And heard this voice of sorrow
breathed
from the hollow pit.
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Worthy Macduffe, and wee
Shall take vpon's what else
remaines
to do,
According to our order
Sey.
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Moved with marvel at the
confused
throng: 'Say, O
maiden,' cries Aeneas, 'what means this flocking to the river?
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From
trellised
balconies, languid and luminous
Faces gleam, veiled in a splendour voluminous.
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" The ancient tower
Sends out, above the houses and the trees,
And the wide fields below the ancient walls,
A
measured
phrase of bells.
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He a
bewildered
answer gave,
Drowned in the sullen moaning wave,
Lost in the echoes of the cave.
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Aricia,
princess
of the royal blood of Athens.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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" It was no palace-hall
Lofty and
luminous
wherein we stood,
But natural dungeon where ill footing was
And scant supply of light.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Wert thou made to set alight
Such
splendour
of desire in man, and yet,
For a grave's sake, keep all thy beauty null,
And nothing be of good nor help to thy kind?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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We're going along the
quietest
road we can find.
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Kipling - Poems |
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To them that have it shall be given; For him that hath
not—all
is well.
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For the first time now
with his leader-lord the
liegeman
young
was bidden to share the shock of battle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Somehow my soul seems suddenly free
From the weighing of fate and the sad
discussion
of sin,
By the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of Glynn.
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Sidney Lanier |
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I am
inclined
to keep to
the reading of the MS.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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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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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Or in one word,
whatever
you'd like best.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Poetry in
Translation
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From Dawn to Dawn
Troubadour Poetry
(A selection of sixty
Provencal
poems, translated from the Occitan)
'Per solatz revelhar,
Que s'es trop enformitz,
E per pretz, qu'es faiditz
Acolhir e tornar,
Me cudei trebalhar'
'To wake delight once more,
That's been too long asleep,
And worth that's exiled deep
To gather and restore:
These thoughts I've laboured for'
Guiraut de Bornelh
Home Download
Translated by A.
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Troubador Verse |
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_Siebel_ [_while Mephistopheles
approaches
his seat_].
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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[6]
XXIII
"By Derwent's side my father dwelt--a man
Of virtuous life, by pious parents bred; [7] 200
And I believe that, soon as I began
To lisp, he made me kneel beside my bed,
And in his hearing there my prayers I said:
And afterwards, by my good father taught,
I read, and loved the books in which I read; 205
For books in every neighbouring house I sought,
And nothing to my mind a sweeter
pleasure
brought.
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William Wordsworth |
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_("Il
semblait
grelotter.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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enterd his world of love]
Not long in harmony they dwell, their life is drawn away
And wintry woes succeed;
successive
driven into the Void
Where Enion craves: successive drawn into the golden feast
[In beauty love & scorn ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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but by causes couenable {and}
necessarie
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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6
The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
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Appoloinaire |
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(_To
himself_)
I suppose not.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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While now I sojourn with sorrow, 5
Having remorse for my comrade,
What town is blessed with thy beauty,
Gladdened
and prospered?
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Sappho |
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let me hear
The name I used to run at, when a child,
From
innocent
play, and leave the cowslips plied,
To glance up in some face that proved me dear
With the look of its eyes.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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When he had done, some followers of mine own
At lower end of the hall hurl'd up their caps,
And some ten voices cried 'God save King
Richard!
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Shakespeare |
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--Mais comme il est change, le logis d'autrefois:
Un grand feu petillait, clair, dans la cheminee,
Toute la vieille chambre etait illuminee;
Et les reflets vermeils, sortis du grand foyer,
Sur les meubles vernis
aimaient
a tournoyer.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The new tablet, which belongs to the same
period, also differs radically from the diction of the Ninevite text
in the few lines where they
duplicate
each other.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A Farm Picture
Through the ample open door of the
peaceful
country barn,
A sunlit pasture field with cattle and horses feeding,
And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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XV
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same
sunlight
on our brow and hair.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Sweet is the shade of the
cocoanut
glade, and
the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o' the
moon with the sound of the voices we love.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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" When I would
recreate
myself, I seek the
darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and, to the citizen,
most dismal, swamp.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Is it real,
Or is this the thrice damned memory of a
better
happiness?
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Stephen Crane |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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SECOND, In the case of each Poem, any Note written by Wordsworth
himself, as
explanatory
of it, comes first, and has the initials W.
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trademark.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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By James and Frederick his realms are held;
Neither the better
heritage
obtains.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Tacitus thought less of their capacity, upon the
whole, than it is usual to think now: "The Chatti," he says, "for
Germans, have much intelligence;" "Leur
intelligence
et leur finesse
étonnent, dans des Germains.
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Tacitus |
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And sometimes a
dreadful
voice issuing from the
adyta has destroyed them*.
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luit ipse incendia mundus,
et noua uicinis flagrarunt sidera flammis
nunc quoque praeteriti faciem
referentia
casus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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28
theye were allwaye blythe and hende,
In hope that god shollde hem sende
[folio 145b] Some maydyn chyllde, or some man,
That theyre
herytages
myght hane;
So long theye prayed with good entent, 33
that a man chyllde god hem sent;
Page 24
whan they wyst ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The
Cathedral
is a torch, and the houses next to it begin to scorch.
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Imagists |
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The celebrated Quintus Fabius Maximus, who died
about twenty years before the First Punic War, and more than
forty years before Ennius was born, is said to have been interred
with
extraordinary
pomp.
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' However, Blake seems to indicate a re-sequencing of the material to the order shown here, indicating the insertion of these 3 lines with a letter X at their head and a corresponding X at the end of the
preceding
section [ending '.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Fabius
says that, in his time, his
countrymen
were still in the habit of
singing ballads about the Twins.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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_magnanimi
Remi_ Voss:
_magnanimis_ (accus.
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_Another
upon her Weeping.
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Robert Herrick |
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So in our programme of creation, mark
How 'tis that, though the bodies of all stuff
Are solid to the core, we yet explain
The ways whereby some things are
fashioned
soft--
Air, water, earth, and fiery exhalations--
And by what force they function and go on:
The fact is founded in the void of things.
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Lucretius |
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The wet clouds to
Northward
beat;
And Lord Ammon's desert seat
Crieth from the South, unslaken,
For the dews that once were sweet,
For the rain that God hath taken.
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Euripides - Electra |
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23]
[560] [Southey's _Life of Wesley, and Rise and Progress of Methodism_,
in two volumes octavo, was
published
in 1820.
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Byron |
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Jonson never loses an opportunity of satirizing these despicable
bullies, who were not only
ridiculous
in their affectations, but who
proved by their 'fomenting bloody quarrels' to be no small danger
to the state.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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anywhere
in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Rub out those chalked devices, set up new
The Duke's arms, doff your Phrygian caps, and men
The
pavement
of the piazzas broke into
By barren poles of freedom: smooth the way
For the ducal carriage, lest his highness sigh
"Here trees of liberty grew yesterday!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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[49]
When I woke and heard the dripping of the Palace clock
I still thought it the murmur of a
mountain
stream.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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What irksome hand, weaving these knots around,
Has
gathered
my hair with such care on my brow?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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One warm, flush'd moment, hovering, it might seem
Dash'd by the wood-nymph's beauty, so he burn'd;
Then, lighting on the
printless
verdure, turn'd
To the swoon'd serpent, and with languid arm,
Delicate, put to proof the lythe Caducean charm.
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Keats - Lamia |
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TAMEN ILLA UETUS
INQ{U}IT
HEC EST.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Far be from me any
intention
of describing the siege of Orenburg, which
belongs to history, and not to a family memoir.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections
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and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But the
servaunt
traveileth in vayne,
That for to serven doth his payne 2110
Unto that lord, which in no wyse
Can him no thank for his servyse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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CCLXI
In the admiral is much great virtue found;
He strikes Carlun on his steel helm so brown,
Has broken it and rent, above his brow,
Through his thick hair the sword goes
glancing
round,
A great palm's breadth and more of flesh cuts out,
So that all bare the bone is, in that wound.
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Chanson de Roland |
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-1891" and beside this: "Perhaps it is all an
insertion
designed to preceed 'Enion blind & age bent wept upon the desolate wind,-(373 in the 1st printed numbering-suggestion of Mr F G Fleay 1904".
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Blake - Zoas |
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First I must bring a
reproach
against you that applies equally
to both sides.
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Aristophanes |
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representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Our talk had been serious and sober,
But our
thoughts
they were palsied and sere--
Our memories were treacherous and sere;
For we knew not the month was October,
And we marked not the night of the year--
(Ah, night of all nights in the year!
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Poe - 5 |
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Now, I have said that the
community
by means of organisation of
machinery will supply the useful things, and that the beautiful things
will be made by the individual.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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We are not idle, but send her straight
Defiance
back in a full broadside!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The
insatiable
thirst
That whelmed their parched bodies, lo, would make
A goodly shower seem like to scanty drops.
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Lucretius |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get
yourself
some teeth.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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First, then, when he speaks
Of this homeomeria of things, he thinks
Bones to be sprung from
littlest
bones minute,
And from minute and littlest flesh all flesh,
And blood created out of drops of blood,
Conceiving gold compact of grains of gold,
And earth concreted out of bits of earth,
Fire made of fires, and water out of waters,
Feigning the like with all the rest of stuff.
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Lucretius |
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The
first words which broke from the king, when his practised eye had
surveyed the Roman encampment, were full of meaning: "These
barbarians," he said, "have nothing
barbarous
in their military
arrangements.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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XV
A LITTLE BIRD IN THE AIR
A little bird in the air
Is singing of Thyri the fair,
The sister of Svend the Dane;
And the song of the garrulous bird
In the streets of the town is heard,
And
repeated
again and again.
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Longfellow |
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'
And 'Drive we not free
O'er the
terrible
sea,
I and thou?
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Shelley |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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As a boy he had always dabbled in colors for his own amusement,
and had been given to poring over the
ordinary
boys' books upon natural
history.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Transcriber's Notes
Some text styles have been
preserved
in this text by enclosing between
special characters.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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[Sidenote: Chance, then, is an
unexpected
event, by a concurrence
of causes, following an action designed for a particular purpose.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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[207] This Callias, who must not be
confounded
with the foe of
Pisistratus, had ruined himself.
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Aristophanes |
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[Illustration]
There was an old man whose remorse
Induced him to drink Caper Sauce;
For they said, "If mixed up with some cold claret-cup,
It will certainly soothe your
remorse!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"Ah, the cities," cried he, "and the faces Like an endless river rolling on —
From what unknown deeps of being risen
All those myriads, to what shadowy coast
"Of huge doom in sullen
grandeur
moving, The vast waters of the human soul!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Yet he with
troubles
did remain
And suffered poverty and pain.
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John Clare |
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A
rustling
and a flitter
Torments and charms, makes sad and free.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"I fear thee and thy
glittering
eye
"And thy skinny hand so brown"--
Fear not, fear not, thou wedding guest!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Gradasso
and Roland met as it befel;
And fairly balanced might appear the chance,
But for the vantage of Rinaldo's horse;
Which made Gradasso seem of greater force.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I swear,
Here at the gate she shall stand
palpable!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Some spirit hath turned our way,
Victory visible,
Walking at thy right hand,
Beloved; O lift this day
Thine arms, thy voice, as a spell;
And pray for thy brother, pray,
Threading the
perilous
land,
That all be well!
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Euripides - Electra |
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By this faire Bride
remember
soone at night.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Unhappy Wit, like most
mistaken
things,
Atones not for that envy which it brings.
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Alexander Pope |
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It is only by
realising
what I am
that I have found comfort of any kind.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Jade bells
suddenly
all a-tinkle!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE
TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS
AGREEMENT
WILL NOT BE
LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR
INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
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Tennyson |
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If we hae ony babies, we'll count them as lent;
Hae we less, hae we mair, we will ay be content;
For they say they hae mair
pleasure
that wins bu groat,
Than the miser wi' his gear and the blaithrie o't--
I'll not meddle wi' th' affairs of the kirk or the queen;
They're nae matters for a sang, let them sink, let them swim;
On your kirk I'll ne'er encroach, but I'll hold it stil remote,
Sae tak this for the gear and the blaithrie o't.
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Robert Forst |
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[41]
Literally
nostrils.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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De quel droit payes-tu des
experiences
comme moi?
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T.S. Eliot |
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