Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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The nations not so blest as thee
Must in their turn to tyrants fall,
Whilst thou shalt
flourish
great and free
The dread and envy of them all.
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Golden Treasury |
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Thus, at 1837, when he was promoted to an officership in the Legion of
Honor, it was acknowledged his due as a laborious worker in all fields of
literature, however
contestable
the merits and tendencies of his essays.
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Hugo - Poems |
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TEMPORE SENECTUTIS OR we are old
And the earth passion dieth;
We have watched him die a
thousand
times, When he wanes an old wind crieth,
For we are old
And passion hath died for us a thousand times
But we grew never weary.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A deep displeasure
overcame
my feelings;
His death destroyed the object I was seeking.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But my mind was weary Almost as the
twilight
of the day,
And my soul was sullen, and a little Tired of his everlasting talk.
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All
Summarised
The Soul.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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call not me to justify the wrong
That thy
unkindness
lays upon my heart;
Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue:
Use power with power, and slay me not by art,
Tell me thou lov'st elsewhere; but in my sight,
Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside:
What need'st thou wound with cunning, when thy might
Is more than my o'erpress'd defence can bide?
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Aeschylus |
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But always there comes,
Out from the flame of my being Smoke with its
wavering
fingers Running athwart my joy;
Always the dark fingers weaving Out of the smoke of my sinning Curtains to shut me from God.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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What a seat he has on
horseback!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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here is the coming autumn, though it also
suggests
the violence of the times.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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She doth not tack from side to side--
Hither to work us weal
Withouten wind,
withouten
tide
She steddies with upright keel.
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Villon |
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Ein schoner, susser
Zeitvertreib!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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They reared to thee such symbol as they knew, 30
And
worshipped
it with flame and blood,
A Vengeance, axe in hand, that stood
Holding a tyrant's head up by the clotted hair.
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James Russell Lowell |
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And
he showed me above the altar an inscription graven, and I read:
"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee;
for it is
profitable
for thee that one of thy members should perish,
and not that the whole body should be cast into hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And when they come into the land of Spain
All that country
lightens
and shines again:
Of their coming Marsile has heard the tale.
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Chanson de Roland |
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At fall of
eventide
he went
To drink beside the river-head;
A waiting hunter threw his dart,
And struck my lover through the heart.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Where it were friendship's schism,
Were not his Lucius long with us to tarry,
To separate these twi-
Lights, the Dioscouri;
And keep the one half from his Harry,
But fate doth so
alternate
the design
Whilst that in heaven, this light on earth must shine.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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XIV
As we pass the summer stream without danger
That floods in winter, king of all the plain,
Rendering farmers' hopes and shepherds' vain,
In his proud flight, sinking fields in water:
As we see coward creatures at the slaughter
Outrage the dead lion after his brave reign,
Staining their jaws, revealing their disdain,
Daring their enemy bereft of power:
And as the least valiant Greeks at Troy
With brave Hector's corpse were wont to toy,
So those whose heads once used to bow,
When to Roman triumph they were drawn,
On dusty tombs exact their vengeance now,
The
conquered
daring the conqueror's scorn.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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STREET CRIES
When dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky,
Rousing the world to labour's various cry,
To tend the flock, to bind the
mellowing
grain,
From ardent toil to forge a little gain,
And fasting men go forth on hurrying feet,
BUY BREAD, BUY BREAD, rings down the eager street.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But as with riper years her virtue grew,
And every minute adds a lustre new ;
* Elizabeth, Lady Claypole, the Protector's
favorite
daugh-
ter, died on Friday, 6th August, 1658.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"The chimes will ring on
Christmas
Day, The chimes will ring on Christmas Day, And rich and poor will kneel and pray.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Well pleased the
audience
heard the tale.
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Longfellow |
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NA AUDIART
"QUE BE-M VOLS MAL"
Any one who has read anything of the troubadours knows well the tale of Bertran of Born and My Lady Maent of Mon- taignac, and knows also the song he made when she would none
her love-lit glance, of Aelis her speech free-running, of the Vicomp- tess of Chales her throat and her two hands, at
Roacoart
of Anhes her hair golden as Iseult's ; and even in this fashion of Lady Audiart, " although she would that ill come unto him" he sought
and praised the lineaments of the torse.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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No
boasting
like a Foole,
This deed Ile do, before this purpose coole,
But no more sights.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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THE POET'S LOVE-SONG
In noon-tide hours, O Love, secure and strong,
I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind
The world to my desire, and hold the wind
A voiceless captive to my
conquering
song.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight
shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Of a race whose
remorseless
torments she desires.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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At least, the sceptre lost, I still should reign
Sole o'er my vassals, and
domestic
train.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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sayd,
Bot
graunted
hastyly; 690
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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A soul
trembling
to sit by a hearth so bright,
To exist again, it's enough if I borrow from
Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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This heap of earth o'ergrown with moss
Which close beside the thorn you see,
So fresh in all its
beauteous
dyes,
Is like an infant's grave in size
As like as like can be:
But never, never any where,
An infant's grave was half so fair.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
My
brothers
who live after us,
Don't harden you hearts against us too,
If you have mercy now on us,
God may have mercy upon you.
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Villon |
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But go we in, I pray thee, Jessica,
And ceremoniously let us prepare
Some welcome for the
mistress
of the house.
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Shakespeare |
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One hope is too like despair
For
prudence
to smother,
And Pity from thee more dear
Than that from another.
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Golden Treasury |
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Alas for him that is gone,
And for thee, O wandering one:
That now, methinks, in a land
Of the
stranger
must toil for hire,
And stand where the poor men stand,
A-cold by another's fire,
O son of the mighty sire:
While I in a beggar's cot
On the wrecked hills, changing not,
Starve in my soul for food;
But our mother lieth wed
In another's arms, and blood
Is about her bed.
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Euripides - Electra |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Yet he plodded thence through the dark immense,
And with many a
stumbling
stride
Through copse and briar climbed nigh and nigher
To the cot and the sick man's side.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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embracing
her in sleep.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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let not the lour
Of the rude tempest vex his slumber, or
The Arno with its tawny troubled gold
O'er-leap its marge, no mightier conqueror
Clomb the high Capitol in the days of old
When Rome was indeed Rome, for Liberty
Walked like a bride beside him, at which sight pale Mystery
Fled shrieking to her farthest sombrest cell
With an old man who
grabbled
rusty keys,
Fled shuddering, for that immemorial knell
With which oblivion buries dynasties
Swept like a wounded eagle on the blast,
As to the holy heart of Rome the great triumvir passed.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed,
There but wild oats and barren darnel spring;
For tender violet and
narcissus
bright
Thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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in sweete even-tide,
When ruddy Phoebus gins to welke in west, 200
High on an hill, his flocke to vewen wide,
Markes which do byte their hasty supper best,
A cloud of combrous gnattes do him molest,
All striving to infixe their feeble stings,
That from their noyance he no where can rest, 205
But with his clownish hands their tender wings
He
brusheth
oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
'E 'adn't 'ardly spoke the word, before a droppin' shell
A little right the batt'ry an' between the
sections
fell;
An' when the smoke 'ad cleared away, before the limber wheels,
There lay the Driver's Brother with 'is 'ead between 'is 'eels.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"Abide," quoth one on the bank above, over his head, "and thou shalt
have all in haste that I
promised
thee once.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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_ Yea--but who shall loose
While Zeus is
adverse?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Further corrections in text and glossary have been made, and some
additional new
readings
and suggestions will be found in two brief
appendices at the back of the book.
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Beowulf |
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The gradual
distance
hid them, and she turned, and went.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Look up and see the
casement
broken in,
The bats and owlets builders in the roof!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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But now help god to
quenchen
al this sorwe,
So hope I that he shal, for he best may;
For I have seyn, of a ful misty morwe 1060
Folwen ful ofte a mery someres day;
And after winter folweth grene May.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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[34]
"O God-like
isolation
which art mine,
I can but count thee perfect gain,
What time I watch the darkening droves of swine
That range on yonder plain.
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Tennyson |
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Ye need dissimulation base
A dying man with art to soothe,
Beneath his head the pillow smooth,
And physic bring with
mournful
face,
To sigh and meditate alone:
When will the devil take his own!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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what, from feeling's deepest fountain springing,
Scarce from the stammering lips had faintly passed,
Now, hopeful,
venturing
forth, now shyly clinging,
To the wild moment's cry a prey is cast.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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You offer me this Book
To swear on; and it saith, "Swear not at all,
Neither by heaven, because it is God's Throne,
Nor by the earth, because it is his
footstool!
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Longfellow |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Say thou dost love me, love me, love me--toll
The silver
iterance!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Hold my heart, my brain will take fire of you
As flax ignites from a lit fire-brand--
And flame will sweep in a swift rushing flood
Through all the singing
currents
of my blood.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Hwīlum
flītende
fealwe strǣte
mēarum mǣton.
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Beowulf |
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Moi je ne peux plus croire,
Quand j'ai deux bonnes mains, mon front et mon marteau
Qu'un homme vienne la, dague sur le manteau,
Et me dise: Mon gars,
ensemence
ma terre;
Que l'on arrive encor, quand ce serait la guerre,
De prendre mon garcon comme cela, chez moi!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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] _He
disposes
his wife to her place.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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LIV
So downe he fell, and forth his life did breath,
That vanisht into smoke and cloudes swift;
So downe he fell, that th' earth him
underneath
480
Did grone, as feeble so great load to lift;
So downe he fell, as an huge rockie clift,
Whose false foundation waves have washt away,
With dreadfull poyse is from the mayneland rift,
And rolling downe, great Neptune doth dismay; 485
So downe he fell, and like an heaped mountaine lay.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Then,
glancing
narrow at the wall,
And narrow at the floor,
For firm conviction of a mouse
Not exorcised before,
Peruse how infinite I am
To -- no one that you know!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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They only perish of winter 10
Whom Love,
audacious
and tender,
Never hath visited.
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Sappho |
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Le poete buter du front sur son
travail?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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e cite,
godus
seruaunt
forte be,
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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'Sit and roast there with your meat, sit and bake there with your bread,
You who sat to see us starve,' one
shrieking
woman said:
'Sit on your throne and roast with your crown upon your head.
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Christina Rossetti |
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' He spoke, and snatching his sword like
lightning
from the
sheath, strikes at the hawser with the drawn steel.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Rapidly then renewed heat overcomes those lowering vapors,
Sends up a flame that anew bright and more
powerful
gleams.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Next morning, this is what was viewed in town:
Dawn coming--people going--some adown
Praying, some crying; pallid cheeks, swift feet,
And a huge lion
stalking
through the street.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And sharp the link of life will snap,
And dead on air will stand
Heels that held up as
straight
a chap
As treads upon the land.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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To know just how he suffered would be dear;
To know if any human eyes were near
To whom he could intrust his
wavering
gaze,
Until it settled firm on Paradise.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A Boredom, made
desolate
by cruel hope
Still believes in the last goodbye of handkerchiefs!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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IT
happened
that the night our Job arrived,
And, stretched on straw, misfortune just survived,
The lady thought her fond gallant to see,
And ev'ry moment hoped with him to be.
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La Fontaine |
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Gaita be, gaiteta del chastel
Keep a watch, watchman there, on the wall,
While the best,
loveliest
of them all
I have with me until the dawn.
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Troubador Verse |
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Where I
proposed
to go
When time's brief masquerade was done,
Is mapped, and charted too!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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As flavors cheer
retarded
guests
With banquetings to be,
So spices stimulate the time
Till my small library.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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65
You who've known my heart since my first day,
Do you ask me to deny, when it would be shameful,
The
feelings
of a heart so proud, and so disdainful?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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All these did conquer; but the ones
Who overcame most times
Wear nothing
commoner
than snow,
No ornament but palms.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The beach is cut by the razory ice-wind, the wreck-guns sound,
The tempest lulls, the moon comes
floundering
through the drifts.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word
processing
or hypertext form.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Petrarch could not
refuse the request, and composed
fourteen
verses, which contain a sketch
of the great actions of Dandolo.
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Petrarch |
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I see a better state to me belongs
Than that which on thy humour doth depend:
Thou canst not vex me with
inconstant
mind,
Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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XXX
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a
thousand
sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till barbarous power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the leavings find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Yet without sin he
suffered
more
Than ever sinners did before.
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John Clare |
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et
encore une fois, je vous le presente, ce <>, comme
autrefois
dans
ce petit journal de combat mort en pleine breche _Lutece_, de tout mon
coeur, de toute mon ame et de toutes mes forces.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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e clyff, as hit cleue schulde,
As one vpon a
gryndelston
hade grounden a sy?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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