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American Poetry - 1922 |
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{7a} There is no
irrelevance
here.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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and is your mightiness
A sycophant to smug
success?
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Emerson - Poems |
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"--
IX
"I see white flowers upon the floor
Betrodden
to a clot;
My wreath were they?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Sees he some
likeness
here?
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Euripides - Electra |
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There is the despot who
tyrannises
over the soul.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And they declare
Terreagles
fair,
For their abode they choose it;
There's no a heart in a' the land
But's lighter at the news o't.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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XXXIX
I grow weary of the foreign cities,
The sea travel and the
stranger
peoples.
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Sappho |
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A fourth hand,
D, seems to be the latest because it is the
handwriting
in which the
Index was made out, and the poems inserted in this hand are inserted
in odd spaces left by the other writers.
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John Donne |
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Do you
understand
crime and innocence so poorly?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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it nat to enterchau{n}ge
stoundes
of knowynges.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Lines longer than 78 characters are broken
according
to metre,
and the continuation is indented two spaces.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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One could
almost imagine that
Euripides
had not yet conceived that bad opinion of
the sex which so many of the subsequent dramas exhibit.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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--"Why, grandma, how you're
winking!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Et comme il
savourait
surtout les sombres choses,
Quand, dans la chambre nue aux persiennes closes,
Haute et bleue, acrement prise d'humidite,
Il lisait son roman sans cesse medite,
Plein de lourds ciels ocreux et de forets noyees,
De fleurs de chair aux bois siderals deployees,
Vertige, ecroulements, deroutes et pitie!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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s post as Reminder was also a
Chancellery
post.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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They toil, they sweat, thick clouds of dust arise,
The
doubling
clamours echo to the skies.
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Iliad - Pope |
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puts
gesēcean
for Gr.
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Beowulf |
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For forty years, he produced and
distributed
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Tennyson |
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]
XXXVII
And you, my
youthful
damsels fair,
Whom latterly one often meets
Urging your droshkies swift as air
Along Saint Petersburg's paved streets,
From you too Eugene took to flight,
Abandoning insane delight,
And isolated from all men,
Yawning betook him to a pen.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"Strict
equality!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Et ses yeux et sa danse
superieurs
encore aux eclats precieux, aux
influences froides, au plaisir du decor et de l'heure uniques.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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After this, the four little people sailed on again till they came to a vast
and wide plain of astonishing dimensions, on which nothing whatever could
be discovered at first; but, as the travellers walked onward, there
appeared in the extreme and dim distance a single object, which on a nearer
approach, and on an
accurately
cutaneous inspection, seemed to be somebody
in a large white wig, sitting on an arm-chair made of sponge-cakes and
oyster-shells.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Through his personality; his pathos and
ethology he has furthermore engendered a new ideal;
a synthesis of
Christian
and Pagan feeling which in
this form has not existed before.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Lust-bred
diseases
rot thee; and dwell with thee
Itching desire, and no abilitie.
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John Donne |
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A lurid thought is growthless, dull Privation,
Yet that is but a
Purgatory
curse;
Hell knows a fear far worse,
A fear--a future state;--'tis positive Negation!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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Peace is more strong than war, and gentleness,
Where force were vain, makes
conquest
o'er the wave; 10
And love lives on and hath a power to bless,
When they who loved are hidden in the grave.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Divide ye bands influence by influence
Build we a Bower for heavens darling in the grizly deep
Build we the Mundane Shell around the Rock of Albion {Blake's rendering of this line is distinctly different from the surrounding text in form, though no
indication
of why is apparent.
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Blake - Zoas |
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When they go into the world, the
world will
disagree
with them.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A queen devoid of beauty is not queen,
She needs the royalty of beauty's mien;
God in His harmony has equal ends
For cedar that resists, and reed that bends,
And good it is a woman
sometimes
rules,
Holds in her hand the power, and manners schools,
And laws and mind;--succeeding master proud,
With gentle voice and smile she leads the crowd,
The sombre human troop.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The
hierodule
opened her mouth
and said unto Enkidu:--
"Eat bread, oh Enkidu!
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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But, O ye Six that round him lay
And
bloodied
up that April day!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And the
Megarians
too are doing nothing, yet look how they are
pulling and showing their teeth like famished curs; the poor wretches are
dying of hunger!
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Aristophanes |
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XLIV
And all the way, with great
lamenting
paine,
And piteous plaints she filleth his dull eares,
That stony hart could riven have in twaine, 390
And all the way she wets with flowing teares:
But he enrag'd with rancor, nothing heares.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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What porcelain vase by you was split
To
thousand
pieces?
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Hugo - Poems |
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The
Countess
Anna Fedorovna was seated before her mirror in her
dressing-room.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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,
_perpetual
night, night after night_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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They lied not then, who sware, and thro' their vows
The King
prevailing
made his realm:--I say,
Swear to me thou wilt love me ev'n when old,
Gray-haired, and past desire, and in despair.
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Tennyson |
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105
Hir fredom fond Arcite in swich manere,
That al was his that she hath, moche or lyte,
Ne to no creature made she chere
Ferther than that hit lyked to Arcite;
Ther was no lak with which he mighte hir wyte, 110
She was so
ferforth
yeven him to plese,
That al that lyked him, hit did hir ese.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Had I a load of gold, and should I come
Bribing their friendship, and to buy a home,
They would stare harder and would slightly frown:
I am a
stranger
from the distant town.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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say what flame more
gladsome
in Heavens be shining?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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a genial air abroad,
Winter
resigned
her empire white,
Oneguine ne'er as poet showed
Nor died nor lost his senses quite.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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e snawe
snitered
ful snart, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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at may not be
staunched
shal it bynde me to be stedfast.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The Duke here
referred
to is said to be the Duke
of Argyle, one of the most influential of the great Whig lords.
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Alexander Pope |
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Telemachus
assists and brings arms for his father, himself,
Eumaeus, and Philaetius.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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how the masses sally
Streaming and swarming through gardens and fields
How the broad stream that bathes the valley
Is everywhere cut with pleasure boats' keels,
And that last skiff, so heavily laden,
Almost to sinking, puts off in the stream;
Ribbons and jewels of youngster and maiden
From the far paths of the
mountain
gleam.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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What, hath the
firmament
more suns than one?
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Shakespeare |
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Then said another with a long-drawn Sigh,
"My Clay with long
oblivion
is gone dry:
But, fill me with the old familiar Juice,
Methinks I might recover by-and-bye!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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If the sad grave of human
ignorance
bear 660
One flower of hope--Oh pass and leave it there.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"Les saules trempes, et des
bourgeons
sur les ronces--
C'est la, dans une averse, qu'on s'abrite.
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T.S. Eliot |
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For twenty men that you shall now send in
To France the Douce he will repair, that King;
In the rereward will follow after him
Both his nephew, count Rollant, as I think,
And Oliver, that
courteous
paladin;
Dead are the counts, believe me if you will.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Naturel
Ce qui dit a l'un:
Sepulture!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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[Greek: en de mues stereoisi brachiosin akron hyp' _omon estasan,
aeute petroi oloitrochoi ous te
kylind_on
cheimarrhous potamos
megalais periexese dinais.
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Tennyson |
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But I would
comprehend
Thee
As the wide Earth unfolds Thee.
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Rilke - Poems |
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All they wrought,
Unreasoning they wrought, till I made clear
The laws of rising stars, and
inference
dim,
More hard to learn, of what their setting showed.
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Aeschylus |
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Old uncanonical Stigand--ask of _me_
Who had my pallium from an
Antipope!
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Tennyson |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And clap him into furnace ninety-two, 610
And try this
brimstone
on him; if he's bright,
He'll find the masure honest afore night.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Down
Pennsylvania
Avenue to-day the riders go,
men and boys riding horses, roses in their teeth,
stems of roses, rose leaf stalks, rose dark leaves--
the line of the green ends in a red rose flash.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
eBook or this "small print!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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She may also add, that many islands have
been found which bore not one trace of mankind, and that even Otaheite
bears the evident marks of receiving its
inhabitants
from a shipwreck,
its only animals being the hog, the dog, and the rat.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
He is the
corporate
Silence: dread him not!
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Poe - 5 |
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"Why do you sigh, fair
creature?
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Keats - Lamia |
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May then those spirits, set free, a
celestial
council obeying,
Move in this rustling whisper here thro' the dark, shaken trees?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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nowe I praie forbere,
Ynne quiet lett mee die;
Praie Godde, thatt ev'ry
Christian
soule
Maye looke onne dethe as I.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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They look upon his eyes,
Filled with deep surprise;
And
wondering
behold
A spirit armed in gold.
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blake-poems |
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It was made from the shell of a tortoise, stuck round with leather, with two horns and a
sounding
board and strings made from sheep's gut.
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Appoloinaire |
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As thus my vision paints her charms so rare,
That none to such
perfection
may conform,
I cry, "'Tis she!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Whither he went I may not come, it seems
He is become
estranged
from all the rest,
And all the sea is now his wonder-house.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A
travelling
clark?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I watch you in your crystal sphere,
And wonder if you see and hear
Those shapes and sounds that stir the wide
Conjecture of the world outside; 200
In your pent lives, as we in ours,
Have you surmises dim of powers,
Of
presences
obscurely shown,
Of lives a riddle to your own,
Just on the senses' outer verge,
Where sense-nerves into soul-nerves merge,
Where we conspire our own deceit
Confederate in deft Fancy's feat,
And the fooled brain befools the eyes
With pageants woven of its own lies?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Who would show such courage or
temerity?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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They say that 'time assuages,' --
Time never did assuage;
An actual
suffering
strengthens,
As sinews do, with age.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Thus God might easily, without descent
To a gross
falsehood
in his proper person,
Have moved the affections by this mediation
To the just point.
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Shelley |
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I haue no words,
My voice is in my Sword, thou
bloodier
Villaine
Then tearmes can giue thee out.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Come, get the
_Diuell_
out of your head, my _Lord_,
(I'll call you ?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
So they ate and drank, talked and laughed about Mark with his long
crane-like legs, and Sir
Tristram
took a harp and sang a song.
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Tennyson |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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Too close a secret
overwhelms
me.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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ai
graunted
hym his wille,
?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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What coral, what lilies, and what roses,
In seeming, my open hand discloses,
Now, with twin caresses
stroking
her.
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Ronsard |
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_ A telling
expression
for the dread of loss
which haunts so many wealthy people.
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Keats |
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Now you hear the glory of the king of kings,
That he knows Vashti, that he lives
In this
pleasure
always.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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The Chaplain would not kneel to pray
By his
dishonoured
grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Wilde - Poems |
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:
_Pallada_
Da
307 _his al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Index of First Lines
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've gathered this sprig of heather
The strollers in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my abandoned youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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And Pelleas
overthrew
them, one to three;
And they rose up, and bound, and brought him in.
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INFANT SORROW
My mother groaned, my father wept:
Into the
dangerous
world I leapt,
Helpless, naked, piping loud,
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
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{a}t thow art so
desirous
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glowen / yif thow wystest whyder .
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O, so
unnatural
Nature,
You whose ephemeral flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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Frogs and fat toads were there to hop or plod
And
propagate
in peace, an uncouth crew,
Where velvet-headed rushes rustling nod
And spill the morning dew.
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