Brutus, in express terms, says, he was
weakened
into length, and
wanted sinew.
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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VI
As in her chariot the
Phrygian
goddess rode,
Crowned with high turrets, happy to have borne
Such quantity of gods, so her I mourn,
This ancient city, once whole worlds bestrode:
On whom, more than the Phrygian, was bestowed
A wealth of progeny, whose power at dawn
Was the world's power, her grandeur, now shorn,
Knowing no match to that which from her flowed.
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He prided himself
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DRI Fr
an
cois and and thee and
Margot Drink we the
comrades
merrily
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In the frith
Samos the rude, and Ithaca between,
The chief of all her suitors thy return
In vigilant ambush wait, with strong desire
To slay thee, ere thou reach thy native shore,
But shall not, as I judge, till the earth hide 40
Many a lewd
reveller
at thy expence.
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DANAUS
To us, beyond gifts manifold it is
To find a champion thus compassionate;
Yet send with me attendants, of thy folk,
Rightly to guide me, that I duly find
Each altar of your city's gods that stands
Before the fane, each
dedicated
shrine;
And that in safety through the city's ways
I may pass onwards: all unlike to yours
The outward semblance that I wear--the race
that Nilus rears is all dissimilar
That of Inachus.
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The moment was
important in my poetical history; for I date from it my consciousness
of the infinite variety of natural appearances which had been
unnoticed by the poets of any age or country, so far as I was
acquainted with them; and I made a
resolution
to supply in some degree
the deficiency.
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Is this mine own
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porridge
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_Read_
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the yerd?
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"
XXXIX
The livid lightnings flashed in the clouds;
The leaden
thunders
crashed.
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'Tis now about term-day, and
there has been a
revolution
among those creatures, who though in
appearance partakers, and equally noble partakers, of the same nature
with Madame, are from time to time--their nerves, their sinews, their
health, strength, wisdom, experience, genius, time, nay a good part of
their very thoughts--sold for months and years, not only to the
necessities, the conveniences, but, the caprices of the important few.
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This refers to Consort Zheng;
imperial
son-in-laws were commonly compared to Xiaoshi.
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You've
listened
too long, cruel one.
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Creech; and I
must own, that, at last, he has been
amicable
and fair with me.
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" said the Bellman in wrath, as he heard
The Butcher
beginning
to sob.
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`O Pandare, that in dremes for to triste
Me blamed hast, and wont art oft up-breyde, 1710
Now maystow see thy-selve, if that thee liste,
How trewe is now thy nece, bright
Criseyde!
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Whatever
part the
whip has touched is thenceforth palsied.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I agreed to this, and Zourine called for punch; then he advised me to
taste it, always repeating that I must get
accustomed
to the service.
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LFS}
Los was the fourth immortal starry one, & in the Earth
Of a bright Universe Empery
attended
day & night
Days & nights of revolving joy, Urthona was his name
PAGE 4
In Eden; in the Auricular Nerves of Human life* {The centered text block of this page appears to be written over erased text, with four clusters of added lines in various orientations in the margin.
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[_Enter Clytemnestra,
followed
by maidens bearing purple robes.
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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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What not put vpon
His spungie
Officers?
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: _si quoi Virro_ Parthenius: _si quoi iure_
Palladius
|| _sacer introsum_ scripsi: _sacer alarum_ Calp.
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The
PRETENDER
and
MARINA advance as the first couple.
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DAMOETAS
For me too wrought the same Alcimedon
A pair of cups, and round the handles wreathed
Pliant acanthus, Orpheus in the midst,
The forests
following
in his wake; nor yet
Have I set lip to them, but lay them by.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Aricia
Dear Ismene, my heart hears it so eagerly, 415
Your speech that owes so little to
reality!
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Li Po |
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Gabriel was it, who, weary with waiting, unhappy and restless,
Sought in the Western wilds
oblivion
of self and of sorrow.
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consider
now,
Ye're unco muckle dautit;
But ere the course o' life be through,
It may be bitter sautit:
An' I hae seen their coggie fou,
That yet hae tarrow't at it.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_
Birth means dying,
As wings and wind mean flying;
So you and I and all things fly or die;
And
sometimes
I sit sighing to think of dying.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Of all these ways, if each pursues his own,
Satire be kind, and let the wretch alone:
But show me one who has it in his power
To act
consistent
with himself an hour.
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He faces
the horror; realises it; and tries to
surmount
it on the sweep of a great
wave of religious emotion.
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But my mind was weary Almost as the
twilight
of the day,
And my soul was sullen, and a little Tired of his everlasting talk.
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And now, in fell remorse, he hates the sun,
And calls his consort from the realms of night,
To which his fatal hand had sped her flight--
Behold yon hapless three, by passion lost,
Procris, and Artemisia's royal ghost;
And her, whose son (his mother's grief and joy)
Razed with paternal rage the walls of Troy,--
Another triple
sisterhood
is seen;
This characters of Hades.
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Petrarch |
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From him hearing
these things I
hastened
thither.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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[Sidenote A: "God
preserve
thee!
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Advancing, forth she stretched her hand
And begged an alms with doleful plea
That ceased not; on our English land 15
Such woes, I knew, could never be; [4]
And yet a boon I gave her, for the creature
Was
beautiful
to see--a weed of glorious feature.
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He knew that thought clings round dead limbs
Tightening
its lusts and luxuries.
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In 1171 she married Roger II,
Viscount
of Beziers and Cacassonne, called Talliafero, or Taillefer.
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Troubador Verse |
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"Eyes," he said, "now
throbbing
through me!
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And don't go
choosing
your words
Without some confusion of vision:
Nothing's dearer than shadowy verse
Where precision weds indecision.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Eve
responds
that if Eden is so
exposed that they are not secure apart, how can they be happy?
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Shuttleworthy's other friends from
making a stir about the matter, thinking it best to wait awhile--say for
a week or two, or a month, or two--to see if
something
wouldn't turn up,
or if Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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Aureli, pater essuritionum,
Non harum modo, sed quot aut fuerunt
Aut sunt aut aliis erunt in annis,
Pedicare
cupis meos amores.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Last day my mind was in a bog,
Down George's Street I stoited;
A
creeping
cauld prosaic fog
My very sense doited.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The tapers slowly fade
Thou
speedest
from these halls,
Now that thy love is dead--
And sound of weeping falls.
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Imagists |
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And when he came to observe his feet,
Formerly
garnished with toes so neat,
His face at once became forlorn
On perceiving that all his toes were gone!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Where their beaks have struck, the fine
feathers
are scattered:
With their strong talons they wound again and again.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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APRIL
THE roofs are shining from the rain,
The
sparrows
twitter as they fly,
And with a windy April grace
The little clouds go by.
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for the unfettered wind
Which from thy wilds even now methinks I feel,
Chasing the clouds that roll in wrath behind,
And tightening the soul's laxest nerves to steel;
True
mountain
Liberty alone may heal _5
The pain which Custom's obduracies bring,
And he who dares in fancy even to steal
One draught from Snowdon's ever sacred spring
Blots out the unholiest rede of worldly witnessing.
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Shelley |
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There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and
mountains
bare,
And grass in the green field.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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We fled inland with our flocks,
we
pastured
them in hollows,
cut off from the wind
and the salt track of the marsh.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Now could I drink hot blood
And do such bitter
business
as the day
Would quake to look on.
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Shakespeare |
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23229 (_A23_) contains the following:
Funerall
Verses sett on the hearse } of Polesworth.
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John Donne |
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Nor even of these
did he choose the
loveliest
to lay out the wealth of his verse upon:
he has been accused, by his brother among others, of lavishing the
colours of his fancy on very ordinary faces.
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Robert Burns |
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0 life, what would you make of me That they, who love, must weave a veil
Of
troubled
wonder, thick and pale
Before the heaven that shines for me?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Away with you and all your
withered
flowers,
I have a flower in my soul no one can take!
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And left--her slender sweetness to divine,
Alone a necklace
wreathed
with silken tresses,
(With which a godly friend arrayed her shrine)
A marble block amid the weeds and cresses.
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"
In all that day, and all the
following
night,
I wept not, nor replied; but when to shine
Upon the world, not us, came forth the light
Of the new sun, and thwart my prison thrown _40
Gleamed through its narrow chink, a doleful sight,
'Three faces, each the reflex of my own,
Were imaged by its faint and ghastly ray;'
Then I, of either hand unto the bone,
Gnawed, in my agony; and thinking they _45
Twas done from sudden pangs, in their excess,
All of a sudden raise themselves, and say,
"Father!
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Ben so io che, se 'n cielo altro reame
la divina
giustizia
fa suo specchio,
che 'l vostro non l'apprende con velame.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Time doth transfix the
flourish
set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Nusch
The
sentiments
apparent
The lightness of approach
The tresses of caresses.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Every one else
accepted
her as an amusing,
honest little body.
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Kipling - Poems |
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æt
rihte wæs gūð ge-twǣfed (_almost had the
struggle
been ended_), 1659.
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Beowulf |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Neerer his presence Adam though not awd,
Yet with submiss
approach
and reverence meek,
As to a superior Nature, bowing low, 360
Thus said.
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every
blackening
church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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_Intrigue with the specious chaos_, enter on an understanding
with the fair-looking
confusion
of joy and pain.
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Keats |
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May the power that sends it
Bless our beloved country, and restore
Its
banished
citizens.
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Longfellow |
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For this, great Bacchus, tigers drew
Thy glorious car,
untaught
to slave
In harness: thus Quirinus flew
On Mars' wing'd steeds from Acheron's wave,
When Juno spoke with Heaven's assent:
"O Ilium, Ilium, wretched town!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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This is
why, I said to myself, French dramatic poetry is so often a little
rhetorical, for
rhetoric
is the will trying to do the work of the
imagination.
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Yeats |
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"
The mother of
Gilgamish
she that knows all things,
said unto Gilgamish:--
"Truly oh Gilgamish he is
born [56] in the fields like thee.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Sie, ihren Frieden musst ich
untergraben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Shepherds
on far hills have told;
And we reck not of their telling,
Deem not that the Sun of gold
Ever turned his fiery dwelling,
Or beat backward in the sky,
For the wrongs of man, the cry
Of his ailing tribes assembled,
To do justly, ere they die!
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Aboute hir eyen two a purpre ring
Bi-trent, in
sothfast
tokninge of hir peyne, 870
That to biholde it was a dedly thing,
For which Pandare mighte not restreyne
The teres from his eyen for to reyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,
Sometime for three-foot stool
mistaketh
me;
Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,
And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough;
And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,
And waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and swear
A merrier hour was never wasted there.
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It was the limit of my dream,
The focus of my prayer, --
A perfect,
paralyzing
bliss
Contented as despair.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I'll be under the earth, a
boneless
phantom,
At rest in the myrtle groves of the dark kingdom:
You'll be an old woman hunched over the fire,
Regretting my love for you, your fierce disdain,
So live, believe me: don't wait for another day,
Gather them now the roses of life, and desire.
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Ronsard |
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Together let us beat this ample field,
Try what the open, what the covert yield;
The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore
Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar;
Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise;
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can;
But
vindicate
the ways of God to man.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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It is to my advantage that
this malady is in its nature slow, and, if one is sufficiently alive
to its advances, is
susceptible
of cure from a warm climate.
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Shelley |
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O how can love's eye be true,
That is so vexed with
watching
and with tears?
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Shakespeare |
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I moved my fingers off
As
cautiously
as glass,
And held my ears, and like a thief
Fled gasping from the house.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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O Rose of the crimson beauty,
Why hast thou
awakened
the sleeper?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Now, by one yeare, time and our frailtie have
Lessened our first confusion, since the Grave
Clos'd thy deare Ashes, and the teares which flow
In these, have no springs, but of solid woe:
Or they are drops, which cold amazement froze 5
At thy decease, and will not thaw in Prose:
All streames of Verse which shall lament that day,
Doe truly to the Ocean tribute pay;
But they have lost their saltnesse, which the eye
In
recompence
of wit, strives to supply: 10
Passions excesse for thee wee need not feare,
Since first by thee our passions hallowed were;
Thou mad'st our sorrowes, which before had bin
Onely for the Successe, sorrowes for sinne,
We owe thee all those teares, now thou art dead, 15
Which we shed not, which for our selves we shed.
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John Donne |
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And if thou seest not how slippery
Is women's place in the world of men, 'tis like
Thou wilt
amazedly
the vision take,
When I have led thee up my tower of thought.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Prom
thousand
blossoms came a bubbling
'Mid purple sheen of sorcery,
The song of countless warblers singing
Broke through the Spring's first cry of glee.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Why comes not Death,
Said hee, with one thrice
acceptable
stroke
To end me?
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Milton |
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This goblet, wrought with curious art,
Is filled with waters, that upstart,
When the deep fountains of the heart,
By strong
convulsions
rent apart,
Are running all to waste.
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Longfellow |
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