We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger
resembling
you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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sez he, "I guess
There's human blood," sez he,
"By fits an' starts, in Yankee hearts,
Though 't may
surprise
J.
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The Franks dismount, and dress themselves for war,
Put
hauberks
on, helmets and golden swords;
Fine shields they have, and spears of length and force
Scarlat and blue and white their ensigns float.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Since one foot of thy compasse still was plac'd
In heav'n, the other might securely'have pac'd
In the most large extent, through every path,
Which the whole world, or man the
abridgment
hath.
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John Donne |
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Many a flower hath perfume for its dower,
And many a bird a song,
And harmless lambs milkwhite beside their dams
Frolic along,--
Perfume and song and whiteness
offering
praise
In humble, peaceful ways.
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Christina Rossetti |
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They enter the cottage together,
but without
shutting
the door.
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I was seated, deep in
melancholy reflections, when
Saveliitch
suddenly came and interrupted
me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I pray thee then deny me not thy aide
For this same small neglect that I have made:
But haste thee strait to do me once a Pleasure,
And from thy
wardrope
bring thy chiefest treasure;
Not those new fangled toys, and triming slight
Which takes our late fantasticks with delight, 20
But cull those richest Robes, and gay'st attire
Which deepest Spirits, and choicest Wits desire:
I have some naked thoughts that rove about
And loudly knock to have their passage out;
And wearie of their place do only stay
Till thou hast deck't them in thy best aray;
That so they may without suspect or fears
Fly swiftly to this fair Assembly's ears;
Yet I had rather if I were to chuse,
Thy service in some graver subject use, 30
Such as may make thee search thy coffers round
Before thou cloath my fancy in fit sound:
Such where the deep transported mind may scare
Above the wheeling poles, and at Heav'ns dore
Look in, and see each blissful Deitie
How he before the thunderous throne doth lie,
Listening to what unshorn Apollo sings
To th'touch of golden wires, while Hebe brings
Immortal Nectar to her Kingly Sire:
Then passing through the Spherse of watchful fire, 40
And mistie Regions of wide air next under,
And hills of Snow and lofts of piled Thunder,
May tell at length how green-ey'd Neptune raves,
In Heav'ns defiance mustering all his waves;
Then sing of secret things that came to pass
When Beldam Nature in her cradle was;
And last of Kings and Queens and Hero's old,
Such as the wise Demodocus once told
In solemn Songs at King Alcinous feast,
While sad Ulisses soul and all the rest 50
Are held with his melodious harmonie
In willing chains and sweet captivitie.
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XERXES (_holding up a torn robe and a quiver_)
See you this
tattered
rag of pride?
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Com'st thou alone,
Eumaeus?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The birds' sweet wail, their
renovated
song,
At break of morn, make all the vales resound;
With lapse of crystal waters pouring round,
In clear, swift runnels, the fresh shores among.
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' I had met
The fierce
encounter
of the voluble rock.
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The clock is on the stroke of one;
But neither Doctor nor his guide
Appear along the
moonlight
road,
There's neither horse nor man abroad,
And Betty's still at Susan's side.
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The suns go on without end:
The
universe
holds no friend:
And so I come back to you.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Are you not of some
coterie?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Yes, Time has reappeared; Time reigns a monarch now; and with the
hideous Ancient has returned all his demoniacal
following
of Memories,
Regrets, Tremors, Fears, Dolours, Nightmares, and twittering nerves.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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XLIV
And all the way, with great
lamenting
paine,
And piteous plaints she filleth his dull eares,
That stony hart could riven have in twaine, 390
And all the way she wets with flowing teares:
But he enrag'd with rancor, nothing heares.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
VIII
"Farewell to barn and stack and tree,
Farewell
to Severn shore.
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Questo modo di retro par ch'incida
pur lo vinco d'amor che fa natura;
onde nel cerchio secondo s'annida
ipocresia,
lusinghe
e chi affattura,
falsita, ladroneccio e simonia,
ruffian, baratti e simile lordura.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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(_the truth has become known_, it has shown itself to be
true), 701; Higelāce wæs sīð
Bēowulfes
snūde gecȳðed, _the arrival of B.
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Beowulf |
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For life is weary, now my lord is slain,
The
gracious
among kings!
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Aeschylus |
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"
"And," said the old Storks, "if you find a frog, divide it
carefully
into
seven bits, but on no account quarrel about it.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Their
writings
need sunshine.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went
shuffling
through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his numbered tomb.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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"What came of thy quest, my kinsman Beowulf,
when thy yearnings
suddenly
swept thee yonder
battle to seek o'er the briny sea,
combat in Heorot?
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Behold your Promachus
deprived
of breath,
A victim owed to my brave brother's death.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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O all ye
blissful
powers that reign above!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Constant
suspicion
Is the most common fruit of a second union.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Milton's
_Paradise
Lost_, ii, 1051.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Saint Gabriel once more to him comes down,
And
questions
him "Great King, what doest thou?
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Chanson de Roland |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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TO-DAY we will not cross the garden railing,
For sometimes swiftly, yet in ways unclear,
This soft caressing or this sweet exhaling,
With long-forgotten joy again draws near:
And thus it brings us ghosts which goad and harass,
And anguish
rendering
weary and afraid.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Seeing her then who won't have me,
She who
destroys
me and confounds,
I doubt them all and can't believe,
Knowing them other than they're found.
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Troubador Verse |
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was
transparent
as a needle
Was it cooing about something else?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Be gracious,
Accessible
to foreigners, accept
Their service trustfully.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In recent years there has arisen a great body of
literature
upon the
subject of Sappho, most of it the abstruse work of scholars writing for
scholars.
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Sappho |
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Heine professed to see in the prominence of the hunchback
a personal appeal of the author, who was slightly deformed by one shoulder
being a trifle higher than the other; this malicious suggestion reposed
also on the fact that the _quasi_-hero of "Le Roi s'Amuse" (1832, a
tragedy suppressed after one representation, for its
reflections
on
royalty), was also a contorted piece of humanity.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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by that name of Eve--
Thine Eve, thy life--which suits me little now,
Seeing that I now confess myself thy death
And thine undoer, as the snake was mine,--
I do adjure thee, put me straight away,
Together
with my name!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Beowulf paid
the price of death for that
precious
hoard;
and each of the foes had found the end
of this fleeting life.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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_
O
Captain!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Hodge, in his waggon, marks the wondrous tongue,
And talks with echo as he drives along;
Still cracks his whip, bawls every horse's name,
And echo still as ready bawls the same:
The puzzling mystery he would gladly cheat,
And fain would utter what it can't repeat,
Till speedless trials prove the doubted elf
As skilled in noise and sounds as Hodge himself;
And, quite convinced with the proofs it gives,
The boy drives on and fancies echo lives,
Like some wood-fiend that frights
benighted
men,
The troubling spirit of a robber's den.
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John Clare |
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I think that
Macaulay
says that great
flights of imagination are peculiar to the early periods of a nation's
civilization, and that story-telling reaches its highest form as an art
before printing has been much in vogue.
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Li Po |
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The wit is
so spontaneous and so interfused with feeling,
that we can scarce distinguish it from fancy ;
and the fancy brings
together
analogies so remote
that they give us the pleasurable shock of wit.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Gloria,
_Documenti
inediti intorno a Francesco
Petrana e Albertino Mussato_ p.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Sweet Jessamine we called her; for she shone
Like
blossoms
that in sun and shade have grown,
Gathering from each alike a perfect white,
Whose rich bloom breaks opaque through darkest night.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Trust not too much to colour, beauteous boy;
White privets fall, dark
hyacinths
are culled.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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You are
infinitly
bound
Vnto'the _Ladies_, they ha' so cri'd it vp!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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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Cruel one, when has my faith ever
betrayed
you?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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<>,
rispuose
Stazio, <
discolpi me non potert' io far nego>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He
received
no reply, but, evidently
understanding the female heart, he presevered, begging for an interview.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And of the balustrade
Mounts, mounts the
circling
shade
Up to the ceiling high!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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A Maiden
Oh if I were the velvet rose
Upon the red rose vine,
I'd climb to touch his window
And make his
casement
fine.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Still in marble stone stood he,
And
stedfastly
he looked at me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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_insert_
to _before_ bolde
(_wrongly_); Gg.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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232
A Wise
prophete
was in ?
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" But
it vaguely struck me, upon examining the
seductive
virago more
attentively, that I had seen her clinking glasses with certain drolls of
my acquaintance, and her blare of brass carried to my ears I know not
what memory of a fanfare prostituted.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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--
On burgher, squire, and clown
It smiled the long street down for near a mile
II
But evil days beset that domicile;
The stately
beauties
of its roof and wall
Passed into sordid hands.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
Silent, abash'd, they hear the stern rebuke,
Till thus Amphinomus the silence broke:
"True are his words, and he whom truth offends,
Not with Telemachus, but truth contends;
Let not the hand of violence invade
The reverend stranger, or the
spotless
maid;
Retire we hence, but crown with rosy wine
The flowing goblet to the powers divine!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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But see how oft
ambitious
aims are cross'd,
And chiefs contend 'till all the prize is lost!
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287
THE
ACCOUNTE
OF W.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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But well for him
that after death-day may draw to his Lord,
and
friendship
find in the Father's arms!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Yet they wha fa' in fortune's strife,
Their fate we
shouldna
censure;
For still, th' important end of life
They equally may answer;
A man may hae an honest heart,
Tho' poortith hourly stare him;
A man may tak a neibor's part,
Yet hae nae cash to spare him.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Now, when the flame they watch not towers
About the soil they trod,
Lads, we'll
remember
friends of ours
Who shared the work with God.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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God's
boundless
mercy is, to sinful man, II.
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1510
The blood froze in our hearts profoundest depths
The manes of the
startled
horses stood erect.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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To think thus, to feel thus much, and then to cease
thinking
and
feeling when a certain star rises above yonder horizon.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A pleasure sweet
doubtless
it was to see
Mortals subdued in all the shapes of sleep.
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Shelley |
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let it then as well beseem thy heart
To mourn for me since
mourning
doth thee grace,
And suit thy pity like in every part.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Oh father and mother, if buds are nipped,
And blossoms blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the
springing
day,
By sorrow and care's dismay, --
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
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blake-poems |
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Pero trascorro a quando mi svegliai,
e dico ch'un
splendor
mi squarcio 'l velo
del sonno, e un chiamar: <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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