See
_Paradise
Lost_, i.
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In
the meantime, perhaps, he is called barren, dull, lean, a poor writer, or
by what contumelious word can come in their cheeks, by these men who,
without labour, judgment, knowledge, or almost sense, are
received
or
preferred before him.
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What use in
darkness
mirror to uphold?
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Run-deils,
downright
devils.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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LXV
Thitherward
were Orlando she had spied,
In company the knight and lady made.
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Which gathers shadow, substance, life, and all
That we inherit in its mortal shroud,
And spreads the dim and universal pall
Thro' which all things grow phantoms; and the cloud
Between us sinks and all which ever glowed,
Till Glory's self is twilight, and displays
A
melancholy
halo scarce allowed
To hover on the verge of darkness; rays
Sadder than saddest night, for they distract the gaze,
CLXVI.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Is sincerity such a
terrible
thing?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Shal I
compleyne
unto my lady free?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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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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It is only the
intellectually
lost who ever argue.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Laws are
explained
by men--so have a care.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Souriant comme
Sourirait
un enfant malade, il fait un somme:
Nature, berce-le chaudement: il a froid.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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till 1832, when it was
included in a
prefatory
note to _Marino Faliero, Works of Lord Byron_,
1832, xii.
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Byron |
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The willow's weeping trees, that twinkling hoar,
Glanc'd oft upturn'd along the breezy shore,
Low bending o'er the colour'd water, fold
Their moveless boughs and leaves like threads of gold;
The skiffs with naked masts at anchor laid,
Before the boat-house peeping thro' the shade;
Th'
unwearied
glance of woodman's echo'd stroke;
And curling from the trees the cottage smoke.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Like ape or clown, in monstrous garb
With crooked arrows starred,
Silently we went round and round
The slippery
asphalte
yard;
Silently we went round and round,
And no man spoke a word.
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Wilde - Poems |
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You only drive my blood
Nearer the heart from face and hands, and plant there,
Slowly burning, unseen, but alive and wonderful,
A numb,
confusèd
joy!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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)
But there comes Godunov
Bringing
reports to me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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All-heal and willow-herb and meadow-sweet--
The
innocent
names kept up a cool refrain--
All-heal and willow-herb and meadow-sweet,
Chiming and tinkling in his aching brain,
Until he babbled like a child again--
"All-heal and willow-herb and meadow-sweet.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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O poplar, you are great
among the hill-stones,
while I perish on the path
among the
crevices
of the rocks.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
And then the lie of lies that dimmed thy brow,
Vaunting that by thy gold, thy chattels, Thou
Wert Something; which
themselves
are nothingness.
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Euripides - Electra |
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300 Cowper says,--"I cannot take my leave of this noble poem without
expressing
how much I am struck with the plain conclusion of it.
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Iliad - Pope |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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They glided past, the glided fast,
Like
travellers
through a mist:
They mocked the moon in a rigadoon
Of delicate turn and twist,
And with formal pace and loathsome grace
The phantoms kept their tryst.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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E io: <
non
riconosco
alcun; ma s'a voi piace
cosa ch'io possa, spiriti ben nati,
voi dite, e io faro per quella pace
che, dietro a' piedi di si fatta guida,
di mondo in mondo cercar mi si face>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Wie
sonderbar
muss diesen schonen Hals
Ein einzig rotes Schnurchen schmucken,
Nicht breiter als ein Messerrucken!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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additional
contact information:
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
And nowe the horses gentlie drewe 345
Syr CHARLES uppe the hyghe hylle;
The axe dydd glysterr ynne the sunne,
Hys
pretious
bloude to spylle.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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THE STORY OF THE FOUR LITTLE CHILDREN WHO WENT ROUND THE WORLD
THE HISTORY OF THE SEVEN
FAMILIES
OF THE LAKE PIPPLE-POPPLE
NONSENSE COOKERY
NONSENSE BOTANY
NONSENSE ALPHABET, No.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Cape Horn,
Who wished he had never been born;
So he sat on a Chair till he died of despair,
That
dolorous
Man of Cape Horn.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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On
the other hand, his
illustrious
scholar aided him, in his old age and
poverty, out of his scanty income.
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Petrarch |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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There is no record left on earth,
Save in tablets of the heart,
Of the rich inherent worth,
Of the grace that on him shone,
Of eloquent lips, of joyful wit:
He could not frame a word unfit,
An act unworthy to be done;
Honor
prompted
every glance,
Honor came and sat beside him,
In lowly cot or painful road,
And evermore the cruel god
Cried "Onward!
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Emerson - Poems |
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' his
household
cry:
`He hath followed a ghost in flight.
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Sidney Lanier |
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One thing alone can hope to answer your fear;
It is that which
struggles
and blinds us and burns between us.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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e
welfulnesse
of ma{n}ky{n}de.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Shedding tears, you now cast down your brush,7 and at once grasp your saddle,
lamenting
the times.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Painting
is truly a luminous language.
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Appoloinaire |
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I know thee well;
But in thy
fortunes
am unlearn'd and strange.
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Shakespeare |
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When all things charm me I ignore
Which one alone brings most delight;
She shines before me like the dawn,
And she
consoles
me like the night.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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`Eek al my wo is this, that folk now usen
To seyn right thus, "Ye,
Ialousye
is love!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I cannot believe that Jonson wished to
represent
the two houses
as on opposite sides of the street.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Maybe some buddy knows,
some sister, mother, sweetheart,
maybe some girl who sat with him once
when a two-horn silver moon
slid on the peak of a house-roof gable,
and
promises
lived in the air of the night,
when the air was filled with promises,
when any little slip-shoe lovey
could pick a promise out of the air.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Car ma
communion
premiere est bien passee!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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CIII
Margariz
is a very gallant knight,
Both fair and strong, and swift he is and light;
He spurs his horse, goes Oliver to strike,
And breaks his shield, by th'golden buckle bright;
Along his ribs the pagan's spear doth glide;
God's his warrant, his body has respite,
The shaft breaks off, Oliver stays upright;
That other goes, naught stays him in his flight,
His trumpet sounds, rallies his tribe to fight.
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Chanson de Roland |
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that to these were given such
peaceful
shades
As Greece can still bestow, though Glory fly her glades.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I have
received
a stroke in this place without opposition,
but if thou givest me any more readily shall I requite thee, of that be
thou sure.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I am come; and
straight
will bear her to the tomb.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Nay, the wild rocks and woods then voiced the roar
Of Afric lions
mourning
for thy death.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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" With a salary of some seventy pounds a year, the chance
of a few guineas
annually
from the future editions of his poems, and
the hope of rising at some distant day to the more lucrative situation
of supervisor, Burns continued to live in Dumfries; first in the
Bank-vennel, and next in a small house in a humble street, since
called by his name.
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Robert Burns |
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[655] 125 kindnesse 1641
Kindness
1692, 1716 kindness W, G
[656] 147 Marquess 1692, 1716 marquess W
[657] 149 FIT.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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For
princely
Alcides the avenger came
glorious in the spoils of triple Geryon slain; this way the Conqueror
drove the huge bulls, and his oxen filled the river valley.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Upon the mat she lies and leers and on the tawny throat of her
Flutters
the soft and silky fur or ripples to her pointed ears.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Shakespeare |
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If his art does
not seem, when it comes, to be the
creation
of a new personality, in
a few years it will not seem to be alive at all.
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Yeats |
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We leave behind pale traces of achievement:
Fires that we kindled but were too tired to put out,
Broad gold fans
brushing
softly over dark walls,
Stifled uproar of night.
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Imagists |
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The lady similar emotions showed;
For
opportunity
their bosoms glowed;
And who will feel in argument so bold,
When this I say, the contrary to hold?
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La Fontaine |
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Keats - Lamia |
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--Said he, 'tis so decreed;
Then patiently she let the monk proceed,
Who followed up, from point to point, his aim;
And wit, by easy steps, advancing came,
Till its
progression
with her was complete;
Then Alice laughed, success appeared so sweet.
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La Fontaine |
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Then stole I up, and trancedly
Gazed on the Persian girl alone,
Serene with argent-lidded eyes
Amorous, and lashes like to rays
Of darkness, and a brow of pearl
Tressed with redolent ebony,
In many a dark
delicious
curl,
Flowing beneath [17] her rose-hued zone;
The sweetest lady of the time,
Well worthy of the golden prime
Of good Haroun Alraschid.
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Tennyson |
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With ease
Heelwise he held the bull, and with one glide
Bared the white limb; then
stripped
the mighty hide
From off him, swifter than a runner runs
His furlongs, and laid clean the flank.
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Euripides - Electra |
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When
Englishmen
and Protestants should sit
dust on their dishonoured heads _80
To avert the wrath of Him whose scourge is felt
For the great sins which have drawn down from Heaven
and foreign overthrow.
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Shelley |
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" KAU}
Reasoning from the loins in the unreal forms of Ulros night
And when Luvah age after age was quite melted with woe
The fires of Vala faded like a shadow cold & pale
An
evanescent
shadow.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"God looks down from His
judgment
seat, 'Good will on earth' is His message sweet,
Turn your hearts to the Lord.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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As the title indicates, these poems are a
tribute, an
offering
to the Lares, the home spirits of his native town.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Sith that thy citee is assayled
Thourgh knightis of thyn owne table,
God wot thy
lordship
is doutable!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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of person
indirectly
affected, = advantage.
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Beowulf |
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Coloured
jackdaws
I saw hiding,
Paroquets and kolibri,
Through the magic branches gliding
In the woods of Tusfery.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The beautiful image
with which this poem concludes
suggested
itself to me while I was
resting in a boat along with my companions under the shade of a
magnificent row of sycamores, which then extended their branches from
the shore of the promontory upon which stands the ancient, and at that
time the more picturesque, Hall of Coniston, the Seat of the Le
Flemings from very early times.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I'm also pleased to view some lord
Who leads the vanguard in attack,
On armoured horse, a fearless sword,
Who can inspire his men to hack
Away and bravely fight,
And when the conflict's joined aright,
Each must in
readiness
delight,
And follow where he might,
For none attains to honour's height
Till blows have landed left and right.
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Troubador Verse |
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When the Imam rose from his lectures, they used to join me,
and we
repeated
to each other the lessons we had heard.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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NICHOLAS
UPSALL among them.
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Longfellow |
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The clod, who, on the tree had mounted high,
And heard at ease the
conversation
nigh,
Now cried:--Good man!
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La Fontaine |
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Your majesty cannot conceive the effect produced, at a masquerade, by
eight chained ourang-outangs, imagined to be real ones by most of the
company; and rushing in with savage cries, among the crowd of delicately
and
gorgeously
habited men and women.
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Poe - 5 |
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43 _quem_] _quae_ Oap ||
_maxima_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Et tout en
promenant
son petit doigt tremblant
Sur sa joue, un velours de peche rose et blanc,
En faisant, de sa levre enfantine, une moue,
Elle arrangeait les plats, pres de moi, pour m'aiser;
--Puis, comme ca,--bien sur pour avoir un baiser,--
Tout bas: <
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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