And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Or is this deeper
darkness
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Is there, that bears the name o' Scot,
But feels his heart's bluid rising hot,
To see his poor auld mither's pot
Thus dung in staves,
An' plunder'd o' her
hindmost
groat
By gallows knaves?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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On other thoughts meantime intent, her charge
Of folded vestments neat the
Princess
placed
Within the royal wain, then yoked the mules,
And to her seat herself ascending, call'd
Ulysses to depart, and thus she spake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Padre
Francisco!
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Longfellow |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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What field, by Latian blood-drops fed,
Proclaims not the unnatural deeds
It buries, and the
earthquake
dread
Whose distant thunder shook the Medes?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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They threw up the filthy rain-water from the hollow lines
And then the water ran back
Full of
brownish
foam bubbles.
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--Nor will be, comrade, till it rain,
Or genial thawings loose the lorn land
Throughout
the field.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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And will the righteous Heaven
forgive?
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Longfellow |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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How shall we make an altar-blaze
To smite the horny eyes of men
With the renown of our Heaven,
And to the
unbelievers
prove
Our service to our dear god, Love?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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lose not an atom;
And you, streams, absorb them well, taking their dear blood;
And you local spots, and you airs that swim above lightly,
And all you essences of soil and growth--and you, O my rivers' depths;
And you mountain-sides--and the woods where my dear children's blood,
trickling, reddened;
And you trees, down in your roots, to
bequeath
to all future trees,
My dead absorb--my young men's beautiful bodies absorb--and their precious,
precious, precious blood;
Which, holding in trust for me, faithfully back again give me, many a year
hence,
In unseen essence and odour of surface and grass, centuries hence;
In blowing airs from the fields, back again give me my darlings--give my
immortal heroes;
Exhale me them centuries hence--breathe me their breath--let not an atom be
lost.
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Whitman |
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Though true it be that none with surer seat
O'er Mars's grassy turf is seen to ride,
Nor any swims so fleet
Adown the Tuscan tide,
Yet keep each evening door and window barr'd;
Look not abroad when music strikes up shrill,
And though he call you hard,
Remain
obdurate
still.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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This may refer to the death of An Lushan, also
notoriously
fat.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The orator who, in the
following
generation, pronounced the
funeral panegyric over the remains of Lucius Posthumius Megellus,
thrice Consul, would borrow largely from the lay; and thus some
passages, much disfigured, would probably find their way into the
chronicles which were afterwards in the hands of Dionysius and
Livy.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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'
Pierrot's Speech
A lunar
reveller
simply
Making circles in ponds,
I've no designs beyond
Becoming legendary.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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How I adore you, you happy things, you dears
Riding the air and
carrying
all the time
Your little lanterns behind you: it cheers
My heart to see you settling and trying to climb
The cornstalks, tipping with fire their spears.
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Imagists |
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So to forsake my
business
and my woman!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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How long ago,
And on what
pilgrimage
and journey far Was lost this land remembered ?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Round that little Indian girl there played
Soft an' shadowy tremblings, like the dark
Under trees; yet now an' then a spark,
Quick 's a firefly,
flashing
from her eyes,
Made you think of summer-midnight skies.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And he
who is in a state of rebellion cannot receive grace, to use the phrase of
which the Church is so fond--so rightly fond, I dare say--for in life as
in art the mood of rebellion closes up the
channels
of the soul, and
shuts out the airs of heaven.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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þā
se
þēoden
mec .
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Beowulf |
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Trippetta, pale as a corpse, advanced to the monarch's seat,
and, falling on her knees before him,
implored
him to spare her friend.
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Poe - 5 |
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I
verified
the name next morning: Toffile;
The rural letter-box said Toffile Lajway.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Here his compeers
gathered
round to advise.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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'Twas my heart then must dance
To dwell in my delight;
No need to sing when all in song my sight
Moved over hills so
musically
made
And with such colour played.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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To the philosopher women
represent
the triumph of matter over mind, just
as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But a century back a very infinitesimal
endowment of
literary
ability was sufficient to secure imperial
reward and protection, owing to the backward state of the empire.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Sara Teasdale |
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to resign
Such happy fields, abodes so calm as thine; 20
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
contentment
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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William Wordsworth |
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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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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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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Wilde - Poems |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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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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Appoloinaire |
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It is
difficult
to know to what Wordsworth here alludes, but compare
'The Seasons', "Summer," l.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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She waits, on fire her
trembling
frame--
Will he pursue?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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es
han firste tastid
sauoures
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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If our Prince still grudges the things that are easy to give,[38]
Can he hope that his
soldiers
will give what is hardest to give?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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How you've revered the formative will of those ancient
artists!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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Chanson de Roland |
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She knows what eyes are turned upon
Her
passings
in the land!
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Euripides - Electra |
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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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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Queen, is it well to be so
sorrowful?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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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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John Donne |
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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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Aristophanes |
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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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Iliad - Pope |
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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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Lucretius |
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Chanson de Roland |
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Sweet smiles, mother's smile,
All the
livelong
night beguile.
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blake-poems |
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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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Golden Treasury |
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_, 81-4
preserves
a defective text of this
part of the epic.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Keats - Lamia |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the
beginning
of his four and a half year residence in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The principal
business
of the
Roman schoolmaster was to take the great poets and interpret them 'by
reading and comment'.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
As day was dawning the party now broke up, each one
draining
his glass
and taking his leave.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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MARION: I have a pardon for two
prisoners!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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What
sickness
shall I say has lighted on thee,
So that thou canst not come?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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_"
[Clarinda, tradition avers, was the
inspirer
of this song, which the
poet composed in December, 1794, for the work of Thomson.
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Robert Burns |
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didst thou see mie
breastis
troblous state, 1040
Theere love doth harrie up mie joie, and ethe!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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You are
certainly
wrong.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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You shall not languish, trust me; virgins here
Weeping shall make ye
flourish
all the year.
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Robert Herrick |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any
country outside the United States.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
"And is she not unhappy then, to find
How
wretched
you must be?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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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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Elizabeth Browning |
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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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Elizabeth Browning |
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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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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Unto thy
judgment
my soul have I given!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Dishonour
to deserve from age to age!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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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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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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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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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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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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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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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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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Robert Forst |
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And
worschiped
hym in word & dede,
Alle ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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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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| Source: |
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.
| Guess: |
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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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| Source: |
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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The
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_peruenias_
p: _perueniamus_ ?
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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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Sidney Lanier |
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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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Kipling - Poems |
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How many scenes of what
departed
bliss!
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Poe - 5 |
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1 How lovely are thy
dwellings
fair!
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Aeschylus |
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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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Righteous
is her doom this day,
But not thy deed.
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