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Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue;
And they went to sea in a sieve.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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While still our ignorant lives were drowned beneath
The flooding of the earthly fate, and chance
Seemed pouring mightily dark and loud between us,
Unspeakable news oft visited our hearts:
We knew each other by desire; yea, spake
Out of the strength of darkness flowing o'er us,
Across the hindering outcry of the world
One to another sweet
desirable
things.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I have
struggled
in vain, my decision was fruitless,
Why then do I wait?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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So sunset shuts my
question
down
With clasps of chrysolite.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Then laughed they all, and sudden beams
Of
sunshine
quivered through the sky.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In reference to this poem, I will here mention one of the most
remarkable
facts in my own poetic history, and that of Mr.
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William Wordsworth |
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You do well to be
stricken
silent here.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I've hed some ribs broke,--six (I b'lieve),--I haint kep' no account on
'em; 30
Wen
pensions
git to be the talk, I'll settle the amount on 'em.
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James Russell Lowell |
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[225] Vibius Secundus,
banished
for extortion in Mauretania.
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Tacitus |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Li Po |
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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 - Three - Complete |
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Lucretius |
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Ay, joy from super-earthly
fountains!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Yea, but it is cruel when
undressed
is all the blossom,
And her shift is lying white upon the floor,
That a grey one, like a shadow, like a rat, a thief, a rain-storm
Creeps upon her then and gathers in his store.
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Imagists |
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How we talked there;
thrushes
soft
Sang our praises out, or oft
Bleatings took them from the croft:
XIII.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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156 _amnuit_ D quod uerum
credebat
T.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Yet may the deed of hers most bright in eyes to be
Lie hid from ours--as in the All-One's thought lay she--
Till
ripening
years have run.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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A
[Illustration]
A was an Area Arch
Where
washerwomen
sat;
They made a lot of lovely starch
To starch Papa's Cravat.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And such of these as men
Supposed
well-trained long ago at home,
Were in the thick of action seen to foam
In fury, from the wounds, the shrieks, the flight,
The panic, and the tumult; nor could men
Aught of their numbers rally.
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Lucretius |
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--For a man to write well, there
are
required
three necessaries--to read the best authors, observe the best
speakers, and much exercise of his own style; in style to consider what
ought to be written, and after what manner.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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ELDRED I tell you his hands and his body were cold--how could I
disturb his last
moments?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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--
That
thousands
of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.
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blake-poems |
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95
XX And, as I with the Cuckoo thus 'gan chide,
In the next bush that was me fast beside,
I heard the lusty
Nightingale
so sing,
That her clear voice made a loud rioting,
Echoing through all the green wood wide.
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William Wordsworth |
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And I have known the arms already, known them all--
Arms that are
braceleted
and white and bare
(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!
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T.S. Eliot |
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How rich the wave, in front, imprest
With evening-twilight's summer hues,
While, facing thus the crimson west,
The boat her silent path
pursues!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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eal a
precursor
of Mod.
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Beowulf |
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Creatress
of man and
woman, 192.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I
remember
so well the room,
And the lilac bloom
That beat at the dripping pane
In the warm June rain;
And the colour of your gown,
It was amber-brown,
And two yellow satin bows
From your shoulders rose.
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Wilde - Poems |
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any statements
concerning
tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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We read of many who either
absolutely refused to allow the copying of their features, as especially
did
Plotinus
and Agesilaus among the ancients, not to mention the more
modern instances of Scioppius, Palaeottus, Pinellus, Velserus, Gataker,
and others, or were indifferent thereto, as Cromwell.
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James Russell Lowell |
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For he seemed to me again like a king,
Like a king in exile,
uncrowned
in the underworld,
Now due to be crowned again.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I am here to fight
Wolves for the joy of the world,
marvellous
women!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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When he walks in
waterproof
white,
The children run after him so!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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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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Wer ruft das
Einzelne
zur allgemeinen Weihe,
Wo es in herrlichen Akkorden schlagt?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"--
One answered: "Rend the veil, declare the end,
Strengthen
her ere she goes.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Satire,
in the European sense, implies _wit_; but Po's satires are as lacking in
true wit as they are
unquestionably
full of true poetry.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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You left me, sweet, two legacies, --
A legacy of love
A Heavenly Father would content,
Had He the offer of;
You left me boundaries of pain
Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
Your
consciousness
and me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Why bear witness against
yourself
in this fashion?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Methought it was but added pain on pain
If thou
shouldst
leave me, and roam forth again
Seeking another's roof.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Like wind, leaving no
footsteps
in the grass, It will depart.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In spite of the influence of
the free-thinking Bolingbroke, Pope still remained a member of the
Catholic church and sincerely believed himself to be an orthodox, though
liberal, Christian, and he had, in consequence, been greatly
disconcerted by a criticism of his poem
published
in Switzerland and
lately translated into English.
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Alexander Pope |
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'The Nilghai
surrounded
while bathing by the
Mahdieh'--that was founded on fact, eh?
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Kipling - Poems |
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--For weeks the balmy air
breathed
soft and mild,
And on the gliding vessel Heaven and Ocean smiled.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
LXXIII
The sun on the tide, the peach on the bough,
The blue smoke over the hill,
And the shadows
trailing
the valley-side,
Make up the autumn day.
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Sappho |
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Clear water a hundred feet deep reflected the faces
of the singers--singing-girls delicate and
graceful
in the light of
the young moon.
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Li Po |
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To introduce myself to your story
It's as the
frightened
hero
If he touched with naked toe
A blade of territory
Prejudicial to glaciers I
Know of no sin's naivety
Whose loud laugh of victory
You won't have then denied
Say if I'm not filled with joyousness
Thunder and rubies to the hubs no less
To see in the air this fire is piercing
With royal kingdoms far scattering,
The wheel, crimson, as if in dying,
Of my chariot's single evening.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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How direct me to perform a
baseness?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Be assembled, all of you;
And, after, raise your triumph-song to greet
This
pitiless
Power that yawns beneath our feet.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Now I wish
to chuck him head first from thy bridge, so as to suddenly rouse (if
possible) this droning dullard and to leave behind in the sticky slush his
sluggish spirit, as a mule casts its iron shoe in the
tenacious
slough.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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1 Qingzhou and Xuzhou were two
prefectures
in the east, deep in An Lushan?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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`For which my
counseil
is, whan it is night,
Thou to hir go, and make of this an ende; 1115
And blisful Iuno, thourgh hir grete mighte,
Shal, as I hope, hir grace un-to us sende.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Blessings in
abundance
come, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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Ages will come and go,
Darkness
will blot the lights
And the tower will be laid on the earth.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And all night long the
captains
of the fleet
Kept their crews moving up and down the strait.
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Aeschylus |
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On over the plains,
on northward, mile after mile, the wild
gigantic
horse leaping cliff
and chasm in his terrible race; on until the mountains of what is now
Donegal rose before them--over these among the clouds, driving rain
blowing in their faces from the sea, Dhoya knowing not whither he went,
or why he rode.
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Yeats |
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Are he and his blue-robed companions, and their like, 'the Eternal
realities' of which we are the reflection 'in the
vegetable
glass of
nature,' or a momentary dream?
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Yeats |
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But as the
eighteenth
century grew slowly to its work, signs of
a deepening interest in the real issues of life distracted men's
attention from the culture of the snuff-box and the fan.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinople,
I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne,
I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick,
I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyons, Brussels, Berne,
Frankfort, Stuttgart, Turin, Florence,
I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw, or
northward
in Christiania or
Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland,
I descend upon all those cities, and rise from them again.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I will not mention how many of my salutary advices you have
despised: I have given you line upon line and precept upon precept;
and while I was chalking out to you the straight way to wealth and
character, with audacious effrontery you have zigzagged across the
path,
contemning
me to my face: you know the consequences.
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Robert Forst |
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One dedicates in high heroic prose,
And
ridicules
beyond a hundred foes:
One from all Grubstreet will my fame defend,
And more abusive, calls himself my friend.
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Alexander Pope |
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81
What
shepherd
could for love pretend.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Fair
fortunes
to the mountaineer!
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Emerson - Poems |
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'
idem
Agamemnonias
dices cum uideris arces:
'heu uictrix uicta uastior urbe iacet!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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XXXII
Habit
alleviates
the grief
Inseparable from our lot;
This great discovery relief
And consolation soon begot.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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All Voices
Lord of the Universe, Lord of our being,
Father eternal,
ineffable
Om!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Human bodies are words, myriads of words;
In the best poems
reappears
the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped,
natural, gay;
Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.
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Whitman |
|
3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Keats - Lamia |
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They will return to the moving pillar of smoke,
The whitest toothed, the
merriest
laughers known,
The blackest haired of all the tribes of men.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by
your equipment.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"O brave knight," said the page,
"Or ere we hither came,
We talked in tent, we talked in field,
Of the bloody battle-game;
But here, below this
greenwood
bough,
I cannot speak the same.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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" KAU}
Severe the labour, female slaves the mortar trod
oppressed
Twelve halls after the names of his twelve sons composd
The golden wondrous building & three [centr f[orm]] Central Domes after the Names {Erdman posits that Blake erased the words "centr f[orm]" and replaced them with "Central Domes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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[270] On
the right flank marched the First legion, two
auxiliary
cohorts of
foot, and five hundred cavalry.
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Tacitus |
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What sholde I make of this a long
sermoun?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Not only is the nunnery
Crowded; the
precincts
too are crammed with people.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Oftentimes
at least
Me hath such strong enhancement overcome,
When I have held a volume in my hand,
Poor earthly casket of immortal verse,
Shakespeare, or Milton, labourers divine!
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;
As the good and gallant stripling shook and trembled;
A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,
O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet
The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward,
The lappets of its front were button'd backward,
And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;
See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,
From his eyeballs hot and briny tears distilling;
On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,
Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;
Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd,
Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him:
O my boy, O my treasure, and my
darling!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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1090
And without wishing you to
increase
your pain
Reflect on my life, and think who I am, again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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20, well observes that this comparison
may also be
sarcastically
applied to the _frigid_ style of oratory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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[HORACE _lets his ear be touched,
according
to legal form.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Will it never cease to
torture, this
iteration!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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walze die teuflischen Augen
ingrimmend
im Kopf herum!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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For me
nevermore
the bliss,
The thrill of a woman's kiss.
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The
preterite
of _ederu_,
to be in misery, has not been found.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Therewithal Dido wore the night in
changing
talk, alas!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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To do this, he takes some great story
which has been absorbed into the prevailing
consciousness
of his people.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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at noon--from the bath--
As I came--it was noon, my lords--
And your sister had then, as she
constantly
hath,
Drawn her veil close around her, aware that the path
Is beset by these foreign hordes.
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Hugo - Poems |
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),
referring
to sword-sports.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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If you
received
this etext on a physical
medium (such as a disk), you must return it with your request.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Yet can I not
perswade
me thou art dead
Or that thy coarse corrupts in earths dark wombe, 30
Or that thy beauties lie in wormie bed,
Hid from the world in a low delved tombe;
Could Heav'n for pittie thee so strictly doom?
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Milton |
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All pitiful knaves and by-street wenchers fare,
And thou, (than any worse), with hanging hair,
In coney-breeding
Celtiberia
bred,
Egnatius!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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and open my heart;
That my
thoughts
torment me no longer,
But glitter in your hair.
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Imagists |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Why ask for
constancy
when change is the life and law of love?
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John Donne |
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