Then down he sat,
And as he milk'd his ewes and bleating goats
All in their turns, her
yeanling
gave to each;
Coagulating, then, with brisk dispatch,
The half of his new milk, he thrust the curd
Into his wicker sieves, but stored the rest
In pans and bowls--his customary drink.
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It seasoned comfort to our hearts' desire,
We felt thy kind
protection
like a friend
And edged our chairs up closer to the fire,
Enjoying comfort that was never penned.
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John Clare |
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Be, as thy presence is,
gracious
and kind,
Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove:
Make thee another self for love of me,
That beauty still may live in thine or thee.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"He remarked to me then," said that mildest of men,
"'If your Snark be a Snark, that is right:
Fetch it home by all means--you may serve it with greens,
And it's handy for
striking
a light.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Je suis de la
canaille!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Miltiades
obtained a great victory over Darius
at Marathon.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the
viewpoint
of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Meredith - Poems |
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SOLNESS: You will see
something
different this evening.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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While at Plymouth Donne wrote a prose
letter, to whom is not clear,
preserved
in the Burley Commonplace
Book.
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John Donne |
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He's ours, though he kissed her but now,
He's ours, though she kissed in reply:
He's ours, though himself disavow,
And God's
universe
favour the lie;
Ours to claim, ours to clasp, ours below,
Ours above, .
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Elizabeth Browning |
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XXVIII
My
letters!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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How wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite,
How Virtue and Vice blend their black and their white,
How Genius, th' illustrious father of fiction,
Confounds
rule and law, reconciles contradiction,
I sing: If these mortals, the critics, should bustle,
I care not, not I--let the Critics go whistle!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I tell you this--When, started from the Goal,
Over the flaming
shoulders
of the Foal
Of Heav'n Parwin and Mushtari they flung,
In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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He spoke; the spirits from the sails descend;
Some, orb in orb, around the nymph extend;
Some thrid the mazy
ringlets
of her hair;
Some hang upon the pendants of her ear: 140
With beating hearts the dire event they wait,
Anxious, and trembling for the birth of Fate.
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Alexander Pope |
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Redistribution is subject to the
trademark license,
especially
commercial redistribution.
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Yeats |
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His
shrapnel
helmet set atilt,
His bombing waistcoat sagging low,
His rifle slung across his back:
Poised in the very act to throw.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I gladly grant it, if they be
Not
disagreeable
to me.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Our
Lightfoot
we may give away ;
And there, most sweetly, may thine ear
Feast with the music of the sphere.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"Tell her this
"And more,--
"That the king of the seas
"Weeps too, old,
helpless
man.
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Stephen Crane |
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"
The mountain, the scenery, the layout of the landscape,
And the peace of the morning sun as it happened,
The miles of houses
pocketed
in the valley beyond--
It was all worth looking at, worth wondering about,
How long it might last, how young it might be.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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death
in its
vastness
- terrible
death
to strike down so
small a being
I say to deathcoward
ah!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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*Their Plots and
Counsels
deep, *Sod.
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Milton |
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" KAU}
His billows roll where
monsters
wander in the foamy paths
On clouds the Sons of Urizen beheld Heaven walled round {Irretrievable word following "beheld.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"
Whereat the star of Lethe not delay'd
His rosy eloquence, and thus inquired:
"Thou smooth-lipp'd serpent, surely high
inspired!
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Keats - Lamia |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Of my merit
On thet pint you
yourself
may jedge; 70
All is, I never drink no sperit,
Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Their native fastnesses not more secure
Than they in doubtful time of
troublous
need:
Their wrath how deadly!
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Byron |
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The two are
different
things in most men's eyes.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was standing up
In the black dock's
dreadful
pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
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Wilde - Poems |
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that thief and
conspirator!
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Aristophanes |
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Through those
thousand
years poets and critics vied with one
another in proclaiming her verse the one unmatched exemplar of lyric art.
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Sappho |
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Within a hut of stone
To bask the
centuries
away
Nor once look up for noon?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I know a place where summer strives
With such a
practised
frost,
She each year leads her daisies back,
Recording briefly, "Lost.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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See, the ox comes home
With plough up-tilted, and the shadows grow
To twice their length with the
departing
sun,
Yet me love burns, for who can limit love?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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All night long
Thou hast been writing and abstained from sleep,
While demon visions have disturbed my peace,
The fiend
molested
me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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What seeks he now of us in our
country?
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Chanson de Roland |
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The want that saps their sinless flower
Speaks
judgment
on Sin's ministers.
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Hugo - Poems |
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My great uncle is the high commander,3 his
reputation
is as a senior of the realm.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He ate and drank the
precious
words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Visiting churches and palaces, all of the ruins and the pillars,
I, a
responsible
man, profit from making this trip.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Honour to bold Robin Hood,
Sleeping
in the underwood!
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Keats |
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Wha ever wi'
Kerroughtree
met,
And has a doubt of a' that?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Sounded the charge seven
thousand
trumpets,
Great was the noise through all that country went.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Hark to that mingled scream
Rising from workshop and mill--
Hailing some marvelous sight;
Mighty breath of the hours,
Poured through the
trumpets
of steam;
Awful tornado of time,
Blowing us whither it will!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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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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Up from the South came a great wave of sorrow
That drowned our hearthstones,
splashed
with blood our
sills;
To-day, that spared, made terrible To-morrow
With thick presentiment of coming ills.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Bel m'es quan lo vens m'alena
It's sweet when the breeze blows softly,
As April turns into May,
And in
tranquil
night above me,
Sing the nightingale and jay.
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Troubador Verse |
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Blest who have seen, for they shall ever see
The
radiance
of thy benignity.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
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Ronsard |
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Though low and poor and broken down,
Am I to think myself
distrest?
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John Clare |
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"
In
careless
mood he looked at me,
While still I held him by the arm,
And said, "At Kilve I'd rather be
"Than here at Liswyn farm.
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Bright Helen learn'd from Thone's
imperial
wife;
Who sway'd the sceptre, where prolific Nile
With various simples clothes the fatten'd soil.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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293 "Troilus is only once named in the Iliad; he was
mentioned
also in
the Cypriad but his youth, beauty, and untimely end made him an
object of great interest with the subsequent poets.
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Iliad - Pope |
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States.
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Beowulf |
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omnes, quae liquido
libratis
in aere cursus,
tu tamen ante alios, turtur amice, dole!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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voila qu'au milieu de la danse macabre
Bondit dans le ciel rouge un grand squelette fou
Emporte par l'elan, comme un cheval se cabre:
Et, se sentant encor la corde raide au cou,
Crispe ses petits doigts sur son femur qui craque
Avec des cris pareils a des ricanements,
Et, comme un baladin rentre dans la baraque,
Rebondit
dans le bal au chant des ossements.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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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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A single star is at her side, and reigns
With her o'er half the lovely heaven; but still
Yon sunny sea heaves brightly, and remains
Rolled o'er the peak of the far
Rhaetian
hill,
As Day and Night contending were, until
Nature reclaimed her order:--gently flows
The deep-dyed Brenta, where their hues instil
The odorous purple of a new-born rose,
Which streams upon her stream, and glassed within it glows,
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Let them but
remember
Lewis XI.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And such a wound, I easily believe,
As eats into thy soul and rages there;
Yea, I that know thee, Judith, know thy soul
Worse rankling hath in it from heathen insult
Than flesh could take from steel bathed in a venom
Art magic brewed over a
charcoal
fire,
Blown into flame by hissing of whipt lizards.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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'Ye will not lose your wits for dear Lavaine:
Bide,'
answered
he: 'we needs must hear anon
Of him, and of that other.
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Tennyson |
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Among the tawny tasselled reed
The ducks and
ducklings
float and feed.
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John Clare |
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"
The God on half-shut
feathers
sank serene,
She breath'd upon his eyes, and swift was seen
Of both the guarded nymph near-smiling on the green.
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Keats |
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Let others vainly strive to immure
The circle in the
quadmture
!
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Marvell - Poems |
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And finally the merit of the later work,
even more than of the earlier, is due to the force and
brilliancy
of
detached passages rather than to any coherent, consistent, and
well-balanced system which it presents.
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Alexander Pope |
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Since I have seen falling to my life's flood
The leaf of a rose
snatched
from out your days,
Now at last I can say to the fleeting years:
- Pass by!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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[80] This seems the sort of laughter
intended
by the word ?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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In costly sheen and gaudy cloak arrayed,
But all afoot, the light-limbed matadore
Stands in the centre, eager to invade
The lord of lowing herds; but not before
The ground, with cautious tread, is traversed o'er,
Lest aught unseen should lurk to thwart his speed:
His arms a dart, he fights aloof, nor more
Can man achieve without the
friendly
steed--
Alas!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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They
banished
him beyond the sea,
But ere the bud was on the tree,
Adown my cheeks the pearls ran,
Embracing my John Highlandman.
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Robert Forst |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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It was the
misfortune
of Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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But who'd have thought a burly lout like Morris
Would join the
brabble?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Fama di loro il mondo esser non lassa;
misericordia e giustizia li sdegna:
non
ragioniam
di lor, ma guarda e passa>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then lord Aeneas speaks: 'For
you, O boys, your rewards remain assured, and none alters the prizes'
order: let me be allowed to pity a friend's
innocent
mischance.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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His canvas is the
beautiful
bright veil
Through which her sorrow shines.
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Rilke - Poems |
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thy God thus
speaketh
within thee!
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Longfellow |
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And you, what's your
opinion?
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Aristophanes |
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Women,
although
they ne'er so goodly make it, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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"Why are thy
thoughts
thus riveted?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Such was my life's deceitful morning,
Such the pleasures I enjoyed:
But lang or noon, loud
tempests
storming
A' my flowery bliss destroy'd.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Take heed, for now on haunted ground they tread;
There bowed a
mightier
war lord to his fall:
Fear!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Why do you look at me so
fixedly?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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VI "Now would you see this aged Thorn,
This pond, and
beauteous
hill of moss,
You must take care and choose your time
The mountain when to cross.
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William Wordsworth |
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When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with
cherries
and nuts is spread:
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,
To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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cur saeua uice magna non
senescunt?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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What are the roots that clutch, what
branches
grow
Out of this stony rubbish?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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at is
maydenes
spouse.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Thy
mornings
showed, thy nights conceal'd,
The bowers where Lucy play'd;
And thine too is the last green field
That Lucy's eyes survey'd.
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Golden Treasury |
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The sneer smoothed from his lip,
He beamed blandly on the ship;
All winds sank to a moan,
All waves to a monotone
(For all these seemed his realm),
While he laid a strong
caressing
hand upon the helm.
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Christina Rossetti |
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