I never saw her, yet love her true,
She never was
faithful
or untrue;
I do well when she's not in view,
Not worth a cry,
I know a nobler, fairer too
To any eye.
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Then believe me, my sweetheart, do,
While time still flowers for you,
In its freshest novelty,
Cull, ah cull your
youthful
bloom:
As it blights this flower, the doom
Of age will blight your beauty.
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Ronsard |
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While
pastoral
pipes and streams the landscape lull,
And bells of passing mules that tinkle dull,
In solemn shapes before th' admiring eye
Dilated hang the misty pines on high, 280
Huge convent domes with pinnacles and tow'rs,
And antique castles seen tho' drizzling show'rs.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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A thirsty
Traveller
dips his hand into a Spring of Water
to drink from.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Thou art well apprized
How welcome his
appearance
here would prove
To all, but chief, to me, and to his son,
Fruit of our love.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Three winters cold,
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
Three
beauteous
springs to yellow autumn turn'd,
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Her dam
inhabits
yonder cavern shady,
A witch of shame,
Who shrieks o' nights upon the Haunted Tower,
With horrors piled--
Oh!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Where lambs have nibbled, silent move
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each
sleeping
bosom.
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blake-poems |
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Marcabru
may have travelled to Spain in the entourage of Alfonso Jordan, Count of Toulouse, in the 1130s.
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Troubador Verse |
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One last salute; the bayonets clash and glisten;
With arms
reversed
we go without a sound:
One more has joined the men who lie and listen
To us, who march upon their burial-ground.
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation
permitted
by
the applicable state law.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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so deeply that
purity emerges from
the
corruption!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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50 net
"Sleep on, I lie at heaven's high oriels Over the stars that mumur as they go
Lighting
your lattice window (ar b low;
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof I know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore;
Not the least
obeisance
made he; not an instant stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door--
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door--
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
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Poe - 5 |
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But memory, waked by music's art
Expressed in
simplest
numbers,
Subdued the sternest Yankee's heart,
Made light the Rebel's slumbers.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Their
shivered
swords are red with rust,
Their plumed heads are bowed;
Their haughty banner, trailed in dust,
Is now their martial shroud.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I'd be sadder
Should we part ever,
Sorrowful, my Beautiful Warrior,
For my heart never
Seems to deliver
Me from desire
Nor slakes it further;
Gives
pleasure
only to the slanderer
He, my lady, who finds no other
Joy, the man there
Who'd feel my utter
Loss, and thanks would offer,
And consider
Insolent starer
You, the one from whom I suffer.
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Troubador Verse |
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To create these etexts, the Project expends considerable
efforts to identify, transcribe and
proofread
public domain
works.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thy self thou gav'st, thy own worth then not knowing,
Or me to whom thou gav'st it, else mistaking;
So thy great gift, upon misprision growing,
Comes home again, on better
judgement
making.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But I'se believe ye kindly meant it,
I sud be laith to think ye hinted
Ironic satire,
sidelins
sklented
On my poor Musie;
Tho' in sic phraisin' terms ye've penn'd it,
I scarce excuse ye.
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Robert Forst |
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Nor think thyself exempt: that rosy prime
Must share the general doom of withering time:
To some new channel soon the
changeful
tide
Of royal grace the offended queen may guide;
And her loved lord unplume thy towering pride.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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where lies
(Her
easement
open to the skies)
Irene, with her Destinies!
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Poe - 5 |
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XXVII
"With him shall the
imperial
Otho join
In wedlock worthily his daughter fair.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Creating the works from print
editions
not protected by U.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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a8
DOWN AND OUT By
Fullerton
L.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Cease now, my flute, now cease
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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_Lavinia_
carried no cattle, but many
passengers.
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Yeats |
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_ _1633_ _some copies,
and_ _A18_, _N_, _TC_]
[93 poyson'd _1669:_
poisoned
_1633-54_]
[94 corrupt us, _1635-69:_ corrupts us, _1633:_ corrupt as _G_
Rivolets; _Ed:_ Rivolets, _1635-69:_ _om.
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John Donne |
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They
launched
the burning ship!
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Longfellow |
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Look sharper, and you will see a
mite brandishing his
mandibles
in an excited manner.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The work Hoydipouse (or
more properly
Oedipus)
has been rendered literally SWELLFOOT, without
its having been conceived necessary to determine whether a swelling of
the hind or the fore feet of the Swinish Monarch is particularly
indicated.
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Shelley |
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e court arered were,
His
sacrifise
he dude to god; & gan to hym crie:
"Lorde!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Eye not her
loveliness
askance,
Forge not for her a galling chain;
Leave her at peace to bloom again,
Vine-clad France.
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Christina Rossetti |
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I moulded kings and saviors,
And bards o'er kings to rule;--
But fell the starry
influence
short,
The cup was never full.
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Emerson - Poems |
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This long and sure-set liking,
This
boundless
will to please,
-Oh, you should live for ever
If there were help in these.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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TO TIRZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be
consumed
with the earth,
To rise from generation free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired
wanderers
weep.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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We to ourselves have said, that when God took
The fierce
beginning
of the unwrought world
From out his fiery passion, and, breathing cool,
Tamed the wild molten being, with his hands
Fashion'd and workt the hot clay into world,
Then with green mercy quieted the land
And claspt it with the summer of blue seas,
With brooches of white spray along the shores,--
It was to be an equal dwelling-place
For humans that he did it, into sex
Unknowably dividing human kind.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The reference in this stanza is to Wordsworth's "Lucy Gray,"
and the germ of the passage occurs in a letter of Coleridge to Poole,
printed by Dykes
Campbell
in the notes to his edition: "Greta Hall, Feb.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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nullo spatio relicto
1 _Varus_ C:
_Varius_
GOR Ven La1: _Verannius_ D
3 _tunc_ ORVen Laur.
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Latin - Catullus |
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& wet thy veil with dewy tears, *
In slumbers of my night-repose,
infusing
a false morning?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Yet has each soul an inborn feeling
Impelling it to mount and soar away,
When, lost in heaven's blue depths, the lark is pealing
High overhead her airy lay;
When o'er the mountain pine's black shadow,
With outspread wing the eagle sweeps,
And, steering on o'er lake and meadow,
The crane his
homeward
journey keeps.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I glide out unobservant
In the midst of the traffic
Blown like a leaf
Hither and thither,
Till the city resolves itself into a clamour of voices,
Crying hollowly, like the wind
rustling
through the forest,
Against the frozen housefronts:
Lost in the glitter of a million movements.
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Imagists |
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In the
southern
clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.
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blake-poems |
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Copyright, 1916, by the editors, trading as
CONTEMPORARY
VERSE.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And sometimes into cities she would send
Her dream, with feast and rioting to blend;
And once, while among mortals dreaming thus,
She saw the young Corinthian Lycius
Charioting
foremost in the envious race,
Like a young Jove with calm uneager face,
And fell into a swooning love of him.
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Keats - Lamia |
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On ev'ry side assailed the youthful dame
Herself
surrendered
unto Cupid's flame.
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La Fontaine |
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Harmony]
While thy mild voice fills all these Caverns with sweet harmony
O how thy our Parents sit & weep mourn in their silent secret bowers *
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But Enitharmon answerd with a dropping tear & smiling frowning*
[[Bright]]Dark as a dewy morning when the crimson light appears *
To make us happy how they let them weary their immortal powers *
While we draw in their sweet delights while we return them scorn *
On scorn to feed our discontent; for if we
grateful
prove
They will withhold sweet love, whose food is thorns & bitter roots.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The jew is
underneath
the lot.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And wouldest thou make me then a
recreande?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Such an one as women draw away from For the tobacco ashes scattered on his coat And sith his throat
Show razor's unfamiliarity And three days' beard:
Such an one picking a ragged
Backless
copy from the stall,
Too cheap for cataloguing, Loquitur,
"Ah-eh!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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But ere the circle
homeward
hies
Far, far must it remove:
White in the moon the long road lies
That leads me from my love.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The
hierodule
opened her mouth
and said unto Enkidu:--
"Eat bread, oh Enkidu!
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Yet power divine shall foil them, and forbid
Possession
of the maids, whom Argive land
Shall hold protected, when unsleeping hate,
Horror, and watchful ambush of the night,
Have laid the suitors dead, by female hands.
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Aeschylus |
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And this place our
forefathers
made for man!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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After leaving school in England, he spent
several months as a student and
observer
in Germany.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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During the night he awoke with a start; the moon shone into his chamber,
making
everything
plainly visible.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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DESIGN
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth--
Assorted
characters
of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth--
A snow-drop spider, a flower like froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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TRANSLATION OF A PASSAGE IN OTTFRIED'S
METRICAL PARAPHRASE
OF THE GOSPEL
She gave with joy her virgin breast;
She hid it not, she bared the breast
Which suckled that
divinest
babe!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Wee Jenny to her graunie says,
"Will ye go wi' me,
graunie?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Lewis Carroll |
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To blame him useless 'twere you must allow;
The French such
frolicks
readily avow.
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La Fontaine |
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Upon the grave's cold mouth there ever have
caresses
clung
For those who died ideally good and grand and pure and young;
Under the scorn of all who clamor: "There is nothing just!
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Hugo - Poems |
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This
prefixed
ǽ, óe corresponds to the Goth, _aiw_,
OHG.
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Beowulf |
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One parting, but ten
thousand
regrets:
As I take my seat, my heart is unquiet.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The Serpent
The Fall
'The Fall'
Anonymous,
Hieronymus
Cock, c.
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Appoloinaire |
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Far on the beach they haul their bark to land,
(The crooked keel divides the yellow sand,)
Then part, where stretch'd along the winding bay,
The ships and tents in mingled
prospect
lay.
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Iliad - Pope |
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That seems impossible, and, to my mind, poets have the right to hope after their death for the everlasting happiness that obtains complete
knowledge
of God, that is to say of the sublime beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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The sage assumed that his sovran God
he had angered, breaking ancient law,
and
embittered
the Lord.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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This refers to Consort Zheng;
imperial
son-in-laws were commonly compared to Xiaoshi.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
For sheep alike and
shepherd
Pan hath care.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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He home repaired, and turning in his mind
What he had heard, at length his thoughts inclined,
To fancy that Aminta was disposed,
To play some cunning trick, which, not disclosed,
Would operate to bring her wish about;
I see, said he, the scheme I should not doubt;
It surely is my duty kind to be:
Methinks
I hear her freely say to me,
O Cleon!
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La Fontaine |
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Greetings, in pale libation and madness,
Don't think to some hope of magic corridors I offer
My empty cup, where a monster of gold
suffers!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second conception during
gestation)
is possible.
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Appoloinaire |
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LIV
So downe he fell, and forth his life did breath,
That vanisht into smoke and cloudes swift;
So downe he fell, that th' earth him
underneath
480
Did grone, as feeble so great load to lift;
So downe he fell, as an huge rockie clift,
Whose false foundation waves have washt away,
With dreadfull poyse is from the mayneland rift,
And rolling downe, great Neptune doth dismay; 485
So downe he fell, and like an heaped mountaine lay.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It's a
dreadful
affair
Is Saint Valentine's Day!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Une, entre autres, a l'heure ou le soleil tombant
Ensanglante
le ciel de blessures vermeilles,
Pensive, s'asseyait a l'ecart sur un banc,
Pour entendre un de ces concerts, riches de cuivre,
Dont les soldats parfois inondent nos jardins,
Et qui, dans ces soirs dor ou l'on se sent revivre,
Versent quelque heroisme au coeur des citadins.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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These are the days when birds come back,
A very few, a bird or two,
To take a
backward
look.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Moreover, his
initials were
engraved
upon the handle.
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Poe - 5 |
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His legs he closed about my breast,
His hands upon my head,
Till
Coldstream
lights beamed in the trees
And he wailed and fled.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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In einem schonen Spitzenkragen
Dich nicht beim Tanze
wohlbehagen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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His face each
downward
held; their mouth the cold,
Their eyes express'd the dolour of their heart.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
ECLOGUE III
MENALCAS DAMOETAS PALAEMON
MENALCAS
Who owns the flock,
Damoetas?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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There is
something
more writ here--often at night
He is wakeful from a dread of growing poor.
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Yeats |
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What gives you fresh hope, in what happy depths 15
Do you think to
discover
traces of his steps?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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1650
As he deserved, so let me render him honour:
And, the better to appease his spirit's anger,
Despite the
plotting
of her guilty brothers,
Treat his loved one, from today, as my daughter.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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e court arered were,
His
sacrifise
he dude to god; & gan to hym crie:
"Lorde!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Were you thinking that those were the words--those
delicious
sounds out of
your friends' mouths?
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Whitman |
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As
Proserpine
still weeps for her Sicilian air.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Be not disheart'nd then, nor cloud those looks
That wont to be more chearful and serene
Then when fair Morning first smiles on the World,
And let us to our fresh imployments rise
Among the Groves, the Fountains, and the Flours
That open now thir
choicest
bosom'd smells
Reservd from night, and kept for thee in store.
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Milton |
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He admired Omar's Genius so much, that he would gladly
have adopted any such
Interpretation
of his meaning as Mons.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Not Cybele, nor he that haunts
Rich Pytho, worse the brain confounds,
Not Bacchus, nor the Corybants
Clash their loud gongs with fiercer sounds
Than savage wrath; nor sword nor spear
Appals it, no, nor ocean's frown,
Nor ravening fire, nor Jupiter
In hideous ruin
crashing
down.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on friendly pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From
mournful
climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The bee will make its bloom a bed,
The humble bee in tawny brown;
And one in jacket fringed with red
Will rest upon its velvet down
When overtaken in the rain,
And wait till
sunshine
comes again.
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John Clare |
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