Clinging to a colder zone
Whose dark sky sheds the snowflake down,
The snowflake is her banner's star,
Her stripes the boreal
streamers
are.
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How much more, then, it requires
different
intentions
of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of
knowledge!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Balefire
devoured,
greediest spirit, those spared not by war
out of either folk: their flower was gone.
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And they're singing, every one,
As they run
This the burden of their lay:
"Fie upon such
idleness!
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Hugo - Poems |
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There very weeping suffers not to weep;
For at their eyes grief seeking passage finds
Impediment, and rolling inward turns
For
increase
of sharp anguish: the first tears
Hang cluster'd, and like crystal vizors show,
Under the socket brimming all the cup.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The
lightning
flash
Strikes like a thief and flies; the winds that crash
Sound like a clarion, for the Tempest bluff
Is Battle's sister.
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Hugo - Poems |
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O
sovereign
power of love!
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Keats |
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It was not apathy, nor dulness,
That weighed and pressed upon my brain,
But the same passion I had given
To earth before, now turned to heaven
With all its
overflowing
fulness.
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Longfellow |
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"
Then Goody, who had nothing said,
Her bundle from her lap let fall;
And
kneeling
on the sticks, she pray'd
To God that is the judge of all.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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What else is the
Palladium
(with Homer) that kept Troy so long
from sacking?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Beneath the armour of the Knight
Behind the chain's black links
Death crouches and thinks and thinks:
"When will the sword's blade sharp and bright
Forth from the scabbard spring
And cut the network of the cloak
Enmeshing
me ring on ring--
When will the foe's delivering stroke
Set me free
To dance
And sing?
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Rilke - Poems |
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nec calidae citius decedunt corpore febres,
textilibus
si in picturis ostroque rubenti
iacteris, quam si in plebeia ueste cubandum est.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
"Yes, you are quite right, my little father,"
rejoined
she; "it is of
no use your trying to play the sly fox.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I to the muses have been bound,
These
fourteen
years, by strong indentures;
Oh gentle muses!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Is it for the
ever-growing communes of brothers and lovers, large, well united, proud
beyond the old models,
generous
beyond all models?
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Whitman |
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Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire
Sprinkled
with stars, like Ariadne's tiar:
Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet!
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Keats - Lamia |
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Putnam's Sons 1911
Rivers to the Sea The
Macmillan
Company 1915
Love Songs The Macmillan Company 1917
Flame and Shadow The Macmillan Company 1920
LOUIS UNTERMEYER
The Younger Quire Moods Publishing Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Beaupre was
sleeping
on his bed the sleep of the just.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do,
And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do,
And
flickered
his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment,
And stooped and drank a little more,
Being earth-brown, earth-golden from the burning bowels of the earth
On the day of Sicilian July, with Etna smoking.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Here then awhile let Greece assembled stay,
Nor great
Achilles
grudge this short delay.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The old romances make frequent mention
of the
enchanted
herb bath.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Poetry is the work of
poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be
anything but the production of an
individual
mind.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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O please let us come and build a nest
Of whatever
material
suits you best,
Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The "lads" of Ludlow are so human to him, the hawthorn and
broom on the Severn shores are so fragrant with associations, he cannot
help but compose under a kind of
imaginative
wizardry of exultation,
even when the immediate subject is grim or grotesque.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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THE BLOSSOM
Merry, merry
sparrow!
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blake-poems |
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10
Thou Rose of Sharon, Cedar of broad roots,
Vine of sweet fruits,
Thou Lily of the vale with fadeless leaf,
Of
thousands
Chief,
Feed Thou my feeble shoots.
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Christina Rossetti |
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(Macht's ehrerbietig zu und
empfiehlt
sich.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Mirth is the mail of anguish,
In which it cautions arm,
Lest anybody spy the blood
And "You're hurt"
exclaim!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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One parting, but ten
thousand
regrets:
As I take my seat, my heart is unquiet.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
My
brothers
who live after us,
Don't harden you hearts against us too,
If you have mercy now on us,
God may have mercy upon you.
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Villon |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Since shamed full oft by later lyres on earth,[l][20]
Mine dares not call thee from thy sacred Hill:
Yet there I've
wandered
by thy vaunted rill;[m]
Yes!
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Byron |
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My horses--my ground-eagles, for swift
fleeing!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Venian ver' noi, e
ciascuna
gridava:
<
esser alcun di nostra terra prava>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Painting is truly a
luminous
language.
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Appoloinaire |
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I offer here an
alternative
translation of the tercet to fulfil Arnaut's rhyming scheme according to my choice of end-rhymes.
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Troubador Verse |
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And God, like a father, rejoicing to see
His
children
as pleasant and happy as He,
Would have no more quarrel with the Devil or the barrel,
But kiss him, and give him both drink and apparel.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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'
X
The castle gate stands open now,
And the wanderer is welcome to the hall
As the hangbird is to the elm-tree bough;
No longer scowl the turrets tall,
The Summer's long siege at last is o'er;
When the first poor outcast went in at the door,
She entered with him in disguise,
And mastered the
fortress
by surprise; 341
There is no spot she loves so well on ground,
She lingers and smiles there the whole year round;
The meanest serf on Sir Launfal's land
Has hall and bower at his command;
And there's no poor man in the North Countree
But is lord of the earldom as much as he.
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James Russell Lowell |
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CVII
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world
dreaming
on things to come,
Can yet the lease of my true love control,
Supposed as forfeit to a confin'd doom.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Every wayfarer he meets
What himself declared repeats,
What himself confessed records,
Sentences him in his words;
The form is his own
corporal
form,
And his thought the penal worm.
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Emerson - Poems |
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reads
anforhte
= _timid_.
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Beowulf |
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The rite decrees our hands must quench the torch
Against the iron mass of your tomb's porch:
None at this simple
ceremony
should forget,
Those chosen to sing the absence of the poet,
That this monument encloses him entire.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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10
Why are Selene's white horses
So long
arriving?
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Sappho |
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The Jellyfish
Medusae
'Medusae'
Descriptive Catalogue of the Medusae of the
Australian
Seas, Lendenfeld, R.
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Appoloinaire |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume
enclosed
by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The
bounteous
largess given thee to give?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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_("S'il est un
charmant
gazon.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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>>
--Sois
charmante
et tais-toi!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Easy to match what others do,
Perform the feat as well as they;
Hard to out-do the brave, the true,
And find a loftier way:
The school decays, the learning spoils
Because of the sons of wine;
How snatch the
stripling
from their toils?
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Emerson - Poems |
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[172] To the
actual conversation there were only two witnesses, Cluvius Rufus[173]
and Silius Italicus,[174] but the
expression
of their faces was
watched from a distance.
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Tacitus |
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'
SWEET DEATH
The sweetest
blossoms
die.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Thou, not disdaining even a borrowed might;
Thou, not eclipsing a remoter light;
And, through the shadow of the seasons three,
From Spring to Autumn's sere maturity, _365
Light it into the Winter of the tomb,
Where it may ripen to a
brighter
bloom.
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Shelley |
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proposes
is for wæs.
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Beowulf |
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Porcius and Socration, twins in
rascality
of Piso, scurf and famisht of the
earth, you before my Veraniolus and Fabullus has that prepuce-lacking
Priapus placed?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Like
stranger
gods; by twos and twos
Their red eyes gleam.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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As for the rest
of the company, they really made no attempt at concealing the downright
fright which
possessed
them.
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Poe - 5 |
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Let
him
rejoice!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Ireland, her imagination at its noon
before the birth of Chaucer, has created the most beautiful literature
of a whole people that has been anywhere since Greece and Rome, while
English literature, the greatest of all
literatures
but that of Greece,
is yet the literature of a few.
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Yeats |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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if a brother bleed,
On just atonement, we remit the deed;
A sire the
slaughter
of his son forgives;
The price of blood discharged, the murderer lives:
The haughtiest hearts at length their rage resign,
And gifts can conquer every soul but thine.
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Iliad - Pope |
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For thus men seyn, "That oon
thenketh
the bere,
But al another thenketh his ledere.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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]
This man's the
property
of him who best
Can feel his crimes.
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William Wordsworth |
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What nonsense people talk about happy
marriages!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Now the sounds of autumn are added to
complete
the
impression.
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Keats |
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_ The first
stringed
instruments were
said to be made of tortoise-shells with strings stretched across.
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Keats |
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In what
miserable
cafe she
dines I know not, nor in what manner.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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67
_liquendum_
GORCVen || _solo_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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--
That was a
wonderful
look he had in his eyes:
'Tis a heart, I believe, that will burn marvellously!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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It
imitates
the public riot.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Keats - Lamia |
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At the spring fountains
together
we splash and play:
On the lovely trees together we climb and sport.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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As a King with many crowns He stands,
And our names are graven upon His hands; 30
As a Priest, with God-uplifted eyes,
He offers for us His sacrifice;
As the Lamb of God for sinners slain,
That we too may live He lives again;
As our
Champion
behold Him stand,
Strong to save us, at God's Right Hand.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Not
until later was he to reach the height of an
impersonal
objectivity in
his art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And should I wait thy word, to endure
A little for thine easing, yea, or pour
My strength out in thy toiling
fellowship?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Imagists |
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Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
Exploring
hands encounter no defence; 240
His vanity requires no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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They lied not then, who sware, and through their vows
The King
prevailing
made his realm:--I say,
Swear to me thou wilt love me even when old,
Gray-haired, and past desire, and in despair.
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Tennyson |
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I have no host in battle him to prove,
Nor have I
strength
his forces to undo.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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They promise to make amends by sending very
handsome presents, and they are
enjoined
not to forget to do so.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Went step by step, to stumble soon began,
So feeble he is, no further fare he can,
For too much blood he's lost, and no strength has;
Ere he has crossed an acre of the land,
His heart grows faint, he falls down
forwards
and
Death comes to him with very cruel pangs.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Bellowing
dogs split my ears.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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If I did weave some clout
Of raiment, would he keep the vesture now
He wore in
childhood?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Not far now shall it be,
The
sacrifice
God asks of me and thee.
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Euripides - Electra |
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--First
published
in _Times of India_, Bombay, July, 1874.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Yea, here the end
Of love's
astonishment!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
TO LIFE
O LIFE with the sad seared face,
I weary of seeing thee,
And thy
draggled
cloak, and thy hobbling pace,
And thy too-forced pleasantry!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I think I once mentioned
something
to you of a collection of Scots
songs I have for some years been making: I send you a perusal of what
I have got together.
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Robert Burns |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Bree,
Who
frequented
the depths of the sea;
She nurs'd the small fishes, and washed all the dishes,
And swam back again into Bree.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Sometimes
a clockwork puppet pressed
A phantom lover to her breast,
Sometimes they seemed to try to sing.
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Wilde - Poems |
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When all the Jews go home to Syria,
When Chinese cooks go back to Canton, China,
When
Japanese
photographers return
With their black cameras to Tokio,
And Irish patriots to Donegal,
And Scotch accountants back to Edinburgh,
You will go back to India, whence you came.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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CHORUS
Most loyal of all sons unto thy sire,
What visions thus
distract
thee?
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Aeschylus |
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And did the
Ninevite
demon treat with them?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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: _cur curis te amplius_
Busche: _cur te iam
pluribus
e.
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Latin - Catullus |
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