One day I
happened
to write a little song which
pleased me.
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la bise siffle au grand bal des
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The
woodland
trees that stand together,
They stand to him each one a friend;
They gently speak in the windy weather;
They guide to valley and ridges' end.
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Withered pine-trees hang leaning over
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(Jacinta seats herself in a side-long manner upon the chair, resting her
elbows upon the back, and
regarding
her mistress with a contemptuous look.
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* In
Scripture
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In 1593
occurred
the
trial of the 'three Witches of Warboys', in 1606 that of Mary Smith,
in 1612 that of the earlier Lancashire Witches, and of the later
in 1633.
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Socrates
taught
Parrhasius
and Clito (two noble statuaries) first to express
manners by their looks in imagery.
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Why with some little train, my Lord of
Buckingham?
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What a
beautiful
Pussy you are!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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No aids, no
bulwarks
your retreat attend,
No friends to help, no city to defend.
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They did so:
To th'
amazement
of mine eyes that look'd vpon't.
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imitation
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You can see them clearly on either hand,
A mound of rag-bags gray in the sun,
Or a furrow of brown where the
earthworks
run
From the eastern hills to the western sea,
Through field or forest o'er river and lea;
No man may pass them, but aim you well
And Death rides across on the bullet or shell.
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'
"Athens and Lacedemon had between them a species of
rivalship
similar to
yours: but their forces were not by any means so nearly balanced.
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Like wind, leaving no
footsteps
in the grass, It will depart.
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it becomes a
joy (a bitter
enough thing) for us -
and unjust to him
who rests below, and is
in reality deprived
of all that with which
we
associate
him.
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280
A living death was in each gush of sounds,
Each family of rapturous hurried notes,
That fell, one after one, yet all at once,
Like pearl beads
dropping
sudden from their string:
And then another, then another strain,
Each like a dove leaving its olive perch,
With music wing'd instead of silent plumes,
To hover round my head, and make me sick
Of joy and grief at once.
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She sweeps with many-colored brooms,
And leaves the shreds behind;
Oh,
housewife
in the evening west,
Come back, and dust the pond!
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous
mendiants
morts saouls de biere
Vous les aveugles comme le destin
Et vous petits enfants morts en priere
Ah!
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mens uidet astra, quies tumuli conplectitur artus,
calcauit
tristis sancta fides tenebras.
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Ad hunc uersum
respexit
Plinius H.
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Ay, joy from super-earthly
fountains!
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), were
as
thoroughly
explored and sketched by him as the more civilized localities
of Malta, Corsica, and Corfu.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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XVII
Lenski that eve in thought immersed,
Now gloomy seemed and
cheerful
now,
But he who by the Muse was nursed
Is ever thus.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
"The sound
appeared
to come from without," observed one of the
courtiers.
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310
With faire
discourse
the evening so they pas:
For that old man of pleasing wordes had store,
And well could file his tongue as smooth as glas,
He told of Saintes and Popes, and evermore
He strowd an _Ave-Mary_?
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Poems in various moods are also
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Ah, thou, the model where old Troy did stand;
Thou map of honour, thou King Richard's tomb,
And not King Richard; thou most
beauteous
inn,
Why should hard-favour'd grief be lodg'd in thee,
When triumph is become an alehouse guest?
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Phil
Garron had been lying loose on his friends' hands for three years, and,
as he had nothing to do, he
naturally
fell in love.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The overcharged air, the impending cloud,
Compress'd
together
by impetuous winds,
Must presently discharge themselves in rain;
Already as of crystal are the streams,
And, for the fine grass late that clothed the vales,
Is nothing now but the hoar frost and ice.
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XXIX
And sooth to say, why I left you so long,
Was for to seeke adventure in strange place,
Where
Archimago
said a felon strong 255
To many knights did daily worke disgrace;
But knight he now shall never more deface:
Good cause of mine excuse; that mote ye please
Well to accept, and evermore embrace
My faithfull service, that by land and seas 260
Have vowd you to defend: now then your plaint appease.
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VIRGINES
Vt flos in saeptis secretus nascitur hortis,
ignotus pecori, nullo contusus aratro, 40
quem mulcent aurae, firmat sol, educat imber;
multi illum pueri, multae optauere puellae:
idem cum tenui carptus
defloruit
ungui,
nulli illum pueri, nullae optauere puellae:
sic uirgo, dum intacta manet, dum cara suis est; 45
cum castum amisit polluto corpore florem,
nec pueris iucunda manet, nec cara puellis.
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--I have
discovered
that a feigned familiarity in great
ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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It must be allowed that the light of the moon, sufficient though it is
for the pensive walker, and not
disproportionate
to the inner light we
have, is very inferior in quality and intensity to that of the sun.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a
daughter
of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand rejoiced to grant me life again.
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Fine was the mitigated fury, like
Apollo's
presence
when in act to strike
The serpent--Ha, the serpent!
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Keats |
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e
grikkissh
Cee; 591
he gan to shippen atte Ryuage;
wynde aroos wi?
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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There, in a moment, we may plunge our years[317]
In fatal penitence, and in the blight
Of our own Soul turn all our blood to tears,
And colour things to come with hues of Night;
The race of life becomes a
hopeless
flight
To those that walk in darkness: on the sea
The boldest steer but where their ports invite--
But there are wanderers o'er Eternity[je][318]
Whose bark drives on and on, and anchored ne'er shall be.
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It was then that his native
Florence, wishing to recall a man who did her so much honour, thought of
asking for him from the Pope the canonry of either
Florence
or Fiesole.
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O
134
_discendens_
G
135 _immemor_ ORVen: _inm.
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It dances with purple and yellow
crocuses
in its hair,
And its feet shine as they flutter over drenched grasses.
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On his head a crown,
On his
shoulders
down
Flowed his golden hair.
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")
Do I dare
Disturb the
universe?
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And I wonder how they should have been
together!
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And Luvah siez'd the Horses of Light, & rose into the Chariot of Day
Sweet
laughter
siezd me in my sleep!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Within his garden let him wait alone
Where benches stand
expectant
in the shade
Within the chamber where the lyre was played
Where he received you as the eternal One.
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Rilke - Poems |
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'Tis the rash whom God seeks out the first;
They call on their gods, who were deaf to their cries,
For the
punishing
flame caused their cold granite eyes
In tears of hot lava to burst!
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Hugo - Poems |
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FROM
THE
TAPESTRY
OF LIFE AND
THE SONGS OF DREAM AND
DEATH.
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) Ha, there's
drinking
going on
here; we shall get something here.
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'Tis not the surging billow's roar,
'Tis not that fatal deadly shore;
Tho' death in ev'ry shape appear,
The
wretched
have no more to fear!
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"Dear, I had almost arrived when I saw, by good fortune, your uncle
Standing
right there by the vines, looking now this way, now that.
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inges
p{re}sent
ne brynge?
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Hercules, hanging on rumours of those labours,
Was already resting from his, in
favouring
yours.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Some things that stay there be, --
Grief, hills, eternity:
Nor this
behooveth
me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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APOLLO
I say thou shalt anon, thy
pleadings
foiled,
Spit venom vainly on thine enemies.
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Meredith - Poems |
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You are more
beautiful
than they are.
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What if assail they whom their souls in secrecy
cherish?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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be thou my
jongleur
As ne'er had I other, and when the wind blows,
Sing thou the grace of the Lady of Beziers,
For even as thou art hollow before I fill thee with
this parchment,
So is my heart hollow when she filleth not mine eyes, And so were my mind hollow, did she not fill utterly
my thought.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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(Your highness knows our homely word,)
Millions
for self-government,
But for tribute never a cent.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Struggling in my father's hands,
Striving
against my swaddling-bands,
Bound and weary, I thought best
To sulk upon my mother's breast.
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blake-poems |
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' The
door swung open, and we were in a great
circular
room, and among men
and women who were dancing slowly in crimson robes.
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re; to haue maistri ouer his fo,
To habbe worldes
richesse
ynou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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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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19th Century French Poetry |
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The Loir is a
tributary
of the larger Loire, in the Vendomois.
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Ronsard |
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The waters broken by her delicate feet
Receive the eager wader, as alone
By
gentlest
pity led, she strives to meet
The wakened babe; and, see, the prize is won!
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Out spake the Consul roundly:
"The bridge must
straight
go down;
For, since Janiculum is lost,
Nought else can save the town.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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'Tis a
concealment
needful in extreme;
And if I guess'd not so, the sunny beam
Thou shouldst mount up to with me.
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proposes
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Wilde - Poems |
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Hark the mavis' e'ening sang,
Sounding
Clouden's woods amang;
Then a-faulding let us gang,
My bonie Dearie.
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LAUGHING SONG
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the
dimpling
stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
when the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene,
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing "Ha, ha he!
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[This and the following poem were published
together
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form as one piece under the title, "The Pine Forest of the Cascine near
Pisa", by Mrs.
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[543]
Marching
along the bank.
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Tacitus |
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Pittheus,
accounted
wise amongst all men,
Deigned to instruct me when I left her hands.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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What leagues are lost before the dawn of day,
Thus
loitering
pensive on the willing seas,
The flapping sails hauled down to halt for logs like these!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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_diuuenti_
uisus sum legere in
Paris.
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Latin - Catullus |
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In the deep nights I dig for you, O
Treasure!
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Rilke - Poems |
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"A singular monument of poetical, or rather
unpoetical
perversity;" "the
very worst of all his pieces;" are, for instance, the phrases applied to
it by Schlegel.
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Euripides - Electra |
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It is severe
and aristocratic in the application of its laws and
impervious
to appeal
to serve other than its own aims.
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Rilke - Poems |
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than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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" in mid pointe of the
chekkere
660
With a poune erraunt, allas!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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To this folk
I came, and watched a stranger's herd for pay,
And all his house I have
prospered
to this day.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"No other contemporary poet has more independently yoked the
dominant
thought of the times.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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As it has been suggested that much of the misunderstanding of the former
volume was due to the fact that we did not explain ourselves in a preface,
we have thought it wise to tell the public what our aims are, and why we
are banded
together
between one set of covers.
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Imagists |
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