But hark, the far
Sicilian
sea
Calls, and a noise of men and ships
That labour sunken to the lips
In bitter billows; forth go we,
Through the long leagues of fiery blue,
With saving; not to souls unshriven;
But whoso in his life hath striven
To love things holy and be true,
Through toil and storm we guard him; we
Save, and he shall not die!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Now the last age by Cumae's Sibyl sung
Has come and gone, and the majestic roll
Of circling
centuries
begins anew:
Justice returns, returns old Saturn's reign,
With a new breed of men sent down from heaven.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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e
co{m}mune
loue of alle
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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So may the god reverse his
purposed
will,
Nor o'er our city hang the dreadful hill.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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O
fruitful
Genius!
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Robert Herrick |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I will confine myself to one instance:
Waving his hat, the shepherd, from the vale,
Directs his winding dog the cliffs to scale,--
The dog, loud barking, 'mid the glittering rocks,
Hunts, where his master points, the
intercepted
flocks.
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William Wordsworth |
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Discobbolos
said,--
"Oh!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Happy as holiday-enjoying face,
Loud tongued, and "merry as a
marriage
bell,"
Thy lightsome step sheds joy in every place;
And where the troubled dwell,
Thy witching smiles wean them of half their cares;
And from thy sunny spell,
They greet joy unawares.
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John Clare |
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I've taught me other tongues, and in strange eyes
Have made me not a stranger; to the mind
Which is itself, no changes bring surprise;
Nor is it harsh to make, nor hard to find
A country with--ay, or without mankind;
Yet was I born where men are proud to be,
Not without cause; and should I leave behind
The
inviolate
island of the sage and free,
And seek me out a home by a remoter sea,
IX.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And now, perhaps, he's hunting sheep,
A fierce and
dreadful
hunter he!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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whether, torn by fate from her
unhappy husband, she stood still, or did she mistake the way, or sink
down
outwearied?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Darkling
they lie till comes the clear daylight.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And--no, he wa'n't resigned,
But
concluded
he had missed his find.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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When the earth falters and the waters swoon
With the
implacable
radiance of noon,
And in dim shelters koils hush their notes,
And the faint, thirsting blood in languid throats
Craves liquid succour from the cruel heat,
BUY FRUIT, BUY FRUIT, steals down the panting street.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He arises, and, looking towards the radiant sky of the
sunrising, holds up water from the river in fitly-hollowed palms, and
pours to heaven these accents:
'Nymphs, Laurentine Nymphs, from whom is the
generation
of rivers, and
thou, O father Tiber, with thine holy flood, receive Aeneas and deign to
save him out of danger.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The way I read a letter 's this:
'T is first I lock the door,
And push it with my fingers next,
For
transport
it be sure.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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So richly was this fertile race imbued
With virtuous nephews, its posterity
Surpassed the past, in brave authority,
Measured deep earth and heaven's altitude:
So that, holding all power in its hand,
No end to empire would Rome understand:
And though
Republics
Time might consume,
Time could not so diminish Roman pride,
That some head raised from the ancient tomb,
To speak her name, might be deemed to have lied.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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From the Prelude ix
SEEK not to know which song or saying yields
The palm of praise or garland at the feast,
What yester tempest blew through arid fields,
Now lies 'mid laurels in the
hallowed
Bast.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Please note: neither this list nor its
contents
are final till
midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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CCXLVII
Across that field the bold
Malprimes
canters;
Who of the Franks hath wrought there much great damage.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Parsifal
Parsifal has conquered the girls, their sweet
Chatter, amusing lust - and his inclination,
A virgin boy's, towards the Flesh, tempted
To love the little tits and gentle babble;
He's conquered lovely Woman, of subtle
Heart, showing her cool arms, provoking breast;
He's conquered Hell,
returned
to his tent,
With a weighty trophy on his boyish arm.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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'Tis then a
blessing
to squint!
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Aristophanes |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the
wandering
eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the evidence ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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In the middle of the
night she
suddenly
started up in bed with a pale face and a prayer to
the Virgin whose image hung over her head--she had now comprehended.
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Yeats |
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You villeins smile at
knighthood?
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Sidney Lanier |
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His father slew Troy's
thousands
in their pride;
He hath but one to kill.
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Euripides - Electra |
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In the chapter with this title in Outre-Mer, besides Illustrations
from Byron and
Lockhart
are the three following examples,
contributed by Mr.
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Longfellow |
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One feels that
Alcestis
herself, for
all her tender kindness, has seen through him.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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say I love thee not,
When I against myself with thee
partake?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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in the light
Of common day, so
heavenly
bright,
I bless Thee, Vision as thou art,
I bless thee with a human heart;
God shield thee to thy latest years!
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Golden Treasury |
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'
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In
trembling
zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired his priestly care.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Through
Rencesvals
a little river ran;
He would go there, fetch water for Rollant.
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Chanson de Roland |
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It was to Jason, powerful king of the Cretans, she granted
Of her
immortal
self hidden sweet parts to explore.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Sarojini Chattopadhyay was born at
Hyderabad
on February 13,
1879.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The Scylding queen spoke:
"Quaff of this cup, my king and lord,
breaker of rings, and blithe be thou,
gold-friend of men; to the Geats here speak
such words of
mildness
as man should use.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,
Like petals from a rose,
When
suddenly
across the June
A wind with fingers goes.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Go thou, my song, beyond that Alpine bound,
Where the pure smiling heavens are most serene,
There by a murmuring stream may I be found,
Whose gentle airs around
Waft
grateful
odours from the laurel green;
Nought but my empty form roams here unblest,
There dwells my heart with her who steals it from my breast.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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When I was young I played with a soft brush
And was
passionately
devoted to reading all sorts of books.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Ripe apples drop about my head;
The
luscious
clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
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Golden Treasury |
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Keats - Lamia |
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He raced about with a terrible touse,
From all the puddles went swilling,
He gnawed and he
scratched
all over the house,
His pain there was no stilling;
He made full many a jump of distress,
And soon the poor beast got enough, I guess,
As if he had love in his body.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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gearwe stōwe (_the
inevitable
place prepared for
each_, i.
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Beowulf |
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414_;
_Jonathan
Wild_, ii.
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Byron |
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43
This
throbbing
shows what we abandoned 44
By the waters that make faint moan 45
Lustre and fame!
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Can nothing
disabuse
you of your error?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The backsliding Christian is warned in time
by Prudence of the fearful
consequences
of sin, and hastens to turn his
back on Pride and the other sins.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Confess, and all will change: for many a day
We've seen you infrequently, unsociable, proud,
Now driving your chariot along the coast road, 130
Now, skilled in the art Neptune himself made plain,
Breaking an untamed
stallion
to the rein.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The disdain and
calmness
of martyrs,
The mother of old, condemn'd for a witch, burnt with dry wood, her
children gazing on,
The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the fence,
blowing, cover'd with sweat,
The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous
buckshot and the bullets,
All these I feel or am.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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(_To
himself_)
I suppose not.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Tattiana loved as when a lad,
Both day and night he now must pass
In love-lorn
meditation
sad.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The
glorious
lamp of heaven, the Sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
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Robert Herrick |
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Perhaps the climate
consoled
him.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The Bellman, who was almost
morbidly
sensitive about appearances, used
to have the bowsprit unshipped once or twice a week to be revarnished,
and it more than once happened, when the time came for replacing it,
that no one on board could remember which end of the ship it belonged
to.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any
specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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So few there bee
That chose the narrow path, or seeke the right: 85
All keepe the broad high way, and take delight
With many rather for to go astray,
And be partakers of their evill plight,
Then with a few to walke the
rightest
way;
O foolish men, why haste ye to your owne decay?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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De workmen's few an' mons'rous slow,
De cotton's sheddin' fas';
Whoop, look, jes' look at de Baptis' row,
Hit's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
Hit's mightily in de grass.
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Sidney Lanier |
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" In addition to at least eleven
variants
in punctuation,
the spurious copy prints (p.
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Byron |
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Art, like Nature, its great and only reservoir for all time past and all
time to come, ever strives for
elimination
and selection.
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Rilke - Poems |
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On this hint Burns
wrote the Elegy: when Tam heard o' this he waited on the poet, caused
him to recite it, and expressed displeasure at being
numbered
with the
dead: the author, whose wit was as ready as his rhymes, added the Per
Contra in a moment, much to the delight of his friend.
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Robert Burns |
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Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Continued
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I have been
dilatory
and dumb;
I should have made my way straight to you long ago;
I should have blabbed nothing but you, I should have chanted nothing but
you.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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This day, by Lake Regillus,
Under the Porcian height,
All in the lands of Tusculum
Was fought a
glorious
fight.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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An
instance
of the kind I'll now detail:
The feeling bosom will such lots bewail!
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La Fontaine |
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30
I, with my trouses perched on cowhide boots,
Tuggin' my foundered feet out by the roots,
Hev seen ye come to fling on April's hearse
Your muslin nosegays from the milliner's,
Puzzlin' to find dry ground your queen to choose,
An' dance your throats sore in
morocker
shoes:
I've seen ye an' felt proud, thet, come wut would,
Our Pilgrim stock wuz pethed with hardihood.
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James Russell Lowell |
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CXCVII
Says
Marsilies
the king: "Now let that be.
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Chanson de Roland |
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There is no copy at the India
House, none at the Bibliotheque
Nationale
of Paris.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Ye see that I have not Wherewith to guard him, O angels, divine ones That pass us a-flying,
Sith
sleepeth
my child here Stay ye the branches.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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She thought, if the empty noise
Of a sweet harmonious voice
Like a
murmuring
stream, untaught,
Could make one believe in thought.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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He spans between them
also from east to west, and
reflects
what is between them.
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Whitman |
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That ev'n my buried Ashes such a Snare
Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air,
As not a True
Believer
passing by
But shall be overtaken unaware.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Stockings were not knitted in the
fifteenth
century (_AElla_).
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Chatterton
would never have had time to write so much.
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Thou, who thy honour as thy God rever'st,
Who, save thy mind's reproach, nought earthly fear'st,
To thee this votive
offering
I impart,
The tearful tribute of a broken heart.
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Or to avoid obsceneness, or sometimes
for pleasure, and variety, as
travellers
turn out of the highway, drawn
either by the commodity of a footpath, or the delicacy or freshness of
the fields.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
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blake-poems |
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XIV
But full of fire and greedy hardiment,
The
youthfull
knight could not for ought be staide,
But forth unto the darksome hole he went, 120
And looked in: his glistring armor made
A litle glooming light, much like a shade,
By which he saw the ugly monster?
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But then, nae thanks to him for a' that;
Nae godly symptom ye can ca' that;
It's
naething
but a milder feature,
Of our poor sinfu', corrupt nature:
Ye'll get the best o' moral works,
'Mang black Gentoos and pagan Turks,
Or hunters wild on Ponotaxi,
Wha never heard of orthodoxy.
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Title: Lamia
Author: John Keats
Posting Date: December 23, 2008 [EBook #2490]
Release Date: January, 2001
Language: English
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LAMIA
By John Keats
Part 1
Upon a time, before the faery broods
Drove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous woods,
Before King Oberon's bright diadem,
Sceptre, and mantle, clasp'd with dewy gem,
Frighted
away the Dryads and the Fauns
From rushes green, and brakes, and cowslip'd lawns,
The ever-smitten Hermes empty left
His golden throne, bent warm on amorous theft:
From high Olympus had he stolen light,
On this side of Jove's clouds, to escape the sight
Of his great summoner, and made retreat
Into a forest on the shores of Crete.
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The bells they sound on Bredon,
And still the
steeples
hum.
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LXIV
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;
When I have seen such
interchange
of state,
Or state itself confounded, to decay;
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate--
That Time will come and take my love away.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
— Current Opinion, New
York
"Each
contribution
is a gem.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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He too
bewailed
his faults with penance sore,
Ay, and his wretched luck bemoaned a great deal more.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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