Now, down here, in this unknown angle,
A glimmering furrow of
melancholy
ruby,
A sweetly twinkling sun-spark trembles:
A patriarchal guide leads his family.
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but she was
quaukin!
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, _anger, chagrin,
vexatious
affair_: nom.
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Thou wost eek what thy lady graunted thee,
And day is set, the
chartres
up to make.
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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'
"'But I have no money at all,'
insisted
my grandmother.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Wuz, _was_,
sometimes
_were_.
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The second book of poems appeared two years later and like the first
volume _Traumgekront_ is full of the music that is reminiscent of the
mild melancholy of the Bohemian folk-songs, in whose gentle rhythms the
barbaric
strength
of the race seems to be lulled to rest as the waves of
a far-away tumultuous sea gently lap the shore.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Now even the cattle court the cooling shade
And the green lizard hides him in the thorn:
Now for tired mowers, with the fierce heat spent,
Pounds
Thestilis
her mess of savoury herbs,
Wild thyme and garlic.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Here heed we Boreas' icy breath as much
As the wolf heeds the number of the flock,
Or furious rivers their
restraining
banks.
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Ritson supposes it to be Caer-went, in Monmouthshire,
and
afterwards
confounded with Caer-wynt, or Winchester.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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206-8, where Donne speaks of 'thy first
booke, the booke of _life_', 'thy second book, the booke of Nature,'
and closes a further list with 'to those, _the booke with seven
seals_, which only _the Lamb which was slain, was found worthy to
open_; which, I hope, it shal not
disagree
with the measure of thy
blessed _spirit_, to interpret, the _promulgation of their pardon,
and righteousnes, who are washed in the blood of the Lamb_'.
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O spirit and heart made
desolate!
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Tennyson |
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If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
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May noght make my sorwes slyde,
Nought the
remedies
of Ovyde;
Ne Orpheus, god of melodye,
Ne Dedalus, with playes slye; 570
Ne hele me may phisicien,
Noght Ypocras, ne Galien;
Me is wo that I live houres twelve;
But who so wol assaye him-selve
Whether his herte can have pite 575
Of any sorwe, lat him see me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Men die nightly in their
beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors and looking them
piteously in the eyes--die with despair of heart and
convulsion
of
throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer
themselves to be revealed.
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Poe - 5 |
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The
Chaplain
would not kneel to pray
By his dishonoured grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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My father is a
dreamer himself, a great dreamer, a great man whose life has been
a
magnificent
failure.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Crashing
the lance, he snuffs the spouting gore
Of man and steed, o'erthrown beneath his horn:
The thronged arena shakes with shouts for more;
Yells the mad crowd o'er entrails freshly torn,
Nor shrinks the female eye, nor e'en affects to mourn.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"For
everybody
said so, all our friends,
They all were sure our feelings would relate
So closely!
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So done, upon the nymph his eyes he bent,
Full of adoring tears and blandishment,
And towards her stept: she, like a moon in wane,
Faded before him, cower'd, nor could restrain
Her fearful sobs, self-folding like a flower
That faints into itself at evening hour:
But the God
fostering
her chilled hand,
She felt the warmth, her eyelids open'd bland,
And, like new flowers at morning song of bees,
Bloom'd, and gave up her honey to the lees.
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Keats - Lamia |
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He'd pledged his oath by county Guenelon,
Gave him his sword, a
thousand
coins thereon.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The dead have
phantoms
that they send.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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, _the rights of the
fighting
men of a nation_: gen.
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Beowulf |
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Swiftly, with sharp
unswerving
flight
The car shoots upward,
And the air, swirling and angry,
Howls like a hundred devils.
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Imagists |
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Then a Spectre enters: it is an usher who comes to torture me in the
name of the Law; an infamous concubine who comes to cry misery and to
add the
trivialities
of her life to the sorrow of mine; or it may be the
errand-boy of an editor who comes to implore the remainder of a
manuscript.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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--
we saw you hover close,
caress her,
open her pore-cups,
make a cross of her,
quickly penetrate her--
she opening to you,
engulfing
you,
every limb of her,
bud of her, pore of her?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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He
witnesses
with joy their martial beat,
But to permit their sally deems not meet.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In one corner the car of summer's greenery
gloriously
motionless
forever.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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is, god of heuene:
To mychel ioye he tourne my
sweuene!
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To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day:
Down by the river of Adona her soft voice is heard;
And thus her gentle
lamentation
falls like morning dew.
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blake-poems |
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InTem- Hesaith:"Redspearsborethewarriordawn Of old
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Strange!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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My blindness, my
deafness
to others shows
That only her I see, and hear, and bless,
And I offer her no false flatteries so,
For the heart more than the mouth gives word;
That in field, plain, hill, vale, though I go everywhere
I'd not discern all qualities in one sole body,
Only hers, where God sets them all today.
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Troubador Verse |
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When the last stroke fell, then he moved him a pace down the height,
And he held forth the child in the heartaching sight
Of the mother, and looked all pitiful grave, as
repenting
a wrong.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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e
parchemyn
I hym bou?
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Now, thank God,
The golden fire has gone, and your face is ash
Indistinguishable
in the grey, chill day,
The night has burnt you out, at last the good
Dark fire burns on untroubled without clash
Of you upon the dead leaves saying me yea.
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Imagists |
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Arriving, I hid quite two thirds of the men
In the holds of the vessels there, and then
The rest, whose numbers now
increased
hourly,
Devoured by impatience, gathering round me,
Lay down on the ground, where in silence
The best part of a fine night was spent.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Against his proper glory
Has my own soul conspired: so my story
Will I to
children
utter, and repent.
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Keats |
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" he cries: in
transport
GAMA sprung,
And round his neck with friendly welcome hung;
Enrapt, so distant o'er the dreadful main,
To hear the music of the tongue of Spain.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Your
thoughts
are yours, too; naked let them stand.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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_"
[Jean Armour
inspired
this very sweet song.
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Robert Burns |
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425
Thou in this dredful cas for me purveye;
For so
astonied
am I that I deye!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Cautious, hint to any captive
You have passed
enfranchised
feet!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And if thy
right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee; for it
is
profitable
for thee that one of thy members should perish, and
not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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at a selly in si3t summe men hit holden,
& an
outtrage
awenture of Arthure3 wondere3;
[D] If 3e wyl lysten ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Far over the ice, between the hemlock woods and snow-clad hills,
stands the pickerel-fisher, his lines set in some retired cove, like a
Finlander, with his arms thrust into the pouches of his dreadnaught;
with dull, snowy, fishy thoughts, himself a finless fish,
separated
a
few inches from his race; dumb, erect, and made to be enveloped in
clouds and snows, like the pines on shore.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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A wretched life and worse death they'll win,
A
grievous
time, whether far or near;
And Saracen, Turk, Persian, Paynim,
Who, more than all, found you to dread,
Will grow in pride and power instead.
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Troubador Verse |
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We have nothing but coarse clothes,
suitable to the season and the place we live in; but in this rustic
dress we will repair to see you, since you command us; we fear not to
present
ourselves
in this rustic dress; our desire to see you puts down
every other consideration.
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Petrarch |
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Erewhile
to my desire so sweet were tears
Their tenderness refined my else rude song,
And made me wake and watch the livelong nights;
But sorrow now to me is worse than death,
Since lost for aye that look of modest joy,
The lofty subject of my lowly rhyme!
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Petrarch |
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' So speaking, he darts from heaven's height, and
cleaving
the
breezy air, seeks Ascanius.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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'Twas all in vain, a useless matter,
And
blankets
were about him pinn'd;
Yet still his jaws and teeth they clatter,
Like a loose casement in the wind.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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This
Cleonymus
is a riddle worth propounding among guests.
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Aristophanes |
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Walke her out,
And ayre her euery
morning!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told
suggesting
her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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No wonder it has been
extensively
introduced
into London.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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With difficulty they gain
entrance
to the cottage of Corceca and her
daughter Abessa, the paramour of Kirkrapine.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Francis Turner,
Master of St John's College, Cambridge, in a
pamphlet
entitled
'* Animadversions on the Naked
Truth.
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Marvell - Poems |
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In hobbling speed he roams the pasture round,
Till hunted Dobbin and the rest are found;
Where some, from
frequent
meddlings of his whip,
Well know their foe, and often try to slip;
While Dobbin, tamed by age and labour, stands
To meet all trouble from his brutish hands,
And patient goes to gate or knowly brake,
The teasing burden of his foe to take;
Who, soon as mounted, with his switching weals,
Puts Dob's best swiftness in his heavy heels,
The toltering bustle of a blundering trot
Which whips and cudgels neer increased a jot,
Though better speed was urged by the clown--
And thus he snorts and jostles to the town.
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John Clare |
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Nay, had I powre, I should
Poure the sweet Milke of Concord, into Hell,
Vprore the
vniuersall
peace, confound
All vnity on earth
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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To
Newfangel
ne be ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Alone, but
greater!
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Hugo - Poems |
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If not,
Upon his
soldiers
he hath lavisht her.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Fiddling
for ocean liners, while the dance
Sweeps through the decks, your brown tribes all will go!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Will the vexed, accurst humanity,
As worn by him, begin to be
A blessed, yea, a sacred thing
For love and awe and
ministering?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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SIR NICHOLAS HEATH, _Archbishop of York; Lord
Chancellor
after Gardiner_.
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Tennyson |
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--he lived at ease,
And by his
occupation
sought to please.
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La Fontaine |
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my eyes with terror glare;
My heart is revelling with the god;
'Tis
madness!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Sweeney
addressed
full length to shave
Broadbottomed, pink from nape to base,
Knows the female temperament
And wipes the suds around his face.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The
tables
constructed
by Mr.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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_ And if to the same
wretched
being another misery
be annexed, does not he become more wretched than he whose misery
is alleviated by the participation of some good?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Slow-moving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
Northerner goes carried, and
Southerner
goes carried, and they on the
Atlantic side, and they on the Pacific, and they between, and all
through the Mississippi country, and all over the earth.
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Whitman |
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FAUST:
O
schaudre
nicht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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There are few who remember him sailing paper boats,
and watching the navigation of his tiny craft with eagerness--or
repeating with wild energy "The Ancient Mariner", and Southey's "Old
Woman of Berkeley"; but those who do will recollect that it was in
such, and in the
creations
of his own fancy when that was most daring
and ideal, that he sheltered himself from the storms and
disappointments, the pain and sorrow, that beset his life.
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Shelley |
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This third edition of the American issue of Bēowulf will, the editors hope,
be found more accurate and useful than either of the
preceding
editions.
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Beowulf |
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The guilty youths would have
declined
the combat; but all their
shifts were in vain.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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XVIII
But fiercer grew the fighting
Around
Valerius
dead;
For Titus dragged him by the foot
And Aulus by the head.
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
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And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the
woodlands
I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
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Gaudy,
hunted butterflies of a day, and then vanish for ever: but your work
will outlive the momentary
neglects
of idle fashion, and defy the
teeth of time.
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This Castle hath a pleasant seat,
The ayre nimbly and sweetly
recommends
it selfe
Vnto our gentle sences
Banq.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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is free from care;
This juice, possessing virtues so divine,
Has also pow'rs that prove the most malign:
Whoe'er receives the patient's first embrace;
Too fatally the dire effects will trace;
Death oft
succeeds
the momentary joy;
We scarcely good can find without alloy.
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La Fontaine |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
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of receipt of the work.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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My heart repeats the blast of earth's last day,
Yet for its grief no
recompense
can scan,
Love holds me still beneath its cruel ban,
And still my eyes their usual tribute pay.
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Petrarch |
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She kept with care her
beauties
rare
From lovers warm and true--
For heart was cold to all but gold,
And the rich came not to won,
But honor'd well her charms to sell.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the Fog it came;
And an it were a
Christian
Soul,
We hail'd it in God's name.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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" These we know to
have been jewels of a
radiance
so imperishable that the broken gleams of
them still dazzle men's eyes, whether shining from the two small brilliants
and the handful of star-dust which alone remain to us, or reflected merely
from the adoration of those poets of old time who were so fortunate as to
witness their full glory.
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Sappho |
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Besides 'tis no way certain but our blade,
By strength of nerves the poison may evade;
And that's a double reason for the choice,
Since with more certainty we shall rejoice:
The venom may evaporate in fume,
And Mandrake pleasing pow'rs at once assume;
For when I spoke of death, I did not mean,
That nothing from it would the person screen;
To-morrow we the rustick lad must name;
To-night the potion given your charming dame;
I've some already with me, all prepared;
Let nothing of your project be declared:
You should not seem to know what we've designed;
Ligurio you'll permit this clod to find;
You can most
thoroughly
in him confide:
Discretion, secrecy, with him reside.
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La Fontaine |
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