TO BLANCHE By John Hall Wheelock
What is this memory, this homesickness, That draws me to yourself resistlessly
As to some far place where I long to be—
This exile's
hungering
for loveliness?
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whose radiant flame
Out-glares the heaven's Osiris,[H] and thy gleams
Out-shine the
splendour
of his mid-day beams.
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Robert Herrick |
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Near and more near as life's last period draws,
Which oft is hurried on by human woe,
I see the passing hours more swiftly flow,
And all my hopes in
disappointment
close.
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Petrarch |
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Prometheus too and Pelops' sire
In
listening
lose the sense of woe;
Orion hearkens to the lyre,
And lets the lynx and lion go.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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to ben oone it mot nedis dien {and}
corrumpe
togidre.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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THE LITTLE GIRL LOST
In futurity
I prophetic see
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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For you, on Latmos, fondling your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As restraint for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the
daylight
that your night forgot.
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Ronsard |
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If others seek the love thus thrown aside,
Vain were their hopes and labours to obtain;
The heart thou
spurnest
I alike disdain,
To thee displeasing, 'tis by me denied.
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Petrarch |
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, of her were born a
thousand
young ones.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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339), is
probably
the same as that
referred to in the poem, as in use in 1776, and onwards.
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William Wordsworth |
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] or 1824; No
reasoning
or transcr.
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Shelley |
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_ The tempest cometh; heaven and earth unite 770
For the
annihilation
of all life.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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It was agreed, therefore, that Guy should go and ask the Mice,
which he
immediately
did; and the result was, that they gave a walnut-shell
only half full of custard diluted with water.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I am married to my love; and it is vile,
Yea, it is burning in me like a sin,
That when my love was absent, thy desire
Shouldst
trespass
where my love is single lord.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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[49] On the verb _naku_ see the Babylonian Book of
Proverbs
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Like stricken women weeping,
Eternal vigil keeping with slow and silent tread--
Soft-shod as are the fairies, the winds patrol the prairies,
The
sentinels
of God about the pale and patient dead!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Translation
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Villon |
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Wordsworth
'The Prelude', was finished.
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William Wordsworth |
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They shall behold
Each one his dream that
fashions
me anew;--
With hair like lakes that glint beneath the stars
Dark as sweet midnight, or with hair aglow
Like burnished gold that still retains the fire.
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Sara Teasdale |
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But hear me further--Japhet, 'tis agreed,
Writ not, and
Chartres
scarce could write or read,
In all the courts of Pindus guiltless quite;
But pens can forge, my friend, that cannot write;
And must no egg in Japhet's face be thrown
Because the deed he forged was not my own?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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THE
COMPLEYNT
OF MARS.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Already echoed are a thousand blows;
Nor yet well entered are the
encountering
foes.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Literary
Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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Nor did the Kronian,
Brandishing
his lightning, impel to march
From home insane, but to abstain from the way.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The notion of a visit to the ghosts has fascinated many
poets, and Dante elaborated this Homeric device into the main scheme of
the
greatest
of non-epical poems, as Milton elaborated the other
Homeric device into the main scheme of the greatest of literary epics.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I am listening here in Rome,
And the Romans are confessing,
"English children pass in bloom
All the
prettiest
made for blessing.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Of Argive
anguish!
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Euripides - Electra |
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The singing men and women sang that night as usual,
The dancers danced in pairs and sets, but music had a fall,
A
melancholy
windy fall as at a funeral.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The more, then, the
telluric
ground is drained
Of heat, the colder grows the water hid
Within the earth.
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Lucretius |
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Nor do I always find presently from
it what I seek; but while I am doing another thing, that I
laboured
for
will come; and what I sought with trouble will offer itself when I am
quiet.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Ampla aquilae invictae fausto est sub tegmine terra,
Backyfer, ooiskeo pollens, ebenoque bipede,
Socors praesidum et altrix (denique quidruminantium),
Duplefveorum uberrima; illis et integre cordi est
Deplere assidue et sine proprio
incommodo
fiscum;
Nunc etiam placidum hoc opus invictique secuti,
Goosam aureos ni eggos voluissent immo necare
Quae peperit, saltem ac de illis meliora merentem.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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authority
for "From wrath eternal.
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Byron |
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Sweet moans,
dovelike
sighs,
Chase not slumber from thy eyes!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Thou shalt not knowe therof more 4695
Whyle thou art reuled by his lore;
But unto him that love wol flee,
The knotte may
unclosed
be,
Which hath to thee, as it is founde,
So long be knet and not unbounde.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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It is a
collection, for the most part, of old favorites, for Americans have
been quick to take to heart a stirring telling of a daring and
noble deed; but these may be found to have gained
freshness
by a
grouping in order.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Somewhat surprisingly, Sophocles, although by his time Electra and
Clytemnestra had become leading figures in the story and the mother-murder
its
essential
climax, preserves a very similar atmosphere.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I sat with my
acquaintance
in the
middle of the room, and the evoker of spirits on the dais, and his wife
between us and him.
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Yeats |
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But indeed
For an
immortal
perils are there none.
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Lucretius |
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e wynde was good,
And
saileden
ouer ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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One of his knights, Tierris, before him came,
Gefrei's brother, that Duke of Anjou famed;
Lean were his limbs, and lengthy and delicate,
Black was his hair and somewhat brown his face;
Was not too small, and yet was hardly great;
And
courteously
to the Emperour he spake:
"Fair' Lord and King, do not yourself dismay!
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Chanson de Roland |
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"Þanon hē
gesōhte
Sūð-Dena folc
"ofer ȳða gewealc, Ār-Scyldinga;
465 "þā ic furðum wēold folce Deninga,
"and on geogoðe hēold gimme-rīce
"hord-burh hæleða: þā wæs Heregār dēad,
"mīn yldra mǣg unlifigende,
"bearn Healfdenes.
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Beowulf |
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So spake the old Serpent doubting, and from all
With clamour was assur'd thir utmost aid
At his command; when from amidst them rose
Belial the dissolutest Spirit that fell 150
The sensuallest, and after Asmodai
The
fleshliest
Incubus, and thus advis'd.
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Milton |
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L'apre
sterilite
de votre jouissance
Altere votre soif et roidit votre peau,
Et le vent furibond de la concupiscence
Fait claquer votre chair ainsi qu'un vieux drapeau.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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London: documents at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To
luncheon
at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
[Sidenote A: "I would learn," she says, "why you, who are so young and
active,]
[Sidenote B: so skilled in the true sport of love,]
[Sidenote C: and so
renowned
a knight,]
[Sidenote D: have never talked to me of love.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Or doth God mock at me
And blast my vision with some mad
surmise?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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30
Thy years are ripe, and over-ripe, the Son
Of Macedonian Philip had e're these
Won Asia and the Throne of Cyrus held
At his dispose, young Scipio had brought down
The
Carthaginian
pride, young Pompey quell'd
The Pontic King and in triumph had rode.
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Milton |
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50 net
"Sleep on, 1 lie at heaven's high oriels Over the start that mumur as thye go
Lighting
your lattice window far below:
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof 1 know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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why not cast myself
Down headlong from this
miserable
rock,
That, dashed against the flats, I may redeem
My soul from sorrow?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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When
they
answered
no, 'Well,' he said, 'could any troops possibly break
through walls or undermine them with nothing but swords and javelins?
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Tacitus |
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"Some year or more ago, I s'pose,
I roamed from Maine to Floridy,
And, -- see where them
Palmettos
grows?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Who learns from life well knows,
As I have learnt to know from heavy grief;
She, of our age, who was its honour chief,
Who now in heaven with
brighter
lustre glows,
Has robb'd my being of the sole repose
It knew in life, though that was rare and brief.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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El Desdichado (The Disinherited)
I am the darkness - the widower - the un-consoled,
The prince of
Aquitaine
in the ruined tower;
My sole star is dead - and my constellated lute
Bears the black sun of Melancholy.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The
fortress
of Kazan
Thou fought'st beneath, with Shuisky didst repulse
The army of Litva.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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There is
something finely feminine in this speech of Wealhtheow's, apart from
its somewhat irregular and
irrelevant
sequence of topics.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Ididnotknow One half the
substance
of his speech with me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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Now in my palace
I see foot-passengers
Crossing the river:
Pilgrims
of Autumn
In the afternoons.
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Imagists |
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O'er high deep seas in speedy ship his voyage Atys sped
Until he trod the Phrygian grove with hurried eager tread
And as the gloomy tree-shorn stead, the she-god's home, he sought
There sorely stung with fiery ire and madman's vaguing thought,
Share he with sharpened flint the freight
wherewith
his form was fraught.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Ran females all and males
Clamorous
after him; but he the steeds
Approaching on the right, sprang into air.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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_, 81-4 preserves a
defective
text of this
part of the epic.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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'
When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
A certain old dream, sick desire of my spine,
Beneath
funereal
ceilings afflicted by dying
Folded its indubitable wing there within me.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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sulk]
And Los & Enitharmon sat in discontent & scorn
The Nuptial Song arose from all the thousand thousand spirits {A strike line through "thousand thousand spirits" is erased, the phrase replaced with "orbits high" which is then erased and replaced with "demons by the
thousands
out of a golden cloud [illegible text]" which runs into the margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Wittipol
and Manly, the chief intriguers, hold
approximately
the same position
as Wellbred and Knowell in _Every Man in his Humor_, Winwife and
Quarlous in _Bartholomew Fair_, and Dauphine, Clerimont, and Truewit in
_The Silent Woman_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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In his vehement
childhood
he hurried within
And knelt at her feet as in prayer against sin,
But a child at a prayer never sobbeth as he--
"Oh!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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we all must bear
The arrogance of something higher than
Ourselves--the highest cannot temper Satan,
Nor the lowest his
vicegerents
upon earth.
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Byron |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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O
miserable
he who sings
Some strain impure, whose numbers fall
Along the cruel wind that brings
Death to some child beneath his wall.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the
starkest
madness.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Enter the places of academical lectures, and who talks
of any other
subject?
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Tacitus |
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The azure vault in silver
shimmers
soft,
A dewy breeze with fragrance soars aloft.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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[389] A distich borrowed from Archilochus, a
celebrated
poet of the
seventh century B.
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Aristophanes |
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E l'Aretin che rimase, tremando
mi disse: <
folletto
e Gianni Schicchi,
e va rabbioso altrui cosi conciando>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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We trode on air, contemned the distant town,
Its
timorous
ways, big trifles, and we planned
That we should build, hard-by, a spacious lodge
And how we should come hither with our sons,
Hereafter,--willing they, and more adroit.
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Emerson - Poems |
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If ye but knew how dreadful 'tis
To bear love's parching agonies--
To burn, yet reason keep awake
The fever of the blood to slake--
A
passionate
desire to bend
And, sobbing at your feet, to blend
Entreaties, woes and prayers, confess
All that the heart would fain express--
Yet with a feigned frigidity
To arm the tongue and e'en the eye,
To be in conversation clear
And happy unto you appear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The church and state you safely may invade ;
So
boundless
Lewis in full glory shines,
Whilst your starved power in legal fetters pines.
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Marvell - Poems |
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liability to you for damages, costs and expenses,
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legal
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Sara Teasdale |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The man of firm and righteous will,
No rabble, clamorous for the wrong,
No tyrant's brow, whose frown may kill,
Can shake the strength that makes him strong:
Not winds, that chafe the sea they sway,
Nor Jove's right hand, with lightning red:
Should Nature's pillar'd frame give way,
That wreck would strike one
fearless
head.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Children and apes will gaze delighted,
If their
critiques
can pleasure impart;
But never a heart will be ignited,
Comes not the spark from the speaker's heart.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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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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Wit, pity, excellence, and grief, and love
With blended plaint so sweet a concert made,
As ne'er was given to mortal ear to prove:
And heaven itself such mute attention paid,
That not a breath disturb'd the
listening
grove--
Even aether's wildest gales the tuneful charm obey'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The Two Learned Men
Once there lived in the ancient city of Afkar two learned men who
hated and
belittled
each other's learning.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Or hawk the magic of her name about
Deaf doors and
dungeons
where no truth is brought ?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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For his art did expresse
A
quintessence
even from nothingnesse, 15
From dull privations, and leane emptinesse:
He ruin'd mee, and I am re-begot
Of absence, darknesse, death; things which are not.
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John Donne |
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ou
sholdest
wene ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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E 'l mio buon duca, che gia li er' al petto,
dove le due nature son consorti,
rispuose: <
mostrar li mi convien la valle buia;
necessita
'l ci 'nduce, e non diletto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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For there you sat a hundred miles away,
A rug upon your knees, your hands gone frail,
And daily bade your farewell to the day,
A music blent of trees and clouds a-sail
And figures in some old
neglected
tale:
And watched the sunset gathering,
And heard the birdsong fading,
And went within when the last sleepy lay
Passed to a farther vale,
Never complaining, and stepped up to bed
More and more slow, a tall and sunburnt man
Grown bony and bearded, knowing you would be dead
Before the summer, glad your life began
Even thus to end, after so short a span,
And mused a space serenely,
Then fell to easy slumber,
At peace, content.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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'Tis silent--on her shines the moon--
Upon her elbow she reclines,
And Eugene ever in her soul
Indites an inconsiderate scroll
Wherein love
innocently
pines.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Does he study the wants of his own
dominion?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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A Prayer in Spring
OH, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the
springing
of the year.
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Robert Forst |
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_Over my bed a strange tree gleams_--half filled
With stars and birds whose white notes glimmer through
Its seven
branches
now that all is stilled.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And aye so fond they of their singing seem
That in their holes abed at close of day
They still keep piping in their honey dreams,
And larger ones that thrum on ruder pipe
Round the sweet smelling closen and rich woods
Where tawny white and red flush clover buds
Shine bonnily and bean fields blossom ripe,
Shed dainty
perfumes
and give honey food
To these sweet poets of the summer fields;
Me much delighting as I stroll along
The narrow path that hay laid meadow yields,
Catching the windings of their wandering song.
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