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U said, "An Urn, with water hot, place
underneath
his chin!
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In London, where all the
intellectual
traditions
gather to die, men hate a play if they are told
it is literature, for they will not endure a spiritual superiority; but
in Athens, where so many intellectual traditions were born, Euripides
once changed hostility to enthusiasm by asking his playgoers whether
it was his business to teach them, or their business to teach him.
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Un soldat jeune, bouche ouverte, tete nue,
Et la nuque
baignant
dans le frais cresson bleu,
Dort; il est etendu dans l'herbe, sous la nue,
Pale dans son lit vert ou la lumiere pleut.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And would we aught behold, of higher worth,
Than that
inanimate
cold world allowed
To the poor loveless, ever-anxious crowd,
Ah!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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Appoloinaire |
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LXXVI
Bradamant's torment have I to recount,
While for the courier damsel she did stay:
With tidings of her love to Alban's Mount,
To her Hippalca
measured
back her way:
She of Frontino first and Rodomont,
And next of good Rogero had to say;
How to the fount anew he had addrest
His way, with Richardetto and the rest;
LXXVII
And how the Child, in rescue of the steed,
Had gone with her to find the paynim rude;
And weened to have chastized his foul misdeed,
That from a woman took Frontino good.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The
_laticlave_, Dacier adds, is not to be
confounded
with the _prætexta_.
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Tacitus |
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I speak to the
rebellious
woman Vashti.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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If I did weave some clout
Of raiment, would he keep the vesture now
He wore in
childhood?
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Euripides - Electra |
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þā wīgend hyra wunda
genǣson (_the
warriors
were recovering from their wounds_).
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Beowulf |
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Then by slow degrees
The sword of iron succeeded, and the shape
Of brazen sickle into scorn was turned:
With iron to cleave the soil of earth they 'gan,
And the
contentions
of uncertain war
Were rendered equal.
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Lucretius |
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Funeral
Libation
(At Gautier's Tomb)
To you, gone emblem of our happiness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And suddenly I
surrender
the garrison,
Feigning treason!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Say that the fates of time and space obscured me,
Led me a
thousand
ways to pain, bemused me,
Wrapped me in ugliness; and like great spiders
Dispatched me at their leisure.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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As little joy enjoys the Queen thereof;
For I am she, and
altogether
joyless.
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Shakespeare |
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Mon chat sur le carreau
cherchant
une litiere
Agite sans repos son corps maigre et galeux;
L'ame d'un vieux poete erre dans la gouttiere
Avec la triste voix d'un fantome frileux.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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[Sidenote: he bound Cerberus with a
threefold
chain;]
He drou?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
CIX
The battle grows more hard and harder yet,
Franks and pagans, with
marvellous
onset,
Each other strike and each himself defends.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I offer boldly: we will seat you highest:
Wink at our advent: help my prince to gain
His
rightful
bride, and here I promise you
Some palace in our land, where you shall reign
The head and heart of all our fair she-world,
And your great name flow on with broadening time
For ever.
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Tennyson |
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)
Flinging
a Stone into the Cup was the signal for "To
Horse!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Ye see that I have not Wherewith to guard him, O angels, divine ones That pass us a-flying,
Sith
sleepeth
my child here Stay ye the branches.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The dying need but little, dear, --
A glass of water's all,
A flower's
unobtrusive
face
To punctuate the wall,
A fan, perhaps, a friend's regret,
And certainly that one
No color in the rainbow
Perceives when you are gone.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Let it suffice, that I no longer see,
Nor let me with
perpetual
hunger fight.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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Then give
humility
a coach and six,
Justice a conqueror's sword, or truth a gown,
Or public spirit its great cure, a crown.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Keats - Lamia |
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ilke oonly
alliaunce
bytwixen god {and} men.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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]
MY
HAPPIEST
DREAM.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Among my
schoolfellows
I scattered round
Like recognitions, but with some constraint
Attended, doubtless, with a little pride,
But with more shame, for my habiliments, 75
The transformation wrought by gay attire.
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William Wordsworth |
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And when such a
wondrous
wife was gone!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"I have loved my land," she said, "but it is not enough:
Love
requires
of me all.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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that of the myriads who
Before us pass'd the door of
Darkness
through,
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to discover we must travel too.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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_ RVen
87
_uestras_
p: _nostras_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Artemis
The
thirteenth
returns.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The
Virginians
especially lay claim to this generosity of
lineage, which were of no possible account, were it not for the fact
that such superstitions are sometimes not without their effect on the
course of human affairs.
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James Russell Lowell |
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"In such a season,"
he said, "just after a train of misfortunes, I
composed
_Winter, a
Dirge.
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Robert Burns |
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XXXVI
"The husband had an ancient feud with one
Who was by name Morando hight the fair;
Who even within the fort would often run
In its lord's absence; but the knight's repair
At the wide
distance
of ten miles would shun,
Was he assured the castellain was there:
Who now, to lure him thither, bruited how
He for Jerusalem was bound by vow.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Thou
shouldst
have watched and saved thy bacon.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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God
In the ancient days, when the first quiver of speech came to my lips,
I
ascended
the holy mountain and spoke unto God, saying, "Master,
I am thy slave.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Nor took from that dwelling the duke of the Geats
save only the head and that hilt withal
blazoned with jewels: the blade had melted,
burned was the bright sword, her blood was so hot,
so
poisoned
the hell-sprite who perished within there.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
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Meredith - Poems |
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St Gudula was a Brabant saint (late 7th-early 8th century),
patroness
of Brussels.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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We get the ultimate union of
eighteenth and nineteenth century
qualities
in "Work without Hope," and in
"Youth and Age," which took nine years to bring into its faultless ultimate
form.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I am so sore bounde him til,
From his servyse I may not fleen; 4595
For lyf and deth,
withouten
wene,
Is in his hand; I may not chese;
He may me do bothe winne and lese.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Though if thou wilt,
Methinks
'twould be a guilt--a very guilt--
Not to companion thee, and sigh away
The light--the dusk--the dark--till break of day!
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Keats |
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Whose hearts are ever eager as their swords,
Edged by a
personal
impulse of revenge?
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Hugo - Poems |
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The kirk was deck'd at morning-tide,
The tapers glimmer'd fair;
The priest and
bridegroom
wait the bride,
And dame and knight are there:
They sought her baith by bower and ha';
The ladie was not seen!
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Golden Treasury |
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In such
uncertain
state they waste away
With unseen wound.
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Lucretius |
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From the silence of
sorrowful
hours,
The desolate mourners go,
Lovingly laden with flowers,
Alike for the friend and the foe;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the roses, the Blue;
Under the lilies, the Gray.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Kein Dolch ist hier, von dem nicht Blut geflossen,
Kein Kelch, aus dem sich nicht in ganz
gesunden
Leib
Verzehrend heisses Gift ergossen,
Kein Schmuck, der nicht ein liebenswurdig Weib
Verfuhrt, kein Schwert, das nicht den Bund gebrochen,
Nicht etwa hinterrucks den Gegenmann durchstochen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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`For-thy take hede of that that I shal seye;
I have with hir y-spoke and longe y-be,
So as
accorded
was bitwixe us tweye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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_Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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That ev'n buried Ashes such a snare
Of Vintage shall fling up into the Air
As not a True-believer passing by
But shall be
overtaken
unaware.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Boast the pure blood of an
illustrious
race,
In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece;
But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate,
Count me those only who were good and great.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A single frail gem on her
beautiful
head,
I should sit in the golden glory;
And prouder I'd be than the diadem spread
Round the brow of kings famous in story.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And eek within the castel were 4190
Springoldes, gunnes, bows, archers;
And eek above, atte corners,
Men seyn over the walle stonde
Grete engynes, [whiche] were nigh honde;
And in the kernels, here and there, 4195
Of
arblasters
gret plentee were.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The loftiest place is that seat of grace
For which all
worldlings
try:
But who would stand in hempen band
Upon a scaffold high,
And through a murderer's collar take
His last look at the sky?
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Wilde - Poems |
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XXV
A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
From year to year until I saw thy face,
And sorrow after sorrow took the place
Of all those natural joys as lightly worn
As the
stringed
pearls, each lifted in its turn
By a beating heart at dance-time.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Potts,/
Lecturer
on History at
the Birkbeck Institute, London.
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Byron |
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All in vain,
The heaven's bluster, January's rain,
And those dread elemental powers we call
The Infinite--the
whirlwinds
that appall--
Thunder and waterspouts; and winds that shake
As 'twere a tree its ripened fruit to take.
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Hugo - Poems |
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remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The crests were an assembly of strange things,
Of horrors such as
nightmare
only brings.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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At dawn, like monster
mastiffs
baying,
Federal cannon, with a din affraying,
Roused the old Stonewall brigade,
That, eagerly and undismayed,
Charged amain, to be repelled
After four hours' bitter fighting,
Forth and back, with bayonets biting;
Where in after years, the wood--
Flayed and bullet-riddled--stood
A presence ghostly, grim and stark,
With trees all withered, wasted, gray,
The place of combat night and day
Like marshaled skeletons to mark.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Nor let the
Historian
blame the Poet here,
If he perchance misdate the day or year,
And group events together, by his art,
That in the Chronicles lie far apart;
For as the double stars, though sundered far,
Seem to the naked eye a single star,
So facts of history, at a distance seen,
Into one common point of light convene.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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"
Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,
At her beauty all wonder intensely;
One moment the Pasha survey'd her,
And,
dropping
his tchebouk, without sense lay.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Wel han they cause for to gladen ofte,
Sith ech of hem
recovered
hath his make;
Ful blisful may they singen whan they wake;
_Now welcom somer, with thy sonne softe,_ 690
_That hast this wintres weders over-shake,_
_And driven awey the longe nightes blake_.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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My
branches
weigh me down, frost cleans the air,
My sky is black with small birds bearing south;
Say what you will, confuse me with fine care,
Put by my word as but an April truth,--
Autumn is no less on me that a rose
Hugs the brown bough and sighs before it goes.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Were you the earth, dear Love, and I the skies,
My love should shine on you like to the sun,
And look upon you with ten
thousand
eyes
Till heaven wax'd blind, and till the world were done.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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A
horrible
life and a horrible city!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"No--not where I shall make my own;
But dig his grave just by
The woman's with the
initialed
stone--
As near as he can lie--
After whose death he seemed to ail,
Though none considered why.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Mobipocket
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And when the months returning
Bring back this day of fight,
The proud Ides of Quintilis,
Marked
evermore
with white,
Unto the Great Twin Brethren
Let all the people throng,
With chaplets and with offerings,
With music and with song;
And let the doors and windows
Be hung with garlands all,
And let the knights be summoned
To Mars without the wall:
Thence let them ride in purple
With joyous trumpet-sound,
Each mounted on his war-horse,
And each with olive crowned;
And pass in solemn order
Before the sacred dome,
Where dwell the Great Twin Brethren
Who fought so well for Rome.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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sang musing, as you hastened
Within the
fragrant
thicket.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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["Burns had a memory stored with the finest poetical passages, which
he was in the habit of quoting most aptly in his correspondence with
his friends: and he
delighted
also in repeating them in the company of
those friends who enjoyed them.
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Robert Burns |
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I
promised
Toffile to be cruel to them
For helping them be cruel once to him.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The wasps flourish greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A
necklace
of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Now pink it blooms, now glimmers gray,
Now shadows to a filmy blue,
Tries one, tries all, and will not stay,
But flits from opal hue to hue,
And runs through every tenderest range
Of change that seems not to be change,
So rare the sweep, so nice the art,
That lays no stress on any part, 130
But shifts and lingers and persuades;
So soft that sun-brush in the west,
That asks no
costlier
pigments' aids,
But mingling knobs, flaws, angles, dints,
Indifferent of worst or best,
Enchants the cliffs with wraiths and hints
And gracious preludings of tints,
Where all seems fixed, yet all evades,
And indefinably pervades
Perpetual movement with perpetual rest!
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James Russell Lowell |
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By these
thoughts
of mine
I bless thee from all such!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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" On all sides
I heard sad
plainings
breathe, and none could see
From whom they might have issu'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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O Lord, have mercy on us, wretched
sinners!
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Shakespeare |
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And whistle: All's for the best
In this best of
Carnivals!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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e
fautlest
freke, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Famed in close fight, and dreadful face to face:
Now call to mind your ancient
trophies
won,
Your great forefathers' virtues, and your own.
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Iliad - Pope |
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6
THE TIDE
By
Jeannette
Marks
I shall find you when the tide comes in— A shell, a sound, a flash of light,
To live with me by day,
To dream with me by night.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Sachet
toujours
frais qui parfume
L'atmosphere d'un cher reduit,
Encensoir oublie qui fume
En secret a travers la nuit,
Comment, amour incorruptible,
T'exprimer avec verite?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
And as
silently
steal away.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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They have
many faults, but are seen at their worst when
Chatterton
is trying
to exhibit some eternal truth.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Other previous
contributors
are Marguerite Wilkin son, John Hall Wheelock, Louis Ginsberg, Fhoebe Hcffman, John Russell McCarthy and Marjorie Allen Seiffert.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Orpheus
Orpheus
'Orpheus'
Pierre -Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824 - 1898, Yale
University
Art Gallery
His heart was the bait: the heavens were the pond!
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Appoloinaire |
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270
XXXI
But very uncouth sight was to behold,
How he did fashion his untoward pace,
For as he forward moov'd his footing old,
So backward still was turnd his
wrincled
face,
Unlike to men, who ever as they trace, 275
Both feet and face one way are wont to lead.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And I felt the night between us deepen,
Heard the clock that ticked upon the shelf,
The great silence closing in around us,
And his hand that he
withdrew
from mine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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MEPHISTOPHELES (mit
ernsthafter
Gebarde):
Falsch Gebild und Wort
Verandern Sinn und Ort!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Orpheus
Orpheus
'Orpheus'
Pierre -Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824 - 1898, Yale
University
Art Gallery
His heart was the bait: the heavens were the pond!
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Appoloinaire |
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We feel so grateful, when to soft discourses
Of tree-tops, slanting rays towards us travel,
And only look, and listen when in pauses,
The ripened fruit
resounds
upon the gravel.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The literary value, if I am allowed to say so, of this print-less distance which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically
accelerate
or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one's simultaneous sight of the page: the latter taken as unity, as elsewhere the Verse is or perfect line.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The
Boeotians
were the allies of Sparta.
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Aristophanes |
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