I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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FIRST GLANCE
A budding mouth and warm blue eyes;
A laughing face; and laughing hair,--
So ruddy was its rise
From off that
forehead
fair;
Frank fervor in whate'er she said,
And a shy grace when she was still;
A bright, elastic tread;
Enthusiastic will;
These wrought the magic of a maid
As sweet and sad as the sun in spring;--
Joyous, yet half-afraid
Her joyousness to sing.
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I have seen
A pine in Italy that cast its shadow
Athwart a cataract; firm stood the pine--
The
cataract
shook the shadow.
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To be a sailor of the world bound for all ports,
A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,)
A swift and
swelling
ship full of rich words, full of joys.
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When once my will was captive by my fate,
And I had lost the liberty, which late
Made my life happy; I, who used before
To flee from Love (as fearful deer abhor
The
following
huntsman), suddenly became
(Like all my fellow-servants) calm and tame;
And view'd the travails, wrestlings, and the smart,
The crooked by-paths, and the cozening art
That guides the amorous flock: then whilst mine eye
I cast in every corner, to espy
Some ancient or modern who had proved
Famous, I saw him, who had only loved
Eurydice, and found out hell, to call
Her dear ghost back; he named her in his fall
For whom he died.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The content is however universal enough, I think, for a reader of any spiritual
persuasion
to respond in their own manner, within their own belief system.
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Tacendo
divenimmo
la 've spiccia
fuor de la selva un picciol fiumicello,
lo cui rossore ancor mi raccapriccia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The living look upon the corpse with their eyesight,
But without
eyesight
lingers a different living and looks curiously
on the corpse.
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Such as eternity at last
transforms
into Himself,
The buried shrine shows at its sewer-mouth's
The black rock enraged that the north wind rolls it on
Hyperbole!
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* You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Rigaut de
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(fl.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Here, now, is a very
inferior
kind,
Such as in any town you may find,
Such as one might imagine would suit
The rascal who drank wine out of a boot.
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Longfellow |
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XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's
citizens
be spoiled by leisure,
That Carthage should be spared destruction!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Between the tree-stems, marbled plain at first,
Came jasper pannels; then, anon, there burst
Forth
creeping
imagery of slighter trees,
And with the larger wove in small intricacies.
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Keats - Lamia |
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CLYTEMNESTRA
I deem not that the death he died
Had
overmuch
of shame:
For this was he who did provide
Foul wrong unto his house and name:
His daughter, blossom of my womb,
He gave unto a deadly doom,
Iphigenia, child of tears!
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Aeschylus |
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Heaven and Earth and the Sun on his
indefatigable
journey
Over that infinite path never did witness the like!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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These Grendel-deeds
I heard in my home-land
heralded
clear.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Scarcely has any
modern book of poems shown so sure a touch of genius in this respect:
the magic, in a continuous glow
saturating
the substance of every
picture and motive with its own peculiar essence.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And after this he to the yates wente
Ther-as
Criseyde
out-rood a ful good paas,
And up and doun ther made he many a wente, 605
And to him-self ful ofte he seyde `Allas!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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49:
'An Englishman in
chartered
freedom born.
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William Wordsworth |
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I was
splintered
and torn:
the hill-path mounted
swifter than my feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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His
lordship
is unwell.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Impalpable
charm of back streets
In which I find myself:
Cool spaces filled with shadow.
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Imagists |
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It
must be, however, in the
miraculous
fusing of the two.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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With midnight always in one's heart,
And
twilight
in one's cell,
We turn the crank, or tear the rope,
Each in his separate Hell,
And the silence is more awful far
Than the sound of a brazen bell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Who hang so fiercely on the flying Gaul,
Foiled by a woman's hand, before a
battered
wall?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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At length a coast was signalled, and on
approaching
we saw a magnificent
and dazzling land.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I noted what remain'd yet hidden from them:
Thence to my liege's eyes mine eyes I bent,
And he,
forthwith
interpreting their suit,
Beckon'd his glad assent.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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{40a}
Probably
the fugitive is meant who discovered the hoard.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And after seven moons, one day a
soothsayer
looked at me, and he
said to my mother, "Your son will be a statesman and a great leader
of men.
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hæbbe ic mǣrða fela ongunnen on geogoðe,
_have in my youth
undertaken
many deeds of renown_, 409.
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Beowulf |
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What's a tempest to him, or the dry
parching
heats?
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William Wordsworth |
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She explained that had he been a bachelor she might
not have objected to his devotion; but since he was a married man and
the father of a very nice baby, she considered him a hypocrite, and this
she
repeated
twice.
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Kipling - Poems |
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II
For who imposture can endure,
A constant harping on one tune,
Serious endeavours to assure
What everybody long has known;
Ever to hear the same replies
And
overcome
antipathies
Which never have existed, e'en
In little maidens of thirteen?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But Ivan Kouzmitch
was ready for this onset; he did not care in the least, and he boldly
answered his curious better-half--
"Look here, little mother, the country-women have taken it into their
heads to light fires with straw, and as that might be the cause of a
misfortune, I
assembled
my officers, and I ordered them to watch that
the women do not make fires with straw, but rather with faggots and
brambles.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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]
This
Quatrain
Mr.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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That is the way our long nights of
enjoyment
are passed.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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" It is
rather a
startling
sentence at first.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Yes, you wore courage as you wore your youth
With
carelessness
and joy.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And if I gain, -- oh, gun at sea,
Oh, bells that in the
steeples
be,
At first repeat it slow!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Keats |
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"
Fortified with these resolutions, I ate and drank as much as I could,
and made Gunga Dass understand that I
intended
to be his master, and
that the least sign of insubordination on his part would be visited with
the only punishment I had it in my power to inflict--sudden and violent
death.
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Kipling - Poems |
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that rustle of a dress,
Stiff with lavish
costliness!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Thus merrily the little noisy troop
Along the grass as rude
marauders
hie,
For ever noisy and for ever gay
While keeping in the meadows holiday.
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John Clare |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Here was
the
machinery
he was looking for made to his hand.
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Alexander Pope |
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--Ease and relaxation are
profitable
to all studies.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Nor do I always find presently from
it what I seek; but while I am doing another thing, that I
laboured
for
will come; and what I sought with trouble will offer itself when I am
quiet.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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[_She
embraces
him.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The legions who have bled
Had
elsewise
died in vain for our release.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The charms of Empire appeared to stir him: 795
He could not conceal it: Athens attracts him:
His ships are already turned that way I find,
Their fluttering sails
abandoned
to the wind.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Then he thought of her, and Indian people;
Tryin' to measure, by the church's steeple,
Just how
Christian
our great nation's been
Toward those native tribes so full of sin.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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er owed to
felonous
Cite?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Hermann Hagedorn and the
_Century
Magazine_:--"Resurrection.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thereafter will I in a sheltering cloud bear body and armour of the
hapless girl
unspoiled
to the tomb, and lay them in her native land.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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<
falsasti
il conio>>,
disse Sinon; <
e tu per piu ch'alcun altro demonio!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Nor for you, for one, alone;
Blossoms and
branches
green to coffins all I bring:
For fresh as the morning--thus would I chant a song for you, O sane and
sacred Death.
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Whitman |
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a-na pa-ni- su
it-tam-ha-ru i-na ri-bi-tu ma-ti
iluEn-ki-du ba-ba-am ip-ta-ri-ik
i-na si-pi-su
iluGilgamis
e-ri-ba-am u-ul id-di-in
is-sa-ab-tu-ma ki-ma li-i-im
i- lu- du [50]
zi-ip-pa-am 'i-bu- tu
i-ga-rum ir-tu-tu [51]
iluGilgamis u iluEn-ki- du
is-sa-ab-tu-u- ma
ki-ma li-i-im i-lu-du
zi-ip-pa-am 'i-bu- tu
i-ga-rum ir-tu-tu
ik-mi-is-ma iluGilgamis
i-na ga-ga-ag-ga-ri si-ip-su
ip-si-ih [52] us-sa-su- ma
i-ni-'i i-ra-az-zu
is-tu i-ra-zu i-ni-hu [53]
iluEn-ki-du a-na sa-si-im
iz-za-kar-am a-na iluGilgamis
ki-ma is-te-en-ma um-ma-ka
u- li- id- ka
ri-im-tum sa zu- pu-ri
ilat-Nin- sun- na
ul-lu e-li mu-ti ri-es-su
sar-ru-tam sa ni-si
i-si-im-kum iluEn-lil
duppu 2 kam-ma
su-tu-ur e-li .
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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But bring a Scotsman frae his hill,
Clap in his check a
Highland
gill,
Say, such is royal George's will,
An' there's the foe,
He has nae thought but how to kill
Twa at a blow.
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Robert Forst |
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Ay, though I were that
laughing
shepherd boy
Who from Mount Ida saw the little cloud
Pass over Tenedos and lofty Troy
And knew the coming of the Queen, and bowed
In wonder at her feet, not for the sake
Of a new Helen would I bid her hand the apple take.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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" Here the
philosopher
slapped his Majesty upon
the back.
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Poe - 5 |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The
darkness
is Thy mercy, Lord!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The tray, seven, and ace
soon chased away the
thoughts
of the dead woman, and all other thoughts
from the brain of the young officer.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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They carry below
their loins the
sharpest
of stings, with which to sting their foe; they
shout and leap and their stings burn like so many sparks.
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Aristophanes |
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'Frowning,
frowning
night,
O'er this desert bright
Let thy moon arise,
While I close my eyes.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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WITHOUT this timely help 'twas clear our wight
Had ne'er
survived
the horrors of the night;
The door was ope'd, and Reynold blessed the hand
That gave relief, and stopt life's ebbing sand.
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La Fontaine |
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VILLONAUD FOR THIS YULE
HTOWARDS
the Noel that morte saison
-L (Christ make the shepherds' homage dear!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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She
wondered
why her son had grown so
unpractical.
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Yeats |
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Aye, 'bove the withering of old-lipp'd Fate
A thousand Powers keep religious state, 30
In water, fiery realm, and airy bourne;
And, silent as a
consecrated
urn,
Hold sphery sessions for a season due.
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Keats |
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"
Justly, I fancy, would she reason thus,
Justly inveigh and gird: since ever the old
Outcrowded
by the new gives way, and ever
The one thing from the others is repaired.
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Lucretius |
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_Rid_
for _rode_ was
anciently
common.
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James Russell Lowell |
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_wrongly insert_
of
_before_
Nature.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"'Twixt this and dawn, three hours my soul will smite
With prickly seconds, or less tolerably
With dull-blade minutes flatwise
slapping
me.
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Sidney Lanier |
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For the black land was
travelled
o'er,
He should see the grim land no more.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Race d'Abel, tu crois et broutes
Comme les
punaises
des bois!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The harlot, who ne'er turn'd her gloating eyes
From Caesar's household, common vice and pest
Of courts, 'gainst me inflam'd the minds of all;
And to
Augustus
they so spread the flame,
That my glad honours chang'd to bitter woes.
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They, and they only, fought on your side on that eventful
day; they
delivered
you from despotism, and thanks to them our Nation
could change the short tunic of the slave for the long cloak of the free
man.
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Faces so pale, with
wondrous
eyes, very dear, gather closer yet;
Draw close, but speak not.
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Whitman |
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--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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En cest sonnet coind'e leri
To this light tune,
graceful
and slender,
I set words, and shape and plane them,
So they'll be both true and sure,
With a little touch, and the file's care;
For Amor gilds and smoothes the flow
Of my song she alone inspires,
Who nurtures worth and is my guide.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For instance, you are
interested
in gold-washing in the sands of the
Sutlej.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The boast of their loyalty,
besides, has a good effect in the poem, as it elevates the heroes, and
gives
uniformity
to the character of bravery, which the dignity of the
epopea required to be ascribed to them.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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So from the very field of battle, while
the swords were flashing and clashing about him, as he fought the barons
and great lords who had risen up against him, Arthur
dispatched
three
messengers to Leodogran, the King of Cameliard.
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They were
generally
made of hurdles covered
with raw hides.
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For in
other things they will more easily suffer themselves to be taught or
reprehended: they will not willingly contend, but hear, with Alexander,
the answer the
musician
gave him: _Absit_, _o rex_, _ut tu melius haec
scias_, _quam ego_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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A third time thus it spake; then added: "There
So firmly to God's service I adher'd,
That with no
costlier
viands than the juice
Of olives, easily I pass'd the heats
Of summer and the winter frosts, content
In heav'n-ward musings.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Wilamowitz
in _Hermes_, xviii.
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Euripides - Electra |
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all the day, among the Caves of Tharmas
Twisting in fearful forms & hoisting howling harsh shrieking
Howling harsh shrieking, mingling their bodies pain in burning anguish
Mingling his horrible brightness with her tender limbs; then high she soar'd *
ShriekingAbove the ocean; a bright wonder that Beulah shudder'd atNature *
Half Woman & half Spectre, all his lovely changing colours mix *
With her fair crystal clearness; in her lips & cheeks his poisons rose *
In blushes like the morning, and his scaly armour
softening
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A monster lovely in the heavens or wandering on the earth, *
With Spectre voice incessant waiting, in incessant thirst>
Beauty all blushing with desire mocking her fell despair>
Wandering desolate, a wonder abhorr'd by Gods & Men
PAGE 8 Till with fierce pain she brought forth on the rocks her sorrow & woe
Behold two [little Infants wept]upon the desolate wind.
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Blake - Zoas |
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He promises to
return it as soon as he reaches home, but the judge
protests
that the
honour of lending it is enough, and he begs that there shall be no
injunction against him.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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