ON DONNE'S POETRY
With Donne, whose muse on
dromedary
trots,
Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots;
Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue,
Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw.
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And after a thousand years I climbed the sacred mountain and again
spoke unto God, saying, "My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am
thy
yesterday
and thou are my tomorrow.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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'"
To the foregoing verse an historic interest attaches, if, that is, we are
right in supposing it to have
inspired
Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Brown ivy old, green herbage new;
Soft seaweed
stealing
up the shingle;
An ancient chapel where a crew,
Ere sailing, in the prayer commingle.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Sweet Remembrancer:
Now good
digestion
waite on Appetite,
And health on both
Lenox.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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That others could exist
While she must finish quite,
A
jealousy
for her arose
So nearly infinite.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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[54] The tablet is reckoned at forty lines in each column,
[55]
Literally
"he attained my front.
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Happens too
That sometimes offspring can to being come
In likeness of their grandsires, and bring back
Often the shapes of grandsires' sires, because
Their parents in their bodies oft retain
Concealed many primal germs, commixed
In many modes, which, starting with the stock,
Sire handeth down to son, himself a sire;
Whence Venus by a
variable
chance
Engenders shapes, and diversely brings back
Ancestral features, voices too, and hair.
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Lucretius |
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It was long before English Poetry returned to the
charming
simplicity
of this and a few other poems by Wyat.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: XX
I'd like to turn the deepest of yellows,
Falling, drop by drop, in a golden shower,
Into her lap, my lovely Cassandra's,
As sleep is
stealing
over her brow.
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Ronsard |
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Tura's bay
receives
the ship.
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether
equipped
with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Loves of his own and
raptures
swell the note.
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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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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Þā hē him of dyde īsern-byrnan,
helm of hafelan, sealde his hyrsted sweord,
īrena cyst ombiht-þegne,
675 and
gehealdan
hēt hilde-geatwe.
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Beowulf |
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That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy
highways
where I went
And cannot come again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"Be still, hog of the
backwoods!
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Kipling - Poems |
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to have a box where eunuchs sing,
And
foremost
in the circle eye a king.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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They'll suffer for it, the godless
wretches!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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'
Knowledge
of Good and of Ill, O Land!
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Sidney Lanier |
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'" Hereupon some
little squibbing and
bickering
occurred among various members of
the crowd, and especially between "Old Charley" and Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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Do you feel the fierce paradise
Like stifled
laughter
that slips
To the unanimous crease's depths
From the corner of your lips?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Behold the Sea,
The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
Yet
beautiful
as is the rose in June,
Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
Giving a hint of that which changes not.
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Emerson - Poems |
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A GAME OF CHESS
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of
sevenbranched
candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Morning glances hither,
Now the shade is past;
Dream and fog fly thither
Where Night goes at last;
Open eyes and roses
As the
darkness
closes;
And the sound that grows is
Nature walking fast.
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Hugo - Poems |
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, it may be readily
supposed
that they were not in
the exact form which the master-poet himself had given them.
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Keats - Lamia |
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I cannot guess why Rome will not allow
Exchange in wedlock, and its leave avow;
Not ev'ry time such wishes might arise,
But, once in life at least, 'twere not unwise;
Perhaps one day we may the boon obtain;
Amen, I say: my sentiments are plain;
The privilege in France may yet arrive
There
trucking
pleases, and exchanges thrive;
The people love variety, we find;
And such by heav'n was ere for them designed.
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La Fontaine |
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REYNOLDS
THE THREE
GLORIOUS
DAYS.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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te non
flammigeris
Libye tardauit harenis,
non armata suo reppulit Vrsa gelu:
quantum uitalis natura tetendit in axis,
tantum uirtuti peruia terra tuae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Here did the Brutons adoration paye 535
To the false god whom they did Tauran name,
Dightynge
hys altarre with greete fyres in Maie,
Roastynge theyr vyctimes round aboute the flame,
'Twas here that Hengyst did the Brytons slee,
As they were mette in council for to bee.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Think how they sport with these beloved forms;
And how the clarion-blowing wind unties
Above their heads the tresses of the storms:
Perchance
even now the child, the husband, dies.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Pour some salt water over the floor--
Ugly I'm sure you'll allow it to be:
Suppose it
extended
a mile or more,
_That's_ very like the Sea.
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Lewis Carroll |
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O
headlong
Anio!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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This led to an
unfilial
answer, and relations
were strained, until "Young" Gayerson demanded that they should call on
the Venus Annodomini.
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Kipling - Poems |
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He went
complaining
all the morrow 105
That he was cold and very chill:
His face was gloom, his heart was sorrow,
Alas!
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William Wordsworth |
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;
speaking
without judgement or measure.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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How
beautiful
is the column that he looks at!
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Longfellow |
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Yet shall I go to him,
With all
endeavour
to relieve thy plight--
So thou wilt curb the tempest of thy tongue!
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Aeschylus |
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--
Lord Gregory started up from sleep
And thought he heard a voice
That screamed full
dreadful
in his ear,
And once and twice and thrice.
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John Clare |
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Sappho |
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Meantime in dubious thought the king awaits,
And, self-considering, as he stands, debates;
Distant his mournful story to declare,
Or
prostrate
at her knee address the prayer.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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There was a day when they were young and proud,
Banners on high, and battles passed below;
But they who fought are in a bloody shroud,
And those which waved are shredless dust ere now,
And the bleak
battlements
shall bear no future blow.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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With careless step I onward stray'd,
My heart rejoic'd in nature's joy,
When, musing in a lonely glade,
A maiden fair I chanc'd to spy:
Her look was like the morning's eye,
Her air like nature's vernal smile:
Perfection whisper'd, passing by,
"Behold the lass o'
Ballochmyle!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Thou callest
someone?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Keats |
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''T was all I had,' she
stricken
gasped;
Oh, what a livid boon!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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In thieving thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high,
surmounted
by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"Ye halcyons, who twitter over the ever-flowing billows of the
sea, the damp dew of the waves glistens on your wings; and you spiders,
who we-we-we-we-we-weave the long woofs of your webs in the corners of
our houses with your nimble feet like the noisy shuttle, there where the
dolphin by
bounding
in the billows, under the influence of the flute,
predicts a favourable voyage; thou glorious ornaments of the vine, the
slender tendrils that support the grape.
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Aristophanes |
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[_The Attendant leads_
HERACLES
_into the house_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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His fate
compassion
in the victor bred;
Stern as he was, he yet revered the dead,
His radiant arms preserved from hostile spoil,
And laid him decent on the funeral pile;
Then raised a mountain where his bones were burn'd,
The mountain-nymphs the rural tomb adorn'd,
Jove's sylvan daughters bade their elms bestow
A barren shade, and in his honour grow.
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Iliad - Pope |
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For the anointing of the doorposts Brand
quotes Langley's translation of Polydore Vergil: "The bryde
anoynted
the
poostes of the doores with swynes' grease, because she thought by that
meanes to dryve awaye all misfortune, whereof she had her name in Latin
'Uxor ab unguendo'".
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Robert Herrick |
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Sigh
My soul, towards your brow where O calm sister,
An autumn dreams,
blotched
by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a melancholy garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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In this garden all the hot noon
I await thy fluttering
footfall
5
Through the twilight.
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Sappho |
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We summon the
honoured
guests
To enter at the Golden Gate.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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O ye, who list in scatter'd verse the sound
Of all those sighs with which my heart I fed,
When I, by youthful error first misled,
Unlike my present self in heart was found;
Who list the plaints, the
reasonings
that abound
Throughout my song, by hopes, and vain griefs bred;
If e'er true love its influence o'er ye shed,
Oh!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
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Ronsard |
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qui est d'un net et d'un vrai, quant a ce qui
concerne
un beau jour de
premier janvier.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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FN a garden where the
whitethorn
spreads her r leaves
My lady hath her love lain close beside her,
Till the warder cries the dawn Ah dawn that
grieves !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Not falsely to
constrain!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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All
question
vain, all chill foreboding vain.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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L'hiver, nous irons dans un petit wagon rose
Avec des
coussins
bleus.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Such were the bitter
thoughts
to which I turned.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But with this runs the
story of some noble, last of his race, who hides all his wealth
within this barrow and there chants his
farewell
to life's glories.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"You, my lord, who are at the head of the council, and who govern your
republic, ought to recollect that the glory or the shame of these events
will fall
principally
on you.
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Petrarch |
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Cammel, whirled
Beyond the circuit of the shuddering Bear
In
fractured
atoms.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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They were very
excited, and kept up the
discussion
until near twelve.
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Yeats |
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"We've had such hard, hard times this year
For
goblins!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Then the kingly hero knows them for
his mother's birds, and
joyfully
prays: 'Ah, be my guides, if way there
be, and direct your aery passage into the groves [195-230]where the
rich bough overshadows the fertile ground!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Farewell
the land
We love!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The
Poetical
Works/ of Lord Byron.
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Byron |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Jewelled scabbards lie twisted and defaced:
The stones that were set in them, thieves have carried away,
The ancestral temples are
hummocks
in the ground:
The walls that went round them are all levelled flat.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Some of the very worst traits in Donne's mind are brought out in
his
religious
writing.
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John Donne |
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So do the mottled formulas of Sense
Glide
snakewise
through our dreams of Aftertime;
So errors breed in reeds and grasses dense
That bank our singing rivulets of rhyme.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Who wishes to receive
visitations
often,
Mustn't load with too many flowers the stone
My finger raises with a dead power's boredom.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And in the silence
I hear a woman's voice make answer then:
"Well, they are green,
although
no ship can sail them.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Although the clouded storm dismays Many a heart upon these waters, The thought of that far golden blaze Giveth me heart upon the waters,
Thinking
thereof my bark is led
To port wherein no storm I dread; No tempest maketh me afraid.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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The sailors, hearing the female Halycon sing,
prepared
to die, safe however around mid-December, when these birds make their nests, and one knows that then the sea will be calm.
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Appoloinaire |
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WERE her intentions fully as expressed,
Or contrary to what her lips confessed,
No matter which her view, 'twas very plain,
If she would Hispal's services retain,
'Twere right the youth with promises to feed,
While his assistance she so much must need:
As soon as he was ready to depart
She pressed him fondly to her glowing heart,
And charged him with a letter to the king;
This Hispal hastened to the prince to bring;
Each sail he crowded:--plied with ev'ry oar;
A wind quite fair soon brought him to shore;
To court he went, where all with eager eyes,
Demanded
if he lived, amid surprise,
And where he left the princess; what her state?
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La Fontaine |
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To and fro the Genius flies,
A light which plays and hovers
Over the maiden's head
And dips
sometimes
as low as to her eyes.
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Emerson - Poems |
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--"Your hands were like paws then, your face blue and bleak,
But now I'm
bewitched
by your delicate cheek,
And your little gloves fit as on any la-dy!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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All have not
appeared
in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
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Appoloinaire |
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Therewithal came Camilla the Volscian, leading a train of cavalry,
squadrons splendid with brass: a warrior maiden who had never used her
woman's hands to Minerva's distaff or wool-baskets, but hardened to
endure the battle shock and
outstrip
the winds with racing feet.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Oh,
In arms' reach, here be Dante, Keats, Chopin,
Raphael, Lucretius, Omar, Angelo,
Beethoven, Chaucer, Schubert, Shakespeare, Bach,
And Buddha (sweetest
masters!
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Sidney Lanier |
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(6) The evident reason for
introducing
them is their own
intrinsic lyrical merit.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Among those who will forthcoming numbers a
volumes for contribute to
Scudder Middleton Marguerite
Wilkinson
John Russell McCarthy Phoebe Hoffman Ellwood Lindsay Haines Esther Morton Smith Howard Buck
Mary Humphreys Samuel Roth
John Hall Wheelock Laura Benet
Fullerton L.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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All morning, patient watchers, there we lay;
And now the num'rous phocae from the Deep
Emerging, slept along the shore, and he
At noon came also, and
perceiving
there
His fatted monsters, through the flock his course
Took regular, and summ'd them; with the first 550
He number'd us, suspicion none of fraud
Conceiving, then couch'd also.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on
automated
querying.
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Meredith - Poems |
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A
passport
from the pirate he obtain'd,
Then waited on him and his wish explain'd;
To pay he offer'd what soe'er he'd ask;
His terms accept, though hard perhaps the task;
THE robber answer'd, if my name around,
Be not for honourable acts renown'd,
'Tis quite unjust:--your partner I'll restore
In health, without a ransom:--would you more?
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La Fontaine |
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