Thus when a river swell'd with sudden rains
Spreads his broad waters o'er the level plains,
Some
interposing
hill the stream divides.
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VII
The stones of that fair hall lie far and wide,
And but a few recall its ancient mould;
Yet when I pass the spot I long to hold
As truth what fancy saith:
"His protest lives where
deathless
things abide!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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perhaps she chides my stay:
Kiss then her feet, her hand so
beauteous
fair;
In place of language let thy kiss declare
Strong is my will, though feeble are my powers.
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" but it cannot be; you
and I, my friend, must make the
experiment
by ourselves and for
ourselves.
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XVII
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
Bearing the fire of Heaven's menaces,
Heaven feared not the dire audaciousness,
That so stoked the Giants'
reckless
might.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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IV
You, with such glorious hearts, who were not slow
To follow, nor far off, the
gorgeous
oak
Seized, and shook down the golden acorns so,
And so the red and yellow truncheon broke,
That we to you our festive laurels owe,
And the fair lily, rescued from its stroke;
Another wreath may round your temples bloom,
In that Fabricius you preserved to Rome.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of
windows?
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He formed _une petite
affaire_
with a daughter of the
house of Portletham, who was the "lass that made the bed to him:"--two
verses of it are,
"I kiss'd her lips sae rosy red,
While the tear stood blinkin in her e'e;
I said, My lassie, dinna cry,
For ye ay shall make the bed to me.
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Robert Burns |
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Perhaps
He's but
exhausted
by the loss of blood,
And will recover.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"On this Coast of Coromandel
Shrimps and
watercresses
grow,
Prawns are plentiful and cheap,"
Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Little brings the May breeze
Beside pure scent of flowers,
While all things wax and nothing wanes
In lengthening
daylight
hours.
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And when, at length, the mind shall be all free
From what it hates in this degraded form,
Reft of its carnal life, save what shall be
Existent
happier in the fly and worm,--
When elements to elements conform,
And dust is as it should be, shall I not
Feel all I see, less dazzling, but more warm?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Nor did they oppose his
departure, but accompanied him with the
greatest
innocence.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Who noble ends by noble means obtains,
Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains,
Like good
Aurelius
let him reign, or bleed
Like Socrates, that man is great indeed.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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For,
according
to Strabo, Varus was cut off by the Cherusci, and the people subject to them.
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Tacitus |
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Boldly
defending
your own beautiful apples of gold.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Down the
slippery
slopes of Myrtle,
Where the early pumpkins blow,
To the calm and silent sea
Fled the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
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Hark I hear the hammers of Los
PAGE 16 {The text on this page appears to have been written on top of a page of
sketches
of roughly drafted limbs.
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Blake - Zoas |
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_D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _W:_ share _1633:_ share, _1635-69_,
_Chambers
and Grolier_.
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John Donne |
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(And I
Tiresias
have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Meshed and starred
With
precious
stones, there struts the shattering _ziz_
Whose groans are wrinkled thunder.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Note: Ronsard's later tributes to 'Marie' were written for the Duke of Anjou (the future Henri III) whose
mistress
Marie de Cleves died in 1574.
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Ronsard |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Marseille
which established itself as a republic during the period was at the centre of conflict for decades.
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Troubador Verse |
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[26]
Quotation
from the Yangtze boatman's song:
"When Yen-yu is as big as a man's hat
One should not venture to make for Ch'u-t'ang.
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Li Po |
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A wreck, as it looked, we lay--
(Rib and
plankshear
gave way
To the stroke of that giant wedge!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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They
formally
invested the mo-
narch with absolute power over the consciences
of his subjects ; and, with a practice in harmony
with their principles, were ready at any moment
(if they had had any) to surrender their own.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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is tyme
twelmonyth
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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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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As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,
Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,
So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;
And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water;
His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water;
His
youthful
wife, as falls the dew from heaven--
The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It is that which
contains
itself--which never invites, and never refuses.
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Whitman |
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how sweet, in some fair April hour,
To see her pass, alone, in pure thought there,
Weaving fresh
garlands
in her own bright hair.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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A LITTLE GIRL LOST
Children of the future age,
Reading this
indignant
page,
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And sure
No murder could
approach
his naming nights.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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's
["ABC's"
signifes
endemic teashops, found in all parts of
London.
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T.S. Eliot |
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They trampled loud the soil,
straining
to draw 100
Herself with all her vesture; nor alone
She went, but follow'd by her virgin train.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Salute with boding note the rising moon,
Frosting with hoary light the pearly ground,
And pouring deeper blue to Aether's bound;
Rejoic'd her solemn pomp of clouds to fold
In robes of azure, fleecy white, and gold,
While rose and poppy, as the glow-worm fades,
Checquer
with paler red the thicket shades.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The 1918 copy was printed by The
Scribner
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Sidney Lanier |
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CLEMENT SCOTT
NERO'S
INCENDIARY
SONG.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The hippopotamus's day
Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts;
God works in a
mysterious
way-
The Church can sleep and feed at once.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Meredith - Poems |
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There's no content for Spirit in the world
Till he has striven out of bounded fate,
And sent an
infinite
desire forth
Into the whole eternity of things.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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How should he guess that the
children
of Tz?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Why weep for him whom sweet
Favonian
airs
Will waft next spring, Asteria, back to you,
Rich with Bithynia's wares,
A lover fond and true,
Your Gyges?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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My hand in dedicative worship lifts
In shame on high to thee the scattered off'ring,
No more a token of
imagined
glory,
--Although with many a precious tear-drop shining--
No more a choice of rare and wondrous jewels,
That fain from destiny for thee I'd conquer,
Than e'er the tale of hellish love and hatred
Can spread by this subdued and falt'ring voice.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)
Paul Verlaine
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The piano kissed.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The warden of Geats,
with bolt from bow, then balked of life,
of wave-work, one monster, amid its heart
went the keen war-shaft; in water it seemed
less doughty in
swimming
whom death had seized.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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For many days,
And nights as many, we have had
A
nameless
terror in our breast,
Making us timid, and afraid
Of God, and his mysterious ways!
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Longfellow |
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You, go free; go,
goddesses
of the sea; the Mother bids it.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Poe - 5 |
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Besides, though but a moment since
Serenest
was the weather of the sky,
So fiercely sudden is it foully thick
That ye might think that round about all murk
Had parted forth from Acheron and filled
The mighty vaults of sky--so grievously,
As gathers thus the storm-clouds' gruesome night,
Do faces of black horror hang on high--
Of which how small a part an image is
There's none to tell or reckon out in words.
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Lucretius |
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And as the lengthening days of summer throve,
She sighed, then
withered
by the waving rushes.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Discobbolos
said,--
"Oh!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Hawthorne
also came to dwell there.
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Emerson - Poems |
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" Thus spake the gods:
Then swift
ascended
to the bright abodes.
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Iliad - Pope |
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But on the tenth dark night, as pleas'd the Gods,
They drove me to Ogygia, where resides
Calypso,
beauteous
nymph, dreadful in pow'r;
She rescued, cherish'd, fed me, and her wish
Was to confer on me immortal life,
Exempt for ever from the sap of age.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But his most monotonous feature
is the mechanical recurrence of certain reflections about the
impermanence of human things, as opposed to the
immutability
of Nature.
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Li Po |
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--
Too weak to labour in the harvest field,
The Man was using his best skill to gain
A pittance from the dead
unfeeling
lake 65
That knew not of his wants.
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William Wordsworth |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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_ This poem is often quoted to prove that
Herrick's country
incumbency
was good for his verse; but if the
reference be only to his sacred poems or _Noble Numbers_ these would
rather prove the opposite.
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Robert Herrick |
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A Dio, a se, al
prossimo
si pone
far forza, dico in loro e in lor cose,
come udirai con aperta ragione.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I'm none of your magnates, I grant thee;
Yet if thou art willing, my friend,
Through life to jog on beside me,
Thy
pleasure
in all things shall guide me,
To thee will I bind me,
A friend thou shalt find me,
And, e'en to the grave,
Shalt make me thy servant, make me thy slave!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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APPENDIX
THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL
A VERSION BASED ON THE
ORIGINAL
DRAFT OF THE POEM
I
HE did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And murdered in her bed.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A CERTAIN man, no matter for his name,
His country, rank, nor
residence
nor fame,
Through fear of accidents had firmly sworn,
The marriage chain should ne'er by him be worn;
No tie but friendship, from the sex he'd crave:
If wrong or right, the question we will wave.
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La Fontaine |
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"
And Sigismond, thus met and horrified,
Recoiled
to near the unseen opening wide;
The human club was raised, and struck again * * *
And Eviradnus did alone remain
All empty-handed--but he heard the sound
Of spectres two falling to depths profound;
Then, stooping o'er the pit, he gazed below,
And, as half-dreaming now, he murmured low,
"Tiger and jackal meet their portion here,
'Tis well together they should disappear!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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One thought in my mind went over and over
While the
darkness
shook and the leaves were thinned--
I thought it was you who had come to find me,
You were the wind.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this
electronic
work, without
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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SOLITUDE
Solitude
is like a rain
That from the sea at dusk begins to rise;
It floats remote across the far-off plain
Upward into its dwelling-place, the skies,
Then o'er the town it slowly sinks again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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THE
TRAVELLING
BEAR
Grass-blades push up between the cobblestones
And catch the sun on their flat sides
Shooting it back,
Gold and emerald,
Into the eyes of passers-by.
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Imagists |
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THE reader must not fail to keep in mind;
Aminta's parents were both rich and kind,
And having only her to be their heir,
The aged couple let the
youthful
pair,
With all their train, within the house reside,
And tranquilly the moments seemed to glide.
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La Fontaine |
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go forth in my might
For I am weary, & must sleep in the dark sleep of Death {According to Erdman's notes this line was crossed out in pencil for deletion and a replacement was written in the right margin, then the deleting lines and the replacement were
thoroughly
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Blake - Zoas |
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They
grappled
with each other
goring like an ox.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Sin once reached up to God's eternal sphere,
And was committed, not
remitted
there.
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Robert Herrick |
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" -- 665
`Right so fare I,
unhappily
for me;
I love oon best, and that me smerteth sore;
And yet, paraunter, can I rede thee,
And not my-self; repreve me no more.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Would you tear from my lintels these sacred
green
garlands
of leaves?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Thou hast not missed one thought that could
befit,
And all that was improper dost omit ;
So that no room is here for writers lefl,
But to detect their
ignorance
or theft.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Left master of the field, Ivan
Kouzmitch
sent to fetch us at once, and
took care to shut up Polashka in the kitchen so that she might not spy
upon us.
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Thou hast the
knowledge
clear, but lo, I bring
More also.
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Euripides - Electra |
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If Phrygian marbles soothe not pain,
Nor star-bright purple's costliest wear,
Nor vines of true Falernian strain,
Nor
Achaemenian
spices rare,
Why with rich gate and pillar'd range
Upbuild new mansions, twice as high,
Or why my Sabine vale exchange
For more laborious luxury?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Thy master and thy
mistress
live.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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although rendered beauteous
By Tolstoy's pencil marvellous,
Though Baratynski verses penned,(45)
The thunderbolt on you
descend!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Bright with the stars comes the evening, ringing with songs that are tender,
And the glow of the moon,
brighter
than northern sun.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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So long as I
Stand by the
youthful
tsar, so long he will not
Forsake the throne.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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My house is a decayed house,
And the jew squats on the window sill, the owner,
Spawned in some estaminet of Antwerp,
Blistered
in Brussels, patched and peeled in London.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Wherever the old
imaginative
life
lingers it must be stirred into life, and kept alive, and in Ireland
this is the work, it may be, of the Gaelic movement.
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Yeats |
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But we with living overwrought,
And full of grave and sombre thought,
Are
snappish
oft: dear little men,
We have ill-tempered days, and then,
Are quite unjust and full of care;
It rained this morning and the air
Was chill; but clouds that dimm'd the sky
Have passed.
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Hugo - Poems |
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'twas too much;
Methought I fainted at the charmed touch,
Yet held my recollection, even as one
Who dives three fathoms where the waters run
Gurgling in beds of coral: for anon, 640
I felt upmounted in that region
Where falling stars dart their artillery forth,
And eagles struggle with the buffeting north
That balances the heavy meteor-stone;--
Felt too, I was not fearful, nor alone,
But lapp'd and lull'd along the
dangerous
sky.
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Keats |
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There was an holy Chappell edifyde,
Wherein the Hermite dewly wont to say
His holy things each morne and eventyde:
Thereby a Christall streame did gently play, 305
Which from a sacred
fountaine
welled forth alway.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But, warriors, you that youthful vigour boast,
The flower of Greece, the
examples
of our host,
Sprung from such fathers, who such numbers sway,
Can you stand trembling, and desert the day?
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Iliad - Pope |
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