I have beheld the Ephesian's miracle--
Its columns strew the wilderness, and dwell
The hyaena and the jackal in their shade;
I have beheld Sophia's bright roofs swell
Their glittering mass i' the sun, and have surveyed
Its
sanctuary
the while the usurping Moslem prayed;
CLIV.
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I have heard the
mermaids
singing, each to each.
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poor youth,
What taste of purer air hast thou to soothe
My
essence?
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Keats - Lamia |
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The kingly lion stood,
And the virgin viewed:
Then he
gambolled
round
O'er the hallowed ground.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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To be
published
at an early date by ALFRED A.
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Keats - Lamia |
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how ytte
wracketh
mee!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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'
"'But I have no money at all,'
insisted
my grandmother.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I gained it so,
By
climbing
slow,
By catching at the twigs that grow
Between the bliss and me.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I can't support myself: my
strength
has left me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Tindal of Oxford left him a
considerable
sum
of money.
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Alexander Pope |
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Stephen Crane |
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'
"Thus spoke the dame, and
homeward
took the road.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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When I behold the pharos shine
And lay a path along the sea,
How gladly I shall feel the spray,
Standing upon the swinging prow;
And
question
of my pilot old, 5
How many watery leagues to sail
Ere we shall round the harbour reef
And anchor off the wharves of home!
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Sappho |
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I should prefer, I confess, to contribute the entire
discourse to the pages of your
respectable
miscellany, if it should be
found acceptable upon perusal, especially as I find the difficulty in
selection of greater magnitude than I had anticipated.
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James Russell Lowell |
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III
The October night comes down;
returning
as before
Except for a slight sensation of being ill at ease
I mount the stairs and turn the handle of the door
And feel as if I had mounted on my hands and knees.
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T.S. Eliot |
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It would be difficult
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and
Liberation
$1.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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--The vulgar are
commonly
ill-natured,
and always grudging against their governors: which makes that a prince
has more business and trouble with them than ever Hercules had with the
bull or any other beast; by how much they have more heads than will be
reined with one bridle.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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By this affront my father's the offended,
And the offender is the father of
Chimene!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you should hold it in your hands";
(Slowly
twisting
the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at situations which it cannot see.
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T.S. Eliot |
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E ScholU
Wintoniensi
ad Academiam Oxonii,
Inde ad Interioris Templi Hospitium^ gradum
fecerat
Summas spei, summaB iiidolis, ubique vefttigia
reliquit.
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Marvell - Poems |
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BRANDER:
Sie kam vor Angst am hellen Tag
Der Kuche zugelaufen,
Fiel an den Herd und zuckt, und lag,
Und tat
erbarmlich
schnaufen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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'It was a babe,
beautiful
from its birth,--
It was like thee, dear love, its eyes were thine,
Its brow, its lips, and so upon the earth _2985
It laid its fingers, as now rest on mine
Thine own, beloved!
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Shelley |
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'T is said that
Emperors
write their names in green
When under age, but when of age in purple.
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Longfellow |
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Conscious, blushing for our race,
Soon, too soon, your fears I trace,
Man, your proud,
usurping
foe,
Would be lord of all below:
Plumes himself in freedom's pride,
Tyrant stern to all beside.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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the Night a silver cup
Fill'd with the wine of anguish waited at the golden feast
But the bright Sun was not as yet; he filling all the expanse
Slept as a bird in the blue shell that soon shall burst away
[] [Los saw the wound of his blow he saw he pitied he wept] *
{This is the line as Erdman gives it, but does not remark that the line is nearly illegible in the
manuscript
and appears to be written in pencil and erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Indeed thou didst,
And
answeredst
them with love.
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Longfellow |
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Moore adds that "these verses [of which he only prints two stanzas] are
full of strong and indignant feeling,--every stanza
concluding
pointedly
with the words 'Charity Ball.
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Byron |
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I only knew what hunted thought
Quickened
his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
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Wilde - Poems |
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38,
Yea, and the Sunne
for the usual
I, and the Sunne
suggests, what is probably correct but had not been
suspected
by any
editor, that 'I' here, as often, is not the pronoun, but 'Aye'.
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John Donne |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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'tween dark sea and here
Eternal
brightness
coming!
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Hugo - Poems |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Hard and incessant the danger and trial,
Laid on our squadrons, that gladly bore all,
Scorning
to meet with delay or denial
The summons that rang in the battle-days' call!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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'Tis
mountain
wolves', not horses' food!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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THE COMING OF GOOD LUCK
So Good-Luck came, and on my roof did light,
Like
noiseless
snow, or as the dew of night;
Not all at once, but gently,--as the trees
Are by the sun-beams, tickled by degrees.
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Robert Herrick |
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I'm also pleased to view some lord
Who leads the
vanguard
in attack,
On armoured horse, a fearless sword,
Who can inspire his men to hack
Away and bravely fight,
And when the conflict's joined aright,
Each must in readiness delight,
And follow where he might,
For none attains to honour's height
Till blows have landed left and right.
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Troubador Verse |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger
resembling
you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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In his Reply,
Marvell justifies himself in all the alleged in-
stances, and takes
occasion
to show that his oppo-
nent's learning is as hollow as all his other pre-
tensions.
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Marvell - Poems |
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If thy
Hrethric
should come to court of Geats,
a sovran's son, he will surely there
find his friends.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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`Now god,' quod he, `me sende yet the grace
That I may meten with this
Diomede!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Greater than stars or suns,
Bounding O soul thou journeyest forth;
What love than thine and ours could wider
amplify?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Notre ame est un trois-mats
cherchant
son Icarie;
Une voix retentit sur le pont: << Ouvre l'oeil!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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VI
Qui dira ces
langueurs
et ces pities immondes
Et ce qui lui viendra de haine, o sales fous,
Dont le travail divin deforme encor les mondes
Quand la lepre, a la fin, rongera ce corps doux,
Et quand, ayant rentre tous ces noeuds d'hysteries
Elle verra, sous les tristesses du bonheur,
L'amant rever au blanc million de Maries
Au matin de la nuit d'amour, avec douleur!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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This, this, my friend, I cannot, must not bear;
Vice thus abused, demands a nation's care;
This calls the Church to
deprecate
our sin,
And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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O holy pyre, O flame that's
nourished
by
A fire divine, may your fierce heart now burn
My familiar surface so completely, I,
Free and naked, might with a single flight
Rise, beyond the sky, to adore in turn
That other beauty from which your own derives.
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Ronsard |
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My house is always open to you:
Dear spirit, come often and you will find
Welcome, where mind can
foregather
with mind!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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What would she with a cheek
So bright in strange men's eyes, unless she seek
Some
treason?
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Euripides - Electra |
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2 janvier 1870
VOYELLES
A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu, voyelles,
Je dirai quelque jour vos naissances latentes,
A, noir corset velu des mouches eclatantes
Qui bombillent autour des puanteurs cruelles,
Golfe d'ombre: E, candeur des vapeurs et des tentes,
Lance des glaciers fiers, rois blancs,
frissons
d'ombelles
I, pourpres, sang crache, rire des levres belles
Dans la colere ou les ivresses penitentes;
U, cycles, vibrements divins des mers virides,
Paix des patis semes d'animaux, paix des rides
Que l'alchimie imprime aux grands fronts studieux;
O, supreme Clairon plein de strideurs etranges,
Silences traverses des Mondes et des Anges:
--O l'Omega, rayon violet de Ses Yeux!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
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Ronsard |
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We were as men who through a fen
Of filthy darkness grope:
We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or to give our anguish scope:
Something
was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Rilke - Poems |
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So she gan wepen
tendrely!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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{149b}
Horace, his judgment of
Choerillus
defended against Joseph Scaliger.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A few years back there were
eagles alive in the
Zoological
Gardens in Regent's Park to which Lear could
point as old familiar friends that he had drawn laboriously from claw to
beak fifty years before.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And never a human voice comes near
To speak a gentle word:
And the eye that watches through the door
Is
pitiless
and hard:
And by all forgot, we rot and rot,
With soul and body marred.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Cool upon his brow
The quiet
darkness
brooded, as he scanned
The starry sky.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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shame they embracd not
{This line
penciled
in above the ink line.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire
The buried shrine shows at its sewer-mouth's
Sepulchral slobber of mud and rubies
Some abominable statue of Anubis,
The muzzle lit like a ferocious snout
Or as when a dubious wick twists in the new gas,
Wiping out, as we know, the insults suffered
Haggardly lighting an immortal pubis,
Whose flight roosts according to the lamp
What votive leaves, dried in cities without evening
Could bless, as she can, vainly sitting
Against the marble of Baudelaire
Shudderingly absent from the veil that clothes her
She, his Shade, a protective poisonous air
Always to be breathed,
although
we die of her.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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But now Pallas made cruel
difference
between you; for thy head, Thymber,
is swept off by Evander's sword; thy right hand, Larides, severed, seeks
its master, and the dying fingers jerk and clutch at the sword.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Some rival quietly
despatched?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Shall I be
faithless
to myself
Or to you?
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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I, habitue of the Alleghanies,
treating
man as he is in himself, in his own
rights,
Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, the great
pride of man in himself;
Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be;
I project the history of the future.
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Whitman |
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Tell her, though fully you can never tell,
That, while her days calm and serenely flow,
In darkness and anxiety I dwell;
Love guides your flight, my thoughts
securely
go,
Fortune may change, and all may yet be well;
If my sun's aspect not deceives my woe.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Count
Your brave boy aims higher than before;
And the new
brilliance
of your nobility
Must swell his heart with greater vanity.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The
ploughman
came up and cut short his old tune,
Hallooed "woi" to his horses and though it was June
Said he'd help them an hour ere he'd keep them adry;
Well done, said the blacksmith with hopes running high;
He moves, and, by jingo, success to the plough!
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John Clare |
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= 'This we may suppose to have
been the customary wages of a
domestic
servant.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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181
Th' art hence
removing
(like a shepherd's tent), I.
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Robert Herrick |
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I'm not for
witchcraft
now inclined.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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AH SUNFLOWER
Ah Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller's journey is done;
Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my
Sunflower
wishes to go!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Trees
creaking
in the wind (but none are here)
Send forth such noises--and that weary bell!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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) And can that earth-artificer
have a freer power over his brother potsherd (both being made of the
same metal), than God hath over him, who, by the strange
fecundity
of
His omnipotent power, first made the clay out of nothing, and then him
out of that?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling
across the floors of silent seas.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Yea sometimes in a
bustling
man-filled place Meseemeth some-wise thy hair wandereth Across mine eyes, as mist that halloweth The air awhile and giveth all things grace.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Vainly valiant, you have missed
The manhood that should yours resist,--
Its complement; but if I could,
In severe or cordial mood,
Lead you rightly to my altar,
Where the wisest Muses falter,
And worship that world-warming spark
Which dazzles me in
midnight
dark,
Equalizing small and large,
While the soul it doth surcharge,
Till the poor is wealthy grown,
And the hermit never alone,--
The traveller and the road seem one
With the errand to be done,--
That were a man's and lover's part,
That were Freedom's whitest chart.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Than
thoughte
he thus: `If I my tale endyte
Ought hard, or make a proces any whyle,
She shal no savour han ther-in but lyte,
And trowe I wolde hir in my wil bigyle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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365
Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit,
_Sappho_ can tell you how this man was bit;
This dreaded Sat'rist
_Dennis_
will confess
Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress:
So humble, he has knock'd at _Tibbald's_ door, 370
Has drunk with _Cibber_, nay has rhym'd for _Moore_.
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Alexander Pope |
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Now, the pears;
So shall your children's
children
pluck their fruit.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Love pardons the unpardonable past:
Love in a
dominant
embrace holds fast
His frailer self, and saves without her will.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Perche s'appuntano i vostri disiri
dove per
compagnia
parte si scema,
invidia move il mantaco a' sospiri.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Nay, the wild rocks and woods then voiced the roar
Of Afric lions
mourning
for thy death.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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There, in a long series of fine actions,
He would see how men conquer nations,
Takes a position,
organise
an army.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And how she wept, and clasped his knees;
And how she tended him in vain--
And ever strove to expiate
The scorn that crazed his brain;--
And that she nursed him in a cave;
And how his madness went away,
When on the yellow forest-leaves
A dying man he lay;--
His dying words-but when I reached
That tenderest strain of all the ditty,
My
faltering
voice and pausing harp
Disturbed her soul with pity!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Keats - Lamia |
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XXX
"My sister was assured the huntress maid
Falsely
conceited
her a man to be;
Nor in that need could she afford her aid;
And found herself in sore perplexity.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Se raro e denso cio
facesser
tanto,
una sola virtu sarebbe in tutti,
piu e men distributa e altrettanto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I kissed the little
leafless
stem,
But oh, my poor heart knew
The words the flower had said to me,
They were not true.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The hour is growing late--the Duke awaits use--
Thy
presence
is expected in the hall
Below.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The Cinnabar
Courtyard
is near to royal concerns, moving swift as spirits, the imperial guard is firm.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And real in this sense they have been to every human
being who, from
whatever
sense of delusion, has at any time believed
himself under supernatural agency.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The minds which Heaven
abandons
to thy reign,
Haply are bound in many times and ways,
But mine one only chain,
Its wisdom shielding me from more, obeys;
Yet freedom brings no joy, though that he burst.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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He divided its
territory
between himself and Napoleon, Austria
retaining Istria, Dalmatia, and the left bank of the Adige in the
Venetian State, with the "maiden city" itself; France receiving the rest
of the territory and the Ionian Islands.
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William Wordsworth |
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Jonson does not speak of the trial as of a
contemporary
or nearly
contemporary event.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Sordello
to himself
Drew him, and cry'd: "Lo there our enemy!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Apart from his depth
and beauty, he has created a new form, endowed
verse with new colour and sound, and greatly ex-
tended the possibilities of
expression
in the German
language.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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