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They are caked with ice from the driving sleet,
And they sling their arms, and they stamp their feet And glory in the pain and the
freezing
sleet,
For they are the soldiers of the Lord!
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I'd like to turn the deepest of yellows,
Falling, drop by drop, in a golden shower,
Into her lap, my lovely Cassandra's,
As sleep is
stealing
over her brow.
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If the sad grave of human
ignorance
bear
One flower of hope--oh, pass and leave it there!
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"
And through the chant a second melody
Rose like the
throbbing
of a single string:
"I am an Angel, and thou art the King!
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Lanier's growth in
artistic
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Let Freedom's land
rejoice!
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SAS}
Thy brother Luvah hath smitten me but pity thou his youth
Tho thou hast not pitid my Age O Urizen Prince of Light {According to Erdman, "Blake first wrote and erased a
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The snare was set amid those threads of gold,
To which Love bound me fast;
And from those bright eyes melted the long cold
Within my heart that pass'd;
So sweet the spell their sudden
splendour
cast,
Its single memory still
Deprives my soul of every other will.
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How
tenderly
she seems to hear the tale
Of my long woes, and their relief to seek!
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--First, we require in our poet or maker (for that
title our
language
affords him elegantly with the Greek) a goodness of
natural wit.
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There be more things to greet the heart and eyes
In Arno's dome of Art's most princely shrine,
Where Sculpture with her rainbow sister vies;
There be more marvels yet--but not for mine;
For I have been
accustomed
to entwine
My thoughts with Nature rather in the fields
Than Art in galleries: though a work divine
Calls for my spirit's homage, yet it yields
Less than it feels, because the weapon which it wields
LXII.
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In his
subsequent
poetic work Rilke did not again reach the sustained
high quality of this book, the mood and idea of which he incorporated
into a prose work of exquisite lyrical beauty: _The Sketch of Malte
Laurids Brigge_.
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1 This is the
emanation
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I
recollect
it well!
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The idea of Fate 'arose from the
observation
of the
regularity of the sidereal movements'.
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Till
Darkness and silence of the hill
Received
her in their restful care
And stars came dropping through the air.
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'117 gust:'
the
pleasure
of taste.
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Slaves, at his angry call,
In to him hastily, a
candelabra
bore,
And set it, branching o'er the table, in the hall,
From whose wide bounds it hunted instantly the gloom.
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The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi' joy,
But blate, an laithfu', scarce can weel behave;
The Mother, wi' a woman's wiles, can spy
What makes the youth sae bashfu' and sae grave;
Weel pleas'd to think her bairn's
respected
like the lave.
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Yea, thou and I who speak, are but the joy
Of our for ever mated spirits; but now
The wisdom of my gladness even through Spirit
Looks,
divinely
elate.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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iam Catullus obdurat,
nec te
requiret
nec rogabit inuitam.
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distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
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EJC}
Then I am dead till thou revivest me with thy sweet song
Now taking on Ahanias form & now the form of Enion
I know thee not as once I knew thee in those blessed fields
Where memory wishes to repose among the flocks of Tharmas
Enitharmon answerd Wherefore didst thou throw thine arms around
Ahanias Image I decievd thee & will still decieve
Urizen saw thy sin & hid his beams in darkning Clouds
I still keep watch altho I tremble & wither across the heavens
In strong vibrations of fierce jealousy for thou art mine
Created for my will my slave tho strong tho I am weak {This line appears to have been inserted between 2
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Even so
suspicious
is this tragedy.
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_165
'Nor where the tropics bound the realms of day
With a broad belt of mingling cloud and flame,
Where blue mists through the unmoving atmosphere
Scattered the seeds of pestilence, and fed
Unnatural vegetation, where the land _170
Teemed with all earthquake, tempest and disease,
Was Man a nobler being; slavery
Had crushed him to his country's bloodstained dust;
Or he was bartered for the fame of power,
Which all internal
impulses
destroying, _175
Makes human will an article of trade;
Or he was changed with Christians for their gold,
And dragged to distant isles, where to the sound
Of the flesh-mangling scourge, he does the work
Of all-polluting luxury and wealth, _180
Which doubly visits on the tyrants' heads
The long-protracted fulness of their woe;
Or he was led to legal butchery,
To turn to worms beneath that burning sun,
Where kings first leagued against the rights of men, _185
And priests first traded with the name of God.
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I du believe in Freedom's cause,
Ez fur away ez Payris is;
I love to see her stick her claws
In them infarnal Phayrisees;
It's wal enough agin a king
To dror
resolves
an' triggers,--
But libbaty's a kind o' thing
Thet don't agree with niggers.
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10
XLVII
Like torn sea-kelp in the drift
Of the great tides of the sea,
Carried past the harbour-mouth
To the deep beyond return,
I am buoyed and borne away 5
On the
loveliness
of earth,
Little caring, save for thee,
Past the portals of the night.
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Of
Charlemagne
I wish to hear you tell,
He's very old, his time is nearly spent,
Two hundred years he's lived now, as 'tis said.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The
pawnbrokers
were cordially hated in Jonson's time.
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Once by the Iffley Road November
Welcomed the Football men aglow,
Covered with mud, as you'll remember,
Eager to
vanquish
Oxford's foe.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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THE LITTLE GIRL LOST
In futurity
I
prophetic
see
That the earth from sleep
(Grave the sentence deep)
Shall arise, and seek
for her Maker meek;
And the desert wild
Become a garden mild.
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Die we may,--and die we must;--
But, O, where can dust to dust
Be
consigned
so well,
As where Heaven its dews shall shed
On the martyred patriot's bed,
And the rocks shall raise their head,
Of his deeds to tell!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Upon this night no
sentinels
keep watch.
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Chanson de Roland |
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'Tis his maine hope:
For where there is
aduantage
to be giuen,
Both more and lesse haue giuen him the Reuolt,
And none serue with him, but constrained things,
Whose hearts are absent too
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Jove heard his vows, and better'd his desire;
For by some freakful chance he made retire
From his companions, and set forth to walk,
Perhaps grown wearied of their Corinth talk:
Over the solitary hills he fared,
Thoughtless at first, but ere eve's star appeared
His
phantasy
was lost, where reason fades,
In the calm'd twilight of Platonic shades.
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Keats |
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Meredith - Poems |
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The
world of wits, and _gens comme il faut_ which I lately left, and with
whom I never again will
intimately
mix--from that port, Sir, I expect
your Gazette: what _Les beaux esprit_ are saying, what they are doing,
and what they are singing.
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Robert Burns |
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try our
Executive
Director:
Michael S.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Lernedest
nat ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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But sin ye wol not suffre us liven here,
Yet
suffreth
that our soules ben y-fere.
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Quirites, permit me the joy, and may this, of all pleasures on earth the
First and the last, be
vouchsafed
all of mankind by the god.
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was transparent as a needle
Was it cooing about
something
else?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Denique testis erit morti quoque reddita praeda,
Cum terrae ex celso coacervatum aggere bustum
Excipiet
niveos percussae virginis artus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Contemplate
Phaedra then in all her fury.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And surely, Death could never have prevail'd,
Had not his weekly cours of
carriage
fail'd; 10
But lately finding him so long at home,
And thinking now his journeys end was come,
And that he had tane up his latest Inne,
In the kind office of a Chamberlin
Shew'd him his room where he must lodge that night,
Pull'd off his Boots, and took away the light:
If any ask for him, it shall be sed,
Hobson has supt, and 's newly gon to bed.
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Milton |
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But certeyn is, er Troilus him leyde,
Deiphebus
had him prayed, over night,
To been a freend and helping to Criseyde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"You gave me
hyacinths
first a year ago;
"They called me the hyacinth girl.
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1921
Fir-Flower Tablets
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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DOTH still before thee rise the
beauteous
image
Of him who high the cliff for roses scales,
Who nigh forgets the day amidst the scrimmage,
Who fullest honey from the bunch inhales?
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That they are such as are most thirsty of man's blood--
Yet he will see a slave
beheaded
whilst he sups.
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Hugo - Poems |
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" he made no reply,
That
mysterious
old person of Deal.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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O thou,
Parnassus!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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[596]
Submiss and silent, palsied with amaze,
Proud Malabar th' unnumber'd slain surveys:
Yet burns the monarch; to his shrine he speeds;
Dire howl the priests, the groaning victim bleeds;
The ground they stamp, and, from the dark abodes,
With tears and vows, they call th'
infernal
gods.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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With the exception
of the introductory piece from Byron, the verse translations here are
by
Professor
Wight Duff.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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IV
Unthrifty
loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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5
in Magni simul ambulatione
femellas
omnes, amice, prendi,
quas uultu uidi tamen serenas.
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
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Ronsard |
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stand
composed
and tell,
Although thy heart be groaning inwardly,
Who hath escaped, and, of our leaders, whom
Have we to weep?
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Aeschylus |
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An ear to my
confession
lend;
To thy decree my will I bend.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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the living can bestow;
O'er the congenial dust enjoin'd to shear
The
graceful
curl, and drop the tender tear.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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To south the
headstones
cluster,
The sunny mounds lie thick;
The dead are more in muster
At Hughley than the quick.
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Tharmas groand among his Clouds
Weeping, and then bending from his Clouds he stoopd his holy innocent head*
{innocent replaces holy LFS} And
stretching
out his holy hand in the vast Deep sublime
Turnd round the circle of Destiny with tears & bitter sighs
And said.
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Blake - Zoas |
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* * * * *
Girt with a boyish garb for boyish task,
Eager she wields her spade: yet loves as well
Rest on the
friendly
knee, intent to ask
The tale one loves to tell.
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Lewis Carroll |
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" Now the rich sound of leaves,
Turning in air to sway their heavy boughs,
Burns in his heart, sings in his veins, as spring
Flowers in veins of trees;
bringing
such peace
As comes to seamen when they dream of seas.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"They should, by rights,
Give them a chance--because, you know,
The tastes of people differ so,
Especially
in Sprites.
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Lewis Carroll |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Besides that, it was bordered by evanescent isthmuses, with a great
gulf-stream running about all over it; so that it was perfectly beautiful,
and
contained
only a single tree, 503 feet high.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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XCV
Hark, where Poseidon's
White racing horses
Trample with tumult
The
shelving
seaboard!
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Meredith - Poems |
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With
watchers
doth he go
Begirt, and mailed pikemen?
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Euripides - Electra |
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an so 3428
as bounte {and}
prowesse
ben ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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There, then, we dwelt
The year complete, fed with delicious fare
Day after day, and
quaffing
gen'rous wine.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Brown ivy old, green herbage new;
Soft seaweed
stealing
up the shingle;
An ancient chapel where a crew,
Ere sailing, in the prayer commingle.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Then Pallas, teeming with a new design,
Set forth an airy phantom in the form
Of fair Iphthima,
daughter
of the brave
Icarius, and Eumelus' wedded wife
In Pherae.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The
helmsman
steerd, the ship mov'd on;
Yet never a breeze up-blew;
The Marineres all 'gan work the ropes,
Where they were wont to do:
They rais'd their limbs like lifeless tools--
We were a ghastly crew.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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CXL
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
My tongue-tied
patience
with too much disdain;
Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express
The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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developed, opens the decay,
When the colossal fabric's form is neared:
It will not bear the
brightness
of the day,
Which streams too much on all, years, man, have reft away.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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O how can beautie maister the most strong,
And simple truth subdue
avenging
wrong?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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EARTH'S ANSWER
Earth raised up her head
From the
darkness
dread and drear,
Her light fled,
Stony, dread,
And her locks covered with grey despair.
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blake-poems |
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This
sovereign
soul seemed to commune
With self beneath his metal sheath; yet soon
And suddenly, with tranquil voice said he,
"Princes, your craven spirit wearies me.
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Hugo - Poems |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of
Replacement
or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Quest' ultima gia mai non si cancella
se non servata; e intorno di lei
si preciso di sopra si favella:
pero
necessitato
fu a li Ebrei
pur l'offerere, ancor ch'alcuna offerta
si permutasse, come saver dei.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A PEASANT,
_husband
of Electra_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The Vizier was
generous
and
kept his word.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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His practice during all his life in Concord was
to go alone to the woods almost daily,
sometimes
to wait there for
hours, and, when thus attuned, to receive the message to which he was to
give voice.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Meos circa I umbos mica,
O
castitatis
lorica,
Aqua tincta seraphica;
Patera gemmis corusca,
Panis salsus, mollis esca,
Divinum vinum, Francisca!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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_mainly, noting all
variations
of importance.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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We cannot wonder that the ballads of
Rome should have altogether disappeared, when we remember how
very narrowly, in spite of the
invention
of printing, those of
our own country and those of Spain escaped the same fate.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And
beauties
ere this never naked seen :
Through the vain sedge the bashful nymphs he
eyed.
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Marvell - Poems |
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As regards the language of the line
in question, I am bold to say that He who readeth the hearts of men will
not account any dialect
unseemly
which conveys a sound, and pious
sentiment.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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They left their home in silence by the once
convivial
door;
And from that hour those Bachelors were never heard of more.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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