This Auffroie was a manne of mickle pryde, 205
Whose
featliest
bewty ladden in his face;
His chaunce in warr he ne before han tryde,
But lyv'd in love and Rosaline's embrace;
And like a useless weede amonge the haie
Amonge the sleine warriours Griel laie.
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When they are come to the
mountain
heights and pathless
coverts, lo, wild goats driven from the cliff-tops run down the ridge;
in another quarter stags speed over the open plain and gather their
flying column in a cloud of dust as they leave the hills.
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Now this is very
strange!
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Herman thought she might be deaf, so he put his lips close to her
ear and
repeated
his remark.
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X
MARCH
The sun at noon to higher air,
Unharnessing
the silver Pair
That late before his chariot swam,
Rides on the gold wool of the Ram.
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The thyrsus is the symbol of your
astonishing
duality, O powerful and
venerated master, dear bacchanal of a mysterious and impassioned Beauty.
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and ye shall hear what he beheld
In other lands, where he was doomed to go:
Lands that contain the
monuments
of eld,
Ere Greece and Grecian arts by barbarous hands were quelled.
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Guo Zhiyun had passed away, thus the
soldiers
left over from his command are ?
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to death and nought
Our
countless
host by thee is brought.
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A marvel--
The dead child all at once began to
tremble!
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Richard the old, lead them in th'field he shall,
He'll strike hard there with his good
trenchant
lance.
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Chanson de Roland |
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When he walks in waterproof white,
The
children
run after him so!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I taught thy heart beyond the reach
Of ritual, bible, or of speech;
Wrote in thy mind's transparent table,
As far as the incommunicable;
Taught thee each private sign to raise
Lit by the
supersolar
blaze.
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Keats - Lamia |
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What if we find
Some easier
enterprize?
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The facts of the case, however, are, I believe,
sufficiently clear to warrant the following conclusions: (1) The early
moralities possessed many
allegorical
characters representing vices
in the ordinary sense of the word.
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Thou art the mystic
homeless
One;
Into the world Thou never came,
Too mighty Thou, too great to name;
Voice of the storm, Song that the wild wind sings,
Thou Harp that shatters those who play Thy strings!
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Rilke - Poems |
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He instantly withdrew without a word;
His sentiments to speak had been absurd,
And to the stable flew, since he believed
The circumstances, which his bosom grieved,
Whate'er mysterious doubts might then appear,
Proceeded
from some am'rous muleteer.
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Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:
But
wherefore
says she not she is unjust?
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You must not mix our Queen with those
That wish to keep their people fools;
Our freedom's foemen are her foes,
She
comprehends
the race she rules.
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) Khitmatgar,
howarchikhana
see kettly lao.
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Ils sont
familiers
du grand turc!
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XCIII
So shall I live, supposing thou art true,
Like a deceived husband; so love's face
May still seem love to me, though alter'd new;
Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place:
For there can live no hatred in thine eye,
Therefore
in that I cannot know thy change.
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Have you made any applications
elsewhere?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Voici
hannetonner
leurs tropes.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
VIII
"Farewell to barn and stack and tree,
Farewell
to Severn shore.
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- Welch erbarmlich Grauen
Fasst
Ubermenschen
dich!
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On The Late Captain Grose's
Peregrinations
Thro' Scotland
Collecting The Antiquities Of That Kingdom
Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots,
Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;--
If there's a hole in a' your coats,
I rede you tent it:
A chield's amang you takin notes,
And, faith, he'll prent it:
If in your bounds ye chance to light
Upon a fine, fat fodgel wight,
O' stature short, but genius bright,
That's he, mark weel;
And wow!
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And, near unto the other, rests
The leader, under whom on manna fed
Th'
ungrateful
nation, fickle and perverse.
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No, no;
But to our own work, to the blaze we
kindled!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The winds that make Icarian billows dark
The
merchant
fears, and hugs the rural ease
Of his own village home; but soon, ashamed
Of penury, he refits his batter'd craft.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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After thy doom of death fro' mind I banished wholly 25
Studies like these, and all lending a solace to soul;
Wherefore
as to thy writ:--"Verona's home for Catullus
Bringeth him shame, for there men of superior mark
Must on a deserted couch fain chafe their refrigerate limbs:"
Such be no shame (Manius!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Free scope he yields unto his glance,
Reviews both dress and countenance,
With all
dissatisfaction
shows.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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[Sidenote: and although the former rouses the latter to action,
yet if in the perception of bodily things, the soul is not by the
impression
of external things made to know these things, but by
its own power judgeth of these bodily impressions,]
and al be it so ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Conversing with the visions of Beulah in dark slumberous bliss *
Nine years they view the turning spheres of Beulah reading the Visions of Beulah
Night the Second {inserted above the
following
lines LFS}
But the two youthful wonders wanderd in the world of Tharmas *
Thy name is Enitharmon; said the bright fierce prophetic boy *
[While they.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
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Ronsard |
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In all drink
He
detected
the bitter,
And in all touch
He found the sting.
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Stephen Crane |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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_
The Watching Angel--_Foreign Quarterly Review_
Sunset--_Toru Dutt_
The
Universal
Prayer--_Henry Highton, M.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The Nereids, bearing
Gold armour from the Lords of Flame,
Wrought for his wearing:
Long sought those
daughters
of the deep,
Up Pelion's glen, up Ossa's steep
Forest enchanted,
Where Peleus reared alone, afar,
His lost sea-maiden's child, the star
Of Hellas, and swift help of war
When weary armies panted.
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Euripides - Electra |
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It is a significant fact that Rilke dedicated this book to Gerhart
Hauptmann, "in love and
gratitude
for his Michael Kramer.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Note: There are
references
to a visit to the Temple of Isis at Pompeii with an English girl, Octavia (who tasted a lemon), and to the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli.
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Li Po |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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"
Seven queens shone round her ivory bed,
Like seven soft gems on a silken thread,
Like seven fair lamps in a royal tower,
Like seven bright petals of Beauty's flower
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose
"Where is my rival, O King Feroz?
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[41]
These fields were
burthened
when they came to me; 380
Till I was forty years of age, not more
Than half of my inheritance was mine.
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William Wordsworth |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure
nocturnal
cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I do my part, for I meet him halfway and
proclaim
his adventures
Praising his name in advance, even before he's begun.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the
strength
to force the moment to its crisis?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Wherefore
fear the Sin which brings to
another Gain?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where harpsichords and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your
withered
finger,
From which Woman flows in Sibylline whiteness to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Should auld
acquaintance
be forgot,
And auld lang syne!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_
The last evening, as I was straying out, and thinking of "O'er the
hills and far away," I spun the
following
stanza for it; but whether
my spinning will deserve to be laid up in store, like the precious
thread of the silk-worm, or brushed to the devil, like the vile
manufacture of the spider, I leave, my dear Sir, to your usual candid
criticism.
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Robert Burns |
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"
The Powers aboon will tent thee,
Misfortune
sha'na steer thee;
Thou'rt like themselves sae lovely,
That ill they'll ne'er let near thee.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
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Ronsard |
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I lay my hand upon my swelling breast,
And
grateful
would, but cannot speak the rest.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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OF GRACE
(BALLATA,
FRAGMENT)
ii
FPULL well thou knowest, song, what grace I mean,
E'en as thou know'st the sunlight I have lost.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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What of the faith and fire within us
What was it kept you so long, brave German
submersible?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
The Eye
Said the Eye one day, "I see beyond these valleys a
mountain
veiled
with blue mist.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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suffecit
mandasse
deam: tua littera nobis
et pecus et segetes et domus ampla fuit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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King
Marsilies
hath ever been my foe.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Farewell, thou
generous
heart and true!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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As the widowed vine which grows in naked field ne'er uplifts itself, ne'er
ripens a mellow grape, but bending prone 'neath the weight of its tender
body now and again its highmost bough touches with its root; this no
husbandmen, no
herdsmen
will foster: but if this same chance to be joined
with marital elm, it many husbandmen, many herdsmen will foster: so the
virgin, whilst she stays untouched, so long does she age, unfostered; but
when fitting union she obtain in meet time, dearer is she to her lord and
less of a trouble to parent.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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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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His known patrons include
Geoffrey
II, Duke of Brittany and Dalfi d'Alvernha; he was at one time in Poitiers at the court of Richard I of England, on whose death he wrote this planh.
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Troubador Verse |
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There was once a day--but old Time then was young--
That brave Caledonia, the chief of her line,
From some of your
northern
deities sprung,
(Who knows not that brave Caledonia's divine?
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Robert Burns |
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is metyng--
To
witnesse
he take?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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habit can efface,
Interest o'ercome, or policy take place:
By
actions?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Sara Teasdale |
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And, so knowing,
For mere insane delight in violent things,
Wilt thou awake in the fickle mood of men
Again that ancient
ignominy
which once,
Till beauty freed them, loaded the souls of women?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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My
choicest
model thou hast ta'en.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I should see your
backside
then.
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Aristophanes |
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[Footnote 38: This name, derived from two Greek words meaning _rump_ and
_fancy_, was meant for Nicolai of Berlin, a great hater of Goethe's
writings, and is explained by the fact that the man had for a long time a
violent affection of the nerves, and by the
application
he made of leeches
as a remedy, (alluded to by Mephistopheles.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I rush there: when, at my feet, entwine (bruised
By the languor tasted in their being-two's evil)
Girls
sleeping
in each other's arms' sole peril:
I seize them without untangling them and run
To this bank of roses wasting in the sun
All perfume, hated by the frivolous shade
Where our frolic should be like a vanished day.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
A new light rises 'neath the evening star,
A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Petr' Andrejitch, I did not expect
this of you; aren't you ashamed of
yourself?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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--I got indeed to the length of three or four stanzas, in
the way of address to the shade of the bard, on
crowning
his bust.
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Robert Burns |
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"
I turn'd, and o'er my brow the mantling shame,
Within me as I felt that new fire swell,
Of
conscious
treason came.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Bards for my own land only I invoke,
(For the war the war is over, the field is clear'd,)
Till they strike up marches henceforth triumphant and onward,
To cheer O Mother your boundless
expectant
soul.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Once again
the
faithful
woman instructs her heroic lover in the conventions
of society, this time teaching him the importance of the family
in Babylonian life, and obedience to the ruler.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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How
penetrating
is the end of an autumn day!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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There was a
children's
practice
in the school-house.
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Yeats |
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Chacun, pendant la nuit, avait reve des siennes
Dans quelque songe etrange ou l'on voyait joujoux,
Bonbons
habilles
d'or, etincelants bijoux,
Tourbillonner, danser une danse sonore,
Puis fuir sous les rideaux, puis reparaitre encore!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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What was their horror on seeing the boat (including the churn and the
tea-kettle) in the mouth of an enormous Seeze Pyder, an aquatic and
ferocious
creature
truly dreadful to behold, and, happily, only met with in
those excessive longitudes!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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--from my house hath outcast me;
She hath borne
children
to our enemy;
She hath made me naught, she hath made Orestes naught.
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Euripides - Electra |
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As children bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their
nightgowns
on.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But soon
As thou hast skill to read of heroes' fame,
And of thy father's deeds, and inly learn
What virtue is, the plain by slow degrees
With waving corn-crops shall to golden grow,
From the wild briar shall hang the blushing grape,
And
stubborn
oaks sweat honey-dew.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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But I look to the west when I gae to rest,
That happy my dreams and my
slumbers
may be;
For far in the west lives he I loe best,
The man that is dear to my babie and me.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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e
prophete
went for?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,
Led yellow Autumn wreath'd with nodding corn;
Then Winter's time-bleach'd locks did hoary show,
By Hospitality with cloudless brow:
Next
followed
Courage with his martial stride,
From where the Feal wild-woody coverts hide;^8
Benevolence, with mild, benignant air,
A female form, came from the tow'rs of Stair;^9
Learning and Worth in equal measures trode,
From simple Catrine, their long-lov'd abode:^10
Last, white-rob'd Peace, crown'd with a hazel wreath,
To rustic Agriculture did bequeath
The broken, iron instruments of death:
At sight of whom our Sprites forgat their kindling wrath.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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XXVI
Contemplativeness, her delight,
E'en from her cradle's earliest dream,
Adorned with many a vision bright
Of rural life the
sluggish
stream;
Ne'er touched her fingers indolent
The needle nor, o'er framework bent,
Would she the canvas tight enrich
With gay design and silken stitch.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--I must rebuke
This
drunkenness
of triumph ere it die,
And dying, bring despair.
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Shelley |
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It has, for instance, been seriously
debated, whether an epic should not contain a
catalogue
of heroes.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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