at a selly in si3t summe men hit holden,
& an outtrage
awenture
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He who shall simply sing, with however glowing enthusiasm, or with
however vivid a truth of description, of the sights, and sounds, and
odors, and colors, and
sentiments
which greet _him _in common with all
mankind--he, I say, has yet failed to prove his divine title.
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Pug is eager to undertake his mission;
Belfagor
is
chosen by lot, and very loath to go.
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Dolphins, playing in the sea
Hurling his ink at skies above,
Medusas, miserable heads
In your pools, and in your ponds,
The female of the Halcyon,
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
Dove, both love and spirit
In spreading out his fan, this bird,
My poor heart's an owl
Yes, I'll pass fearful shadows
This
cherubim
sings the praises
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Appoloinaire |
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XII
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Pile peak on peak to scale the starry sky,
And fight against the very gods on high,
While Jove to his lightning-bolts gave birth:
Then all in thunder, suddenly reversed,
The furious
squadrons
earthbound lie,
Heaven glorying, while Earth must sigh,
Jove gaining all the honour and the worth:
So were once seen, in this mortal space,
Rome's Seven Hills raising a haughty face,
Against the very countenance of Heaven:
While now we see the fields, shorn of honour,
Lament their ruin, and the gods secure,
Dreading no more, on high, that fearful leaven.
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for they would surround you;
And you
precedents!
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Whitman |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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[C]
Then said he thus,--O Palace
desolate!
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Faun,
illusion
escapes from the blue eye,
Cold, like a fount of tears, of the most chaste:
But the other, she, all sighs, contrasts you say
Like a breeze of day warm on your fleece?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Behold, the heedless, torpid, yearn to try
And block the
insidious
entry, there they lie,
Whom the herald summons urging them to rise.
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Troubador Verse |
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Or would his heart rejoice and overflow,
As happy brooks that break their icy rim
When April's horns along the
hillsides
blow?
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Sara Teasdale |
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I stood beside Him: on the
torturing
cross
No pain assailed His unterrestrial sense; _175
And yet He groaned.
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Shelley |
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Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the
affrighted
steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
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Stephen Crane |
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For thy humiliated feet divine,
Of my Respect I'll make thee
Slippers
fine
Which, prisoning them within a gentle fold,
Shall keep their imprint like a faithful mould.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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le poison et le glaive
M'ont pris en dedain et m'ont dit:
<< Tu n'es pas digne qu'on t'enleve
A ton esclavage maudit,
Imbecile!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Ainsi, pratiquement du moins, comme tant d'autres,
il se trouva
desservi
par sa fierte, sa delicatesse, par le meilleur de
lui-meme.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Not less delighted did I take my place
At our domestic table: and, [P] dear Friend
In this
endeavour
simply to relate
A Poet's history, may I leave untold 80
The thankfulness with which I laid me down
In my accustomed bed, more welcome now
Perhaps than if it had been more desired
Or been more often thought of with regret;
That lowly bed whence I had heard the wind 85
Roar and the rain beat hard, where I so oft
Had lain awake on summer nights to watch
The moon in splendour couched among the leaves
Of a tall ash, that near our cottage stood; [Q]
Had watched her with fixed eyes while to and fro 90
In the dark summit of the waving tree
She rocked with every impulse of the breeze.
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William Wordsworth |
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How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by Storms to the cold
Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course
to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange
things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent
Marinere
came back to
his own Country.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Homer's redundance, wholesale repetition of lines, and stock
epithets cannot be altogether
dismissed
as "faults"; they are
characteristics of a wonderfully accomplished and efficient technique.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And the yearning for _ME_
That thou
wistfully
weepest!
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Lewis Carroll |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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When the two little friends obeyed the summons of the king they found
him sitting at his wine with the seven members of his cabinet council;
but the monarch
appeared
to be in a very ill humor.
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Poe - 5 |
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[106] A voracious bird--in
allusion
to Cleon's rapacity and to his
loquacity in the Assembly.
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Aristophanes |
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Ceci qui vaut du Desbordes-Valmore:
_Les tout petits enfants ont le coeur si
sensible!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Pure we are, pure in our prayers, pure our souls look to thee, Lord;
And to be shewn to the world
devoured
by evil is our reward.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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--<< Non, madame, repondit
finement
le poete, car elles sont, en effet,
tres bonnes, mais seulement la premiere fois qu'on en mange.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Then Criticism the Muse's handmaid prov'd,
To dress her charms, and make her more belov'd:
But
following
wits from that intention stray'd,
Who could not win the mistress, woo'd the maid; 105
Against the Poets their own arms they turn'd,
Sure to hate most the men from whom they learn'd.
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Alexander Pope |
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I have not followed original spacing exactly, except where it
genuinely
appears to add impact to the verse.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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-- The hardy Scylding,
battle-thane best, {16i} on his
balefire
lay.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Still from each fact, with skill uncouth
And savage rapture, like a tooth
She wrenched some slow
reluctant
truth.
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Lewis Carroll |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Given in
marriage
unto thee,
Oh, thou celestial host!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sing you, ye choirs, e'en now, the glad, consoling song,
That once, from angel-lips, through gloom sepulchral rung,
A new
immortal
covenant sealing?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
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THE LITTLE GIRL LOST
In futurity
I prophesy
That the earth from sleep
(Grave the
sentence
deep)
Shall arise, and seek
For her Maker meek;
And the desert wild
Become a garden mild.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The
unappeasable
loveliness
is calling to me out of the wind,
And because your name
is written upon the ivory doors,
The wave in my heart is as a green wave, unconfined, Tossing the white foam toward you;
And the lotus that pours
Her fragrance into the purple cup
Is more to be gained with the foam Than are you with these words of mine.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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VII
Dead leaves and
stricken
boughs
She heaped o'er the fallen form--
Wolf nor hawk nor lawless storm
Him from his rest should rouse;
But first, with solemn vows,
Took rifle, pouch, and horn,
And the belt that he had worn.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Mary
Ratcliffe
now stands.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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e
corbeles
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The keepers of fat lambkins chant their loves
To silvan reeds, all in the grassy lea,
And
pleasure
Him who tends the flocks and groves
Of dark-leaved Arcady.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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HIGGINSON
PREFACE
The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's
poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern
artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the
qualities of directness and simplicity in
approaching
the greatest
themes,--life and love and death.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Eftsones I heard the dash of oars,
I heard the pilot's cheer:
My head was turn'd
perforce
away
And I saw a boat appear.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Imprisoned
is the song,
It lingers and longs in the reeds where it lies;
Your young life is strong, but how much more strong
Is the longing that through your music sighs.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Vedea Briareo fitto dal telo
celestial
giacer, da l'altra parte,
grave a la terra per lo mortal gelo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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He was at length condemned for his
indiscriminate
abuse, and
banished by Augustus to the isle of Crete.
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Tacitus |
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There is a Book
By seraphs writ with beams of
heavenly
light,
On which the eyes of God not rarely look,
A chronicle of actions just and bright--
There all thy deeds, my faithful Mary, shine;
And since, thou own'st that praise, I spare thee mine.
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Golden Treasury |
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Ye mustering
thunders
from above,
Your willing victim see;
But spare and pardon my fause Love,
His wrangs to Heaven and me.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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--then take
yourself off, away with you; a
mountebank
is no
companion for a priest.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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HEPHAESTUS
Alas,
Prometheus!
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Aeschylus |
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I will give no other proof than the hawk gives--
That it's no
sparrow!
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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" said the wife, "these
gentlemen!
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Only
that is
spiritual
which makes its own form.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Piety, twin sister dear
Of
Justice!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Living Rome, the
ornament
of the world,
Now dead, remains the world's monument.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Then in the silent cabinet
He in imagination saw
The time when Melancholy's claw
'Mid worldly
pleasures
chased him yet,
Caught him and by the collar took
And shut him in a lonely nook.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But why, lest that this lettre founden were,
No
mencioun
ne make I now, for fere.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair
To be death's
conquest
and make worms thine heir.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
— Current Opinion,
New York
"Each
contribution
is a gem.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Bring a spray
from the wood, or a crystal from the brook, and place it on your
mantel, and your
household
ornaments will seem plebeian beside its
nobler fashion and bearing.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Absorbed
in shadows of the eternal shore,
Among the living all their tasks are o'er.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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'449'
"The latest
fashionable
folly is the test, or the proof, of a quick,
up-to-date wit.
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Alexander Pope |
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Do
you
remember
that?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Wild and fleeting as the notes
Blown upon a
woodland
pipe, 30
They must haunt the earth with gladness
And a tinge of old regret.
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Sappho |
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IDONEA I have nothing
To do with others; help me to my Father--
[She turns and sees
MARMADUKE
leaning on ELEANOR--throws herself
upon his neck, and after some time,]
In joy I met thee, but a few hours past;
And thus we meet again; one human stay
Is left me still in thee.
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William Wordsworth |
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Isocrates
composed an oration in honour of Busiris; a
masterly
example of Attic
raillery and satire.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Lear in the
maturity
of sweet desipience, and
will perhaps remain the favorite volume of the four to grown-up readers.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Condensed
mythological references abound.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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'T was a long parting, but the time
For
interview
had come;
Before the judgment-seat of God,
The last and second time
These fleshless lovers met,
A heaven in a gaze,
A heaven of heavens, the privilege
Of one another's eyes.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks, and
by the
justification
of perfect personal candour.
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Whitman |
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Note: See Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' for an
expression
of like sentiment.
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Ronsard |
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Onward we pass Massilia's barren strand,
A waste of wither'd grass and burning sand;
Where his thin herds the meagre native leads,
Where not a riv'let laves the doleful meads;
Nor herds, nor
fruitage
deck the woodland maze;
O'er the wild waste the stupid ostrich strays,
In devious search to pick her scanty meal,
Whose fierce digestion gnaws the temper'd steel.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I can't, because _my_ legs
Are so
extremely
short.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Cushman believes
therefore
that
Harsnet refers either to some lost morality or to 'Punch and Judy'.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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50 a year
Address: 622 South Washington Square, Philadelphia
"The
contents
are of very good
quality indeed.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Contrivèd joy
Is sex in life; and by no other thing
Than by a perfect sundering, could life
Change the dark stream of
unappointed
joy
To perfect praise of itself, the glee that loves
And worships its own Being.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The streams are swollen when the
snow melts in the spring, because nature's work has been delayed, the
water being turned into ice and snow, whose
particles
are less smooth
and round, and do not find their level so soon.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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For sure God's love hath
wandered
to strange nations;
His pleasure in the breasts of Jerusalem
Is a delight grown old.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And the merry feast is freighted
With its
meanings
true and deep.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'
This anecdote--if not in fact true--illustrates very well the gloomy
depression of spirit which alternated with those
outbursts
of feverish
energy in which his poems were composed.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I speak for all-shaped blooms and leaves,
Lichens on stones and moss on eaves,
Grasses and grains in ranks and sheaves;
Broad-fronded ferns and keen-leaved canes,
And briery mazes bounding lanes,
And marsh-plants, thirsty-cupped for rains,
And milky stems and sugary veins;
For every long-armed woman-vine
That round a piteous tree doth twine;
For passionate odors, and divine
Pistils, and petals crystalline;
All purities of shady springs,
All shynesses of film-winged things
That fly from tree-trunks and bark-rings;
All modesties of mountain-fawns
That leap to covert from wild lawns,
And tremble if the day but dawns;
All
sparklings
of small beady eyes
Of birds, and sidelong glances wise
Wherewith the jay hints tragedies;
All piquancies of prickly burs,
And smoothnesses of downs and furs
Of eiders and of minevers;
All limpid honeys that do lie
At stamen-bases, nor deny
The humming-birds' fine roguery,
Bee-thighs, nor any butterfly;
All gracious curves of slender wings,
Bark-mottlings, fibre-spiralings,
Fern-wavings and leaf-flickerings;
Each dial-marked leaf and flower-bell
Wherewith in every lonesome dell
Time to himself his hours doth tell;
All tree-sounds, rustlings of pine-cones,
Wind-sighings, doves' melodious moans,
And night's unearthly under-tones;
All placid lakes and waveless deeps,
All cool reposing mountain-steeps,
Vale-calms and tranquil lotos-sleeps; --
Yea, all fair forms, and sounds, and lights,
And warmths, and mysteries, and mights,
Of Nature's utmost depths and heights,
-- These doth my timid tongue present,
Their mouthpiece and leal instrument
And servant, all love-eloquent.
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E come fu la mia
risposta
udita,
Sordello ed elli in dietro si raccolse
come gente di subito smarrita.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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' And uttering this the King
Made at the man: then Modred smote his liege
Hard on that helm which many a heathen sword
Had beaten thin; while Arthur at one blow,
Striking
the last stroke with Excalibur,
Slew him, and all but slain himself, he fell.
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Tennyson |
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But from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,
And fire and ice within me fight
Beneath the
suffocating
night.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Yestreen
I met you on the moor,
Ye spak na, but gaed by like stoure;
Ye geck at me because I'm poor,
But fient a hair care I.
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Robert Forst |
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"
What joy, for
fatherland
to die!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Upon the highway of the sea
When shall I wing my passage free
On waves by
tempests
curdled o'er!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And then the clamorous clock struck eight,
Deliberate, with sonorous chime
Slow
measuring
out the march of time,
Like some grave Consul of old Rome
In Jupiter's temple driving home
The nails that marked the year and date.
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Longfellow |
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Methinks
I hear of leaders proud
With no uncomely dust distain'd,
And all the world by conquest bow'd,
And only Cato's soul unchain'd.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Well, of course it's trying sometimes, but never mind,
It will
probably
be all right.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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She, that had heard the noise of it before,
But
sorrowing
Lancelot should have stooped so low,
Marred her friend's aim with pale tranquillity.
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And thanne anoon ful sodeynly 3470
I took my leve, and streight I went
Unto the hay; for gret talent
I had to seen the fresh botoun,
Wherin lay my salvacioun;
And Daunger took kepe, if that I 3475
Kepe him
covenaunt
trewly.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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That down didst ravish from the Deity,
Through humbleness, the spirit that did alight
Upon thy heart, whence, through that glory's might,
Conceived
was the Father's sapience, 20
Help me to tell it in thy reverence!
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William Wordsworth |
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Fate's only
essence!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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'Tis
our part to
undertake
the toil, 'tis yours to advise.
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Aristophanes |
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