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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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_negligis_
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Latin - Catullus |
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Versum adulterinum ratus est
Schmidt; sed _in ora uulgi_ uidetur
imitatus
Henricus Allocut.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The second volume of Nonsense, commencing with the verses, "The Owl and the
Pussy-Cat," was written at different times, and for different sets of
children: the whole being
collected
in the course of last year, were then
illustrated, and published in a single volume, by Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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SAID sister Agnes, Madam, take their word;
A remedy like this would be absurd,
If, like old death, it had a haggard look,
And you
designed
to get by hook or crook.
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And as to things
Not mentioned here which of themselves do grow
Or of themselves are gendered, and all things
Which in the clouds condense to being--all,
Snow and the winds, hail and the hoar-frosts chill,
And freezing, mighty force--of lakes and pools
The mighty hardener, and mighty check
Which in the winter curbeth everywhere
The rivers as they go--'tis easy still,
Soon to discover and with mind to see
How they all happen, whereby gendered,
When once thou well hast
understood
just what
Functions have been vouchsafed from of old
Unto the procreant atoms of the world.
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And the
commissioned
wind to sing
His mighty psalm from fall to spring
And annual tunes commemorate
Of Nature's child the common fate.
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Emerson - Poems |
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But rather would I have
preferred
the most cruel torture to
such an abasement.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And is it only fear to thee that night
Is
thatched
with stars?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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With yawning mouth the yellow hole
Gaped for a living thing;
The very mud cried out for blood
To the thirsty
asphalte
ring:
And we knew that ere one dawn grew fair
Some prisoner had to swing.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Oh, more
profound
than the moving sea
That never has shown myself to me!
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Sara Teasdale |
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He wearied of his long career of
attendance
upon
patrons who requited him but shabbily; and with considerable taste
for rural scenery, he longed for a more open-air existence than was
attainable in Rome.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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'--I felt my cheek
Alter, to see the shadow pass away, _225
Whose grasp had left the giant world so weak
That every pigmy kicked it as it lay;
And much I grieved to think how power and will
In opposition rule our mortal day,
And why God made
irreconcilable
_230
Good and the means of good; and for despair
I half disdained mine eyes' desire to fill
With the spent vision of the times that were
And scarce have ceased to be.
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Shelley |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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THE QUEEN: With a pure, steady,
honourable
love,
Working and waiting with a patient heart
Till I am free to marry you.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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XLVIII
To the
assembly
her they bear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Lov'st not good
company?
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Sidney Lanier |
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= This was a water-stand or conduit
in the midst of the street of West Cheaping, where
executions
were
formerly held.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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wherefore
did you blind
Yourself from his quick eyes?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Still ever that slip and slide
Of the feet that shuffle or glide,
And linger or haste through the
populous
waste
Of the shadowy, dim-lit square!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
And I noted with joy
Those sensational simpers:
And I said "This is
scrumptious!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Or what man might with-in the chambre dwelle, 165
If I to him
rehersen
shal the helle,
That suffreth fair Anelida the quene
For fals Arcite, that did hir al this tene?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The
translation
includes
the four additional lines at the end of Canto I.
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Byron |
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Dead grass, horse hair, and downy-headed bents
Tied to dead thistles--she doth well provide,
Close to a hill of ants where
cowslips
bloom
And shed oer meadows far their sweet perfume.
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John Clare |
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Alexander Pope |
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Or stand a long while looking at the
movements
of machinery,
Or behold children at their sports,
Or the admirable sight of the perfect old man, or the perfect old woman,
Or the sick in hospitals, or the dead carried to burial,
Or my own eyes and figure in the glass;
These, with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles,
The whole referring--yet each distinct and in its place.
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Whitman |
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"
The Bellman
indignantly
said.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
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blake-poems |
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And all your souls redeem for
Paradise!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Be she bald, or does she wear
Locks incurl'd of other hair;
I shall find
enchantment
there.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
He shivered slightly and
protested
that he could remember no more.
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Kipling - Poems |
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veil your
deathless
tree, --
Him you chasten, that is he!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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--
Ah, Love of God, if greater love than this
Hath no man, that a man die for his friend,
And if such love of love Thine Own Love is,
Plead with Thyself, with me, before the end;
Redeem me from the
irrevocable
past;
Pitch Thou Thy Presence round me to defend;
Yea seek with pierced feet, yea hold me fast
With pierced hands whose wounds were made by love;
Not what I am, remember what Thou wast
When darkness hid from Thee Thy heavens above,
And sin Thy Father's Face, while Thou didst drink
The bitter cup of death, didst taste thereof
For every man; while Thou wast nigh to sink
Beneath the intense intolerable rod,
Grown sick of love; not what I am, but think
Thy Life then ransomed mine, my God, my God.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Omar has elsewhere a pretty
Quatrain about the same Moon--
"Be of Good Cheer--the sullen Month will die,
And a young Moon requite us by and by:
Look how the Old one meagre, bent, and wan
With Age and Fast, is
fainting
from the Sky!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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' Hogsden or Hoxton, as it is now called, is
to-day a populous
district
of the metropolis.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The Fathers also were
dismayed (for of this fault not a soul was guiltless) and sought and
obtained impunity from the Prince; and a year and six months were
granted for balancing all
accounts
between debtors and creditors,
agreeably to the direction of the law.
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Tacitus |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Flushed and decided, he
assaults
at once;
Exploring hands encounter no defence; 240
His vanity requires no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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445
DE
PROFUNDIS
III.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Never sadder tale was heard
By a man of woman born:
The
Marineres
all return'd to work
As silent as beforne.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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' 740
And with that word he gan un-do a trappe,
And Troilus he
broughte
in by the lappe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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20
XCVIII
I am more
tremulous
than shaken reeds,
And love has made me like the river water.
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Sappho |
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Haec ex editione maiore attuli ut
demonstrarem
ab ineunte fere saec.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Among his war
writings
are _The Human Boy and the
War_, and _Plain Song, 1914-16_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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LA MUSE VENALE
O Muse de mon coeur, amante des palais,
Auras-tu, quand Janvier lachera ses Borees,
Durant les noirs ennuis des neigeuses soirees,
Un tison pour
chauffer
tes deux pieds violets?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The vane a little to the east
Scares muslin souls away;
If
broadcloth
breasts are firmer
Than those of organdy,
Who is to blame?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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When I Read the Book
When I read the book, the
biography
famous,
And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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telle vous serez, o la reine des graces,
Apres les derniers sacrements,
Quand vous irez sous l'herbe et les
floraisons
grasses,
Moisir parmi les ossements.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Why could it not have been some
one less
important
to him?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Vos
omoplates
se deboitent
O mes amours!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The first part of the Rehearsal
elicited
several
answers.
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Marvell - Poems |
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LXXXIV cum LXXXIII
continuant
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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And I will bear along with you
Leaves
dropping
down the honied dew,
With oaten pipes, as sweet, as new.
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Robert Herrick |
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Morning at the Window
They are rattling
breakfast
plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
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T.S. Eliot |
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D'un samit portret a oysiaus,
Qui ere tout a or batus,
Fu ses cors
richement
vestus.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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49
Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows 50
There were no ruins, neither fragments 51
In sorrow day and night the
disciple
watched 52
Sunlight slantingly flows 53
The wild resplendence of the year resolves 54
Doth live for thee again, Beloved that October?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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a Golden World whose porches round the heavens
And pillard halls & rooms recievd the eternal wandering stars
A wondrous golden Building; many a window many a door
And many a
division
let in & out into the vast unknown
[Cubed] Circled in infinite orb immoveable, within its arches all walls & cielings {According to Erdman, "The second reading is erased; yet it is supported by the reference back to "Cubes" and "window" in 33:4-5.
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Blake - Zoas |
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La mente, che qui luce, in terra fumma;
onde
riguarda
come puo la giue
quel che non pote perche 'l ciel l'assumma>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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It was in truth a
lamentable
hour 1802.
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William Wordsworth |
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Bi-wayling in his chambre thus allone,
A freend of his, that called was Pandare,
Com ones in unwar, and herde him grone,
And say his freend in swich
distresse
and care:
`Allas!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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) Oh, good
gracious!
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Kipling - Poems |
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Indeed, I
selected
this wood because I thought it the
least likely to contain anything else.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And, as he was the father of navigation,
particularly
of
the voyage of GAMA, to sum up the narrative with his encomium has even
some critical propriety.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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In the beauty of poems are the tuft and final
applause
of science.
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Whitman |
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Then Rockingham took up the game,
Till death did on him ca', man;
When
Shelburne
meek held up his cheek,
Conform to gospel law, man:
Saint Stephen's boys, wi' jarring noise,
They did his measures thraw, man;
For North an' Fox united stocks,
An' bore him to the wa', man.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
It was the desire of beauty that made her a poet; her "nerves of
delight" were always
quivering
at the contact of beauty.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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let her loose;
Everything
is spoilt by use:
Where's the cheek that doth not fade,
Too much gazed at?
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Golden Treasury |
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Who's the old trader that has lent this girl
The glittering cash of
pleasure
to pay me with?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And when with fondling tongue they start to lick
Their puppies, or do toss them round with paws,
Feigning with gentle bites to gape and snap,
They fawn with yelps of voice far other then
Than when, alone within the house, they bay,
Or
whimpering
slink with cringing sides from blows.
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Lucretius |
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What valley echoed the
response
of Jove?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Thine is the
plentiful
bosom that feeds us,
Thine is the womb where our riches have birth.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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At half-past four, experiment
Had
subjugated
test,
And lo!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Besides that, it was
bordered
by evanescent isthmuses, with a great
gulf-stream running about all over it; so that it was perfectly beautiful,
and contained only a single tree, 503 feet high.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
II
"O Time," replied the Lord,
"Thou read'st me ill, I ween;
Were all _the same_, I should not grieve
At that late earthly scene,
Now blestly past--though planned by me
With
interest
close and keen!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Ma dimmi: voi che siete qui felici,
disiderate
voi piu alto loco
per piu vedere e per piu farvi amici?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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See, with what magic art, pearls, purple, gold,
That form transcendant, unexampled, grace:
Beneath the shadowing hills observe her pace,
Her glance replete with
elegance
untold!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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sē þe hine dēað nimeð
(_he whom death
carrieth
off_), 441; so, 447; nymeð, 1847; nymeð nȳd-bāde,
599; subj.
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Beowulf |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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ei
preceden
euere ner & nerre,
fforto comen to ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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They have seen, by
countless
waters and windows,
The women of your race facing a stony sky;
They have heard, for thousands of years, the voices of women
Asking them: "Why .
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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proposes
heals-bēge onfēng.
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Beowulf |
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Thou hast passed by the ambush of young days
Either not assail'd, or victor being charg'd;
Yet this thy praise cannot be so thy praise,
To tie up envy,
evermore
enlarg'd,
If some suspect of ill mask'd not thy show,
Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Is it the dirt, the squalor,
the wear of human bodies,
and the dead faces of our
neighbours?
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Imagists |
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Instant, new wars on new-spread ensigns rise
"In robes of white behold a priest
advance!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The world with throes
laboured
beneath their
load.
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Marvell - Poems |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I thought I should have fainted, but I did not faint;
I stood stunned at the moment, scarcely sad,
Till I raised my wail of
desolate
complaint
For you, my cousin, brother, all I had.
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Christina Rossetti |
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He bare hym
curteislich
& tsllie,
To fulfille his faders wille,
Glad as he had ybe.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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[58]
_pataku_
has apparently the same sense originally as _bataku_,
although the one forms its preterite _iptik_, and the other
_ibtuk_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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As one, whose secrets in his looks we spy,
His inmost
thoughts
discovers in his eye
Or in his aspect, graved by nature's hand,
My gestures, ere I spoke, enforced my fond demand.
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Petrarch |
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The grey-green woods impassive
Had watched the
threshing
of his limbs.
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Stephen Crane |
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Thus
did our knight avoid all
appearance
of evil, though sorely pressed to
do what was wrong (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Who's there
i'th' name of
Belzebub?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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He made this somewhat ironic alba in 1257, a fitting coda to the
troubadour
era.
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Troubador Verse |
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