XLIV
O but my delicate lover,
Is she not fair as the
moonlight?
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The faint damp wind that, ere the even, blows
Piling the west with many a tawny sheaf,
Then when the last glad
wavering
hours are mown Sigheth and dies because the day is sped;
This wind is like her and the listless air Wherewith she goeth by beneath the trees,
The trees that mock her with their scarlet stain.
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Wherefore
shouldst thou not be happy
with such weal.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Dark and dull night, fly hence away
And give the honour to this day
That sees
December
turn'd to May.
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In me, just now,
Thought was the figure of a god, firm standing,
A dignity like carved
Egyptian
stone;
Thou like a blow of fire hast splinter'd it;
It is abroad like powder in a wind,
Or like heapt shingle in a furious tide,
Thou having roused the ungovernable waters
My mind is built amidst, a dangerous tower.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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plesaunce
of your prys, hit were a pure ioye.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But ye,
hence, as far as ye please, crystal waters, bane of wine, hie ye to the
sober: here the
Thyonian
juice is pure.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my
brothers
more?
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blake-poems |
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Perhaps Thy ancient rote-restricted ways
Thy ripening rule transcends;
That listless effort tends
To grow percipient with advance of days,
And with
percipience
mends.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Series
For the
splendour
of the day of happinesses in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The dawn was whitening over the sea's verge
As she sat pensive,
touching
broken chords
Of half-remorseful thought, while the hoarse surge
Howled a sad concert to her broken words.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He heard the rustle of the maps, and the talk
swept forward,
carrying
him with it.
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Kipling - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Li Po |
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Another entry shows that the "Bugle"
mentioned
by Yonge was the
badge of a society originally distinct from the Tityres, which
afterwards joined with it.
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Robert Herrick |
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_ L'insucces de
Baudelaire
a
l'Academie n'etait pas douteux.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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e swyre,
Chymbled ouer hir blake chyn with mylk-quyte vayles,
[K] Hir frount folden in sylk,
enfoubled
ay quere,
960 Toret & treieted with tryfle3 aboute,
[L] ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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for while I sang,
And with poor skill let pass into the breeze
The dull shell's echo, from a bowery strand
Just opposite, an island of the sea,
There came
enchantment
with the shifting wind,
That did both drown and keep alive my ears.
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Keats |
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Non chant per auzel ni per flor
I do not sing for bird or flower,
Nor for snow, now, nor for ice,
Nor for warmth or the cold's power,
Nor for the fields' fresh paradise;
Nor for any
pleasure
do I sing
Nor indeed have I been a singer,
But for my mistress, all my longing,
For on earth none lovelier may linger.
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Troubador Verse |
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The
obsession
of impermanence has often been sublimated into great
mystic poetry.
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Li Po |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine
Elizabethan
translation which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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So gazed I, till the
soothing
things, I dreamt,
Lulled me to sleep, and sleep prolonged my dreams!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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(The dash --
indicates
a new speaker.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But why
Stands Macbeth thus
amazedly?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Winters that
withered
all the green
Have froze the beating heart.
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John Clare |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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"Prisoned on watery shore,
Starry
jealousy
does keep my den
Cold and hoar;
Weeping o're,
I hear the father of the ancient men.
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blake-poems |
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It seems to me that this
fugitive
heretic, thief,
swindler, is--thou.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The
violinist
had played it,
or something like it, but had not written it down; but the man with
the wind instrument said it could not be played because it contained
quarter-tones and would be out of tune.
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Yeats |
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And as the lengthening days of summer throve,
She sighed, then
withered
by the waving rushes.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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573
ffor
pilgrymes
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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So they crossed to the other border, and again they formed in order;
And the boats came back for soldiers, came for soldiers,
soldiers still:
The time seemed
everlasting
to us women faint and fasting,--
At last they're moving, marching, marching proudly up the hill.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Devel, a
stunning
blow.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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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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The troops of the Turkish
infantry
and cavalry, known by the name of
Janissaries and Spahis, were thus supported.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Thou wast not born to bend
The
unpliant
bow, or to direct the shaft,
But here are nobler who shall soon prevail.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have
vanished
one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone;
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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A she-wolf
Was at his heels, who in her
leanness
seem'd
Full of all wants, and many a land hath made
Disconsolate ere now.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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e kyng sent
messagers
to hem; & gret doel to hym he nom;
Wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Which, in your
splendour
hid, corrode your
light;
(Kings in the country oft have gone astray,
Nor of a peasant scorned to learn the way.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The kingly lion stood,
And the virgin viewed:
Then he
gambolled
round
O'er the hallowed ground.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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So the men rush like clouds,
They strike their iron edges on the Bishop's chair
And fling down the
lanterns
by the tower stair.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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fill'd all things with himself
And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale
Of his own sorrows) he and such as he
First nam'd these notes a melancholy strain;
And many a poet echoes the conceit,
Poet, who hath been
building
up the rhyme
When he had better far have stretch'd his limbs
Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell
By sun or moonlight, to the influxes
Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements
Surrendering his whole spirit, of his song
And of his fame forgetful!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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There earth would furnish to the children food;
Warmth was their swaddling cloth, the grass their bed
Abounding
in soft down.
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Lucretius |
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And yet, as poor as I
Have
ventured
all upon a throw;
Have gained!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
"I'll try him," answered Gareth with a smile that
maddened
Lynette.
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Tennyson |
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Here on your heart my heart now understands; Home have I come at last from alien
lands—
A pilgrim through the darkness to your eyes!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Come, stretch your wings or look
out for
squalls!
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Aristophanes |
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They blind all with their gleam,
Their loins
encircled
are by girdles bright,
Their robes are edged with bands
Of precious stones--the rarest earth affords--
With richly jeweled hands
They hold their slender, shining, naked swords.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Modern
geographers
I 'twas there they thought,
Where Venice twenty years the Turks had fought,
(While the first year the navy is but shown,
The next divided, and the third we've none.
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Marvell - Poems |
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THE
UNIVERSAL
PRAYER.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Her
Walsingham
could dark counsels unriddle.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The long
diphthongs
(ēo,
ēa, etc.
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Beowulf |
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Here's the worth and wisdom
Collieston
can boast;
By a thievish midge they had been nearly lost.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
He said, and feebly drives his friends away:
The
sorrowing
friends his frantic rage obey.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Humpty-Dumpty's theory, of two meanings packed into one word
like a portmanteau, seems to me the right
explanation
for all.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Not a shriek, not a scream;
Scarcely
even a howl or a groan,
As the man they called "Ho!
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Lewis Carroll |
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And the same may
possibly
be true of variants
in other poems.
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John Donne |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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He makes
an affecting allusion to this in one of his private
letters — *^ Magxs occidere^ says he, " met%u> quam
occidi; non quod vitam tanti astimam, sed ne
imparatus mortar," *
He died August 1 6, 1 678, the very year that
his obnoxious work on the growth of Popery and
Arbitrary Government appeared ; and, as he was
in vigorous health just before, strong suspicions
were
entertained
that he had been poisoned.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Come give me thy
loveliest
lay.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Nor do the powers divine grudge any man
The fruits of his seed-sowing, so that never
He be called "father" by sweet
children
his,
And end his days in sterile love forever.
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Lucretius |
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"
While the public was engaged in these and the like debates, the illness
of
Augustus
waxed daily more grievous; and some strongly suspected the
pestilent practices of his wife.
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Tacitus |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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talis Egeriae iocos fuisse
udo
crediderim
Numae sub antro.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"
THYRSIS
"A bowl of milk, Priapus, and these cakes,
Yearly, it is enough for thee to claim;
Thou art the
guardian
of a poor man's plot.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Outside the day was one of green and blue,
With touches of a
luminous
glowing red,
Across the quiet pond the small waves sped.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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ante tuos ortus melius sua sidera seruat
nauita nec media nescius errat aqua;
te surgit quamuis lassus
ueniente
uiator,
et miles saeuas aptat ad arma manus;
prima bidente uides oneratos arua colentis,
prima uocas tardos sub iuga panda boues;
tu pueros somno fraudas tradisque magistris,
ut subeant tenerae uerbera saeua manus,
atque eadem sponsum inuitos ante atria mittis,
unius ut uerbi grandia damna ferant;
nec tu consulto, nec tu iucunda diserto:
cogitur ad litis surgere uterque nouas;
tu, cum feminei possint cessare labores,
lanificam reuocas ad sua pensa manum.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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What journal do the
persimmon
and the buckeye keep,
and the sharp-shinned hawk?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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They burn with an
unquenched
and smothered fire
Consumed by longings over which they brood,
Oblivious of time, without desire,
Alone and lost in their great solitude.
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Rilke - Poems |
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,
_provided
with barbs, sharp like swords _: instr.
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Beowulf |
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JAMES
ROBINSON
SMITH.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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They hunt through the streets [8] with deliberate tread,
And each, in his turn, becomes leader or led; [9]
And,
wherever
they carry their plots and their wiles,
Every face in the village is dimpled with smiles.
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William Wordsworth |
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7645
And sir, of o thing herkeneth me:--
Sith ye this man, that loveth yow,
Han seid such harm and shame now,
Witeth wel, if he gessed it,
Ye may wel demen in your wit, 7650
He nolde no-thing love you so,
Ne callen you his freend also,
But night and day he [wolde] wake,
The castel to destroye and take,
If it were sooth as ye devyse; 7655
Or som man in som maner wyse
Might it warne him everydel,
Or by him-self
perceyven
wel;
For sith he might not come and gon
As he was whylom wont to don, 7660
He might it sone wite and see;
But now al other-wyse [doth] he.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And rivers and springs would summon them of old
To slake the thirst, as now from the great hills
The water's down-rush calls aloud and far
The thirsty
generations
of the wild.
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Lucretius |
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Then public praise does run upon the stone,
For a most rich, a rare, a
precious
one.
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Robert Herrick |
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>
O Music, from this height of time my Word unfold:
In thy large signals all men's hearts Man's heart behold:
Mid-heaven unroll thy chords as
friendly
flags unfurled,
And wave the world's best lover's welcome to the world.
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Sidney Lanier |
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A name
unmusical
to the Volscians' ears,
And harsh in sound to thine.
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Shakespeare |
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Bear witness for me, wheresoe'er ye be,
With what deep worship I have still adored
The spirit of
divinest
Liberty.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Does he still think his error
pardonable?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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An individual is as superb as a nation when he
has the
qualities
which make a superb nation.
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"
'61-68'
Pope here
illustrates
his preceding argument by analogy.
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Alexander Pope |
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Was he afraid, or
tranquil?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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When I went over to my own room I found him waiting,
impassive
as
the copper head on a penny, to pull off my boots.
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Kipling - Poems |
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as written in the character of a Soldier of Fortune
in the
Seventeenth
Century.
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Golden Treasury |
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Sur ta chair le parfum rode
Comme autour d'un encensoir;
Tu charmes comme le soir,
Nymphe
tenebreuse
et chaude.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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, New York
CONTEMPORARY VERSE
offers a particularly
remarkable
series of poems for
the year 1917.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Wherefore
'tis less a marvel, if they sprang
In Long Ago more many, and more big,
Matured of those days in the fresh young years
Of earth and ether.
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Lucretius |
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ELDRED On a ridge of rocks
A
lonesome
Chapel stands, deserted now:
The bell is left, which no one dares remove;
And, when the stormy wind blows o'er the peak,
It rings, as if a human hand were there
To pull the cord.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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O
laughter
if only to royally invest
My absent tomb purple, down there, is spread.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The eternal gates
terrific
porter lifted the northern bar:
Thel enter'd in & saw the secrets of the land unknown;
She saw the couches of the dead, & where the fibrous roots
Of every heart on earth infixes deep its restless twists:
A land of sorrows & of tears where never smile was seen.
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blake-poems |
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editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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