(Your
highness
knows our homely word,)
Millions for self-government,
But for tribute never a cent.
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_omnibus
una Exspersa unguentis_
h.
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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I burned
Hot and cold, in a lasting fever, well-earned
By the mortal wound of your glance's
piercing
flight.
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Ronsard |
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Si come i peregrin pensosi fanno,
giugnendo
per cammin gente non nota,
che si volgono ad essa e non restanno,
cosi di retro a noi, piu tosto mota,
venendo e trapassando ci ammirava
d'anime turba tacita e devota.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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To
Introduce
Myself.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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O cruel hands that hold me
powerless!
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Whitman |
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I never
flinched
nor fled when thou didst aim
at me in King Arthur's house.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Max
Beerbohm
wrote once
that a play cannot have style because the people must talk as they
talk in daily life.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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[136] Part of
Dauphiné
and Provence, with a capital town at
Vaison.
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Tacitus |
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1 Datong Palace was a hall in the Tang palace
compound
of Chang?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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'Oh, can't you take your answer then,
And won't you
understand?
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Christina Rossetti |
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The
bulkhead
double-doors were double-locked
And swollen tight and buried under snow.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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One thing at any rate is certain,
that Chatterton on the 14th of April 1770 left on his desk a number of
pieces of paper filled with a jumble of satiric verse, mocking prose,
and
directions
for the construction of a mediaeval tomb to cover the
remains of his father and himself.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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XXVI
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
In all her vast dimensions, all her might,
Her length and breadth, and all her depth and height
Needs no line or lead, compass or measure:
He only need draw a circle, at his leisure,
Round all that Ocean in his arms holds tight,
Be it where Sirius scorches with his light,
Or where the
northerlies
blow cold forever.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
"They called me the
hyacinth
girl.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the
cockerel
so tardily calls the day,
When night to the troubled soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly deceiving me with a specious view.
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Ronsard |
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non feret usque suum te propter flere clientem:
illius uerbis, sis mihi lenta ueto:
ne tibi neglecti mittant mala somnia manes,
maestaque sopitae stet soror ante torum,
qualis ab excelsa praeceps delapsa fenestra
uenit ad infernos
sanguinolenta
lacus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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(For a
correspondence
on the subject, see _Literature_, August 12, 19,
26, September 9, 1899.
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Byron |
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Hwæðere
hē his folme forlēt
"tō līf-wraðe lāst weardian,
"earm and eaxle; nō þǣr ǣnige swā þēah
"fēa-sceaft guma frōfre gebohte:
975 "nō þȳ leng leofað lāð-getēona
"synnum geswenced, ac hyne sār hafað
"in nȳd-gripe nearwe befongen,
"balwon bendum: þǣr ābīdan sceal
"maga māne fāh miclan dōmes,
980 "hū him scīr metod scrīfan wille.
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Beowulf |
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Said one among them--"Surely not in vain
My
substance
of the common Earth was ta'en
And to this Figure molded, to be broke,
Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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begirt with bowers
And
shouting
with a thousand rills.
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Poe - 5 |
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why fearing of Time's tyranny,
Might I not then say, 'Now I love you best,'
When I was certain o'er incertainty,
Crowning the present,
doubting
of the rest?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Italy stands the other side,
While, like a guard between,
The solemn Alps,
The siren Alps,
Forever
intervene!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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They passed the gates; they stood upon a hill
Enclosed, but in that strong
enclosure
free!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It shall a long space hold aloof
Its forehead, keeping under heavy weight
The other oppress'd,
indignant
at the load,
And grieving sore.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Is thy land peeled, thy realm
marauded?
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Emerson - Poems |
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LXXXIII
I never saw that you did
painting
need,
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed
That barren tender of a poet's debt:
And therefore have I slept in your report,
That you yourself, being extant, well might show
How far a modern quill doth come too short,
Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Rodrigue
Alive, he brought me shame;
Honour
demanded
that expense of breath.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Wilde - Poems |
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But deeper than that abyss was thy deep
love which taught [thy husband] to bear his lady's
forceful
yoke.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Our dead lay cold and stark,
But our dying, down in the dark,
Answered
as best they might--
Lifting their poor lost arms,
And cheering for God and Right!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The Marquis' mortar beams near Ducal wreath,
And on the helm and
gleaming
shield beneath
Alternate triple pearls with leaves displayed
Of parsley, and the royal robes are made
So large that with the knightly harness they
Seem to o'ermaster palfreys every way.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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They are
detained
by the management of
Ulysses, who chastises the insolence of Thersites.
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Iliad - Pope |
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LXIX
Like a tall forest were their spears,
Their banners like a silken sea,
When the great host in
splendour
passed
Across the crimson sinking sun.
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Sappho |
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I turned my head back to
Fengxiang
County,1 late in the day its banners appeared and faded from view.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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O
passionate
and pure!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Orem ridiculam, Cato, et iocosam
Dignamque
auribus et tuo cachinno.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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HERALD OF AEGYPTUS
Say thou wherein my deeds
transgress
my right.
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Aeschylus |
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Still as gloom
followed
after glare,
While bated breath the pine-trees drew,
Tiny Salmoneus of the air,
His mimic bolts the firefly threw.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Dost thou desire my
slumbers
should be broken,
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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160
'T was this, the morning omens seem'd to tell,
Thrice from my
trembling
hand the patch-box fell;
The tott'ring China shook without a wind.
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Alexander Pope |
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According
to the
confinement or extent of intercourse, barbarity or civilization
proportionately prevail.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Ride you this
afternoone?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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' The full line is: [Greek:
h_e gl_ott' om_omok', h_e de phr_en an_omotos,] "my tongue has taken an
oath, but my mind is unsworn," a bit of
casuistry
which the critics were
never tired of bringing up against the author.
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Aristophanes |
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His
dwindled
body half awry,
Rests upon ancles swoln and thick;
His legs are thin and dry.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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22, 23, 1847]
_This poem was written to commemorate the bringing home of the
bodies of the Kentucky soldiers who fell at Buena Vista, and their
burial at
Frankfort
at the cost of the State.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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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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or if those women you note
Reflect your
fabulous
senses' desire!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The taint of which I speak is clearly perceptible even in a poem so full
of
brilliancy
and spirit as "The Health" of Edward Coate Pinckney:--
I fill this cup to one made up
Of loveliness alone,
A woman, of her gentle sex
The seeming paragon;
To whom the better elements
And kindly stars have given
A form so fair that, like the air,
'Tis less of earth than heaven.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And
yesterday
I met him
near the gates of the temple; and while we were talking together
he said, "I have always known you would become a great musician.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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_Crowdie time_,
breakfast
time.
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Robert Burns |
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You stars and suns, Canopus, Deneb, Rigel,
Let me, as I lie down, here in this dust,
Hear, far off, your
whispered
salutation!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
III
Whilst
homeward
by the nearest route
Our heroes at full gallop sped,
Can we not stealthily make out
What they in conversation said?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Forbear, ye sons of
insolence!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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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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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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aut qui
odit amatrices
Hermaphroditus
aquas?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Contact the
Foundation
as set forth in Section 3 below.
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Yeats |
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s face, 80 and the
innocent
girls combed their own hair.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Ever the words of the gods resound;
But the porches of man's ear
Seldom in this low life's round
Are
unsealed
that he may hear.
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Emerson - Poems |
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' I discovered
that the symbol hardly ever failed to call up its typical scene, its
typical event, its typical person, but that I could
practically
never
call up, no matter how vividly I imagined it, the particular scene, the
particular event, the particular person I had in my own mind, and that
when I could, the two visions rose side by side.
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Yeats |
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ofer fealone flōd
(_over the sea_), 1951; fealwe strǣte (with
reference
to 320, 917; acc.
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Beowulf |
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He turned
his ugly trunk about--that ugly body that bled,--and holding the head
in his hand, he
directed
the face toward the "dearest on the dais.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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By brooks too broad for leaping
The
lightfoot
boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Ordinary people wait till life
discloses
to them its secrets, but to the
few, to the elect, the mysteries of life are revealed before the veil is
drawn away.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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This day wilt thou either bring back in triumph the gory head and spoils
of Aeneas, and we will avenge Lausus' agonies; or if no force opens a
way, thou wilt die with me: for I deem not, bravest, thou wilt deign to
bear an alien rule and a
Teucrian
lord.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Two of those nymphs meanwhile two garlands bound
Of freshest flowers which in that mead they found,
The which presenting all in trim array,
Their snowy
foreheads
therewithal they crown'd
Whilst one did sing this lay
Prepar'd against that day,
Against their bridal day, which was not long:
Sweet Thames!
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Golden Treasury |
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' 3450
Thus hath he
graunted
my prayere.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Time was when, with the crowd's
farewell
'Hurrah!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Yet let me not be too hasty,
Long indeed have we lived, slept, filter'd, become really blended
into one;
Then if we die we die together, (yes, we'll remain one,)
If we go anywhere we'll go together to meet what happens,
May-be we'll be better off and blither, and learn something,
May-be it is yourself now really
ushering
me to the true songs, (who
knows?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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[HORACE _lets his ear be touched,
according
to legal form.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The whole passage was
withdrawn
in
1827.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And Love, which lent a blazon to their shields,
With emblems well devised by amorous pride,
Through all the mail of iron hearts would glide;
But still their flame was fierceness, and drew on
Keen contest and destruction near allied,
And many a tower for some fair mischief won,
Saw the
discoloured
Rhine beneath its ruin run.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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With English streamers should salute their
sight :
In
thickest
darkness they would choose to steer.
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Marvell - Poems |
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How fairy-like a melody there floats
From their throats--
From their merry little throats--
From the silver,
tinkling
throats
Of the bells, bells, bells--
Of the bells!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Not vainly yet the
forceful
lance was thrown;
It stretch'd in dust unhappy Lycophron:
An exile long, sustain'd at Ajax' board,
A faithful servant to a foreign lord;
In peace, and war, for ever at his side,
Near his loved master, as he lived, he died.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Men die in the field,
slashing
sword to sword;
The horses of the conquered neigh piteously to Heaven.
| Guess: |
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Li Po |
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Are those her sails that glance in the Sun,
Like
restless
gossameres?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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For you, Thessalian Tempe's seat
Shall now be scorned as obsolete ;
Aranjuez, as less,
disdained
;
The Bel-Retiro, as constrained ;
But name not the Idalian grove.
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He little suspected that all the most striking
passages in this chronicle were copied from a poem of the twelfth
century,--a poem of which the language and
versification
had long
been obsolete, but which glowed with no common portion of the
fire of the Iliad.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The story is that Don Quixote once fell in with a scholar
who had written a play about a
persecuted
queen of Bohemia.
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Alexander Pope |
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This too
unmasked
the charms Alcina wore,
And made all false, from head to food, appear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I
percaved
it, ye see, all at once, and no mistake, and that's God's
truth.
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Poe - 5 |
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Out of the window
perilously
spread
Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But that she goes to this old thorn,
The thorn which I've
described
to you,
And there sits in a scarlet cloak,
I will be sworn is true.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The great Li Po is no
exception
to this rule.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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but others move
In
intricate
ways biquadrate.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Take my leaves America, take them South and take them North,
Make welcome for them everywhere, for they are your own off-spring,
Surround
them East and West, for they would surround you,
And you precedents, connect lovingly with them, for they connect
lovingly with you.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Oh, what is abroad in the marsh and the
terminal
sea?
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Sidney Lanier |
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And how, upon a market-night,
When not a star bestowed its light,
A farmer's shepherd, oer his glass,
Forgot that he had woods to pass:
And having sold his master's sheep,
Was overta'en by
darkness
deep.
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John Clare |
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