As for will and
testament
I leave none,
Save this: "Vers and canzone to the Countess of
Beziers
In return for the first kiss she gave me.
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My
venerated
reader, oh!
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The
moonshine
stealing o'er the scene
Had blended with the lights of eve;
And she was there, my hope, my joy,
My own dear Genevieve!
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Golden Treasury |
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But when by shame
constraiiutl
to go on board,
He heard how the wild cannon iK^uier roared.
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Marvell - Poems |
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, which was given him back,'
doubtless
by his brother William.
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And we both shall
monarchs
prove.
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Marvell - Poems |
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ǣghwylc
ōðrum
trȳwe, 1166.
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Beowulf |
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If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Fine was the mitigated fury, like
Apollo's presence when in act to strike
The serpent--Ha, the
serpent!
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Keats - Lamia |
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active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
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Aeschylus |
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It is
noteworthy
that
his tombstone bore the inscription, "His skill lay in the writing of
archaic songs.
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Li Po |
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mais l'air est tout plein d'une odeur de
bataille!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Thus, when the storm with sudden gust invades
The ancient forest's deep and lofty shades,
The bursting whirlwinds tear their rapid course,
The shatter'd oaks crash, and with echoes hoarse
The mountains groan, while whirling on the blast
The thick'ning leaves a gloomy darkness cast;
Such was the tumult in the blest abodes,
When Mars, high tow'ring o'er the rival gods,
Stepp'd forth: stern sparkles from his eye-balls glanc'd,
And now, before the throne of Jove advanc'd,
O'er his left shoulder his broad shield he throws,
And lifts his helm[85] above his dreadful brows:
Bold and enrag'd he stands, and, frowning round,
Strikes his tall spear-staff on the sounding ground;
Heav'n trembled, and the light turn'd pale[86]--such dread
His fierce demeanour o'er Olympus spread--
When thus the warrior: "O Eternal Sire,
Thine is the sceptre, thine the thunder's fire,
Supreme dominion thine; then, Father, hear,
Shall that bold race which once to thee was dear,
Who, now fulfilling thy decrees of old,
Through these wild waves their
fearless
journey hold,
Shall that bold race no more thy care engage,
But sink the victims of unhallow'd rage!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Now even I, a fond woman,
Frail and of small understanding, 20
Yet with
unslakable
yearning
Greatly desiring wisdom,
Come to the threshold of reason
And the bright portals.
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Sappho |
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The blackbird sings us home, on a sudden peers
The round tower hung with ivy's
blackened
chains,
Then past the little green the byeway veers,
The mill-sweeps torn, the forge with cobwebbed panes
That have so many years looked out across the plains.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Those here
selected
are
strung into something of an Eclogue, with perhaps a less than equal
proportion of the "Drink and make-merry," which (genuine or not)
recurs over-frequently in the Original.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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)
The ghosts of dead loves everyone
That make the stark winds reek with fear
Lest love return with the foison sun And slay the memories that me cheer (Such as I drink to mine
fashion)
Wincing the ghosts of yester-year.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Upon those pages she descries
Her passion's faithful counterpart,
Fruit of the
yearnings
of the heart.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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If any disclaimer or
limitation
set forth in this agreement violates the
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interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Kipling - Poems |
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For all this came a ruin: side by side
They were enthroned, in the even tide,
Upon a couch, near to a curtaining
Whose airy texture, from a golden string,
Floated into the room, and let appear
Unveil'd the summer heaven, blue and clear,
Betwixt two marble shafts:--there they reposed,
Where use had made it sweet, with eyelids closed,
Saving a tythe which love still open kept,
That they might see each other while they almost slept;
When from the slope side of a suburb hill,
Deafening
the swallow's twitter, came a thrill
Of trumpets--Lycius started--the sounds fled,
But left a thought, a buzzing in his head.
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Keats - Lamia |
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I do
remember
it-what of it-what then?
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Poe - 5 |
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—
He and had known such days
together
And loved him better than myself.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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There sober thought pursued the amusing theme,
Till fancy
coloured
it, and formed a dream.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Ce qu'il faut a ce coeur profond comme un abime,
C'est vous, Lady Macbeth, ame puissante au crime,
Reve d'Eschyle eclos au climat des autans;
Ou bien toi, grand Nuit, fille de Michel-Ange,
Qui tors
paisiblement
dans une pose etrange
Tes appas faconnes aux bouches des Titans!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Le piante erano a tutti accese intrambe;
per che si forte guizzavan le giunte,
che
spezzate
averien ritorte e strambe.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Cautious, hint to any captive
You have passed
enfranchised
feet!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He is the supreme
master of irony and
troubled
voluptuousness.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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O
forenoon
purple of the hills, before I close, of you!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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1230 - 1292)
One of the last, if not the last, of the true Provencal troubadours, Guiraut survived the
Albigensian
Crusade and the wars that effectively destroyed the cultured society that had supported them.
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Troubador Verse |
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The true
perfection
of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man
is.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Meredith - Poems |
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anywhere
in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
And
straight
against that great array
Forth went the dauntless Three.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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e trinite
To the
bysshope
of that cyte.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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My
thoughts
are with the Dead; with them
I live in long-past years,
Their virtues love, their faults condemn,
Partake their hopes and fears,
And from their lessons seek and find
Instruction with an humble mind.
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Golden Treasury |
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once more, my
friends!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was
scarcely
visible,
The cornice but a mound.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sicine
discedens
neglecto numine divom
Inmemor a, devota domum periuria portas?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Email contact links and up to
date contact
information
can be found at the Foundation's web site and
official page at www.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Blest
Highland
bonnet!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He too bewailed his faults with penance sore,
Ay, and his
wretched
luck bemoaned a great deal more.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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No, truly, but in
friendly
recompense.
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Shakespeare |
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210
`What eyleth yow to be thus wery sone,
And
namelich
of wommen?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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come si fece subito e candente
a li occhi miei che, vinti, nol
soffriro!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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'_The Ballad
of Reading Goal_' _was published anonymously under the
signature
of C.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Who would take on such an
adversary?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Yet Nature will not be in full possessed,
And they who truliest love her, heralds are
And
harbingers
of a majestic race,
Who, having more absorbed, more largely yield,
And walk on earth as the sun walks in the sphere.
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Emerson - Poems |
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But in
the Errata to
Paradise
Lost (i.
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Milton |
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But ne'er didst thou, fair mount, when Greece was young,
See round thy giant base a brighter choir;
Nor e'er did Delphi, when her
priestess
sung
The Pythian hymn with more than mortal fire,
Behold a train more fitting to inspire
The song of love than Andalusia's maids,
Nurst in the glowing lap of soft desire:
Ah!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Death would have found you brave, but braver still
You face each lagging day,
A merry Stoic, patient, chivalrous,
Divinely
kind and gay.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Such is the world's great harmony, that springs
From order, union, full consent of things:
Where small and great, where weak and mighty, made
To serve, not suffer, strengthen, not invade;
More
powerful
each as needful to the rest,
And, in proportion as it blesses, blest;
Draw to one point, and to one centre bring
Beast, man, or angel, servant, lord, or king.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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plus in amore ualet
Mimnermi
uersus Homero:
carmina mansuetus lenia quaerit Amor.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Now shall I live a
ministrant
of gods and slave to Cybebe?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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they were living things,
Most
terrible
to see.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A Single Smile
A single smile disputes
Each star with the
gathering
night
A single smile for us both
And the blue of your joyful eyes
Against the mass of night
Finding its flame in my eyes
I have seen by needing to know
The deep night create the day
With no change in our appearance.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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See the stars through them,
Through
treacherous
marbles.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
With pride as lofty as the towering cloud,
I would have stilled these
clamouring
demons loud,
And turned in scorn my sovereign head away
Had I not seen--O sight to dim the day!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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His
greatest
weakness was a
love of the fair sex.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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=
_unconquerable
in valor_], 1098.
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Beowulf |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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SIRACI, a people of Asia, between the _Euxine_ and the
_Caspian_
Seas.
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Tacitus |
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"
Tides
Love in my heart was a fresh tide flowing
Where the
starlike
sea gulls soar;
The sun was keen and the foam was blowing
High on the rocky shore.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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XXV
"Of Arragon and Austria's blood I see
On the left bank of Rhine a monarch bred;
No
sovereign
is so famed in history,
Of all whose goodly deeds are heard or read.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And said: until thy latest minute
Preserve,
preserve
my Talisman;
A secret power it holds within it--
'Twas love, true love the gift did plan.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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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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But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one,
settling
a pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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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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Alone she is there:
The white clouds drizzle: her hair falls loose;
Her
shoulders
are bare;
Her tears are mixed with the bearded dews.
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Tennyson |
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So he taught us two offices together, how we ought to judge rightly of
others, and what we ought to imitate
specially
in ourselves.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And yet you have
pedicated
him.
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Aristophanes |
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But
Rutilius
has really
outlived Roman poetry and Rome itself.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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430
Tapre as candles layde at Cuthberts shryne,
Tapre as elmes that
Goodrickes
abbie shrove,
Tapre as silver chalices for wine,
So tapre was her armes and shape ygrove.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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copyright
law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works,
so the
Foundation
(and you!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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with heaven to friend,
If the long series of my woes shall end;
Of human race now rising from repose,
Let one a
blissful
omen here disclose;
And, to confirm my faith, propitious Jove!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Note: Ronsard plays on the
identification
of Helen with Helen of Troy, born of Leda, and Jupiter disguised as a swan.
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Ronsard |
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O I mourn and yet exult--I am rapt with love for all,
Pioneers!
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Whitman |
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Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so
digress?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Entitled
was in such manere 7105
This book, of which I telle here.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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How glad she was to hear
My footstep on the
threshold
when I came back last year!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And surely, if
the Greek might boast his Thermopylae, where three hundred men fell in
resisting the Persian, we may well be proud of our Plymouth Rock, where
a handful of men, women, and
children
not merely faced, but vanquished,
winter, famine, the wilderness, and the yet more invincible _storge_
that drew them back to the green island far away.
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James Russell Lowell |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this
electronic
work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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Lucretius |
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Straightway the doors are torn open and the
dark house laid plain; the stolen oxen and forsworn plunder are shewn
forth to heaven, and the
misshapen
carcase dragged forward by the feet.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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For
example an eBook of
filename
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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XIX
TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG
The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood
cheering
by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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But
speedily
now
shall I prove him the prowess and pride of the Geats,
shall bid him battle.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
etext or this "small print!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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[Sidenote: In all they do they have a
particular
end in view.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Lewis Carroll |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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He was the acknowledged prince
of living poets, and was
planning
the completion of his mighty epic of the
private virtues in twelve books, to be followed by twelve more on the civic
virtues.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The wain pursued its way; and
following
near
In pure compassion she her steps retraced 555
Far as the cottage.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I should feel easier if I could see
More of the salt
wherewith
they're to be salted.
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Robert Forst |
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emicat extemplo cunctis
trepidantibus
audax
crassa mole Leo, quem uix Cyclopia solum
aequatura fames, quem non ieiuna Celaeno
uinceret; hinc nomen fertur meruisse Leonis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Say thou dost love me, love me, love me--toll
The silver
iterance!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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What, I think,
impresses one, thrills, like ecstatic, half-smothered strains of music,
floating from
unperceived
instruments, in Mr.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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SHELLEY By Samuel Roth
Our poet, says a simple tale of him,
Held with a stubborn reverence the faith
That babes are born in heaven, and, so saith
This tale, perhaps spurred by a sudden whim,
With one new born held
converse
lengthy.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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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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