"
Observant of his voice, Eumaeus sate
And fed
recumbent
on a chair of state.
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To gain
Pescennius
one employs his schemes,
One grasps a Cecrops in ecstatic dreams.
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Who makest Life become,--
As though by
labouring
all-unknowingly,
Like one whom reveries numb.
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Leaves, black leaves and smoke, are blown on the wind;
Mount upward past my window; swoop again;
In a sharp silence, loudly, loudly falls
The first cold drop, striking a
shriveled
leaf.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Also, Agamemnon would have bidden the Greeks depart altogether, but
Diomedes
withstood
him.
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Thy father brought with him along
The olive branch and victor's song;
He slew the Ammonites, we know,
But to thy woe;
And in the
purchase
of our peace,
The cure was worse than the disease.
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They then joined
forces and
occupied
Tarracina,[156] which owed its strength more to
its walls and situation than to the character of its new garrison.
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Tacitus |
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[_There enter from the left_ ORESTES _and_ PYLADES,
_followed
by some
thralls_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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And I ten, twelve, a
thousand
hours, a long, long while,
an infinitely long while.
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Aristophanes |
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THE GIANT PUFFBALL
From what sad star I know not, but I found
Myself new-born below the coppice rail,
No bigger than the
dewdrops
and as round,
In a soft sward, no cattle might assail.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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'
This lettre forth was sent un-to Criseyde,
Of which hir answere in effect was this;
Ful
pitously
she wroot ayein, and seyde,
That also sone as that she might, y-wis, 1425
She wolde come, and mende al that was mis.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
Said I, low voic'd: "Ah,
whither!
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Keats |
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Luvah breaking in the woes of Vala] {Erdman suggests that 'breaking' is a word from an unrelated layer of ms, and 'woes of Vala' as previously
misrecognised
in Ellis' transcription as 'womb of Vala' EJC}
[But soon ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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" the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
By a finger
entwined
in his hair.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The Porter watches at the gate,
The
servants
watch within;
The watch is long betimes and late,
The prize is slow to win.
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Christina Rossetti |
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' 840
Quod Pandarus, `Than
blamestow
Fortune
For thou art wrooth, ye, now at erst I see;
Wostow nat wel that Fortune is commune
To every maner wight in som degree?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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[6] Sign whose
gunufied
form is read _aga_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Still, sir, thou wert wanting in good faith; but as it
proceeded
from
no immorality, thou being only desirous of saving thy life, the less I
blame thee.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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my friend, and clear your looks,
Why all this toil and
trouble?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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He
desired that a
posthumous
title should not be awarded.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Peace, peace;
The siege hath given you
shameless
tongues, and minds
No more your own: yea, the foul Ninevite
Hath mastered you already, for your thoughts
Dwell in his wickedness and marvel at it.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Now Dick lies long in the churchyard,
And Ned lies long in jail,
And I come home to Ludlow
Amidst the
moonlight
pale.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The captive linnet which
enthral?
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Golden Treasury |
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Yes, Nature's road must ever be preferred;
Reason is here no guide, but still a guard:
'Tis hers to rectify, not overthrow,
And treat this passion more as friend than foe:
A mightier power the strong direction sends,
And several men impels to several ends:
Like varying winds, by other
passions
tossed,
This drives them constant to a certain coast.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Replaced
anon,
Its cameo of the abjured one drew
Her musings thereupon.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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With such the
enamored
damsel braids her tresses.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I go wherever men may dare,
I go wherever woman's care
And love can live,
Wherever
strength
and skill can bring
Surcease to human suffering,
Or solace give.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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To the firm
sanction
of thy fate attend!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I adopted the trochees of the first movement because they COMPEL
a measured, sober, and
meditative
movement of the mind;
and because, too, they are not the genius of our language.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The wind hath all thy holy hair
To kiss and to sing through and to flare
Like torch-flames in the
passionate
air,
About thee, O Miranda.
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Sidney Lanier |
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210
Within the hall are song and laughter,
The cheeks of Christmas glow red and jolly,
And sprouting is every corbel and rafter
With
lightsome
green of ivy and holly;
Through the deep gulf of the chimney wide
Wallows the Yule-log's roaring tide;
The broad flame-pennons droop and flap
And belly and tug as a flag in the wind;
Like a locust shrills the imprisoned sap,
Hunted to death in its galleries blind; 220
And swift little troops of silent sparks,
Now pausing, now scattering away as in fear,
Go threading the soot-forest's tangled darks
Like herds of startled deer.
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James Russell Lowell |
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There did I see the reverend rectress stand,
Who with her eye's gleam, or a glance of hand,
Those spirits raised; and with like
precepts
then,
As with a magic, laid them all again.
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Robert Herrick |
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Stephen Crane |
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Sganarelle en riant lui
reclamait
ses gages,
Tandis que don Luis avec un doigt tremblant
Montrait a tous les morts errant sur les rivages
Le fils audacieux qui railla son front blanc.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"Why doth my face," said Beatrice, "thus
Enamour thee, as that thou dost not turn
Unto the
beautiful
garden, blossoming
Beneath the rays of Christ?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Sidney Lanier |
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Proud of this pride,
He is
contented
thy poor drudge to be,
To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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On the faint wind floated the silky seeds
As the bright scythe swept through the waving grass,
The ouzel-cock
splashed
circles in the reeds
And flecked with silver whorls the forest's glass,
Which scarce had caught again its imagery
Ere from its bed the dusky tench leapt at the dragon-fly.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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ELECTRA
_The scene
represents
a hut on a desolate mountain side; the river Inachus
is visible in the distance.
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Euripides - Electra |
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not yet registered, we know of no prohibition against accepting
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donate.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Yet all is well; he has but passed
To Life's appointed bourne:
And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And
outcasts
always mourn.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Terence corrupted by his Patrons_
DVM lasciuiam nobilium et laudes fucosas petit,
dum Africani uocem diuinam haurit auidis auribus,
dum ad Philum se cenitare et Laelium pulchrum putat,
dum se amari ab his concredit, crebro in Albanum uenit,
suis postlatis rebus ad summam inopiam
redactus
est.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I only tell you that this
burdened
age
Tires of your Highnesses, that soil its page,
And of your villanies--and this is why
You now must swell the stream that passes by
Of refuse filth.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Like Hippocrene it scatters light,
Its
ebullition
foaming white
(Like other things I could relate)
My heart of old would captivate.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Riches and Poverty, long or short life,
By the Maker of Things are
portioned
and disposed.
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Li Po |
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CCXXXI
"Fair son Malprimes," says
Baligant
to him,
"I grant it you, as you have asked me this;
Against the Franks go now, and smite them quick.
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Chanson de Roland |
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'
Quod Shame; 'thou dost us
vilanye!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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'Like a cloud big with a May shower,
My soul weeps healing rain
On thee, thou
withered
flower!
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Shelley |
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--But a narrower bound
Confines my flight: and thee, our native clime
Between the Alps and
Apennine
must boast.
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Petrarch |
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***Young
flowers were whispering in melody
To happy flowers that night--and tree to tree;
Fountains were gushing music as they fell
In many a star-lit grove, or moon-lit dell;
Yet silence came upon material things--
Fair flowers, bright waterfalls and angel wings--
And sound alone that from the spirit sprang
Bore burthen to the charm the maiden sang:
* Eyraco--Chaldea.
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Poe - 5 |
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CXXXV
Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,'
And 'Will' to boot, and 'Will' in over-plus;
More than enough am I that vex'd thee still,
To thy sweet will making
addition
thus.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Not public
gravings
on a marble base,
Whence comes a second life to men of might
E'en in the tomb: not Hannibal's swift flight,
Nor those fierce threats flung back into his face,
Not impious Carthage in its last red blaze,
In clearer light sets forth his spotless fame,
Who from crush'd Afric took away--a name,
Than rude Calabria's tributary lays.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Time and chance are but a tide,
Slighted
love is sair to bide;
Shall I, like a fool, quoth he,
For a haughty hizzie dee?
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Golden Treasury |
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each his center basement finds; suspended there they stand {According to Erdman, the word "center" was
originally
deleted by Blake with a strong ink stroke and therefore not easily erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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They are
vulgarising
mankind.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Chimene
Sire, my father is dead; and as he died
I saw the blood pour from his noble side;
That blood which often
preserved
your walls,
That blood which often won your royal wars,
That blood, which shed still smokes in anger,
At being lost, not for you but another.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But no, go slowly as you will,
I should not bid you hasten so,
For while I wait for love to come,
Some other girl is
standing
dumb,
Fearing her love will go.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Dehors le mur est plein d'aristoloches
Ou vibrent les
gencives
des lutins.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Of
resurrection?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in sportive frolic beat the time,
And
stubborn
oaks their branchy summits bow.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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So is he mine: and in such bloody distance,
That euery minute of his being, thrusts
Against my neer'st of Life: and though I could
With bare-fac'd power sweepe him from my sight,
And bid my will auouch it; yet I must not,
For certaine friends that are both his, and mine,
Whose loues I may not drop, but wayle his fall,
Who I my selfe struck downe: and thence it is,
That I to your assistance doe make loue,
Masking the Businesse from the common Eye,
For sundry
weightie
Reasons
2.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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We were all huddled
together
close to the trembling horses, with the
thunder clattering overhead, and the lightning spurting like water from
a sluice, all ways at once.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Mompesson
was connected by marriage with James
I.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Again a riddle which the
published
letters hardly solve.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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COUNTING SHEEP
Half-awake I walked
A dimly-seen sweet
hawthorn
lane
Until sleep came;
I lingered at a gate and talked
A little with a lonely lamb.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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425
Thou in this dredful cas for me purveye;
For so
astonied
am I that I deye!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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IV
If my praise her grace effaces,
Then 't is not my heart that showeth, But the
skilless
tongue that soweth Words unworthy of her graces.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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What man is there so much unreasonable,
If you had pleas'd to have
defended
it
With any terms of zeal, wanted the modesty
To urge the thing held as a ceremony?
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Shakespeare |
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120
XVI
'Do souls alone clear-eyed, strong-kneed,
To Him true service render,
And they who need his hand to lead,
Find they his heart
untender?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire burne, and
Cauldron
bubble
2 Coole it with a Baboones blood,
Then the Charme is firme and good.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Gleams like a pool the ballroom floor--
A
burnished
solitude.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The city cast
Her people out upon her; and Antony,
Enthron'd i' th' market-place, did sit alone,
Whistling
to th' air; which, but for vacancy,
Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,
And made a gap in nature.
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Shakespeare |
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Speeding Saturn cannot halt;
Linger,--thou shalt rue the fault:
If Love his moment overstay,
Hatred's swift
repulsions
play.
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Emerson - Poems |
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188 ||
_rustica_ Turnebus: _et
trirustice_
Munro || _Post 3 reuocaui
uersum qui extat apud Porphynonem ad Hor.
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Latin - Catullus |
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'Oh, weep with me, Daphne,' he sighed, 'for you know it's
A
terrible
thing to be pestered with poets!
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James Russell Lowell |
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We feel so grateful, when to soft discourses
Of tree-tops,
slanting
rays towards us travel,
And only look, and listen when in pauses,
The ripened fruit resounds upon the gravel.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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--a figure veiled,
Uplooming
there--afar, like sunrise, coming!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Well, one good turn
deserves
another, true.
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Enfin la verite froide se revela:
J'etais mort sans surprise, et la
terrible
aurore
M'enveloppait.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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There came a day - at Summer's full -
Entirely for me -
I thought that such were for the Saints -
Where Resurrections - be -
The sun - as common - went abroad -
The flowers - accustomed - blew,
As if no soul - that solstice passed -
Which maketh all things - new -
The time was scarce
profaned
- by speech -
The falling of a word
Was needless - as at Sacrament -
The _Wardrobe_ - of our Lord!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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THE LAMB
Little Lamb, who make thee
Dost thou know who made thee,
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing, wolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales
rejoice?
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blake-poems |
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Then with eyes to the front all,
And with guns horizontal,
Stood our sires;
And the balls
whistled
deadly,
And in streams flashing redly
Blazed the fires;
As the roar
On the shore,
Swept the strong battle-breakers o'er the green-sodded acres
Of the plain;
And louder, louder, louder cracked the black gunpowder,
Cracking amain!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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with
subjunctive
following, _lest_: būtan his
līc swice, _lest his body escape_, 967.
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Beowulf |
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With oar-strokes timing to their song,
They weave in simple lays
The pathos of remembered wrong,
The hope of better days,--
The triumph-note that Miriam sung,
The joy of uncaged birds:
Softening
with Afric's mellow tongue
Their broken Saxon words.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
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John Clare |
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She turns (O Guardian Angels, stop her
From doing
anything
improper!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty
flitches
decorate the walls,
Moore's Almanack where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
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John Clare |
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How it woke one April morn,
Fame shall tell;
As from Moultrie, close at hand,
And the
batteries
on the land,
Round its faint but fearless band
Shot and shell
Raining hid the doubtful light;
But they fought the hopeless fight
Long and well,
(Theirs the glory, ours the shame!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He bought no ploughs and harrows, spades and shovels, and
such trifles;
But quietly to his rancho there came, by every train,
Boxes full of pikes and pistols, and his well-beloved Sharp's
rifles;
And
eighteen
other madmen joined their leader there again.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Poscia vidi
avventarsi
ne la cuna
del triunfal veiculo una volpe
che d'ogne pasto buon parea digiuna;
ma, riprendendo lei di laide colpe,
la donna mia la volse in tanta futa
quanto sofferser l'ossa sanza polpe.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in him;
something
too crabbed that way, friar.
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Shakespeare |
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The pigeons from the dove cote cooed over the old lane,
The crow flocks from the oakwood went flopping oer the grain;
Like lots of dear old
neighbours
whom I shall see no more
They greeted me that morning I left the English shore.
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John Clare |
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The charms of Empire
appeared
to stir him: 795
He could not conceal it: Athens attracts him:
His ships are already turned that way I find,
Their fluttering sails abandoned to the wind.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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