But the day of
these
artistic
anomalies is over.
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But well I wot, that if the truth were known,
This Leo will for thee some snare have spread:
The traitor will have barred thy way, intent
Thou
shouldst
not him by better speed prevent.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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All over the corn's dim motion, against the blue
Dark sky of night, the
wandering
glitter, the swarm
Of questing brilliant things:--you joy, you true
Spirit of careless joy: ah, how I warm
My poor and perished soul at the joy of you!
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Imagists |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The 'blanks' indeed take on importance, at first glance; the
versification
demands them, as a surrounding silence, to the extent that a fragment, lyrical or of a few beats, occupies, in its midst, a third of the space of paper: I do not transgress the measure, only disperse it.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays
Those painted clouds that beautify our days;
Each want of
happiness
by hope supplied,
And each vacuity of sense by pride:
These build as fast as knowledge can destroy;
In folly's cup still laughs the bubble, joy;
One prospect lost, another still we gain;
And not a vanity is given in vain;
Even mean self-love becomes, by force divine,
The scale to measure others' wants by thine.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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His look is grave,
--Yea from thejsecret that I never knew--
And
slightly
glazed,
Since to our winter from the spring he came.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Ihr waret wert, gleich in die Eh zu treten:
Ihr seid ein
liebenswurdig
Kind.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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In the 'Gardener's Daughter' we have the first of that delightful series
of poems dealing with scenes and characters from ordinary English life,
and named
appropriately
'English Idylls'.
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Tennyson |
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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And fair the cast of Fortune's die
Before our state's new lords shall lie,
Not as of old, but
bringing
fairer doom
Lo, freedom's light hath come!
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Aeschylus |
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Chanson de Roland |
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Ma quando disse: <
che qui e buono con l'ali e coi remi,
quantunque puo, ciascun pinger sua barca>>;
dritto si come andar vuolsi rife'mi
con la persona, avvegna che i pensieri
mi
rimanessero
e chinati e scemi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Full oft I oped my lips to chant thy name;
Then in mid
utterance
the lay was lost:
But say what muse can dare so bold a flight?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Under his
spurning
feet the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind,
And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace fire,
Swept on, with his wild eye full of ire.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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O
faithful
unto death,
Thou goest?
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Euripides - Electra |
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(Best form for
_letters_
from a distant land,
It fits the pocket, nor fatigues the hand.
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Byron |
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Cantered pagans, through those wide valleys raced,
Hauberks they wore and sarks with iron plated,
Swords to their sides were girt, their helms were laced,
Lances made sharp, escutcheons newly painted:
There in the mists beyond the peaks remained
The day of doom four hundred
thousand
waited.
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Chanson de Roland |
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[212] It may, perhaps, be
agreeable
to the reader, to see the
description of a bull-fight as given by Homer.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Irato Calcabrina de la buffa,
volando dietro li tenne, invaghito
che quei
campasse
per aver la zuffa;
e come 'l barattier fu disparito,
cosi volse li artigli al suo compagno,
e fu con lui sopra 'l fosso ghermito.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Yet like a star, with
glittering
crest,
Self-poised in air thou seem'st to rest;--
May peace come never to his nest,
Who shall reprove thee!
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Golden Treasury |
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Come, read to me some poem,
Some simple and heartfelt lay,
That shall soothe this
restless
feeling,
And banish the thoughts of day.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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As for the persistently absurd report of the late Earl of Derby being the
author of the "First Book of Nonsense," I may relate an
incident
which
occurred to me four summers ago, the first that gave me any insight into
the origin of the rumor.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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ni
Although the clouded storm dismays Many a heart upon these waters, The thought of that far golden blaze Giveth me heart upon the waters,
Thinking
thereof my bark is led
To port wherein no storm I dread; No tempest maketh me afraid.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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magni saepe duces, magni
cecidere
tyranni,
et Thebae steterant altaque Troia fuit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The flesh surrendered, cancelled,
The
bodiless
begun;
Two worlds, like audiences, disperse
And leave the soul alone.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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'Round me the old sorrow was awaking, And the
breaking
of some mighty heart.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Slothe moe wulde jade thee than the
roughest
daie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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= 'In some of our old dictionaries,
_fid_ is explained to caulk with oakum: figgum, or fig'em, may
therefore be a vulgar derivative from this term, and signify the
lighted flax or tow with which
jugglers
stuff their mouths when
they prepare to amuse the rustics by breathing out smoke and
flames:
--a nut-shell
With tow, and touch-wood in it, to spite fire (5.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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_v_
Namque nullum peius macerat hemonem
quamde mare saeuom: uires quoi sunt magnae,
topper eas
confringunt
importunae undae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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So Magdalen in tears more wise
Dissolved those
captivating
eyes.
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Marvell - Poems |
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That not in fancy's maze he wandered long:
But stooped to truth, and moralised his song:
That not for fame, but virtue's better end,
He stood the furious foe, the timid friend,
The damning critic, half approving wit,
The coxcomb hit, or fearing to be hit;
Laughed at the loss of friends he never had,
The dull, the proud, the wicked, and the mad;
The distant threats of vengeance on his head,
The blow unfelt, the tear he never shed;
The tale revived, the lie so oft o'erthrown,
The imputed trash, and dulness not his own;
The morals blackened when the writings scape,
The
libelled
person, and the pictured shape;
Abuse, on all he loved, or loved him, spread,
A friend in exile, or a father, dead;
The whisper, that to greatness still too near,
Perhaps, yet vibrates, on his sovereign's ear:--
Welcome for thee, fair virtue!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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earthbound bride &
bridegroom
?
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Blake - Zoas |
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I've half a mind to shake myself
Free just for once from London,
To set my work upon the shelf
And leave it done or undone;
To run down by the early train,
Whirl down with shriek and whistle,
And feel the bluff North blow again,
And mark the sprouting thistle
Set up on waste patch of the lane
Its green and tender bristle,
And spy the scarce-blown violet banks,
Crisp
primrose
leaves and others,
And watch the lambs leap at their pranks
And butt their patient mothers.
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Christina Rossetti |
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lest they say a lesser light
distraught
thee.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The troops in Germany
were proud of their recent victory,
indignant
at their treatment and
perplexed by a nervous consciousness that they had supported the wrong
side: a very dangerous state for so strong a force to be in.
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Tacitus |
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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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Lear - Nonsense |
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Quoiqu'il ne pousse ni grands gestes ni grands cris,
Il ferait volontiers de la terre un debris
Et dans un baillement
avalerait
le monde;
C'est l'Ennui!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Phaedra
Because Venus wills that of this
dreadful
race
I shall perish the last, and the most disgraced.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Stephen Crane |
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The
Princeton
University Press:--"To France," by Herbert Jones, from _A
Book of Princeton Verse_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I'll have you
condemned
to a fine of ten thousand
drachmae.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Hoc misso in Syriam
requierant
omnibus aures:
Audibant eadem haec leniter et leviter,
Nec sibi postilla metuebant talia verba,
Cum subito adfertur nuntius horribilis, 10
Ionios fluctus, postquam illuc Arrius isset,
Iam non Ionios esse, sed Hionios.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Thus arm'd, he sought his wonted couch beneath
A hollow rock where the herd slept, secure
From the sharp current of the
Northern
blast.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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te, & made
sorweful
chere,
Teres ouer his whyte lere
Bytere he let falle.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Some large ones have been
conspicuously
changing
for a week, and some single trees are now very brilliant.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
LV
"That night, he in deep silence bade array
A score of armed men; and next conveyed
Into some caverns,
bordering
on the way,
And distant from the tower, his ambuscade.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Food of
specific
sorts is rarely, if at all, mentioned in the
poem.
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Beowulf |
|
Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Imagists |
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"Speak to me, comely Faun, as you would speak
To tree, or zephyr, or
untrodden
grass.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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)
And so to-day--they lay him away--
the boy nobody knows the name of--
the buck private--the unknown soldier--
the
doughboy
who dug under and died
when they told him to--that's him.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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TO THE HANDSOME
MISTRESS
GRACE POTTER
As is your name, so is your comely face
Touch'd every where with such diffused grace,
As that in all that admirable round,
There is not one least solecism found;
And as that part, so every portion else
Keeps line for line with beauty's parallels.
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Robert Herrick |
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If thou be*st with perfumes pleased,
Such as ofl the gods appeased,
Thou in
fragrant
clouds shalt show.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Not a grave of the
murdered
for freedom but grows seed for freedom, in its
turn to bear seed,
Which the winds carry afar and resow, and the rains and the snows nourish.
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Whitman |
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Diamond and topaz there, with mingled ray,
Return'd in varied hues the beam of day;
A
treasure
of inestimable cost,
Too long, alas!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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VII
Dead leaves and
stricken
boughs
She heaped o'er the fallen form--
Wolf nor hawk nor lawless storm
Him from his rest should rouse;
But first, with solemn vows,
Took rifle, pouch, and horn,
And the belt that he had worn.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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What man was ever so in Heaven obeyed
Since the
coraraanded
sun o*er Gibeon stayed ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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Wild strain of Scalds, that in the sea-worn caves
Rehearsed their war-spell to the winds and waves;
Or fateful hymn of those
prophetic
maids,
That call'd on Hertha in deep forest glades;
Or minstrel lay, that cheer'd the baron's feast;
Or rhyme of city pomp, of monk and priest,
Judge, mayor, and many a guild in long array,
To high-church pacing on the great saint's day.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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When to the Bad One's house we go,
She gains a
thousand
steps, you know.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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It was made from the shell of a tortoise, stuck round with leather, with two horns and a
sounding
board and strings made from sheep's gut.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Are we swung like two planets, compelled in our
separate
orbits,
Yet held in a flaming circle far greater than our own?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
|
The last
speaker's remark that the present China is different from what China is
in Chinese poetry may be true, but I may well retort that the England
as represented in
Shakespeare
is very different from the England of
to-day.
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Li Po |
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That moon sees
A
shrouded
German valley
With woods and ghostly trees.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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As by the kindling of the self-same fire
Harder this clay, this wax the softer grows,
So by my love may Daphnis;
sprinkle
meal,
And with bitumen burn the brittle bays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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He has
demonstrated
that no man could have lived so
long--De Quincey was nearly seventy-five at his death--and worked so
hard, if he had consumed twelve thousand drops of laudanum as often as
he said he did.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The relation
between formal music and speech will yet become the subject of science,
not less than the occasion of artistic discovery; for I am certain
that all poets, even all
delighted
readers of poetry, speak certain
kinds of poetry to distinct and simple tunes, though the speakers may
be, perhaps generally are, deaf to ordinary music, even what we call
tone-deaf.
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Yeats |
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I had been reading in Shelvocke's
'Voyages', a day or two before, that, while doubling Cape Horn, they
frequently saw albatrosses in that latitude, the largest sort of
sea-fowl, some
extending
their wings twelve or thirteen feet.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"
Whatever
he
may have been in reality, he was at one time valued by Tiberius.
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Tacitus |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form,
including
any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I'm wrong, you didn't dance: your feet were fluttering
Over the surface of the ground, your body altering,
Its nature
transformed
that night to the divine.
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Ronsard |
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And why it
scatters
its bright beauty thro the humid air.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Hesiod old,
Who,
somewhat
blind and deaf and cold,
Cared most for gods and bulls.
| Guess: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
|
XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or
fleeting
hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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35
Ye folk a lawe han set in universe,
And this knowe I by hem that loveres be,
That who-so
stryveth
with yow hath the werse:
Now, lady bright, for thy benignitee,
At reverence of hem that serven thee, 40
Whos clerk I am, so techeth me devyse
Som Ioye of that is felt in thy servyse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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It is the board
Where Lugaidh
Redstripe
and that wife of his,
Who had a seamew's body half the year,
Played at the chess upon the night they died.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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At the master's
house they had to stand, their legs apart, and they were taught to sing
either, "Pallas, the Terrible, who
overturneth
cities," or "A noise
resounded from afar"[550] in the solemn tones of the ancient harmony.
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Aristophanes |
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"
Margretlein
zog ein schiefes Maul,
Ist halt, dacht sie, ein geschenkter Gaul,
Und wahrlich!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"Let the prairie-dogs an'
Blackmouth
bark,"
Said our folks.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not
mysterious
at all
We are the evidence ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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read fāgum
sweordum
(no ic þæs fela gylpe!
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Beowulf |
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shall I hear any less well if I am doing a
bit of
carding?
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Aristophanes |
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Judith, our fates are closer to one another's
Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:
The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,
And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;
We are both
neighbours
of the silent skies.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Hope e'en to these
With
childlike
lisp will lie to please.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Immovably and silently he stands
Placed where the confused current ebbs and flows;
Past fathomless dark depths that he commands
A shallow
generation
drifting goes.
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Rilke - Poems |
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XXXV
No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud:
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And
loathsome
canker lives in sweetest bud.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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A most myraculous worke in this good King,
Which often since my heere remaine in England,
I haue seene him do: How he solicites heauen
Himselfe best knowes: but strangely visited people
All swolne and Vlcerous, pittifull to the eye,
The meere dispaire of Surgery, he cures,
Hanging a golden stampe about their neckes,
Put on with holy Prayers, and 'tis spoken
To the
succeeding
Royalty he leaues
The healing Benediction.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The blast of the
terrible
stones
on the ridge of our wall is not stayed,
At the gates is the brazen clash
of the bucklers--Apollo to aid!
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Aeschylus |
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Through those thousand years poets and critics vied with one
another in proclaiming her verse the one
unmatched
exemplar of lyric art.
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Sappho |
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Rozhnov, a
nobleman
of Moscow.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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What force or guile could not subdue,
Thro' many warlike ages,
Is wrought now by a coward few,
For
hireling
traitor's wages.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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To fuse within themselves its rules precise and
delicatesse?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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This
monument
of my despair
Build I to the All-Good, All-Fair.
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Emerson - Poems |
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When the living leave us, moved, I gaze,
For to enter death, is
entering
the temple;
And when a man dies, and goes his way,
I see my own ascent, clear, like crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Qui veggion l'alte
creature
l'orma
de l'etterno valore, il qual e fine
al quale e fatta la toccata norma.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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