O decus eximium magnis
virtutibus
augens,
Emathiae tutamen opis, clarissime nato,
Accipe, quod laeta tibi pandunt luce sorores, 325
Veridicum oraclum.
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And before the holiness
Of the shadow of thy
handmaid
Have I hidden mine eyes, O God of waters.
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Our lays are of cities whose lustre is shed,
The
laughter
and beauty of women long dead;
The sword of old battles, the crown of old kings,
And happy and simple and sorrowful things.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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There are open hours
When the God's will sallies free,
And the dull idiot might see
The flowing fortunes of a
thousand
years;--
Sudden, at unawares,
Self-moved, fly-to the doors.
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Emerson - Poems |
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If he sleep, we sleep,
Dropping
the eyelid over the eyes.
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation
permitted
by
the applicable state law.
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"One of the
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[Footnote 119: Morehead,
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A land of chasm and rent, a land
Of rugged blackness on either hand:
If water
trickled
its track was tanned
With an edge of rust to the chink; 130
If one stamped on stone or on sand
It returned a clink.
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_ I have ventured here
to restore, from _Q_ and its
duplicate
among the Dyce MSS.
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This, and what need full else
That call's vpon vs, by the Grace of Grace,
We will
performe
in measure, time, and place:
So thankes to all at once, and to each one,
Whom we inuite, to see vs Crown'd at Scone.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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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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I shall not live to fight the battle for you,
I am a man
disgraced
in every way;
This order takes from me my self-respect
And the respect of others.
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Longfellow |
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We are crowned with a vain conquest; he has mustered
Again his
scattered
forces, and anew
Threatens us from the ramparts of Putivl.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Poured our young martyrs their high-hearted blood
That we might trample to
congenial
mud 170
The soil with such a legacy sublimed?
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So soon as the darkness cleared and
light
returned
to his soul, he fiercely turned his blazing eyeballs
towards the ramparts, and gazed back from his wheels on the great city.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Le Destin charme suit tes jupons comme un chien;
Tu semes au hasard la joie et les desastres,
Et tu
gouvernes
tout et ne reponds de rien.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And since till girls go maying
You find the
primrose
still,
And find the windflower playing
With every wind at will,
But not the daffodil,
Bring baskets now, and sally
Upon the spring's array,
And bear from hill and valley
The daffodil away
That dies on Easter day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Puis quand j'ai ravale mes reves avec soin,
Je me tourne, ayant bu trente ou quarante chopes,
Et me
recueille
pour lacher l'acre besoin.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Art would more neatly have defae'd
What she had laid so sweetly waste
In fragrant gardens, shady woods,
Deep meadows, and
transparent
floods.
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Marvell - Poems |
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For heavenly beauty he in vain inquires,
Who ne'er beheld her eyes' celestial stain,
Where'er she turns around their brilliant fires:
He knows not how Love wounds, and heals again,
Who knows not how she sweetly smiles, respires
The
sweetest
sighs, and speaks in sweetest strain!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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When I think of other men,
Dreaming
alone by day,
The thought of you like a strong wind
Blows the dreams away.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Old
favourite
tree, thou'st seen time's changes lower,
Though change till now did never injure thee;
For time beheld thee as her sacred dower
And nature claimed thee her domestic tree.
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John Clare |
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They are in league with the great Motherhood
Who brings the seasons forth in the open world;
And if to them She hands, unseen by us,
Their marvellous
bringing
forth of children, what
Spirit of Her great dreadful mountain-spell,
Wherein the rocks have purpose against us,
Sealed up in watchful quiet stone, may not
Pass on to their dark minds, that seem so mild,
Yet are so strange; or what charm'd word from out
Her forests whispering endless dangerous things,
Wherefrom our hunters often have run crazed
To hear the trees devising for their souls;
What secret share of Her earth's monstrous power
May She not also grant to women's lives?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The
foolhardy
ploughman I well could endure,
His praise was worth nothing, his censure was poor,
Fame bade me go on and I toiled the day long
Till the fields where he lived should be known in my song.
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John Clare |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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On one occasion, while
playing with the Duke of Orleans, she lost an
enormous
sum.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The grass so little has to do, --
A sphere of simple green,
With only
butterflies
to brood,
And bees to entertain,
And stir all day to pretty tunes
The breezes fetch along,
And hold the sunshine in its lap
And bow to everything;
And thread the dews all night, like pearls,
And make itself so fine, --
A duchess were too common
For such a noticing.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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" And what is more
exquisite
than his quatrain
to Lola de Valence, a poetic inscription for the picture of Edouard
Manet, with its last line as vaporous, as subtle as Verlaine: "Le charme
inattendu d'un bijou rose et noir!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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materials
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Meredith - Poems |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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"
Were this the charter of our state,
"On pain o' hell be rich an' great,"
Damnation
then would be our fate,
Beyond remead;
But, thanks to heaven, that's no the gate
We learn our creed.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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THE TURN
It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make men better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear:
A lily of a day,
Is fairer far in May,
Although
it fall and die that night;
It was the plant, and flower of light.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Boccaccio
had not long left him, when, in the following
year, our poet heard of the death of his friend Laelius, and his tears
were still fresh for his loss, when he received another shock in being
bereft of Simonides.
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Petrarch |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,
I will have
thousands
of globes and all time.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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'
So should my papers, yellow'd with their age,
Be scorn'd, like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And
stretched
metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice,--in it, and in my rhyme.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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It was
forgiven
but not forgotten.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Regard and weigh yon dust before it flies:
That little urn saith more than
thousand
homilies.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The thought of our past years in me doth breed
Perpetual benediction: not indeed
For that which is most worthy to be blest,
Delight and liberty, the simple creed
Of childhood, whether busy or at rest,
With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast:
--Not for these I raise
The song of thanks and praise;
But for those obstinate questionings
Of sense and outward things,
Fallings from us, vanishings,
Blank
misgivings
of a creature
Moving about in worlds not realised,
High instincts, before which our mortal nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised:
But for those first affections,
Those shadowy recollections,
Which, be they what they may,
Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,
Are yet a master-light of all our seeing;
Uphold us--cherish--and have power to make
Our noisy years seem moments in the being
Of the eternal silence: truths that wake,
To perish never;
Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour
Nor man nor boy
Nor all that is at enmity with joy,
Can utterly abolish or destroy!
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Golden Treasury |
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l'automne l'automne a fait mourir l'ete
Dans le
brouillard
s'en vont deux silhouettes grises
L'EMIGRANT DE LANDOR ROAD
A Andre Billy.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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'
So should my papers, yellow'd with their age,
Be scorn'd, like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And
stretched
metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice,--in it, and in my rhyme.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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or how he told
Of the changed limbs of Tereus- what a feast,
What gifts, to him by
Philomel
were given;
How swift she sought the desert, with what wings
Hovered in anguish o'er her ancient home?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The emperor reclined on a
magnificent
couch, surrounded with his
nobility and officers of state.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Behold these twelve swans in
joyous line, whom,
stooping
from the tract of heaven, the bird of Jove
fluttered over the open sky; now in long train they seem either to take
the ground or already to look down on the ground they took.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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J'entrais a Charleroi,
--_Au Cabaret-Vert_: je
demandai
des tartines
De beurre et du jambon qui fut a moitie froid.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But he, who is aware those living seals
Of every beauty work with quicker force,
The higher they are ris'n; and that there
I had not turn'd me to them; he may well
Excuse me that, whereof in my excuse
I do accuse me, and may own my truth;
That holy pleasure here not yet reveal'd,
Which grows in
transport
as we mount aloof.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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As a Persian nobleman was one day walking in his garden, a
wretch in the utmost terror prostrated himself before him, and implored
to be
protected
from the rage of a multitude who were in pursuit of him,
to take his life.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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when, like spring, that
gracious
mien of thine
Dawns on thy Rome, more gently glides the day,
And suns serener shine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Roar now above my
decaying
flesh, you winds,
Whirl out your earth-scents over this body, tell me
Of ferns and stagnant pools, wild roses, hillsides!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Hesitated
so
This side the victory!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And when it showed this relic, damp,
To that father attempting an inimical smile,
The
solitude
shuddered, azure, sterile.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Augustin, the corpse was
interred
in a
chapel which Petrarch himself had erected in the parish church in honour
of the Virgin.
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Petrarch |
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And for the rest, summon to judgments true,
Unbusied
ears and singleness of mind
Withdrawn from cares; lest these my gifts, arranged
For thee with eager service, thou disdain
Before thou comprehendest: since for thee
I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky,
And the primordial germs of things unfold,
Whence Nature all creates, and multiplies
And fosters all, and whither she resolves
Each in the end when each is overthrown.
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[Footnote 69:
Diminutive
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I fear that I am not like thee:
For I walk through the vales of Har, and smell the
sweetest
flowers:
But I feed not the little flowers: I hear the warbling birds,
But I feed not the warbling birds, they fly and seek their food:
But Thel delights in these no more because I fade away
And all shall say, without a use this shining women liv'd,
Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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Gold and
gleaming
the empty streets,
Gold and gleaming the misty lake,
The mirrored lights like sunken swords,
Glimmer and shake.
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Sara Teasdale |
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For forms of government let fools contest;
Whate'er is best
administered
is best:
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right:
In faith and hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity:
All must be false that thwart this one great end;
And all of God, that bless mankind or mend.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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That evening the
unbeliever
went to the temple and prostrated himself
before the altar and prayed the gods to forgive his wayward past.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
I was a little maid
When here we came to live
From
somewhere
by the sea.
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Christina Rossetti |
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This day, be bread and peace my lot:
All else beneath the sun,
Thou know'st if best
bestowed
or not;
And let Thy will be done.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Mary's
churchyard
by his uncle the Sexton.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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430), _O'F_]
[5 begot] forgot _1633 some copies_]
[6
embalmes
mee, _Ed_: embalmes mee; _1633-69_
rot.
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John Donne |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout populace is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have
flourished
here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But the design of the monarch was
soon
frustrated
by the clergy, at the head of whom was Henry, afterwards
king.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The town is all
excitement
about it.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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To a Locomotive in Winter
Thee for my recitative,
Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining,
Thee in thy panoply, thy measur'd dual throbbing and thy beat convulsive,
Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,
Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating,
shuttling at thy sides,
Thy metrical, now swelling pant and roar, now tapering in the distance,
Thy great protruding head-light fix'd in front,
Thy long, pale, floating vapor-pennants, tinged with delicate purple,
The dense and murky clouds out-belching from thy smoke-stack,
Thy knitted frame, thy springs and valves, the tremulous twinkle of
thy wheels,
Thy train of cars behind, obedient, merrily following,
Through gale or calm, now swift, now slack, yet steadily careering;
Type of the modern--emblem of motion and power--pulse of the continent,
For once come serve the Muse and merge in verse, even as here I see thee,
With storm and
buffeting
gusts of wind and falling snow,
By day thy warning ringing bell to sound its notes,
By night thy silent signal lamps to swing.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Shall I not see that hour before I die,
When I shall cull the flower of her springtime
Who makes my being
languish
in the dark?
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Ronsard |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Stephen Crane |
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He
promised
'a new start'.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
The tear-drop
trickled
to his chin:
There was a meaning in her grin
That made him feel on fire within.
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Lewis Carroll |
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El si fuggi che non parlo piu verbo;
e io vidi un
centauro
pien di rabbia
venir chiamando: <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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