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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Piangendo dissi: <
presenti
cose
col falso lor piacer volser miei passi,
tosto che 'l vostro viso si nascose>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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[Sidenote E: The knight thinks of his
adventure
at the Green Chapel.
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TEN months from hence I'll you a father make;
No longer time than that I ask to take;
This period o'er, the child to church we'll bring,--
If true, said Nicia, what a
glorious
thing!
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La Fontaine |
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Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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You forge
Through surge,
To be in rending
breakers
rolled.
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Hugo - Poems |
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E'en hell's grim king Alcides' power confess'd,
The shaft found entrance in his iron breast;
To Jove's high palace for a cure he fled,
Pierced in his own dominions of the dead;
Where Paeon,
sprinkling
heavenly balm around,
Assuaged the glowing pangs, and closed the wound.
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Iliad - Pope |
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My leader thus: "A little further stretch
Thy face, that thou the visage well mayst note
Of that besotted,
sluttish
courtezan,
Who there doth rend her with defiled nails,
Now crouching down, now risen on her feet.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It being remembered that there were six of us with Master Villon, when that expecting presently to be hanged he writ a ballad whereof ye know :
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Frtres
humftins
qui aprls nous vivez" NK ye a skoal for the gallows tree !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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They told their sister how, with sudden speed,
Lorenzo had ta'en ship for foreign lands,
Because of some great urgency and need
In their affairs,
requiring
trusty hands.
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Keats |
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Away--away--'mid seas of rays that roll
Empyrean splendor o'er th'
unchained
soul--
The soul that scarce (the billows are so dense)
Can struggle to its destin'd eminence--
To distant spheres, from time to time, she rode,
And late to ours, the favour'd one of God--
But, now, the ruler of an anchor'd realm,
She throws aside the sceptre--leaves the helm,
And, amid incense and high spiritual hymns,
Laves in quadruple light her angel limbs.
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Poe - 5 |
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My life's long warfare seem'd about to cease,
Peace had my spirit's contest well nigh freed;
But levelling Death, who doth to all concede
An equal doom, clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace:
As zephyrs chase the clouds of
gathering
fleece,
So did her life from this world's breath recede,
Their vision'd light could once my footsteps lead,
But now my all, save thought, she doth release.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And said: until thy latest minute
Preserve,
preserve
my Talisman;
A secret power it holds within it--
'Twas love, true love the gift did plan.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Although Provencal poetry was a little on its decline since the days of
the Dukes of Aquitaine and the Counts of Toulouse, it was still held in
honour; and, when
Petrarch
arrived, the Floral games had been
established at Toulouse during six years.
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Petrarch |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And gilded crosiers, and crossed arms, and cowls,
And helms, and twisted armour, and long swords,
All the fantastic
furniture
of windows 120
Dim with brave knights and holy hermits, whose
Likeness and fame alike rest in some panes
Of crystal, which each rattling wind proclaims
As frail as any other life or glory.
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Byron |
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But in America, the coins current being
the sole arms of the aristocracy, their display may be said, in general,
to be the sole means of the aristocratic distinction; and the populace,
looking always upward for models, are insensibly led to confound the two
entirely
separate
ideas of magnificence and beauty.
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Poe - 5 |
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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 catastrophe which happened ere this
letter was well in his father's hand, accords ill with quotations from
the Bible, and hopes fixed in heaven:--"As we gave," he says, "a
welcome
carousal
to the new year, the shop took fire, and burnt to
ashes, and I was left, like a true poet, not worth a sixpence.
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Robert Burns |
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THE GLADE
We may raise our voices even in this still glade:
Though the colours and shadows and sounds so
fleeting
seem,
We shall not dispel them.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Weary of life, thou liest in silent sleep,
As one who marks the lengthening shadows creep,
Careless of all the
hurrying
hours that run,
Mourning some day of glory, for the sun
Of Freedom hath not shewn to thee his face,
And thou hast caught no flambeau in the race.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Li Po |
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And
whosoever
looked on you, they say
That instant fell in love.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Because
Helen was wanton, and her master knew
No curb for her: for that, for that, he slew
My
daughter!
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Euripides - Electra |
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--[79] When low-hung clouds each star of summer hide,
And fireless are the valleys far and wide,
Where the brook brawls along the public [80] road
Dark with bat-haunted ashes
stretching
broad,
[81] Oft has she taught them on her lap to lay 265
The shining glow-worm; or, in heedless play,
Toss it from hand to hand, disquieted;
While others, not unseen, are free to shed
Green unmolested light upon their mossy bed.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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After this, the four little people sailed on again till they came to a vast
and wide plain of astonishing dimensions, on which nothing whatever could
be discovered at first; but, as the travellers walked onward, there
appeared in the extreme and dim distance a single object, which on a nearer
approach, and on an
accurately
cutaneous inspection, seemed to be somebody
in a large white wig, sitting on an arm-chair made of sponge-cakes and
oyster-shells.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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They are not of our race, they seem to say,
And yet have knowledge of our moral race,
And somewhat of
majestic
sympathy,
Something of pity for the puny clay,
That holds and boasts the immeasurable mind.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Valour hath saved alive fierce lion-breeds
And many another
terrorizing
race,
Cunning the foxes, flight the antlered stags.
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Lucretius |
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OSWALD But the pretended Father--
MARMADUKE Earthly law
Measures
not crimes like his.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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He hath been plundered too, since he came hither:
Is sick, a stranger, and as such not now
Able to trace the villain who hath robbed him:
I have pledged myself to do so; and the business
Which brought me here was chiefly that:[176] but I
Have found, in searching for another's dross,
My own whole treasure--you, my
parents!
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Byron |
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The coxcomb bird, so
talkative
and grave,
That from his cage cries c**d, w**e, and knave,
Though many a passenger he rightly call,
You hold him no philosopher at all.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Through waning ages winding, new inspiration finding,
Their creed of consecration like a silver ribbon runs,
Sole relic of the strife that woke the world to wonder
With riot and the thunder of a
sundered
people's guns.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Da hangt ein
Schlusselchen
am Band
Ich denke wohl, ich mach es auf!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The
important
thing is that I have beaten the Senate.
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Aristophanes |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Rilke - Poems |
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How might a man not wander from his wits
Pierced through with eyes, but that I kept mine own
Intent on her, who rapt in glorious dreams,
The second-sight of some Astraean age,
Sat compassed with professors: they, the while,
Discussed
a doubt and tost it to and fro:
A clamour thickened, mixt with inmost terms
Of art and science: Lady Blanche alone
Of faded form and haughtiest lineaments,
With all her autumn tresses falsely brown,
Shot sidelong daggers at us, a tiger-cat
In act to spring.
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Tennyson |
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How can we give you your
offerings?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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An
advocate
for an impostor!
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Shakespeare |
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Round about them troop'd
Full throng of knights, and
overhead
in gold
The eagles floated, struggling with the wind.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Since they, to combat against Charlemagne,
Of one of these alone have greater need
Than of ten
thousand
more, amid which crew
They scarce would find one champion good and true.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Withdraw
yourself
awhile; I'll go with you.
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Shakespeare |
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Would you that spangle of
Existence
spend
About THE SECRET--quick about it, Friend!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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That
brilliant
gift shall so enrich me,
Spring, Summer, Autumn, cannot match me.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Then said another with a long-drawn Sigh,
"My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry:
But, fill me with the old
familiar
Juice,
Methinks I might recover by-and-bye!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Difficult
is it, alas, to conceal the shame of a monarch;
Hide it can neither his crown, nor a tight Phrygian cap:
Midas has asses ears!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Alcools, by Guillaume Apollinaire
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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All eyes were
instantly
turned upon the speaker.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For the last time, take
yourself
from my presence.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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* * * * *
The sudden trumpet sounded as in a dream
To ears but half-awaked, then one low roll
Of Autumn thunder, and the jousts began:
And ever the wind blew, and
yellowing
leaf
And gloom and gleam, and shower and shorn plume
Went down it.
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Not such at Argos was their
generous
vow:
Once all their voice, but ah!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Though, with bare stones o'erspread, the
pastures
all
Be choked with rushy mire, your ewes with young
By no strange fodder will be tried, nor hurt
Through taint contagious of a neighbouring flock.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Sliding between her raiment and smooth breasts, it
coils without touch, and instils its
viperous
breath unseen; the great
serpent turns into the twisted gold about her neck, turns into the long
ribbon of her chaplet, inweaves her hair, and winds slippery over her
body.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The Grape that can with Logic absolute
The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:
The subtle
Alchemist
that in a Trice
Life's leaden Metal into Gold transmute.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The
hospitable
pall
A "this way" beckons spaciously, --
A miracle for all!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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'Tis a light thing
For a
disgraced
exile to meditate
Sedition and conspiracy; but I?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I have seen you command: your soldiering:
While age sends ice
coursing
through my veins,
Your rare courage has secured our gains;
Well, to cut short superfluous discourse,
You are today what I was once, perforce.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Sweet friend, do you wake or are you
sleeping?
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Troubador Verse |
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To
Nannette
Falk-Auerbach.
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Sidney Lanier |
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ALEXANDER
FINDLATER,
SUPERVISOR OF EXCISE, DUMFRIES.
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Robert Forst |
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Perhaps he has found out
that he has a soul, or an artistic temperament, or
something
equally
valuable.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Girls, lovers, youngsters, fresh to hand,
Dancers,
tumblers
that leap like lambs,
Agile as arrows, like shots from a cannon,
Throats tinkling, clear as bells on rams,
Will you leave him here, your poor old Villon?
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Villon |
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[Poems by William Blake 1789]
SONGS OF
INNOCENCE
AND OF EXPERIENCE
and THE BOOK of THEL
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
INTRODUCTION
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
"Pipe a song about a Lamb!
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blake-poems |
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SPIRITUAL LAWS
The living Heaven thy prayers respect,
House at once and architect,
Quarrying man's rejected hours,
Builds therewith eternal towers;
Sole and self-commanded works,
Fears not
undermining
days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;
Forging, through swart arms of Offence,
The silver seat of Innocence.
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Emerson - Poems |
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--Pauvrets
palpitant
sous ma levre,
Je baisai doucement ses yeux:
--Elle jeta sa tete mievre
En arriere: <
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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