A stillness of white faces wrought
A
transient
death on all the hands and breasts
Of all the crowd, and men and women stood,
One instant, fixed, as they had died upright.
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I will fling
ambition
away
Like a vain and glittering toy;
With tristful weeping will I pray
And wash my sin's alloy.
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_Foreign
Quarterly Review (adapted)_
THE CYMBALEER'S BRIDE.
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It is thus, when the
overloaded
vapour
bursts, that it descends--
_Sweet as the waters of the limpid rill.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Ronsard's Cassandra, was Cassandra Salviati, the
daughter
of an Italian banker.
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And jist wid that in cum'd the little willian himself, and then he made
me a broth of a bow, and thin he said he had ounly taken the liberty
of doing me the honor of the giving me a call, and thin he went on to
palaver at a great rate, and divil the bit did I comprehind what he wud
be afther the tilling me at all at all, excipting and saving that he
said "pully wou, woolly wou," and tould me, among a bushel o' lies, bad
luck to him, that he was mad for the love o' my widdy
Misthress
Tracle,
and that my widdy Mrs.
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Poe - 5 |
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With mien to match the morning
And gay
delightful
guise
And friendly brows and laughter
He looked me in the eyes.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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An adverse star, a fate here only wrong,
Entrusts to one who
worships
her dear name,
Yet haply injures by his praise her fame.
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Petrarch |
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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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At the
beginning
of the period Sh?
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Li Po |
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What have you to do with this young girl
whom Chvabrine is
persecuting?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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In
heavenly
mercies hast thou not a part?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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What profit will thy dead wife gain
thereby?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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70
Erie Leofwinus throwghe the campe ypass'd,
And sawe bothe men and erlies on the grounde;
They slepte, as thoughe they woulde have slepte theyr last,
And hadd
alreadie
felte theyr fatale wounde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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don't try to
frighten
me and make me afraid, for I am quite
decided.
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Aristophanes |
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Partim jam primum Partim iterum atque tertio edit
Savagius
Landor.
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Byron |
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1372 [A] Thenne
comaunded
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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No longer the flowers are gay,
The
springtime
hath lost its caress,
Alone I will dream to-day,
Weep in the silent recess.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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He thrust from him
Prelates, boyars, and Patriarch; in vain
Prostrate they fall; the
splendour
of the throne
Affrights him.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So spake th' Eternal Father, and fulfilld
All Justice: nor delaid the winged Saint
After his charge receivd, but from among
Thousand Celestial Ardors, where he stood
Vaild with his
gorgeous
wings, up springing light 250
Flew through the midst of Heav'n; th' angelic Quires
On each hand parting, to his speed gave way
Through all th' Empyreal road; till at the Gate
Of Heav'n arriv'd, the gate self-opend wide
On golden Hinges turning, as by work
Divine the sov'ran Architect had fram'd.
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Milton |
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How deserved your fame: they speak it
everywhere!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
"At
Saybrook?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Well, if a king's a lion, at the least,
The people are a many-headed beast:
Can they direct what measures to pursue,
Who know
themselves
so little what to do?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Most necessary 'tis that we forget
To pay
ourselves
what to ourselves is debt.
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Shakespeare |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Their ancient
devotion
attracts
the people every Sunday to the church of St.
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Petrarch |
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As the Moon
On the wax, on the wane,
With night for her noon;
Vanishing
soon,
To appear again.
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Christina Rossetti |
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I have no more to give, all that was mine
Is laid, a wrested tribute, at thy shrine;
Let me depart, for my whole soul is wrung,
And all my
cheerless
orisons are sung;
Let me depart, with faint limbs let me creep
To some dim shade and sink me down to sleep.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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additional
contact information:
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Lucretius |
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XXIX
Which when he knew, and felt our feeble harts
Embost with bale, and bitter byting griefe,
Which love had launched with his deadly darts, 255
With wounding words and termes of foule repriefe,
He pluckt from us all hope of due reliefe,
That earst us held in love of lingring life;
Then hopelesse hartlesse, gan the cunning thiefe
Perswade
us die, to stint all further strife: 260
To me he lent this rope, to him a rustie knife.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Extol not Riches then, the toyl of Fools
The wise mans
cumbrance
if not snare, more apt
To slacken Virtue, and abate her edge,
Then prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
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Milton |
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complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead,
And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed:
And the first Morning of
Creation
wrote
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Oh, better that her shattered hulk
Should sink beneath the wave;
Her thunders shook the mighty deep,
And there should be her grave;
Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the God of storms,--
The
lightning
and the gale!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Milton |
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"
Pale and trembling, Marya approached Ivan
Kouzmitch
and dropped on her
knees, bending before him with reverence.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Letts_
SONG OF THE RED CROSS
O
gracious
ones, we bless your name
Upon our bended knee;
The voice of love with tongue of flame
Records your charity.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Soone after entred a faire Ladie in
mourning
weedes, riding on a
white Asse, with a dwarfe behind her leading a warlike steed, that bore the
Armes of a knight, and his speare in the dwarfes hand.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Why then does she remain in surroundings
with which she is so
strikingly
in contrast?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Who sung the stave I filched from you that day
To
Amaryllis
wending, our hearts' joy?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The beggar's
desperate
troop did first appear,
Littleton led, proud S re had the rear.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Then I
whispered
"I see
The sweet secret thou keepest.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Deare Duff, I prythee
contradict
thy selfe,
And say, it is not so.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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" statement
disclaims most of our
liability
to you.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Of debts, and taxes, wife and
children
clear,
This man possest--five hundred pounds a year.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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On a day the frost will come, 5
Walking through the autumn world,
Hushing all the brave endeavour
Of the
crickets
in the grass.
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Sappho |
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ECLOGUE IV
POLLIO
Muses of Sicily, essay we now
A
somewhat
loftier task!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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ergo nunc dubio pugnant discrimine nati
et negat huic aeuo
stolidum
pecus aurea regna?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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A LETTER FROM A
CANDIDATE
IN THE PRESIDENCY IN ANSWER
TO SUTTIN QUESTIONS PROPOSED BY Mr.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Sir Childe, I'm not so weak;
But
thinking
on an absent wife
Will blanch a faithful cheek.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The miserable despot could not quell
The
insulted
mind he sought to quench, and blend
With the surrounding maniacs, in the hell
Where he had plunged it.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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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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Behold, who blames
A crooked course, when not a goal is there
To round the fervid
striving
of the games?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
Not so much
honouring
thee
As giving it a hope that there
It could not wither'd be;
But thou thereon didst only breathe
And sent'st it back to me;
Since when it grows, and smells, I swear,
Not of itself but thee!
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Golden Treasury |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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[50]
At the third cup I
penetrate
the Great Way;
A full gallon--Nature and I are one.
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Imagists |
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_September
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Wilde - Poems |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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LFS}
Spreading them out before the Sun like Stalks of flax to dry
The infant joy is beautiful but its anatomy
Horrible Ghast & Deadly nought shalt thou find in it
But Death Despair & Everlasting
brooding
Melancholy
Thou wilt go mad with horror if thou dost Examine thus * {added on center right margin, 90 degrees rotated LFS}
Every moment of my secret hours Yea I know
That I have sinnd & that my Emanations are become harlots
I am already distracted at their deeds & if I look
Upon them more Despair will bring self murder on my soul
O Enion thou art thyself a root growing in hell
Tho thus heavenly beautiful to draw me to destruction
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Blake - Zoas |
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The willows
Are
yellowed
with bud.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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ON HEARING THE
PRINCESS
ROYAL[1] SING.
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Hugo - Poems |
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A
thousand
fingers pointed.
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Stephen Crane |
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This song was
composed
by the Rev.
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Robert Burns |
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Eumaeus flies
In duteous haste, and to Ulysses cries:
"The queen invites thee,
venerable
guest!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I never saw her, yet love her true,
She never was
faithful
or untrue;
I do well when she's not in view,
Not worth a cry,
I know a nobler, fairer too
To any eye.
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Troubador Verse |
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For, right within, the sword of Sin
Pierced to its
poisoned
hilt,
And as molten lead were the tears we shed
For the blood we had not spilt.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Then the admiral, his brother calleth he,
'Tis Canabeus, the king of Floredee,
Who holds the land unto the Vale Sevree;
He's shewn to him Carlun's ten companies:
"The pride of France,
renowned
land, you see.
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Chanson de Roland |
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An angel then, with him should reason make,
Nimbly enough
appeared
to him and spake:
"Charles, canter on!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Not those more honour'd whom Atrides feasts:
Though generous plenty crown thy loaded boards,
That, Agamemnon's regal tent affords;
But greater cares sit heavy on our souls,
Nor eased by
banquets
or by flowing bowls.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Yea, and sullenly down
Into its hiding town,
Even though the
lightning
were still in its heart,
The broken dragon, drawing in its fury,
Had croucht to mend its shatter'd malice,
Had lifted its head again and spat against God.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Yesternight
we had nothing to eat.
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Aristophanes |
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XXVII
When the successor of
Astolpho
spies
Those smiling stars above him, at the sight
A flame, like that of kindled sulphur, flies
Through his full veins, as ravished by delight
Out of himself; and now up to the eyes
Plunged in a sea of bliss, he swims outright.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Besides, the unlike shapes don't thwart the least
The whole in being externally a cube;
But differing hues of things do block and keep
The whole from being of one
resultant
hue.
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Lucretius |
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of the moon,
regarded
as implying
ill luck.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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SOME VITAL FUNCTIONS
In these affairs
We crave that thou wilt
passionately
flee
The one offence, and anxiously wilt shun
The error of presuming the clear lights
Of eyes created were that we might see;
Or thighs and knees, aprop upon the feet,
Thuswise can bended be, that we might step
With goodly strides ahead; or forearms joined
Unto the sturdy uppers, or serving hands
On either side were given, that we might do
Life's own demands.
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Lucretius |
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O father and mother if buds are nipped,
And blossoms blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the
springing
day,
By sorrow and care's dismay,--
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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They who never go to the
Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and
vagabonds; but they who do go there are
saunterers
in the good sense,
such as I mean.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He who regards it directly and intensely sees,
it is true, the star, but it is the star without a ray-while he who
surveys it less
inquisitively
is conscious of all for which the star is
useful to us below-its brilliancy and its beauty.
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Poe - 5 |
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By Artemis, the virgin
goddess!
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Aristophanes |
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Soles
occidere
et redire possunt:
Nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, 5
Nox est perpetua una dormienda.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Hir
acqueyntaunce
wolde no man fele,
Ne han of Elde companye,
Men hate to be of hir alye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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On their own axis as the planets run,
Yet make at once their circle round the sun;
So two
consistent
motions act the soul;
And one regards itself, and one the whole.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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From them
I'll form an
honourable
troop.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Your feet cut steel on the paths,
I
followed
for the strength
of life and grasp.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I Tiresias, old man with
wrinkled
dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the expected guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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_("A Juana la
Grenadine!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Poets and
musicians
fight their battles best in the region of the
ideal.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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If yet not wasted quite--
So frail a thing before so fierce a flame--
'Tis not from my own strength that safety came,
But that some fear gives might,
Freezing
the warm blood coursing through its veins,
To my poor heart better to bear the strife.
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Petrarch |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The rebels might
certainly
have been crushed had Flaccus
and Gallus each advanced their forces from opposite directions and
thus surrounded them.
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Tacitus |
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That in thy joy art
shrouded!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Now Jove
suspends
his golden scales in air,
Weighs the Men's wits against the Lady's hair;
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side;
At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside.
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Alexander Pope |
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But when he gained the humid verge of the foam-flecked
shore, and spied the womanish Attis near the opal sea, he made a bound: the
witless wretch fled into the wild wold: there
throughout
the space of her
whole life a bondsmaid did she stay.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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