Shot through with lights of stars and dawns,
And shadowed sweet by ferns and fawns,
-- Thus heaven and earth
together
vie
Their shining depths to sanctify.
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The whole
business
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rossinhols
fai
To the sweet song of the nightingale,
La rossinhols s'esbaudeya
The nightingale sings happily
Can l'erba fresch'e?
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Yet from a true heart drive all weaknesses,
We've but one honour, many
mistresses!
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You too may now
unforbidden spare the nation of Pergama, gods and
goddesses
to
whomsoever Ilium and the great glory of Dardania did wrong.
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And it is not irrelevant to add (it
seems to me mere fact), that Milton had the
greatest
motive that has
ever ruled a poet.
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If there's no help for this, and swiftly,
And my fine lady love me, goddamn,
I'll die, by the head of Saint Gregory,
If she'll not kiss me,
wherever
I am!
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In this garden all the hot noon
I await thy fluttering
footfall
5
Through the twilight.
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For he has a pall, this
wretched
man,
Such as few men can claim:
Deep down below a prison-yard,
Naked for greater shame,
He lies, with fetters on each foot,
Wrapt in a sheet of flame!
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BUT first a
pettifogger
to him came,
Of whom (aside) Belphegor made a game;
What!
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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How light and
laughing
my mind is,
When all the good folk have put out their bed-room candles,
And the city is still!
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I receiue peyne of fals felonie in
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vertue.
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LACY True; and,
remembering
how the Band have proved
That Oswald finds small favour in our sight,
Well may we wonder he has gained such power
Over our much-loved Captain.
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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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Then would they try
Ever new modes of tilling their loved crofts,
And mark they would how earth improved the taste
Of the wild fruits by fond and
fostering
care.
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And, heeding, it awed me to gather
That Nature herself there
Was
breathing
in aerie accents,
With dirgeful refrain,
Weary plaint that Mankind, in these late days,
Had grieved her by holding
Her ancient high fame of perfection
In doubt and disdain .
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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What is't that moues your
Highnesse?
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Western beams follow flowing water;
Stir a ripple in
wandering
person's mind.
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Li Po |
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Although his father's temple be fallen, and though of its pillars
Scarcely
a pair yet records ancient glory adored,
Nevertheless the son's place of worship still stands, and forever
Will there the ardent requests alternate with the thanks.
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DOTH still before thee rise the
beauteous
image
Of him who high the cliff for roses scales,
Who nigh forgets the day amidst the scrimmage,
Who fullest honey from the bunch inhales?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face,
They, round the ingle, form a circle wide;
The sire turns o'er, with patriarchal grace,
The big ha'bible, ance his father's pride:
His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside,
His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare;
Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide,
He wales a portion with
judicious
care;
And "Let us worship God!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The second book of poems appeared two years later and like the first
volume _Traumgekront_ is full of the music that is reminiscent of the
mild melancholy of the Bohemian folk-songs, in whose gentle rhythms the
barbaric strength of the race seems to be lulled to rest as the waves of
a far-away
tumultuous
sea gently lap the shore.
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controul
your tongues, nor with your hands
Offend, lest contest fierce and war ensue.
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Come forth, my lord, and see the cart
Dressed up with all the country art:
See here a maukin, there a sheet,
As
spotless
pure as it is sweet:
The horses, mares, and frisking fillies,
Clad all in linen white as lilies.
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If Hate can kill,
And
Loathing
wield a Saxon battle-axe--
EDITH.
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Crom-
well died in the following year; and from this
period till the
Parliament
of 1660, we have no
further account of him.
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How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and
darkness did not come to restore the
drooping
world.
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Poetry in
Translation
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From Dawn to Dawn
Troubadour Poetry
(A selection of sixty
Provencal
poems, translated from the Occitan)
'Per solatz revelhar,
Que s'es trop enformitz,
E per pretz, qu'es faiditz
Acolhir e tornar,
Me cudei trebalhar'
'To wake delight once more,
That's been too long asleep,
And worth that's exiled deep
To gather and restore:
These thoughts I've laboured for'
Guiraut de Bornelh
Home Download
Translated by A.
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I am
exceedingly
fond of Welsh rabbit.
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Nor need'st thou then
to hide my head; {6c} for his shall I be,
dyed in gore, if death must take me;
and my blood-covered body he'll bear as prey,
ruthless devour it, the roamer-lonely,
with my life-blood redden his lair in the fen:
no further for me need'st food
prepare!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Crowded--can we believe,
not in utter disgust,
in ironical play--
but the maker of cities grew faint
with the beauty of temple
and space before temple,
arch upon perfect arch,
of pillars and
corridors
that led out
to strange court-yards and porches
where sun-light stamped
hyacinth-shadows
black on the pavement.
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He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere,
Ill-fac'd, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere;
Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind;
Stigmatical
in making, worse in mind.
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When
reposing
that night on my pallet of straw
By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain,
At the dead of the night a sweet Vision I saw;
And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again.
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Golden Treasury |
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Yon city fortified
You dream of--why, its
ramparts
are as dust.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I see those who in any land have died for the good cause,
The seed is spare,
nevertheless
the crop shall never run out,
(Mind you O foreign kings, O priests, the crop shall never run out.
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And how should I
presume?
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10
Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt,
Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee,
In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
Kindling
a fire and broiling the fresh-kill'd game,
Falling asleep on the gather'd leaves with my dog and gun by my side.
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Li Po |
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Grounded
in magic he knew the future and predicted the Christian coming of the Saviour.
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Appoloinaire |
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She is dead who never lived,
She who made
pretence
of being:
From her hands the book has slipped
In which her eyes read nothing.
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Meredith - Poems |
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When wanting thee, what
tuneless
cranks
Are my poor verses!
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Robert Burns |
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Mean while,
declining
from the noon of day,
The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray; 20
The hungry Judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jury-men may dine;
The merchant from th' Exchange returns in peace,
And the long labours of the Toilet cease.
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Alexander Pope |
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I am God from
Eternity
to Eternity
Obey thy Lord.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Jupiter's throne, so
dishonestly
won, it was I who secured it:
Color and ivory, marble and bronze, not to mention the poems.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Kings of the Rhine in
strongholds
were by him
Boldly attacked, and tyrant barons grim.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"My
stockings
there I often knit,
"My 'kerchief there I hem;
"And there upon the ground I sit--
"I sit and sing to them.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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CXIV
Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this
flattery?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Anon the book is closed,
With "It is
finished!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Courageous
men
carried the head from the cliff by the sea,
an arduous task for all the band,
the firm in fight, since four were needed
on the shaft-of-slaughter {23d} strenuously
to bear to the gold-hall Grendel's head.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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an, the
soldiers
lit his navel; he was so fat that the fire burned for several days.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Et couche dans les glaieuls, Favre,
Fait son
cillement
aqueduc
Et ses reniflements a poivre!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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In-to an chapel ich com of oure lefdy;
Iesus crist, hire leue son, stood by; 92
On rode he was, an
louelich
Man,
Als ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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William Dean Howells and the _North
American
Review_:--"The
Passengers of a Retarded Submersible.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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'T was a long parting, but the time
For
interview
had come;
Before the judgment-seat of God,
The last and second time
These fleshless lovers met,
A heaven in a gaze,
A heaven of heavens, the privilege
Of one another's eyes.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
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And foul, or fair, or dark the night,
Their wild-fire lamps are burning bright:
For which full many a daring crime
Is acted in the summer-time;--
When glow-worm found in lanes remote
Is murdered for its shining coat,
And put in flowers, that nature weaves
With hollow shapes and silken leaves,
Such as the Canterbury bell,
Serving for lamp or lantern well;
Or, following with unwearied watch
The flight of one they cannot match,
As silence sliveth upon sleep,
Or thieves by dozing watch-dogs creep,
They steal from Jack-a-Lantern's tails
A light, whose
guidance
never fails
To aid them in the darkest night
And guide their plundering steps aright.
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John Clare |
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: spatium tituli in O
1 _bellicon iei_ O
4
_uirginem
o hymenee_ 5 _Hymen o hymenee hymen_ codd.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Where does Spenser use classical mythology--mediaeval
legends?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Look you how the cave
Is with the wild vine's
clusters
over-laced!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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For his son, the king must choose a tutor,
Your father
deserves
that high honour;
The choice is not in doubt, and his valour
Beyond all competition with another.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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XXVll
determined by their own wills, but bj the com*
mands and the
determinations
of the public con-
science ; and that if there he any sin in the com'
mandy he that imposed it shall answer for ity and
not I, whose whole dtUy it is to obey.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Then, as though with a swift impatient gesture,
Flashing
from distant stars on sweeping wing,
You come, and over earth a magic vesture
Steals gently as the rain falls in the spring.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Chaucer,
_Troilus
and Cressida_,
iii.
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Keats |
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And still they bloom as on the day
They first crowned wilderness and rock,
When Abel haply wreathed with may
The firstlings of his little flock,
And Eve might from the matted thorn
To deck her lone and lovely brow
Reach that same rose that
heedless
scorn
Misnames as the dog rosey now.
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John Clare |
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Pope, for example, is
preeminently
the poet of
his time.
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Alexander Pope |
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Nor did my fair one less
distinction
claim;
Slave as she was, my soul adored the dame.
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Iliad - Pope |
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535
But when thou famous victory hast wonne,
And high emongst all knights hast hong thy shield,
Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shonne,
And wash thy hands from guilt of bloudy field:
For blood can nought but sin, and wars but
sorrowes
yield.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Among the stranger birds they feed,
Their summer flight is short and low;
There's very few know where they breed,
And
scarcely
any where they go.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Ah me, one summer in the cool of day,
I saw the Nereids on the sandy bay,
With lovely Thetis from the wave, advance
In
mirthful
frolic, and the naked dance.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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MATER IN EXTREMIS
I stand between them and the outer winds,
But I am a
crumbling
wall.
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The shadows, maimed and antic,
Gesture and shape distort,
Like mockery of a demon dumb
Out of the hell-din whence they come
That dogs them for his sport:
But as if dead men were risen
And stood before me there
With a terrible fame about them blown
In beams of spectral air,
I see them, men transfigured
As in a dream, dilate
Fabulous with the Titan-throb
Of
battling
Europe's fate;
For history's hushed before them,
And legend flames afresh,--
Verdun, the name of thunder,
Is written on their flesh.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing
store with loss, and loss with store.
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Golden Treasury |
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And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some
overwhelming
question,
To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"--
If one, settling a pillow by her head,
Should say: "That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And then the Duchess,--how shall I describe her,
Or tell the merits of that happy nature,
Which pleases most when least it thinks of
pleasing?
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Longfellow |
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They tell it to the hills --
The hills just tell the
orchards
--
And they the daffodils!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Now in my palace
I see foot-passengers
Crossing the river:
Pilgrims
of Autumn
In the afternoons.
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Imagists |
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Imagists |
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It was but now that I never more
for woes that weighed on me waited help
long as I lived, when, laved in blood,
stood sword-gore-stained this
stateliest
house, --
widespread woe for wise men all,
who had no hope to hinder ever
foes infernal and fiendish sprites
from havoc in hall.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Once she appeared to me, too: a dark-skinned girl, tumbling
Over her
forehead
the hair down in waves heavy and dark.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I know the cruel pangs by lovers borne,
When from the breast the
bleeding
heart is torn
By Love's relentless gripe; the deadly harms
Of Cupid, when he wields resistless arms;
Or when, in dubious truce, he drops his dart,
And gives short respite to the tortured heart.
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Petrarch |
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To every den of want and toil
She goes, and leaves the poorest fed;
Leaves wine and bread, and genial oil,
And hopes that blossom in her tread,
And fire, too,
beautiful
bright fire,
That mocks the glowing dawn begun,
Where, having set the blind old sire,
He dreams he's sitting in the sun.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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' Sed
dicimus a tertia esse
coniugatione
imperatiuum, ut 'cauo,
cauis.
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Latin - Catullus |
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There, warm with filial love, the cause inquire
That from his realm retards his god-like sire;
Delivering early to the voice of fame
The promise of a green
immortal
name.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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At last he comes to the notice of
Gilgamish
himself, who is
shocked by the newly acquired manner of Enkidu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer throughout next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that
mysterious
maid.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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