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Is it not
sufficient
that you will not hate me?
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Please consult the
manuscript
page.
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Blake - Zoas |
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' And at
that cry I understood that the Order of the Alchemical Rose was not of
this earth, and that it was still seeking over this earth for whatever
souls it could gather within its glittering net; and when all the faces
turned towards me, and I saw the mild eyes and the unshaken eyelids, I
was full of terror, and thought they were about to fling their torches
upon me, so that all I held dear, all that bound me to
spiritual
and
social order, would be burnt up, and my soul left naked and shivering
among the winds that blow from beyond this world and from beyond the
stars; and then a faint voice cried, 'Why do you fly from our torches
that were made out of the trees under which Christ wept in the Garden
of Gethsemane?
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On the other side
Old King Latinus, seated by his child
Lavinia, and that Brutus I beheld,
Who Tarquin chas'd, Lucretia, Cato's wife
Marcia, with Julia and
Cornelia
there;
And sole apart retir'd, the Soldan fierce.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Mine eyes that are weary of bliss
As of light that is
poignant
and strong
O silence my lips with a kiss,
My lips that are weary of song!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The first attempt had clearly bad success,
And fair Theresa
suffered
you may guess.
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La Fontaine |
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_ Herrick is here
imitating
the well-known lines of
Catullus to Lesbia (_Carm.
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Robert Herrick |
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The lilacs where the robin built,
And where my brother set
The
laburnum
on his birthday,--
The tree is living yet!
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Golden Treasury |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
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Ronsard |
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'twas a
precious
flock to me,
As dear as my own children be;
For daily with my growing store
I loved my children more and more.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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My soul, which sleep expels from his abode,
The body leaves, and, from its
trammels
free,
Seeks her whose mien so often menace show'd.
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Petrarch |
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'This is not time
for tears,' cries Juno,
daughter
of Saturn: 'hasten and snatch thy
brother, if it may be, from his death; or do thou waken war, and make
[159-191]the treaty abortive.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But he in Cristis wrath him ledeth,
That more than Crist my
bretheren
dredeth.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Thus wears the month along, in checkered moods,
Sunshine and shadows,
tempests
loud, and calms;
One hour dies silent oer the sleepy woods,
The next wakes loud with unexpected storms;
A dreary nakedness the field deforms--
Yet many a rural sound, and rural sight,
Lives in the village still about the farms,
Where toil's rude uproar hums from morn till night
Noises, in which the ears of industry delight.
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Sanza riposo mai era la tresca
de le misere mani, or quindi or quinci
escotendo
da se l'arsura fresca.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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His last dread
pleasure!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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It is that distant years which did not take
Thy sovranty,
recoiling
with a blow,
Have forced my swimming brain to undergo
Their doubt and dread, and blindly to forsake
Thy purity of likeness and distort
Thy worthiest love to a worthless counterfeit.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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690
As when the hygra of the Severne roars,
And thunders ugsom on the sandes below,
The cleembe reboundes to Wedecesters shore,
And sweeps the black sande rounde its horie prowe;
So bremie
Alfwoulde
thro the warre dyd goe; 695
Hys Kenters and Brystowans slew ech syde,
Betreinted all alonge with bloudless foe,
And seemd to swymm alonge with bloudie tyde;
Fromme place to place besmeard with bloud they went,
And rounde aboute them swarthless corse besprente.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Grasses and mosses and the fallen leaf
Make peaceful bed for an
indefinite
term;
But underneath the grass there gnaws a worm--
Haply, there gnaws a grief--
Both, haply always; not, as now, so brief.
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Christina Rossetti |
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He entered the service of Charles of Anjou, and
probably
accompanied him (1265) on his Naples expedition; in 1266 he was a prisoner in Naples.
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Troubador Verse |
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At morn my sick heart hunger scarcely stung,
Nor to the beggar's
language
could I frame my tongue.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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ipse deum genitor, ne te tam saepe uideret,
commisit
noctis in sua uota duas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The
expression
is
a condensed one for 'either of the adverse icy poles'.
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John Donne |
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The pious wind took it away,
The reverent
darkness
hid the lay.
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Emerson - Poems |
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CLVIII
The count Rollanz, when their
approach
he sees
Is grown so bold and manifest and fierce
So long as he's alive he will not yield.
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Chanson de Roland |
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[A] In dre3 droupyng of dreme
draueled
?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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240
De
Aubignee
rod fercely thro' the fyghte,
To where the boddie of Salnarville laie;
Quod he; And art thou ded, thou manne of myghte?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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'Leave here the man who dares his prince desert,
Leave to
repentance
and his own sad heart,
To guard the ship.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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'By nativitie they be
lunaticke
.
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John Donne |
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,
_Spanish
Curate_:
--this soul I speake of,
Or rather salt, to keep this heap of flesh
From being a walking stench.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems, by Rainer Maria Rilke
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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Rilke - Poems |
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After the
transports
of horror-filled passion led
Your madness as far as your father's bed,
You dare to present your hostile face to me
You approach this place full of your infamy, 1050
Rather than finding, under some unknown sky,
A country where my name never met the eye.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Two doves upon the
selfsame
branch,
Two lilies on a single stem,
Two butterflies upon one flower:--
O happy they who look on them.
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Christina Rossetti |
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suddenly
arose, and in a somewhat
plumdomphious manner hurried off towards the setting sun, his steps
supported by two superincumbent confidential cucumbers .
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Thus, in so far as bodies
Are small and smooth, is their mobility;
But, contrariwise, the heavier and more rough,
The more
immovable
they prove.
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Lucretius |
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received
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
The Two Learned Men
Once there lived in the ancient city of Afkar two learned men who
hated and
belittled
each other's learning.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Why does the sea moan
evermore?
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Christina Rossetti |
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_Year_, is used both for
singular
and plural, years.
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Robert Burns |
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They creep along wrapped in their chilly rags,
Beneath the
whipping
of the wicked wind,
They tremble when an omnibus rolls by,
And at their sides, a relic of the past,
A little flower-embroidered satchel hangs.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Apollinax
Hysteria
Conversation
Galante
La Figlia Che Piange
The Love Song of J.
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T.S. Eliot |
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To slay me now,
"After the
harvests
ten
"Now, at the last, come home!
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Euripides - Electra |
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But still the Lady heard that clang
Filling the wide air far away; _65
And still the mist whose light did hang
Among the
mountains
shook alway,
So that the Lady's heart beat fast,
As half in joy, and half aghast,
On those high domes her look she cast.
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Shelley |
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dulce et decorum est pro patria mori:
mors et fugacem persequitur uirum,
nec parcit inbellis iuuentae
poplitibus
timidoue tergo.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
XI
She cowers, and he takes his track
Afar for many a mile,
For
evermore
to be apart
From her who could beguile
His senses by her burning heart,
And win his love awhile.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I'd put their own colonels and
commissioners
at the
door to turn them away.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Why how now Hecat, you looke
angerly?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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See the poor
remnants
of this slighted hair!
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Alexander Pope |
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King
Marsilies
hath bargained for us cheap;
At the sword's point he yet shall pay our meed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
"Because," said he, "They come weeping and go weeping--you only
come
laughing
and go laughing.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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We float before the
Presence
Infinite,
We cluster round the Throne in our delight,
Revolving and rejoicing in God's sight.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Li Po |
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_Deep waters
noiseless
are_; and this we know,
_That chiding streams betray small depth below_.
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Robert Herrick |
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`Of harmes two, the lesse is for to chese; 470
Yet have I lever maken him good chere
In honour, than myn emes lyf to lese;
Ye seyn, ye no-thing elles me
requere?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A
complete
list of the changes made
is appended at the end of the file.
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Beowulf |
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Fain would he flee, his
fastness
seek,
the den of devils: no doings now
such as oft he had done in days of old!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Nearly all the individual works in
the
collection
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Stephen Crane |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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----Ea cum
reprehendere
coner
Quæ GRAVIS ÆSOPUS, quæ DOCTUS ROSCIUS egit.
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Tacitus |
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Better will be the ecstasy
That they have done expecting me,
When, night descending, dumb and dark,
They hear my
unexpected
knock.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sometimes
humility o'ercomes disdain,
Sometimes inflames it to worse spite again;
This knew I, who so long was left in night,
That from such prayers had disappear'd my light;
Till I, who sought her still, nor found, alas!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Leaving only kisses
To be
remembered
by.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Believing
only a portion of my former volume to be
worthy a second edition-that small portion I thought it as well to
include in the present book as to republish by itself.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The other two
epithets
carry us outside the typically Roman
temperament.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Why a Nostril wide inhaling terror
trembling
& affright
Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
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blake-poems |
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We could
understand
the women
and children generally better than the men, and they us; and thus,
after a while, we would learn that they had no more beds than they
used.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm off from an
anointed
king;
The breath of worldly men cannot depose
The deputy elected by the Lord.
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Shakespeare |
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For, am I right or am I wrong,
To choose your own you did not care;
You'd have 'my' moral from the song,
And I will take my
pleasure
there:
And, am I right or am I wrong,
My fancy, ranging thro' and thro',
To search a meaning for the song,
Perforce will still revert to you;
Nor finds a closer truth than this
All-graceful head, so richly curl'd,
And evermore a costly kiss
The prelude to some brighter world.
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Tennyson |
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The hunting and
unlacing
the wild boar (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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{1}
Not in those climes where I have late been straying,
Though Beauty long hath there been
matchless
deemed,
Not in those visions to the heart displaying
Forms which it sighs but to have only dreamed,
Hath aught like thee in truth or fancy seemed:
Nor, having seen thee, shall I vainly seek
To paint those charms which varied as they beamed--
To such as see thee not my words were weak;
To those who gaze on thee, what language could they speak?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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When this ceremony was at an end, we
immediately
busied ourselves in
repairing the damages which our subject had sustained from the scalpel.
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Poe - 5 |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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sestio_ Ven:
_sextio_
Ba
21 _legi_ Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Have dogs dismember'd (on the naked plains),
Or yet unmangled rest, his cold
remains?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Thou shalt tell me now
Why thou
refusest
the life given thee.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A story born out of the dreaming eyes
And crazy brain and
credulous
ears of famine.
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Yeats |
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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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Hard by the ocean limit and the
set of sun is the extreme
Aethiopian
land, where ancient Atlas turns on
his shoulders the starred burning axletree of heaven.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Let this sad interim like the ocean be
Which parts the shore, where two
contracted
new
Come daily to the banks, that when they see
Return of love, more blest may be the view;
Or call it winter, which being full of care,
Makes summer's welcome, thrice more wished, more rare.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Can I pour thy wine
While my hands
tremble?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I wish only to refer to those youths, who loll about the perfume
shops,
babbling
at random, "What a clever fellow is Pheax!
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Aristophanes |
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CXVII
On the fourth day they met a cavalier,
Who came in fury
galloping
alone.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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For, lo,
First came
together
the earthy particles
(As being heavy and intertangled) there
In the mid-region, and all began to take
The lowest abodes; and ever the more they got
One with another intertangled, the more
They pressed from out their mass those particles
Which were to form the sea, the stars, the sun,
And moon, and ramparts of the mighty world--
For these consist of seeds more smooth and round
And of much smaller elements than earth.
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Heart that was big as the bowels of Vesuvius, Words that were wing'd as her sparks in eruption^
Eagled and
thundered
as Jupiter Pluvius, Sound in your wind past all signs o' corruption.
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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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_ For the two aspects of
love, as a selfish and
unselfish
passion, see Blake's two poems, _Love
seeketh only self to please_, and, _Love seeketh not itself to please_.
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Strength
to these twain, to right their father's wrong!
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Nelle ic beorges weard
"oferflēon fōtes trem, fēond unhȳre,
"ac unc sceal
weorðan
æt wealle, swā unc Wyrd getēoð,
"metod manna gehwæs.
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"
In the preparation of the
Riverside
Edition of the _Poems_, Mr.
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The ready victims at our bark we found,
The sable ewe and ram
together
bound.
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Laughing, one day she gave the key,
My riddle's open-sesame;
Then added, with a smile demure,
Whose
downcast
lids veiled triumph sure,
'If what I left there give you pain,
You--you--can take it off again;
'Twas for _my_ poet, not for him,
Your Doctor Donne there!
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None: for however infinite the sum,
Yet even the
smallest
would consist the same
Of infinite parts.
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With a last great effort I drove off the black clouds; but
feeling them to be the only shapes I should see without passing into
a trance, and having no great love for them, I asked for lights, and
after the needful exorcism returned to the
ordinary
world.
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The male and female many
laboring
not,
Shall ever here confront the laboring many,
With precious benefits to both, glory to all,
To thee America, and thee eternal Muse.
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