PART IV
"I fear thee, ancient
Mariner!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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'Tis her erroneous self has made a brain
Uncapable
of such a sovereign
As is thy powerful self.
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Robert Herrick |
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Why did you not
constrain
my lady
Before desire took me completely?
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Troubador Verse |
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Thou hast her: may no god
begrudge
your joy.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But mine the error--ye
yourselves
are right;
Your flight fulfils but that your wings design'd:
My eyes were Nature's gift, yet ne'er could find
But one blest light--and hence their present blight.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Before, on pinions light,
Fair Pleasure flits, and lures him childlike on,
While home and kin make moan
Beneath the
grinding
burden of his crime;
Till, in the end of time,
Cast down of heaven, he pours forth fruitless prayer
To powers that will not hear.
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Aeschylus |
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though the
greenest
woods be thy domain,
Alone they can drink up the morning rain:
Though a descended Pleiad, will not one
Of thine harmonious sisters keep in tune
Thy spheres, and as thy silver proxy shine?
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Keats |
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Only the maidens question not
The bridges that lead to Dream;
Their
luminous
smiles are like strands of pearls
On a silver vase agleam.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Two fathers of the great Cornelian name,
With their three noble sons who shared their fame,
One singly march'd before, and, hand in hand,
His two heroic
partners
trod the strand.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I have
promised
to study three years with the Duke.
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Shakespeare |
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Petrarch, in a letter written shortly after his death,
says of him: "He was a
virtuous
man, upright, full of love and zeal for
his republic; learned, eloquent, wise, and affable.
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Petrarch |
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Well, march we on,
To giue Obedience, where 'tis truly ow'd:
Meet we the Med'cine of the sickly Weale,
And with him poure we in our
Countries
purge,
Each drop of vs
Lenox.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Those I met had mostly suffered wounds, 24 they groaned and kept on
streaming
with blood.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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O poplar, you are great
among the hill-stones,
while I perish on the path
among the
crevices
of the rocks.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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1610
Ades me plot a demorer
A la fontaine, et remirer
Les deus
cristaus
qui me monstroient
Mil choses qui ilec estoient.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Lass mich an ihrer Brust
erwarmen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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great laud and praise were mine
(Replied the swain, for spotless faith divine),
If after social rites and gifts bestow'd,
I stain'd my
hospitable
hearth with blood.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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" says the Green Knight,]
[Sidenote B: "as a true knight 'thou hast timed thy travel']
[Sidenote C: Thou knowest the
covenant
between us,]
[Sidenote D: that on New Year's day I should return thy blow]
[Sidenote E: Here we are alone,]
[Sidenote F: Have off thy helmet and take thy pay at once.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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She put out a
hand
mechanically
to ward him off or to draw him to herself, she did not
know which.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Laudantes Walking silently among them,
So have the thoughts of my heart
Gone out slowly in the
twilight
Toward my beloved,
Toward the crimson rose, the fairest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The pent-up anguish of the loyal wife,
The sobs of those who, nearest in this life,
Still hold him closely in the life beyond;--
These first, with
threnody
of memories fond.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"Love me, for I love you"--and answer me,
"Love me, for I love you"--so shall we stand
As happy equals in the flowering land
Of love, that knows not a
dividing
sea.
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Christina Rossetti |
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what doth
aggrieve
them thus,
That they lament so loud?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And, when I pause, still groves among,
(Such loveliness is mine) a throng
Of
nightingales
awake and strain
Their souls into a quivering song.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Here glows the Spring, here earth
Beside the streams pours forth a
thousand
flowers;
Here the white poplar bends above the cave,
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert: come,
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Gives even
affliction
a grace
And reconciles man to his lot.
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Golden Treasury |
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SEANCHAN
shows by
his movement his different feeling to BRIAN.
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Yeats |
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Though time shall be no more, yet space shall give
A nobler theatre to love and live
The winged courier then no more shall claim
The power to sink or raise the notes of Fame,
Or give its glories to the
noontide
ray:
True merit then, in everlasting day,
Shall shine for ever, as at first it shone
At once to God and man and angels known.
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Petrarch |
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An
elderly waiter with
trembling
hands was hurriedly
spreading a pink and white checked cloth over the rusty
green iron table, saying: "If the lady and gentleman
wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Chimene
Nonetheless, it seems, my soul is troubled,
Rejects this joy, all its confusion doubled:
Fate may show
different
faces, all diverse,
And in my bliss I fear some cruel reverse.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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o,
You
interrupt
vs not.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Let Freedom's Land
rejoice!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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'
When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
A certain old dream, sick desire of my spine,
Beneath
funereal
ceilings afflicted by dying
Folded its indubitable wing there within me.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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--
Souls that are voices alone to us, now, yet linger, returning
Thrilled with a sweet reconcilement and fervid with
speechless
desire?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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We
can scarcely hesitate to pronounce that the magnificent,
pathetic, and truly national legends, which present so striking a
contrast to all that
surrounds
them, are broken and defaced
fragments of that early poetry which, even in the age of Cato the
Censor, had become antiquated, and of which Tully had never heard
a line.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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DANAUS
With one assent the Argives spake their will,
And, hearing, my old heart took youthful cheer,
The very sky was
thrilled
when high in air
The concourse raised right hands and swore their oath:--
_Free shall the maidens sojourn in this land.
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Aeschylus |
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So that art
Which bears the consecration and the seal
Of
holiness
upon it will prevail
Over all others.
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Longfellow |
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Therefore, for outrage vile, a doom as dark
They suffer, and yet more shall undergo--
They touch no bottom in the swamp of doom,
But round them rises,
bubbling
up, the ooze!
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Aeschylus |
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let me just murmur;
And do you wait a moment, you husky-noised sea;
For
somewhere
I believe I heard my mate responding to me,
So faint--I must be still, be still to listen;
But not altogether still, for then she might not come immediately to me.
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Whitman |
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ornamented with rings, or marked
with
characters
of ring-form: nom.
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Beowulf |
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She was dressed always in
clinging
dresses of Eastern silk, and
as she was so small, and her long black hair hung straight down
her back, you might have taken her for a child.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Now Earl of
Leicester!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Polished
and smooth and half divine;
And let your elfish fingers chase
With riotous grace
The purest pearls that softly glow.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Tracle," and thin I made
sich an illigant
obaysance
that it wud ha quite althegither bewildered
the brain o' ye.
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Poe - 5 |
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Why with the animals
wanderest
thou on the plain?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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_The Sleep of Spring_
O for that sweet,
untroubled
rest
That poets oft have sung!
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John Clare |
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I had sat within that marble circle where the
oldest bard is as the young,
And the pipe is ever
dropping
honey, and the
lyre's strings are ever strung.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Your name from hence immortal life shall have,
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:
The earth can yield me but a common grave,
When you
entombed
in men's eyes shall lie.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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e
emperour
he ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
In the evening
The far valleys were
sprinkled
with tiny lights.
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Stephen Crane |
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Then, at once,
He fell back, and rolled
crashing
from the height
Into the dusk of pines.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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ai ne
suffreden
neuer de?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"I saw my sons resume their ancient fire;
I saw fair freedom's
blossoms
richly blow:
But ah!
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Robert Forst |
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Suddenly we find that we are no
longer the actors but the
spectators
of the play.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
Then the
clansmen
departed, by this path and that; and over the hill
Sped Maclean with an outward wrath for an inward shame;
And that place of the lashing full quiet became;
And the wife and the child stood sad; and bloody-backed Hamish sat still.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The Latin is seldom
intelligible
without reference to the
Chinese.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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That very woman--
For I know well that you are
praising
Aoife--
Now hates you and will leave no subtilty
Unknotted that might run into a noose
About your throat, no army in idleness
That might bring ruin on this land you serve.
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Yeats |
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If 'twas not thy heart's wish to yoke with me, through
holding in horror the dread decrees of my stern sire, yet thou couldst have
led me to thy home, where as thine handmaid I might have served thee with
cheerful service, laving thy snowy feet with clear water, or spreading the
purple
coverlet
o'er thy couch.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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As men talk in a dream, so Corinth all,
Throughout
her palaces imperial,
And all her populous streets and temples lewd,
Mutter'd, like tempest in the distance brew'd,
To the wide-spreaded night above her towers.
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Keats - Lamia |
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ou
drouppedest
euery day in myn
eer{e}s {and} in my ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
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blake-poems |
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upon the left hand thou shalt find
The Chalybes, stout
craftsmen
of the steel--
Beware of them!
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Aeschylus |
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'Mid life's bright glow she dwelt within my soul,
The sovereign tenant of a humble cell,
But when for heaven she bade the world farewell,
Death seem'd to grasp me in his fierce control:
My wither'd love torn from its brightening goal--
My soul without its
treasure
doom'd to dwell--
Could I but trace their grief, their sorrow tell,
A stone might wake, and fain with them condole.
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Petrarch |
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'
I asked the
childish
voice.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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WINDFLOWER
LEAF
This flower is repeated
out of old winds, out of
old times.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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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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I can hardly doubt that he must be
identified
with the Dr.
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Robert Herrick |
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Steamer,
straining
at your ropes
Lift your anchor towards an exotic rawness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe
everywhere
in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the evidence ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Do I think the air a condescension,
The earth a politeness,
Heaven a boon
deserving
thanks?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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For cold thy bed to rest upon,
And cold the falling year
Whose
withered
leaves are lost and sere.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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It was brutal and coarse and violent,--man being naturally
gentle when he's
fighting
for his life.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Knobs at left upper and left lower corners to
facilitate
the
holding of the tablet.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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To Harmony's
enchanting
notes,
As moves the mazy dance, man.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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| Question: |
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Lewis Carroll |
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O
amazement
of things!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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e freke in his fyue fyngres,
[B] & alle his
afyaunce
vpon folde wat3 in ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Him they trouble and repel,
Us they comfort and allure,
And happy it were, if our delight
Were as great as his
affright!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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THE years had passed away, when Philip tried,
In matters more
profound
his son to guide;
He spoke of Paradise and Heav'n above;
But not a word of woman,--nor of LOVE.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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'Gainst Nature still,
Thriftlesse Ambition, that will rauen vp
Thine owne liues meanes: Then 'tis most like,
The
Soueraignty
will fall vpon Macbeth
Macd.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Life's hopes waste all to
nothingness
away
As showers at night wash out the steps of day.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The horse will set his foot and bite
Close to the ground lark's guarded nest
And snort to meet the prickly sight;
He fans the feathers of her breast--
Yet thistles prick so deep that he
Turns back and leaves her
dwelling
free.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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at quondam lacrimis et supplice dextra
et uotis
precibusque
uirum concede moueri,
o genetrix: duro nec enim ex adamante creati,
sed tua turba sumus.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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THE BLOSSOM
Merry, merry
sparrow!
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blake-poems |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Among the rocks--an empty hollow,
Secret, still,
mysterious!
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Tosto che loco li la circunscrive,
la virtu
formativa
raggia intorno
cosi e quanto ne le membra vive.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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who will give me back my
terrible
array?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I lived on dread; to those who know
The
stimulus
there is
In danger, other impetus
Is numb and vital-less.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Then stand with vs:
The West yet
glimmers
with some streakes of Day.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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LIV
How soon will all my lovely days be over,
And I no more be found beneath the sun,--
Neither beside the many-murmuring sea,
Nor where the plain-winds whisper to the reeds,
Nor in the tall beech-woods among the hills 5
Where roam the bright-lipped Oreads, nor along
The pasture-sides where berry-pickers stray
And harmless
shepherds
pipe their sheep to fold!
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Sappho |
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unsōfte
þonan feorh
oð-ferede, 2142.
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Beowulf |
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And ther-with-al such cold me hente, 1730
That, under clothes warme and softe,
Sith that day I have
chevered
ofte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The cowslip blossom, with its ruddy streak,
Would tempt her furlongs from the path to seek;
And gay long purple, with its tufty spike,
She'd wade oer shoes to reach it in the dyke;
And oft, while scratching through the briary woods
For
tempting
cuckoo-flowers and violet buds,
Poor Jane, I've known her crying sneak to town,
Fearing her mother, when she'd torn her gown.
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John Clare |
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at ne may nat
vnbytide
it mot bitide by
necessite.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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This last, Madam, is
scarcely
what my pride can bear.
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Robert Forst |
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