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I'll stride out with only my thought in sight,
Seeing nothing beyond, without hearing a sound,
Alone and unknown, back bowed, folded hands,
Sad, since
daylight
to me will seem night.
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Now hail the duke, with radiant brow,
Girt with his cavaliers;
Round his
triumphant
banner bow
Those of his foe.
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<>,
rispuose
lui, <
virtu del ciel mi mosse, e con lei vegno.
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HORACE'S DEBT TO HIS FATHER
If some few trivial faults deform my soul
(Like a fair face, when spotted with a mole),
If none with avarice justly brand my fame,
With sordidness, or deeds too vile to name;
If pure and innocent; if dear (forgive
These little
praises)
to my friends I live,
My father was the cause, who, though maintained
By a lean farm but poorly, yet disdained
The country schoolmaster, to whose low care
The mighty captain sent his high-born heir,
With satchel, copy-book, and pelf to pay
The wretched teacher on the appointed day.
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NIGHT
The sun
descending
in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
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I was not in the sphere in which such belief was to be
attained
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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I cried, "Come back, little
thoughts!
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the
gashouse
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Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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In the
courtyard
there grows a strange tree,
Its green leaves ooze with a fragrant moisture.
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(_Deeper than
drowning!
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Falconier
ogled me often enough.
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A sad and wandering shade, I next recall,
Through many a distant and deserted glen,
That long I mourn'd my
indissoluble
thrall.
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Each Roman's wealth was little worth,
His country's much; no colonnade
For private
pleasance
wooed the North
With cool "prolixity of shade.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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It drops as
fiercely
down on us as if
We were to be its prey.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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According
to the inscription on a
medal of him executed by Varin in 1635, he was then forty-eight, so that
he was born in 1587, coming into the world at Aston-under-Hill in
Gloucestershire.
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The Muses made
Me too a singer; I too have sung; the swains
Call me a poet, but I believe them not:
For naught of mine, or worthy Varius yet
Or Cinna deem I, but account myself
A
cackling
goose among melodious swans.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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'Love, it is an hateful pees,
A free acquitaunce, without relees,
[A trouthe], fret full of falshede, 4705
A sikernesse, al set in drede;
In herte is a
dispeiring
hope,
And fulle of hope, it is wanhope;
Wyse woodnesse, and wood resoun,
A swete peril, in to droune, 4710
An hevy birthen, light to bere,
A wikked wawe awey to were.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I savoured it slowly and did not throw a coin through the window for fear of troubling my spirit and
discovering
that not only the instrument was playing.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Let us set out in haste now, the second time
to see and search this store of treasure,
these wall-hid wonders, -- the way I show you, --
where,
gathered
near, ye may gaze your fill
at broad-gold and rings.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Solid and square to the world
the houses stand,
their windows blocked with
venetian
blinds.
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Imagists |
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"
He look'd, and said: "I first desire to know
Your name and quality; for well you show
Y' have heard the combat in my wounded soul,
When Love did Friendship,
Friendship
Love control.
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Petrarch |
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I haue giuen Sucke, and know
How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me,
I would, while it was smyling in my Face,
Haue pluckt my Nipple from his
Bonelesse
Gummes,
And dasht the Braines out, had I so sworne
As you haue done to this
Macb.
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went
shuffling
through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his numbered tomb.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Now close, ye Nymphs,
Ye Nymphs of Dicte, close the forest-glades,
If haply there may chance upon mine eyes
The white bull's wandering foot-prints: him belike
Following the herd, or by green pasture lured,
Some kine may guide to the
Gortynian
stalls.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Don't think that
Hercules
be still that boy whom Alcmene once bore you;
His adulation of me makes him now god upon earth.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And then, maybe, if you have dreamed enough, If there are strange old terrors in your eyes
And wild new fancies singing prophecies,
You may bring tribute to the king of dreams; And -he will read your eyes' weird mysteries And give you
stranger
terrors of your own, And chant you wilder fancies — 'til you know The vague old magic of the haunted wood.
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t {and}
crepe{n}
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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And my Sorrow grew like all living things, strong and beautiful
and full of
wondrous
delights.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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[Footnote 117: Gordon,
afterwards
Viscount Kenmore.
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Robert Forst |
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Round brands of the pyre
a wall they built, the
worthiest
ever
that wit could prompt in their wisest men.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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They fill my soul with Beauty (which is Hope),
And are far up in Heaven--the stars I kneel to
In the sad, silent watches of my night;
While even in the meridian glare of day
I see them still--two sweetly scintillant
Venuses,
unextinguished
by the sun!
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Poe - 5 |
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To some it may, perhaps, appear needless to
vindicate
Camoens, in a
point wherein he is supported by the authority of Homer and Virgil.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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At last Phoebus Apollo smote his armour from
him;
Euphorbus
thrust him through from behind, and Hector slew him.
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What use in
darkness
mirror to uphold?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Nor could you so easily
persuade
them to cultivate the ground,
or to await the return of the seasons and produce of the year, as
to provoke the foe and to risk wounds and death: since stupid and
spiritless they account it, to acquire by their sweat what they can gain
by their blood.
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Tacitus |
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Finery,
haughtiness
do not entice me.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Published
by A.
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Byron |
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"Thou should'st have learnt that _Not to Mend_
For Me could mean but _Not to Know_:
Hence,
Messengers!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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We seek the Brocken here, on the Walpurgis night,
Then hold ourselves, when here, completely
isolated!
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Margaret's, Westminster, refer to
different
men,
this Lawrence Swetnaham was the third son of Thomas Swettenham of
Swettenham in Cheshire, married in 1602 to Mary Birtles.
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Robert Herrick |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Thus speaketh one
Ferdinand
in the words of the play--
"She died full young"--one Bossola answers him--
"I think not so--her infelicity
"Seemed to have years too many"--Ah luckless lady!
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Poe - 5 |
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CHILDREN OF ADAM
To the Garden the World
To the garden the world anew ascending,
Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding,
The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being,
Curious here behold my resurrection after slumber,
The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again,
Amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous,
My limbs and the
quivering
fire that ever plays through them, for
reasons, most wondrous,
Existing I peer and penetrate still,
Content with the present, content with the past,
By my side or back of me Eve following,
Or in front, and I following her just the same.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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He believed in
George of Trebizonde--He believed in
Bossarion
[Bessarion].
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Poe - 5 |
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Jerusalem
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Blake - Zoas |
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Geddes,
accompanied
by
the following surly note:--"The foregoing Poem has some tolerable
lines in it, but the incurable wound of my pride will not suffer me to
correct, or even peruse it.
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Robert Burns |
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Thus showed his strain the son of Ecgtheow
as a man
remarked
for mighty deeds
and acts of honor.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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It is not from the visible skies
Though they are still,
Unconscious
that their own dropped dews express
The light of heaven on every earthly hill.
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Elvire
No, I portrayed indifference to either
Raising or
lowering
the hopes of neither,
Your eyes neither too gentle nor severe,
Until your father's choice be made clear.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Then over all spread out the
blackened
cloud,
"'Tis here!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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etymology
of the word, 207.
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245
His eyen two, for pitee of his herte,
Out
stremeden
as swifte welles tweye;
The heighe sobbes of his sorwes smerte
His speche him refte, unnethes mighte he seye,
`O deeth, allas!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
He answers him: "Ay, Sire, for here is plenty
Silver and gold on hundred camels seven,
And twenty men, the
gentlest
under heaven.
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Chanson de Roland |
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To whom thus Jesus
temperately
reply'd:
Said'st thou not that to all things I had right?
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Milton |
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In former times soda was
chiefly obtained from natural
deposits
and from the incineration
of various plants growing by the sea-shore.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Tottering
above
In her highest noon
The enamoured moon
Blushes with love,
While, to listen, the red levin
(With the rapid Pleiads, even,
Which were seven,)
Pauses in Heaven
And they say (the starry choir
And all the listening things)
That Israfeli's fire
Is owing to that lyre
By which he sits and sings--
The trembling living wire
Of those unusual strings.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Ever the words of the gods resound;
But the porches of man's ear
Seldom in this low life's round
Are
unsealed
that he may hear.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Poets unnamed--artists greatest of any, with cherish'd lost designs,
Love's unresponse--a chorus of age's complaints--hope's last words,
Some suicide's despairing cry, Away to the
boundless
waste, and
never again return.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The Elegies have
never before been published as here, together in the
cyclical
form of
their original conception.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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This
pitiable
city!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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My window oft he passes day and night;
I cannot move a step, but he's in sight,
And in a moment at my heels appears;
Notes, letters full of soft expressions, dears,
To me are sent by one I will not name,
For known to you, she would be thought to blame:
Pray put an end to such a wild pursuit
It nothing can produce but
wretched
fruit;
My husband may take fire at things like these;
And as to Cleon.
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La Fontaine |
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XV
Then when with meates and drinkes of every kinde
Their fervent appetites they quenched had,
That auncient Lord gan fit occasion finde,
Of straunge adventures, and of perils sad, 130
Which in his travell him
befallen
had,
For to demaund of his renowmed guest:
Who then with utt'rance grave, and count'nance sad,
From point to point, as is before exprest,
Discourst his voyage long, according his request.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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]
180 (return)
[ These people first resided near the head of the Lippe; and then removed to the
settlements
of the Chamavi and Angrivarii, who had expelled the Bructeri.
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Tacitus |
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And the soft-singing streams
Are music like your dreams;
Though
constant
stars embrace
The quiet of your face,
Your smile lights up sunrise,
And evening's in your eyes--
Each so shadows its part,
All cannot show your heart;
And weighing the beauty of earth
I see it so little worth,
When reckoned beside you,
That I hold heaven for true
--But all my heaven is you.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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XXXVI
She cannot, howsoe'er the rein she ply,
Govern the horse, who swims the surge to meet:
Her raiment she
collects
and holds it high;
And, not to wet them, gathers up her feet.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Since light so
necessary
is to life, 90
And almost life itself, if it be true
That light is in the Soul,
She all in every part; why was the sight
To such a tender ball as th' eye confin'd?
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Milton |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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Ronsard |
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'Jesus, King of the World,' she cried,
'Through you my grief is at its height,
Insult to you
confounds
me, I
Lose the best of this world wide:
He goes to serve and win your grace.
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Troubador Verse |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast,
quenching
my fire,
A deity at the gods' ambrosial feast.
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Ronsard |
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Time was (my
fortunes
then were at the best)
When at my house I lodged this foreign guest;
He said, from Ithaca's fair isle he came,
And old Laertes was his father's name.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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So spake the kindly-hearted Earl, and she
With frequent smile and nod
departing
found,
Half disarrayed as to her rest, the girl;
Whom first she kissed on either cheek, and then
On either shining shoulder laid a hand,
And kept her off and gazed upon her face,
And told them all their converse in the hall,
Proving her heart: but never light and shade
Coursed one another more on open ground
Beneath a troubled heaven, than red and pale
Across the face of Enid hearing her;
While slowly falling as a scale that falls,
When weight is added only grain by grain,
Sank her sweet head upon her gentle breast;
Nor did she lift an eye nor speak a word,
Rapt in the fear and in the wonder of it;
So moving without answer to her rest
She found no rest, and ever failed to draw
The quiet night into her blood, but lay
Contemplating her own unworthiness;
And when the pale and bloodless east began
To quicken to the sun, arose, and raised
Her mother too, and hand in hand they moved
Down to the meadow where the jousts were held,
And waited there for Yniol and Geraint.
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Tennyson |
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The
steeples
swam in amethyst,
The news like squirrels ran.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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are we here
together
alone?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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of Women--
We praise His Will which made us what He would,
His Will which
fashioned
us and called us good,
His Will our plenary beatitude.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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Alexander Pope |
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How happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And doesn't care about careers,
And exigencies never fears;
Whose coat of
elemental
brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Conway has given a sentence or two) by his sense
of the great materials which America could offer for a really American
poetry, and by his contempt for the current work of his
compatriots--"either the poetry of an elegantly weak sentimentalism, at
bottom nothing but maudlin puerilities or more or less musical verbiage,
arising out of a life of depression and
enervation
as their result; or else
that class of poetry, plays, &c.
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Whitman |
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She hastened 'twixt two stones the herb to pound,
Then took it, and the healing juice exprest:
With this did she foment the stripling's wound,
And, even to the hips, his waist and breast;
And (with such virtue was the salve endued)
It stanched his life-blood, and his
strength
renewed;
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And into him infused such force again,
That he could mount the horse the swain conveyed;
But good Medoro would not leave the plain
Till he in earth had seen his master laid.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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They stand
At Krom, where from its rotten battlements
A band of
Cossacks
braves them.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer
throughout
next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that mysterious maid.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Is the light
vanished
from our golden sun,
Or is this daedal-fashioned earth less fair,
That we are nature's heritors, and one
With every pulse of life that beats the air?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And canst thou
ride the tempest as a steed, and grasp the
lightning
as a sword?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Let Lyde hear those maidens' guilt,
Their famous doom, the ceaseless drain
Of outpour'd water, ever spilt,
And all the pain
Reserved
for sinners, e'en when dead:
Those impious hands, (could crime do more?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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L'un fu tutto serafico in ardore;
l'altro per sapienza in terra fue
di
cherubica
luce uno splendore.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Present my dutiful
respects
to my mother, and my compliments to
Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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And, when the
winter comes on, we turn the bottles upside down, and
consequently
rarely
feel the cold at all; and you know very well that this could not be the
case with bottles of any other color than blue.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And gently,
Unbroken when the sky fills with storm,
Jealous to add who knows what spaces
To simple day the day so true in feeling,
Does it not seem, Mery, that each year,
Where
spontaneous
grace relights your brow,
Suffices, given so much wonder and for me,
Like a lone fan with which a room's surprised,
To refresh with as little pain as is needed here
All our inborn and unvarying friendship.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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