O le pauvre amoureux des pays
chimeriques!
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But this success
was due in part to the accuracy with which it reflected ideas which were
the common
property
of its age, in part to the extraordinary vigor and
finish of its epigrams, which made it one of the most quotable of
English poems.
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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He is dying of
hunger and can be seen at Delphi, his face bathed in tears,
clinging
to
your quiver, oh, Apollo!
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Aristophanes |
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"
And
straight
against that great array
Forth went the dauntless Three.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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He must have civil prudence and eloquence, and that whole; not
taken up by
snatches
or pieces in sentences or remnants when he will
handle business or carry counsels, as if he came then out of the
declaimer's gallery, or shadow furnished but out of the body of the
State, which commonly is the school of men.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Here take this silver, it maie eathe[48] thie care;
We are Goddes
stewards
all, nete[49] of oure owne we bare.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
The intense energy of their
expression
is not surpassed by anything in
Byron.
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Poe - 5 |
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THE SONG OF THE AIRMAN By Phoebe Hoffman
In the moonless night when the searchlight goes sneaking over the sky, I rise with a whirr of engines from the foam-tracked gloom of the sea, And shoot alone through the
midnight
where each star seems an Argos eye, To fence with Death in the darkness where the swift Valkyrie fly.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But such
A
trembling
as the birch-tree's to the touch
Of winter is an eld, and evening closes round.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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II
But, be it a hint of rose
That an instant hues her,
Or some early light or pose
Wherewith thought renews her--
Seen by him at full, ere woes
Practised
to abuse her--
Sparely comes it, swiftly goes,
Time again subdues her.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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VI chp 12 v (King James version)]*
VALA
Night the First
The Song of the Aged Mother which shook the heavens with wrath* {This page is a very thicket of revisions, erasures, and inconsistent directions for
rearranging
the order of the lines.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be
faceless
if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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This was the
Lamentation
of Enion round the golden Feast
[[End of the First Night]]y
Eternity groand and was troubled at the image of Eternal Death
Without the body of Man an Exudation from his sickning limbs
Now Man was come to the Palm tree & to the Oak of Weeping
Which stand upon the edge of Beulah & he sunk down
From the Supporting arms of the Eternal Saviour; who disposd
The pale limbs of his Eternal Individuality
Upon The Rock of Ages.
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copyright
notice is included.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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5 Palace ladies sobbed on their red sleeves, 24 princes of the blood went in
commoners?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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They passed in their white habits along the beaten path in the wood,
the
acolytes
swinging their censers before them, and the abbot, with
his crozier studded with precious stones, in the midst of the incense;
and came before the quern-house and knelt down and began to pray,
awaiting the moment when the child would wake, and the Saint cease
from his watch and come to look at the sun going down into the unknown
darkness, as his way was.
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Yeats |
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I know thou art a dear good man,
But fear thy
thoughts
do not run much that way.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Deep malice thence conceiving & disdain,
Soon as
midnight
brought on the duskie houre
Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolv'd
With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave
Unworshipt, unobey'd the Throne supream
Contemptuous, and his next subordinate
Awak'ning, thus to him in secret spake.
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Milton |
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Around, around, they waltzed and wound;
Some wheeled in
smirking
pairs;
With the mincing step of a demirep
Some sidled up the stairs:
And with subtle sneer, and fawning leer,
Each helped us at our prayers.
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Wilde - Poems |
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_ Robert
Pierrepoint
was created Viscount Newark in 1627
and Earl of Kingston in the following year.
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Robert Herrick |
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The Geese, having webs to their feet, caught
quantities
of flies, which
they ate for dinner.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The
invisible
worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Your waking hopes, your dreams of mirth and love
From Charles to Alice, father to mother, rove;
No wider range of view your heart can take
Than what her nursing and his bright smiles make;
They two alone on this your opening hour
Can gleams of tenderness and
gladness
pour:
They two--none else, Jeanne!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And how should I
presume?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Ye, who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene
Which is his last, if in your
memories
dwell
A thought which once was his, if on ye swell
A single recollection, not in vain
He wore his sandal-shoon and scallop shell;
Farewell!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"And if they dare deny the same,
My herald shall appoint a week,
And let the
recreant
traitors seek
My tourney court--that there and then
I may dislodge their reptile souls
From the bodies and forms of men!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Attendants
bring out the bodies of_ CLYTEMNESTRA _and_
AEGISTHUS.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The Green Knight, laughing,
thus spoke: "Thou hast confessed so clean, and
acknowledged
thy faults,
that I hold thee as pure as thou hadst never forfeited since thou wast
first born.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Oh let me shut my eyes, close out
The sight of stars and earth and be
Sheltered
a minute by this tree.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
That
mendacious
Old Person of Gretna.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Ins hohe Meer werd ich hinausgewiesen,
Die
Spiegelflut
erglanzt zu meinen Fussen,
Zu neuen Ufern lockt ein neuer Tag.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Him never shall the wolves with
ravening
maw
Rend and devour: I do forbid the thought!
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Aeschylus |
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Be brave in trouble; meet distress
With dauntless front; but when the gale
Too
prosperous
blows, be wise no less,
And shorten sail.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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OUR second gossip thus obtained success;
But now the third: we'll see if she had less:
To female friends she often visits paid,
And various
pastimes
there had daily play'd;
A leering lover who was weary grown,
Desired ONE night she'd meet him quite alone.
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La Fontaine |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Le Poete prendra le sanglot des Infames,
La haine des Forcats, la clameur des maudits;
Et ses rayons d'amour
flagelleront
les Femmes.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Nor less are we, undaunted chief, prepar'd
To hear thy nation's gallant deeds declar'd;
Nor think, tho' scorch'd beneath the car of day,
Our minds too dull the debt of praise to pay;
Melinda's sons the test of
greatness
know,
And on the Lusian race the palm bestow.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Simplicity
was laid aside, and quaint expressions grew
into fashion.
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Tacitus |
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Lucretius |
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As the
translation in this
instance
exceeds the original in length, the
objection of a foreign critic requires attention.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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One who
withheld
so long
All that you yearned to take,
Has made a snare too strong
For Beauty's self to break.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Note:
Bellerie
was situated on his family estate La Possonniere.
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Ronsard |
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Those who practice poetry search for and love only the
perfection
that is God Himself.
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Appoloinaire |
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But half of our heavy task was done
When the clock struck the hour for retiring;
And we heard the distant and random gun
That the foe was
sullenly
firing.
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Golden Treasury |
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The two
sorcerers
now began to see black and white columns moving about
the room, and finally a man in a monk's habit, and they became greatly
puzzled because I did not see these things also, for to them they were
as solid as the table before them.
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Yeats |
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The gale, it plies the
saplings
double,
It blows so hard, 'twill soon be gone:
To-day the Roman and his trouble
Are ashes under Uricon.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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the chaste
Interest
o' Broughton
And hey!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The seaman strikes
His small lost bell again,
watching
the west
As she below him watches.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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With your steel face white-enamelled
Were you he, after all, and I never
Saw you or felt you in
kissing?
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Imagists |
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For
straight
those giddy rockets fail,
Which from the putrid earth exhale,
But by her flames, in heaven tried.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The poet, on observing the
hare come bleeding past him, "was in great wrath," said Thomson, "and
cursed me, and said little hindered him from
throwing
me into the
Nith; and he was able enough to do it, though I was both young and
strong.
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Robert Forst |
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4750
It is a slowe, may not forbere
Ragges, ribaned with gold, to were;
For al-so wel wol love be set
Under ragges as riche rochet;
And eek as wel be
amourettes
4755
In mourning blak, as bright burnettes.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Cupid, while stirring the flame in our lamp, no doubt thinks of those days when
For the
triumvirs
he similar service performed.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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what happiness to live 285
When every hour brings
palpable
access
Of knowledge, when all knowledge is delight,
And sorrow is not there!
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William Wordsworth |
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Rilke - Poems |
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The
blackbird
sings us home, on a sudden peers
The round tower hung with ivy's blackened chains,
Then past the little green the byeway veers,
The mill-sweeps torn, the forge with cobwebbed panes
That have so many years looked out across the plains.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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There were Cain and Nimrod, and Nero, and
Caligula, and Dionysius, and Pisistratus, and--and a
thousand
others,
who never knew what it was to have a soul during the latter part of
their lives; yet, sir, these men adorned society.
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Poe - 5 |
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such the period of many worlds
Others
triangular
their right angled course maintain.
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Blake - Zoas |
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'
For one--delayed at first
Through helping back the dislocated Kay
To Camelot, then by what thereafter chanced,
The damsel's
headlong
error through the wood--
Sir Lancelot, having swum the river-loops--
His blue shield-lions covered--softly drew
Behind the twain, and when he saw the star
Gleam, on Sir Gareth's turning to him, cried,
'Stay, felon knight, I avenge me for my friend.
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Tennyson |
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To SEND
DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any
particular
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Stephen Crane |
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To plant divisions in the Soul of Urizen & Ahania
To conduct the Voice of Enion to Ahanias midnight pillow
Urizen saw & envied & his imagination was filled
Repining he contemplated the past in his bright sphere
Terrified with his heart & spirit at the visions of futurity
That his dread fancy formd before him in the unformd void
For Now Los & Enitharmon walkd forth on the dewy Earth
Contracting or expanding their all flexible senses
At will to murmur in the flowers small as the honey bee
At will to stretch across the heavens & step from star to star
Or
standing
on the Earth erect, or on the stormy waves
Driving the storms before them or delighting in sunny beams
While round their heads the Elemental Gods kept harmony
Thus livd Los driving Enion far into the deathful infinite {According to Erdman, there is some partially recoverable erased material written above this line and in the margin: '?
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Blake - Zoas |
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The fourth (to the
Earl of Burlington) was first published in 1731, its title then being "Of
Taste;" the third (to Lord Bathurst) followed in 1732, the year of the
publication of the first two
Epistles
on the "Essay on Man.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Where is the
literature
which gives expression to Nature?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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was it thy desire
That I should hide thee with my power & delight thee with my beauty
And now there
darknest
in my presence, never from my sight
Shalt thou depart to weep in secret.
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Blake - Zoas |
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So clings to her, is fixed as with a nail,
My heart, as the bark cleaves to the rod,
She is of joy my tower, palace, chamber;
And I love her more than brother, or uncle:
And twice the joy in
Paradise
for my soul,
If any man there through true loving enters.
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Troubador Verse |
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[8]
And [9] he is lean and he is sick;
His body,
dwindled
and awry,
Rests upon ankles swoln and thick; 35
His legs are thin and dry.
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William Wordsworth |
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] London: Printed
and
Published
by W.
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Byron |
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Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit
Is poorly
imitated
after you;
On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,
And you in Grecian tires are painted new:
Speak of the spring, and foison of the year,
The one doth shadow of your beauty show,
The other as your bounty doth appear;
And you in every blessed shape we know.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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]
115 (return)
[ Among the Heruli, the wife was expected to hang herself at once at the grave of her husband, if she would not live in
perpetual
infamy.
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Tacitus |
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The
frequent
stone is hurled where eer they go;
When badgers fight, then every one's a foe.
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John Clare |
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When the lute is broken, _5
Sweet tones are
remembered
not;
When the lips have spoken,
Loved accents are soon forgot.
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Shelley |
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The
darkness
is Thy mercy, Lord!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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All words of
reverence
still his heart reveres,
Low bows his head when Jesus meets his ears,
And still he thinks it blasphemy as well
Such names without a capital to spell.
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John Clare |
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From Lusus famed, whose honour'd name we bear,
(The son of Bacchus or the bold compeer),
The glorious name of Lusitania rose,
A name
tremendous
to the Roman foes,
When her bold troops the valiant shepherd[192] led,
And foul with rout the Roman eagles fled;
When haughty Rome achiev'd the treach'rous blow,
That own'd her terror of the matchless foe.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Does yonder thrush,
Schooling
its half-fledg'd little ones to brush
About the dewy forest, whisper tales?
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Keats |
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Tantot sonnera l'heure ou le divin Hasard,
Ou l'auguste Vertu, ton epouse encor vierge,
Ou le
Repentir
meme (oh!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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If our value
per text is
nominally
estimated at one dollar then we produce $2
million dollars per hour this year as we release thirty-six text
files per month, or 432 more Etexts in 1999 for a total of 2000+
If these reach just 10% of the computerized population, then the
total should reach over 200 billion Etexts given away this year.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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5 Suggesting
engagement
in his duties.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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How space quivers
Like an
enormous
kiss
That, wild to be born for no one, can neither
Burst out or be soothed like this.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And the
Ferryman
of the Dead,
His hand that hangs on the pole, his voice that cries;
"Thou lingerest; come.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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_ But
suffering
more grievous still than this he may inflict.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And as each jarring, monster-mass is past,
Fond
recollect
what once thou wast:
In manner due, beneath this sacred oak,
Hear, Spirit, hear!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And you who know my
suffering
spirit,
Will see me end this thing as I began it.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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" He then tells very
agreeably the stories of Elfleda and Elfrida, two stories which
have a most
suspicious
air of romance, ad which, indeed, greatly
resemble, in their character, some of the legends of early Rome.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The fastidious care with which each poem is built
out of the simplest of technical elements, the precise tone and color of
language employed to articulate impulse and mood, and the reproduction
of objective
substances
for a clear visualization of character and
scene, all tend by a sure and unfaltering composition, to present a
lyric art unique in English poetry of the last twenty-five years.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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We'll go
forthwith
and learn what is resolved.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Though its walls stand, shall bring the city lower :
When legislators shall their trust betray,
Saving their own, shall give the rest away ;
And those false men, by the easy people sent^
Give taxes to the king by parliament ;
When
barefaced
villains shall not blush to cheat.
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Marvell - Poems |
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For that cry
Ourselves
and all the sons of heaven
Have pity.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The grass does not refuse
To
flourish
in the spring wind;
The leaves are not angry
At falling through the autumn sky.
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Li Po |
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Grant that the
powerful
still the weak control;
Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole:
Nature that tyrant checks; he only knows,
And helps, another creature's wants and woes.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The servant bids his master remain
awhile, saying, "I have brought you hither at this time, and now ye are
not far from that noted place that ye have so often
enquired
after.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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