There is another thinning of the fruit, commonly near the end of
August or in September, when the ground is strewn with windfalls; and
this happens
especially
when high winds occur after rain.
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I will have shown, in the Poem below, more than a sketch, a 'state' which yet does not entirely break with tradition; will have furthered its presentation in many ways too, without offending anyone; sufficing to open a few eyes (This applies to the 1897
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specifically: translator's note).
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XXXVIII
How can my muse want subject to invent,
While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse
Thine own sweet argument, too excellent
For every vulgar paper to
rehearse?
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How many
grandest
rulers in his day
Chrem plucked down, there are now none can say.
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Or an Eye of gifts & graces
showring
fruits & coined gold!
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Said I, my husband never moves from hence;
No jealous fancy, but to show the sense
He
entertains
of my pure, virtuous life,
And fond affection for a loving wife.
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Thou art the first that I have known in deed
True and my friend, and
shelterer
of my need.
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A moment he stood
balancing
with emotion,
And all but lost himself.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
In the midst of his
laughter
and glee,
He had softly and suddenly vanished away--
For the Snark _was_ a Boojum, you see.
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Le tas des ouvriers a monte dans la rue,
Et ces maudits s'en vont, foule
toujours
accrue
De sombres revenants, aux portes des richards.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Yet ere the varlet Marcus again might seize the maid,
Who clung tight to Muraena's skirt, and sobbed, and shrieked for
aid,
Forth through the throng of gazers the young Icilius pressed,
And stamped his foot, and rent his gown, and smote upon his
breast,
And sprang upon that column, by many a minstrel sung,
Whereon three mouldering helmets, three rusting swords, are hung,
And
beckoned
to the people, and in bold voice and clear
Poured thick and fast the burning words which tyrants quake to
hear.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Her
eyebrows
are like the plumage of the kingfisher, her flesh
is like snow.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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All have not
appeared
in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
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Appoloinaire |
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Be brave in trouble; meet distress
With dauntless front; but when the gale
Too
prosperous
blows, be wise no less,
And shorten sail.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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e
emperour
al-so,
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Even those farthest regions feel anger,2 by a
marriage
pact we wish to form good ties.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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One thought in my mind went over and over
While the
darkness
shook and the leaves were thinned--
I thought it was you who had come to find me,
You were the wind.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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By the more height of thy sweet stature grown,
Twice-eyed with thy gray vision set in mine,
I ken far lands to
wifeless
men unknown,
I compass stars for one-sexed eyes too fine.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Suns are
hurrying
suns a-west,
And newborn moons make speed to meet their end.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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My vicinity to Ayr was of some
advantage
to me.
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Robert Burns |
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They reduced to the simplest standard their houses, apparel, and food;
and
discarded
the load of book-learning which Confucianism imposed on
its adherents.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Therefore
to Horse,
And let vs not be daintie of leaue-taking,
But shift away: there's warrant in that Theft,
Which steales it selfe, when there's no mercie left.
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With what wight so thow be, or how thow pleye,
Oither he woot that thow joie art muable,
Or woot it nought, it mot ben on of tweyen:
Now if he woot it not, how may he seyen
That he hath veray joie and selynesse,
That is of ignoraunce ay in
distresse?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I'll trust by leisure him that mocks me once;
Thee never, nor thy traitorous haughty sons,
Confederates
all thus to dishonour me.
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Shakespeare |
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The Soul is brought by the Truth to a
knowledge
of
the Heavenly Life (Coelia), and is led, through repentance, to seek
forgiveness and to desire a holier life.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And I was in a reptile-swarming place,
Peopled, otherwise, with grimaces,
Shrouded
above in black impenetrableness.
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Stephen Crane |
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O blinding hour, O holy,
terrible
day,
When first the shaft into his vision shone
Of light anatomized!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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There sits Day
Too high for Night to come at--mountains shine,
Outpeering
Time, too lofty for decay.
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_cumulabor_
D m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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He's the terror of the fo'c's'le when he heals its various ills
With
turpentine
and mustard leaves, and poultices and pills.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Whatever
are you doing?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"Slender in bulk—but it
contains
good poems.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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oru our
lauedies
comandement,*.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"Hernani" is the
most famous play in the
European
literature of the nineteenth century.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Or court a wife, spread out his wily parts,
Like nets or lime-twigs, for rich widows' hearts;
Call himself
barrister
to every wench,
And woo in language of the pleas and bench?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Spring up--sway forward--
follow the
quickest
one,
aye, though you leave the trail
and drop exhausted at our feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The peacefull'st cot, the moon shall shine upon,
Lulled by the thrush and wakened by the lark,
Without thee were but a becalmed bark,
Whose helmsman on an ocean waste and wide
Sits mute and pale his
mouldering
helm beside.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The
poor girl felt that she had in a sense been an
accomplice
in the death
of her benefactress.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I haue almost forgot the taste of Feares:
The time ha's beene, my sences would haue cool'd
To heare a Night-shrieke, and my Fell of haire
Would at a dismall
Treatise
rowze, and stirre
As life were in't.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Faith Sir, we were
carowsing
till the second Cock:
And Drinke, Sir, is a great prouoker of three things
Macd.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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SONG
Two doves upon the selfsame branch,
Two lilies on a single stem,
Two
butterflies
upon one flower:--
Oh happy they who look on them.
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Christina Rossetti |
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If Nature thundered in his opening ears,
And stunned him with the music of the spheres,
How would he wish that Heaven had left him still
The
whispering
zephyr, and the purling rill?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
Therwith
Fortune seyde "chek here!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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She might have wept if that hand
Coldly placed against her heart,
Had ever felt dew's
heavenly
wand
Touch human clay with subtle art.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And then with a universe-love he was hot in the wings,
And the sun stretched beams to the worlds as the shining strings
Of the large hid harp that sounds when an all-lover sings;
And the sky's blue traction prevailed o'er the earth's in might,
And the passion of flight grew mad with the glory of height
And the uttering of song was like to the giving of light;
And he learned that hearing and seeing wrought nothing alone,
And that music on earth much light upon Heaven had thrown,
And he melted-in silvery sunshine with silvery tone;
And the spirals of music e'er higher and higher he wound
Till the
luminous
cinctures of melody up from the ground
Arose as the shaft of a tapering tower of sound --
Arose for an unstricken full-finished Babel of sound.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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There was first the
danger of their being left fatherless, a dire
calamity
in the heroic age.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The barkis heafods[10] coupe[11] the lymed[12] streme;
Oundes[13]
synkeynge
oundes upon the hard ake[14] riese;
The water slughornes[15] wythe a swotye[16] cleme[17]
Conteke[18] the dynnynge[19] ayre, and reche the skies.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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INDEED, the anxious, tender youth replied,
To save such costly clothes we should decide;
I'll run at once, and
presently
be here;
Two minutes will suffice I'm very clear.
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La Fontaine |
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If you are willing to pledge me your heart, lover,
I'll offer mine: and so we will grasp entire
All the pleasures of life, and no strange desire
Will make my spirit
prisoner
to another.
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Ronsard |
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As yellow morn
Runs on the
slippery
waves of the spread sea,
Thy feet are on the griefs and joys of men
That sheen to be thy causey.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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To begin with, there are all the volumes and
pamphlets concerning
themselves
with the question whether the Rowley
poems were written by Chatterton or by Rowley, or by both (Chatterton
adding matter of his own to existing poems written in the fifteenth
century), or by neither.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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That we
perceived
ourselves erst only .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Sounds Aeolian
Breath'd from the hinges, as the ample span
Of the wide doors disclos'd a place unknown
Some time to any, but those two alone,
And a few Persian mutes, who that same year
Were seen about the markets: none knew where
They could inhabit; the most curious
Were foil'd, who watch'd to trace them to their house:
And but the flitter-winged verse must tell,
For truth's sake, what woe
afterwards
befel,
'Twould humour many a heart to leave them thus,
Shut from the busy world of more incredulous.
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Keats - Lamia |
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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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19th Century French Poetry |
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Ravish'd, she lifted her Circean head,
Blush'd a live damask, and swift-lisping said,
"I was a woman, let me have once more
A woman's shape, and
charming
as before.
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Although Erdman does not address this issue in his notes, he does make some silent decisions regarding the order of the text, the most
significant
being his placement of this 4-line stanza at the very end of his transcription of p.
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Blake - Zoas |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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, _keel_,
figuratively
for the ship: nom.
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Beowulf |
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Let Greece then know, my purpose I retain:
Nor with new
treaties
vex my peace in vain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
BOSTON, Ralph Waldo Emerson
PAUL REVERE'S RIDE, Henry
Wadsworth
Longfellow
THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON, Sidney Lanier
HYMN, Ralph Waldo Emerson
TICONDEROGA, V.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Chandler
Robbins
Ibn Jemin, From
Illusions
Informing Spirit, The
In Memoriam
Initial, Daemonic and Celestial Love
Initial Love, The
Inscription for a Well in Memory of the Martyrs of the War
Insight
Intellect
J.
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Mary Morris Duane
Freshness, strength, beauty and dignity
characterize
the poems in store for subscribers.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Did ye hear a cry
Under the
rafters?
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Euripides - Electra |
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I am the spirit of the harmless beasts,
Of flying things, and creeping things, and swimming;
Of all the lives, erst set at silent feasts,
That found the love-kiss on the goblet brimming,
And tasted in each drop within the measure
The sweetest
pleasure
of their Lord's good pleasure--
Yet I wail!
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Below the ice, the unheard stream's
Clear heart thrilled on in ecstasy;
And lo, a
visionary
blush
Stole warmly o'er the voiceless wild;
And in her rapt and wintry hush
The lonely face of Nature smiled.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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CHRISTENING
To-day I saw a little, calm-eyed child,--
Where soft lights rippled and the shadows tarried
Within a church's shelter arched and aisled,--
Peacefully wondering, to the altar carried;
White-robed and sweet, in
semblance
of a flower;
White as the daisies that adorned the chancel;
Borne like a gift, the young wife's natural dower,
Offered to God as her most precious hansel.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The short
writings of my comrade are gladsome to my heart; let the
populace
rejoice
in bombastic Antimachus.
| Guess: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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VI
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:
Make sweet some vial;
treasure
thou some place
With beauty's treasure ere it be self-kill'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the raven his nest has made
In its
thickest
shade.
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blake-poems |
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have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
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accepting
unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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They were put to death, but
four years later the
surviving
Tyrant Hippias was expelled, and the young
and noble martyrs to liberty were ever after held in the highest honour
by their fellow-citizens.
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Aristophanes |
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To whom are you
sacrificing?
| Guess: |
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Aristophanes |
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Common beauties stay fifteen ;
Such as yours should swifter move,
Whose fair
blossoms
are too green
Yet for lust, but not for love.
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Marvell - Poems |
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XXVI
I recall thy white gown, cinctured
With a linen belt, whereon
Violets were wrought, and scented
With strange
perfumes
out of Egypt.
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Sappho |
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They are reprinted with some
unimportant
alterations that were chiefly made very soon after their
publication.
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William Wordsworth |
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But you'll have
no great cause to be proud of your
insolence!
| Guess: |
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Aristophanes |
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Nicol, but he would be hurt if he knew I wrote
to anybody and not to him: so I shall only beg my best, kindest,
kindest
compliments
to my worthy hostess and the sweet little
rose-bud.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns |
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_35
The pattern or satire to all of the age;
But stop--a mad author I mean not to turn,
Nor with thirst of applause does my heated brain burn,
Sufficient that sense, wit, and grammar combined,
My letters may make some slight food for the mind; _40
That my thoughts to my friends I may freely impart,
In all the warm
language
that flows from the heart.
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Shelley |
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Within the circuit of this plodding life,
There enter moments of an azure hue,
Untarnished fair as is the violet
Or anemone, when the spring strews them
By some meandering rivulet, which make
The best
philosophy
untrue that aims
But to console man for his grievances.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Jealously
she seeks me out, sweet secret love to expose.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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is the same, the same,
Perplexed
and ruffled by life's strategy?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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There is no
resemblance
between the poems beyond the fact
that both are visions and both have as their heroines illustrious women
who have been unfortunate.
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Tennyson |
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THE BOOK OF HOURS
_The Book of A Monk's Life_
I live my life in circles that grow wide
And endlessly unroll,
I may not reach the last, but on I glide
Strong
pinioned
toward my goal.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Your silent tents of green
We deck with
fragrant
flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.
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Longfellow |
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Now, the son of a certain
slaughtering
Dane,
proud of his treasure, paces this hall,
joys in the killing, and carries the jewel {28d}
that rightfully ought to be owned by thee!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The Princess of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a
gurgling
spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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Ronsard |
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Let want, let shame,
Philosophy
attend!
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Petrarch |
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'
Her voice
choked, and her forehead sank upon her hands,
And her great heart through all the faultful Past
Went
sorrowing
in a pause I dared not break;
Till notice of a change in the dark world
Was lispt about the acacias, and a bird,
That early woke to feed her little ones,
Sent from a dewy breast a cry for light:
She moved, and at her feet the volume fell.
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Tennyson |
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To one of the members has been
delegated
the merely
mechanical labors of assembling, proof-reading, and seeing the volume
through the press.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Fetch a log, then; coax the ember;
Fill your hearts with old-time cheer;
Heaven be thanked for one more year,
And our
Thanksgiving
turkey!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The variant has _ultaprid ki-is-su-su_,
"he shook his
murderous
weapon.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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To skies that knit their heartstrings right,
To fields that bred them brave,
The
saviours
come not home to-night:
Themselves they could not save.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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" It will
occur to most that the
apologist
of the Russian fair "doth
protest too much.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not
substantial
things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and Crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
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Golden Treasury |
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