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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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3
INTRODUCTION
In the year 1914 the University Museum secured by
purchase
a large
six column tablet nearly complete, carrying originally, according to
the scribal note, 240 lines of text.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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O madness, to think use of
strongest
wines
And strongest drinks our chief support of health,
When God with these forbid'n made choice to rear
His mighty Champion, strong above compare,
Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.
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Milton |
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on them cast
Sweet
slombring
deaw, the which to sleepe them biddes.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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His persistence finally roused an
interest
entirely
strange to her.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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He called on his mate;
He poured forth the
meanings
which I, of all men, know.
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Whitman |
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Fool'd by some daemon and the intemp'rate bowl,
I perish'd in the house of Circe; there 70
The deep-descending steps heedless I miss'd,
And fell
precipitated
from the roof.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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So fast my sister pricked, she reached that day
Mount Alban; we who for her absence mourn,
Mother and brother, greet the martial may,
And her arrival with much joy discern:
For hearing nought, we feared that she was dead,
And had
remained
in cruel doubt and dread.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
The Great Longing
Here I sit between my brother the
mountain
and my sister the sea.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair,
Whene'er I forgather wi' sorrow end care,
I gie them a skelp, as they're creepin alang,
Wi' a cog o' guid swats, and an auld
Scottish
sang.
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Robert Forst |
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging
its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the gashouse 190
Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Wilde - Poems |
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I have of late composed two or three other little pieces,
which, ere yon full-orbed moon, whose broad
impudent
face now stares
at old mother earth all night, shall have shrunk into a modest
crescent, just peeping forth at dewy dawn, I shall find an hour to
transcribe for you.
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Robert Forst |
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Give me the lyre, I said, and let me sing
My song of battle: Words like flaming stars
Shot down with power to burn the palaces;
Words like bright
javelins
to fly with fierce
Hate of the oily Philistines and glide
Through all the seven heavens till they pierce
The pious hypocrites who dare to creep
Into the Holy Places.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine
Elizabethan
translation which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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) thoroughly I hate;
They'll follow me to
Paradise
I fear,
Or further yet;--Heav'n keep me from such cheer!
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La Fontaine |
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When guilt goes forth, let lapwings shrill,
And dogs and foxes great with young,
And wolves from far
Lanuvian
hill,
Give clamorous tongue:
Across the roadway dart the snake,
Frightening, like arrow loosed from string,
The horses.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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shall I win from thee
Not promise only, but performance kind
Of my
request?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
"God alone knows; but whoever you be, you are playing a
dangerous
game.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_O
aspettata
in ciel, beata e bella.
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Petrarch |
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They rise not from reason, but deeper
inconsequent
deeps.
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Sidney Lanier |
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A minute and a drop of me settle my brain,
I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,
And a compend of
compends
is the meat of a man or woman,
And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it
becomes omnific,
And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Under the
penitential
gates
Sustained by staring Seraphim
Where the souls of the devout
Burn invisible and dim.
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T.S. Eliot |
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_ Pluto, who
presides
over the torments of the
souls in Hades.
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Keats |
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I was reading then one of those dear poems (whose flakes of rouge have more charm for me than young flesh), and dipping a hand into the pure animal fur, when a street organ sounded
languishingly
and sadly under my window.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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{74a} The
lopping of trees makes the boughs shoot out thicker; and the taking away
of some kind of enemies
increaseth
the number.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Generously trust
Thy fortune's web to the
beneficent
hand
That until now has put his world in fee
To thee.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"As old mythologies relate,
Some draught of Lethe might await
The
slipping
thro' from state to state.
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Tennyson |
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Charles, our great soul, this only
understands
;
He our affections both, and wills, commands ;
And where twin-sympathies cannot alone.
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Marvell - Poems |
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because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Once to amuse the
children
I built a house of cards, and had
accursed dreams all night.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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copyright
notice is included.
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Keats |
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The wind of that eternal ditty sings,
Humming of future things, that burn the mind
To leave some
fragment
of itself behind.
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John Clare |
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Wherefore
was that cry?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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important
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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At
midnight
Zourine took
me back to the inn.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
_Merchant
of Venice_, act i.
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Byron |
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The wings, the
eyebrows
and ah, the eyes!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Though weak
Fernando
reign'd, in war unskill'd,
A godlike king now calls you to the field.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Crooning ditties
treasured
well
From his Afric's torrid plains.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Ther was the tyraunt with his fethres donne
And greye, I mene the goshauk, that doth pyne 335
To briddes for his
outrageous
ravyne.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Oh, with what
patience
I have tried to win
The favour of the hostess of the Inn!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Nowe, AElla, nowe Ime
plantynge
of a thorne,
Bie whyche thie peace, thie love, & glorie shalle be torne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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There's stir among the serving folk;
They bustle, bustle, boy and girl;
The
flickering
flames send up the smoke
In many a curl.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The red hot boiling billows foamed in the
stooping
clouds,
And in that fatal tempest the whole ship's crew were lost.
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John Clare |
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a daughter of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand
rejoiced
to grant me life again.
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Ronsard |
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Again, if
it be too little, there ariseth no pleasure out of the object; it affords
the view no stay; it is beheld, and
vanisheth
at once.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Woods have tongues,
As walls have ears: but thou shalt go with me,
And we will speak at first
exceeding
low.
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Tennyson |
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_Supplied
by conjecture_; F.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"Of whom are you
speaking?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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What bad poet did your mothers listen to
That you were born so
crooked?
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Yeats |
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_To Napoleon_
The heroes of the present and the past
Were puny, vague, and
nothingness
to thee:
Thou didst a span grasp mighty to the last,
And strain for glory when thy die was cast.
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John Clare |
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NEATH
trembling
tree tops to and fro we wander
Along the beech-grove, nearly to the bower,
And see within the silent meadow yonder,
The almond tree a second time in flower.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"Well,
Sourine?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In the author's first copy and first revision of that `Hymn',
the `Ballad' was incorporated,
following
the invocation to the trees
which closes with:
"And there, oh there
As ye hang with your myriad palms upturned in the air,
Pray me a myriad prayer.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The thorns, tearing her feet,
Gather up the red flower of her blood which is holy,
Each
footstep
she takes; and the valleys repeat
The sharp cry she utters and draw it out slowly.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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by that name of Eve--
Thine Eve, thy life--which suits me little now,
Seeing that I now confess myself thy death
And thine undoer, as the snake was mine,--
I do adjure thee, put me straight away,
Together
with my name!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Therefore
to Horse,
And let vs not be daintie of leaue-taking,
But shift away: there's warrant in that Theft,
Which steales it selfe, when there's no mercie left.
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Albion groand on Tyburns brook
Albion gave his loud death groan The Atlantic Mountains
trembled
Aloft the Moon fled with a cry the Sun with streams of blood
From Albions Loins fled all Peoples and Nations of the Earth Fled {Erdman's notes indicate that "Blake first wrote ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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For the mother watches o'er the infant,
He must rise up in her latter days,
She will need the man that was her baby
To stand by her when her
strength
decays.
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Hugo - Poems |
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e folk was went away,
And he al-one in
chaumbre
lay,
Alexius gan to preche; 207
Of Iesu he bigan his game,
werldes likyng he gan blame,
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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In the case of the
present author, there was
absolutely
no choice in the matter; she
must write thus, or not at all.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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So ferde it by this fers and proude knight; 225
Though he a worthy kinges sone were,
And wende nothing hadde had swiche might
Ayens his wil that sholde his herte stere,
Yet with a look his herte wex a-fere,
That he, that now was most in pryde above, 230
Wex
sodeynly
most subget un-to love.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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_Song of the
Soldiers
within_.
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Byron |
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So they rode on until they arrived at the second loop of the river where
the knight of the Noonday-Sun flared with his burning shield that blazed
so
violently
that Gareth saw scarlet blots before his eyes as he turned
away from it.
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Tennyson |
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_ Those reverencing
Adrastia
are wise.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Delicious
is the Lay that sings
The haunts of happy lovers,
The path that leads them to the grove,
The leafy grove that covers:
And pity sanctifies the verse
That paints, by strength of sorrow,
The unconquerable strength of love;
Bear witness, rueful Yarrow!
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Golden Treasury |
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Unasked, the stranger this
attention
got,
And well perfumed ere clothes they would allot.
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La Fontaine |
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`Now stant it thus, that sith I fro yow wente, 785
This Troilus, right platly for to seyn,
Is thurgh a goter, by a prive wente,
In-to my
chaumbre
come in al this reyn,
Unwist of every maner wight, certeyn,
Save of my-self, as wisly have I Ioye, 790
And by that feith I shal Pryam of Troye!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Whither dost thou loiter, by what murmuring hollows,
Where oleanders scatter their
ambrosial
fire?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Eupompus gave it
splendour
by numbers and other
elegancies.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He captured the wild
mountain
goats.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Stephen Crane |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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With a shout I called
attention
to the fact, and it became immediately
obvious to all.
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Poe - 5 |
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O think how this dry palate would
rejoice!
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Keats |
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'We build ships not to let them lie in
harbours
but to seek new lands
with, and to trade with.
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John Donne |
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When a
daffodil
I see,
Hanging down his head towards me,
Guess I may what I must be:
First, I shall decline my head;
Secondly, I shall be dead;
Lastly, safely buried.
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Robert Herrick |
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Nay, thou mayest see at times
Five or yet more in order dangling down
And swaying in the delicate winds, whilst one
Depends from other,
cleaving
to under-side,
And ilk one feels the stone's own power and bonds--
So over-masteringly its power flows down.
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Lucretius |
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Apart from its brilliant epigrammatic
expression the 'Essay on Criticism' might have been written by almost
any man of letters in Queen Anne's day who took the trouble to think a
little about the laws of literature, and who thought about those laws
strictly in accordance with the
accepted
conventions of his time.
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Alexander Pope |
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_--comth
2689 _graunt[e]_--graunte]
[Headnote:
UNITY
NECESSARY
TO EXISTENCE.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The
Grolier Club editor prints:
Like a wedge in a block, wring to the bar,
Bearing like asses, and more
shameless
far
Than carted whores; lie to the grave judge; for .
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John Donne |
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The
orthography of his
glossary
differs considerably from the orthography of
his text.
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Beowulf |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Martial is a poet of a very
different
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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If then to all men
happiness
was meant,
God in externals could not place content.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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THE POEM
I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when
pleasant
thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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In the department of history
be appears to have been
particularly
well read;
Digitized by VjOOQIC
Xlviii NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.
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Marvell - Poems |
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XXVI
I recall thy white gown, cinctured
With a linen belt, whereon
Violets were wrought, and scented
With strange
perfumes
out of Egypt.
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Sappho |
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"'At the Palace Gate, the smell of wine and meat;
Out in the road, one who has frozen to death'
form only a small
proportion
of his whole work.
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Li Po |
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He willed the whole emprize his own should be,
And
Bradamant
should stand apart to see.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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through whose verdant meads
Unheard the
Garigliano
glides along;--
The Liris, nurse of rushes and of reeds,
The river taciturn of classic song.
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Longfellow |
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