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Perhaps the most perilous and the most
alluring
venture in the whole field
of poetry is that which Mr.
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a daughter of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand
rejoiced
to grant me life again.
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womb," are marked to be inserted; the entire group of lines is also crossed with a diagonal line which may
indicate
1) a later intention to delete them; or 2) that the stanza is meant to replace the stanza beginning "I die not Enitharmon.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"
The God on half-shut
feathers
sank serene,
She breath'd upon his eyes, and swift was seen
Of both the guarded nymph near-smiling on the green.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The scarlet oak asks a clear sky and the
brightness
of late October
days.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I was
splintered
and torn:
the hill-path mounted
swifter than my feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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XXIX
"More famed for
courtesy
than warlike deed,
Azo the second, he who next repairs!
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Both, at
all events, are amongst the most general, though
far from universal
accompaniments
of genius.
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What matter of new wailing do your tongues
Wear in this
shivering
misery of sound?
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Imagists |
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Experts even denied that the two
priapeia
(I
& XXIV) were by Goethe at all, although they are in the same hand as the
rest.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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To such a man since harbour you afford,
Relate the farther fortunes of your lord;
What cares his mother's tender breast engage,
And sire
forsaken
on the verge of age;
Beneath the sun prolong they yet their breath,
Or range the house of darkness and of death?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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_Bantry Bay_
On the eighteenth of October we lay in Bantry Bay,
All ready to set sail, with a fresh and steady gale:
A fortnight and nine days we in the harbour lay,
And no breeze ever reached us or
strained
a single sail.
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John Clare |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
preterite
of _ederu_,
to be in misery, has not been found.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Out on the
pastures
where his horses stray.
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Euripides - Electra |
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No, the people sought no wings
From Perseus in the Loggia, nor implored
An inspiration in the place beside
From that dim bust of Brutus, jagged and grand,
Where Buonarroti passionately tried
From out the close-clenched marble to demand
The head of Rome's sublimest homicide,
Then dropt the quivering mallet from his hand,
Despairing he could find no model-stuff
Of Brutus in all Florence where he found
The gods and
gladiators
thick enough.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Denying that which mine own spirit guesses
--Our great and ancient fame is also known--
Can I tear off the scarf which veils my tresses,
And with an early
widowhood
atone?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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She, like a three year colt unbroke,
Is
frisking
o'er the spacious plain,
Too shy to bear a lover's yoke,
A husband's rein.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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illa mihi sancta est, illius dona sepulcro
et madefacta meis serta feram lacrimis,
illius ad tumulum fugiam
supplexque
sedebo
et mea cum muto fata querar cinere.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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You I command to
Sarraguce
to fare.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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The while ye might, in
peaceful
cheer,
Mirror upon your waters clear,
Semlin!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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-- Atheling brave,
he was fated to finish this
fleeting
life, {31a}
his days on earth, and the dragon with him,
though long it had watched o'er the wealth of the hoard!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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It
exists because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations
from people in all walks of life.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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--my
thoughts
do twine and bud
About thee, as wild vines, about a tree,
Put out broad leaves, and soon there's nought to see
Except the straggling green which hides the wood.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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No, ever to behold your face,
To follow you in every place,
Your smiling lips, your beaming eyes,
To watch with lovers' ecstasies,
Long listen, comprehend the whole
Of your perfections in my soul,
Before you agonized to die--
This, this were true
felicity!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And ofte tyme, I finde that they mette
With blody strokes and with wordes grete,
Assayinge
how hir speres weren whette; 1760
And god it woot, with many a cruel hete
Gan Troilus upon his helm to bete.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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What art thou writing,
With such an earnest brow, upon thy
tablets?
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Byron |
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That sight was rumoured
wonderful
and terrible.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Fast by the springs where she to bathe was wont,
And in those meads where
sometime
she might haunt,
Were strewn rich gifts, unknown to any Muse,
Though Fancy's casket were unlock'd to choose.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast brilliant light
Beneath hideous
centuries
that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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This I forgot last night:
you must not be blamed,
it is not your fault;
as a child, a flower--any flower
tore my breast--
meadow-chicory, a common grass-tip,
a leaf shadow, a flower tint
unexpected
on a winter-branch.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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One night in his cell at the foot of yon dell
The priest heard a
frequent
cry:
"Go, father, in haste to the cot on the waste,
And shrive a man waiting to die.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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They no longer heeded me;
But laughed to hear Hell's burning rafters
Unwillingly
re-echo laughters!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Camden transcribes his epitaph:
An ill yeare of a Goodyere us bereft,
Who gon to God much lacke of him here left;
Full of good gifts, of body and of minde,
Wise, comely, learned,
eloquent
and kinde.
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John Donne |
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Thus, we do not
necessarily keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper
edition.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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s
abilities
and how crucial the post is?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The world and its affairs
Could not absorb me so,
That when men spoke of her
My heart it would not glow,
My face not
brighten
there.
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Troubador Verse |
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But battle-death seized
and cruel killing my
clansmen
all,
robbed them of life and a liegeman's joys.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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SAMSON: Father, I do
acknowledge
and confess
That I this honour, I this pomp, have brought
To Dagon, and advanced his praises high
Among the heathen round.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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SAMSON: Father, I do
acknowledge
and confess
That I this honour, I this pomp, have brought
To Dagon, and advanced his praises high
Among the heathen round.
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420
Me silly maid away with him he bare,
And ever since hath kept in
darksome
cave,
For that I would not yeeld, that to Sans foy I gave.
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There, with no dull delay nor
heedless
sleep,
The watcher sped the tidings on in turn,
Until the guard upon Messapius' peak
Saw the far flame gleam on Euripus' tide,
And from the high-piled heap of withered furze
Lit the new sign and bade the message on.
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Aeschylus |
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If ever you have
eaten some young pig,
sacrificed
by us on your altars, with pleasure, may
this offering not be without value in your sight to-day.
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Aristophanes |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Subject to the King of Aragon from 1172, it was taken by Raymond VI of
Toulouse
in 1222, and James I of Aragon finally ceded his rights to the town in 1258 to France.
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Troubador Verse |
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Men die in the field,
slashing
sword to sword;
The horses of the conquered neigh piteously to Heaven.
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Li Po |
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As with one half blind
Whom common simples cure, her act flashed home
In that mute moment to my opened mind
The power, the pride, the reach of
perished
Rome.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"There, while they stood in a green wood
And
marvelled
still on Ill and Good,
Came suddenly Minister Mind.
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Sidney Lanier |
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A crystal fountain in that very grove
Gush'd from a rock, whose waters fresh and clear
Shed coolness round and softly murmur'd love;
Never that leafy screen and mossy seat
Drew
browsing
flock or whistling rustic near
But nymphs and muses danced to music sweet.
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Petrarch |
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And on the wall, by the seat,
Break the
entangled
ivy,
Scatter buds for a carpet,
Let all be balmy and sweet.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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LXVIII
And in the nights of winter,
When the cold north winds blow,
And the long howling of the wolves
Is heard amidst the snow;
When round the lonely cottage
Roars loud the tempest's din,
And the good logs of Algidus
Roar louder yet within;
LXIX
When the oldest cask is opened,
And the largest lamp is lit;
When the chestnuts glow in the embers,
And the kid turns on the spit;
When young and old in circle
Around the firebrands close;
When the girls are weaving baskets,
And the lads are shaping bows;
LXX
When the goodman mends his armor,
And trims his helmet's plume;
When the goodwife's shuttle merrily
Goes flashing through the loom;
With weeping and with laughter
Still is the story told,
How well
Horatius
kept the bridge
In the brave days of old.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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: _contra me ut_ Heyse
26 _dei_ GO: _dii_ RVen || _mi_] _mi(c)hi_ GO, prius R || _pro
pietate_
Ven: _proprietate_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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CX
Now marvellous and weighty the combat,
Right well they strike, Olivier and Rollant,
A
thousand
blows come from the Archbishop's hand,
The dozen peers are nothing short of that,
With one accord join battle all the Franks.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
V
Now the great wheel of darkness and low clouds
Whirs and whirls in the heavens with dipping rim;
Against the ice-white wall of light in the west
Skeleton
trees bow down in a stream of air.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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What tho', like
commoners
of air,
We wander out, we know not where,
But either house or hal',
Yet nature's charms, the hills and woods,
The sweeping vales, and foaming floods,
Are free alike to all.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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difficile
est longum subito deponere amorem.
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Latin - Catullus |
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LI
Is the day long,
O Lesbian maiden,
And the night endless
In thy lone chamber
In
Mitylene?
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Sappho |
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The warlike
clarions
ceast.
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Blake - Zoas |
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grievance sore, and listless dull delay,
To waste on sluggish hulks the
sweetest
breeze!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Basmanov
in the council of the tsar
Now sits.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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o misero frater adempte mihi, 20
tu mea tu moriens fregisti commoda, frater,
tecum una tota est nostra sepulta domus,
omnia tecum una
perierunt
gaudia nostra,
quae tuus in uita dulcis alebat amor.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Say,
Have I in Argos any still to trust;
Or is the love, once borne me, trod in dust,
Even as my
fortunes
are?
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Euripides - Electra |
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I have
also frequently told them that men in the Christian world are in such gross
ignorance respecting Angels and Spirits as to suppose them to be minds
without a form, or mere thoughts, of which they have no other idea than as
something
ethereal
possessing a vital principle.
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Whitman |
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"
Miss Marjorie
Pickthall
and the London _Times_:--"Canada to England.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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In the
beginning
was the Word.
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T.S. Eliot |
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He has learned much, can
understand
their pangs.
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Chanson de Roland |
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e
fayntyse
of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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We never know we go, -- when we are going
We jest and shut the door;
Fate
following
behind us bolts it,
And we accost no more.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Having entered upon a course of disclamation, I should like to make a
mild protest against a further charge that Georgian Poetry has merely
encouraged a small clique of mutually
indistinguishable
poetasters to
abound in their own and each other's sense or nonsense.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Then
breathed
He softly on the dead:
"Live Self!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Quest' inno si
gorgoglian
ne la strozza,
che dir nol posson con parola integra>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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As Youth and Love with sprightly dance,
Beneath thy morning star advance,
Pleasure with her siren air
May delude the
thoughtless
pair;
Let Prudence bless Enjoyment's cup,
Then raptur'd sip, and sip it up.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
So wrote they,
mourning
him.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your
thoughts
for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Hast thou
forgotten
that noble deed, by which
thou didst gain a regal wedlock, than which none dared other deeds bolder?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And yet, because thou
overcomest
so,
Because thou art more noble and like a king,
Thou canst prevail against my fears and fling
Thy purple round me, till my heart shall grow
Too close against thine heart henceforth to know
How it shook when alone.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And why should I of common ills complain,
Shot by a random shaft, a
thoughtless
swain?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Live and work,
strongly
because patiently!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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And for a woman wert thou first created,
Till nature as she wrought thee fell a-doting,
And by
addition
me of thee defeated,
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
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Shakespeare |
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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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Music
resembles
Poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master-hand alone can reach.
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Alexander Pope |
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Whose charmed Cup
Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape,
And downward fell into a groveling Swine)
This Nymph that gaz'd upon his clustring locks,
With Ivy berries wreath'd, and his blithe youth,
Had by him, ere he parted thence, a Son
Much like his Father, but his Mother more,
Whom therfore she brought up and Comus named,
Who ripe, and frolick of his full grown age,
Roving the Celtic, and Iberian fields, 60
At last betakes him to this ominous Wood,
And in thick shelter of black shades imbowr'd,
Excells his Mother at her mighty Art,
Offring to every weary Travailer,
His orient liquor in a Crystal Glasse,
To quench the drouth of Phoebus, which as they taste
(For most do taste through fond intemperate thirst )
Soon as the Potion works, their human count'nance,
Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd
Into som brutish form of Woolf, or Bear, 70
Or Ounce, or Tiger, Hog, or bearded Goat,
All other parts remaining as they were,
And they, so perfect is their misery,
Not once perceive their foul disfigurement,
But boast themselves more comely then before
And all their friends, and native home forget
To roule with
pleasure
in a sensual stie.
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Milton |
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From the whole tenor of his life, and from that spirit which glows
throughout the Lusiad, it
evidently
appears that the courage and manners
of Camoens flowed from true greatness and dignity of soul.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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when I see you, child, and when I hear
You sing, or try, with low voice
whispering
near,
And touch of fingers soft, my grief to cheer,
I dream this darkness, where the tempests groan,
Trembles, and passes with half-uttered moan.
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Hugo - Poems |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the
requirements
of paragraphs 1.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Why was
Hippolytus
here with you as well?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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and being unfolded
according
to time and other
circumstances, may be called Fate.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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(This poem was conceived and chiefly written in a wood that skirts the
Arno, near Florence, and on a day when that
tempestuous
wind, whose
temperature is at once mild and animating, was collecting the vapours
which pour down the autumnal rains.
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Shelley |
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So richly was this fertile race imbued
With virtuous nephews, its posterity
Surpassed the past, in brave authority,
Measured deep earth and heaven's altitude:
So that, holding all power in its hand,
No end to empire would Rome understand:
And though
Republics
Time might consume,
Time could not so diminish Roman pride,
That some head raised from the ancient tomb,
To speak her name, might be deemed to have lied.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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