When at last, far on into Winter, I got to the Northern Capital,[40] I
was moved to see how much you cared for my
reception
and how little you
cared for the cost--amber cups and fine foods on a blue jade dish.
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Con queste genti vid'io glorioso
e giusto il popol suo, tanto che 'l giglio
non era ad asta mai posto a ritroso,
ne per
division
fatto vermiglio>>.
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unforhte
an adv.
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Of whom a youth thus,
insolent
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complete
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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This love of ours it seems to be
Like a twig on a hawthorn tree
That on the tree trembles there
All night, in rain and frost it grieves,
Till morning, when the rays appear
Among the
branches
and the leaves.
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Troubador Verse |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which
kindness
rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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O Beauty, let me know again
The green earth cold, the April rain, the quiet waters
figuring
sky, The one star risen.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The
manuscript
reading of the last two lines has proved contentious, a grat de lieis que de sa vergua l'arma, son Dezirat, c'ab pretz en cambra intra is assumed.
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Troubador Verse |
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The pilot informs the
Portuguese
that they are now
approaching the kingdom of Calicut.
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As Alric hoistes hys arme for dedlie blowe, 305
Which, han it came, had been Du Roees laste,
The swyfte-wyngd messenger from
Willyams
bowe
Quite throwe his arme into his syde ypaste;
His eyne shotte fyre, lyke blazyng starre at nyghte,
He grypd his swerde, and felle upon the place of fyghte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And I think shows fairest where
These
rummaging
small rogues have been at work.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Gia era 'l mondo tutto quanto pregno
de la vera credenza, seminata
per li messaggi de l'etterno regno;
e la parola tua sopra toccata
si consonava a' nuovi predicanti;
ond' io a
visitarli
presi usata.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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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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_Veritas
proprium
hominis_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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_Visions
of the Evening.
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Imagists |
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all now is over;
But love is not over--and what love, O
comrades!
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Whitman |
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But terrour shakes me, lest, incensed, ere long
All Ithaca flock hither, and dispatch 420
Swift messengers with these dread tidings charged
To ev'ry
Cephallenian
state around.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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to this bright flower a thousand years
Seemed but the lingering of a summer's day,
It never knew the tide of cankering fears
Which turn a boy's gold hair to
withered
grey,
The dread desire of death it never knew,
Or how all folk that they were born must rue.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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<>,
ragionava
il poeta, <
che troppo avra d'indugio nostra eletta>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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e
p{re}science
is
cause of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Dear things, kind things,
That my old love said,
Ranged
themselves
reproachfully
Round my bed.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And tho', love knows,
Thy
dreadful
woes
We cannot ease,
Yet do Thou please,
Who mercy art,
T' accept each heart
That gladly would
Help if it could.
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Robert Herrick |
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For far behind the
invading
rout
These two were left alone;
And in the waste their wildest shout
Seemed but a smothered groan.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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For truth they never toil, but feed their pride
With fuel by eternal strife supplied:
No dragon of the wild with equal rage,
Nor lions in
nocturnal
war, engage
With hate so deadly, as the learn'd and wise,
Who scan their own desert with partial eyes.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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No need of Moorish archer's craft
To guard the pure and stainless liver;
He wants not, Fuscus, poison'd shaft
To store his quiver,
Whether he traverse Libyan shoals,
Or Caucasus, forlorn and horrent,
Or lands where far
Hydaspes
rolls
His fabled torrent.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we--
Of many far wiser than we--
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the
beautiful
ANNABEL LEE:--
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride
In her sepulchre there by the sea--
In her tomb by the side of the sea.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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We are content with Cupid's delights,
authentic
and naked--
And with the exquisite creak /crack of the bed as it rocks.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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17) to life, 156-65; going to Horeb, 166-73; his choosing Elisha, 174-7; burning up king Ahaziah's
messengers
(2 Kings i.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I sit and think of it all,
And the blue June
twilight
dies,--
Down in the clanging square
A street-piano cries
And stars come out in the skies.
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Sara Teasdale |
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George Parry, Chancellor to the Bishop of Exeter, who in 1630 was
accused of excommunicating persons for the sake of fees, but was highly
praised in 1635 and soon after
appointed
a Judge Marshal.
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Robert Herrick |
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It
must be, however, in the
miraculous
fusing of the two.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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J'ai vu le soleil bas tache d'horreurs mystiques
Illuminant de longs figements violets,
Pareils a des acteurs de drames tres antiques,
Les flots roulant au loin leurs
frissons
de volets;
J'ai reve la nuit verte aux neiges eblouies,
Baisers montant aux yeux des mers avec lenteur,
La circulation des seves inouies
Et l'eveil jaune et bleu des phosphores chanteurs.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Seest thou yon dreary Plain, forlorn and wilde, 180
The seat of desolation, voyd of light,
Save what the glimmering of these livid flames
Casts pale and
dreadful?
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Milton |
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300
Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up
Fostered alike by beauty and by fear:
Much
favoured
in my birth-place, and no less
In that beloved Vale to which erelong
We were transplanted [Y]--there were we let loose 305
For sports of wider range.
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William Wordsworth |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Praeterea
addebat quendam, quem dicere nolo 45
Nomine, ne tollat rubra supercilia.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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To the ----th Regiment, and to a fort stranded on the
frontier
of
the Kirghiz-Kaisak Steppes!
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shall I then forget
To urge the gloomy
wanderer
o'er the wave?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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_ It did not sound sad to Keats at first, but as it
dies away it takes colour from his own melancholy and sounds
pathetic
to
him.
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Keats |
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What are we to think of
this
behaviour?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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In 1828 he published one of his finest poems,
_Poltava_, which is founded on incidents
familiar
to English
readers in Byron's _Mazeppa_.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Such things
Are in
themselves
dead, and have only life
From what lives round them.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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[23]
Restored
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I have heard the
mermaids
singing, each to each.
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T.S. Eliot |
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If some of the versification is rough
and wanting in "go," I must plead in excuse the
difficult
form of the
stanza, and in many instances the inelastic nature of the subject
matter to be versified.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Sprung from an alien's bed thy sire to grace,
The
vigorous
offspring of a stolen embrace:
Proud of his boy, he own'd the generous flame,
And the brave son repays his cares with fame.
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Iliad - Pope |
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For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the
midnight
message of Paul Revere.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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(69)
[Note 69: The Russians not
unfrequently
adorn their apartments
with effigies of the great Napoleon.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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My heart's the same; my arm loses strength
When it seeks to protect what you condemn;
Last night would have yet proved fatal
If I'd fought only in my own quarrel;
But
defending
my people, king and country,
Only a traitor would have dared fight badly.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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salue, magna parens frugum, Saturnia tellus,
magna uirum: tibi res
antiquae
laudis et artis
ingredior sanctos ausus recludere fontis,
Ascraeumque cano Romana per oppida carmen.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"This is an immense improvement on
shooting
the unimpressionable Fuzzy
in the open," said Dick, from his place in the corner.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Let him not shrink in terror from a
friendly
face.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Milton's devil is an abstraction of infernal
pride--
"Sole
Positive
of Night!
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Byron |
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622 in the
Bodleian
library by F.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Do not let it serve some impious
purpose!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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No curule magistrates could be
chosen; no
military
muster could be held.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Iliad - Pope |
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A Single Smile
A single smile disputes
Each star with the
gathering
night
A single smile for us both
And the blue of your joyful eyes
Against the mass of night
Finding its flame in my eyes
I have seen by needing to know
The deep night create the day
With no change in our appearance.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that arrogant display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice
threefold
array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You contemplate the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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What the world's million lips are thirsting for,
Must be
substantial
somewhere.
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Yeats |
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The Lord of Arragon, from Cadiz' walls,
And hoar Pyrene's[312] sides his legions calls;
The num'rous legions to his
standard
throng,
And war, with horrid strides, now stalks along.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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iam tribus choros uideres feriantis noctibus
congreges inter
cateruas
ire per saltus tuos
floreas inter coronas, myrteas inter casas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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_ Your
presence
with us, this glad day,
We take it very kind, indeed!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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how he fell a swearin, a swearin,
But
heavens!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And when they're quickly borne
In their
exceeding
lightness, easily
(As earlier I showed) one subtle image,
Compounded, moves by its one blow the mind,
Itself so subtle and so strangely quick.
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Lucretius |
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The pad of his strong feet, that ceaseless sound
Of supple tread behind the iron bands,
Is like a dance of strength
circling
around,
While in the circle, stunned, a great will stands.
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Rilke - Poems |
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So far it is from both the sky and land,
It cannot rise, it dare not fall, so lives apart
From fear of
conquest
and from hope of rest.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women
breathed
by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Back to my heart in frozen fear I feel
My waning life-blood run--
The blood that round the
wounding
steel
Ebbs slow, as sinks life's parting sun--
Swift, swift and sure, some woe comes pressing on!
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Lat us holde forth our purpos fermely; 495
And sin that ye
bihighten
him to byde,
Hold forward now, and after lat us ryde.
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I have
forgotten
you long, long ago.
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Ah, 'tis not the jewels and
trinkets
alone;
Her look is so piercing, so _distingue_!
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And if your hand or foot offend you,
Cut it off, lad, and be whole;
But play the man, stand up and end you,
When your
sickness
is your soul.
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for thy unworthiness,
To show to her some
pleasant
meanings writ
In winning words, since through her gentiless, [5] 300
Thee she accepts as for her service fit!
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805
Pandare, which that sent from Troilus
Was to Criseyde, as ye han herd devyse,
That for the beste it was
accorded
thus,
And he ful glad to doon him that servyse,
Un-to Criseyde, in a ful secree wyse, 810
Ther-as she lay in torment and in rage,
Com hir to telle al hoolly his message,
And fond that she hir-selven gan to trete
Ful pitously; for with hir salte teres
Hir brest, hir face, y-bathed was ful wete; 815
The mighty tresses of hir sonnish heres,
Unbroyden, hangen al aboute hir eres;
Which yaf him verray signal of martyre
Of deeth, which that hir herte gan desyre.
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The barges wash
Drifting
logs
Down Greenwich reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The
wandering
bees cannot bear to leave them;
The sweet birds also come there to roost.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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They
walked for some time in silence, the girl
steering
him deftly through
the crowd.
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Kipling - Poems |
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But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in
patterns
on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Why, I have shed
An urn of tears, as though thou wert cold dead;
And now I find thee living, I will pour
From these devoted eyes their silver store,
Until exhausted of the latest drop,
So it will
pleasure
thee, and force thee stop
Here, that I too may live: but if beyond
Such cool and sorrowful offerings, thou art fond 440
Of soothing warmth, of dalliance supreme;
If thou art ripe to taste a long love dream;
If smiles, if dimples, tongues for ardour mute,
Hang in thy vision like a tempting fruit,
O let me pluck it for thee.
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It was by no means my design, however, to
expatiate
upon the _merits
_of what I should read you.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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So, like the stag, who, wounded by the dart,
Its poison'd iron rankling in his side,
Flies swifter at each quickening anguish'd throb,--
I feel the fatal arrow at my heart;
Yet with its poison, joy awakes its tide;
My flight
exhausts
me--grief my life doth rob!
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Petrarch |
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Still o'er the features, which perforce they cheer,
To feign the pleasure or conceal the pique;
Smiles form the channel of a future tear,
Or raise the
writhing
lip with ill-dissembled sneer.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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`Y-wis, myn owene dere herte trewe,
I woot that, whan ye next up-on me see,
So lost have I myn hele and eek myn hewe,
Criseyde
shal nought conne knowe me!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Valley birds droned here and there, 8 we saw no
travelers
going back the way we came.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The court had
sympathy
that I had made it alive, 8 old friends were pained at how old and ugly I had become.
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