It
would have been an amusing circumstance, if the mayor of one of those
cities had
politely
asked us where we were staying.
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Virgil is that spirit,
Who thus hath promis'd," and I pointed to him;
"The other is that shade, for whom so late
Your realm, as he arose,
exulting
shook
Through every pendent cliff and rocky bound.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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) The phantom of the
Terrible
hath made me
His son; from out the sepulchre hath named me
Dimitry, hath stirred up the people round me,
And hath consigned Boris to be my victim.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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His look is grave,
--Yea from
thejsecret
that I never knew--
And slightly glazed,
Since to our winter from the spring he came.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
Dear Myra, the captive ribband's mine,
'Twas all my
faithful
love could gain;
And would you ask me to resign
The sole reward that crowns my pain?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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{29d} The
chronology
of this epic, as scholars have worked it out,
would make Beowulf well over ninety years of age when he fights the
dragon.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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_--In this
assertion our author has the
authority
of Strabo.
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]
[Footnote B: Wordsworth went to
Racedown
in 1795, when he was
twenty-five years of age; and was at Alfoxden in his twenty-eighth
year.
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Why, untamed do you scare
At any
approach
you see?
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Ronsard |
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And nigher came, and touched her throat, and with hands violate
Undid the cuirass, and the crocus gown,
And bared the breasts of
polished
ivory,
Till from the waist the peplos falling down
Left visible the secret mystery
Which to no lover will Athena show,
The grand cool flanks, the crescent thighs, the bossy hills of snow.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Salute with boding note the rising moon,
Frosting
with hoary light the pearly ground,
And pouring deeper blue to Aether's bound;
Rejoic'd her solemn pomp of clouds to fold
In robes of azure, fleecy white, and gold,
While rose and poppy, as the glow-worm fades,
Checquer with paler red the thicket shades.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The four children then entered into conversation with the
Blue-Bottle-Flies, who discoursed in a placid and genteel manner, though
with a slightly buzzing accent, chiefly owing to the fact that they each
held a small clothes-brush between their teeth, which
naturally
occasioned
a fizzy, extraneous utterance.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"Thou should'st have learnt that _Not to Mend_
For Me could mean but _Not to Know_:
Hence,
Messengers!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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There were five
Dropt dead beside me in the trench, and three
Whispered their dying
messages
to me.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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A watcher of Thy spaces make me,
Make me a
listener
at Thy stone,
Give to me vision and then wake me
Upon Thy oceans all alone.
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Rilke - Poems |
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de cest
trespetit
habitacle.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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From
hour to hour we might expect to be
attacked
by Pugatchef.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure,
whatever
is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of everything certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
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Villon |
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It is
as if a sculptor of to-day were to set himself, with reverence, and trained
craftsmanship, and studious
familiarity
with the spirit, technique, and
atmosphere of his subject, to restore some statues of Polyclitus or
Praxiteles of which he had but a broken arm, a foot, a knee, a finger upon
which to build.
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Sappho |
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What delight it is, a wonder rather,
When her hair, caught above her ear,
Imitates the style that Venus
employed!
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Ronsard |
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And now have reached her chamber door;
And now doth
Geraldine
press down
The rushes of the chamber floor.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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An approximately complete Bibliography of Bēowulf
literature
will be found
in Wülker's Grundriss and in Garnett's translation of the poem.
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Beowulf |
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Ill day which made this beauty waste,
Plight broken, this high face
defaced!
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Emerson - Poems |
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No good Christian or
ethnic, if he be honest, can miss it; no
statesman
or patriot should.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Those great hands might so come
In course of ghastly fumble through the gloom,
Upon a sword--a
_sword_!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Chanson de Roland |
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Who hath the power (I ask), who hath the power
To rule the sum of the immeasurable,
To hold with steady hand the giant reins
Of the
unfathomed
deep?
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Lucretius |
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Le degagement reve le
brisement
de la grace croisee de
violence nouvelle!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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= This was
recognized
as the technical
expression.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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It does not vent its loathing, does not turn
Upon its makers with
destroying
hate.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
"Comrades all, that stand and gaze,
Walk
henceforth
in other ways;
See my neck and save your own:
Comrades all, leave ill alone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The people I have met,
The play I saw, the trivial, shifting things
That loom too big or shrink too little, shadows
That hurry,
gesturing
along a wall,
Haunting or gay--and yet they all grow real
And take their proper size here in my heart
When you have seen them.
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Sara Teasdale |
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v
The
Universal
Man.
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Blake - Zoas |
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In 1829 the hardy poet accompanied
the Russian army which under
Paskevitch
captured Erzeroum.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Could it mean
To last, a love set
pendulous
between
Sorrow and sorrow?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Dinda in sing-song
stretching
out one hand
Calls for the playthings; mother does not hear:
Her mind sails far away on a patchwork Ocean,
And all the world must wait till she touches land;
So Dinda cries in fear,
Then Mother turns, laughing like a young fairy,
And Dinda smiles to see her look so kind,
Calls out again for playthings, playthings, playthings;
And now the shadows make an Umbrian _Mary
Adoring_, on the blind.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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ay slypte,
slentyng
of arwes,
[E] At vche [?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Putnam's Sons 1911
Rivers to the Sea The
Macmillan
Company 1915
Love Songs The Macmillan Company 1917
Flame and Shadow The Macmillan Company 1920
LOUIS UNTERMEYER
The Younger Quire Moods Publishing Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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When
landlords
turn the drunken bee
Out of the foxglove's door,
When butterflies renounce their drams,
I shall but drink the more!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Meantime I counsel thee, thyself to think
By what means
likeliest
thou shalt expel
These from thy doors.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Whither fled Lamia, now a lady bright,
A full-born beauty new and
exquisite?
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Keats |
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ou, er any harme hent, ar3e3 in hert,
[J]
Wherfore
?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The piper turned, and pointed to a
neighbouring
tree, and
they saw an old white horse ready bitted, bridled, and saddled.
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Yeats |
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She mentioned, and forgot;
Then lightly as a reed
Bent to the water,
shivered
scarce,
Consented, and was dead.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In the sweet shire of Cardigan,
Not far from
pleasant
Ivor-hall,
An old man dwells, a little man,
I've heard he once was tall.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Appoloinaire |
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What hath he
dreamed?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Sara Teasdale |
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--Puis, tu peux y compter, tu te feras des frais
Avec tes hommes noirs, qui
prennent
nos requetes
Pour se les renvoyer comme sur des raquettes
Et, tout bas, les malins se disent; <
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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