And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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A censorship
created in the eighteenth century by Walpole, because somebody had
written against
election
bribery, has been distorted by a puritanism,
which is not the less an English invention for being a pretended hatred
of vice and a real hatred of intellect.
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Then in the brazen helm the lots we throw,
And fortune casts
Eurylochus
to go;
He march'd with twice eleven in his train;
Pensive they march, and pensive we remain.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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She tolde eek al the
prophesyes
by herte,
And how that sevene kinges, with hir route, 1495
Bisegeden the citee al aboute;
And of the holy serpent, and the welle,
And of the furies, al she gan him telle.
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Printer--If the productions of a simple
ploughman can merit a place in the same paper with Sylvester Otway, and
the other favourites of the Muses who illuminate the Star with the
lustre of genius, your
insertion
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succeeded by future communications from--Yours, &c.
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Nor, that time,
Would he forget those beings, to whose minds,
Warm from the labours of benevolence,
The world, and man himself, appeared a scene
Of kindred loveliness: then he would sigh
With
mournful
joy, to think that others felt
What he must never feel: and so, lost man!
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Her these eyes have seen, and not another
Shall behold, till time takes all things goodly, 10
So surpassing fair and fond and wondrous,--
Such a slave as, worth a great king's ransom,
No man yet of all the sons of mortals
But would lose his soul for and regret not;
So hath Beauty
compassed
all her children 15
With the cords of longing and desire.
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'Twas seen and told
how an avenger
survived
the fiend,
as was learned afar.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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These vices are
eschewed
by
pondering your business well and distinctly concerning yourself, which is
much furthered by uttering your thoughts, and letting them as well come
forth to the light and judgment of your own outward senses as to the
censure of other men's ears; for that is the reason why many good
scholars speak but fumblingly; like a rich man, that for want of
particular note and difference can bring you no certain ware readily out
of his shop.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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All on the pyre were plain to see
the gory sark, the gilded swine-crest,
boar of hard iron, and athelings many
slain by the sword: at the
slaughter
they fell.
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has fallen in love.
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A person, walking
in a friend's garden, looking in at a window, saw a company of ladies
at a table near the window, with
countenances
_fixed_.
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Come da lei l'udir nostro ebbe triegua,
ed ecco l'altra con si gran fracasso,
che somiglio tonar che tosto segua:
<>;
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ristrignermi
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in destro feci, e non innanzi, il passo.
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"
PINE
By John Russell McCarthy
You must have dreamed a little every year For fifty years: you must have been a child, Shy and diffident with the violets, School-girlish with the daisies, or perhaps
A
youthful
Indian with the hickory tree;
You must have been a lover with the beech, A wise young father walking with your sons Beneath the maple; then have battled long Grim and defiant with the oak : all these
You must have been for fifty dreaming years Before you may hold converse with the pine.
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Remember
Tchaplitzky, who, thanks to
you, was able to pay his debts.
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"
The last part of _The Book of Hours_, _The Book of Poverty and Death_,
is finally a symphony of
variations
on the two great symbolic themes in
the work of Rilke.
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and who
That marks the fire still
sparkling
in each eye,
Who would but deem their bosom burned anew
With thy unquenched beam, lost Liberty!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and
innocent
heal-all?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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CLYTEMNESTRA
Ye hold me as a woman, weak of will,
And strive to sway me: but my heart is stout,
Nor fears to speak its
uttermost
to you,
Albeit ye know its message.
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Aeschylus |
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Portraits are to daily faces
As an evening west
To a fine,
pedantic
sunshine
In a satin vest.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Fair pledges of a
fruitful
tree,
Why do ye fall so fast?
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Golden Treasury |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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It is pitiful when a man bears a name for
convenience
merely,
who has earned neither name nor fame.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Bulging outcrush into old tumult;
Attainment, as of a narrow harbour,
Of some shop
forgotten
by traffic
With cool-corridored walls.
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Imagists |
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To Ireland, I:
Our
seperated
fortune shall keepe vs both the safer:
Where we are, there's Daggers in mens smiles;
The neere in blood, the neerer bloody
Malc.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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' 60
Then Walter took from next his heart
A packet small and thin,
'Now give you this to the
Princess
Anne,
The Singing Leaves are therein.
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James Russell Lowell |
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at ben taken al so it
is
necessarie
as who so sei?
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My
venerated
reader, oh!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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5
O vast Rondure, swimming in space,
Cover'd all over with visible power and beauty,
Alternate
light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness,
Unspeakable high processions of sun and moon and countless stars above,
Below, the manifold grass and waters, animals, mountains, trees,
With inscrutable purpose, some hidden prophetic intention,
Now first it seems my thought begins to span thee.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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He will admit that the most important parts of the
narrative
have
some foundation in truth.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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My spirit therein dwelling, so overwhelmed
In joy or fear, disturbance without name,
Out of the rivers it is fallen in
Can snatch no
substance
it may shape to words
Answerable to thy prowess and thy praise.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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; to
which is
prefixed
a biographical notice of Lord B.
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Byron |
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I should offend, treating with scorn
The stranger, though a poorer should arrive
Than ev'n thyself; for all the poor that are, 70
And all the
strangers
are the care of Jove.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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[355] He had recited some libellous verses on Nero and been
condemned
for treason.
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Tacitus |
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Aricia holds my wishes slaves to her law: your
Son has indeed been
conquered
by Pallas' daughter.
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"Much have you view'd of future Lusian reign;
Broad empires yet, and
kingdoms
wide, remain,
Scenes of your future toils and glorious sway--
And lo, how wide expands the Gangic bay!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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I pass o'er all those confessors and martyrs
Who live like S-tt-n, or who die like Chartres,
Out-cant old Esdras, or out-drink his heir,
Out-usure Jews, or Irishmen out-swear;
Wicked as pages, who in early years
Act sins which Prisca's
confessor
scarce hears.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The mountains laboured with
prodigious
throes,
And lo!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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It was strange
How things turned out--the
chances!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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LENNOX Once he headed
A band of Pirates in the Norway seas;
And when the King of Denmark
summoned
him
To the oath of fealty, I well remember,
'Twas a strange answer that he made; he said,
"I hold of Spirits, and the Sun in heaven.
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William Wordsworth |
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If it does not then, it never will; and in that case the pig may be let
loose, and the whole process may be
considered
as finished.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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So, through all humors, thou 'rt the same sweet one:
Doubt not I love thee well in each, who see
Thy
constant
change is changeful constancy.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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This fact makes the new text the more interesting since the
legend of Gilgamish is said to have originated at Erech and the
hero in fact figures as one of the prehistoric
Sumerian
rulers of
that ancient city.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Satire is, indeed, the
only sort of composition in which the Latin poets, whose works
have come down to us, were not mere imitators of foreign models;
and it is
therefore
the only sort of composition in which they
have never been rivalled.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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NIGHT LITANY
oDIEU,
purifiez
nos coeurs!
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Proud
capital!
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Hugo - Poems |
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It is indeed such an inestimable treasure, that where
it can be had in its native
heavenly
purity, unstained by some one or
other of the many shades of affectation, and unalloyed by some one or
other of the many species of caprice, I declare to Heaven, I should
think it cheaply purchased at the expense of every other earthly good!
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Robert Forst |
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Es ist eben
geschehn!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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As a scholar he
displayed
no remarkable amount of
capacity, but was fond of general reading and much given to
versification.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Methinks some creeds in vestries and
churches
do
forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that
the Esquimaux sledges are drawn by dogs, and in the twilight of the
northern night the hunter does not give over to follow the seal and
walrus on the ice.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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BLUE WATER
Sea-violins are playing on the sands;
Curved bows of blue and white are flying over the pebbles,
See them attack the chords--dark basses,
glinting
trebles.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
And when in act they cease, in
prospect
rise:
Present to grasp, and future still to find,
The whole employ of body and of mind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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si l'homme puisait encore a ta mamelle,
Grande mere des dieux et des hommes, Cybele;
S'il n'avait pas laisse l'immortelle Astarte
Qui jadis,
emergeant
dans l'immense clarte
Des flots bleus, fleur de chair que la vague parfume,
Montra son nombril rose ou vint neiger l'ecume,
Et fit chanter, Deesse aux grands yeux noirs vainqueurs,
Le rossignol aux bois et l'amour dans les coeurs!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The deadly diamonds shining in their crowns
Do wound the
foreheads
of their Majesties
And glitter through a setting of blood-gouts
As if they smiled to think how men are slain
By the sharp facets of the gem of power,
And how the kings of men are slaves of stones.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The reveries, the fairy dreams of a
Rousseau, may figure the paradisaical life of a Hottentot, but it is
only in such dreams that the
superior
happiness of the barbarian exists.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And at the name there was a general squeeze,
So that the very ghosts no longer walked
In comfort, at their own aerial ease,
But were all rammed, and jammed (but to be balked,
As we shall see), and jostled hands and knees,
Like wind
compressed
and pent within a bladder,
Or like a human colic, which is sadder.
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Byron |
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They bring him into the hall, where a
fire was
brightly
burning upon the hearth.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Such flowers, immense, that every one
Usually had as adornment
A clear contour, a lacuna done
To
separate
it from the garden.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Then Jove from Ida's top his horrors spreads;
The clouds burst dreadful o'er the Grecian heads;
Thick lightnings flash; the
muttering
thunder rolls;
Their strength he withers, and unmans their souls.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Refuse thee, what can I, poor
creature?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Inspecting
Ghosts is something new!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not
satisfied
I see
Until I languish in distress.
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Villon |
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His
language
to his emperor and
adoptive father was deeply respectful and he spoke modestly of
himself.
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Tacitus |
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"
In 99 Tacitus was appointed by the senate, together with Pliny, to conduct the prosecution against a great political offender, Marius Priscus, who, as proconsul of Africa, had corruptly
mismanaged
the affairs of his province.
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Tacitus |
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--
On fresh allurements they are bent,
At least by show of sympathy;
At least their accents and their words
Appear attuned to softer chords;
And then with blind credulity
The
youthful
lover once again
Pursues phantasmagoria vain.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--'Tis morn: with gold the verdant
mountain
glows,
More high, the snowy peaks with hues of rose.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Soothsayer of the eldest gods,
Repairer of what harms betide,
Revealer of the inmost powers
Prometheus proffered, Jove denied;
Disclosing treasures more than true,
Or in what far to-morrow due;
Speaking by the tongues of flowers,
By the ten-tongued laurel speaking,
Singing by the oriole songs,
Heart of bird the man's heart seeking;
Whispering hints of treasure hid
Under Morn's unlifted lid,
Islands looming just beyond
The dim horizon's utmost bound;--
Who can, like thee, our rags upbraid,
Or taunt us with our hope
decayed?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Rilke - Poems |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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ON GRONING BEARE, on a bier with
groaning
friends around.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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To hold thee lightly on a gentle knee,
And print on thy soft cheek a parent's kiss,--
This, it should seem, was not reserved for me
Yet this was in my nature:--As it is,
I know not what is there, yet
something
like to this.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Aminta
consolation
had in view
'Twas that alone the passion from her drew,
A meeting innocent, to vent her tears,
And, to a feeling friend, express her fears.
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You priests may send
round your
obliging
Weislingen to decry me--I am awake.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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--Natures that are
hardened
to evil you shall sooner break than
make straight; they are like poles that are crooked and dry, there is no
attempting them.
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neas sped;
This sprang from Phelus, and the
Athenians
led;
But hapless Medon from Oileus came;
Him Ajax honour'd with a brother's name,
Though born of lawless love: from home expell'd,
A banish'd man, in Phylace he dwell'd,
Press'd by the vengeance of an angry wife;
Troy ends at last his labours and his life.
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Iliad - Pope |
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--
Wandering
exiles
sought him o'er seas, the sons of Ohtere,
who had spurned the sway of the Scylfings'-helmet,
the bravest and best that broke the rings,
in Swedish land, of the sea-kings' line,
haughty hero.
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A
FLEETING
GLIMPSE OF A VILLAGE.
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Yet you see Heaven wishes
something
else.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Your Seruants euer,
Haue theirs, themselues, and what is theirs in compt,
To make their Audit at your
Highnesse
pleasure,
Still to returne your owne
King.
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But sleep came not,
And pity, with sad eyes,
Crept to my side, and told me
That the life of all
creatures
is brave and pityful
Whether they be men, with dark thoughts to vex them,
Or birds, wheeling in the swift joys of flight,
Or brittle ephemerids, spinning to death in the haze
Of gold that quivers on dim evening waters;
Nor would she be denied.
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"Yes" I whispered "this, too, holy, Even this holy and divine,
Though to poets known and lovers only
The dear face that looks from meanest things
"And the majesty that moves about us,
The bright
splendor
what common guise.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Sigh
My soul, towards your brow where O calm sister,
An autumn dreams, blotched by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a
melancholy
garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Or
perchance
you find, when you get home, that those which rattled in
your pocket have thawed, and the ice is turned to cider.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'Tis
mountain
wolves', not horses' food!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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King
Yet Love, far from
registering
this protest,
If Rodrigue wins, true justice will attest.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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can she bear so base a heart,
So lost to honour, lost to truth,
As from the fondest lover part,
The
plighted
husband of her youth!
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connect
lovingly
with them, for they connect lovingly
with you.
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Whitman |
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"
With that, their anchors he
commands
to weigh,
Mount the tall bark, and launch into the sea.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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There is no more curious ghost in
Drumcliff
or Rosses than the
snipe-ghost.
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Yeats |
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Let me hear from you, your first leisure minute, and trust me you
shall in future have no reason to
complain
of my silence.
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Robert Burns |
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