HOLY SATYR
Most holy Satyr,
like a goat,
with horns and hooves
to match thy coat
of russet brown,
I make leaf-circlets
and a crown of honey-flowers
for thy throat;
where the amber petals
drip to ivory,
I cut and slip
each
stiffened
petal
in the rift
of carven petal:
honey horn
has wed the bright
virgin petal of the white
flower cluster: lip to lip
let them whisper,
let them lilt, quivering:
Most holy Satyr,
like a goat,
hear this our song,
accept our leaves,
love-offering,
return our hymn;
like echo fling
a sweet song,
answering note for note.
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The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man
Less than a span:
In his
conception
wretched, from the womb
So to the tomb;
Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years
With cares and fears.
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Golden Treasury |
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Nevertheless these rulers, although appearing
in the pretentious
nomenclature
as gods, appear to have been real
historic personages.
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Note: Ixion was tormented on a wheel in Hades,
Tantalus
by water and food just out of reach, Prometheus by having his liver torn by vultures, Sisyphus by being forced eternally to roll a boulder to the top of a hill and see it roll back again.
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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KING:
Dear
Henrietta!
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Shelley |
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Now green's the sod, and cauld's the clay,
That wraps my
Highland
Mary!
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hesitate
not to grant me this favour, pity my misfortune or else may thy dazzling
lightning
instantly
reduce me to ashes; then carry me hence, and may thy
breath hurl me into some burning pickle[50] or turn me into one of the
stones on which the votes are counted.
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Aristophanes |
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The
stillness
of the morning is
impressive.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"Where shall I be sent," thought I, "if not to
Petersburg?
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Into the sky,
the red
earthenware
and the galvanised iron chimneys
thrust their cowls.
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* * * * *
* * * * *
If
solitude
succeed to grief,
Release from pain is slight relief;
The vacant bosom's wilderness
Might thank the pang that made it less.
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Byron |
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It perseveres if grief be all its view,
And squanders gems for which no mortal thanks,
And blesses when self as
sacrifice
it burns.
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" If the commission sate
soon after the vth of September, as is most probable, King Edward
might very possibly be at Bristol at the time of Sir Baldewyn's
execution; for, in the
interval
between his coronation and the
parliament which met in November, he made a progress (as the
Continuator of Stowe informs us, p.
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God, grasping as a thunderbolt
The man's rejected nature,
Smote him
therewith
i' the presence high
Of his so worshipped earth and sky
That looked on all indifferently--
A wailing human creature.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The truth was worse: _155
For here a sister and a brother
Had
solemnized
a monstrous curse,
Meeting in this fair solitude:
For beneath yon very sky,
Had they resigned to one another _160
Body and soul.
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Shelley |
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In the
East,
maturity
comes early; and this child had already lived through
all a woman's life.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
"I will go where I am wanted, for the sergeant does not mind;
He may be sick to see me but he treats me very kind:
He gives me beer and
breakfast
and a ribbon for my cap,
And I never knew a sweetheart spend her money on a chap.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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How express what I felt in the
presence
of this man, awful and cruel for
all, myself only excepted?
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The joy falters a moment, with closed wings
Wearying in its upward journey, ere
Again it goes on high, bearing its song,
Its delight
breathing
and its vigour beating
The highest height of the air above the world.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I have a daughter whom the oracles of my
father's shrine and many a
celestial
token alike forbid me to unite to
one of our own nation; sons shall come, they prophesy, from foreign
coasts, such is the destiny of Latium, whose blood shall exalt our name
to heaven.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But soon their trailing purple was not free
Of this world's dust, their lutes did silent grow,
And I myself grew faint and blind below
Their
vanishing
eyes.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Are springs the common
springs?
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John Clare |
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Like housed-up snails we're
creeping
on,
The women all ahead are gone.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Thine is the bounty that prospered our sowing,
Thine is the bounty that
nurtured
our corn.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find
unwithered
on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The English
groat was coined 1351(2)-1662, and was
originally
equal to four
pence.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The thynge yttself moste bee ytts owne defense;
Som metre maie notte please a
womannes
ear.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Cucumber vines grow entwining about this primeval lingam,
Cracking
it almost in two under the weight of the fruit.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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)
I look up and see / his
curtains
and bed:
I look down and examine / his table and mat.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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How long, how long, in infinite Pursuit
Of This and That endeavour and
dispute?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Wait till in everlasting robes
This
democrat
is dressed,
Then prate about "preferment"
And "station" and the rest!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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of Podarges' strain,
(Unless ye boast that heavenly race in vain,)
Be swift, be mindful of the load ye bear,
And learn to make your master more your care:
Through falling
squadrons
bear my slaughtering sword,
Nor, as ye left Patroclus, leave your lord.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The first Satan, by his face, was a creature of
doubtful
sex.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Nor time, nor place
Did then adhere, and yet you would make both:
They haue made themselues, and that their
fitnesse
now
Do's vnmake you.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Distress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
In whom are the sins of the race, nor to stir
In your foul tresses a
mournful
tempest
Beneath the fatal boredom my kisses pour:
A heavy sleep without those dreams that creep
Under curtains alien to remorse, I ask of your bed,
Sleep you can savour after your dark deceits,
You who know more of Nothingness than the dead.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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[Burns looks back with something of regret to the days of rich dinners
and flowing wine-cups which he
experienced
in Edinburgh.
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Robert Burns |
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Is it not plain, that 'tis Zeus hurling it at the
perjurers?
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Aristophanes |
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Early or late, the falling rain
Arrived in time to swell his grain;
Stream could not so
perversely
wind
But corn of Guy's was there to grind:
The siroc found it on its way,
To speed his sails, to dry his hay;
And the world's sun seemed to rise
To drudge all day for Guy the wise.
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Emerson - Poems |
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XLI
How oft, when on a summer night
Transparent o'er the Neva beamed
The firmament in mellow light,
And when the watery mirror gleamed
No more with pale Diana's rays,(17)
We called to mind our
youthful
days--
The days of love and of romance!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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We who in this
sequestered
spot [3]
Once lived a happy life!
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William Wordsworth |
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I had read
Shelley and Spenser and had tried to mix their styles
together
in a
pastoral play which I have not come to dislike much, and yet I do not
think Shelley or Spenser ever moved me as did these poets.
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Yeats |
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Court, vii, 38,
courteous
attention.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Chimene
To
preserve
my honour and end my woe,
Pursue him, see him slain, and die also.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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June Nights
In summer, when day has fled, when covered with flowers
The distant plain sheds sweet intoxication;
Eyes closed, and ears half-open to muted hours,
We lie only half-asleep in
transparent
slumber.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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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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uncomforted
And friendless solitude, groaning and tears,
And savage faces, at the clanking hour,
Seen through the steams and vapour of his dungeon,
By the lamp's dismal
twilight!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And as a willow keeps
A patient watch over the stream that creeps
Windingly by it, so the quiet maid
Held her in peace: so that a
whispering
blade
Of grass, a wailful gnat, a bee bustling 450
Down in the blue-bells, or a wren light rustling
Among sere leaves and twigs, might all be heard.
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Keats |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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The
mountains
have reared him.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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Pale
Northern
girls!
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Emerson - Poems |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Tennyson |
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And when the rose-petals are
scattered
5
At dead of still noon on the grass-plot,
What means this passionate grief,--
This infinite ache of regret?
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Sappho |
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As the Sun with glory and grace
In his face,
Benignantly
hot,
Graciously radiant and keen,
Ready to rise and to run,--
Not without spot,
Not even the Sun.
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Christina Rossetti |
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_The
Dominant
City.
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Imagists |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Christian
och Hans Stallbroder.
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Byron |
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The birds put up the bars to nests,
The cattle fled to barns;
There came one drop of giant rain,
And then, as if the hands
That held the dams had parted hold,
The waters wrecked the sky,
But
overlooked
my father's house,
Just quartering a tree.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Alexander Pope |
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The second edition of
"Lyrical Ballads"
appeared
in 1800.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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An of my trifles
peradventure
chance
You to be readers, and the hands of you 25
Without a shudder unto us be offer'd
* * * *
Did I not love thee more than mine eyes, O most jocund Calvus, for thy gift
I should abhor thee with Vatinian abhorrence.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Is the eye waxen dim, is the dark hair
changing
to gray
That hath won neither laurel nor bay?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Oh 1 why did he sing me that song,
I threw him the ring from my hand
Bitter and
treacherous
wrong
That sought me with fetters to brand.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I saw young Cupid, saw his
laughing
eyes
With such bewitching, am'rous sweetness roll,
That every human glance I since despise.
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Petrarch |
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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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Hauksbee
came to "The Foundry" to tiffin with Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Thou, mother of my mortal part,
With cruelty didst mould my heart,
And with false self-deceiving tears
Didst blind my nostrils, eyes, and ears,
Didst close my tongue in
senseless
clay,
And me to mortal life betray.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Drooried
cattes wylle after kynde;
Gentle doves wylle kyss and coe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel,
And robb'd me of my Robe of Honor--Well,
I wonder often what the
Vintners
buy
One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Yet I do not exactly intend
Among the
canaille
to plant thee.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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is all the good I can
A man oppress'd, dependent, yet a man:
Accept such treatment as a swain affords,
Slave to the
insolence
of youthful lords!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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There, whatsoev'er
Benacus' bosom holds not,
tumbling
o'er
Down falls, and winds a river flood beneath
Through the green pastures.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Act IV Scene V (The King, Diegue, Arias, Alonso, Sanche, Chimene, Elvire)
King
Be content
Chimene, victory answers your intent:
Though
Rodrigue
overcame our enemies
He died before our eyes from wounds received.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Hast any mortal name,
Fit
appellation
for this dazzling frame?
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Keats - Lamia |
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How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on
sightless
eyes doth stay!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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--On n'est pas serieux, quand on a dix-sept ans
Et qu'on a des
tilleuls
verts sur la promenade.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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My father, mother, all I trust to three;
To them, to them,
transfer
the love of me:
But, when my son grows man, the royal sway
Resign, and happy be thy bridal day!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Keep a watch, watchman there, on the tower,
For your lord:
jealously
he holds power,
He's more vexing than the dawn:
While words of love we speak here.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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It was agreed, therefore, that Guy should go and ask the Mice,
which he
immediately
did; and the result was, that they gave a walnut-shell
only half full of custard diluted with water.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Fool'd, fool'd, fool'd are our lives, held by the world in jeer;
With crazed eyes we behold veils of enormous fear
Hiding dreadfully those
marvellous
gates and stairs
Where the heathen delighted with sin throng with their prosperous prayers.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And a seventh said, "I have such a clear idea how
everything
will
be, but I cannot put it into words.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The Chaplain would not kneel to pray
By his
dishonoured
grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance
surpass
anything
which day has to show.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The
imperial
tomb winds along a deserted bend, troops like bears protect the mountain greenery.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"By the Bride's eyes, and by the teeming life
Of her green hopes, we charge you that no strife,
_Further_
than _virtue lends_, gets place
Among _you catching at_ her Lace.
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Carrying at dawn,
carrying
at dusk, what is it all for?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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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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If you
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rules is very easy.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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werbelande
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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