Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient,
It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions,
It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless
successions of diseas'd corpses,
It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor,
It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops,
It gives such divine
materials
to men, and accepts such leavings
from them at last.
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To Rome by this bold father was I brought,
To learn those arts which well-born youths are taught,
So dressed, and so attended, you would swear
I was some wealthy lord's
expensive
heir.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Ed elli a me: <
del suo dover,
quiritta
si ristora;
qui si ribatte il mal tardato remo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And meadows, with their
glittering
streams--and silver-scurrying dace--
Home, what a perfect place!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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O the
trembling
fear!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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at length a brooded *
Smile broke from Urizen for Enitharmon
brightend
more & more
Sullen he lowerd on Enitharmon but he smild on Los
Saying Thou art the Lord of Luvah into thine hands I give
The prince of Love the murderer his soul is in thine hands
Pity not Vala for she pitied not the Eternal Man
Nor pity thou the cries of Luvah.
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Blake - Zoas |
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XL
By the sick lady's gaiety
And kindness Tania was impressed,
But, her own room in memory,
The strange apartment her oppressed:
Repose her silken
curtains
fled,
She could not sleep in her new bed.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The local expression "under the hack" is kindly explained
by an authority in middle Georgia dialect, Richard Malcolm Johnston,
author of `The
Dukesborough
Tales' and other Georgia stories.
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Sidney Lanier |
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'Tis Marie, walking midway of the street,
As she had just stepped forth from out the gate
Of the very, very Heaven where God is,
Still
glittering
with the God-shine on her!
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Sidney Lanier |
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dryhtsele
(healwudu,
hrūse) dynede, 768, 1318, 2559.
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Beowulf |
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SONNET ON APPROACHING ITALY
I REACHED the Alps: the soul within me burned,
Italia, my Italia, at thy name:
And when from out the mountain's heart I came
And saw the land for which my life had yearned,
I laughed as one who some great prize had earned:
And musing on the marvel of thy fame
I watched the day, till marked with wounds of flame
The
turquoise
sky to burnished gold was turned.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"]
"And hear the sounds he knew of yore,
Old shufflings on the sanded floor,
Old
knuckles
tapping at the door?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Tchaplitzky,
who died in poverty after having squandered millions, lost at one time,
at play, nearly three hundred
thousand
rubles.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For the work it self I had view'd som good while
before, with
singular
delight, having receiv'd it from our
common Friend Mr.
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Milton |
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For come Diseases on, and Penury's rage,
Labour, and Pain, and Grief, and joyless Age,
And Conscience dogging close his
bleeding
way 640
Cries out, and leads her Spectres to their prey,
'Till Hope-deserted, long in vain his breath
Implores the dreadful untried sleep of Death.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The
Cathedral
is a burning stain on the white, wet night.
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Imagists |
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There was nothing for it but to pray
for good
emperors
and put up with bad ones.
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Tacitus |
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Twenty days ahead of the Indian, twenty years ahead of the white
man,
At last the Indian
overtook
him, at last the Indian hurried past
him;
At last the white man overtook him, at last the white man hurried
past him;
At last his own trees overtook him, at last his own trees hurried
past him.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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With fire, with such
indignant
fire as pride
Yields, when it must destroy itself to feel
The power of the world touch it with humbling flame,--
With such a fire, whose heat you know not of,
Have I assayed this--notion, didst thou say?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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for neither did the slopes
Of Pindus or
Parnassus
stay you then,
No, nor Aonian Aganippe.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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how
ridiculous
it seems
to a sage to hear Zeus invoked.
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Aristophanes |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I knowed a man, which he lived in Jones,
Which Jones is a county of red hills and stones,
And he lived pretty much by gittin' of loans,
And his mules was nuthin' but skin and bones,
And his hogs was flat as his corn-bread pones,
And he had 'bout a
thousand
acres o' land.
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Sidney Lanier |
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--La graisse sous la peau parait en feuilles plates;
Et les
rondeurs
des reins semblent prendre l'essor.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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e
congregac{i}ou{n}
of alle goodes.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Of
waistcoats
Harry has no lack, 5
Good duffle grey, and flannel fine;
He has a blanket on his back,
And coats enough to smother nine.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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CENCI:
Why
miserable?
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Shelley |
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Their
gonfalons
flutter above their helms.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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They
appeared
before the Governor
weeping, and said: "Our grandfather's wish was to be buried on top of
the Green Hill.
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Li Po |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I own myself so little a
Presbyterian, that I approve of set times and seasons of more than
ordinary acts of devotion, for breaking in on that
habitual
routine of
life and thought, which is so apt to reduce our existence to a kind of
instinct, or even sometimes, and with some minds, to a state very
little superior to mere machinery.
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Robert Burns |
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Think now
History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors
And issues, deceives with
whispering
ambitions,
Guides us by vanities.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Ah,
wherefore
go'st thou on?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Of all the improbable and
impossible
people!
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Kipling - Poems |
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Righteous
is her doom this day,
But not thy deed.
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Euripides - Electra |
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1909
Songs for the New Age The Century Company 1914
War and
Laughter
The Century Company 1915
The Book of Self Alfred A.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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He bends to the habit
of
dragging
his feet
up under him,
like a measuring-worm:
some of his forefathers,
stooped over books,
ruled short straight lines
under two rows of figures
to keep their thin savings
from sifting to the floor.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Warriors
slept
whose hest was to guard the gabled hall, --
all save one.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Of contemporaries you alone have
understood my satires and
reflective
poems.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
remarked
one of the
men, addressing a young officer of the Engineering Corps.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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154
And he has me nowe for-sakyng,
To Iesu cryst I wyll me takyne;
Page 40
156
Sorowe and morenyng may I well make,
As the turtell dothe
withowten
his make.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Quid tum, si carpunt, tacita quem mente
requirunt?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Such views the
youthful
bard allure,
But, heedless of the following gloom,
He deems their colours shall endure
'Till peace go with him to the tomb.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But me mad love of the stern war-god holds
Armed amid weapons and
opposing
foes.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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His barber, or,
Chaucer says, his queen, discovered the change which Midas had tried to
conceal, and unable to keep the secret
whispered
it to the reeds in the
river, who straightway spread the news abroad.
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Alexander Pope |
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Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
Resembling sire and child and happy mother,
Who, all in one, one
pleasing
note do sing:
Whose speechless song being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: 'Thou single wilt prove none.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast,
quenching
my fire,
A deity at the gods' ambrosial feast.
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Ronsard |
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Please contact us
beforehand
to
let us know your plans and to work out the details.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Memory faileth, as the lotus-loved chimes
Sink into
fluttering
of wind, But we grow never weary For we are old.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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he defileth
heavenly
things
With earthly uses'--made him quickly dive
Beneath the boughs, and race through many a mile
Of dense and open, till his goodly horse,
Arising wearily at a fallen oak,
Stumbled headlong, and cast him face to ground.
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Tennyson |
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Oh soon, and better so than later
After long
disgrace
and scorn,
You shot dead the household traitor,
The soul that should not have been born.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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With you goes my
handsome
friend,
The gentle, noble, and brave I send;
Into great sorrow I must descend,
Endless longing, and tears so bright.
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Troubador Verse |
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Ah,
masquerader!
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Imagists |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's
changing
course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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said he; what led you thus to trace,
An humble slave of your
celestial
face?
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La Fontaine |
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those men that march below--
O
ignominy
dire!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Caeli, Lesbia nostra, Lesbia illa,
Illa Lesbia, quam Catullus unam
Plus quam se atque suos amavit omnes,
Nunc in
quadriviis
et angiportis
Glubit magnanimos Remi nepotes.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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As if a
shipwrecked
Pagan, safe in port,
His guardian sea-god to commemorate,
Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort
And vibrant tail, within the temple-gate.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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" she asked in a
frightened
whisper.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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ECLOGUE VIII
TO POLLIO DAMON ALPHESIBOEUS
Of Damon and Alphesiboeus now,
Those shepherd-singers at whose rival strains
The heifer wondering forgot to graze,
The lynx stood awe-struck, and the flowing streams,
Unwonted loiterers, stayed their course to hear-
How Damon and Alphesiboeus sang
Their
pastoral
ditties, will I tell the tale.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Other
previous
contributors are Marguerite Wilkin son, John Hall Wheelock, Louis Ginsberg, Fhoebe Hcffman, John Russell McCarthy and Marjorie Allen Seiffert.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But the
solution
offered by Aeschylus did
not satisfy him.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
Then slow raise Marjory o' the Lochs,
And
wrinkled
was her brow,
Her ancient weed was russet gray,
Her auld Scots bluid was true;
"There's some great folk set light by me,
I set as light by them;
But I will send to London town
Wham I like best at hame.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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When these are
justified
by the poet's genius, true critics do
not presume to correct them.
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Alexander Pope |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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[98] He commanded the army of the Upper
Province
(chap.
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Tacitus |
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A Villon- These that we loved shall God love less
fadoftfie Gibbet
^nc* sm*te alwav at their
feebleness?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Betray not me, the timorous maid
Whom far beyond the brine
A godless
violence
cast forth forlorn.
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Aeschylus |
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TWO SONGS FOR SOLITUDE
I
~The Crystal Gazer~
I shall gather myself into myself again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one,
I shall fuse them into a polished crystal ball
Where I can see the moon and the
flashing
sun.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Virginie Saulez Peythroppe with
the
deference
due to her husband's rank.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Dowie she
saunters
down Nithside,
And aye a westlin leuk she throws,
While tears hap o'er her auld brown nose!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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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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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Least village boasts its blacksmith,
Whose anvil's even din
Stands symbol for the finer forge
That soundless tugs within,
Refining these impatient ores
With hammer and with blaze,
Until the designated light
Repudiate
the forge.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Never again
Cambyses
earth will tread.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And dost thou think
my untamed thoughts and speak my vast
language?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I am
scattered
in its whirl.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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After this line the editions of 1815-1832 have the following
couplet:
While strives a secret Power to hush the crowd,
Pain's wild rebellious burst
proclaims
her rights aloud,
and this is followed by lines 545-6 of the final text.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And then I thought there grew
Still waters on my sight,
unshored
and blue.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Never believe though in my nature reign'd,
All
frailties
that besiege all kinds of blood,
That it could so preposterously be stain'd,
To leave for nothing all thy sum of good;
For nothing this wide universe I call,
Save thou, my rose, in it thou art my all.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of
exporting
a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I shall lie low in earth, in
crumbling
wood.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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MENALCAS
You shall not balk me now; where'er you bid,
I shall be with you; only let us have
For auditor- or see, to serve our turn,
Yonder
Palaemon
comes!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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For he has a pall, this
wretched
man,
Such as few men can claim:
Deep down below a prison-yard,
Naked for greater shame,
He lies, with fetters on each foot,
Wrapt in a sheet of flame!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Now, Christ be
thanked!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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: Hall,
Translation
of Beowulf.
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Beowulf |
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"The
mountain
of Tsang-wu shall fall and the waters of the Hsiang
shall cease, sooner than the marks of our tears shall fade from these
bamboo-leaves.
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Li Po |
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Wherefore
stalks at large
Death, so untimely?
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Lucretius |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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places of
unearthly
resort.
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Yeats |
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THE
suppliant
belle now hoped to be allowed
One half his bed to whom her sighs were vowed;
But terror closed her lips; she nothing said,
Though oft her eyes were to his pillow led.
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La Fontaine |
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Prince, this is not the time;
Thou loiterest, and
meanwhile
the devotion
Of thine adherents cooleth.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The people of Stratford-on-Avon have
remembered
little about him, and
invented no legend to his glory.
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Yeats |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast,
quenching
my fire,
A deity at the gods' ambrosial feast.
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Ronsard |
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