Un punto solo m'e maggior letargo
che
venticinque
secoli a la 'mpresa
che fe Nettuno ammirar l'ombra d'Argo.
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In the far North stands a Pine-tree, lone,
Upon a wintry height;
It sleeps: around it snows have thrown
A
covering
of white.
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And have I left these
beauteous
shores behind,
And have I dar'd the rage of ev'ry wind,
That now breath'd fire, and now came wing'd with frost,
Lur'd by the plunder of an unknown coast?
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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What make you, master,
fumbling
at the oar?
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Emerson - Poems |
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I took leave of the pope and of Akoulina Pamphilovna, recommending
warmly to them her whom I already
regarded
as my wife.
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Retorning in hir soule ay up and doun
The wordes of this sodein Diomede,
His greet estat, and peril of the toun, 1025
And that she was allone and hadde nede
Of
freendes
help; and thus bigan to brede
The cause why, the sothe for to telle,
That she tok fully purpos for to dwelle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Come hither, beauteous boy; for you the Nymphs
Bring baskets, see, with lilies brimmed; for you,
Plucking pale violets and poppy-heads,
Now the fair Naiad, of narcissus flower
And fragrant fennel, doth one posy twine-
With cassia then, and other scented herbs,
Blends them, and sets the tender
hyacinth
off
With yellow marigold.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Soft-curling tendrils,
Swim
backwards
from our image:
We are a red bulk,
Projecting the angular city, in shadows, at our feet.
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Imagists |
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Their misty minds but harbor rottenness
Loathsome
and fetid, and all barrenness--
Their deeds to ashes turn, and, hydra-bred,
The mystic skeleton is theirs to dread.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Yes, we did wrong, but forgive us, for our mind was then
entirely
absorbed
in leather.
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Aristophanes |
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XI
When the Cretan maidens
Dancing up the full moon
Round some fair new altar,
Trample the soft
blossoms
of fine grass,
There is mirth among them.
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Sappho |
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Over the tombs the ploughshare will be driven
And
peasants
will have their fields and orchards there.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Must I see the Count debase my name,
Die without
vengeance
now, or live in shame?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The skies that turned to
darkness
with thy pain
Make now a summer's day;
And on my changed ear that sabbath bell
Records how CHRIST IS RISEN.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what impossibly flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of
darkened
crystal.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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This first phase in Rilke's work may be
defined as the phase of
reposeful
nature.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And so, since nature of mind
And even of soul is found to be, as 'twere,
A part of man, give over "harmony"--
Name to
musicians
brought from Helicon,--
Unless themselves they filched it otherwise,
To serve for what was lacking name till then.
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Lucretius |
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Ye who of him may further seek to know,
Shall find some tidings in a future page,
If he that rhymeth now may
scribble
moe.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed,
There but wild oats and barren darnel spring;
For tender violet and
narcissus
bright
Thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In
Macedonian
fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more disastrous fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Cucumber vines grow
entwining
about this primeval lingam,
Cracking it almost in two under the weight of the fruit.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The bald-head philosopher
Had fix'd his eye, without a twinkle or stir
Full on the alarmed beauty of the bride,
Brow-beating her fair form, and
troubling
her sweet pride.
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Keats |
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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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4 Yuhua Palace had been
constructed
in 647 for Taizong as a summer palace to escape the heat of Chang?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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A young Sicilian, too, was there;
In sight of Etna born and bred,
Some breath of its
volcanic
air
Was glowing in his heart and brain,
And, being rebellious to his liege,
After Palermo's fatal siege,
Across the western seas he fled,
In good King Bomba's happy reign.
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Longfellow |
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Praised by Dante in the De vulgari eloquentia, he is, in the
Purgatorio
of The Divine Comedy, made the type of patriotic pride, bemoaning the state of Italy, as partially substantiated by the planh below.
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Troubador Verse |
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Ne dim ne red, like God's own head,
The
glorious
Sun uprist:
Then all averr'd, I had kill'd the Bird
That brought the fog and mist.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal-light,
One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the
opposite
shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Barrett received from Chatterton as part of his
original
MSS.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I shall therefore adopt the
simplest
course--that of
summarising the critical remarks in my former article; after which, I shall
leave without further development (ample as is the amount of development
most of them would claim) the particular topics there glanced at, and shall
proceed to some other phases of the subject.
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Whitman |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I'll feed thee, O beloved, on milk and wild red honey,
I'll bear thee in a basket of rushes, green and white,
To a palace-bower where golden-vested maidens
Thread with mellow
laughter
the petals of delight.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Gear
was a word with a most
extended
signification.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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There sleeps as true an Osmanlie
As e'er at Mecca bent the knee; 730
As ever scorned
forbidden
wine,
Or prayed with face towards the shrine,
In orisons resumed anew
At solemn sound of "Alla Hu!
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Byron |
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BERNICK: You are a
stubborn
fellow, Aune.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And, when refreshment shall their
strength
renew,
Thence shall they turn, and their bold route pursue.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Exiled from home am I; while, Tityrus, you
Sit
careless
in the shade, and, at your call,
"Fair Amaryllis" bid the woods resound.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Meadowlarks
In the silver light after a storm,
Under
dripping
boughs of bright new green,
I take the low path to hear the meadowlarks
Alone and high-hearted as if I were a queen.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Love, hast thou forgotten
The red spears of the dawn, The
pennants
of the morning?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Your hour has sounded, nothing now indeed
Can change for you the destiny decreed,
Irrevocable
quite.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Is it you that thought the
President
greater than you?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And what if all of animated nature
Be but organic harps
diversely
framed,
That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps
Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,
At once the Soul of each, and God of all?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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descending to her hero's aid,
Jove's daughter, Pallas, War's triumphant maid:
In Mentor's friendly form she join'd his side:
Ulysses saw, and thus with
transport
cried:
"Come, ever welcome, and thy succour lend;
O every sacred name in one, my friend!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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He cites, as his authority for these two tales, the
chronicle
of
William of Malmesbury, who lived in the time of King Stephen.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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One day Hasan said to me and to Khayyam, "It is a universal
belief that the pupils of the Imam
Mowaffak
will attain to fortune.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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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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Rilke - Poems |
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But what new trouble
disturbs
dear Oenone?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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What safety
Santafiore
can supply.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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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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e maners of
diu{er}se
folk {and} eke hir lawes ben discordau{n}t amonge
hem self.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Hopeless
the world's immensity!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Yet I feared this time that I had hurt him, Such
offended
silence long he kept:
On his hand I laid my hand in pity, Penitent, —and softly he began,
"Ah that night in May, do you remember?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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C'est un cri repete par mille sentinelles,
Un ordre renvoye par mille porte-voix;
C'est un phare allume sur mille citadelles,
Un appel de
chasseurs
perdus dans les grands bois!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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If love for love thou wilt na gie,
At least be pity to me shown;
A thought
ungentle
canna be
The thought o' Mary Morison.
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Robert Forst |
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Ye dewy mists the arid rocks o'er-spread
Whose slippery face derides his
deathful
tread!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"It lost my interest from the first,
My aims therefor
succeeding
ill;
Haply it died of doing as it durst?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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For right ahead lay the Ship of the Dead,
The ghostly
Carmilhan!
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Longfellow |
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Act II Scene III (The Infanta, Chimene, Leonor)
Infanta
Be calm, Chimene, calm your mind's disturbance,
Be
steadfast
in the face of this mischance,
You'll find fresh peace after this brief storm,
Over your joy light cloud has merely formed,
You will lose naught if joy must be deferred.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Old as he
was, the latter chance was likely; but he clung to the former,
hoping to see his young friend again "and
exchange
brave words in
the hall.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Yea, what can Israel offer against her,
Whom the rich earth out of her mines hath shod,
And crowned with emeralds grown in secret rocks,
Who on her
shoulders
wears the gleam of the sea's
Purple and pearls, and the flax of Indian ground
Is linen on her limbs cool as moonlight,
And fells of golden beasts cover her throne;
Whose passion moves in her thought as in the air
Melody moves of flutes and silver horns:
What can Jerusalem the hill-city
Offer to keep God's love from Babylon?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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It passeth its street-thunder round
My body which yet hears no sound,
For now another sound, another
Vision, my soul's senses have--
O'er a hundred valleys deep
Where the hills' green shadows sleep
Scarce known because the valley-trees
Cross those upland images,
O'er a hundred hills each other
Watching
to the western wave,
I have travelled,--I have found
The silent, lone, remembered ground.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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I have the talents fathom'd and the minds
Of num'rous Heroes, and have travell'd far
Yet never saw I with these eyes in man
Such
firmness
as the calm Ulysses own'd;
None such as in the wooden horse he proved,
Where all our bravest sat, designing woe
And bloody havoc for the sons of Troy.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"Why
loosened
I olden control here
To mechanize skywards,
Undeeming great scope could outshape in
A globe of such grain?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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,
_enclosed
space, court-yard, estate, manor-house_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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He
insisted
upon leaping
the stile, and said he could cut a pigeon-wing over it in the air.
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Poe - 5 |
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"
But Horace, sir, was delicate, was nice;
Bubo observes, he lashed no sort of vice;
Horace would say, Sir Billy served the crown,
Blunt could do business, H-ggins knew the town;
In Sappho touch the failings of the sex,
In reverend bishops note some small neglects,
And own, the
Spaniard
did a waggish thing,
Who cropped our ears, and sent them to the king.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Keats - Lamia |
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--
Ah God, that such an irresistible fiend,
Pain, in the
beautiful
housing of man's flesh
Should sleep, light as a leopard in its hunger,
Beside the heavenly soul; and at a wound
Leap up to mangle her, the senses' guest!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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May is a full light wind of lilac
From Canada to
Narragansett
Bay.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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'Tis Love's caprice to freeze the bosom now
With bolts of ice, with shafts of flame now burn;
And which his lighter pang, I scarce discern--
Or hope or fear, or
whelming
fire or snow.
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Petrarch |
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1270
My
murderous
hands, eager for vengeance,
Burn to plunge in the blood of innocence.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Yea, by his breath divine, by his
unscathing
strength,
She lays aside her bane,
And softened back to womanhood at length
Sheds human tears again.
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Aeschylus |
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In every art, when it seems to one that it
has need of a renewing of life, one goes backwards till one lights upon
a time when it was nearer to human life and instinct, before it had
gathered about it so many
mechanical
specialisations and traditions.
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Yeats |
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NEATH
trembling
tree tops to and fro we wander
Along the beech-grove, nearly to the bower,
And see within the silent meadow yonder,
The almond tree a second time in flower.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The variant has _ultaprid ki-is-su-su_,
"he shook his
murderous
weapon.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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In the
East,
maturity
comes early; and this child had already lived through
all a woman's life.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The Trojans are in no
respects
blockaded, and receive
assistance from their allies to the very end.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Si quid erit, de me tacita quod mente queraris,
Pendeat extrema mollis ab aure manus:
Quum tibi, quae faciam, mea lux, dicamve placebunt,
Versetur
digitis annulus usque tuis,
Tange manu mensam, quo tangunt more precantes,
Optabis merito quum mala multa viro.
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John Donne |
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In a manly stubbomess,
Than be fatted up express,
For the
Cannibal
to dine.
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Marvell - Poems |
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XLIV
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious
distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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There was room, at least, for lyrical
emotion in those first steps into the wilderness,--in that first sense
of
desolation
after wrath,--in that first audible gathering of the
recriminating "groan of the whole creation,"--in that first darkening of
the hills from the recoiling feet of angels,--and in that first silence
of the voice of God.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Angels'
breathless
ballot
Lingers to record thee;
Imps in eager caucus
Raffle for my soul.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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There are no cornices; but
the folds of the whole fabric (which are sharp rather than massive, and
have an airy appearance), issue from beneath a broad
entablature
of rich
giltwork, which encircles the room at the junction of the ceiling and
walls.
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Poe - 5 |
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or in
p{ar}chemyn
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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For you, on Latmos,
fondling
your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As restraint for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the daylight that your night forgot.
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Ronsard |
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The
troubled
river knew them,
And smoothed his yellow foam,
And gently rocked the cradle
That bore the fate of Rome.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Now is the time to show by deeds of wonder
That manly
greatness
not to godlike glory yields;
Before that gloomy pit to stand, unfearing,
Where Fantasy self-damned in its own torment lies,
Still onward to that pass-way steering,
Around whose narrow mouth hell-flames forever rise;
Calmly to dare the step, serene, unshrinking,
Though into nothingness the hour should see thee sinking.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Glories of long-held desire, Ideas
Were all exalted in me, to see
The Iris family appear
Rising to this new duty,
But the sister sensible and fond
Carried her look no further
Than a smile, and as if to understand
I
continue
my ancient labour.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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A wreck, as it looked, we lay--
(Rib and
plankshear
gave way
To the stroke of that giant wedge!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A fragment of the South Babylonian version of the tenth book was
published in 1902, a text from the period of Hammurapi, which showed
that the Babylonian epic differed very much from the
Assyrian
in
diction, but not in content.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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