His language has no word, we growl, for Home;
But he can find a
fireside
in the sun,
Play with his child, make love, and shriek his mind,
By throngs of strangers undisprivacied.
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At dawn, when ev'ry grassy blade
Droops with a diamond at his head,
At ev'n, when beans their
fragrance
shed,
I' th' rustling gale,
Ye maukins, whiddin thro' the glade,
Come join my wail.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Since that time he has been
steadily
on active
service.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I thought of the great storms of love as I
knew it,
Torn, miserable, and ashamed of my open
sorrow,
I thought of the
thunders
that lived in my
head,
And I wish to be an ogre,
And hale and haul my beloved to a castle,
And make her mourn with my mourning.
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One almost fancies that such happy things,
With coloured hoods and richly
burnished
wings,
Are fairy folk, in splendid masquerade
Disguised, as if of mortal folk afraid,
Keeping their merry pranks a mystery still,
Lest glaring day should do their secrets ill.
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While the political conduct and
the deportment of the Claudian nobles drew upon them the fiercest
public hatred, they were accused of wanting, if any credit is due
to the early history of Rome, a class of qualities which, in a
military commonwealth, is sufficient to cover a
multitude
of
offences.
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--the
artillery
massing on the right,
Hark!
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"Our fathers
fashioned
for us after all
Some useful things," said Joss; then Zeno spoke:
"I know what Corbus hides beneath its cloak,
I and the osprey know the castle old,
And what in bygone times the justice bold.
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320
Then, (many a Trojan slaughter'd,) he regain'd
The camp, and much
intelligence
he bore
To the Achaians.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'T was sooner when the cricket went
Than when the winter came,
Yet that pathetic pendulum
Keeps
esoteric
time.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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So shall your souls lie under me these hours;
As they were waters shall they be beneath
My burning, set alight with me, and none
Escape from utterly
understanding
me
And why I am so kindled in my soul.
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Blessed are you whose
worthiness
gives scope,
Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope.
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They brought a bier, and hung it with many a cypress crown,
And gently they
uplifted
her, and gently laid her down.
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Besides, since colours cannot be, sans light,
And the
primordials
come not forth to light,
'Tis thine to know they are not clothed with colour--
Truly, what kind of colour could there be
In the viewless dark?
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Lucretius |
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He was clothed
entirely
in green, and rode upon a green foal (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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said the abbess: pretty scandal here,
When in the house of God such things appear;
Ashamed to death you ought to be, no doubt,
Who brought you
thither?
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La Fontaine |
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_Grace Fallow Norton_
THE TOY BAND
(A SONG OF THE GREAT RETREAT)
Dreary lay the long road, dreary lay the town,
Lights out and never a glint o' moon:
Weary lay the stragglers, half a
thousand
down,
Sad sighed the weary big Dragoon.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Under the
overhanging
yews,
The dark owls sit in solemn state.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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)-it-tam [44]
a-na mi-[ni] [45]
iluGilgamis
ma-si-il
la-nam sa- pi- il
e-si[ pu]-uk-ku-ul
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Why, untamed do you scare
At any
approach
you see?
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Ronsard |
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rǣd
eahtedon,
_consulted
about help_, 172; pret.
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Beowulf |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Why a Nostril wide inhaling terror trembling & affright
Why a tender curb upon the
youthful
burning boy?
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blake-poems |
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cum domitis nemo Cererem iactaret in aruis
uenturisque
malas prohiberet fructibus herbas,
annua sed saturae complerent horrea messes,
ipse suo flueret Bacchus pede mellaque lentis
penderent foliis et pingui Pallas oliuae,
secretos amnis ageret cum gratia ruris?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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All glory
twinkled
through some sweat of fight,
From each tall chimney of the roaring time
That shot his fire far up the sooty night
Mixt fuels -- Labor's Right and Labor's Crime --
Sent upward throb on throb of scarlet light
Till huge hot blushes in the heavens blent
With golden hues of Trade's high firmament.
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Sidney Lanier |
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990
I will delight thee all my winding course,
From the green sea up to my hidden source
About Arcadian forests; and will shew
The channels where my coolest waters flow
Through mossy rocks; where, 'mid
exuberant
green,
I roam in pleasant darkness, more unseen
Than Saturn in his exile; where I brim
Round flowery islands, and take thence a skim
Of mealy sweets, which myriads of bees
Buzz from their honied wings: and thou shouldst please
Thyself to choose the richest, where we might 1001
Be incense-pillow'd every summer night.
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Keats |
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Here glows the Spring, here earth
Beside the streams pours forth a
thousand
flowers;
Here the white poplar bends above the cave,
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert: come,
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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1372 [A] Thenne
comaunded
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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SOLO:
Seht, da kommt der
Dudelsack!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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For, if you fight, you must
Behold your brothers' dust
Unpityingly
ground down
And mixed with blood and powder,
To write the annals of renown
That make a nation prouder!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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To (poore) me is allow'd
No ease; for, long, yet
vehement
griefe hath beene
Th'effect and cause, the punishment and sinne.
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John Donne |
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"
On which Violet, who was
perfectly
acquainted with the art of
mitten-making, said to the Crabs, "Do your claws unscrew, or are they
fixtures?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He holds that, consenting or dissident,
Nations must move with the time;
Assumes that crime with a precedent
Doubles the guilt of the crime;
--Denies that a slaver's bond,
Or a treaty signed by knaves
(_Quorum magna pars_, and beyond
Was one of an honest name),
Gives an
inexpugnable
claim
To abolish men into slaves.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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remarkable
letter has been of late the subject of some
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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What as a gurgling softly simmered through
The soil, within the dead deserted brake,
--And no more than a drop of fragrant dew
That fell from
flowerlet
unto deepest lake:
Becomes the clinging mist that cleaves the heights,
And which in darkest midnights as a beam
The heart of the chasm suddenly be-smites
To spring and ramble like a ruddy stream.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Beloved
Freedom!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Und immer zirkuliert ein neues,
frisches
Blut.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He marvels at the paradox,
drums his head with the tattoo:
how can a thing as small as he
shape and maintain an art
out of himself
universal
enough
to carry her daily vigil
to crystalled immortality?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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1930
May no defence availe thee here;
Therfore
I rede mak no daungere.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Imagists |
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'
Arbuthnot
warns him against the danger of making foes
(ll.
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Alexander Pope |
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Came forth, and finding
Kirkrapine
there slaine,
For anguish great they gan to rend their heare,
And beat their brests, and naked flesh to teare.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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O
passionate
and pure!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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573
ffor
pilgrymes
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout
populace
is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have flourished here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But if the space between
Be longer than is fit, the words must be
Through the much air confounded, and the voice
Disordered in its flight across the winds--
And so it haps, that thou canst sound perceive,
Yet not determine what the words may mean;
To such degree
confounded
and encumbered
The voice approaches us.
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Lucretius |
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Noi andavam con passi lenti e scarsi,
e io attento a l'ombre, ch'i' sentia
pietosamente
piangere e lagnarsi;
e per ventura udi' <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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