But the gist of it all, together with the
minutest
surviving
fragment of her verse, has been made available to the general reader in
English by Mr.
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Sappho |
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By the new roots, which fix this stem, I swear,
That never faith I broke to my liege lord,
Who merited such honour; and of you,
If any to the world indeed return,
Clear he from wrong my memory, that lies
Yet
prostrate
under envy's cruel blow.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I hope,--
And I remember,--
We give place
Either to other with
contented
grace,
Acceptable and lovely all our days.
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Christina Rossetti |
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E io
scorgeva
gia d'alcun la faccia,
le spalle e 'l petto e del ventre gran parte,
e per le coste giu ambo le braccia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The
delights
of love I never may
Enjoy, if not joy of my love afar,
No finer, nobler comes my way,
From any quarter: near or far.
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Troubador Verse |
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"Sweet sleep, come to me
Underneath
this tree;
Do father, mother, weep?
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blake-poems |
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»3
GHOSTS
By Samuel Roth
She stood half leaning in the dark doorway, Light
kindling
softly in her anxious eyes:
"I tire," she pleaded, "tire of all that's wise And witty.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Death only can the amorous track
Shut from my thoughts which leads them back
To the sweet port of all their weal;
But lesser objects may conceal
Our light from you, that meaner far
In virtue and
perfection
are.
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Petrarch |
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All these are the cobwebs of
learning, and to let them grow in us is either
sluttish
or foolish.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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yet Love assign'd their doom;
A wife and
mistress
mark'd them for the tomb!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant
Unshaven, with a pocket full of
currants
210
C.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Infants, the
children
of the Spring!
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John Clare |
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ELECTRA
Yea, and my heart o'erflows with gall of grief,
And I am pierced as with a cleaving dart;
Like to the first drops after drought, my tears
Fall down at will, a bitter bursting tide,
As on this lock I gaze; I cannot deem
That any Argive save Orestes' self
Was ever lord thereof; nor, well I wot,
Hath she, the murd'ress, shorn and laid this lock
To mourn him whom she slew--my mother she,
Bearing no mother's heart, but to her race
A
loathing
spirit, loathed itself of heaven!
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Aeschylus |
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'
Sorrow would strive
backward
to wrench the sun,
But the sun moves.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Here stood Ill-nature like an ancient maid,
Her
wrinkled
form in black and white array'd;
With store of pray'rs, for mornings, nights, and noons,
Her hand is fill'd; her bosom with lampoons.
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Alexander Pope |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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His life in the
garden had granted serenity to his forehead, the reading of his few
books had filled his eyes with reverie, and the feeling that he was not
quite a good citizen had given a slight and
occasional
trembling to his
lips.
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Yeats |
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Sweet smiles, mother's smile,
All the
livelong
night beguile.
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blake-poems |
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Surely joy is the
condition
of life.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLIX
That night Love drew you down into the ballroom
To dance a sweet love-ballet with subtle art,
Your eyes though it was evening, brought the day
Like so many
lightning
flashes through the gloom.
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Ronsard |
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Whither fled Lamia, now a lady bright,
A full-born beauty new and
exquisite?
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Keats - Lamia |
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The rolling surge that mirrored all the skies
Mingled its music, turbulent and rich,
Solemn and mystic, with the colours which
The setting sun
reflected
in my eyes.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And whistle: All's for the best
In this best of
Carnivals!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Blind among enemies, O worse then chains,
Dungeon, or beggery, or
decrepit
age!
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Milton |
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Will those bright eyes
With
gladness
come, which, weeping, made me haste
To succour thee, thou mayst or seat thee down,
Or wander where thou wilt.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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{40d}
Wiglaf spake, the son of Weohstan: --
"At the mandate of one, oft
warriors
many
sorrow must suffer; and so must we.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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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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Merrimack
River, the, 147.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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*And gemmy flower, of Trebizond misnam'd--
Inmate of highest stars, where erst it sham'd
All other loveliness: its honied dew
(The fabled nectar that the heathen knew)
Deliriously sweet, was dropp'd from Heaven,
And fell on gardens of the unforgiven
In Trebizond--and on a sunny flower
So like its own above that, to this hour,
It still remaineth, torturing the bee
With madness, and unwonted reverie:
In Heaven, and all its environs, the leaf
And blossom of the fairy plant, in grief
Disconsolate linger--grief that hangs her head,
Repenting follies that full long have fled,
Heaving her white breast to the balmy air,
Like guilty beauty, chasten'd, and more fair:
Nyctanthes too, as sacred as the light
She fears to perfume, perfuming the night:
**And Clytia pondering between many a sun,
While pettish tears adown her petals run:
***And that
aspiring
flower that sprang on Earth--
And died, ere scarce exalted into birth,
Bursting its odorous heart in spirit to wing
Its way to Heaven, from garden of a king:
* This flower is much noticed by Lewenhoeck and Tournefort.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I am a
woodland
fellow, sir, that always loved a great fire;
and the master I speak of ever keeps a good fire.
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Shakespeare |
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nēan and feorran,
_visible
from afar, far and near_,
2318.
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Beowulf |
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Still from side to side his eyes went roaming, As in fever earnestly he moaned
Old
forgotten
ecstasies and splendors Ebbed from out my heart forevermore.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_60
Strangers have wept to hear his
passionate
notes,
And virgins, as unknown he passed, have pined
And wasted for fond love of his wild eyes.
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Shelley |
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The kingly lion stood,
And the virgin viewed:
Then he gambolled round
O'er the
hallowed
ground.
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blake-poems |
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The side of
this chasm, of soft and
crumbling
slate too steep to climb, was among
the memorable features of the scene.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He made small haste to go away, and
recovered
his strength slowly.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Not ordinary fear of insult, injury or death,
but abject,
quivering
dread of something that you cannot see--fear that
dries the inside of the mouth and half of the throat--fear that makes
you sweat on the palms of the hands, and gulp in order to keep the uvula
at work?
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Kipling - Poems |
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[308] From
Aphrodite
(Venus), to whom he had awarded the apple, prize of
beauty, in the contest of the "goddesses three.
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Aristophanes |
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This heap of earth o'ergrown with moss
Which close beside the thorn you see,
So fresh in all its
beauteous
dyes,
Is like an infant's grave in size
As like as like can be:
But never, never any where,
An infant's grave was half so fair.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Why does Pope call him "th'
egregious
wizard"?
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Alexander Pope |
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Il commenca, dit-on, par etonner les sots, mais il devait etonner bien
davantage les gens d'esprit en
laissant
a la posterite ce livre
immortel: _les Fleurs du Mal.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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In Italy in Arms he is the true acolyte of Beauty, worshipping and tending at her
immemorial
shrine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The chill air comes around me oceanly,
From bank to bank the waterstrife is spread;
Strange birds like
snowspots
oer the whizzing sea
Hang where the wild duck hurried past and fled.
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John Clare |
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Therefore we gladly confess to
singling
a special immortal
And our devotions each day pledging but solely to her.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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But a cup of wine levels life and death
And a
thousand
things obstinately hard to prove.
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Li Po |
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Lies the seed unreck'd for
centuries
in the ground?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Is
it, then, only as such a relaxation that
supernatural
machinery is
valuable?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The Might-have-been with tooth accursed
Gnaws at the piteous souls of men,
The deep foundations suffer first,
And all the structure
crumbles
then
Beneath the bitter tooth accursed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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180
Consort revered of
Laertiades!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
And I drew the covers 'round him closer,
Smoothed
his pillow for him.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Jupiter's welcome to more from his Juno if he can get it;
Let any mortal find rest, softer,
wherever
he can.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Concessive
clauses with þēah, þēah þe, þēah .
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Beowulf |
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CANTO XXXII
Mine eyes with such an eager coveting,
Were bent to rid them of their ten years' thirst,
No other sense was waking: and e'en they
Were fenc'd on either side from heed of aught;
So tangled in its custom'd toils that smile
Of saintly
brightness
drew me to itself,
When forcibly toward the left my sight
The sacred virgins turn'd; for from their lips
I heard the warning sounds: "Too fix'd a gaze!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Now we have come to the
temporary
capital, 4 in the king?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But He conferr'd not on imperial Rome
His birth's renown; He chose a lowlier sky,--
To stand, through Him, the
proudest
spot on earth!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Pinckney
to have been born too far south.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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When it
puckered
up with shame,
And I sought him, he never came.
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John Clare |
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HIS open manner much was formed to please;
The lady and her maid grew more at ease,
Which made the gen'rous
sentinel
conclude,
To bring his meat they would not fancy rude.
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La Fontaine |
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So clings to her, is fixed as with a nail,
My heart, as the bark cleaves to the rod,
She is of joy my tower, palace, chamber;
And I love her more than brother, or uncle:
And twice the joy in
Paradise
for my soul,
If any man there through true loving enters.
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Troubador Verse |
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cense The glowing rays
IV
That from the low sun dart, have Turned gold each tower and every
towering
mast;
The saffron flame, that flaming nothing harms Hides Khadeeth's pearl and all the sapphire might Of burnished waves, before her gates collected: The cloak of graciousness, that round thee gloweth, Doth hide the thing thou art, as here befalleth.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A spectre now within my notice came,
Though dubious marks of joy, commix'd with shame,
His
features
wore, like one who gains a boon
With secret glee, which shame forbids to own,
O dire example of the Demon's power!
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Petrarch |
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Return O Wanderer when the Day of Clouds is oer
So saying he sunk down into the sea a pale white corse*
{this and the
following
2 lines appear written over an erased strata LFS} So saying In torment he sunk down & flowd among her filmy Wooft
His Spectre issuing from his feet in flames of fire
In dismal gnawing pain drawn out by her lovd fingers every nerve t
She counted.
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Blake - Zoas |
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_ EVIL SPIRIT
_behind_
MARGERY.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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So they recognised the business and, to feed and clothe the bride,
Got him made a Something Something
somewhere
on the Bombay side.
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Kipling - Poems |
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For
additional
contact information:
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Golden Treasury |
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There is no copy at the India
House, none at the Bibliotheque
Nationale
of Paris.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And gently,
Unbroken when the sky fills with storm,
Jealous to add who knows what spaces
To simple day the day so true in feeling,
Does it not seem, Mery, that each year,
Where spontaneous grace
relights
your brow,
Suffices, in so many aspects and for me,
Like a lone fan with which a room's surprised,
To refresh with as little pain as is needed here
All our inborn and unvarying friendship.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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From bonds of this
tyrannic
soul.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And stole from death thy
brother?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Roses
IN white and glowing blossomy undulation,
From shrubs encircling distant heights and hollows,
You lost
yourself
.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Blacksmiths
with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil,
Each has his main-sledge, they are all out, there is a great heat in
the fire.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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the lotus-buds upon the stream
Are
stirring
like sweet maidens when they dream.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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O all the kings, my men,
Shall fear this terrible
happiness
of mine!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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the throe of thy self-retention:
Inly thou
strovest
to flee, and didst seek thyself at thy centre!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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,
amid fireworks of conceit, he calls his
mistress
dead and protests
that his hatred has grown cold at last.
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John Donne |
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Where is my other
officer?
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Aristophanes |
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Peaceful
as some immeasurable plain
By the first beams of dawning light impress'd,
In the calm sunshine slept the glittering main.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Because the priest is born a
peaceful
slave.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Let those whom nature hath not made for store,
Harsh, featureless, and rude,
barrenly
perish:
Look, whom she best endow'd, she gave thee more;
Which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish:
She carv'd thee for her seal, and meant thereby,
Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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:
_athis_ AD ||
_celeri_
Terent.
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Latin - Catullus |
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But this bold lord, with manly strength endued,
She with one finger and a thumb subdued: 135
Just where the breath of life his
nostrils
drew,
A charge of snuff the wily virgin threw;
Sudden, with starting tears each eye o'erflows,
And the high dome re-echoes to his nose.
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Alexander Pope |
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degorgez
dans les gares!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Howsoe'er,
I let my
business
wait upon their sport.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Circe in vain invites the feast to share;
Absent I ponder, and absorb'd in care;
While scenes of woe rose anxious in my breast,
The queen beheld me, and these words address'd:
"'Why sits Ulysses silent and apart,
Some hoard of grief close harbour'd at his heart
Untouch'd before thee stand the cates divine,
And
unregarded
laughs the rosy wine.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Fēond
gefyldan
(ferh ellen wræc),
and hī hyne þā bēgen ābroten hæfdon,
sib-æðelingas: swylc sceolde secg wesan,
2710 þegn æt þearfe.
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Beowulf |
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, _one
welcome_
(qui gratus advenit): nom.
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Beowulf |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Here's a
knocking
indeede: if a man were
Porter of Hell Gate, hee should haue old turning the
Key.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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gold-fāg
scinon web æfter wāgum, _variegated with gold, the
tapestry
gleamed along
the walls_, 995.
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Beowulf |
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May God never grant me power
Not
inspired
by true love's art!
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Troubador Verse |
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XLIII
THE
IMMORTAL
PART
When I meet the morning beam,
Or lay me down at night to dream,
I hear my bones within me say,
"Another night, another day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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PARACELSUS IN EXCELSIS
" "DEING no longer human, why should I -D Pretend
humanity
or don the frail attire?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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You
Japanese
man or woman!
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Whitman |
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