifts & graces
showring
fruits & coined gold!
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blake-poems |
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_aspen-malady_,
trembling
like the leaves of the aspen-poplar.
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Keats |
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_June_ 27, 1897
(_The_ 110_th_
_anniversary
of the completion of the_ "_Decline and
Fall_" _at the same hour and place_)
A SPIRIT seems to pass,
Formal in pose, but grave and grand withal:
He contemplates a volume stout and tall,
And far lamps fleck him through the thin acacias.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Even as now
God is
mistaken
by your doubting hearts.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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we will sing of thee, thee and thy sacred wine-skin, and we
all, as we follow thee, will repeat in thine honour, "Triumph,
Triumph!
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Aristophanes |
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It would thy brain
unsettle
even to hear.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Next bold
Amphinomus
his arm extends
To force the pass; the godlike man defends.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous
mendiants
morts saouls de biere
Vous les aveugles comme le destin
Et vous petits enfants morts en priere
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Ride you this
afternoone?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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'It is not to be
doubted,' as Pliny says, 'that physicians,
desiring
to raise a name by
their discoveries, make experiments upon us, and thus barter away our
lives.
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Petrarch |
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Zu den heiligen
Tonen,
Die jetzt meine ganze Seel umfassen,
Will der
tierische
Laut nicht passen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
"So I see, but does it follow that he is your
property?
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Kipling - Poems |
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porting
_Squirell_
in the?
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"But you--
"You don green
spectacles
before you look at roses.
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Stephen Crane |
|
LXIX
Like a tall forest were their spears,
Their banners like a silken sea,
When the great host in
splendour
passed
Across the crimson sinking sun.
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Sappho |
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) hide in what things Allius sent me
Aid, forbear to declare what was the aidance he deigned:
Neither shall
fugitive
Time from centuries ever oblivious
Veil in the blinds of night friendship he lavisht on me.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The
wondrous
night the pensive King revolves.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Sees he some
likeness
here?
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Euripides - Electra |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And
cigarettes
in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Yea sometimes in a bustling man-filled place Meseemeth some-wise thy hair
wandereth
Across mine eyes, as mist that halloweth The air awhile and giveth all things grace.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Thou canst not ask me with thee here to roam
Over these hills and vales, where no joy is,--
Empty of
immortality
and bliss!
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Keats - Lamia |
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And with the gipsies there will be a king
And a thousand
desperadoes
just his style,
With all their rags dyed in the blood of roses,
Splashed with the blood of angels, and of demons.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Dentro dal ciel de la divina pace
si gira un corpo ne la cui virtute
l'esser di tutto suo
contento
giace.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Suddenly
we heard a voice crying, "This is the
sea.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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er hou shal I my-seluen saue
To lyue in
maidenhede?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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All
Summarised
The Soul.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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for this lost nymph of thine,
Free as the air, invisibly, she strays
About these thornless wilds; her pleasant days
She tastes unseen; unseen her nimble feet
Leave traces in the grass and flowers sweet;
From weary tendrils, and bow'd
branches
green,
She plucks the fruit unseen, she bathes unseen:
And by my power is her beauty veil'd
To keep it unaffronted, unassail'd
By the love-glances of unlovely eyes,
Of Satyrs, Fauns, and blear'd Silenus' sighs.
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Keats - Lamia |
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