OF GRACE
(BALLATA,
FRAGMENT)
ii
FPULL well thou knowest, song, what grace I mean,
E'en as thou know'st the sunlight I have lost.
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So, in the year, my favourite season is the last slow part of summer that just precedes autumn, and, in the day, the hour when I walk is when the sun
hesitates
before vanishing, with rays of yellow bronze over the grey walls, and rays of red copper over the tiles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Every subject was proper ground for
legitimate
study, even the
sombre facts of death and burial, and the unknown life beyond.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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What do I care,
Now that my body has begun to dream,
And you have grown to be a burning sod
In the
imagination
and intellect?
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Yeats |
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hylde
hine,
_inclined
himself, lay down_, 689.
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Beowulf |
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What did he say
regarding
the intrigue,
Involving you, Don Sanche, and Don Rodrigue?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Ismene
You alone doubt, Madame: Theseus is no more:
Athens laments it, Troezen knows of it,
And has
recognised
Hippolytus already.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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She'd no
recourse
to that nobility,
Who by their exploits won themselves glory.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Every two-legged creature that goes in breeches
Can mock me with sneers and
stinging
speeches!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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There is a good deal of
vacillation
in the MSS.
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John Donne |
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Yet this world, so unreal to him, he
presents in a rhetorical colouring
extraordinarily
effective.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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following, _but_: būton
hit wæs māre þonne ǣnig mon ōðer tō beadulāce
ætberan
meahte, _but it_ (the
sword) _was greater than any other man could have carried to battle_, 1561.
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Beowulf |
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e
clamberande
clyffes hade clatered on hepes;
[B] Here he wat3 halawed, when ha?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Has
conscience
shrunk from aught of crime?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Sheath'd in bright arms, through
cleaving
ranks he flies,
And sends his voice in thunder to the skies:
Fierce as a flood of flame by Vulcan sent,
It flew, and fired the nations as it went.
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Iliad - Pope |
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And on the bay the
moonlight
lay,
And the shadow of the Moon.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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most revered of
womankind!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Lord Byron's/ Tales:/
Consisting
of/ The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos,/
The Corsair, Lara;/ With all the Notes:/ Hebrew Melodies,/ and other
Poems.
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Byron |
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This latter arrangement
was
reversed
in 1612.
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John Donne |
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You can get up to date donation
information
online at:
http://www.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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PURGATORIO
Purgatorio
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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In other respects the Cafe de Bon-Bon might be said to differ little
from the usual
restaurants
of the period.
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Poe - 5 |
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"
VIII
"Farewell to barn and stack and tree,
Farewell
to Severn shore.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The
creature
had his feast of life before;
Thou too must perish when thy feast is o'er!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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For an ye heard a music, like enow
They are building still, seeing the city is built
To music,
therefore
never built at all,
And therefore built for ever.
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Tennyson |
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Zu Frosch):
Nun sagt, was wunschet Ihr zu
schmecken?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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e
prophete
went for?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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When we drive out, from the cloud of steam,
majestical
white horses,
Are we greater than the first men who led black ones by the mane?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The thyrsus is the symbol of your astonishing duality, O
powerful
and
venerated master, dear bacchanal of a mysterious and impassioned Beauty.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Compared
with yours, oh, daughter
Of King Solomon the grand,
What are round ebon bosoms,
High brows from Hellas' strand?
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Hugo - Poems |
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"We would see a sign":
The word within a word, unable to speak a word,
Swaddled
with darkness.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Come, quit those
covetous
thoughts, those knitted brows,
Think on the last black embers, while you may,
And be for once unwise.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Sara Teasdale |
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In Padua lies our departed brother,
In the
churchyard
of St.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I know no other verse in which the effects
of music are so
precisely
copied in metre.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"Postlethwaite of the Sun Inn at Hawkshead, has a father aged 82, who
can remember that there was a _stone_ bench, not called old Betty's,
but Old Jane's Stone, on which she used to spread nuts and cakes for
the scholars of the Grammar School, but that it did not stand where
the Market Hall now is, and no one ever
remembers
a stone or
stone-bench standing there.
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William Wordsworth |
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270
The stones which were stones of the Sanctuary,
Scattered
in corners of each street do lye.
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John Donne |
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Marks,
notations
and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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She came towards the bed, and the
knight laid himself down quickly,
pretending
to be asleep.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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We to her eyes will lead thee; but the light
Of
gladness
that is in them, well to scan,
Those yonder three, of deeper ken than ours,
Thy sight shall quicken.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great
misunderstanding
of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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)
Seems weakly 'neath its double joy to lean:
For at the sole taste of unusual bliss,
Trembling
with fear, or thrill'd by idle hope,
Oft on the point I've been life's door to ope.
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Petrarch |
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Where is my little
Princess?
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Euripides - Electra |
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"'
And yet it seemeth not to me
That the high gods love tragedy;
For Saadi sat in the sun,
And thanks was his contrition;
For
haircloth
and for bloody whips,
Had active hands and smiling lips;
And yet his runes he rightly read,
And to his folk his message sped.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Such a
promenading!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The curse is come on me, which makes no haste
And doth not tarry,
crushing
both the proud
Hard man and him the sinner double-faced.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The circumstances here
mentioned
are literally true.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Bertram
finished
the last pages, while along the silence ever
Still in hot and heavy splashes fell the tears on every leaf.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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T.S. Eliot |
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As Proserpine still weeps for her
Sicilian
air.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Also that sight is made
By a twofold twin air: for first is seen
The air inside the door-posts; next the doors,
The twain to left and right; and afterwards
A light beyond comes
brushing
through our eyes,
Then other air, then objects peered upon
Outside in their true shape.
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Lucretius |
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Living Rome, the
ornament
of the world,
Now dead, remains the world's monument.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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THE CHILD'S GRAVE
I came to the
churchyard
where pretty Joy lies
On a morning in April, a rare sunny day;
Such bloom rose around, and so many birds' cries
That I sang for delight as I followed the way.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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With fond affection memory loves to dwell
On the old days, when his example made
A pastime of the toil of tongue and pen;
And now, amid the groves he loved so well
That naught could lure him from their
grateful
shade,
He sleeps, but wakes elsewhere, for God hath said, Amen!
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Longfellow |
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Though him the Maker with might endowed,
delights of power, and uplifted high
above all men, yet blood-fierce his mind,
his breast-hoard, grew, no bracelets gave he
to Danes as was due; he endured all joyless
strain of
struggle
and stress of woe,
long feud with his folk.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Flash brand and lance, fall
battleaxe
upon helm,
Fall battleaxe, and flash brand!
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Tennyson |
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THE WIDOW
BY
Mellstock
Lodge and Avenue
Towards her door I went,
And sunset on her window-panes
Reflected our intent.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The
stepdame
shared his fate, and dearly paid
A spouse, a sister, and a son betray'd:
Her conscience, by the false impeachment stung,
Upon herself return'd the deadly wrong;
And he, that broke before his plighted vows,
Met his deserts in an adulterous spouse.
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Petrarch |
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It was as though we saw the Secret Will,
It was as though we floated and were free;
In the south-west a planet shone serenely,
And the high moon, most reticent and queenly,
Seeing the earth had
darkened
and grown still,
Misted with light the meadows of the sea.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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How many times round the track is the
race for the
chariots
of war?
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Aristophanes |
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I burned
Hot and cold, in a lasting fever, well-earned
By the mortal wound of your glance's
piercing
flight.
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Ronsard |
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It beckons and it baffles;
Philosophies don't know,
And through a riddle, at the last,
Sagacity
must go.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"--
"I met a
nameless
man, sister,
Who loitered round our door:
I said: Her husband loves her much.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The dark departs;
The chains now rust that crushed men's flesh and bones,
Feet tread no more the
mildewed
prison stones,
And slavery is lifted from your hearts.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Poor tottering dame, it was too plainly known,
Her daughter's dying hastened on her own,
For from the day the tidings reached her door
She took to bed and looked up no more,
And, ere again another year came round,
She, well as Jane, was laid within the ground;
And all were grieved poor Goody's end to see:
No better neighbour entered house than she,
A
harmless
soul, with no abusive tongue,
Trig as new pins, and tight's the day was long;
And go the week about, nine times in ten
Ye'd find her house as cleanly as her sen.
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John Clare |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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[_YOUNG MAN goes out
followed
by CUCHULAIN.
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Yeats |
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Therefore
thou must
Come with me to the kings of all the nations;
For the whole earth must know of thee.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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are _To
my Lo: of
Denbrook_
(_sic.
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John Donne |
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772)
composed
a poem on the dawn court gathering in the newly restored court.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The thought of a coming separation made such an
impression
on my mother
that she dropped her spoon into her saucepan, and her eyes filled with
tears.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Thus, we do not
necessarily keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper
edition.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Console thyself if ptlt in shadow's veiling
Soft shimmering, thou thy
previous
plenty seest,
And a Redeemer through the breezes sailing;
The distant wind that falters from the East.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Urge him with truth to frame his wise replies,
And sure he will; for
Menelaus
is wise.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Died in sleep, and felt no pain,
To live in happier form again:
From which, beneath Heaven's fairest star,
The artist wrought this loved Guitar;
And taught it justly to reply
To all who question skilfully
In language gentle as thine own;
Whispering in enamour'd tone
Sweet oracles of woods and dells,
And summer winds in sylvan cells;
--For it had learnt all harmonies
Of the plains and of the skies,
Of the forests and the mountains,
And the many-voiced fountains;
The clearest echoes of the hills,
The softest notes of falling rills,
The melodies of birds and bees,
The murmuring of summer seas,
And pattering rain, and breathing dew,
And airs of evening; and it knew
That seldom-heard mysterious sound
Which, driven on its diurnal round,
As it floats through boundless day,
Our world
enkindles
on its way:
--All this it knows, but will not tell
To those who cannot question well
The spirit that inhabits it;
It talks according to the wit
Of its companions; and no more
Is heard than has been felt before
By those who tempt it to betray
These secrets of an elder day:
But, sweetly as its answers will
Flatter hands of perfect skill,
It keeps its highest holiest tone
For one beloved Friend alone.
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Golden Treasury |
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I should suppose it a house little frequented, for there is
no
appearance
of an inn.
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William Wordsworth |
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Thou shalt
perceive
the simple shows, the
delicate miracles of earth,
Dandelions, clover, the emerald grass, the early scents and flowers,
The arbutus under foot, the willow's yellow-green, the blossoming
plum and cherry;
With these the robin, lark and thrush, singing their songs--the
flitting bluebird;
For such the scenes the annual play brings on.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But, lo, from human face and lovely bloom
Naught
penetrates
our frame to be enjoyed
Save flimsy idol-images and vain--
A sorry hope which oft the winds disperse.
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Lucretius |
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Their breath
Swept the foeman like a blade,
Though ten thousand men were paid
To the hungry purse of Death,
Though the field was wet with blood,
Still the bold
defences
stood,
Stood!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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) Then the
wrinkles
I express,
Of the heart, smile into emptiness.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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O holy pyre, O flame that's
nourished
by
A fire divine, may your fierce heart now burn
My familiar surface so completely, I,
Free and naked, might with a single flight
Rise, beyond the sky, to adore in turn
That other beauty from which your own derives.
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Ronsard |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For the rest, the attempt has been made,
within such limitations as have been experienced, to present pretty
freely the best of what has been found available in
contemporary
British
and American war verse.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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'twas a good
preparation
you gave me!
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Whitman |
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Now it was during his first, daily
companionship with the
Wordsworths
that he wrote almost all his greatest
work.
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Who are you, lying in his place on the bed
And rigid and
indifferent
to me?
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Imagists |
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The prudent carries a revolver,
He bolts the door,
O'erlooking a
superior
spectre
More near.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Her bright and love-lit eyes on earth she bends--
Concentres
her rich breath in one full sigh--
A brief pause--a fond hush--her voice on high,
Clear, soft, angelical, divine, ascends.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Gilgamish
and Enkidu
grappled with each other,
goring like an ox.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Eugene, more tolerant than this
(Though certainly mankind he knew
And usually
despised
it too),
Exceptionless as no rule is,
A few of different temper deemed,
Feeling in others much esteemed.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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business
office is located at
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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let us be
From cares and
troubles
free;
And thou shalt hear how we
Will chant new hymns to thee.
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Robert Herrick |
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Hail, brother August, flushed and warm
And
scatheless
from my storm.
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Christina Rossetti |
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In three
eclogues
the poet attacks with Puritan zeal
the pomp and sloth of the worldly clergy, and one is devoted to the courtly
praise of the queen.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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Why, untamed do you scare
At any
approach
you see?
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Ronsard |
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