To one of the members has been
delegated
the merely
mechanical labors of assembling, proof-reading, and seeing the volume
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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Spare us the inexpiable wrong, the
unutterable
shame,
That turns the coward's heart to steel, the sluggard's blood to
flame,
Lest, when our latest hope is fled, ye taste of our despair,
And learn by proof, in some wild hour, how much the wretched
dare.
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All-heal and willow-herb and meadow-sweet--
The innocent names kept up a cool refrain--
All-heal and willow-herb and meadow-sweet,
Chiming and
tinkling
in his aching brain,
Until he babbled like a child again--
"All-heal and willow-herb and meadow-sweet.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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You
Chinaman
and Chinawoman of China!
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I
[Illustration]
I was an
Inkstand
new,
Papa he likes to use it;
He keeps it in his pocket now,
For fear that he should lose it.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Then they followed
Where the vision led,
And saw their
sleeping
child
Among tigers wild.
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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_Droorie_
in its antient
signification stood for _modesty_.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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XXXIII
Rogero revels there, in like delight,
While Charles and
Agramant
are troubled sore.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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They were easy to find who
elsewhere
sought
in room remote their rest at night,
bed in the bowers, {2a} when that bale was shown,
was seen in sooth, with surest token, --
the hall-thane's {2b} hate.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The _reem_, those great beasts with
eighteen
horns,
Who mate but once in seventy years and die
In their own tears which flow ten stadia high.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Kosmos, Quicksand Years, or Thoughts,
Thou Mother with thy Equal Brood," and many, many more unspecified,
From fibre heart of mine--from throat and tongue--(My life's hot
pulsing blood,
The
personal
urge and form for me--not merely paper, automatic type
and ink,)
Each song of mine--each utterance in the past--having its long, long
history,
Of life or death, or soldier's wound, of country's loss or safety,
(O heaven!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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How public, like a frog
To tell your name the
livelong
day
To an admiring bog!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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How
beautiful
it is to wake at night,
Embalmed in darkness watchful, sweet, and still,
As is the brain's mood flattered by the swim
Of currents circumvolvent in the void,
To lie quite still and to become aware
Of the dim light cast by nocturnal skies
On a dim earth beyond the window-ledge,
So, isolate from the friendly company
Of the huge universe which turns without,
To brood apart in calm and joy awhile
Until the spirit sinks and scarcely knows
Whether self is, or if self only is,
For ever.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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At this
point the epic brings in a new and powerful _motif_, the renunciation
of woman's love in the
presence
of a great undertaking.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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70
It's dry work follerin'
argymunce
an' so, 'twix' this an' thet,
I felt conviction weighin' down somehow inside my hat;
It growed an' growed like Jonah's gourd, a kin' o' whirlin' ketched me,
Ontil I fin'lly clean gin out an' owned up thet he'd fetched me;
An' when nine tenths o' th' perrish took to tumblin' roun' an' hollerin',
I didn' fin' no gret in th' way o' turnin' tu an' follerin'.
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James Russell Lowell |
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With copious slaughter all the fields are red,
And heap'd with growing
mountains
of the dead.
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Iliad - Pope |
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She had
wandered
long,
Hearing wild birds' song.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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That o'er the green
cornfield
did pass,
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing hey ding a ding:
Sweet lovers love the Spring.
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Golden Treasury |
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"The waves, unashamed,
In difference sweet,
Play glad with the breezes,
Old playfellows meet;
The journeying atoms,
Primordial
wholes,
Firmly draw, firmly drive,
By their animate poles.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Telemachus returning to the city, relates to
Penelope
the sum of
his travels.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I will make a
necklace
of them,
Make a girdle for my beauty,
And two stars to deck her bosom!
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Longfellow |
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the
Tirynthian came in furious wrath, and,
scanning
all the entry, turned
his face this way and that and ground his teeth.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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They
have silently compared, perhaps, the normal materialistic conventions in
business, politics, education, and religion, with the relief from those
conventions that nearly all soldiers and many civilians experience in
time of war; for although war has its too gross and ugly side, it has
not dared to learn that
inflexibility
of custom and conduct that deadens
the spirit into a tame submission.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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the Sire on high,
Who gods and men
unerring
guides,
Who rules the sea, the earth, the sky,
Their times and tides.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The translator's feelings alone must direct him, for
the spirit of poetry is sure to
evaporate
in literal translation.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Soon as the sun
Hath climb'd the middle heav'ns, the prophet old,
Emerging
while the breezy zephyr blows,
And cover'd with the scum of ocean, seeks 490
His spacious cove, in which outstretch'd he lies.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Pigs broke loose,
scrambled
west,
Scorned their loathsome stations,
Crossed the Appalachians,
Turned to roaming, foaming wild boars
Of the forest.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes
blowing?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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[82]
At Chu-t'ang a
straight
cleft yawns:
At Yen-yu islands block the stream.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thou
shouldst
have watched and saved thy bacon.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Silent and sad, he raised himself from ground,
And when he some few paces thence had gone,
His shield
unbraced
and helm and mail unbound,
He flung against the tomb; and thence, alone,
Afoot the moody monarch left that ground:
Yet not till he had given command to one
(Of his four squires was he) to do his hest
Relating to those captives, as exprest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Sorrow is not excluded from "Al Aaraaf," but it is that
sorrow which the living love to cherish for the dead, and
which, in some minds, resembles the
delirium
of opium.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Non chant per auzel ni per flor
I do not sing for bird or flower,
Nor for snow, now, nor for ice,
Nor for warmth or the cold's power,
Nor for the fields' fresh paradise;
Nor for any pleasure do I sing
Nor indeed have I been a singer,
But for my mistress, all my longing,
For on earth none
lovelier
may linger.
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Troubador Verse |
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I, Sappho, have made love the mastery
Most sacred over man; but I have made it
A safety of things gloriously known,
To house his spirit from the
darkness
blowing
Out of the vast unknown: from me he hath
The wilful mind to make his fortune fair.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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All his ideas merged into a single
one: how to turn to
advantage
the secret paid for so dearly.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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What is song's
eternity?
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John Clare |
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"
III
--"And how
explains
thy Ancient Mind her crimes upon her creatures,
These fallings from her fair beginnings, woundings where she loves,
Into her would-be perfect motions, modes, effects, and features
Admitting cramps, black humours, wan decay, and baleful blights,
Distress into delights?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Arrived was the hour
when to hall
proceeded
Healfdene's son:
the king himself would sit to banquet.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Il est l'amour, mesure parfaite et reinventee, raison
merveilleuse
et
imprevue, et l'eternite: machine aimee des qualites fatales.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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had selected a
text of
Scripture
that contained a heavy denunciation against
obstinate sinners.
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Robert Burns |
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previous
one--the old editions
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Rilke - Poems |
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The series builds up a decidedly
epic significance, and its manner is extraordinarily
suggestive
of a new
epic method.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The Moon was shining slobaciously from the star-bespangled sky,
while her light irrigated the smooth and shiny sides and wings and backs of
the Blue-Bottle-Flies with a peculiar and trivial splendor, while all
Nature cheerfully responded to the cerulean and
conspicuous
circumstances.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
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Meredith - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
countless
blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I
imagined
I could save my happy life by forfeiting
my honour; and the result is that I have lost both.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Your wings,
brushing
it, spill never a drop
From the glass I fill, from which my thirst I quench.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Bright is the path, that is opening before us,
Upward and onward it mounts through the night;
Sword shall not sever the bonds that unite us
Leading the world to the
fullness
of light.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Nature now
So hedges off
approaches
and the paths;
And thus the sense, its motions all deranged,
Retires down deep within; and since there's naught,
As 'twere, to prop the frame, the body weakens,
And all the members languish, and the arms
And eyelids fall, and, as ye lie abed,
Even there the houghs will sag and loose their powers.
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Lucretius |
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When
mushrooms
they were fairy bowers,
Their marble pillars overswelling,
And Danger paused to pluck the flowers
That in their swarthy rings were dwelling.
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John Clare |
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To him, his love for his wife and children is a
beautiful
thing, a
subject to speak and sing about as well as an emotion to feel.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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' By his brother's
infernal
streams, by the banks of the pitchy
black-boiling chasm he signed assent, and made all Olympus quiver at his
nod.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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' Camden's _Reign of
Elizabeth_
(English
transl.
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John Donne |
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Amonge al this I fond a tale 60
That me
thoughte
a wonder thing.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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This is the reward for my
excessive
care:
I search for my self: and yet find no one there.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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How didst thou him of horse and arms
deprive?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Ill fits the
stranger
and the poor to wound.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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46 _amisit_ R, _s_ super rasuram
48
_Kymeneo
kymene?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Why, then, for jes' the same superl'tive reason,
They're 'most too much so to be tetched for treason;
They _can't_ go out, but ef they somehow _du_,
Their
sovereignty
don't noways go out tu;
The State goes out, the sovereignty don't stir,
But stays to keep the door ajar for her.
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James Russell Lowell |
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I swear I think all merges toward the
presentation
of the unspoken meanings
of the earth;
Toward him who sings the songs of the Body, and of the truths of the earth;
Toward him who makes the dictionaries of words that print cannot touch.
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Whitman |
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1510
Thus mene I, that it were a gret folye
To putte that
sikernesse
in Iupertye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The former
suggests
that the next two lines are an expansion
or explanation of this statement.
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John Donne |
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That these the arts I used, the way I took,
Smiles varying scorn as sunshine follows rain,
You know, and well have sung in many a
deathless
strain
Again and oft, as saw I sunk in grief
Those tearful eyes, I said, 'Without relief,
Surely and swift he marches to his grave,'
And, at the thought, the fitting help I gave.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The
harlot commands him to eat and drink also:
"It is the
conformity
of life,
Of the conditions and fate of the Land.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Elle saigna du nez,
Et se sentant bien chaste et pleine de faiblesse,
Pour savourer en Dieu son amour revenant,
Elle eut soif de la nuit ou s'exalte et s'abaisse
Le coeur, sous l'oeil des cieux doux, en les devinant;
De la nuit, Vierge-Mere impalpable qui baigne
Tous les jeunes emois de ses
silences
gris;
Elle eut soif de la nuit forte ou le coeur qui saigne
Ecoute sans temoin sa revolte sans cris.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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Appoloinaire |
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The celebrated travel book entitled: 'History of Prince Don Pedro of Portugal, in which is told what
happened
to him on the way composed for Gomez of Santistevan when he had covered the seven regions of the globe, one of the twelve who bore the prince company', reports that the Prince of Portugal, Don Pedro of Alfaroubeira, set out with twelve companions to visit the seven regions of the world.
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Appoloinaire |
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The shadows from yon gentle heights that fall,
Where
sparkles
my sweet fire, where brightly grew
That stately laurel from a sucker small,
Increasing, as I speak, hide from my view
The beauteous landscape and the blessed scene,
Where dwells my true heart with its only queen.
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Petrarch |
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Thou hand'st sweet Socrates his hemlock sour;
Thou sav'st Barabbas in that hideous hour,
And stabb'st the good
"Deliverer Christ; thou rack'st the souls of men;
Thou tossest girls to lions and boys to flames;
Thou hew'st Crusader down by Saracen;
Thou buildest closets full of secret shames;
Indifferent
cruel, thou dost blow the blaze
Round Ridley or Servetus; all thy days
Smell scorched; I would
"-- Thou base-born Accident of time and place --
Bigot Pretender unto Judgment's throne --
Bastard, that claimest with a cunning face
Those rights the true, true Son of Man doth own
By Love's authority -- thou Rebel cold
At head of civil wars and quarrels old --
Thou Knife on a throne --
"I would thou left'st me free, to live with love,
And faith, that through the love of love doth find
My Lord's dear presence in the stars above,
The clods below, the flesh without, the mind
Within, the bread, the tear, the smile.
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XVII
"And is it,"
meditates
Eugene.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Again,
One need not wonder how it comes about
That through those places (through which eyes cannot
View objects
manifest)
sounds yet may pass
And assail the ears.
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When Camoens arrived in India, an
expedition
was ready to sail to
revenge the King of Cochin on the King of Pimenta.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The lazy mist hangs from the brow of the hill,
Concealing
the course of the dark winding rill;
How languid the scenes, late so sprightly, appear!
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Robert Burns |
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Nicolas to show that Omar gave
himself up "avec passion a l'etude de la
philosophie
des Soufis"?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Nor took from that dwelling the duke of the Geats
save only the head and that hilt withal
blazoned with jewels: the blade had melted,
burned was the bright sword, her blood was so hot,
so poisoned the hell-sprite who
perished
within there.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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_ What reason, then, prevents thy
speaking
out?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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We thank you, maiden;
But may not be so credulous of cure,
When our most learned doctors leave us, and
The congregated college have concluded
That labouring art can never ransom nature
From her inaidable estate-I say we must not
So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope,
To prostitute our past-cure malady
To empirics; or to
dissever
so
Our great self and our credit to esteem
A senseless help, when help past sense we deem.
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Shakespeare |
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Since I have seen falling to my life's flood
The leaf of a rose
snatched
from out your days,
Now at last I can say to the fleeting years:
- Pass by!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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36 The La Festival2 On the La Festival in ordinary years warm weather is still far away, this year on the La Festival the ice has
entirely
melted.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Their liquid feet go softly out
Upon a sea of blond;
They spurn the air as 't were too mean
For
creatures
so renowned.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I
finished
my day as foolishly as I had begun it.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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O
merciful
God, must I handle it
Again?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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O how
charmingly
Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers blooming and luxuriant.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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'Twill turn out
dangerous
maybe, but still,--a game.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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For while with their
knife which they hold in one hand they cut the meate out of the
dish, they fasten their forke which they hold in their other hand
vpon the same dish, so that whatsoeuer he be that sitting in the
company of any others at meale, should
vnadvisedly
touch the dish of
meate with his fingers from which all at the table doe cut, he will
giue occasion of offence vnto the company, as hauing transgressed
the lawes of good manners.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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It is the same in
painting
as in literature, for
when a new painter arises men cry out, even when he is a painter of
the beautiful like Rossetti, that he has chosen the exaggerated or the
ugly or the unhealthy, forgetting that it is the business of art and
of letters to change the values and to mint the coinage.
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Yeats |
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The extraordinary concentration and
richness
of
this description reminds us of Keats's advice to Shelley--'Load every
rift of your subject with ore.
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The merciless try,
With sharp tongues, poison to distil,
I fear them not, though Galicia's lord, men say,
They forced to sin, whom we may blame it seems
For capturing, on a pilgrimage fair,
The count's son Raymond, and in intent
King
Ferdinand
wins little true merit yet
If he'll not free nor return him ever.
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Troubador Verse |
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