Land of the eastern
Chesapeake!
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And when, at times, wrapped in her languor deep,
Earthward
she lets a furtive tear-drop flow,
Some pious poet, enemy of sleep,
Takes in his hollow hand the tear of snow
Whence gleams of iris and of opal start,
And hides it from the Sun, deep in his heart.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Then bit by bit
They learned sweet plainings, such as pipe out-pours,
Beaten by finger-tips of singing men,
When heard through unpathed groves and forest deeps
And woodsy meadows, through the untrod haunts
Of
shepherd
folk and spots divinely still.
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O
brightest!
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Keats |
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THOUGH SHE BE LESS SEVERE, HE IS STILL NOT CONTENTED AND
TRANQUIL
AT
HEART.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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At _any_
season, such remains may be discovered by looking down into the
transparent lake, and at such
distances
as would argue the existence of
many settlements in the space now usurped by the 'Asphaltites.
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A recluse by temperament and habit,
literally spending years without setting her foot beyond the
doorstep, and many more years during which her walks were strictly
limited to her father's grounds, she habitually concealed her mind,
like her person, from all but a very few friends; and it was with
great
difficulty
that she was persuaded to print, during her
lifetime, three or four poems.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But God grants your dear England
A strength that shall not cease
Till she have won for all the Earth
From
ruthless
men release,
And made supreme upon her
Mercy and Truth and Honour--
Is this the thing you died for?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The black and yellow bumble first on wing
To buzz among the sallow's early flowers,
Hiding its nest in holes from fickle spring
Who stints his rambles with her frequent showers;
And one that may for wiser piper pass,
In livery dress half sables and half red,
Who laps a moss ball in the meadow grass
And hoards her stores when April showers have fled;
And russet commoner who knows the face
Of every blossom that the meadow brings,
Starting the
traveller
to a quicker pace
By threatening round his head in many rings:
These sweeten summer in their happy glee
By giving for her honey melody.
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John Clare |
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Roundhead
and Cavalier!
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James Russell Lowell |
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--what miserable agitation
Seizes this
demigod!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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5
LIBATION
By Marjorie Allen
Seiffert
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And I wonder how they should have been
together!
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T.S. Eliot |
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They have seen, by
countless
waters and windows,
The women of your race facing a stony sky;
They have heard, for thousands of years, the voices of women
Asking them: "Why .
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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His eye glanced at the white-nosed bee;
He knew those
children
of the Spring:
When he was well and on the lea
He held one in his hands to sing,
Which filled his heart with glee.
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John Clare |
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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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When they are come to the
mountain
heights and pathless
coverts, lo, wild goats driven from the cliff-tops run down the ridge;
in another quarter stags speed over the open plain and gather their
flying column in a cloud of dust as they leave the hills.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses reckon up their own:
I may be
straight
though they themselves be bevel;
By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be shown;
Unless this general evil they maintain,
All men are bad and in their badness reign.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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_ There is a silentness
That answers thee enow,
That, like a brazen sound
Excluding others, doth
ensheathe
us round,--
Hear it.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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) 52
HOOD, Thomas (1798-1845) 224, 231, 235
JONSON, Ben (1574-1637) 73, 78, 90
KEATS, John (1795-1821) 166, 167, 191, 193, 198, 229, 244, 255, 270, 284
LAMB, Charles (1775-1835) 220, 233, 237
LINDSAY, Anne (1750-1825) 152
LODGE, Thomas (1556-1625) 16
LOGAN, John (1748-1788) 127
LOVELACE, Richard (1618-1658) 83, 99, 100
LYLYE, John (1554-1600) 51
MARLOWE,
Christopher
(1562-1593) 5
MARVELL, Andrew (1620-1678) 65, 111, 114
MICKLE, William Julius (1734-1788) 154
MILTON, John (1608-1674) 62, 64, 66, 70, 71, 76, 77, 85, 112, 113, 115
MOORE, Thomas (1780-1852) 185, 201, 217, 221, 225
NAIRN, Carolina (1766-1845) 157
NASH, Thomas (1567-1601?
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Golden Treasury |
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Right as the wilde bole
biginneth
springe
Now here, now there, y-darted to the herte, 240
And of his deeth roreth in compleyninge,
Right so gan he aboute the chaumbre sterte,
Smyting his brest ay with his festes smerte;
His heed to the wal, his body to the grounde
Ful ofte he swapte, him-selven to confounde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Next Anger rush'd, his eyes on fire,
In
lightnings
own'd his secret stings;
In one rude clash he struck the lyre
And swept with hurried hand the strings.
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Golden Treasury |
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Each year to ancient friendships adds a ring,
As to an oak, and precious more and more,
Without
deservingness
or help of ours,
They grow, and, silent, wider spread, each year,
Their unbought ring of shelter or of shade,
Sacred to me the lichens on the bark,
Which Nature's milliners would scrape away; 170
Most dear and sacred every withered limb!
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James Russell Lowell |
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That mockery
In Calcabrina fury stirr'd, who flew
After him, with desire of strife inflam'd;
And, for the
barterer
had 'scap'd, so turn'd
His talons on his comrade.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The
unchariest
muse
To embracements warm as theirs makes coy excuse.
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Keats |
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opaca praebent arbores umbracula
prohibentque
densis feruidum solem comis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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THE ECHOING GREEN
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells'
cheerful
sound;
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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)
By Power, Wealth, and Show,
(The Gods by men adored,)
By
nameless
Poverty,
(Their hell abhorred,)
By all they hope, by all they fear,
Hear!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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'
Thereupon she took
A bird's-eye-view of all the ungracious past;
Glanced at the legendary Amazon
As
emblematic
of a nobler age;
Appraised the Lycian custom, spoke of those
That lay at wine with Lar and Lucumo;
Ran down the Persian, Grecian, Roman lines
Of empire, and the woman's state in each,
How far from just; till warming with her theme
She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique
And little-footed China, touched on Mahomet
With much contempt, and came to chivalry:
When some respect, however slight, was paid
To woman, superstition all awry:
However then commenced the dawn: a beam
Had slanted forward, falling in a land
Of promise; fruit would follow.
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Tennyson |
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This is a
delightful
country for married folk who are wrapped up in one
another.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime;
So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,
Despite of
wrinkles
this thy golden time.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Deare Duff, I prythee
contradict
thy selfe,
And say, it is not so.
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Tennyson |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
My
brothers
who live after us,
Don't harden you hearts against us too,
If you have mercy now on us,
God may have mercy upon you.
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Villon |
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How poor, how strange, how wrong,
To dream He wrote the little song
I made to Him with love's
unforced
design!
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Sidney Lanier |
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the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Keats |
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Let my
thoughts
rest on your form!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Thus, to myself a prey, from hill to hill,
Pensive by day I roam, and weep at night,
No one state mine, but
changeful
as the moon;
And when I see approaching the brown eve,
Sighs from my bosom, from my eyes fall waves,
The herbs to moisten and to move the woods.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The Peacock
Juno and the Peacock
'Juno and the Peacock'
Magdalena van de Passe, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 1634, The Rijksmuseun
In
spreading
out his fan, this bird,
Whose plumage drags on earth, I fear,
Appears more lovely than before,
But makes his derriere appear.
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Appoloinaire |
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CCIX
"Rollant, my friend, fair youth that bar'st the bell,
When I arrive at Aix, in my Chapelle,
Men coming there will ask what news I tell;
I'll say to them:
`Marvellous
news and fell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Your hour has sounded, nothing now indeed
Can change for you the destiny decreed,
Irrevocable
quite.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Ils auront vu la Suisse et
traverse
la France.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Much-more
provides
and hoards up like an ant, 379.
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Robert Herrick |
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It is all in keeping that he should arrive tired,
should feast and drink and sing; should be
suddenly
sobered and should go
forth to battle with Death.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Everywhere
the dark
blood flows; they deal death with the sword in battle, and seek a noble
death by wounds.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Un orchestre guerrier, au milieu du jardin,
Balance ses schakos dans la Valse des fifres:
On voit, aux premiers rangs, parader le gandin,
Les notaires montrent leurs breloques a chiffres:
Des rentiers a lorgnons soulignent tous les couacs;
Les gros bureaux bouffis trainent leurs grosses dames,
Aupres
desquelles
vont, officieux cornacs,
Celles dont les volants ont des airs de reclames;
Sur les bancs verts, des clubs d'epiciers retraites
Qui tisonnent le sable avec leur canne a pomme,
Fort serieusement discutent des traites,
Puis prisent en argent, mieux que monsieur Prud'homme!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The Net
I made you many and many a song,
Yet never one told all you are--
It was as though a net of words
Were flung to catch a star;
It was as though I curved my hand
And dipped sea-water eagerly,
Only to find it lost the blue
Dark
splendor
of the sea.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Shivering
with woe, chaste Elvira the while,
Near him untrue to all but her till now,
Seemed to beseech him for one farewell smile
Lit with the sweetness of the first soft vow.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I could not bear the bees should come,
I wished they 'd stay away
In those dim
countries
where they go:
What word had they for me?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Virtuous
and vicious every man must be,
Few in th' extreme, but all in the degree,
The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise;
And even the best, by fits, what they despise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I showed the priests' families how
to make aprons of the degrees, but for Dravot's apron the blue border
and marks was made of
turquoise
lumps on white hide, not cloth.
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Kipling - Poems |
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For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Hap, a wrap, a
covering
against cold.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Some Imagist Poets, by
Richard
Aldington
and H.
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Imagists |
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IX
My poor
Vladimir!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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quare nunc animos saltem committite uestros,
dicere iam incipient, iam
respondere
decebit.
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Latin - Catullus |
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But still it is
not
possible
for me to give you a battalion and fifty Cossacks.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The relation of Fate or Destiny to God or
Divine Providence is
discussed
by Boethius, _De Cons.
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John Donne |
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XXII
Whom when the Prince, to battell new addrest, 190
And threatning high his dreadfull stroke did see,
His sparkling blade about his head he blest,
And smote off quite his right leg by the knee,
That downe he tombled; as an aged tree,
High growing on the top of rocky clift, 195
Whose
hartstrings
with keene steele nigh hewen be,
The mightie trunck halfe rent, with ragged rift
Doth roll adowne the rocks, and fall with fearefull drift.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Gosson's
_Pleasant
Quippes_ (1595) speaks of 'these
naked paps, the Devils ginnes.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Judith, our fates are closer to one another's
Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:
The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,
And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;
We are both
neighbours
of the silent skies.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed
Their snow white blossoms on my head,
With
brightest
sunshine round me spread
Of Spring's unclouded weather,
In this sequester'd nook how sweet
To sit upon my orchard-seat!
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Golden Treasury |
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Yet let thy people bind thee to the mast 60
Erect,
encompassing
thy feet and arms
With cordage well-secured to the mast-foot,
So shalt thou, raptur'd, hear the Sirens' song.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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So far it is from both the sky and land,
It cannot rise, it dare not fall, so lives apart
From fear of
conquest
and from hope of rest.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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From windows in my father's house,
Dreaming
my dreams on winter nights,
I watched Orion as a girl
Above another city's lights.
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Sara Teasdale |
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He stops--he starts--disdaining to decline:
Slowly he falls, amidst triumphant cries,
Without a groan, without a
struggle
dies.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I
savoured
it slowly and did not throw a coin through the window for fear of troubling my spirit and discovering that not only the instrument was playing.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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He was conscious how
inadequate
one man
was to bear the weight of that Titan and too vast orb.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But what do all these insults
betoken?
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Aristophanes |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Piangendo
mi sgrido: <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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