"
la la
To Carthage then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou
pluckest
me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Let me
confess!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The
plenteousness
of all, that there are no bounds,
To emerge and be of the sky, of the sun and moon and flying
clouds, as one with them.
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forsake not thy
plighted
bridal
chamber.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It is not with
couriers and
dispatches
that I serve my master, but with my sword in
my hand.
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Tacitus |
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I must not 430
Hear those sweet lips grow
eloquent
in aught
That throws me into shade; yet you speak truth.
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Byron |
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Dysorder
throughe oure hoaste 575
Is fleynge, borne onne wynges of AElla's name;
Styr, styr, mie lordes!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Beowulf |
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ANTIGONE, ISMENE, _and_ CHORUS
(_Processional Chant_)
Thou wert smitten, in smiting,
Thou didst slay, and wert slain--
By the spear of each other
Ye lie on the plain,
And
ruthless
the deed that ye wrought was,
and ruthless the death of the twain!
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Aeschylus |
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But with a free and graceful soul
To strike the old
familiar
lyre,
And to a self-appointed goal
Sweep lightly o'er the trembling wire,
There lies, old gentlemen, to-day
Your task; fear not, no vulgar error blinds us.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Rest here content; for neither me nor these
Thou
weariest
aught, and when Ulysses' son
Shall come, he will with vest and mantle fair
Cloath thee, and send thee whither most thou would'st.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Goodfellow)
would make every exertion in his power, would employ all the little
eloquence in his possession to--to--to--soften down, as much as he could
conscientiously do so, the worst
features
of this really exceedingly
perplexing piece of business.
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Poe - 5 |
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Out of clay
hast thou
fashioned
me and to thee I owe mine all.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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sez he, "I guess,
Though physic's good," sez he,
"It doesn't foller that he can swaller
Prescriptions
signed 'J.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Now come; and unto thee I will unfold,
As to the Birdless spots and Birdless tarns,
What sort of nature they are
furnished
with.
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Lucretius |
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PREFACE
IT is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde's early verses may be of
interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always
popular _Ballad of Reading Gaol_, also
included
in this volume.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I haue giuen Sucke, and know
How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me,
I would, while it was smyling in my Face,
Haue pluckt my Nipple from his
Bonelesse
Gummes,
And dasht the Braines out, had I so sworne
As you haue done to this
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"In this
roadstead
I have ridden," verse, 414.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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KAU}
Casting their
sparkies
dire abroad into the dismal deep {Alternate reading of "sparkles" for "sparkies.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Good-bye, two happy
children
in the light.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And
tliought
all safe if they were so far off.
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Marvell - Poems |
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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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Golden Treasury |
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xix, 467; his article in
_Westminster
Review_ on _Don
Juan_, _vi.
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Byron |
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There is such a
consociation
of
offices between the prince and whom his favour breeds, that they may help
to sustain his power as he their knowledge.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Show me in all the world anything braver
Than the bold sweep of his fearless battalions,
Three half-miles over ground unsheltered
Up to the cannon, where
regiments
weltered
Prone in the batteries' blast that raked
Swaths of men and, flame-tongued, drank
Their blood with eager thirst unslaked.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It would be sweet to find her alone,
While she slept, or
pretended
to,
Then a sweet kiss I'd make my own,
Since I'm not worthy to ask for two.
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Troubador Verse |
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--Bags of money to a
prodigal
person are the same
that cherry-stones are with some boys, and so thrown away.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Learn to conquer, learn to fight
In the
foremost
flanks of right,
Like Valmiki's heroes bold,
Rubies girt in epic gold.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And his lordship
assures us there is
abundance
of all.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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In the
_Calendar
of State Papers_ the name of 'Savery' appears
four times.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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It had to endure
the wear and tear of quotation, the
commonizing
touch of the school and the
market-place.
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Sappho |
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What though thy
favourite
path be trod by few;
Let it but urge thee more, dear gentle friend!
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Petrarch |
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THE INFINITY OF THE UNIVERSE
Now learn of what
remains!
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Lucretius |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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She turned, she toss'd herself in bed,
On all sides doubts and terrors met her;
Point after point did she discuss;
And while her mind was
fighting
thus,
Her body still grew better.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I cannot find anything
eminently
characteristic
in any of the rest of the group.
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John Donne |
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How happy should I be to pass a winter evening
under their
venerable
roof!
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Robert Forst |
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On the right
Raged for hours the heady fight,
Thundered the battery's double bass,--
Difficult music for men to face;
While on the left--where now the graves
Undulate like the living waves
That all that day unceasing swept
Up to the pits the Rebels kept--
Round shot ploughed the upland glades,
Sown with bullets, reaped with blades;
Shattered fences here and there
Tossed their splinters in the air;
The very trees were stripped and bare;
The barns that once held yellow grain
Were heaped with harvests of the slain;
The cattle bellowed on the plain,
The turkeys screamed with might and main,
And
brooding
barn-fowl left their rest
With strange shells bursting in each nest.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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What can laws, that needs must fail
Shorn of the aid of manners form'd within,
If the merchant turns not back
From the fierce heats that round the tropic glow,
Turns not from the regions black
With northern winds, and hard with frozen snow;
Sailors override the wave,
While guilty poverty, more fear'd than vice,
Bids us crime and suffering brave,
And shuns the ascent of virtue's
precipice?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And bound for the same bourn as I,
On every road I wandered by,
Trod beside me, close and dear,
The beautiful and death-struck year:
Whether in the woodland brown
I heard the beechnut rustle down,
And saw the purple crocus pale
Flower about the autumn dale;
Or littering far the fields of May
Lady-smocks a-bleaching lay,
And like a skylit water stood
The
bluebells
in the azured wood.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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)
The Dungeon of thy self; thy Soul
(Which Men enjoying sight oft without cause complain)
Imprison'd now indeed,
In real
darkness
of the body dwells,
Shut up from outward light 160
To incorporate with gloomy night;
For inward light alas
Puts forth no visual beam.
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Milton |
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The uncommonly deep snow has made him think
Of his old song, _The Wild
Colonial
Boy_,
He always used to sing along the tote-road.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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They'll live or die wi' fame, Willie;
They'll live or die wi' fame;
But sune, wi'
sounding
victorie,
May Kenmure's lord come hame!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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A
detachment
of these going to drink
at a lake in Lycia, a crowd of peasants endeavoured to prevent them.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And, when I pause, still groves among,
(Such loveliness is mine) a throng
Of
nightingales
awake and strain
Their souls into a quivering song.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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What knighthood asks the proud accusers yield,
And, dare the damsels'
champions
to the field.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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God help thee in this
wildness!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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[_He vanishes with_ FAUST, _the
companions
start back from each
other_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Elle croit trouver du pain aux
Tuileries!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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arua iuuentus
nuda fodit tardoque puer
domifactus
aratro
miratur patriis pendentem sedibus ensem.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Keats |
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Continually
in the midst of Erech weapons
the heroes purified.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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iste modum statuit signis, hic rebus honorem
infundit, tenebris hic
interlabitur
aethrae,
uiscera et aetherios animans genitabilis artus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Imagists |
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Be no
unpleasing
melancholy mine:
Me, let the tender office long engage,
To rock the cradle of reposing age,
With lenient arts extend a mother's breath,
Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death,
Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,
And keep a while one parent from the sky!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Neither does he drift into fatalism or indifferentism; the energy
of his temperament, and ever-fresh sympathy with national and other
developments, being an
effectual
bar to this.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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So they began to sing, voice answering voice
In strains alternate- for
alternate
strains
The Muses then were minded to recall-
First Corydon, then Thyrsis in reply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Surely there is
something
more in each of the trees--some living soul.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Chvabrine
become master of the place!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Now, down here, in this unknown angle,
A
glimmering
furrow of melancholy ruby,
A sweetly twinkling sun-spark trembles:
A patriarchal guide leads his family.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Never fear for your legs if they're broken to-day;
Winds only blow straws, dust, and
feathers
away.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Allor puose la mano a la mascella
d'un suo
compagno
e la bocca li aperse,
gridando: <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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