--Out of it we
Had like
imaginations
stept to be
Beauty and golden wonder; and for the lovely fear
Of coming perfect joy, had changed
The terror that dreamt there!
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For, lo,
First came together the earthy particles
(As being heavy and
intertangled)
there
In the mid-region, and all began to take
The lowest abodes; and ever the more they got
One with another intertangled, the more
They pressed from out their mass those particles
Which were to form the sea, the stars, the sun,
And moon, and ramparts of the mighty world--
For these consist of seeds more smooth and round
And of much smaller elements than earth.
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LAUGHING SONG
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
when the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the
grasshopper
laughs in the merry scene,
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing "Ha, ha he!
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blake-poems |
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Is it that death forgets to free
You fishes of
melancholy?
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Appoloinaire |
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Nay, 'tis older news that foreign sailor
With the cheek of sea-tan stops to prattle
To the young fig-seller with her basket 15
And the breasts that bud beneath her tunic,
And I hear it in the
rustling
tree-tops.
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Sappho |
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Hideous her voice, and with less terrors roar
The whelps of lions in the
midnight
hour.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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LUCIFER,
stretching
forth his hand and muttering.
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Longfellow |
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He preached upon "breadth" till it argued him narrow, --
The broad are too broad to define;
And of "truth" until it
proclaimed
him a liar, --
The truth never flaunted a sign.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He was to tell the tonga Babu afterwards of the Other Man, and the Babu
was to make such
arrangements
as seemed best.
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Kipling - Poems |
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methinks, I would not often hear
Such
melodies
as thine, lest I should lose
All memory of the wrongs and sore distress
For which my miserable brethren weep!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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A mouth, now bottomless pit
Glacially screeching laughter,
Now a
transcendental
opening,
Vain smile of La Gioconda.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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exporting
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form.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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He left the foul
business
to folks less divine.
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Robert Burns |
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"
Washington
buried in Virginia,
Jackson buried in Tennessee,
Young Lincoln, brooding in Illinois,
And Johnny Appleseed, priestly and free,
Knotted and gnarled, past seventy years,
Still planted on in the woods alone.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Let war and trade and creeds and song
Blend, ripen race on race,
The sunburnt world a man shall breed
Of all the zones and
countless
days.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Hymn
Hymn sung at the Second Church, Boston, at the
Ordination
of
Rev.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Housman
Introduction by William Stanley Braithwaite
1919
INTRODUCTION
The method of the poems in _ A
Shropshire
Lad _ illustrates better
than any theory how poetry may assume the attire of reality, and yet
in speech of the simplest, become in spirit the sheer quality of
loveliness.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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This figure was used by the Pythagorean school as
their seal, and is
equivalent
to the pentagram or five-pointed
star (see _CD.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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How shall I greet thy conquering face,
How nor a fulsome praise obtrude,
Nor stint the meed of
gratitude?
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Aeschylus |
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Our love was new, and then but in the spring,
When I was wont to greet it with my lays;
As Philomel in summer's front doth sing,
And stops her pipe in growth of riper days:
Not that the summer is less pleasant now
Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night,
But that wild music
burthens
every bough,
And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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--
High, and embosom'd in congregated laurels,
Glimmer'd a temple upon a breezy headland;
In the dim
distance
amid the skiey billows
Rose a fair island; the god of flocks had blest it.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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'
"He answer'd with his deed: his bloody hand
Snatch'd two,
unhappy!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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An idea that is not
dangerous
is unworthy of being called an idea at
all.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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IV
But soon, returning duly,
Dawn whitens the wet
hilltops
bluely.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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XLIV
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious
distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second conception during
gestation)
is possible.
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Appoloinaire |
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"Upon this occasion I will request
permission
to add a few words
closely connected with 'The Thorn' and many other Poems in these
Volumes.
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William Wordsworth |
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Deluded by [the] summers heat they sport in
enormous
love
And cast their young out to the [?
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Blake - Zoas |
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'Our towns are copied fragments from our breast;
And all man's Babylons strive but to impart
The
grandeurs
of his Babylonian heart.
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Yeats |
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Sparrow sate close by,
A-making of an insect-pie
For her little children five,
In the nest and all alive;
Singing with a
cheerful
smile,
To amuse them all the while,
"Twikky wikky wikky wee,
Wikky bikky twikky tee,
Spikky bikky bee!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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•
Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Could they be reconciled, the two elements in man's
modern
consciousness
of existence would form a monism.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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960
Cinq
floiches
i ot d'autre guise,
Qui furent ledes a devise:
Li fust estoient et li fer
Plus noirs que deables d'enfer.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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50
In the faint fragrance of flowers,
On the sweet draft of the sea-wind,
Linger strange hints now that loosen
Tears for thy gay gentle spirit,
O
Lityerses!
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Sappho |
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Quo mea se molli candida diva pede 70
Intulit et trito fulgentem in limine plantam
Innixa arguta constituit solea,
Coniugis ut quondam flagrans advenit amore
Protesilaeam
Laudamia domum
Inceptam frustra, nondum cum sanguine sacro 75
Hostia caelestis pacificasset eros.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Now confess,
Didst ever think my
daughter
would be a queen?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The original was written on a single sheet
attached
to a codex of
homilies in the Lambeth Library.
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Beowulf |
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" And she writes again, with deeper
significance: "I too have learnt the subtle
philosophy
of living from
moment to moment.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Not thus
I am to do, but in my heart to break
All the reluctance; it must have on me
No pleasure; else I am
endlessly
tortured_.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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[Sidenote: Reason, however, is the attribute of man alone, as
Intelligence
is that of God.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Again, at times it happens that this power,
This
exhalation
of the Birdless places,
Dispels the air betwixt the ground and birds,
Leaving well-nigh a void.
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Lucretius |
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So drunk, he disavows it
With badinage divine;
So dazzling, we mistake him
For an
alighting
mine.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I could not bear the bees should come,
I wished they 'd stay away
In those dim
countries
where they go:
What word had they for me?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He is right scrupulous in one pretext
And
wholesale
errors swallows in the next.
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John Clare |
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'fore I even had settled my price
They tuck
affidavy
without no bones
And levelled upon me fur all ther loans
To the 'mount of sum nine hundred dollars or more,
And sold me out clean for eight hundred and four,
As sure as I'm Ellick Garry!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Yet slept he not, but
meditating
lay
Woe to his enemies.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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within these rocks," he thus began,
"Are three close circles in
gradation
plac'd,
As these which now thou leav'st.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I had sat within that marble circle where the
oldest bard is as the young,
And the pipe is ever
dropping
honey, and the
lyre's strings are ever strung.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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COUNTING SHEEP
Half-awake I walked
A dimly-seen sweet
hawthorn
lane
Until sleep came;
I lingered at a gate and talked
A little with a lonely lamb.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"Let my foes choke, and my friends shout afar,
While through the
thronged
streets your bridal car
Wheels round its dazzling spokes.
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Keats - Lamia |
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_A World for Love_
Oh, the world is all too rude for thee, with much ado and care;
Oh, this world is but a rude world, and hurts a thing so fair;
Was there a nook in which the world had never been to sear,
That place would prove a
paradise
when thou and Love were near.
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John Clare |
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The Immortal Gods
Have much to
accomplish
ere that day arrive.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Yet with a head freshly honed and
cunningly
fledged, certain others
Pierce to the marrow, inflame rapidly there our blood.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Work on, age after age, nothing is to be lost,
It may have to wait long, but it will certainly come in use,
When the materials are all prepared and ready, the
architects
shall appear.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Their
barbarous
weapons would but mar that beauty,
And I would have you die as a queen should--
In a death chamber.
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Yeats |
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My honour's mute, my duty
impotent!
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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For perfect strains may float
'Neath master-hands, from
instruments
defaced,--
And great souls, at one stroke, may do and doat.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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<>,
rispuose 'l mio maestro, <
ma per dar lui
esperienza
piena,
a me, che morto son, convien menarlo
per lo 'nferno qua giu di giro in giro;
e quest' e ver cosi com' io ti parlo>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Bears and
leopards
would feed upon them next;
Adversaries, dragons, wyverns, serpents,
Griffins were there, thirty thousand, no less,
Nor was there one but on some Frank it set.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Stephen Crane |
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the
gashouse
190
Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Sad case for such a brain to hold
Communion with a
stirring
child!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The prehistoric
Sumerian
dynasties were all transformed into the realm
of myth and legend.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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blake-poems |
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'149 Gildon:'
a critic of the time who had
repeatedly
attacked Pope.
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Alexander Pope |
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Therefore we
must
consider
in every tongue what is used, what received.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Another Fan
(Of
Mademoiselle
Mallarme's)
O dreamer, that I may dive
In pure pathless joy, understand,
How by subtle deceits connive
To keep my wing in your hand.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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What joy it will be to seek that day,
For love of God, that inn afar,
And, if she wishes, rest, I say,
Near her, though I come from afar,
For words fall in a
pleasant
shower
When distant lover has the power,
With gentle heart, joy to realise.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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I beg to be
remembered
most respectfully to my venerable friend, and
to your little Highland chieftain.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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I could not bear the bees should come,
I wished they 'd stay away
In those dim
countries
where they go:
What word had they for me?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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It is
doubtful if tone has ever played a part; a
conscious
use has
sporadically been made of quantity.
| Guess: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Yet may the deed of hers most bright in eyes to be
Lie hid from ours--as in the All-One's thought lay she--
Till
ripening
years have run.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Series
For the
splendour
of the day of happinesses in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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When I flew to Blackmoor Vale,
Whence the green-gowned faeries hail,
Roosting
near them I could hear them
Speak of queenly Nature's ways,
Means, and moods,--well known to fays.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Wīglāf
siteð
"ofer Bīowulfe, byre Wīhstānes,
"eorl ofer ōðrum unlifigendum,
2910 "healdeð hige-mēðum hēafod-wearde
"lēofes and lāðes.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Euripides seems to have taken positive pleasure in Admetus, much as
Meredith did in his famous Egoist; but
Euripides
all through is kinder to
his victim than Meredith is.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But some one said, "A hill there is, a little to the north,
And to its
purpledicular
top a narrow way leads forth;
And there among the rugged rocks abides an ancient Sage,--
An earnest Man, who reads all day a most perplexing page.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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the soaring genius'd Sylvester
That earlier loosed the knot great Newton tied,"
An algebraic theorem
announced
by Newton was demonstrated and extended
by Sylvester.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Sur La Mort de Marie: IV
As in May month, on its stem we see the rose
In its sweet youthfulness, in its
freshest
flower,
Making the heavens jealous with living colour,
Dawn sprinkles it with tears in the morning glow:
Grace lies in all its petals, and love, I know,
Scenting the trees and scenting the garden's bower,
But, assaulted by scorching heat or a shower,
Languishing, it dies, and petals on petals flow.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Li Po |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend, --
Or the most
agonizing
spy
An enemy could send.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The popular belief at Rome, from an early period, seems to have
been that the event of the great day of
Regillus
was decided by
supernatural agency.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Come, read them out to me and
especially
that one I like so much,
which says that I shall become an eagle and soar among the clouds.
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Aristophanes |
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As the two
twilights
of the day
Fold us music-drunken in.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The Lord
vouchsafed
not
Healing to me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"--
"Why, as God
ordered!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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qui tamen haut uni patefecit limina uati
nec sua Vergilio
permisit
carmina soli.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Therefore they shall do my will
To-day while I am master still,
And flesh and soul, now both are strong,
Shall hale the sullen slaves along,
Before this fire of sense decay,
This smoke of thought blow clean away,
And leave with ancient night alone
The
stedfast
and enduring bone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The wery hunter,
slepinge
in his bed,
To wode ayein his minde goth anoon; 100
The Iuge dremeth how his plees ben sped;
The carter dremeth how his cartes goon;
The riche, of gold; the knight fight with his foon,
The seke met he drinketh of the tonne;
The lover met he hath his lady wonne.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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THAT WAS MY COUNTER-BLADE UNDER
LEONARDO
TERRONE, MASTER OF FENCE
i~* ONE while your tastes were keen to you, \J Gone where the grey winds call to you,
By that high fencer, even Death,
Struck of the blade that no man parrieth;
Such is your fence, one saith, One that hath known you.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Downstairs I laugh, I sport and jest with all;
But in my
solitary
room above
I turn my face in silence to the wall;
My heart is breaking for a little love.
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Christina Rossetti |
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This day is lapsing on its way,
Is lapsing out of sight;
And after all the chances of the day
Comes the
resourceless
night.
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Christina Rossetti |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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When my eyes are closed
Faces fragile, pale, yet flushed a little, like petals of roses :
If these things have confused my
memories
of her So that I could not draw her face
Even if I had skill and the colours,
Yet because her face is so like these things
They but draw me nearer unto her in my thought
And thoughts of her come upon my mind gently, As dew upon the petals of roses.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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[This blue-eyed lass was Jean Jeffry, daughter to the minister of
Lochmaben: she was then a rosy girl of seventeen, with winning manners
and
laughing
blue eyes.
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Robert Forst |
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