And from the rafters upon strings depend
Beanstalks beset with pods from end to end,
Whose numbers without
counting
may be seen
Wrote on the almanack behind the screen.
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he is sunk down into a deadly sleep
But we immortal in our strength survive by stern debate
Till we have drawn the Lamb of god into a mortal form
And that he must be born is certain for One must be All
And
comprehend
within himself all things both small & great
We therefore for whose sake all things aspire to be be & live
Will so recieve the Divine Image that amongst the Reprobate
He may be devoted to Destruction from his mothers womb {This group of 9 lines, "Refusing.
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The land lay steeped in peace of silent dreams, There was no sound amid the sacred boughs Nor any
mournful
music in her streams,
Only I saw the shadow on her brows,
Only I knew her for the Yearly Slain
And wept, and weep until she come again.
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The Loyal London now a third time bums ;
And the true Royal Oak, and Royal James,
Allied in fate,
increase
with theirs her flames.
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer throughout next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that
mysterious
maid.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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With specimens of song,
As if for you to choose,
Discretion in the interval,
With gay delays he goes
To some
superior
tree
Without a single leaf,
And shouts for joy to nobody
But his seraphic self!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For whan that he me gan espye, 3815
He swoor,
afferming
sikirly,
Bitwene Bialacoil and me
Was yvel aquayntaunce and privee.
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Here in a bay, a
helmeted
sentry
Silent and motionless, watching while two sleep,
And he sees before him
With indifferent eyes the blasted and torn land
Peopled with stiff prone forms, stupidly rigid,
As tho' they had not been men.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Let us some
pleasing
fair-one then engage,
To serve us both:--enough she'll prove I'll wage.
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La Fontaine |
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My father could not believe it possible that I
should be mixed up in a disgraceful revolt, of which the object was the
downfall of the throne and the
extermination
of the race of "_boyars_.
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The light of her face falls from its flower,
as a hyacinth,
hidden in a far valley,
perishes
upon burnt grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And yet how still the
landscape
stands,
How nonchalant the wood,
As if the resurrection
Were nothing very odd!
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MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN:
A Scottish Bard, proud of the name, and whose highest ambition is to
sing in his country's service, where shall he so properly look for
patronage as to the illustrious names of his native land: those who
bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their
ancestors?
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Robert Forst |
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And thus when by Poetry, or when by Music,
the most entrancing of the poetic moods, we find
ourselves
melted into
tears, we weep then, not as the Abbate Gravina supposes, through excess
of pleasure, but through a certain petulant, impatient sorrow at our
inability to grasp now, wholly, here on earth, at once and for ever,
those divine and rapturous joys of which _through' _the poem, or
_through _the music, we attain to but brief and indeterminate glimpses.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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My brother's hair
Is as a prince's and a rover's, strong
With
sunlight
and with strife: not like the long
Locks that a woman combs.
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Euripides - Electra |
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But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one,
settling
a pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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_
LEAVING ROME, HE DESIRES ONLY PEACE WITH LAURA AND
PROSPERITY
TO
COLONNA.
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Petrarch |
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"A
singular
monument of poetical, or rather unpoetical perversity;" "the
very worst of all his pieces;" are, for instance, the phrases applied to
it by Schlegel.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The many heard, and the loud revelry
Grew hush; the stately music no more breathes;
The myrtle sicken'd in a
thousand
wreaths.
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Keats - Lamia |
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And, what's more, when sorrow's beating
Down on me, through Fate's
incessant
rage,
Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging,
Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away.
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Villon |
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the vilest in the
dungeon!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I would not have a pain to own
For those dark curls and those bright eyes
A
frowning
lip, a heart of stone,
False love and folly I despise.
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John Clare |
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Parsifal
Parsifal has
conquered
the girls, their sweet
Chatter, amusing lust - and his inclination,
A virgin boy's, towards the Flesh, tempted
To love the little tits and gentle babble;
He's conquered lovely Woman, of subtle
Heart, showing her cool arms, provoking breast;
He's conquered Hell, returned to his tent,
With a weighty trophy on his boyish arm.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Keats - Lamia |
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What if our ruler
Be sick in very deed of cares of state
And hath no
strength
to mount the throne?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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" His son, to whom we gave
the freedom of the city, burned with desire to come here and eat
chitterlings at the feast of the Apaturia;[174] he prayed his father to
come to the aid of his new country and
Sitalces
swore on his goblet that
he would succour us with such a host that the Athenians would exclaim,
"What a cloud of grasshoppers!
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Aristophanes |
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LOVE'S APPARITION AND EVANISHMENT
AN
ALLEGORIC
ROMANCE
Like a lone Arab, old and blind,
Some caravan had left behind,
Who sits beside a ruin'd well,
Where the shy sand-asps bask and swell;
And now he hangs his aged head aslant,
And listens for a human sound--in vain!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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It was wont to be faithful to me; but shaken
with age now, and sloth, which weakens the
strongest
abilities, it may
perform somewhat, but cannot promise much.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The young man was at first very
unwilling
to discover
from whence he had the original; but, after many promises made to him,
he was at last prevailed on to acknowledge, that he had received this,
_together with many other MSS_, from his father, who had found them
in a large chest in an upper room over the chapel on the north side of
Redclift church.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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therefore
love, be of thyself so wary
As I, not for myself, but for thee will;
Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary
As tender nurse her babe from faring ill.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The poet related
what had been mentioned to a young man who wrote to him
expressly
to ask
whether Arezzo could really boast of being his birthplace.
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Petrarch |
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Throw
Physicke
to the Dogs, Ile none of it.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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That does not mean that Virgil is more
artistic
than
Homer.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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)
The Council have
resolved
for the last time
To put to proof the power of supplication
Upon our ruler's mournful soul.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Now, when the flame they watch not towers
About the soil they trod,
Lads, we'll
remember
friends of ours
Who shared the work with God.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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_ These lines
are
condensed
and obscure.
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John Donne |
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Last, may your harrows, shears, and ploughs,
Your stacks, your stocks, your
sweetest
mows,
All prosper by our virgin vows.
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Robert Herrick |
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Stars
There is no
oversight
of human affairs.
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Robert Forst |
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Nearly all the individual
works in the
collection
are in the public domain in the United
States.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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AElla, the Danes ar thondrynge onn our coaste;
Lyche scolles of locusts, caste oppe bie the sea,
Magnus and Hurra, wythe a
doughtie
hoaste, 240
Are ragyng, to be quansed[50] bie none botte thee;
Haste, swyfte as Levynne to these royners flee:
Thie dogges alleyne can tame thys ragynge bulle.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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In these woods, thy small Labrador,
At this pinch, wee San
Salvador!
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Emerson - Poems |
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I took thee as my
friendly
host
That counsel might in dangers show,
But when I needed thee the most
I found thou wert my foe.
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John Clare |
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they were living things,
Most
terrible
to see.
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Wilde - Poems |
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LADY:
If I be sure I am not
dreaming
now, _125
I should not doubt to say it was a dream.
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Shelley |
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'
`And thou, my suster, ful of discomfort,'
Quod Pandarus, `what
thenkestow
to do?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Now the moon-white butterflies
Float across the liquid air,
Glad as in a dream;
And, across thy lover's heart, 10
Visions of one scarlet mouth
With its
maddening
smile.
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Sappho |
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Look you how the cave
Is with the wild vine's
clusters
over-laced!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The victory of the foreign taste was decisive; and indeed we can
hardly blame the Romans for turning away with contempt from the
rude lays which had
delighted
their fathers, and giving their
whole admiration to the immortal productions of Greece.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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No more against my bosom press thee,
Seek no more that my hands caress thee,
Leave the sad lips thou hast known so well;
If to my heart thou lean thine ear,
There
grieving
thou shalt only hear
Vain murmuring of an empty shell.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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XXVI
Who would
demonstrate
Rome's true grandeur,
In all her vast dimensions, all her might,
Her length and breadth, and all her depth and height
Needs no line or lead, compass or measure:
He only need draw a circle, at his leisure,
Round all that Ocean in his arms holds tight,
Be it where Sirius scorches with his light,
Or where the northerlies blow cold forever.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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140
`And I to ben your verray humble trewe,
Secret, and in my paynes pacient,
And ever-mo desire freshly newe,
To serven, and been y-lyke ay diligent,
And, with good herte, al holly your talent 145
Receyven
wel, how sore that me smerte,
Lo, this mene I, myn owene swete herte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Hysteria
As she laughed I was aware of
becoming
involved in her
laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were
only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Marry, the gods
forfend!
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Shakespeare |
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Vast were the task, I feeble; inborn shame,
And she, who makes the
peaceful
lyre submit,
Forbid me to impair great Caesar's fame
And yours by my weak wit.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Those airy sprites that from the azure smile,
Peris and elfs the while they men beguile,
Have brows less youthful pure than yours; besides
Dishevelled
they whose shaded beauty hides
In clouds.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The Preface
Introductory Account of the Several Pieces
Advertisement
Eclogue the First
Eclogue the Second
Eclogue the Third
Elinoure
and Juga
Verses to Lydgate
Songe to AElla
Lydgate's Answer
The Tournament
The Dethe of Syr Charles Bawdin
Epistle to Mastre Canynge on AElla
Letter to the dygne M.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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So fell I in the snare; their slave so won
Her speech
angelical
and winning air,
Pleasure, and fond desire, and sanguine hope.
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Petrarch |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And
microbes
more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
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Appoloinaire |
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There seemed not a holy thing in hail,
Nor shape of light or love,
From the Abbey north of
Blackmore
Vale
To the Abbey south thereof.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Is she to suckle
jailers?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Aeschylus |
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Flocks and men, the lasting hills,
And the ever-wheeling stars;
Ye who freight with
wondrous
things 5
The wide-wandering heart of man
And the galleon of the moon,
On those silent seas of foam;
Oh, if ever ye shall grant
Time and place and room enough 10
To this fond and fragile heart
Stifled with the throb of love,
On that day one grave-eyed Fate,
Pausing in her toil, shall say,
"Lo, one mortal has achieved 15
Immortality of love!
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Sappho |
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Quiet and very wise he seemed,
With skull-like face, bald head that gleamed;
Through
spectacles
his eyes looked kind.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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At last beside the brook they stood,
With Winthrop and his followers;
The maid in flake-embroidered hood,
The
magistrate
well cloaked in furs,
That, parting, showed a glimpse beneath
Of ample, throat-encircling ruff
As white as some wind-gathered wreath
Of snow quilled into plait and puff.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A little
distance
from the prow
Those crimson shadows were:
I turn'd my eyes upon the deck--
O Christ!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And love gave me great
knowledge
of the trees,
And singing birds, and earth with all her flowers;
Wisdom I knew and righteousness in these,
I lived in their atonement all my hours;
Love taught me how to beauty's eye alone
The secret of the lying heart is known.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Since the lecturer has raised the
question
whether Li T'ai-po or Tu
Fu is the greater poet, I would say that the Chinese of the present
day consider Tu Fu to be the greater.
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Li Po |
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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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Robert Burns |
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"
"We have enough," the pagans
straight
agree.
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Chanson de Roland |
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coniungebat
Bonnet
33 _reuinciens_ ah: _reuincens_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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But I, when a new morn doth rise,
Chasing from earth its murky shades,
While ring the forests with delight,
Find no remission of my sighs;
And, soon as night her mantle spreads,
I weep, and wish returning light
Again when eve bids day retreat,
O'er other climes to dart its rays;
Pensive those cruel stars I view,
Which influence thus my amorous fate;
And
imprecate
that beauty's blaze,
Which o'er my form such wildness threw.
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He could
controll
the times & seasons, & the days & years
She could controll the spaces, regions, desart, flood & forest
But had no power to weave a Veil of covering for her Sins
She drave the Females all away from Los
And Los drave all the Males from her away
They wanderd long, till they sat down upon the margind sea.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
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Appoloinaire |
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) How happy
Is he, how flushed with gladness and with glory
His
stainless
soul!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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What now,
If with such things as these
troubled
thou wert?
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Likewise, the sun's eclipses and the moon's
Far
occultations
rightly thou mayst deem
As due to several causes.
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Ah, ah,
Heosphoros!
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Then dove-flights
sanctified
the plain,
And hawk and sparrow shared a nest.
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At night you came and took my hand and we wandered
together
in my
dream;
When I woke in the morning there was no one to stop the tears that
fell on my handkerchief.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I hoped to make
My grannam's lonely cottage
something
safe
From you and what I hated in you.
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II
Its boughs, which none but darers trod,
A child may step on from the sod,
And twigs that
earliest
met the dawn
Are lit the last upon the lawn.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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If to review his country be his fate,
Be it through toils and sufferings long and late;
His lost companions let him first deplore;
Some vessel, not his own, transport him o'er;
And when at home from foreign sufferings freed,
More near and deep, domestic woes
succeed!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Suddenly the walls of the hollow where I stood sundered with a crash,
and I looked down on a
bottomless
void of blue, where the sun and moon
gleamed on a terrace of silver and gold.
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Li Po |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Padmaja, aetat 3
Lotus-maiden, you who claim
All the
sweetness
of your name,
Lakshmi, fortune's queen, defend you,
Lotus-born like you, and send you
Balmy moons of love to bless you,
Gentle joy-winds to caress you.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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In other cases, as in the
few poems of
shipwreck
or of mental conflict, we can only wonder at
the gift of vivid imagination by which this recluse woman can
delineate, by a few touches, the very crises of physical or mental
struggle.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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He preached upon "breadth" till it argued him narrow, --
The broad are too broad to define;
And of "truth" until it proclaimed him a liar, --
The truth never
flaunted
a sign.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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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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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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von (Robert), p39 1887, Internet Book Archive Images
Medusas,
miserable
heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
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Appoloinaire |
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XVIII
All bustle when he makes a sign:
He drinks, all drink and loudly call;
He smiles, in
laughter
all combine;
He knits his brows--'tis silent all.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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