From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When
hurricanes
its surface fan,
O object of my fond devotion!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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--she saw how the blood ran away
And
empurpled
the thigh, and, with wild hands flung out,
Said with sobs: "Stay, Adonis!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is
quelled from one failure or two failures or any number of failures, or from
the casual
indifference
or ingratitude of the people, or from the sharp
show of the tushes of power, or the bringing to bear soldiers and cannon or
any penal statutes.
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Whitman |
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Sweet smiles, mother's smiles,
All the
livelong
night beguiles.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,
Gold that I never see;
Lie long, high
snowdrifts
in the hedge
That will not shower on me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Mais je sais,
maintenant!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Born with Marlowe, it rose at once with
Shakespeare
to heights
inaccessible before and since and for ever, to sink through bright
gradations of glorious decline to its final and beautiful sunset in
Shirley: but the lyrical record that begins with the author of "Euphues"
and "Endymion" grows fuller if not brighter through a whole chain of
constellations till it culminates in the crowning star of Herrick.
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Robert Herrick |
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1600
His death gives me reason enough for tears,
Without my searching into other matters:
It won't restore him to me, in my grief, again:
Perhaps it would only serve to
increase
my pain.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Had_
Rowley _been a_
Londoner
_instead of a_ Bristowyan, _I could have
lived by_ copying _his works_.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Glorious
is the legacy of Taizong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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His parents were obscure and vulgar
people; and he himself a
wretched
outcast:
with the emblem of [his] crooked mind
Marked on [his] back like Cain by God's own hand.
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Alexander Pope |
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And there shall rise to me
From that
consecrated
ground
The old dreams, the lost dreams
That years and cares have drowned;
Welling up within me
And above me and around
The song that I could never sing
And the face I never found.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But yet all is not don; Man disobeying,
Disloyal breaks his fealtie, and sinns
Against the high Supremacie of Heav'n,
Affecting God-head, and so loosing all,
To expiate his Treason hath naught left,
But to
destruction
sacred and devote,
He with his whole posteritie must die,
Die hee or Justice must; unless for him 210
Som other able, and as willing, pay
The rigid satisfaction, death for death.
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Milton |
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--
When utter beauty must come closer to thee
Than even anger or fear could be;
When thou, like metal in a kiln, must lie
Seized by beauty's mightily able flame;
Enjoyed by beauty as by the
ruthless
glee
Of an unescapable power;
Obeying beauty as air obeys a cry;
Yea, one thing made of beauty and thee,
As steel and a white heat are made the same!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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At his command
On the fourth finger of her fair left hand
The Governor placed the ring; and that was all:
Martha was Lady
Wentworth
of the Hall!
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Longfellow |
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O shadows vain
Except in outward
semblance!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And truly not the morning sun of heaven
Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east,
Nor that full star that ushers in the even,
Doth half that glory to the sober west,
As those two
mourning
eyes become thy face:
O!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
neighbors
rustle in and out,
The doctor drives away.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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TWO SONGS FOR SOLITUDE
I
~The Crystal Gazer~
I shall gather myself into myself again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one,
I shall fuse them into a polished crystal ball
Where I can see the moon and the
flashing
sun.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And when they come into the land of Spain
All that country
lightens
and shines again:
Of their coming Marsile has heard the tale.
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Chanson de Roland |
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_Reprinted
January_
1909, 1913
"_Poems_, _Past and Present_": _First edition_ 1901 (dated 1902)
_Second Edition_ 1903.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Aeschylus |
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Whatever absence from her must endure,
Sire, it is yet
happiness
to hope for more.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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At the hour when this wood with gold and ashes heaves
A feast's excited among the
extinguished
leaves:
Etna!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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how he charm'd us with a flow of sense,
And won the heart with manly
eloquence!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--But some night-wandering Man, whose heart was pierc'd
With the remembrance of a
grievous
wrong,
Or slow distemper or neglected love,
(And so, poor Wretch!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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None of my
ladyfriends
dare I confide in, for they would but chide me;
Nor any gentleman friend, lest he be rival to me.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Orpheus
Orpheus
'Orpheus'
Pierre -Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824 - 1898, Yale
University
Art Gallery
His heart was the bait: the heavens were the pond!
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Appoloinaire |
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= 'This gate hath of long time been a gaol, or prison
for felons and trespassers, as
appeareth
by records in the reign of
King John, and of other kings.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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we wrong the noble dead
To vex their solemn slumber so;
Though childless, and with thorn-crowned head,
Up the steep road must England go,
Yet when this fiery web is spun,
Her watchmen shall descry from far
The young
Republic
like a sun
Rise from these crimson seas of war.
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Wilde - Poems |
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(A million faces a thousand miles from Pennsylvania Avenue
stay frozen with a look, a clocktick, a moment--
skeleton
riders on skeleton horses--the nickering high horse
laugh,
the whinny and the howl up Pennsylvania Avenue:
who?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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" The answer must be that
China has no epic and no dramatic
literature
of importance.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Yet cruel one, if you still seek fresh glory
Attack some more
rebellious
enemy.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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O death of
bitterness!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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com
forwards
to hart@prairienet.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In spite of Virtue and the Muse,
Nemesis will have her dues,
And all our
struggles
and our toils
Tighter wind the giant coils.
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Emerson - Poems |
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'Tis much he dares,
And to that
dauntlesse
temper of his Minde,
He hath a Wisdome, that doth guide his Valour,
To act in safetie.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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ise freres don also; prechen aboute ylome,
ffor of
prechyng
it wor?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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--the man with murderous looks,
The girl with
shameless
eyes!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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where she sits beneath yon shaggy rock,
A
cowering
shape half-seen through curling smoke.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Rilke - Poems |
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They
grappled
with each other
goring like an ox.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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While rivers run into the sea, while the
mountain
shadows move
across their slopes, while the stars have pasturage in heaven, ever
shall thine honour, thy name and praises endure in the unknown lands
that summon me.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Now since indeed there are those surest bodies
Which keep their nature evermore the same,
Upon whose going out and coming in
And changed order things their nature change,
And all
corporeal
substances transformed,
'Tis thine to know those primal bodies, then,
Are not of fire.
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Lucretius |
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Snatch'd from her
shoulder
with despairing moan,
She clasps them at that dim-seen roofless stone.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the abandoned light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that
whiteness
defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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SONNET
WRITTEN IN HOLY WEEK AT GENOA
I WANDERED through Scoglietto's far retreat,
The oranges on each o'erhanging spray
Burned as bright lamps of gold to shame the day;
Some startled bird with fluttering wings and fleet
Made snow of all the blossoms; at my feet
Like silver moons the pale narcissi lay:
And the curved waves that
streaked
the great green bay
Laughed i' the sun, and life seemed very sweet.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_ I hold that the greatest cause of
dissolutenesse
in some women
in England is this custome of kissing publikely.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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This
juggling
shall not save you.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"
"No more,"
responded
Abel-Phittim---"no more shall we feast upon the fat
of the land-no longer shall our beards be odorous with frankincense--our
loins girded up with fine linen from the Temple.
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Poe - 5 |
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Up and down I have to walk, lest sleep
should
overcome
me.
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Here it is used to
reinforce
the sense of a binding love.
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Troubador Verse |
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Most sorrowful of sinners, a morose delectation scourged
his nerves and
extorted
the darkest music from his lyre.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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III
"Written indelibly
On my eternal mind
Are all the wrongs endured
By Earth's poor patient kind,
Which my too oft
unconscious
hand
Let enter undesigned.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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_The Yellowhammer_
When shall I see the white-thorn leaves agen,
And yellowhammers gathering the dry bents
By the dyke side, on stilly moor or fen,
Feathered with love and nature's good
intents?
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John Clare |
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Lemozis, francha terra cortesa,
Ah,
Limousin!
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Troubador Verse |
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Too close a secret
overwhelms
me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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If many deem it well he should abide,
To many and many it would ill appear:
Many would say, that oaths unbinding are,
Which 'tis
unlawful
and unjust to swear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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_1635-54
where, and in 1669, it appears among_
Funerall
Elegies:
Elegie.
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John Donne |
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Love, on the contrary--Love--the true, the divine
Eros--the Uranian as
distinguished
from the Diona an Venus--is
unquestionably the purest and truest of all poetical themes.
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Poe - 5 |
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In a new months his
administration
had
become universally odious.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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How daring an ambition; yet how deep-
How
fathomless
a capacity for love!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Rilke - Poems |
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For many
thousand
men," said he,
"Were slain in that great victory.
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Golden Treasury |
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_ The flame
Perishes
in thine eyes.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Ay, so my Lord of
Pembroke
in command
Of all her force be safe; but there are doubts.
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Tennyson |
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WINTER IN
DURNOVER
FIELD
SCENE.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
He heard her speak and
accepted
her words with favor.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Siate, Cristiani, a
muovervi
piu gravi:
non siate come penna ad ogne vento,
e non crediate ch'ogne acqua vi lavi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Her cheeks are like yon crimson gem,
The pride of all the flowery scene,
Just opening on its thorny stem;
An' she has twa
sparkling
roguish een.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Then, if my voice can aught avail,
Grateful for him our prayers have won,
My song shall echo, "Hail, all hail,
Auspicious
Sun!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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' short,
monosyllabic
words to
make up a line.
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Alexander Pope |
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There in the self-same marble were engrav'd
The cart and kine, drawing the sacred ark,
That from
unbidden
office awes mankind.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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we must have
striking
vengeance
on the insults of Euripides.
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Aristophanes |
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Am I
deceived
once more,
Or is this my last hope I stand before?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Goodfellow shone forth with only the
more
brilliant
lustre through contrast.
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Poe - 5 |
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]
[Footnote O: The absence referred to--"separation desolate"--may refer
both to the
Hawkshead
years, and to those spent at Cambridge; but
doubtless the brother and sister met at Penrith, in vacation time from
Hawkshead School; and, after William Wordsworth had gone to the
university, Dorothy visited Cambridge, while the brother spent the
Christmas holidays of 1790 at Forncett Rectory in Norfolk, where his
sister was then staying, and where she spent several years with their
uncle Cookson, the Canon of Windsor.
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William Wordsworth |
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Hauksbee
as a matter
for general interest.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Father:
Nothing my babe you see in the sky,
And nothing at all to you it says--but look you my babe,
Look at these dazzling things in the houses, and see you the money-
shops opening,
And see you the
vehicles
preparing to crawl along the streets with goods;
These, ah these, how valued and toil'd for these!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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--the
faintest
sound
And yet the sweetest that ear ever heard!
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Poe - 5 |
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Pales,
bring gifts,
bring your
Phoenician
stuffs,
and do you, fleet-footed nymphs,
bring offerings,
Illyrian iris,
and a branch of shrub,
and frail-headed poppies.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The
sincerity
of
this wish has been doubted because of what he says in a letter
regarding _Biathanatos_: 'I only forbid it the press and the
fire.
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What now,
If with such things as these
troubled
thou wert?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Patria, bonis, amicis,
genitoribus
abero?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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CHOR:
Quid sum miser tunc
dicturus?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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MARMADUKE What is your
meaning?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Respect the cypress on my
mournful
brow,
Lost Happiness hath left regret--but _thou_
Leavest remorse, alone.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Because in
singleness
of thought
She never of deception dreamed
But trusted the ideal she wrought?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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365
The Vision of
Judgment
p.
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Byron |
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But these pleasures of
childhood
have lost all their zest;
It is warfare and carnage that now I love best:
The sounds that I wish to awaken and hear
Are the cheers raised by courage, the shrieks due to fear;
When the riot of flames, ruin, smoke, steel and blood,
Announces an army rolls along as a flood,
Which I follow, to harry the clamorous ranks,
Sharp-goading the laggards and pressing the flanks,
Till, a thresher 'mid ripest of corn, up I stand
With an oak for a flail in my unflagging hand.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
And I believed him--for now I too have
forgotten
the language of
that other world.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The river, fleet, the port, the shore, the main,
Were sites of
conflict
now, where death did reign.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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