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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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THE HOUSLING FIRE, the
sacramental
fire.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He said Burns had little to learn in
matters of levity, when he became
acquainted
with him.
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Robert Burns |
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They mutually
recognise the spoils, Messapus' shining helmet and the
decorations
that
cost such sweat to win back.
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This is the worlds condition now, and now
She that should all parts to reunion bow, 220
She that had all Magnetique force alone,
To draw, and fasten sundred parts in one;
She whom wise nature had invented then
When she observ'd that every sort of men
Did in their voyage in this worlds Sea stray, 225
And needed a new compasse for their way;
She that was best, and first originall
Of all faire copies, and the generall
Steward to Fate; she whose rich eyes, and brest
Guilt the West Indies, and perfum'd the East; 230
Whose having breath'd in this world, did bestow
Spice on those Iles, and bad them still smell so,
And that rich Indie which doth gold interre,
Is but as single money, coyn'd from her:
She to whom this world must it selfe refer, 235
As Suburbs, or the
Microcosme
of her,
Shee, shee is dead; shee's dead: when thou knowst this,
Thou knowst how lame a cripple this world is.
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John Donne |
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Those of Alverne the
greatest
court'sy have,
From Pinabel most quietly draw back.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The
feasting
day
Shall surely come; now I must needs away.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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ǣghwylc
ōðrum
trȳwe, 1166.
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Beowulf |
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The old
Countess no longer made the
slightest
pretensions to beauty, but she
still clung to all the habits of her youth, and spent as much time at
her toilet as she had done sixty years before.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In this stanza we see the
influence
of Homer and Vergil.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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LXXXVI
Next prays not only with that Tartar knight
She will abandon or defer the fray;
But that, Troyano's valiant son to right,
She will, together with them, wend her way;
By which her warlike fame a higher flight,
More easily may, even to heaven, assay,
Than in a quarrel of such paltry guise,
Which offers
hindrance
to such fair emprize.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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--whate'er be dim in doubt,
This can our thought track out--
The blow that fells the sinner is of God,
And as he wills, the rod
Of
vengeance
smiteth sore.
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Aeschylus |
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Thy words stream like a tempest
Of
dazzling
mist within my brain--they shake
The earth on which I stand, and hang like night
On Heaven above me.
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Shelley |
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Violet now, in veil on veil of evening
The hills across from Cromwell grow dreamy and far;
A wood-thrush is singing soft as a viol
In the heart of the hollow where the dark pools are;
The primrose has opened her pale yellow flowers
And heaven is
lighting
star after star.
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Sara Teasdale |
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let the secret pass,
That secret to each fool, that he's an ass:
The truth once told (and
wherefore
should we lie?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The
Lamentacion
of Souls.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The beast to the beast is calling,
They rush through the
twilight
sweet,
But the soul is a wary hunter,
He will not let them meet.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Give me food for Minnehaha--
For my dying
Minnehaha!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And oft in the hills of Habersham,
And oft in the valleys of Hall,
The white quartz shone, and the smooth brook-stone
Did bar me of passage with friendly brawl,
And many a
luminous
jewel lone
-- Crystals clear or a-cloud with mist,
Ruby, garnet and amethyst --
Made lures with the lights of streaming stone
In the clefts of the hills of Habersham,
In the beds of the valleys of Hall.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Another
excellent
song of old Skinner's.
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Robert Forst |
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La
grandeur
de ce mal ou tu te crois savante
Ne t'a donc jamais fait reculer d'epouvante,
Quand la nature, grande en ses desseins caches,
De toi se sert, o femme, o reine des peches,
--De toi, vil animal,--pour petrir un genie?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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she will waft ye to some freeborn soul
Whose eye-beam, kindling as it meets your freight, _10
Her heaven-born flame in
suffering
Earth will light,
Until its radiance gleams from pole to pole,
And tyrant-hearts with powerless envy burst
To see their night of ignorance dispersed.
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Shelley |
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I asked the cause: the aged man grew sad:
They pointed to a
building
gray and tall,
And hoarsely answered "Step inside, my lad,
And then you'll see it all.
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Lewis Carroll |
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e, sire,
withoute
strif,
Ioye of him in soule lyf,
crist ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Cold be the fierce winds,
Treacherous
round him.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Hence Offa was praised
for his
fighting
and feeing by far-off men,
the spear-bold warrior; wisely he ruled
over his empire.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Doubt is fled, and clouds of reason,
Dark
disputes
and artful teazing.
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blake-poems |
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IMPROMPTU
My mind is a puddle in the street reflecting green Sirius;
In thick dark groves trees huddle lifting their
branches
like
beckoning hands.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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It would be easier to climb to Heaven
than to walk the
Szechwan
Road.
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Li Po |
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FAUST:
Ist uber
vierzehn
Jahr doch alt.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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nur das
geistige
Band.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to
the
influence
of the physical charms of others.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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230
Dare I think that I cast
In the fountain of youth
The
fleeting
reflection
Of some bygone perfection
That still lingers in me?
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James Russell Lowell |
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when
Millions of fierce encountring Angels fought 220
On either side, the least of whom could weild
These Elements, and arm him with the force
Of all thir Regions: how much more of Power
Armie against Armie numberless to raise
Dreadful combustion warring, and disturb,
Though not destroy, thir happie Native seat;
Had not th' Eternal King Omnipotent
From his strong hold of Heav'n high over-rul'd
And limited thir might; though numberd such
As each divided Legion might have seemd 230
A numerous Host, in strength each armed hand
A Legion; led in fight, yet Leader seemd
Each
Warriour
single as in Chief, expert
When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway
Of Battel, open when, and when to close
The ridges of grim Warr; no thought of flight,
None of retreat, no unbecoming deed
That argu'd fear; each on himself reli'd,
As onely in his arm the moment lay
Of victorie; deeds of eternal fame 240
Were don, but infinite: for wide was spred
That Warr and various; somtimes on firm ground
A standing fight, then soaring on main wing
Tormented all the Air; all Air seemd then
Conflicting Fire: long time in eeven scale
The Battel hung; till Satan, who that day
Prodigious power had shewn, and met in Armes
No equal, raunging through the dire attack
Of fighting Seraphim confus'd, at length
Saw where the Sword of Michael smote, and fell'd 250
Squadrons at once, with huge two-handed sway
Brandisht aloft the horrid edge came down
Wide wasting; such destruction to withstand
He hasted, and oppos'd the rockie Orb
Of tenfold Adamant, his ample Shield
A vast circumference: At his approach
The great Arch-Angel from his warlike toile
Surceas'd, and glad as hoping here to end
Intestine War in Heav'n, the arch foe subdu'd
Or Captive drag'd in Chains, with hostile frown 260
And visage all enflam'd first thus began.
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Milton |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where harpsichords and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your
withered
finger,
From which Woman flows in Sibylline whiteness to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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]
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN:
A
Scottish
Bard, proud of the name, and whose highest ambition is to
sing in his country's service, where shall he so properly look for
patronage as to the illustrious names of his native land: those who
bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their ancestors?
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Robert Burns |
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, the
Ancients
placed scented fruit,
especially oranges, in them.
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Aristophanes |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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his purity avail'd--
Fate in his flight the hapless youth assail'd,
By
interdicted
Love to Vengeance fired;
And by his father's curse the son expired.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Ah then
The hurrahs that, once and agen,
Rang from three
thousand
men
All flushed and savage with fight!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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With tears I received the
Reminder?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The value of the poem is in the ratio
of this
elevating
excitement.
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Poe - 5 |
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For, lo,
At no time did they cease one from another
To catch contagion of the greedy plague,--
As though but woolly flocks and horned herds;
And this in chief would heap the dead on dead:
For who forbore to look to their own sick,
O these (too eager of life, of death afeard)
Would then, soon after, slaughtering Neglect
Visit with
vengeance
of evil death and base--
Themselves deserted and forlorn of help.
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Lucretius |
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NIGHT
The sun
descending
in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
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blake-poems |
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THE FAUN SEES SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME
Zeus,
Brazen-thunder-hurler,
Cloud-whirler, son-of-Kronos,
Send
vengeance
on these Oreads
Who strew
White frozen flecks of mist and cloud
Over the brown trees and the tufted grass
Of the meadows, where the stream
Runs black through shining banks
Of bluish white.
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Imagists |
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Proud as Apollo on his forked hill,
Sat full-blown Bufo, puff'd by ev'ry quill; 230
Fed with soft
Dedication
all day long.
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Alexander Pope |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Centuries
ago--in the Dark Ages, before I
ever met you, dear.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And there as the
motherly
arms stretched out with the thanksgiving prayer --
And there as the mother crept up with a fearful swift pace,
Till her finger nigh felt of the bairnie's face --
In a flash fierce Hamish turned round and lifted the child in the air,
And sprang with the child in his arms from the horrible height in the sea,
Shrill screeching, "Revenge!
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Sidney Lanier |
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We were
enchanted
with the fields,
the tufts of coarse grass
in the shorter grass--
we loved all this.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The little pony glad may be,
But he is milder far than she,
You hardly can
perceive
his joy.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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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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e;
Enk &
parchemyn
also swi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Hate hath
vanished
in the air!
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Sidney Lanier |
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XIV
As we pass the summer stream without danger
That floods in winter, king of all the plain,
Rendering farmers' hopes and shepherds' vain,
In his proud flight, sinking fields in water:
As we see coward creatures at the slaughter
Outrage the dead lion after his brave reign,
Staining their jaws,
revealing
their disdain,
Daring their enemy bereft of power:
And as the least valiant Greeks at Troy
With brave Hector's corpse were wont to toy,
So those whose heads once used to bow,
When to Roman triumph they were drawn,
On dusty tombs exact their vengeance now,
The conquered daring the conqueror's scorn.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag--
It's so elegant
So
intelligent
130
"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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LES BALLONS
AGAINST these turbid turquoise skies
The light and luminous balloons
Dip and drift like satin moons
Drift like silken butterflies;
Reel with every windy gust,
Rise and reel like dancing girls,
Float like strange
transparent
pearls,
Fall and float like silver dust.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The
previous
translations
of this passage are erroneous.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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They lean
together!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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[466] Clitagoras was a composer of
drinking
songs, Telamon of war songs.
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Aristophanes |
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Of
waistcoats
Harry has no lack,
Good duffle grey, and flannel fine;
He has a blanket on his back,
And coats enough to smother nine.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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II
J'aime de vos longs yeux la lumiere verdatre,
Douce beaute, mais tout aujourd'hui m'est amer,
Et rien, ni votre amour, ni le boudoir, ni l'atre,
Ne me vaut le soleil
rayonnant
sur la mer.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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previous
one--the old editions
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,
deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum;
dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,
conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,
aut ne quis malus
inuidere
possit,
cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Lemozis, francha terra cortesa,
Ah,
Limousin!
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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And should we leave the rings where now they stand,
I trust that none ent'ring Ulysses' house 310
Will dare
displace
them.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Lord Byron's/
sammtliche
Werke.
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Byron |
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AWAY they went, and Gyges much admired;
Still more than that: in truth his breast was fired;
For when she moved
astonishment
was great,
And ev'ry grace upon her seemed to wait.
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La Fontaine |
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Not so, quoth Tomkins, and straight drew his
tongue,
Trusty as steel that always ready hung ;
And so
proceeding
in his motion warm,
The army soon raised, he doth as soon disarm.
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Marvell - Poems |
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1030
Theseus
And his passion then began again in
Troezen?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The warders at the gates, the kitchen-maids,
The very beggars would stand off from me,
And I, their queen, would climb the stairs alone,
Pass through the banquet-hall, a loathed thing,
And seek my
chambers
for a hiding-place,
And I should find them but a sepulchre,
The very rushes rotted on the floors,
The fire in ashes on the freezing hearth.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Now,
dwellers
afar,
ocean-travellers, take from me
simple advice: the sooner the better
I hear of the country whence ye came.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Golden Treasury |
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The couched
Brazilian
jaguar
Compels the scampering marmoset
With subtle effluence of cat;
Grishkin has a maisonette;
The sleek Brazilian jaguar
Does not in its arboreal gloom
Distil so rank a feline smell
As Grishkin in a drawing-room.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The celebrated travel book entitled: 'History of Prince Don Pedro of Portugal, in which is told what happened to him on the way
composed
for Gomez of Santistevan when he had covered the seven regions of the globe, one of the twelve who bore the prince company', reports that the Prince of Portugal, Don Pedro of Alfaroubeira, set out with twelve companions to visit the seven regions of the world.
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Appoloinaire |
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Yet my Hart
Throbs to know one thing: Tell me, if your Art
Can tell so much: Shall Banquo's issue euer
Reigne in this
Kingdome?
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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VI "Now would you see this aged Thorn,
This pond, and beauteous hill of moss,
You must take care and choose your time
The
mountain
when to cross.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Meredith - Poems |
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with what proud parade,
Pricking
their spurs, the better speed to gain;
They go to strike,--what other thing could they?
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Chanson de Roland |
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And I have felt
A
presence
that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean, and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man,
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Forsake, inglorious, the contended plain;
This hand unaided shall the war sustain:
The task be mine this hero's
strength
to try,
Who mows whole troops, and makes an army fly.
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Iliad - Pope |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose:
"Give me a rival, O King Feroz.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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She speaks not, but, with pity's dewy trace,
Intently looks on me, and gently sighs,
While pure and
lustrous
tears begem her face;
My spirit, which her sorrow fiercely tries,
So to behold her weep with anger burns,
And freed from slumber to itself returns.
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Petrarch |
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Not in those climes where I have late been straying,
Though Beauty long hath there been matchless deemed,
Not in those visions to the heart displaying
Forms which it sighs but to have only dreamed,
Hath aught like thee in truth or fancy seemed:
Nor, having seen thee, shall I vainly seek
To paint those charms which varied as they beamed--
To such as see thee not my words were weak;
To those who gaze on thee, what
language
could they speak?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams
The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, _30
Lulled by the coil of his
crystalline
streams,
Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay,
And saw in sleep old palaces and towers
Quivering within the wave's intenser day,
All overgrown with azure moss and flowers _35
So sweet, the sense faints picturing them!
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Shelley |
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Paradiso
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Could the author have possibly intended in him compliment to Sir
Walter
Raleigh?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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There a fald-stool stood in a pine-tree's shade,
Enveloped
all in Alexandrin veils;
There was the King that held the whole of Espain,
Twenty thousand of Sarrazins his train;
Nor was there one but did his speech contain,
Eager for news, till they might hear the tale.
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Chanson de Roland |
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For the first time now
with his leader-lord the
liegeman
young
was bidden to share the shock of battle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I should have liked to be present when the
custom-house officer came aboard of him, and asked him to declare upon
his honor if he had
anything
but wearing apparel in them.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Title: Essay on Man
Moral Essays and Satires
Author: Alexander Pope
Editor: Henry Morley
Release Date: August 20, 2007 [eBook #2428]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT
GUTENBERG
EBOOK ESSAY ON MAN***
Transcribed from the 1891 Cassell & Company edition by Les Bowler.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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