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285 We linger on, dancing in the spring night, 12 shedding tears, we try to keep staying on.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Like Chaos you the
tottering
globe invade,
Religion cheat, and war ye make a trade.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Revivd her Soul with lives of beasts & birds
Slain on the Altar up
ascending
into her cloudy bosom
Of terrible workmanship the Altar labour of ten thousand Slaves
One thousand Men of wondrous power spent their lives in its formation
It stood on twelve steps namd after the names of her twelve sons
And was Erected at the chief entrance of Urizens hall
When Urizen descended returnd from his immense labours & travels
Descending She reposd beside him folding him around
In her bright skirts.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Old age had come almost
suddenly
upon him.
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Yeats |
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I offered Being for it;
The mighty
merchant
smiled.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Does he still think his error
pardonable?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"And now beside thee,
bleating
lamb,
I can lie down and sleep,
Or think on Him who bore thy name,
Graze after thee, and weep.
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blake-poems |
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During the summer of 1867 I had the opportunity (which I had often wished
for) of expressing in print my
estimate
and admiration of the works of the
American poet Walt Whitman.
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Whitman |
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If you do not charge
anything
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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We find him in Strype's
_Annals_
collaborating
with the notorious Topcliffe.
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John Donne |
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These people honor wealth; 248 for which reason they are subject to monarchical government, without any limitations, 249 or
precarious
conditions of allegiance.
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Tacitus |
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I reason that in heaven
Somehow, it will be even,
Some new
equation
given;
But what of that?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The old man, full up with wine and excited by
the sound of the flute, is so delighted, so enraptured, that he spends
the night
executing
the old dances that Thespis first produced on the
stage,[163] and just now he offered to prove to the modern tragedians, by
disputing with them for the dancing prize, that they are nothing but a
lot of old dotards.
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Aristophanes |
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It was as though we saw the Secret Will,
It was as though we floated and were free;
In the south-west a planet shone serenely,
And the high moon, most reticent and queenly,
Seeing the earth had
darkened
and grown still,
Misted with light the meadows of the sea.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Abundance
of berries for all who will eat,
But an aching meat.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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IF cuckoldom, my friends, such
torments
give;
'Tis better far 'mong savages to live!
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La Fontaine |
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At last divine Cecilia came,
Inventress of the vocal frame;
The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store
Enlarged
the former narrow bounds,
And added length to solemn sounds,
With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before.
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Golden Treasury |
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Why do they think unfit
That Gentry should joyne
families
with it?
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John Donne |
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Next, where the crest of Eryx is
neighbour to the stars, a dwelling is founded to Venus the Idalian;
[761-793]and a priest and breadth of holy wood is
attached
to Anchises'
grave.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But light
Faded at last, and as the
darkness
fell
He rose, and crawled away into the night.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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e
semblable
resou{n}
wha{n} ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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And, thou gone, the proof's disproved,
And the cry rings answerless--
Dost thou love me, my
Beloved?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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For by that same secret kept,
I 'scape this chain's
dishonour
and its woe.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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On the other hand there are a few
cases where the 1645 edition
exhibits
the spelling which has succeeded
in fixing itself, as travail (1673, travel) in the sense of labour; and
rob'd, profane, human, flood and bloody, forest, triple, alas, huddling,
are found where the 1673 edition has roab'd, prophane, humane, floud and
bloudy, forrest, tripple, alass and hudling.
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Milton |
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Stand forth, oh guest, thou also; prove thy skill
(If any such thou hast) in games like ours,
Which, likeliest, thou hast learn'd; for greater praise
Hath no man, while he lives, than that he know 180
His feet to
exercise
and hands aright.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Housman's
poems, the singularly Grecian Quality of a clean and
fragrant
mental and
emotional temper, vibrating equally whether the theme dealt with is
ruin or defeat, or some great tragic crisis of spirit, or with moods and
ardours of pure enjoyment and simplicities of feeling.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And joy I knew and sorrow at thy voice,
And the superb
magnificence
of love,--
The loneliness that saddens solitude, 10
And the sweet speech that makes it durable,--
The bitter longing and the keen desire,
The sweet companionship through quiet days
In the slow ample beauty of the world,
And the unutterable glad release 15
Within the temple of the holy night.
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Sappho |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Behold where stands
Th'
Vsurpers
cursed head: the time is free:
I see thee compast with thy Kingdomes Pearle,
That speake my salutation in their minds:
Whose voyces I desire alowd with mine.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Shields,
Who frequented the vallies and fields;
All the mice and the cats, and the snakes and the rats,
Followed
after that person of Shields.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
But the face of the older hermit grew
exceedingly
dark, and he
cried, "O thou cursed coward, thou wouldst not fight.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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O the cursed
tormentors!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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= This was an
occasion
of considerable
extravagance.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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see what sweetness showers upon that face,
Heaven's
brightness
to this earth those eyes unfold!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I am settled, and bend vp
Each
corporall
Agent to this terrible Feat.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Sous des jupons troues et sous de froids tissus
Ils rampent, flagelles par les bises iniques,
Fremissant
au fracas roulant des omnibus,
Et serrant sur leur flanc, ainsi que des reliques,
Un petit sac brode de fleurs ou de rebus;
Ils trottent, tout pareils a des marionnettes;
Se trainent, comme font les animaux blesses,
Ou dansent, sans vouloir danser, pauvres sonnettes
Ou se pend un Demon sans pitie!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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NEW POEMS
EARLY APOLLO
As when at times there breaks through
branches
bare
A morning vibrant with the breath of spring,
About this poet-head a splendour rare
Transforms it almost to a mortal thing.
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Rilke - Poems |
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]
AN ENIGMA
"Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce,
"Half an idea in the
profoundest
sonnet.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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There, when hueless is the west
And the darkness hushes wide,
Where the lad lies down to rest
Stands the
troubled
dream beside.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I, old Morgan,
Am that Belarius whom you
sometime
banish'd.
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Shakespeare |
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Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
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Ronsard |
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VI
Heaven, you say, will be a field in April,
A
friendly
field, a long green wave of earth,
With one domed cloud above it.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Pray wait till by and by; you're much to blame;
Besides, the nights are long enough you'll find;
Heav'n genial joys for privacy design'd;
And why this place, when you've nice
chambers
got?
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La Fontaine |
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(which did not you prolong,
The world had wanted many an idle song)
What _Drop_ or
_Nostrum_
can this plague remove?
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Alexander Pope |
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Thereon Allecto, steeped in
Gorgonian
venom, first seeks Latium and the
high house of the Laurentine monarch, and silently sits down before
Amata's doors, whom a woman's distress and anger heated to frenzy over
the Teucrians' coming and the marriage of Turnus.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Is thy Master
stirring?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Nay then, farewell, my duckling roast,
Farewell, farewell, my tea and toast,
My
meerschaum
and cigars!
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Lewis Carroll |
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ignoble age must come,
Disease, and death's
inexorable
doom
The life, which others pay, let us bestow,
And give to fame what we to nature owe;
Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live,
Or let us glory gain, or glory give!
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Iliad - Pope |
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It's the voice that the light made us understand here
That Hermes
Trismegistus
writes of in Pimander.
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Appoloinaire |
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The
magistrates
and senators
had fled in terror from the city, or were still in hiding at
dependants' houses: it was therefore impossible to call a meeting of
the senate.
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Tacitus |
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But Iphitus, employed on other cares,
Search'd the wide country for his
wandering
mares,
And mules, the strongest of the labouring kind;
Hapless to search; more hapless still to find!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The male is not less the soul nor more, he too is in his place,
He too is all qualities, he is action and power,
The flush of the known universe is in him,
Scorn becomes him well, and appetite and defiance become him well,
The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is
utmost become him well, pride is for him,
The full-spread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul,
Knowledge becomes him, he likes it always, he brings every thing to
the test of himself,
Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes
soundings
at last only here,
(Where else does he strike soundings except here?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous mendiants morts saouls de biere
Vous les
aveugles
comme le destin
Et vous petits enfants morts en priere
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Noi divenimmo intanto a pie del monte;
quivi
trovammo
la roccia si erta,
che 'ndarno vi sarien le gambe pronte.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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' Thus much he spoke; and
meanwhile
the broad light of
returning day now began to pour in, and chased away the night.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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ein hym
schullen
speke,
fforto holden vp cristendom; ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Without sharing
Pliny's faith that the
millennium
had dawned, he admits that Nerva and
Trajan have inaugurated 'happier times' and combined monarchy with
some degree of personal freedom.
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Tacitus |
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There shalt thou stand
arraigned
of this blood;
And of those judges half shall lay on thee
Death, and half pardon; so shalt thou go free.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Naked the Nymphs and Graces in the meads
The dance essay:
"No 'scaping death"
proclaims
the year, that speeds
This sweet spring day.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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She that has dealt with such a pride of spirit
In all her ways of life, so that she seemed
To feel like shadow, falling on the light
Her own mind made, the common
thoughts
of men;
Ay, she that to-day came down into our woe
And stood among the griefs that buzz upon us,
Like one who is forced aside from a bright journey
To stoop in a small-room'd cottage, where loud flies
Pester the inmates and the windows darken;
This she, this Judith, out of her quiet pride,
And out of her guarded purity, to walk
Where God himself from violent whoredom could
Scarcely preserve her shuddering flesh!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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" he cried,
"Is the old lady of the
_Dammthor_
still alive?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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e
blykkande
belt he bere ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I sawe the
myndbruch
of hys nobille soule 145
Whan Edwarde meniced a seconde wyfe;
I saw what Pheryons yn hys mynde dyd rolle;
Nowe fyx'd fromm seconde dames a preeste for lyfe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Ruppe il silenzio ne'
concordi
numi
poscia la luce in che mirabil vita
del poverel di Dio narrata fumi,
e disse: <
quando la sua semenza e gia riposta,
a batter l'altra dolce amor m'invita.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Swords are drawn
all round, and_ KNOWELL _is
endeavouring
to calm the
disturbance, when_ KITELY _enters_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But covet not the abode--O do not sigh
As many do, repining while they look;
Intruders who would tear from Nature's book
This
precious
leaf with harsh impiety:
--Think what the home would be if it were thine,
Even thine, though few thy wants!
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Golden Treasury |
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Is that
trembling
cry a song?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Give
him my
hareskin
_touloup_.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"I can't understand why my
grandmother
never gambles.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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These were the King of Bohemia, and his son Charles,
Prince of Moravia,
otherwise
called Charles of Luxemburg.
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Petrarch |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged
manacles
I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every blackening church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
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blake-poems |
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But he, already, who was cause of all,
Lies slain, Antinous; he thy palace fill'd
With outrage, not solicitous so much
To win the fair Penelope, but thoughts
Far diff'rent framing, which Saturnian Jove
Hath baffled all; to rule, himself, supreme
In noble Ithaca, when he had kill'd
By an
insidious
stratagem thy son.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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--Et, tout pensifs, tandis que de leurs grands yeux bleus
Silencieusement tombe une larme amere,
ils murmurent: <
reviendra
notre mere?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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For noon is of so mochel prys,
Ne no man founden [is] so wys,
Ne noon so high is of parage,
Ne no man founde of wit so sage, 4760
No man so hardy ne so wight,
Ne no man of so mochel might,
Noon so
fulfilled
of bounte,
[But] he with love may daunted be.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The letters were so
dreary and
hopeless
and touching.
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Kipling - Poems |
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DIDIER (_taking his sword_): Now,
marquis!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Everything indicates--the
smallest
does, and the largest does;
A necessary film envelops all, and envelops the Soul for a proper time.
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Whitman |
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I was
immensely
brave.
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Kipling - Poems |
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It was a July midnight; and from out
A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring,
Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven,
There fell a silvery-silken veil of light,
With quietude, and sultriness, and slumber,
Upon the
upturned
faces of a thousand
Roses that grew in an enchanted garden,
Where no wind dared to stir, unless on tiptoe--
Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses
That gave out, in return for the love-light,
Their odorous souls in an ecstatic death--
Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses
That smiled and died in this parterre, enchanted
By thee, and by the poetry of thy presence.
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Poe - 5 |
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Besides, a
duellist
well-known
Hath mixed himself in the affair,
Malicious and a slanderer.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And swift and swifter grew the vessel's motion, _550
So that a dizzy trance fell on my brain--
Wild music woke me; we had passed the ocean
Which girds the pole, Nature's remotest reign--
And we glode fast o'er a
pellucid
plain
Of waters, azure with the noontide day.
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Shelley |
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See that
the Castilian
prisoners
receive no harm.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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-- This hoard is ours
but
grievously
gotten; too grim the fate
which thither carried our king and lord.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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ATHENA
Once more I praise the promise of your vows,
And now I bid the golden torches' glow
Pass down before you to the hidden depth
Of earth, by mine own sacred
servants
borne,
Mv loyal guards of statue and of shrine.
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Aeschylus |
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Here, son of Saturn, was thy
favourite
throne!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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THE ENCHANTMENTS THAT ENTHRALL HIM
Graces, that liberal Heaven on few bestows;
Rare excellence, scarce known to human kind;
With youth's bright locks age's ripe
judgment
join'd;
Celestial charms, which a meek mortal shows;
An elegance unmatch'd; and lips, whence flows
Music that can the sense in fetters bind;
A goddess step; a lovely ardent mind,
That breaks the stubborn, and the haughty bows;
Eyes, whose refulgence petrifies the heart,
To glooms, to shades that can a light impart,
Lift high the lover's soul, or plunge it low;
Speech link'd by tenderness and dignity;
With many a sweetly-interrupted sigh;
Such are the witcheries that transform me so.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Many a time and oft
Toilsome and
profitless
my service was,
When his shrill outcry called me from my couch!
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Aeschylus |
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It ceas'd: yet still the sails made on
A
pleasant
noise till noon,
A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I dwell with you where never breath
Is drawn, but
fragrance
vital flows
From life to life, even as a rose
Unseen pours sweetness through each vein
And from the air distills again.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Also her sons
With lives of Victims
sacrificed
upon an altar of brass
On the East side.
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Blake - Zoas |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Vainly he strove, with ready wit,
To joke about the weather--
To
ventilate
the last '_on dit_'--
To quote the price of leather--
She groaned "Here I and Sorrow sit:
Let us lament together!
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Lewis Carroll |
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