[_As the song ceases the doors are thrown open and_ ADMETUS _comes
before them: a great funeral
procession
is seen moving out.
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And they declare
Terreagles
fair,
For their abode they chuse it;
There's no a heart in a' the land,
But's lighter at the news o't.
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Robert Forst |
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Catch, catch the fawning villain, and send him to
Solovetsky to
perpetual
penance.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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If I were young as thou, if these grey hairs
Had not already
streaked
my beard--Dost take me?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with
automatic
hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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_Nature's Hymn to the Deity_
All nature owns with one accord
The great and universal Lord:
The sun proclaims him through the day,
The moon when daylight drops away,
The very darkness smiles to wear
The stars that show us God is there,
On
moonlight
seas soft gleams the sky
And "God is with us" waves reply.
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John Clare |
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may the
whole race of the
Chalybes
perish, and whoever first questing the veins
'neath the earth harassed its hardness, breaking it through with iron.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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denique auarities et honorum caeca cupido,
quae miseros homines cogunt transcendere finis
iuris et interdum socios scelerum atque ministros
noctes atque dies niti praestante labore
ad summas emergere opes, haec uulnera uitae
non minimam partem mortis
formidine
aluntur.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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The truth is, I think, that 'The Rape of the Lock'
represents Pope's
attitude
toward the social life of his time in the
period of his brilliant youth.
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Alexander Pope |
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The staff I yet remember which upbore
The bending body of my active sire;
His seat beneath the honeyed sycamore
When the bees hummed, and chair by winter fire;
When market-morning came, the neat attire
With which, though bent on haste, myself I deck'd;
My watchful dog, whose starts of furious ire,
When stranger passed, so often I have check'd;
The red-breast known for years, which at my
casement
peck'd.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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God be thanked, I have been
preserved
from the grosser forms
of sin; and I counsel YOU, Mr.
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Kipling - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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He comes with evening: all his fleecy flock
Before him march, and pour into the rock:
Not one, or male or female, stayed behind
(So fortune chanced, or so some god designed);
Then heaving high the stone's
unwieldy
weight,
He roll'd it on the cave and closed the gate.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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VIII
"While thou art mine, my little Love, 85
This cannot be a
sorrowful
grove;
Contentment, hope, and mother's glee, [13]
I seem to find them all in thee: [14]
Here's grass to play with, here are flowers;
I'll call thee by my darling's name; 90
Thou hast, I think, a look of ours,
Thy features seem to me the same;
His little sister thou shalt be;
And, when once more my home I see,
I'll tell him many tales of Thee.
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William Wordsworth |
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And didst thou bear,
Bear in thy bitter pain,
To life, thy
murderer?
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Euripides - Electra |
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At fall of
eventide
he went
To drink beside the river-head;
A waiting hunter threw his dart,
And struck my lover through the heart.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,
Gold that I never see;
Lie long, high
snowdrifts
in the hedge
That will not shower on me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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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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I would that thine were like to be more mild _485
For both our
wretched
sakes.
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Shelley |
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_The Poetry Review_:--"The
Messines
Road," by Captain J.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Methinks I see from rampired town
Some
battling
tyrant's matron wife,
Some maiden, look in terror down,--
"Ah, my dear lord, untrain'd in war!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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it is not lessened; but thy mind,
Expanded
by the genius of the spot,
Has grown colossal, and can only find
A fit abode wherein appear enshrined
Thy hopes of immortality; and thou
Shalt one day, if found worthy, so defined,
See thy God face to face, as thou dost now
His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by his brow.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Porter
And on her
daughter
200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The mayster-hunte anoon, fot-hoot, 375
With a gret horne blew three moot
At the
uncoupling
of his houndes.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to
compounds
strange?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The tributes of
Addison, Tennyson, and others, the throbbing
paraphrases
and ecstatic
interpretations of Swinburne, are too well known to call for special
comment in this brief note; but the concise summing up of her genius by Mr.
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Sappho |
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Can't you see she's
fainting?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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[120]
Then we pursued them with our lance point in their loins as one hunts the
tunny-fish; they fled and we stung them in the jaw and in the eyes, so
that even now the
barbarians
tell each other that there is nothing in the
world more to be feared than the Attic wasp.
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Aristophanes |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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and let a Sabbath song
Go up to God so
solemnly
the dead may feel so wrong!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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With hoists and levers, joists and poles,
With knives and cleavers, ropes and saws,
Down the long slopes to the gaping maws,
The angels hasten; hacking and carving,
So nought will be lacking for the starving
Chosen of God, who in frozen wonderment
Realize now what the
terrible
thunder meant.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Fear the gaze in the blind wall that watches:
There is a verb
attached
to matter itself.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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He cut in stone an image of Alvar,
Cunningly
carved, and dragged it to the war;
He vowed a vow to yield no inch of ground
Until that image of itself turned round;
He reached Alvar--he saved him--and his line
Was old De Silva's, and his name was mine--
Ruy Gomez.
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Hugo - Poems |
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For here will I place thine oracles and the secrets of destiny uttered
to my people, and consecrate chosen men, O
gracious
one.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
Later he saw that each weed
Was a
singular
knife.
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Stephen Crane |
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All those who had attacked
his works, abused his character, or scoffed at his
personal
deformities,
were caricatured as ridiculous and sometimes disgusting figures in a
mock epic poem celebrating the accession of a new monarch to the throne
of Dullness.
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Alexander Pope |
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)
From the
almighty
Lord of Heaven.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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'
SWEET DEATH
The sweetest
blossoms
die.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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16 codices praeter GO
interstitium habent unius uersus in quo scriptum est AD
EGNATIVM_
(_-TVM B); idem in margine habent GO, sed abest
interstitium
17 _une ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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An octagonal table, formed
altogether
of
the richest gold-threaded marble, is placed near one of the sofas.
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Poe - 5 |
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In
the M'Murdo manuscript, in Burns's handwriting, there is a
well-merited compliment which has slipt out of the printed copy in
Thomson:--
"Thy
_handsome_
foot thou shalt na set
In barn or byre to trouble thee.
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Robert Forst |
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Da questo passo vinto mi concedo
piu che gia mai da punto di suo tema
soprato fosse comico o tragedo:
che, come sole in viso che piu trema,
cosi lo
rimembrar
del dolce riso
la mente mia da me medesmo scema.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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NEIGHBOUR
But patience, if you please: attend I pray
You've no conception what I meant to say:
The playful fair was actively employ'd,
In
plucking
am'rous flow'rs--they kiss'd and toy'd.
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La Fontaine |
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By the bamboo stream the last
fragments
of cloud
Blown by the wind slowly scatter away.
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Li Po |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Sole on a plank on boiling surges toss'd,
Heaven drove my wreck the Ogygian Isle to find,
Full nine days
floating
to the wave and wind.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I thenke, sith that love, of his goodnesse,
Hath thee
converted
out of wikkednesse,
That thou shalt be the beste post, I leve, 1000
Of al his lay, and most his foos to-greve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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All objects, therefore, in the Hero's eyes
Seem'd alien, foot-paths long,
commodious
ports,
Heav'n-climbing rocks, and trees of amplest growth.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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At
fourteen
I became your wife;
I was shame-faced and never dared smile.
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Li Po |
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--Ah, but I took his wit
Further than he e'er did; in women I found
The same
amazement
for my wakened eyes
As in the hills and waters.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Well--I will dream that we may meet again,
And woo the vision to my vacant breast:
If aught of young
Remembrance
then remain,
Be as it may Futurity's behest,
For me 'twere bliss enough to know thy spirit blest!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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As the
overhanging
trees
Fill the lake with images,--
As garment draws the garment's hem,
Men their fortunes bring with them.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Daring the venture,
Glorious
the pay.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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hear my prayer,
And gently rule the ruin'd year;
Nor chill the wanderer's bosom bare
Nor freeze the wretch's falling tear:
To shuddering Want's
unmantled
bed
Thy horror-breathing agues cease to lend,
And gently on the orphan head
Of Innocence descend.
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Golden Treasury |
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Come quando la nebbia si dissipa,
lo sguardo a poco a poco raffigura
cio che cela 'l vapor che l'aere stipa,
cosi forando l'aura grossa e scura,
piu e piu appressando ver' la sponda,
fuggiemi errore e
cresciemi
paura;
pero che, come su la cerchia tonda
Montereggion di torri si corona,
cosi la proda che 'l pozzo circonda
torreggiavan di mezza la persona
li orribili giganti, cui minaccia
Giove del cielo ancora quando tuona.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull
catalogue
of common things.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Since the last day, the
terrible
hour when Fate
This present life of her fair being reft,
From heaven she sees, and hears, and feels our state:
No other hope than this to me is left.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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It happens too at times that roused force
Of the fierce hurricane to-rends the cloud,
Breaking right through it by a front assault;
For what a blast of wind may do up there
Is
manifest
from facts when here on earth
A blast more gentle yet uptwists tall trees
And sucks them madly from their deepest roots.
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Lucretius |
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'T is true that I am gay,
Quite gay, for I have her alone here And no man
troubleth
us.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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suggests
gehȳðde, = _plundered_ (i.
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Beowulf |
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of his Poems, mutilated beyond the
average Casualties of
Oriental
Transcription, are so rare in the East
as scarce to have reacht Westward at all, in spite of all the
acquisitions of Arms and Science.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Yet none could say of wrong he did,
And scorn was ever standing bye;
Accusers by their
conscience
chid,
When proof was sought, made no reply.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Nothing can be better than--
---------------the bards sublime,
Whose distant footsteps echo
Down the
corridors
of Time.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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To walk
together
to the Kirk
And all together pray,
While each to his great father bends,
Old men, and babes, and loving friends,
And Youths, and Maidens gay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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* You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Yeats |
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A second like a sunlit spark
Flashed singing up his track;
But never
overtook
that foremost lark,
And songless fluttered back.
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Christina Rossetti |
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But never I mind the bridges,
And never I mind the sea;
Held fast in
everlasting
race
By my own choice and thee.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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4 How the Central Plain has been cast in
darkness!
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Du Fu - 5 |
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_ She will be as
dangerous
as a wild cat.
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Yeats |
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My brain it thrills, and oftentime sets free
The
thoughts
within me yearning.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements
concerning
tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Stephen Crane |
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Barrett, as he of all men living is best qualified
to make, from his accurate
researches
into the Antiquities of
Bristol.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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She would have smiled, if the flower
That never bloomed, to please,
Could open to the coolest hour
Of passing and
forgetful
breeze.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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After that day
Aegisthus thus decreed: whoso should slay
The old king's
wandering
son, should win rich meed
Of gold; and for Electra, she must wed
With me, not base of blood--in that I stand
True Mycenaean--but in gold and land
Most poor, which maketh highest birth as naught.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Perhaps this poem may fall into the hands of some curious
traveller, who may thank me for
informing
him, that up the Duddon, the
river which forms the aestuary at Broughton, may be found some of the
most romantic scenery of these mountains.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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, advocate,
afterwards
a
judge, under the title of Lord Newton.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns |
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Ravish'd, she lifted her Circean head,
Blush'd a live damask, and swift-lisping said,
"I was a woman, let me have once more
A woman's shape, and
charming
as before.
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what will
unrestoring
Death, that jealous tyrant lord,
Do with the brave departed souls that cannot swing a sword?
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He spoke; the painted barges swept the flood,
Where, proudly gay, the anchor'd navy rode;
Earnest the king the lordly fleet surveys;
The mortars thunder, and the trumpets raise
Their martial sounds Melinda's sons to greet,
Melinda's sons with
timbrels
hail the fleet.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Or ni feriale
ni
astrale!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And think you that I should be dumb,
And full _dolorum omnium_,
Excepting
when _you_ choose to come
And share my dinner?
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'Twas a poor statue underneath a mass
Of
leafless
branches, with a blackened back
And a green foot--an isolated Faun
In old deserted park, who, bending forward,
Half-merged himself in the entangled boughs,
Half in his marble settings.
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Have I not offered toast on frothing toast
Looking toward the melancholy host;
Praised the old wall-eyed mare to please the groom;
Laughed to the laughing maid and fetched her broom;
Stood in the background not to interfere
When the cool ancients
frolicked
at their beer;
Talked only in my turn, and made no claim
For recognition or by voice or name,
Content to listen, and to watch the blue
Or grey of eyes, or what good hands can do?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But to see and hear and touch Woman
Breaks our shell of this accursed world,
And turns our measured days to
measureless
gleam.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And in the copies which she sent to friends,
sometimes
one
form, sometimes another, is found to have been used.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Now, to the streaming fountain,
Or up the heathy mountain,
The hart, hind, and roe, freely, wildly-wanton stray;
In twining hazel bowers,
Its lay the linnet pours,
The
laverock
to the sky
Ascends, wi' sangs o' joy,
While the sun and thou arise to bless the day.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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What ails thee, Earl
Politian?
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Poe - 5 |
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What, and wherein it doth exist,
This light, this glory, this fair luminous mist,
This
beautiful
and beauty-making power.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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four years abroad, in Holland, France, Italy, and
Spain, to very good purpose, as I believe, and
the gaining of those four languages ; besides, he
is a scholar, and well read in the Latin and
Greek authors, and no doubt of an approved con-
versation; for he comes now lately otU of the
house of the Lord Fairfax, where he was in-
trusted to give some instructions in the languages
to the lady, his daughter** Milton concludes the
letter with a sentence which fully discloses the
very high
estimation
he had formed of MarvelFs
abilities — ^^ This, my lord, I write sincerely, with-
out any other end than to perform my duty to
the public in helping them to an humble servant ;
laying aside those jealousies and that emulation
which mine own condition might suggest to me
by bringing in such a coadjutor**
In the year, 1657, Marvell was appointed tutor
to Cromwell's nephew, Mr.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLX
Now, when Jupiter, fired by his lusts,
Wants to
conceive
the jewels of his eyes,
And with the heat of his burning thighs
Fills Juno's moist womb with his thrusts:
Now, when the sea, or when violent gusts
Of wind grant way to great ships of war,
And when the nightingale, in forest far,
Renews her grievance against Tereus:
Now, when the meadows and when the flowers
With thousands upon thousands of colours
Paint the breast of the earth so bright all round,
Alone and thoughtful among the secret cliffs,
With a silent heart I tell over my regrets,
And through the woods I go, hiding my wound.
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Ronsard |
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"
"And what
happened
after that?
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Kipling - Poems |
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