Those who
practice
poetry search for and love only the perfection that is God Himself.
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THE FUTURE
After ten thousand
centuries
have gone,
Man will ascend the last long pass to know
That all the summits which he saw at dawn
Are buried deep in everlasting snow.
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He
selected
his card--an ace.
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And besides, to the
Crumpetty
Tree
Came the Stork, the Duck, and the Owl;
The Snail and the Bumble-Bee,
The Frog and the Fimble Fowl
(The Fimble Fowl, with a Corkscrew leg);
And all of them said, "We humbly beg
We may build our homes on your lovely Hat,--
Mr.
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The Cat
The Large Cat
'The Large Cat'
Cornelis
Visscher
(II), 1657, The Rijksmuseun
I wish there to be in my house:
A woman possessing reason,
A cat among books passing by,
Friends for every season
Lacking whom I'm barely alive.
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Appoloinaire |
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How much better is it to be silent, or at least to speak
sparingly!
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The poet must always
prefer the
community
where the perfected minds express the people, to a
community that is vainly seeking to copy the perfected minds.
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Too pressed to wait, upon her slate
Fame writes a name or two in doubt;
Scarce written, these no longer please,
And her own finger rubs them out:
It may ensue, fair girl, that you
Years hence this
yellowing
leaf may see,
And put to task, your memory ask
In vain, 'This Lowell, who was he?
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' John Earle makes a similar reference in his
_Character_ of _An Idle
Gallant_
(ed.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Hast thou not the proud report
Heard, how Orestes hath renown acquired
With all mankind, his father's murtherer
AEgisthus slaying, the deceiver base
Who slaughter'd
Agamemnon?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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This both
Penelope
and I afford:
Then, prince!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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You should behold it
crushing
down the brine
Like a blind Jove who feels his way with thunder.
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That ought to be sufficient for those American Intellectuals who are
bemoaning
the deca dence of poetry.
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Imagists |
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Faith here's an Equiuocator, that could sweare in both
the Scales against eyther Scale, who
committed
Treason
enough for Gods sake, yet could not equiuocate to Heauen:
oh come in, Equiuocator.
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how appears he in your eyes
This stranger, graceful as he is in port,
In stature noble, and in mind
discrete?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Oh, dear on earth when all did love her,
Oh, dearer lost beyond recover:
Of women all the bravest-hearted
Hath pressed thy lips and
breathed
thy breath.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I observed that very few of the more mystical
Quatrains
are in
the Bodleian MS.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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If the question were put to me I should
probably
evade it by
pointing out that Mr.
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inges
c{er}teins
{and} difinissed al ?
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I haue put it in
scripture
{and} remembraunce.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Though Phoebus thrice in brazen mail
Should case her towers, they thrice should fall,
Storm'd by my Greeks: thrice wives should wail
Husband and son,
themselves
in thrall.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But
the
Landlord
can afford to live without privacy.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering
the whirlpool.
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Of love, romance, devotion is his lay,
As whilome he was wont the leagues to cheer,
His quick bells wildly
jingling
on the way?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and brooding
stillnesses
which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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In the "Appendix" to the
_Two
Foscari_
(first ed.
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Byron |
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Fair shines the sun, the day is bright and clear,
Light bums again from all their
polished
gear.
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Chanson de Roland |
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For "IS" and "IS-NOT" though with Rule and Line,
And, "UP-AND-DOWN" without, I could define,
I yet in all I only cared to know,
Was never deep in
anything
but--Wine.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The seruice, and the
loyaltie
I owe,
In doing it, payes it selfe.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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the voice
Of those that crowd the giant wicker thrills
The
monumental
hillocks, and the pomp
Is for both worlds, the living and the dead.
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William Wordsworth |
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A train went through a burial gate,
A bird broke forth and sang,
And trilled, and quivered, and shook his throat
Till all the
churchyard
rang;
And then adjusted his little notes,
And bowed and sang again.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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the new law must be
conformed
to all round.
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Aristophanes |
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He said, and with
unerring
aim, all threw
Their glitt'ring spears.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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--Nor is the moving of
laughter
always the
end of comedy; that is rather a fowling for the people's delight, or
their fooling.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And
trewelich
it sit wel to be so;
For alderwysest han ther-with ben plesed;
And they that han ben aldermost in wo,
With love han ben conforted most and esed;
And ofte it hath the cruel herte apesed, 250
And worthy folk maad worthier of name,
And causeth most to dreden vyce and shame.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The
following
evening he went again.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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WAGNER:
Berufe nicht die wohlbekannte Schar,
Die stromend sich im Dunstkreis uberbreitet,
Dem Menschen
tausendfaltige
Gefahr,
Von allen Enden her, bereitet.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Her port is all divine; her radiant smile,
And e'en her scorn, the captive heart beguile;
Her accents breathe of heaven; her auburn hair
(Whether it wanton with the sportive air,
Or bound in shining wreaths adorns her face,)
Secures her conquests with resistless grace;
Her eyes, that sparkle with
celestial
fire,
Have render'd me the slave of fond desire.
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Petrarch |
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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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CONTENTS
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
Page
Introduction 1
The Shepherd 3
The Echoing Green 4
The Lamb 6
The Little Black Boy 7
The Blossom 9
The Chimney-Sweeper 10
The Little Boy Lost 12
The Little Boy Pound 13
Laughing Song 14
A Cradle Song 15
The Divine Image 17
Holy Thursday 19
Night 20
Spring 23
Nurse's Song 25
Infant Joy 26
A Dream 27
On Another's Sorrow 29
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
Introduction 33
Earth's Answer 35
The Clod and the Pebble 37
Holy Thursday 38
The Little Girl Lost 39
The Little Girl Found 42
The Chimney-Sweeper 45
Nurse's Song 46
The Sick Rose 47
The Fly 48
The Angel 50
The Tiger 51
My Pretty Rose-Tree 53
Ah, Sunflower 54
The Lily 55
The Garden of Love 56
The Little Vagabond 57
London 58
The Human Abstract 59
Infant Sorrow 61
A Poison Tree 62
A Little Boy Lost 63
A Little Girl Lost 65
A Divine Image 67
A Cradle Song 68
The Schoolboy 69
To Tirzah 71
The Voice of the Ancient Bard 72
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
INTRODUCTION
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of
pleasant
glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
'Pipe a song about a Lamb!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The meadows in the sun are twice as green
For all the scatter of fresh red mounded earth,
The mischief of the moles:
No dullish red,
Glostershire
earth new-delved
In April!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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--for never sorrow
Shall dawn upon him
desolate!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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In the meadow ground the frogs
With their
deafening
flutes begin,--
The old madness of the world 15
In their golden throats again.
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Sappho |
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It was enough for my hand to touch it lightly, 750
To render it distasteful to that inhuman man:
And for that
wretched
blade to soil his hands.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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His ruddy face
shone with genial humor; his eyes
sparkled
and a constant smile hovered
around his lips.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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She
returned
Baudelaire's love.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Aye, she would not give
My soul to a sad old age,
mourning
for thee.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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Appoloinaire |
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Meantime, unwearied with his heavenly way,
In ocean's waves the
unwilling
light of day
Quench'd his red orb, at Juno's high command,
And from their labours eased the Achaian band.
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Iliad - Pope |
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No sooner have
you
obtained
them, than you cease to be secure.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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hir derke hornes
approche?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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) to Catullus' ear
Were she not manner'd mean and worst in wit
Perforce
thou hadst praised nor couldst silence keep.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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You remember,--or
If not, your son does,--that the locks were changed
Beneath _his_ chief inspection on the morn
Which led to this same night: how he had entered
He best knows--but within an antechamber, 330
The door of which was half ajar, I saw
A man who washed his bloody hands, and oft
With stern and anxious glance gazed back upon--
The
bleeding
body--but it moved no more.
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Byron |
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Gifts, as of old,
We will
hereafter
at your shrines present,
If Jove-born Pallas, huntress of the spoils,
Grant life to me, and manhood to my son.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Hesitated so
This side the
victory!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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International
donations
are accepted, but we don't know ANYTHING about
how to make them tax-deductible, or even if they CAN be made
deductible, and don't have the staff to handle it even if there are
ways.
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Aristophanes |
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You Thibet trader on the wide inland or
bargaining
in the shops of Lassa!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
"I'll try him," answered Gareth with a smile that
maddened
Lynette.
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Tennyson |
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She was
purely an Indian deity--an Anglo-Indian deity, that is to say--and
we called her THE Venus Annodomini, to
distinguish
her from other
Annodominis of the same everlasting order.
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Kipling - Poems |
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But those which are the primal germs of things
Have power to work more
combinations
still,
Whence divers things can be produced in turn.
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Lucretius |
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The Horse
Pegasus
'Pegasus'
Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509 - 1516, The Rijksmuseun
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy,
My verses, the
patterns
of all poetry.
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Appoloinaire |
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The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show
Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;
Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know
Time's thievish
progress
to eternity.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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OSWALD (as if to himself, yet
speaking
aloud)
The truth is hideous, but how stifle it?
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net/
The Epic of Gilgamish
by
Stephen Langdon
University
of Pennsylvania
The University Museum
Publications of the Babylonian Section
Vol.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"I will not live Sir Roland's bride,
That dower I will not hold;
I tread below my feet that go,
These
parchments
bought and sold:
The tears I weep are mine to keep,
And worthier than thy gold.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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-- Thou lithe young Western Night,
Just-crowned king, slow riding to thy right,
Would God that I might straddle mutiny
Calm as thou sitt'st yon never-managed sea,
Balk'st with his balking, fliest with his flight,
Giv'st supple to his
rearings
and his falls,
Nor dropp'st one coronal star about thy brow
Whilst ever dayward thou art steadfast drawn!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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What as a gurgling softly simmered through
The soil, within the dead
deserted
brake,
--And no more than a drop of fragrant dew
That fell from flowerlet unto deepest lake:
Becomes the clinging mist that cleaves the heights,
And which in darkest midnights as a beam
The heart of the chasm suddenly be-smites
To spring and ramble like a ruddy stream.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Habitavi
cum
habitantibus Cedar; multum incola fuit aninia mea.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that
engenders
wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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My sire, the hero with the smile so soft,
And a tall trooper, his companion oft,
Whom he loved greatly for his courage high
And
strength
and stature, as the night drew nigh
Rode out together.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Aid for them each woman prayed for them,
Treading
back slowly the track of their march.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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the storm of wings
Bears far the fiery fear,
Till scarce the breeze now brings
Dim
murmurings
to the ear;
Like locusts' humming hail,
Or thrash of tiny flail
Plied by the fitful gale
On some old roof-tree sere.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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here is the wisdom
Alembicked out of dust, or out of nothing;
Choose now the weightiest word, most golden page,
Most
somberly
musicked line; hold up these lanterns,--
These paltry lanterns, wisdoms, philosophies,--
Above your eyes, against this wall of darkness;
And you'll see--what?
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Shall Trade aye salve his conscience-aches
With jibes at Chivalry's old
mistakes
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The wars that o'erhot knighthood makes
For Christ's and ladies' sakes,
Fair Lady?
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LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
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Sappho |
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200
Anon, appears a brave, a gorgeous show
Of horsemen-shadows moving to and fro; [60]
At intervals
imperial
banners stream, [61]
And now the van reflects the solar beam; [62]
The rear through iron brown betrays a sullen gleam.
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Silly rich peasants stamp the carpets of men,
Dead men who dreamed fragrance and light
Into their woof, their lives;
The rug of an honest bear
Under the feet of a cryptic slave
Who speaks always of baubles,
Forgetting state, multitude, work, and state,
Champing
and mouthing of hats,
Making ratful squeak of hats,
Hats.
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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Enfin la verite froide se revela:
J'etais mort sans surprise, et la
terrible
aurore
M'enveloppait.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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La spera ottava vi
dimostra
molti
lumi, li quali e nel quale e nel quanto
notar si posson di diversi volti.
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This rendered him dearer to woman's
heart than all the lyric effusions of his fancy; and when we add to
such allurements, a warm, flowing, and persuasive eloquence, we need
not wonder that woman
listened
and was won; that one of the most
charming damsels of the West said, an hour with him in the dark was
worth a lifetime of light with any other body; or that the
accomplished and beautiful Duchess of Gordon declared, in a latter
day, that no man ever carried her so completely off her feet as Robert
Burns.
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As I have been all along a miserable dupe to love, and have
been led into a thousand weaknesses and follies by it, for that reason
I put the more
confidence
in my critical skill, in distinguishing
foppery and conceit from real passion and nature.
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,
_prerogatives
based upon land-possessions, right to
possess land_, hence _real estate_ itself: gen.
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" men shall ask,
When the world is old, and time
Has
accomplished
without haste
The strange destiny of men.
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Sappho |
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Death takes us by surprise,
And stays our hurrying feet;
The great design
unfinished
lies,
Our lives are incomplete.
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Longfellow |
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His last dread
pleasure!
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Bold and accursed are they who all this while
Have strove to isle this monarch from this isle,
And to improve
themselves
by false pretence.
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, nullo spatio relicto
1
_metula_
O: _M.
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