To the philosopher women
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Not like an outcast with himself at strife;
The slave of business, time, or care for life,
But moved by choice; or, if constrained in part,
Yet still with Nature's freedom at the heart;--
To cull
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upon wildest shores, 25
And luxuries extract from bleakest moors;
With prompt embrace all beauty to enfold,
And having rights in all that we behold.
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I am married to my love; and it is vile,
Yea, it is burning in me like a sin,
That when my love was absent, thy desire
Shouldst
trespass
where my love is single lord.
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He is at peace--this wretched man--
At peace, or will be soon:
There is no thing to make him mad,
Nor does Terror walk at noon,
For the
lampless
Earth in which he lies
Has neither Sun nor Moon.
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
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That seems impossible, and, to my mind, poets have the right to hope after their death for the everlasting happiness that obtains
complete
knowledge of God, that is to say of the sublime beauty.
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difficult
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She waits, on fire her
trembling
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Will he pursue?
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es
han firste tastid
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If our Prince still grudges the things that are easy to give,[38]
Can he hope that his
soldiers
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(And I
Tiresias
have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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Before Carlun now both the two appear:
They have their spurs, are fastened on their feet,
And, light and strong, their hauberks
brightly
gleam;
Upon their heads they've laced their helmets clear,
And girt on swords, with pure gold hilted each;
And from their necks hang down their quartered shields;
In their right hands they grasp their trenchant spears.
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She knows what eyes are turned upon
Her
passings
in the land!
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And I and all the souls in pain,
Who tramped the other ring,
Forgot if we
ourselves
had done
A great or little thing,
And watched with gaze of dull amaze
The man who had to swing.
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Queen, is it well to be so
sorrowful?
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Our hands were firmely cimented 5
With a fast balme, which thence did spring,
Our eye-beames twisted, and did thred
Our eyes, upon one double string;
So to'entergraft our hands, as yet
Was all the meanes to make us one, 10
And
pictures
in our eyes to get
Was all our propagation.
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You will not be
the butt of the villainous Pauson's[243] jeers, nor of Lysistratus,[244]
the disgrace of the Cholargian deme, who is the
incarnation
of all the
vices, and endures cold and hunger more than thirty days in the month.
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Now from nocturnal sweat and sanguine stain
They cleanse their bodies in the neighb'ring main:
Then in the
polished
bath, refresh'd from toil,
Their joints they supple with dissolving oil,
In due repast indulge the genial hour,
And first to Pallas the libations pour:
They sit, rejoicing in her aid divine,
And the crown'd goblet foams with floods of wine.
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It doth leave
All there--those under-realms below her heights--
There to be overset in
whirlwinds
wild,--
Doth leave all there to brawl in wayward gusts,
Whilst, gliding with a fixed impulse still,
Itself it bears its fires along.
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Sweet smiles, mother's smile,
All the
livelong
night beguile.
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I see thee
glittering
from afar--
And then thou art a pretty star,
Not quite so fair as many are
In heaven above thee!
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The principal
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As day was dawning the party now broke up, each one
draining
his glass
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MARION: I have a pardon for two
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What
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So that thou canst not come?
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[Clarinda, tradition avers, was the
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didst thou see mie
breastis
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You shall not languish, trust me; virgins here
Weeping shall make ye
flourish
all the year.
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"And is she not unhappy then, to find
How
wretched
you must be?
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And so with wide embrace, my England, seek
To stifle the bad heat and flickerings
Of this world's false and nearly
expended
fire!
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`And though so be that pees ther may be noon,
Yet hider, though ther never pees ne were, 1360
I moste come; for whider sholde I goon,
Or how
mischaunce
sholde I dwelle there
Among tho men of armes ever in fere?
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Unto thy
judgment
my soul have I given!
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Dishonour
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Mother whose heart hung humble as a button
On the bright
splendid
shroud of your son,
Do not weep.
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Le Monde vibrera comme une immense lyre
Dans le
fremissement
d'un immense baiser:
--Le Monde a soif d'amour: tu viendras l'apaiser.
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And ever since that martial synod met,
Britannia
sickens, Cintra, at thy name;
And folks in office at the mention fret,
And fain would blush, if blush they could, for shame.
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The Dalliance of the Eagles
Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)
Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,
The rushing amorous contact high in space together,
The clinching
interlocking
claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel,
Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,
In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling,
Till o'er the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull,
A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,
Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight,
She hers, he his, pursuing.
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And
worschiped
hym in word & dede,
Alle ?
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We know we've got a cause, John,
Thet's honest, just an' true;
We thought 'twould win applause, John,
Ef
nowheres
else, from you.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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8 _lacini_ GOCRVen:
_lucini_
D || _facetiesque_ scripsi:
_taceti_ (_que_ add.
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Latin - Catullus |
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That stand by the inward-opening door
Trade's hand doth tighten ever more,
And sigh their
monstrous
foul-air sigh
For the outside hills of liberty,
Where Nature spreads her wild blue sky
For Art to make into melody!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Death only can the amorous track
Shut from my thoughts which leads them back
To the sweet port of all their weal;
But lesser objects may conceal
Our light from you, that meaner far
In virtue and
perfection
are.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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By him who died on cross,
With his cruel bow he laid full low
The
harmless
Albatross.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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No small babe-smiles my
watching
heart has seen
To float like speech the speechless lips between,
No dovelike cooing in the golden air,
No quick short joys of leaping babyhood.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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O, that sweet
tormenting
play,
That too fair face, that blinds when look'd upon!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The
comparison
is to Suzong.
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5
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In the sight of God
So much the dearer is my widow priz'd,
She whom I lov'd so fondly, as she ranks
More singly eminent for
virtuous
deeds.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Look, thou
substantial
spirit of content!
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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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The two men had overheard
me speaking to the empty air, and had
returned
to look after me.
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How many scenes of what
departed
bliss!
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1 How lovely are thy
dwellings
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I know
This only: in my home, in my soul's chamber,
A filthy
verminous
beast hath made his lair.
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Robert Forst |
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Righteous
is her doom this day,
But not thy deed.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Ulysses in the country goes to the retirement of his
father, Laertes; he finds him busied in his garden all alone; the
manner of his discovery to him is
beautifully
described.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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20
They shew us Ilanders our joy, our King,
They tell us _why_, and teach us _how_ to sing;
Make all this All, three Quires, heaven, earth, and sphears;
The first, Heaven, hath a song, but no man heares,
The
Spheares
have Musick, but they have no tongue, 25
Their harmony is rather danc'd than sung;
But our third Quire, to which the first gives eare,
(For, Angels learne by what the Church does here)
This Quire hath all.
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John Donne |
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Blackmouth
took the other side:
Honestly for years an' years he tried
Getting justice for the Indians.
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This tone (whether from temperament or
circumstance
or
scheme of art), is wanting to the HESPERIDES and NOBLE NUMBERS: nor does
Herrick's lyre, sweet and varied as it is, own that purple chord,
that more inwoven harmony, possessed by poets of greater depth and
splendour,--by Shakespeare and Milton often, by Spenser more rarely.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
And then, so runs this tale, our singer prince,
His soft eyes
darkling
brightly, and his lips
Widening like the child's: "O say it not.
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Robert Forst |
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[Sidenote A: The lord commands all his
household
to assemble,]
[Sidenote B: and the venison to be brought before him.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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But hunger of new viands tempts his flock,
So that they needs into strange
pastures
wide
Must spread them: and the more remote from him
The stragglers wander, so much mole they come
Home to the sheep-fold, destitute of milk.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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[_Exeunt_ LERSE,
SICKINGEN
_and_ MARIE.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Sweeney shifts from ham to ham
Stirring
the water in his bath.
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One
venturous
day Love came;
Found us; and bound with a link
Of gold the jewels he prized.
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Les reins portent deux mots graves: _Clara Venus_
--Et tout ce corps remue et tend sa large croupe
Belle
hideusement
d'un ulcere a l'anus.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Stephen Crane |
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Quintessence of all
soporific
flowers,
Extract of all the finest deadly powers,
Thy favor to thy master now impart!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Footsteps
shuffled
on the stair.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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This simile is taken from a favourite exercise in Spain, where it is
usual to see young gentlemen of the best families
entering
the lists to
fight with a bull, adorned with ribbons, and armed with a javelin or
kind of cutlass, which the Spaniards call _Machete_.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Clear my pure fountain, clear and pure my rill,
My
fountain
and mine outflow deep and still,
I set His semblance forth and do His Will.
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Can much pondering so
hoodwink
you?
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"With broken hearts my sad
companions
stood,
Mindful of Cyclops and his human food,
And horrid Laestrygons, the men of blood.
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Fare-thee-weel, thou first and
fairest!
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of his Poems,
mutilated
beyond the
average Casualties of Oriental Transcription, are so rare in the East
as scarce to have reacht Westward at all, in spite of all the
acquisitions of Arms and Science.
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(The shrug is pure
Hebraic)
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Well hast thou
counselled
me.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I think that every path we ever took
Has marked our
footprints
in mysterious fire,
Delicate gold that only fairies see.
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