NEW POEMS
EARLY APOLLO
As when at times there breaks through
branches
bare
A morning vibrant with the breath of spring,
About this poet-head a splendour rare
Transforms it almost to a mortal thing.
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Rilke - Poems |
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So many
hurrying
home--
And thou still away.
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Sappho |
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If awkward, vulgar phrase intervene,
Or rhymes
imperfect
o'er the page be seen,
Condemn at will; but stratagems and art,
Pass, shut your eyes, who'd heed the idle part?
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La Fontaine |
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That boy, that came the other day
To dig some flag-root down this way,
His jack-knife left, and 'tis a sign
That Heaven approves of our design:
'Twere wicked not to urge the step on,
When
Providence
has sent the weapon.
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James Russell Lowell |
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comlokest
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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They
are written with great plainness, and with a busi-
* Perhaps we are not to expect verbal exactness in an
epitaph, or perhaps allowance was made for the period of
Marvell's absence from his duties, but if he had not been
chosen to the
Parliament
of 1658-9 under Richard's Pro-
tectorate, it would be hard to explain why Marvell, in return-
ing thanks to the Corporation of Hull in a letter dated 6th
April, 1661, should say, ** I perceive you have a^^in made
choice of me, now the third time, to serve you in Parlia-
ment.
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Marvell - Poems |
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je veux qu'on me couche
Parmi les Morts des eaux nocturnes
abreuves!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais,
beautiful
Athenian courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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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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With what
enchantment
and power
Does it not come upon mortals,
Learned or heedless!
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Sappho |
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There is besides in Roderigo's letter,
How he
upbraids
Iago, that he made him
Brave me upon the watch, whereon it came
That I was cast.
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Shakespeare |
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What, fifty of my
followers
at a clap?
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Shakespeare |
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By brooks too broad for leaping
The
lightfoot
boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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There lay the glade and
neighbouring
lawn,
And through the dark green wood
The white sun twinkling like the dawn
Out of a speckled cloud.
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Golden Treasury |
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I will not dwell on other
criticisms
of this type.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The "Chanson" does, indeed, make some show of beginning in the third
section, but it still moves with a cautious and
prelusive
air, as if
anxious not to launch out too soon.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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But he troubles himself
little about dates, and having heard travellers talk with
admiration of the Colossus of Rhodes, and of the
structures
and
gardens with which the Macedonian king of Syria had embellished
their residence on the banks of the Orontes, he has never thought
of inquiring whether these things existed in the age of Romulus.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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For she hath no
exchequer
now but his,
And proud of many, lives upon his gains.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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When the sun is down to-night,
Quietly set the main gate open: I
Will pass
therethrough
and treat with Holofernes.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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If ye behold
Or seek it with a love remiss and lax,
This cornice after just
repenting
lays
Its penal torment on ye.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Better will be the ecstasy
That they have done
expecting
me,
When, night descending, dumb and dark,
They hear my unexpected knock.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He was the
mightiest
man of valor
in that same day of this our life,
stalwart and stately.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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How many bullets
bearest?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Or if a work so
infinite
he spanned,
Jealous I was that some less skilful hand
Digitized by VjOOQIC
OF MARVELL.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Now it is seen, if there be likelihood,
That king who reigns in so remote a land,
Followed
by such a mighty multitude,
Should set his foot on warlike Africk's strand;
Traversing sands, to which in evil hour
Cambyses trusted his ill-omened power.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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_Autumn_
The thistle-down's flying, though the winds are all still,
On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill,
The spring from the fountain now boils like a pot;
Through stones past the
counting
it bubbles red hot.
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John Clare |
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John Donne |
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--as I walked the woods at dusk, I heard your
long-stretched sighs, up above, so mournful;
I heard the perfect Italian tenor, singing at the opera--I heard the
soprano in the midst of the
quartette
singing.
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Whitman |
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All
literature which refuses to advance
fraternally
between science and
philosophy is a homicidal and a suicidal literature.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Mendes denies that
Baudelaire
was a victim of the hemp.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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XXXVIII
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand
wherewith
I write;
And ever since, it grew more clean and white.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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One
constant
twilight in the heaven appears--
One constant twilight in the mind of man!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Here, regarding the palace, and a
testimony
of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
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Appoloinaire |
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XXXIX
Silent stands
mournful
Bradamant, nor dares
Meanwhile her lady-mother's speech gainsay;
To whom such reverence, and respect, she bears,
She thinks no choice is left but to obey.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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This new mood
Of
judgment
orders me my present duty,
To face again a problem strongly solved
In life gone by, but now again proposed
Out of due time for fresh deliberation.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
I sat and looked at him in awe,
For
certainly
I never saw
A thing so white and wavy.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Why like a
skittish
mare
Do you glance askance at me?
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Ronsard |
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A reference to Paul's letter to the
_Colossians_, ii, 14, in which he
declares
that the gospel of grace has
superseded the law of Moses.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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But
wherefore
languish thus?
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Petrarch |
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What business brings you here, young
cavaliers?
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Hugo - Poems |
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This
courageous
Young Lady of Norway.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It is supposed to have been
identical
with what was
known as Greek work, and made by the nuns of Italy in the
twelfth century.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"You gave me
hyacinths
first a year ago;
"They called me the hyacinth girl.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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hic me grauedo frigida et
frequens
tussis
quassauit usque dum in tuum sinum fugi,
et me recuraui otioque et urtica.
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Latin - Catullus |
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She begs for them of
careless
crowd,
Of earnest brows and narrow hearts,
That when it hears her cry aloud,
Turns like the ebb-tide and departs.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The porter of my father's lodge
As much
abasheth
me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Passing the Indus, winding poisonous forests,
Blowing soft flutes at scandalous temple girls,
Filling the
highways
with their magpie loot,
What brass from my Chicago will they heap,
What gems from Walla Walla, Omaha,
Will they pile near the Bodhi Tree, and laugh?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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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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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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And cannot I, who aided in this work,
Show in an hour what he hath made in many,
Or hath
destroyed
in few?
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Byron |
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And from that very hour
Thou wast made whole, my
darling!
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Longfellow |
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Men tire me when I am
not
constantly
greeted and refreshed as by the flux of sparkling
streams.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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XLI
"Behind the curtains, I had hid the tried
And
faithful
follower, of whom I said,
Who moved not till the bridegroom he descried,
Yet waited not till he in bed was laid:
But raised a hatchet, and so well applied
Behind the stripling's head the ponderous blade,
Of speech and life it reft him; I, who note
The deed, leap lightly up and cut his throat.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Before his might, to theirs, as hardest rock to dust,
There have recoiled a horde of savage, warlike chiefs,
Who have been into Afric's fiery furnace thrust--
Its scorching heat to his rage
greatest
of reliefs.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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" The two dialogues finally used as the Epilogue to
the Satires were first
published
in the year 1738, with the name of the
year, "Seventeen Hundred and Thirty-eight.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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E 'l dottor mio: <
riguardi
a' segni
che questi porta e che l'angel profila,
ben vedrai che coi buon convien ch'e' regni.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Her idea of passive beauty
Was a squinting of the left-eye,
Was a
drooping
of the right-eye,
Was a smile that went up sideways
To the corner of the nostrils.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Are they panic-struck and
helpless?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I pray you first to make the
difficult
choice;
Will you the necklace wear of pearls, or else
The emerald half-moon?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Tag,
elevated
to the Cardinalate.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Affter kyng
Salomons
de?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Thus, we do not
necessarily
keep eBooks
in compliance with any particular paper edition.
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Stephen Crane |
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The
blanching
moon rides high and free, The lamps like stars amid the trees Throw fluctuating arabesques
Upon the feather-fingered breeze.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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La presente edition de 1895 a ete corrigee de la main de Verlaine, sur
des
epreuves
fournies par l'imprimerie Ch.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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That
Emperour
goes into France apace;
Under his cloke he fain would hide his face.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Starlight is a usual occurrence
Any
pleasant
night beside the sea.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Though true it be that none with surer seat
O'er Mars's grassy turf is seen to ride,
Nor any swims so fleet
Adown the Tuscan tide,
Yet keep each evening door and window barr'd;
Look not abroad when music strikes up shrill,
And though he call you hard,
Remain
obdurate
still.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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[_He
struggles
with CONAL and shoves past into the
house.
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Yeats |
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Wenonah died in her anguish
deserted
by the West Wind, and Hiawatha
was brought up and taught by the old Nokomis.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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On the walls, on either side of
the Gate, are citizens watching the
Assyrian
camp;_
OZIAS _also, standing by himself_.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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To the Editor of the
_Morning
Post_.
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Byron |
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Though he touch
naught save what is banned, thou canst find ample reason
wherefore
he may
stay lean.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
find, I
your J
When she had spoke, a
confused
murmur
rose.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Canzon : Nor doth God's light match light shed over me The rltfflftwjgga thy caught
sunlight
is about me thrown,
Oh, for the very ruth thine eyes have told, Answer the rune this love of thee hath taught me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Now no one fares awhile my road, forsaken,
I find no wight within me hope to waken,
Who yet the
smallest
solace might implore,
So deep in darkness plods no pilgrim more.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Th'
unfriendly
cloud, whose cold veil o'er it grew,
Broke at the first breath of mine ardent word
Or low'ring still she others' blame incurr'd
Her bright and killing eyes who thus withdrew
No ruth for self I crave, for her no hate;
I wish not this--_that_ passes power of mine:
Such was mine evil star and cruel fate.
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Petrarch |
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The cobbler slowly tuned his last,
And, wagging his sagacious head,
Unto his
kneeling
housewife said:
"'Tis the monk Tetzel.
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Longfellow |
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Out in the evening roam,
Out from thy room thou know'st in every part,
And far in the dim
distance
leave thy home,
Whosoever thou art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Fendent le lac aux eaux
rougies!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The Blessed One,
The All-Highest, hath instilled into thy soul,
Great lord, the spirit of
kindness
and meek patience;
Thou wishest not perdition for the sinner,
Thou wilt wait quietly, until delusion
Shall pass away; for pass away it will,
And truth's eternal sun will dawn on all.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
It was in that season, and a
remarkably
evil season, that the paper
began running the last issue of the week on Saturday night, which is to
say Sunday morning, after the custom of a London paper.
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Kipling - Poems |
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There by the furnace, and there by the anvil,
Behold thy sturdy blacksmiths swinging their sledges,
Overhand
so steady, overhand they turn and fall with joyous clank,
Like a tumult of laughter.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And when the doors are shut, what of the girls
Who gave
themselves
away, and still must live?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"With fire and sword the country round
Was wasted far and wide,
And many a
childing
mother then
And newborn baby died:
But things like that, you know, must be
At every famous victory.
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Golden Treasury |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Thy narrow pride, thy fancied green
(For vanity's in little seen),
All must be left when Death appears,
In spite of wishes, groans, and tears;
Nor one of all thy plants that grow
But
Rosemary
will with thee go.
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Golden Treasury |
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"I wish I knew where we are going," she repeated for the
twentieth
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Kipling - Poems |
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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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"
Forthwith
this frame of mine was wrench'd
With a woeful agony,
Which forc'd me to begin my tale
And then it left me free.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Dost thou not hear how pitiful his wail,
Nor mark the death, which in the torrent flood,
Swoln mightier than a sea, him
struggling
holds?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Sara Teasdale |
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þā ic wīde gefrægn weorc gebannan, 74; similarly, 2485, 2753, 2774; ne
gefrægen ic þā mǣgðe māran weorode ymb hyra sincgyfan sēl gebǣran, _I never
heard that any people, richer in warriors,
conducted
itself better about
its chief_, 1012; similarly, 1028; pret.
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Beowulf |
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