O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So
deliciously
you, Mery, that I dream
Of what impossibly flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of darkened crystal.
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Thus, like a king, erect in pride,
Raising clean hands toward heaven, he cried:
"All hail the Stars and
Stripes!
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--"Your hands were like paws then, your face blue and bleak,
But now I'm
bewitched
by your delicate cheek,
And your little gloves fit as on any la-dy!
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Is the spot marked with no
colossal
bust?
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I mean, has ne'er your heart been smitten
slightly?
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re; to haue maistri ouer his fo,
To habbe worldes
richesse
ynou?
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The Dong with a
luminous
Nose!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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But let me quit man's works, again to read
His Maker's spread around me, and suspend
This page, which from my
reveries
I feed,
Until it seems prolonging without end.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Since I am thine, oh come, but with that face
To inward light which thou art wont to show;
With
feignèd
solace ease a true-felt woe;
Or if, deaf god, thou do deny that grace,
Come as thou wilt, and that thou wilt bequeath,--
I long to kiss the image of my death.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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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Though martial songs have banish'd songs of love,
And
nightingales
forsake the village grove, 1827.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Then Asia yeaned her
shepherd
race,
And Nile substructs her granite base,--
Tented Tartary, columned Nile,--
And, under vines, on rocky isle,
Or on wind-blown sea-marge bleak,
Forward stepped the perfect Greek:
That wit and joy might find a tongue,
And earth grow civil, HOMER sung.
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_Both_
declared
thee.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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So upon Easter day
Sailed the three kings away,
Out of the
sheltered
bay,
In the bright season;
With them Earl Sigvald came,
Eager for spoil and fame;
Pity that such a name
Stooped to such treason!
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Longfellow |
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"
They go to
strikewith
th'swords, are on their belts.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Sur le lit, le tronc nu sans
scrupule
etale
Dans le plus complet abandon
La secrete splendeur et la beaute fatale
Dont la nature lui fit don;
Un bas rosatre, orne de coins d'or, a la jambe
Comme un souvenir est reste;
La jarretiere, ainsi qu'un oeil secret qui flambe,
Darde un regard diamante.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Pole
thunders
to pole, and the air quivers
with incessant flashes; all menaces them with instant death.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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That was our bench the time you said to me
The long new poem--but how different now,
How eerie with the curtain of the fog
Making it strange to all the
friendly
trees!
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, was an old figure for the way the feudal lords were
attached
to the ruler.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Tower like a wall the naked rocks, or reach
Far o'er the secret water dark with beech,
More high, to where
creation
seems to end,
Shade above shade the desert pines ascend, 290
And still, below, where mid the savage scene
Peeps out a little speck of smilgin green,
There with his infants man undaunted creeps
And hangs his small wood-hut upon the steeps.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Yet some could see him cringe,
As in a place of danger,
Throwing
frightened
glances into the air,
A-start at threatening faces of the past.
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Oh, he was multiform--
Which then was he among the
manifold?
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_Magnam eo
die
pietatis
eloquentiæque famam Vipstanius Messala adeptus est;
nondum senatoriâ ætate, ausus pro fratre Aquilio Regulo deprecari.
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Yong fry of
Treachery?
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Nor eat the
vultures
into Tityus
Prostrate in Acheron, nor can they find,
Forsooth, throughout eternal ages, aught
To pry around for in that mighty breast.
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_ None can doubt this, save such as either consider
not rightly the nature of things, or are
incapable
of
comprehending the force of any reasoning.
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Then, since even this
Was full of peril, and the secret kiss
Of some bold prince might find her yet, and rend
Her prison walls,
Aegisthus
at the end
Would slay her.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Was it moonlight so wondrously
flashing?
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The people of Rattleborough had, indeed, so high an opinion of the
wisdom and discretion of "Old Charley," that the greater part of them
felt disposed to agree with him, and not make a stir in the business
"until something should turn up," as the honest old gentleman worded
it; and I believe that, after all this would have been the general
determination, but for the very suspicious
interference
of Mr.
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Keats - Lamia |
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At morn, I heard, was the
murderer
killed
by kinsman for kinsman, {33a} with clash of sword,
when Ongentheow met Eofor there.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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Scorn & Indignation rose upon Enitharmon
Then
Enitharmon
reddning fierce stretchd her immortal hands *
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Blake - Zoas |
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Howsoe'er,
I let my
business
wait upon their sport.
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[Footnote 5: Wilson believed that
Chatterton
never sent the _Ryse_,
&c.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Oh, gentle face, radiant with happy smile,
And eager
prattling
tongue that knows no guile,
Quick changing tears and bliss;
Thy soul expands to catch this new world's light,
Thy mazed eyes to drink each wondrous sight,
Thy lips to taste the kiss.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike,
Purified, strengthened, perfected, and
rendered
more worthy of heaven!
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Longfellow |
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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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From amber platters, the smells ascend
Of
overripe
peaches mingled with dust and heated oils.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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--But two nights gone,
The
darkness
overtook me--wind and rain
Beat hard upon my head--and yet I saw
A glow-worm, through the covert of the furze,
Shine calmly as if nothing ailed the sky:
At which I half accused the God in Heaven.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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In
writing to our poet, at Avignon, the Bishop rallied
Petrarch
on the
imaginary existence of the object of his passion.
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Petrarch |
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Is it that death forgets to free
You fishes of
melancholy?
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Appoloinaire |
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It's beautiful eyes hidden by veils,
It's broad day quivering at noon,
It's the blue
disorder
of clear stars
In an autumn, cool, with no moon!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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how blithe the
throstle
sings!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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So out we went:--Jane's place was reckoned good,
Though she bout life but little understood,
And had a master wild as wild can be,
And far unfit for such a child as she;
And soon the whisper went about the town,
That Jane's good looks procured her many a gown
From him, whose promise was to every one,
But whose
intention
was to wive with none.
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John Clare |
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Indeed your earthly beacons of the night,
The hanging
lampions
and the torches, bright
With darting gleams and dense with livid soot,
Do hurry in like manner to supply
With ministering heat new light amain;
Are all alive to quiver with their fires,--
Are so alive, that thus the light ne'er leaves
The spots it shines on, as if rent in twain:
So speedily is its destruction veiled
By the swift birth of flame from all the fires.
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Lucretius |
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Each story is
modified
with respect
to another, and all with respect to a certain effect which is being worked
out.
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I never take care, yet I've taken great pain
To acquire some goods, but have none by me:
Who's nice to me is one I hate: it's plain,
And who speaks truth deals with me most falsely:
He's my friend who can make me believe
A white swan is the blackest crow I've known:
Who thinks he's power to help me, does me harm:
Lies, truth, to me are all one under the sun:
I
remember
all, have the wisdom of a stone,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Villon |
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Seated in companies they sit, with
radiance
all their own.
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-næsse, 2806, 3137), a
promontory
on the coast of the
country of the Gēatas, visible from afar.
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Beowulf |
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Saw you not
The
powerless
inefficiency,
Dream-like, in which the blind .
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
Then to the queen
Eurymachus
replies:
"O justly loved, and not more fair than wise!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Here about on this bench are only
beardless
children.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Yet one more word--say, in what realm do the
Athenians
dwell?
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Aeschylus |
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Eftsoons
hys mornynge tournd to gloomie nyghte;
Hys dame, hys seconde selfe, gyve upp her brethe,
Seekeynge for eterne lyfe and endless lyghte, 135
And sleed good Canynge; sad mystake of dethe!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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410),
is in the same way found in all the manuscripts (except two, which are
one, _H40_ and _RP31_) which contain the epistles to Jonson, generally
in their
immediate
proximity, and in _B_ initialled 'J.
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John Donne |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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If I spend no speech, then
speedest
thou the better, for
then mayest thou remain in thy own land and seek no further; but cease
thy talking[1] (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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blake-poems |
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He is presumed to have died in an ambush by
Bulgarian
forces.
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Troubador Verse |
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at te ego certe 25
cognoram
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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pragmaticke
young men, at their owne weapons.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Of the turbid pool that lies in the autumn forest,
Of the moon that descends the steeps of the
soughing
twilight,
Toss, sparkles of day and dusk--toss on the black stems that decay
in the muck,
Toss to the moaning gibberish of the dry limbs.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Me ruthless and
devilish
as any, that my wrists are not chain'd with
iron, or my ankles with iron?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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polygonic
In their amazing fructifying hard subdued course in the vast deep
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And Los & Enitharmon were drawn down by their desires
Descending sweet upon the wind among soft harps & voices [Laughing and mocking ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Nor could the waggon long survive,
Which Benjamin had ceased to drive:
It
lingered
on;--guide after guide 775
Ambitiously the office tried;
But each unmanageable hill
Called for _his_ patience and _his_ skill;--
And sure it is, that through this night,
And what the morning brought to light, 780
Two losses had we to sustain,
We lost both WAGGONER and WAIN!
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William Wordsworth |
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De ses cheveux elastiques et lourds,
Vivant sachet, encensoir de l'alcove,
Une senteur montait, sauvage et fauve,
Et des habits, mousseline ou velours,
Tout
impregnes
de sa jeunesse pure,
Se degageait un parfum de fourrure.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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This he
pretended
to decline.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The leaves are green still, but brown-blent:
They stir not, only known
By a
poignant
delicate scent
To the lonely moon blown.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Let us play,
And make some
sparrows
out of clay,
Down by the river's side.
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Longfellow |
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That whistling boy who minds his goats
So idly in the grey ravine,
"The brown-backed rower
drenched
with spray, 5
The lemon-seller in the street,
And the young girl who keeps her first
Wild love-tryst at the rising moon,--
"Lo, these are wiser than the wise.
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Sappho |
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Footsteps
shuffled on the stair.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I sat and wept alway
Beneath the moon's most shadowy beam,
Watching the
blossoms
of the May
Weep leaves into the stream.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Man, the second of the Three Orders,
Owes his
precedence
to Me.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Apples on the small trees
are hard,
too small,
too late ripened
by a
desperate
sun
that struggles through sea-mist.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Because of the beautiful white shoulders and the rounded breasts
1 can in no wise forget my beloved of the peach-
trees,
And the little winds that speak when the dawn is
unfurled
And the rose-colour in the grey oak-leaf's fold
When it first comes, and the glamour that rests On the little streams in the evening; all of these Call me to her, and all the
loveliness
in the world Binds me to my beloved with strong chains of gold.
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Brother and friend, if verse of mine
Have power to make thy virtues known,
Here let a
monumental
Stone
Stand--sacred as a Shrine.
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[Note 6: A la "Bolivar," from the founder of
Bolivian
independence.
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take it for a rule,
No
creature
smarts so little as a fool.
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Ei chinavan li raffi e <>,
diceva l'un con l'altro, <
groppone?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And now they portion'd out
The feast to all, and charg'd the cups with wine,
And
introducing
by his hand the bard
Phaeacia's glory, at the column's side
The herald placed Demodocus again.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did
proceed?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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burn all these Corn fields, throw down all these fences
Fattend on Human blood & drunk with wine of life is better far {Interlineal
erasures
throughout this stanza.
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Blake - Zoas |
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And with five
bastions
it did fence,
As aiming one for every sense.
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XXI
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
Found no way to tame, this proud city,
That with a courage forged in adversity,
Sustained the shock of endless wars,
Though her ship, plagued at the source
By great waves, felt the world's enmity,
None ever saw the reefs of adversity
Wreak havoc on her fortunate course:
But, the object of her virtue failing,
Her power opposed its own flailing,
Like the voyager whom a cruel gale
Has long since separated from the shore,
Driven now by the storm's wild roar,
And
shipwrecked
there, when all efforts fail.
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And though his language differ from the vulgar somewhat, it
shall not fly from all humanity, with the
Tamerlanes
and Tamer-chains of
the late age, which had nothing in them but the scenical strutting and
furious vociferation to warrant them to the ignorant gapers.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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She has no
sympathy
with the myrtles.
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Poe - 5 |
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And this
mysterious
volume, see!
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And the leaves, brown, yellow, and gray, and red,
And white with the
whiteness
of what is dead, _35
Like troops of ghosts on the dry wind passed;
Their whistling noise made the birds aghast.
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Certain
characters
of the heroic saga are, so to speak, at home with
Satyrs and others are not.
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