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To fair and dance
parading!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are
in a constant state of change.
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Will ye gang down the water-side,
And see the waves sae sweetly glide
Beneath the hazels
spreading
wide,
The moon it shines fu' clearly.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Now know I what Love is: 'mid savage rocks
Tmaros or Rhodope brought forth the boy,
Or
Garamantes
in earth's utmost bounds-
No kin of ours, nor of our blood begot.
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Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is something he carries on his back,
Which I am
forbidden
to see.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In Thee is all my hope, is all my trust,
On Thee I centre all my self that dies,
And self that dies not with its mortal crust,
But sleeps and wakes, and in the end will rise
With hymns and
hallelujahs
on its lips,
Thee loving with the love that satisfies.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The acolyte
Amid the chanted joy and thankful rite
May so fall flat, with pale
insensate
brow,
On the altar-stair.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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ou in mi sones nom,
for
seuentene
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Pour le reste de ce que j'aime parfaitement, le _Bateau ivre_, les
_Effares_, les
_Chercheuses
de poux_ et, bien apres, les _Assis_ aussi,
parbleu!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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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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Ho for the women, their beauty and my
pleasure!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Leo Lespes
may have added a few details, but I have no doubt of the essential
antiquity of what seems to me the most
impressive
form of one of the
supreme parables of the world.
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In other words, a
beautiful thin sack is woven around the seed, with a handle to it such
as the wind can take hold of, and it is then committed to the wind,
expressly that it may transport the seed and extend the range of the
species; and this it does, as effectually as when seeds are sent by
mail in a
different
kind of sack from the Patent Office.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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That this is
particularly
true of its poetry will
be gauged from the present volume.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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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I took, and quaff'd it,
confident
in heaven.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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To help our bleaker parts
Salubrious
hours are given,
Which if they do not fit for earth
Drill silently for heaven.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"Phur," spoke the Cup, "O king, dwelt as Day's god,
Ruled
Alexandria
with sword and rod.
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Hugo - Poems |
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'
He spoke, he turned, then,
flinging
round her neck,
Claspt it, and cried, 'Thine Order, O my Queen!
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Tennyson |
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Oh the
gorgeous
Blossom-days!
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Christina Rossetti |
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'Fair, kind, and true,' is all my argument,
'Fair, kind, and true,' varying to other words;
And in this change is my
invention
spent,
Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Tell us, thou clear and
heavenly
tongue, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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She looks into me
The unknowing heart
To see if I love
She has
confidence
she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Not then this world's wild joys had been
To me one savage hunting scene,
My sole delight the
headlong
race,
And frantic hurry of the chase;
To start, pursue, and bring to bay,
Rush in, drag down, and rend my prey,
Then--from the carcase turn away!
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Golden Treasury |
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If he had
more
learning
he would be a second Ss?
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Li Po |
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There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were
climbing
all the while
Till when they reached the other side,
A dominie in gray
Put gently up the evening bars,
And led the flock away.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Quaint
invective
on a pedantic critic
CCXVIII.
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King
Yet, all who in my service so engage
Do not acquit themselves with such courage;
And valour that is not born of excess
Seldom achieves
comparable
success.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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In the
letter just mentioned he gives the following account of his reception,
with some curious observations upon political writing: "The Lord
Mayor
received
me as politely as a citizen could.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Keats - Lamia |
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His safe conduct home
Shall be the gen'ral care, but mine in Chief,
To whom
dominion
o'er the rest belongs.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And on one, that's Earth, a yellow dot, Paris,
Where hangs, a light, a poor ageing fool:
In the frail
universal
order, unique miracle.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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'What terror, what utter
cowardice
hath fallen on your spirits, O
never to be stung to shame, O slack alway?
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Lass mich nicht vergebens flehen,
Hab ich dich doch mein Tage nicht
gesehen!
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In common with all the world, we have been much delighted with "The
Shepherd's Hunting" by Withers--a poem partaking, in a remarkable
degree, of the
peculiarities
of "Il Penseroso.
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Poe - 5 |
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He warmed waters to bathe our feet, 32 and cut paper
streamers
to call back our souls.
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The Commonwealth then first
together
came.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And why on
horseback
have you set
Him whom you love, your idiot boy?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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When within a thing so sad
Lies, thou wilt house a
stranger?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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You roused yourself on
occasion
of the troubles, opened your eyes wide and took a look at the enemy.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Full five-and-thirty years he lived
A running
huntsman
merry;
And still the centre of his cheek
Is red as a ripe cherry.
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Golden Treasury |
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381; _Elements de la
Philosophie
de Newton_, _vi.
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Byron |
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Thus it is: Spirit finding the world fair,
Is spirit in dim
perception
of its own
Radiant desire piercing the worldly shadow.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I WISH you were a pleasant wren,
And I your small accepted mate;
How we'd look down on
toilsome
men!
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Christina Rossetti |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Yet of him-self no-thing ne wolde I recche,
Nere it for Antenor and Eneas,
That been his
freendes
in swich maner cas; 1475
But, for the love of god, myn uncle dere,
No fors of that; lat him have al y-fere;
`With-outen that I have ynough for us.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But if grief, self-consumed, in oblivion would doze,
And conscience her
tortures
appease,
'Mid tumult and uproar this man must repose;
In the comfortless vault of disease.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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There foul adulterers to thy bride resort,
And lordly
gluttons
riot in thy court.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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(_ends at_ parde);
_misnumbered
4660 in_ M.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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LYCIDAS
Your pleas but linger out my heart's desire:
Now all the deep is into silence hushed,
And all the
murmuring
breezes sunk to sleep.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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His wife has a wooly
head and misshapen ears;
projecting
teeth irregularly set; a crook in
her back and a halt in her gait.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The Foundation is
committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Polypheme's white tooth
Slips on the nut if, after
frequent
showers,
The shell is over-smooth,--and not so much
Will turn the thing called love, aside to hate
Or else to oblivion.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The ordre of compleynt
requireth
skilfully, 155
That if a wight shal pleyne pitously,
There mot be cause wherfor that men pleyne;
Or men may deme he pleyneth folily
And causeles; alas!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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His canvas is the
beautiful
bright veil
Through which her sorrow shines.
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Rilke - Poems |
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O the darkness of the corners,
the warm air, and the stars
framed in the
casement
of the ships' lights!
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Imagists |
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When it is day with thee, my friend, it is night with me; yet even
then I speak of the
noontide
that dances upon the hills and of
the purple shadow that steals its way across the valley; for thou
canst not hear the songs of my darkness nor see my wings beating
against the stars--and I fain would not have thee hear or see.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Puis tu te
sentiras
la joue egratignee.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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--Mais
pourquoi
pleure-t-elle?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"Since thou
shrivest
my brother, fair mother," said she
"I count on thy priesthood for marrying of me,
And I know by the hills that the battle is done.
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Pero a la dimanda che mi faci
quinc' entro
satisfatto
sara tosto,
e al disio ancor che tu mi taci>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The best Latin
eclogues
are imitations of
Theocritus.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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1,000,000 in Exchequer bills to landed proprietors on the
security of their crops; that importation of foreign corn should be
permitted
whenever
the price of wheat should be at or above 70 shillings
a quarter .
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Byron |
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It seems to me
quite possible that it was written by Lord Herbert, but until more
evidence be
forthcoming
I have let it stand, because (1) the letters
'I.
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John Donne |
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Yet,
since the god cannot have
commanded
evil, it is a duty also.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The Hill of Posilipo is
situated
to the west of the city of Naples, and is the site of Virgil's tomb.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Thou, O Eteocles, shalt have
Full rites, and mourners at thy grave,
But he, thy brother slain, shall he,
With none to weep or cry _Alas_,
To
unbefriended
burial pass?
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Aeschylus |
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Who knows which way by the four winds 'twas
carried?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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O, 'tis a day for reverence,
E'en my own birthday scarce so dear,
For my
Maecenas
counts from thence
Each added year.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Makith Bialacoil repeire ageyn,
And haveth pite upon his peyn;
For Fraunchise wol, and I, Pite, 3575
That
merciful
to him ye be;
And sith that she and I accorde,
Have upon him misericorde;
For I you pray, and eek moneste,
Nought to refusen our requeste; 3580
For he is hard and fel of thought,
That for us two wol do right nought.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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This
chronological
method of arrangement, however, has its limits.
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William Wordsworth |
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VIII
And after him she rode with so much speede
As her slow beast could make; but all in vaine: 65
For him so far had borne his light-foot steede,
Pricked with wrath and fiery fierce disdaine,
That him to follow was but fruitlesse paine;
Yet she her weary limbes would never rest,
But every hill and dale, each wood and plaine, 70
Did search, sore grieved in her gentle brest,
He so
ungently
left her, whom she loved best.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
LXXII
I heard the gods reply:
"Trust not the future with its perilous chance;
The
fortunate
hour is on the dial now.
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Sappho |
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Even if wrong, it has its own excellence, its
special insight and its
extraordinary
awakening power.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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La Fontaine |
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A weekly paper in
reviewing last year's _Samhain_,
convinced
itself, or at any rate its
readers--for that is the heart of the business in propaganda--that I only
began to say these things a few months ago under I know not what alien
influence; and yet I seem to have been saying them all my life.
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Yeats |
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Hath not the potter power
over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and
another unto
dishonour?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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From the Royal College of Lyons, Charles went to the Lycee
Louis-le-Grand, Paris, but was
expelled
in 1839, on various
discreditable charges.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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In the fighting
Heardred
is killed.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in
paragraph
1.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Ye tapers, that would light the world,
And cast a shadow on the Sun--
Who still shall pour His rays sublime,
One crystal flood, from East to West,
When _ye_ have burned your little time
And feebly
flickered
into rest!
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Lewis Carroll |
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He
concludes
that "if, on being cultivated, it does not yield
new and palatable varieties, it will at least be celebrated for the
beauty of its flowers, and for the sweetness of its perfume.
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weard
Scyldinga
(_the
Scyldings' warden of the march_), 229; weard, 286, 2240; se weard, sāwele
hyrde, 1742; the _king_ is called bēah-horda weard, 922; rīces weard, 1391;
folces weard, 2514; the _dragon_ is called weard, 3061; weard un-hīore,
2414; beorges weard, 2581; acc.
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Beowulf |
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We shall have the
happiness
to hear some of his poetry now.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Most of the pieces translated
previously
and most of those
I am going to read to-day are songs, not poems.
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Li Po |
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"Les saules trempes, et des
bourgeons
sur les ronces--
C'est la, dans une averse, qu'on s'abrite.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
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Ronsard |
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Were I but so light,
That I each hundred years might move one inch,
I had set forth already on this path,
Seeking him out amidst the
shapeless
crew,
Although eleven miles it wind, not more
Than half of one across.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The
Bishop then locked up his books and papers, and
commanded
him to abstain
from reading and writing for ten days.
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Petrarch |
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during my night
I, having become lusty,
wandered
about
in the midst of omens.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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At length prophetess and prince are
landed
unscathed
on the ugly ooze and livid sedge.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I was
admitted to their private parties; I heard their debates, and the
amusement of their social hours: I treasured up their wit, and their
sentiments on the various topics which they had
discussed
in
conversation.
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Tacitus |
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" With his helmet on his
head, and spear in his hand, he roams up to the rock, and then he hears
from that high hill beyond the brook a
wondrous
wild noise.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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