THAT MIGHTY MONARCH,
Alexander
the Great (B.
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Throbbing
THIS
throbbing
shows what we abandoned,
Which through the vacant chamber wells,
Wherein our joys, in parting, beckoned,
No longer hour nor pathway tells 1
How oft in sleep we wander, straying!
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cm Street Boston
SELECTED POEMS OF
Gustaf Froeding
The greatest poet of a great poetic literature, adequately
introduced
to English readers.
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Thrice he assayd, and thrice in spite of scorn,
Tears such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last 620
Words
interwove
with sighs found out their way.
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Milton |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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They give and take no pledge or oath,--
Nature is the bond of both:
No prayer persuades, no
flattery
fawns,--
Their noble meanings are their pawns.
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Once, I know, there was a nest,
Held there by the
sideward
thrust
Of those twigs that touch his breast;
Though 'tis gone now.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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is the same, the same,
Perplexed and ruffled by life's
strategy?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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how can I escape the sight of this
Scythian?
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Aristophanes |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the
talisman
that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Prom
leaflets
that bedeck the ground
Renewed and goodly scents arise,
The coloured volume I expound,
While you repeat the words I prize.
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Weary of life, thou liest in silent sleep,
As one who marks the lengthening shadows creep,
Careless
of all the hurrying hours that run,
Mourning some day of glory, for the sun
Of Freedom hath not shewn to thee his face,
And thou hast caught no flambeau in the race.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Nor many stairs were overpass, when now
By fading of the shadow we perceiv'd
The sun behind us couch'd: and ere one face
Of
darkness
o'er its measureless expanse
Involv'd th' horizon, and the night her lot
Held individual, each of us had made
A stair his pallet: not that will, but power,
Had fail'd us, by the nature of that mount
Forbidden further travel.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_ Raleigh and his squadron lost the main fleet
while off the coast of Spain, before they set sail
definitely
for
the Azores.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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There amidst Albert's works shall that be read,
Which will give speedy motion to the pen,
When Prague shall mourn her
desolated
realm.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and
independence
of mind.
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Villon |
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XXX
"Blest and thrice blest the Roman
Who sees Rome's brightest day,
Who sees that long
victorious
pomp
Wind down the Sacred Way,
And through the bellowing Forum,
And round the Suppliant's Grove,
Up to the everlasting gates
Of Capitolian Jove.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Being of a perverse nature, his Derves ruined by abuse of
drink and drugs, the landscapes of his
imagination
were more beautiful
than Nature herself.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And what good in our lives, strength or
delighted
glee,
Hath God paid to purchase our purity?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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e3) R [e3:
symbolum
"-m"?
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Latin - Catullus |
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The
comparison
of the sunbeam
is fine.
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Robert Forst |
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I got
angry; I was
impertinent
to the marker who scored for us.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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May never wicked men
bamboozle
him!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I dreamt I saw thee, robed in purple flakes,
Break amorous through the clouds, as morning breaks,
And, swiftly as a bright
Phoebean
dart,
Strike for the Cretan isle; and here thou art!
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Keats - Lamia |
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EJC}
Then I am dead till thou
revivest
me with thy sweet song
Now taking on Ahanias form & now the form of Enion
I know thee not as once I knew thee in those blessed fields
Where memory wishes to repose among the flocks of Tharmas
Enitharmon answerd Wherefore didst thou throw thine arms around
Ahanias Image I decievd thee & will still decieve
Urizen saw thy sin & hid his beams in darkning Clouds
I still keep watch altho I tremble & wither across the heavens
In strong vibrations of fierce jealousy for thou art mine
Created for my will my slave tho strong tho I am weak {This line appears to have been inserted between 2 existing lines.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I bow myself
Humbly
henceforward
on the ill I did,
That humbleness may keep it in the shade.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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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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La Fontaine |
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Stay awhile,
Poor youth, who
scarcely
dar'st lift up thine eyes!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
—The Rochester Herald, Rochester, New York
— The
Literary
Digest, New York Rates, $1.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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'
ast Amor
euigilans
dixit 'mea pinna, uolemus'.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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How near dark Pluto's court I stood,
And AEacus' judicial throne,
The blest seclusion of the good,
And Sappho, with sweet lyric moan
Bewailing
her ungentle sex,
And thee, Alcaeus, louder far
Chanting thy tale of woful wrecks,
Of woful exile, woful war!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
remarked
one of the
men, addressing a young officer of the Engineering Corps.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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there's
Celmonde
yn the place.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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We hurry far away in
precipitate
flight,
with the suppliant who had so well merited rescue; and silently cut the
cable, and bending forward sweep the sea with emulous oars.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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good or ill betide,
We dance before him
thorough
kingdoms wide:--
Come hither, lady fair, and joined be
To our wild minstrelsy!
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Keats |
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The images are
provided
for educational, scholarly, non-commercial purposes.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And, since we mark the mind itself is cured,
Like the sick body, and
restored
can be
By medicine, this is forewarning too
That mortal lives the mind.
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Lucretius |
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Thou say'st Love's dart
Hath pricked thy heart;
And thou dost
languish
too:
If one poor prick
Can make thee sick,
Say, what would many do?
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Robert Herrick |
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'The Influence of Natural Objects' (which appeared
in 'The Friend' in 1809), and 'The Simplon Pass' (first
published
in the
8vo edition of the Poems in 1845).
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William Wordsworth |
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Bright Souls [Elements] of
vegetative
life, budding and blossoming
Stretch
PAGE 14
Stretch their immortal hands to smite the gold & silver Wires
And with immortal Voice soft warbling fill all Earth & Heaven.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The
daughter
of beauty wip'd her pitying tears with her white veil,
And said, Alas!
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blake-poems |
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some Fury sure has steel'd
That stubborn soul, by toil
untaught
to yield!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The blond assassin passes on,
The sun
proceeds
unmoved
To measure off another day
For an approving God.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Methinks
there is a kind of shadowing affinity between the subject of
the narrative and the subject of the dedication.
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Yet though the hideous prison-wall
Still hems him round and round,
And a spirit may not walk by night
That is with fetters bound,
And a spirit may but weep that lies
In such unholy ground,
He is at peace- this
wretched
man-
At peace, or will be soon:
There is no thing to make him mad,
Nor does Terror walk at noon,
For the lampless Earth in which he lies
Has neither Sun nor Moon.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Dreaming of gods, men, nuns and brides, between
Old
companies
of oaks that inward lean
To join their radiant amplitudes of green
I slowly move, with ranging looks that pass
Up from the matted miracles of grass
Into yon veined complex of space
Where sky and leafage interlace
So close, the heaven of blue is seen
Inwoven with a heaven of green.
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Sidney Lanier |
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IV
Lastly I ask--now old and chill--
If aught of him remain
unperished
still;
And find, in me alone, a feeble spark,
Dying amid the dark.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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),
referring
to sword-sports.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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His majesty having
commanded
a general
muster of the militia throughout the kingdom, the city of _London_
not only mustered 6000 citizens completely armed, who performed their
several evolutions with surprizing dexterity; but a martial spirit
appeared amongst the rising generation.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Faithless
and hopeless turning to the wall.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Crouching
behind my pointed wall of words,
Ramparts I built of moons and loreleys,
Enchanted roses, sphinxes, love-sick birds,
Giants, dead lads who left their graves to dance,
Fairies and phoenixes and friendly gods--
A curious frieze, half Renaissance, half Greek,
Behind which, in revulsion of romance,
I lay and laughed--and wept--till I was weak.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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In two
or three small
instances
lately, I have been most shamefully out.
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"AT length we reach'd AEolias's sea-girt shore,
Where great
Hippotades
the sceptre bore,
A floating isle!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The colours all inflam'd
throughout
her train,
She writh'd about, convuls'd with scarlet pain:
A deep volcanian yellow took the place
Of all her milder-mooned body's grace;
And, as the lava ravishes the mead,
Spoilt all her silver mail, and golden brede;
Made gloom of all her frecklings, streaks and bars,
Eclips'd her crescents, and lick'd up her stars:
So that, in moments few, she was undrest
Of all her sapphires, greens, and amethyst,
And rubious-argent: of all these bereft,
Nothing but pain and ugliness were left.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Each one
therefore
was joyful; his evil humour left him.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Besides, among the clouds are waves, and these
Give, as they roughly break, a
rumbling
roar;
As when along deep streams or the great sea
Breaks the loud surf.
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Lucretius |
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The
daughter
of beauty wip'd her pitying tears with her white veil,
And said, Alas!
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blake-poems |
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--the black squadrons
wheeling
down to Death!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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For now all scenes around her shift,
Like those before a racer's eyes
When, foremost sped and madly swift,
Quick stretching toward the goal he flies,
Yet feels his strength wane with his breath,
And purpose fail 'mid fears of death,--
Till, like the flashing of a lamp,
Starts forth the sight of Arnold's camp,--
The bivouac flame, and sinuous gleam
Of steel,--where, crouched, the army waits,
Ere long, beyond the
midnight
stream,
To storm Quebec's ice-mounded gates.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The critics' wrath did darkly frown
Upon thy muse's mighty lay;
But blasts that break the blossom down
Do only stir the bay;
And thine shall flourish, green and long,
With the
eternity
of song.
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John Clare |
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"
The mother of
Gilgamish
she that knows all things,
said unto Gilgamish:--
"Truly oh Gilgamish he is
born [56] in the fields like thee.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Knowing I know not how Na
Audiart
Thou wert once she,
For whose
fairness
one forgave, Que be-m vols mal.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Would but the Desert of the
Fountain
yield
One glimpse--if dimly, yet indeed, reveal'd,
To which the fainting Traveler might spring,
As springs the trampled herbage of the field!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Your
apparition
cannot satisfy me:
Since I myself entombed you in porphyry.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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with the
Harington
family.
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John Donne |
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We were glad at last to come to a place of rest,
With wine enough to drink
together
to our fill,
Long I sang to the tune of the Pine-tree Wind;
When the song was over, the River-stars[46] were few.
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Li Po |
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Chorus
Sing hey my braw John
Highlandman!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He may be bad without ever doing
anything
bad.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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There is nothing
like _Paradise Lost_ in the preceding poems, and epic poetry has done
nothing since but decline from that
towering
glory.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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It
may have been partly on her account that Pope pitched upon
Twickenham
as
his abiding place.
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Alexander Pope |
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Why do you look at me so
fixedly?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A moment their guns have glowed
Sun-smitten: then out of sight
They
suddenly
sink,
Like men who touch a new grave's brink!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The Commonwealth does through their cen-
tres all
Draw the circumference of the public wall ;
The
crossest
spirits liere do take their part,
Fastening the coiitignation which they thwart :
And they who.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Farther back in the midst of the household goods and the wagons,
Like to a gypsy camp, or a leaguer after a battle,
All escape cut off by the sea, and the sentinels near them,
Lay encamped for the night the
houseless
Acadian farmers.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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The family of Petrarch was
originally
of Florence, where his ancestors
held employments of trust and honour.
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Petrarch |
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"
* * * * *
Yet what are all such
gaieties
to me
Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
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Lewis Carroll |
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To avenge;
retaliate
for.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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CHORUS
Nay, the law is sternly set--
Blood-drops shed upon the ground
Plead for other bloodshed yet;
Loud the call of death doth sound,
Calling guilt of olden time,
A Fury,
crowning
crime with crime.
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Aeschylus |
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I THINK the reader I've already told,
Our husband loved rich
presents
to behold;
Though none he made, yet all he would receive;
Whate'er was offered he would never leave.
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La Fontaine |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"The usual
duration
of man's life, in
my time, was about eight hundred years.
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Poe - 5 |
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a Chinese
Princess
named Hsi-chun was sent, for
political reasons, to be the wife of a central Asian nomad king, K'un
Mo, king of the Wu-sun.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A rabble however, of his own
followers and desperate debtors, took arms and were making to the forest
of Arden, when the legions sent from both armies by
Visellius
and Caius
Silius, through different routes to intercept them, marred their march:
and Julius Indus, one of the same country with Florus, at enmity with
him, and therefore more eager to engage him, was despatched forward with
a chosen band, and broke the ill-appointed multitude.
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Tacitus |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
Cried Maclean: "Now a ten-tined buck in the sight of the wife and the child
I had killed if the
gluttonous
kern had not wrought me a snail's own wrong!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Tomsky lit his pipe, took a few
whiffs, then continued:
"The next evening,
grandmother
appeared at Versailles at the Queen's
gaming-table.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Pushkin himself beheld him
When first he reached the court, and through the ranks
Of Lithuanian
gentlemen
went straight
Into the secret chamber of the king.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The beasts in cages much more loyal are,
Restlessly
pacing, pacing to and fro,
Dreaming of countries beckoning from afar,
Lands where they roamed in days of long ago.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The Stairs were then let down, whether to dare
The Fiend by easie ascent, or aggravate
His sad
exclusion
from the dores of Bliss.
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Milton |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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