THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI
I WAS sitting reading late into the night a little after my last
meeting with Aherne, when I heard a light
knocking
on my front door.
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Fra
Sebastiano
del Piombo
V.
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DAMOETAS
Well, was he
Whom I had
conquered
still to keep the goat.
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With sore eyes by the
guttering
candle still I sit in the dark,
Listening to waves that, driven by the wind, strike the prow of
the ship.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The one suggests the idea of a
destroying
demon, the other of a
benevolent Deity.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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As I walk amid hickories, even in August, I hear the sound of green
pignuts falling from time to time, cut off by the
chickaree
over my
head.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,--
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Li Po |
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E io: <
che, seppellite dentro da quell' arche,
si fan sentir coi sospiri
dolenti?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Lo duca stette un poco a testa china;
poi disse: <
colui che i
peccator
di qua uncina>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But all I hear is silence,
And
something
that may be leaves or may be sea.
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--Read before the Sons of the
Revolution, New-York,
February
22, 1887, and adopted as the poem of the
Society.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Meredith - Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Chatillion
his trustie swerd forth drewe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Enter
Macbeths
Wife alone with a Letter.
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Quelques jours plus tard, la
duchesse
rencontrant Baudelaire dans le
salon d'une vieille parente a elle, lui demanda si elle n'aurait pas
l'occasion de manger encore des pommes de terre frites.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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A
MANSERVANT
_in his house_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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III
You tossed a blanket from the bed,
You lay upon your back, and waited;
You dozed, and watched the night revealing
The
thousand
sordid images
Of which your soul was constituted;
They flickered against the ceiling.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Keats - Lamia |
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'
CONCORD HYMN
SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE BATTLE
MONUMENT, JULY 4, 1837
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the
embattled
farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
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Emerson - Poems |
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)
Wollte nach Frau Marthe
Schwerdtlein
fragen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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There's one hope, still--
Those
batteries
parked on the hill!
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or the
educated
wiser than you?
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Whitman |
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Dire was the tossing, deep the groans, despair
Tended the sick busiest from Couch to Couch;
And over them
triumphant
Death his Dart
Shook, but delaid to strike, though oft invok't
With vows, as thir chief good, and final hope.
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Milton |
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His Samuel Cramer, in La Fanfarlo, is the
literary
progenitor
of Jean, Duc d'Esseintes, in Huysmans's _A Rebours_.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Moi je ne peux plus croire,
Quand j'ai deux bonnes mains, mon front et mon marteau
Qu'un homme vienne la, dague sur le manteau,
Et me dise: Mon gars,
ensemence
ma terre;
Que l'on arrive encor, quand ce serait la guerre,
De prendre mon garcon comme cela, chez moi!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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diuitis est semper fragilis male
quaerere
gazas:
nulla huic in lucro cura pudoris erit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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But I, with
kingship
over kings, am free.
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Sidney Lanier |
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[Footnote 1: Agaric (some
varieties
are deadly) is properly the fungus
on the larch; it then came to mean fungus generally.
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But where were his
lieutenants?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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XXXVI
Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Although our
undivided
loves are one:
So shall those blots that do with me remain,
Without thy help, by me be borne alone.
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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John Donne |
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The moon looks down and ocean worships her,
Stars rise and set, and seasons come and go
Even as they did in Homer's elder time,
But we behold them not with Grecian eyes:
Then they were types of beauty and of strength,
But now of freedom,
unconflned
and pure,
Subject alone to Order's higher law.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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There they to hunt the luscious fruit delight,
And
dabbling
keep within their charges' sight;
Oft catching prickly struttles on their rout,
And miller-thumbs and gudgeons driving out,
Hid near the arched brig under many a stone
That from its wall rude passing clowns have thrown.
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John Clare |
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Sublime and dreadful on his regal throne,
That glow'd with stars, and bright as lightning shone,
Th' immortal Sire, who darts the thunder, sat,
The crown and sceptre added solemn state;
The crown, of heaven's own pearls, whose ardent rays,
Flam'd round his brows,
outshone
the diamond's blaze:
His breath such gales of vital fragrance shed,
As might, with sudden life, inspire the dead:
Supreme Control thron'd in his awful eyes
Appear'd, and mark'd the monarch of the skies.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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]
Between two ebon rocks
Behold yon sombre den,
Where brambles bristle like the locks
Of wool between the horns of
scapegoat
banned by men!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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how blithe the
throstle
sings!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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XXII
Ah, to uphold one's
respectable
name is not easy.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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In the
southern
orchard all the leaves are gone:
In the north garden rotting boughs lie heaped.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Much
ostentation
vain of fleshly arm,
And fragile arms, much instrument of war
Long in preparing, soon to nothing brought,
Before mine eyes thou hast set; and in my ear 390
Vented much policy, and projects deep
Of enemies, of aids, battels and leagues,
Plausible to the world, to me worth naught.
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Milton |
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like as ye gloss
All the dull-tissued dark with your
luminous
darks that emboss
The vague blackness of night into pattern and plan,
So,
(But would I could know, but would I could know,)
With your question embroid'ring the dark of the question of man, --
So, with your silences purfling this silence of man
While his cry to the dead for some knowledge is under the ban,
Under the ban, --
So, ye have wrought me
Designs on the night of our knowledge, -- yea, ye have taught me,
So,
That haply we know somewhat more than we know.
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Sidney Lanier |
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) (your race shall be banished
from its
hereditary
abode), 2886; acc.
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Beowulf |
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) Often thine eyes wiping with
sorrowful
hand!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Why did you let me be
deceived?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the
solicitation
requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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1540
Their fear drove them
headlong
over the rocks,
The axle groaned and shattered, brave Hippolytus
Saw his whole chariot break into fragments.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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He sends you here his noblest born barun,
Greatest
in wealth, that out of France is come;
From him you'll hear if peace shall be, or none.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the
dooryards
and the sprinkled streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the
floor--
And this, and so much more?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Lawrence
falls only one hundred and sixty-four feet at
Niagara.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Nor column trophied for
triumphal
show?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And what can I hope for, save pain eternal,
If I hate the crime, but love the
criminal?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Both seek--one
in wandering sentences, the other in symbolic
pictures
and subtle
allegoric poetry--to express a something that lies beyond the range of
expression; and both, if X---- will forgive me, have within them the vast
and vague extravagance that lies at the bottom of the Celtic heart.
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Yeats |
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He feels too keenly his
dependence
upon
them, as a child views flowers and stars as personal possessions.
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Rilke - Poems |
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change thy lords, thy state is still the same;
Thy
glorious
day is o'er, but not thy years of shame.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Then to perform the cure so well begun,
To him I showed this glonous setting sun ;
How, by her people's looks pursued from far,
She mounted on a bright
celestial
car, .
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Marvell - Poems |
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And yet what is the use of being rich, if
you are to be
deprived
of all these enjoyments?
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Aristophanes |
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Ella giunse e levo ambo le palme,
ficcando
li occhi verso l'oriente,
come dicesse a Dio: 'D'altro non calme'.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Calvert at
Keswick, thus:
'The God of Love--ah,
benedicite!
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William Wordsworth |
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[_The Attendants depart;_ CLYTEMNESTRA, _left alone,
proceeds
to enter the
house_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Thou art a queen, fair Lesley,
Thy
subjects
we, before thee;
Thou art divine, fair Lesley,
The hearts o' men adore thee.
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Golden Treasury |
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'You only will I wed,' I cried,
'And I will make a thousand songs,
And set your name all names above,
And
captives
bound with leathern thongs
Shall kneel and praise you, one by one,
At evening in my western dun.
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Yeats |
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Go, cut down trees in the forest
And trim the
straightest
boughs;
Cut down trees in the forest
And build me a wooden house.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair
To be death's
conquest
and make worms thine heir.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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at a selly in si3t summe men hit holden,
& an outtrage
awenture
of Arthure3 wondere3;
[D] If 3e wyl lysten ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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XXXVIII
"Peaceful as this immeasurable plain
Is now, by beams of dawning light imprest, [36] 335
In the calm sunshine slept the
glittering
main;
The very ocean hath its hour of rest.
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William Wordsworth |
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That he should be styled
Defender
of the Faith,
Who believes not a word what the word of God
saith.
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Marvell - Poems |
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, _hard through fire,
hardened
in fire_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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In return for your glad words
Be sure all
greeting
that mine house affords
Is yours.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Come, keep me from harm
In a calm of thy
teaching!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Why fade these
children
of the spring?
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blake-poems |
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Bouchette, Topographical
Description
of the Canadas, quoted, 41,
42, 63, 64, 89, 92, 94, 95.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Purgatorio
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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[406] "By the two goddesses,"--a woman's oath, which recurs
constantly
in
this play; the two goddesses are always Demeter and Proserpine.
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Aristophanes |
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What is your
tidings?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Boundlesse
intemperance
In Nature is a Tyranny: It hath beene
Th' vntimely emptying of the happy Throne,
And fall of many Kings.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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For hit ful depe is sonken in my minde,
With pitous herte in English for tendyte
This olde storie, in Latin which I finde, 10
Of quene Anelida and fals Arcite,
That elde, which that al can frete and byte,
As hit hath freten mony a noble storie,
Hath nigh
devoured
out of our memorie.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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<
e non molto distanti a la tua patria,
tanto che ' troni assai suonan piu bassi,
e fanno un gibbo che si chiama Catria,
di sotto al quale e consecrato un ermo,
che suole esser
disposto
a sola latria>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The
_poodle_
took no heed,
as through the door he bounded;
The case looks differently now;
The _devil_ can leave the house no-how.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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XXXIV
With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee
As those, when thou shalt call me by my name--
Lo, the vain
promise!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The god thus having spoken, he did not
Entertain
a double wish in his mind.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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exin candida se radiis dedit icta foras lux
et simul ex alto longe
pulcherruma
praepes
laeua uolauit auis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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When the world was formed from Chaos, then--
Earth as the Lees, and heavie dross of All
(After his kinde) did to the bottom fall:
Contrariwise, the light and nimble Fire
Did through the
crannies
of th'old Heap aspire
Unto the top; and by his nature, light
No less than hot, mounted in sparks upright:
But, lest the Fire (which all the rest imbraces)
Being too near, should burn the Earth to ashes;
As Chosen Umpires, the great All-Creator
Between these Foes placed the Aire and Water:
For, one suffiz'd not their stern strife to end.
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John Donne |
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Under the penitential gates
Sustained
by staring Seraphim
Where the souls of the devout
Burn invisible and dim.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Or
quenched
the fires lit by their breath?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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If they'd take
elsewhere
the honours they send me!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Note: This poem is a consequence of the two
previous
poems.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Yet, let us reflect a
little; we are alone and our words will not be
repeated
outside.
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Aristophanes |
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Besides, the clouds take in from time to time
Much
moisture
risen from the broad marine,--
Whilst the winds bear them o'er the mighty sea,
Like hanging fleeces of white wool.
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Lucretius |
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Stealthily
I slipped away.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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He spoke; and, melting in a silv'ry stream,
Both disappear'd; when waking from his dream,
The wond'ring monarch, thrill'd with awe divine,
Weighs in his lofty
thoughts
the sacred sign.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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To some extent this is no doubt explained by a fact to which
he often refers in his letters, and which, in his own opinion,
hindered
him
not only from writing about himself in verse, but from writing verse at
all.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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'O virtu mia, perche si ti
dilegue?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A man who is
overruled
by his wife,
I have often heard described as `under the hack': `She's got him
under the hack.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Oh, Master--I, like thee, have wandered oft
Where mighty trees made arches high aloft,
But ever with a consciousness of strife,
A surging
struggle
of the inner life.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Being about to return to his
invisibility, he
assigned
various departments to his three sons.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Les
phenomenes
s'emurent.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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