"I would return to that my land flung in the teeth of war,
I would cast down my robe and crown that
pleasure
me no more,
And don the armor that I knew, the valiant sword I bore.
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And now, since wand'ring o'er the foamy spray,
Our brave Armada held her vent'rous way,
Five times the
changeful
empress of the night
Had fill'd her shining horns with silver light,
When sudden, from the maintop's airy round,
"Land!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Take and kill
The little
hunchback
when he comes with it.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
To leftward o'er the pier they turn'd; but each
Had first between his teeth prest close the tongue,
Toward their leader for a signal looking,
Which he with sound obscene
triumphant
gave.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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She asked: "Am I
forgiven?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Be assembled, all of you;
And, after, raise your triumph-song to greet
This
pitiless
Power that yawns beneath our feet.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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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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Socin's edition of Heyne's
Bēowulf
(called the fifth edition) has been
utilized to some extent in this edition, though it unfortunately came too
late to be freely used.
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Beowulf |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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XXX
At last with
creeping
crooked pace forth came
An old old man, with beard as white as snow,
That on a staffe his feeble steps did frame,
And guide his wearie gate both to and fro: 265
For his eye sight him failed long ygo,
And on his arme a bounch of keyes he bore,
The which unused rust?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Diegue
He
conquered
who proved better on the day.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
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Ronsard |
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that's the nightingale,
Telling the
selfsame
tale
Her song told when this ancient earth was young:
So echoes answered when her song was sung
In the first wooded vale.
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Christina Rossetti |
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OSWALD Ay, and if you think
The Fairies are to blame, and you should chide
Your
favourite
saint--no matter--this good day
Has made amends.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Who's yon, that, near the waterfall,
Which
thunders
down with headlong force,
Beneath the moon, yet shining fair,
As careless as if nothing were,
Sits upright on a feeding horse?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And as a
vanquished
soldier yields his sword
To one who lifts him from the bloody earth,
Even so, Beloved, I at last record,
Here ends my strife.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Sara Teasdale |
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The words they had from him were flaying knives,
And burning
splinters
fixt in their skinless flesh,
And stones thrown till their breasts were broken in.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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You would sacrifice
yourself
in favour of me!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Scarce hadst thou entered thee I knew,
I flushed up,
stupefied
I grew,
And cried within myself: 'tis he!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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To fisshen sinful men we go,
For other
fisshing
ne fisshe we.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In the final scene she is
silent;
necessarily
and rightly silent, for all tradition knows that those
new-risen from the dead must not speak.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But
evermore
a Claudius shrinks from a stricken field,
And changes color like a maid at sight of sword and shield.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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nam sanctae Veneri Cupidinique
uouit, si sibi restitutus essem
desissemque truces uibrare iambos, 5
electissima
pessimi poetae
scripta tardipedi deo daturam
infelicibus ustulanda lignis.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"There was an old man at a station
Who made a
promiscuous
oration.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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There saw I Minos, offspring famed of Jove;
His golden sceptre in his hand, he sat
Judge of the dead; they, pleading each in turn,
His cause, some stood, some sat, filling the house
Whose
spacious
folding-gates are never closed.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'Twas then he loved the tangled grove
And solitude and calm delight,
The moon, the stars, and shining night--
The moon, the lamp of heaven above,
To whom we used to consecrate
A promenade in twilight late
With tears which secret
sufferers
love--
But now in her effulgence pale
A substitute for lamps we hail!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire
Sprinkled
with stars, like Ariadne's tiar:
Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet!
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Keats |
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PLACES
I
~Twilight~
(_Tucson_)
Aloof as aged kings,
Wearing like them the purple,
The mountains ring the mesa
Crowned with a dusky light;
Many a time I watched
That coming-on of darkness
Till stars burned through the heavens
Intolerably
bright.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In 1710, after Bayle's death, Leibnitz, a
German
philosopher
then resident in Paris, wrote in French a book, with a
title formed from Greek words meaning Justice of God, Theodicee, in which
he met Bayle's argument by reasoning that what we cannot understand
confuses us, because we see only the parts of a great whole.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And so Dhoya grew
tranquil
and gentle, and Change seemed still to
have forgotten them, having so much on her hands.
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Yeats |
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And perhaps
the poet whose verse is saturated with tropical hues--he, when young,
sailed in southern seas--might appreciate the monstrous debauch of form
and colour in the
Tahitian
canvases of Paul Gauguin.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Round eastward slanteth the mast;
As the sleep-walker waked with pain,
White-clothed in the midnight blast,
Doth stare and quake, and stride again
To
houseward
all aghast.
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Sidney Lanier |
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And, to sink in it, should you burthen love-
Too great
oppression
for a tender thing.
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Shakespeare |
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I beheld] my
likeness
in the street.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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will human laws,
Rather will ye who are their ministers,
Bar all access to retribution first,
And then, when Heaven doth interpose to do
What ye neglect, arming familiar things _120
To the redress of an unwonted crime,
Make ye the victims who
demanded
it
Culprits?
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Shelley |
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The
Immediate
Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Wait a moment, I am going to give you a
distinct
answer.
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Aristophanes |
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Ihr wisst, auf unsern
deutschen
Buhnen
Probiert ein jeder, was er mag;
Drum schonet mir an diesem Tag
Prospekte nicht und nicht Maschinen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Then stand with vs:
The West yet glimmers with some
streakes
of Day.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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He Abandons the Lists of Love_
VIXI puellis nuper idoneus
et militaui non sine gloria;
nunc arma
defunctumque
bello
barbiton hic paries habebit,
laeuom marinae qui Veneris latus
custodit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Hear I
rustling?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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XXIX
Says
Blancandrins
"Gentle the Franks are found;
Yet a great wrong these dukes do and these counts
Unto their lord, being in counsel proud;
Him and themselves they harry and confound.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And I know thy foot was covered 5
With fair Lydian
broidered
straps;
And the petals from a rose-tree
Fell within the marble basin.
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Sappho |
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v
The
Universal
Man.
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Blake - Zoas |
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So I lose none,
In seeking to augment it, but still keepe
My Bosome franchis'd, and
Allegeance
cleare,
I shall be counsail'd
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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IO
Then
wherefore
tarry ere thou tell me all?
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Aeschylus |
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"
That
ungracious
young lady in blue.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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From the picture of an autumn day we proceed to
the characteristic sights and occupations of autumn,
personified
in the
spirit of the season.
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Keats |
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WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The ocean at the plunge
Of that huge rock, high on its
refluent
flood
Heav'd, irresistible, the ship to land.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Not one
name of word or deed--not of the putrid veins of
gluttons
or rum-drinkers--
not peculation or cunning or betrayal or murder--no serpentine poison of
those that seduce women--not the foolish yielding of women--not of the
attainment of gain by discreditable means--not any nastiness of appetite--
not any harshness of officers to men, or judges to prisoners, or fathers to
sons, or sons to fathers, or of husbands to wives, or bosses to their
boys--not of greedy looks or malignant wishes--nor any of the wiles
practised by people upon themselves--ever is or ever can be stamped on the
programme, but it is duly realised and returned, and that returned in
further performances, and they returned again.
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Whitman |
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They, like a spasm of the Hydra, hearing the angel
Once grant a purer sense to the words of the tribe,
Loudly
proclaimed
it a magic potion, imbibed
From some tidal brew black, and dishonourable.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Faith, oh my faith, what
fragrant
breath,
What sweet odour from her mouth's excess,
What rubies and what diamonds were there.
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Ronsard |
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Was
stranger
contrast ever seen?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He was plagued by
increasing
deafness, and weak health, and died on New Year's Day 1560.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Always
eavesdropping
on gentlemen!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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(Leonor and Page leave)
Just Heaven, whose help I need,
Put an end to the evil that
possesses
me,
Protect my tranquillity and my honour.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And so, when all the time had failed,
Without
external
sound,
Each bound the other's crucifix,
We gave no other bond.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Gia m'avean trasportato i lenti passi
dentro a la selva antica tanto, ch'io
non potea rivedere ond' io mi 'ntrassi;
ed ecco piu andar mi tolse un rio,
che 'nver'
sinistra
con sue picciole onde
piegava l'erba che 'n sua ripa uscio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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and fling down
To float awhile upon these bushes near
Your blue
transparent
robes: take off my crown,
And take away my jealous veil; for here
To-day we shall be joyous while we lave
Our limbs amid the murmur of the wave.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Fortuitously
appearing for a moment in the World
He suddenly departs, never to return.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A drop of blood, as if athwart a dream,
Fell on the shroud, and
reddened
his right hand.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Nought that he saw his sadness could abate:
Yet once he struggled 'gainst the demon's sway,
And as in Beauty's bower he pensive sate,
Poured forth this
unpremeditated
lay,
To charms as fair as those that soothed his happier day.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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namque
fluentisono
prospectans litore Diae,
Thesea cedentem celeri cum classe tuetur
indomitos in corde gerens Ariadna furores,
necdum etiam sese quae uisit uisere credit, 55
ut pote fallaci quae tum primum excita somno
desertam in sola miseram se cernat harena.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Loaded with chains, the
prisoners
were dragged
Along the streets and up the mountain track,
And there they toiled with grim and angry eyes,
Cutting a building in the solid rock.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And who but I should be the poet of
comrades?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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" and Hamish still dangles the child, with a
wavering
will.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Elephants, whose
indifferent
backs
Heave with red lambrequins,
Tigers with golden muzzles,
Negresses, greased and turbaned in green and yellow,
Weave and interweave in the merciless glare of noon.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in
sportive
frolic beat the time,
And stubborn oaks their branchy summits bow.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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And none more boastingly weep his ruin than
they that
procured
and practised it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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This whole
passage refers, perhaps, to Henry VIII's suppression of the
monasteries
and
convents in 1538-39.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Shuttleworthy seldom, if ever,
visited "Old Charley," and never was known to take a meal in his house,
still this did not prevent the two friends from being exceedingly
intimate, as I have just observed; for "Old Charley" never let a day
pass without stepping in three or four times to see how his neighbour
came on, and very often he would stay to
breakfast
or tea, and almost
always to dinner, and then the amount of wine that was made way with by
the two cronies at a sitting, it would really be a difficult thing to
ascertain.
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Poe - 5 |
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When
twilight
twinkling o'er the gay bazaars,
Unfurls a sudden canopy of stars,
When lutes are strung and fragrant torches lit
On white roof-terraces where lovers sit
Drinking together of life's poignant sweet,
BUY FLOWERS, BUY FLOWERS, floats down the singing street.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
A hundred thousand
fighting
men
They climbed the frowning ridges,
With their flaming swords drawn free
And their pennants at their knee.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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For before they found out those laws there were many
excellent poets that
fulfilled
them, amongst whom none more perfect than
Sophocles, who lived a little before Aristotle.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Then in what time the primal icy years
Scraped slowly o'er the Puritans' hopes and fears,
Like as great
glaciers
built of frozen tears,
The Voice from far within the secret sky
Said, `Blood of Faith ye have?
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Sidney Lanier |
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When Arthur beheld the dead body of his kinsman lying on the ground bathed
in blood, he is said to have exclaimed, "O
righteous
God, this blood were
worthy to be preserved and enshrined in gold!
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And
vanishes
along the level of the roofs.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Tennyson |
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Love met me at noonday,
--Reckless imp,
To leave his shaded nights
And brave the glare,--
And I saw him then plainly
For a bungler,
A stupid, simpering, eyeless bungler,
Breaking the hearts of brave people
As the
snivelling
idiot-boy cracks his bowl,
And I cursed him,
Cursed him to and fro, back and forth,
Into all the silly mazes of his mind,
But in the end
He laughed and pointed to my breast,
Where a heart still beat for thee, beloved.
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Stephen Crane |
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I sey nat that she ne had knowing
What was harm; or elles she
Had coud no good, so
thinketh
me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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We do not know who the author of
_Zepheria_
was, so cannot tell how
far Donne is portraying an individual in what follows.
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John Donne |
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O shade, so sedate and decorous by day, with calm
countenance
and regulated
pace;
But away, at night, as you fly, none looking--O then the unloosened ocean
Of tears!
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Whitman |
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Now Pallas shines confess'd; aloft she spreads
The arm of vengeance o'er their guilty heads:
The dreadful aegis blazes in their eye:
Amazed they see, they tremble, and they fly:
Confused, distracted, through he rooms they fling:
Like oxen madden'd by the breeze's sting,
When sultry days, and long, succeed the gentle spring,
Not half so keen fierce vultures of the chase
Stoop from the mountains on the feather'd race,
When, the wide field extended snares beset,
With conscious dread they shun the
quivering
net:
No help, no flight; but wounded every way,
Headlong they drop; the fowlers seize their prey.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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It is your blood they shed;
It is your sacred self that they demand,
For one you bore in joy and hope, and planned
Would make
yourself
eternal, now has fled.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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They'll turn us out at
Portsmouth
wharf in cold an' wet an' rain,
All wearin' Injian cotton kit, but we will not complain;
They'll kill us of pneumonia--for that's their little way--
But damn the chills and fever, men, we're goin' 'ome today!
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Kipling - Poems |
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= 500 + C = 100 soit 600
LXXXIX = 89
La date
correspondante
est 1689*.
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John Donne |
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Such is Bumtagg the bailiff to a hair,
The
worshipper
and demon of despair,
Who waits and hopes and wishes for success
At every nod and signal of distress,
Happy at heart, when storms begin to boil,
To seek the shipwreck and to share the spoil.
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John Clare |
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Imagination flowers and vanishes, swiftly, following the flow of the writing, round the fragmentary stations of a capitalised phrase
introduced
by and extended from the title.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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He came, and lookt at me; and, in a while,
I saw that he was
speaking
to me there.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,
B lackbirds too shake theirs then as they sing,
R
eceiving
their mates, mingling their plumage,
O, as the desires it lights in me now rage,
I 'd offer you, joyously, what befits the lover.
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Villon |
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Will
_nobody_
answer this bell?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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