Solar symbols often call up visions of gold and
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<< Je sais que la douleur est la noblesse unique
Ou ne
mordront
jamais la terre et les enfers,
Et qu'il faut pour tresser ma couronne mystique
Imposer tous les temps et tous les univers.
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Fair Acidalia, love's
celestial
queen,[544]
The graceful goddess of the fearless mien,
Her graceful freedom on his look bestow'd,
And all collected in his bosom glow'd.
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sparkled
unruffled; the swans, just awake, were gravely
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True
Such a
marriage
was worth an old song,
Heard in Heaven though, as plain as the New.
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" The
Frenchman
has said
that it would be impossible for a critic to become a poet; and it is
impossible for a poet not to contain a critic.
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; whereas, every one of the Rhymes was composed by myself, and every
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Illustrations
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THE METHOD OF TRANSLATION
It is
commonly
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The
horseman
hurries bye, she bolts to see,
And turns agen, from danger never free.
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Lorsque mes doigts
caressent
a loisir
Ta tete et ton dos elastique,
Et que ma main s'enivre du plaisir
De palper ton corps electrique,
Je vois ma femme en esprit; son regard,
Comme le tien, aimable bete,
Profond et froid, coupe et fend comme un dard.
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After his lengthy service to the State,
After the blood he spilt for me of late,
Whatever sentiments his pride inflicts,
His loss
enfeebles
me, his death afflicts.
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And then his
alchemy!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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His
inaccessible
heart is opposed to love:
Let's find a weaker spot that he might be moved.
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We hear -- thou knowest
if sooth it is -- the saying of men,
that amid the
Scyldings
a scathing monster,
dark ill-doer, in dusky nights
shows terrific his rage unmatched,
hatred and murder.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Something
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With so much
quarrelling
and so few kisses
How long do you think our love can last?
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(Note: The septet may indicate the
constellation
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influenced
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To-day the doors and windows
Are hung with
garlands
all,
From Castor in the Forum,
To Mars without the wall.
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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And
sweetest
in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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XXII
When our two souls stand up erect and strong,
Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,
Until the lengthening wings break into fire
At either curved point,--what bitter wrong
Can the earth do to us, that we should not long
Be here
contented?
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Chor: Doubtless the people shouting to behold
Thir once great dread, captive, & blind before them,
Or at some proof of
strength
before them shown.
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Glaukinos
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Do not forget these asters that remain,
The scarlet leafage round the
tendrils
twining,
And all the rests of verdant life combining,
Resolve them in the soft autumnal vein.
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"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you who hold it in your hands";
(Slowly
twisting
the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at situations which it cannot see.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Mine eye perus'd
With tearful vacancy the _dampy_ grass
Which wept and glitter'd in the paly ray;
And I did pause me on my lonely way,
And mused me on those
wretched
ones who pass
O'er the black heath of Sorrow.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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War, he sung, is toil and trouble,
Honour but an empty bubble,
Never ending, still beginning;
Fighting
still, and still destroying;
If the world be worth thy winning,
Think, O think, it worth enjoying:
Lovely Thais sits beside thee,
Take the good the gods provide thee!
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Golden Treasury |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the
livelong
day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
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Am I a God as he,
To lay down peace and power as
willingly?
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She later
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Monotonous
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And if I should languish, jaded,
That which was erewhile unknown
Now to me this day is clear,
That my final hope hath flown:
That your joys for me have faded
New-born sun, and
youthful
year.
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The linden yellow,
his shield, he seized; the old sword he drew: --
as heirloom of Eanmund earth-dwellers knew it,
who was slain by the sword-edge, son of Ohtere,
friendless exile, erst in fray
killed by Weohstan, who won for his kin
brown-bright helmet,
breastplate
ringed,
old sword of Eotens, Onela's gift,
weeds of war of the warrior-thane,
battle-gear brave: though a brother's child
had been felled, the feud was unfelt by Onela.
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But winter kills the orange-buds,
The gardens in the frost are,
And all the heart
dissolves
in floods,
Remembering we have lost her.
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come, then, hold empire o'er me,
As from the mist and haze of thought ye rise;
The magic atmosphere, your train enwreathing,
Through my thrilled bosom
youthful
bliss is breathing.
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Their principal strength, on the whole, consists in their infantry: hence in an engagement these are intermixed with the cavalry; 46 so Well accordant with the nature of
equestrian
combats is the agility of those foot soldiers, whom they select from the whole body of their youth, and place in the front of the line.
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Mansions that would
disgrace
the building taste
Of any mason reptile, bird or beast:
Fit only for a doited monkish race,
Or frosty maids forsworn the dear embrace,
Or cuifs of later times, wha held the notion,
That sullen gloom was sterling, true devotion:
Fancies that our guid Brugh denies protection,
And soon may they expire, unblest wi' resurrection!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And though corpse on corpse lay piled
Unburied on ground, the race of birds and beasts
Would or spring back,
scurrying
to escape
The virulent stench, or, if they'd tasted there,
Would languish in approaching death.
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Lucretius |
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I fear to ask; yet
wherefore
are my fears?
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Longfellow |
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: _nouius_ (_nouus_ Aa) codices Catulli
3
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GOVenBLa1, Vsener: _pe?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY
LANE,
LONDON.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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at uos exiguo pecori,
furesque
lupique,
parcite: de magno praeda petenda grege.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The
workmanship
of souls is by the inaudible words of the earth;
The great masters know the earth's words, and use them more than the
audible words.
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Whitman |
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Both were endowed with
sharpness
of wit and the
highest natural powers; and we three formed a close friendship
together.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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suffredest
euermore,
And took it nou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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A fool treats his
mistress
cruelly,
I'll pardon her if she'll pardon me,
Liars they are, whom naught avails,
If they made me speak badly of her.
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Troubador Verse |
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Something
too much of this: but now 'tis past,
And the spell closes with its silent seal.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The anxiety of all classes
was great;
differences
of opinion were forgotten, in sympathy for his
early fate: wherever two or three were met together their talk was of
Burns, of his rare wit, matchless humour, the vivacity of his
conversation, and the kindness of his heart.
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Robert Forst |
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Or even upon the measured pulpitings
Of the
familiar
false and true?
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Stephen Crane |
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So for this,
Again, again, I say confess we must,
That, when the body's wrappings are unwound,
And when the vital breath is forced without,
The soul, the senses of the mind dissolve,--
Since for the twain the cause and ground of life
Is in the fact of their
conjoined
estate.
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Lucretius |
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Hugo - Poems |
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89); and he
christened
his yacht _The
Bolivar_.
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Byron |
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Long did he prove
All that were his, and all that owed him love,
But never a soul he found would yield up life
And leave the
sunlight
for him, save his wife:
Who, even now, down the long galleries
Is borne, death-wounded; for this day it is
She needs must pass out of the light and die.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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For I
requesting
to be Sestius' guest 10
Read against claimant Antius a speech,
Full-filled with poisonous pestilential trash.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The
daughter
of beauty wip'd her pitying tears with her white veil,
And said, Alas!
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blake-poems |
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See, see the patient moon;
How she her course keeps
Through cloudy
shallows
and across black deeps,
Now gone, now shines soon.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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'
'Are you that Psyche,' Florian added; 'she
With whom I sang about the morning hills,
Flung ball, flew kite, and raced the purple fly,
And snared the
squirrel
of the glen?
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Tennyson |
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You think I can't guess what your
business
is?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
Thus speaking, from the ground the sword he took
Which Agelaus' dying hand forsook:
Full through his neck the weighty falchion sped;
Along the
pavement
roll'd the muttering head.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
Marya made answer that her fate depended on the journey, and that she
was going to seek help and countenance from people high in favour, as
the
daughter
of a man who had fallen victim to his fidelity.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
Then to the city,
terrible
and strong,
With high and haughty steps he tower'd along,
So the proud courser, victor of the prize,
To the near goal with double ardour flies.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Their many tyrants sitting desolately
In slave-deserted halls, could none restrain; _3555
For wrath's red fire had
withered
in the eye,
Whose lightning once was death,--nor fear, nor gain
Could tempt one captive now to lock another's chain.
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Shelley |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume
enclosed
by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Why can I never tear away
The veils from the old
friendliness
?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Chief
Executive
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Round
paradise
is such a wall,
And all the day, in such a way,
In paradise the wild birds call.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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_Gloamin-shot_,
twilight
musing; a shot in the twilight.
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Robert Burns |
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In
promenade yclept "The Great," the crowd of
cocottes
straightway did I stop,
O friend, accosting those whose looks I noted were unruffled.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
And the Good God said, "But I too have been
mistaken
for you and
called by your name.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The treasure had been
deposited
in the Museum precisely in the same
condition in which Captain Sabretash had found it;--that is to say,
the coffin had not been disturbed.
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Poe - 5 |
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Ramnusius
LXIV 395.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The Novella of
_Belfagor_
and the
Comedy of _Grim_ xxx
6.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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