J
[Illustration]
J was a jackdaw
Who hopped up and down
In the
principal
street
Of a neighboring town.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Eufeniens
ansuered
sone,
As he au?
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As the
troopers
found out.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Raised high above the hayseed world
He smokes his painted pipe,
And now surveys the orchard ways,
The damsons
clustering
ripe.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Meerly to drive the time away he sickn'd,
Fainted, and died, nor would with Ale be quickn'd;
Nay, quoth he, on his
swooning
bed out-stretch'd,
If I may not carry, sure Ile ne're be fetch'd,
But vow though the cross Doctors all stood hearers,
For one Carrier put down to make six bearers.
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Milton |
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Come, read to me some poem,
Some simple and heartfelt lay,
That shall soothe this
restless
feeling,
And banish the thoughts of day.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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gone for ever are the happy years
That soothed my soul amid Love's
fiercest
fire,
And she for whom I wept and tuned my lyre
Has gone, alas!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"Cooks need not be
indulged
in waste;
Yet still you'd better teach them
Dishes should have _some sort_ of taste.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Come what come may,
Time, and the Houre, runs through the
roughest
Day
Banq.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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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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Phaedra
I hear that a swift
departure
takes you far
From us, my Lord.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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{and} som tyme it
discendi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Still, for all slips of hers,
One of Eve's family--
Wipe those poor lips of hers
Oozing so clammily,
Loop up her tresses
Escaped from the comb,
Her fair auburn tresses;
Whilst
wonderment
guesses
Where was her home?
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Poe - 5 |
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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blake-poems |
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We sought
direction
of the power divine:
The god propitious gave the guiding sign;
Through the mid seas he bid our navy steer,
And in Euboea shun the woes we fear.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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It sickens me yet, that
slaughter!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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[End of the Second Night]
Ahania heard the Lamentation & a swift
Vibration
Spread thro her Golden frame.
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Blake - Zoas |
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In his _Narrative_ Bligh describes the mutiny as "a close-planned act of
villainy," and attributes the
conspiracy
not to his own harshness, or to
disloyalty provoked by "real or imaginary grievances," but to the
contrast of life on board ship, "in ever climbing up the climbing wave,"
with the unearned luxuries of Tahiti, "the allurements of dissipation
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Byron |
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On painted ceilings you
devoutly
stare,
Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre,
On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie,
And bring all Paradise before your eye.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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They can be
understood
by kings.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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e see
manassynge
wi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Those who practice poetry search for and love only the
perfection
that is God Himself.
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Appoloinaire |
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If the things are ever
published
some one may perhaps remember this
story, now printed as a safeguard to prove that McIntosh Jellaludin and
not I myself wrote the Book of Mother Maturin.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The free winds told him what they knew,
Discoursed of fortune as they blew;
Omens and signs that filled the air
To him authentic witness bare;
The birds brought
auguries
on their wings,
And carolled undeceiving things
Him to beckon, him to warn;
Well might then the poet scorn
To learn of scribe or courier
Things writ in vaster character;
And on his mind at dawn of day
Soft shadows of the evening lay.
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Emerson - Poems |
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With fiercer blasts the pine's dim height
Is rock'd; proud towers with heavier fall
Crash to the ground; and thunders smite
The
mountains
tall.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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What fields, or waves, or
mountains?
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Golden Treasury |
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And
he, for none other escape from peril is left, vomits from his throat
vast jets of smoke, wonderful to tell, and enwreathes his dwelling in
blind gloom, blotting view from the eyes, while in the cave's depth
night thickens with smoke-bursts in a
darkness
shot with fire.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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At that time when Christ's seed
flowered
all around,
More than one monk, forgotten in his hour,
Taking for studio the burial-ground,
Glorified Death with simple faith and power.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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No
radiance
in the far sky,
Ineffable, divine;
No vision painted upon a pall;
And always my eyes ached for the light.
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Stephen Crane |
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A female
attendant
upon a lady of rank.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Yeats |
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"
At length before that high tribunal each--
With anxious
trembling
I, while in his mien
Was conscious triumph seen--
With earnest prayer concluded thus his speech:
"Speak, noble lady!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And most in autumn is shaken the house of heaven,
The house so studded with the
glittering
stars,
And the whole earth around--most too in spring
When flowery times unfold themselves: for, lo,
In the cold season is there lack of fire,
And winds are scanty in the hot, and clouds
Have not so dense a bulk.
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Lucretius |
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But now, at length, dear Dian sank from sight,
Into a western couch of thunder-cloud;
And thou, a ghost, amid the
entombing
trees
Didst glide away.
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Poe - 5 |
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--[Greek: kleie bi_en
kartos te log_on
pseud_egora
lex_o]--which was Apollo's answer to
certain persons who tried to force his oracle to reply.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before
combating
one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Yet, in good faith, some say that thee behold,
Thy face hath not the power to make love groan;
To say they err I dare not be so bold,
Although
I swear it to myself alone.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Here's a
knocking
indeede: if a man were
Porter of Hell Gate, hee should haue old turning the
Key.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Character
of an incorrigible Poet.
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Alexander Pope |
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And
fiercely
by the arm he took her,
And by the arm he held her fast,
And fiercely by the arm he shook her,
And cried, "I've caught you then at last!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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What fear I then, rather what know to feare
Under this ignorance of Good and Evil,
Of God or Death, of Law or
Penaltie?
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Milton |
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In confused haste he has gone to set off on that long journey,
unexpectedly
it happened that I was too late for your parting feast.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The Centennial
Commission
has invited me to write a poem
which shall serve as the text for a Cantata (the music to be by Dudley Buck,
of New York), to be sung at the opening of the Exhibition,
under Thomas' direction.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Lascio lo fele e vo per dolci pomi
promessi
a me per lo verace duca;
ma 'nfino al centro pria convien ch'i' tomi>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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_Facetus_, _facetiae_,
_infacetus_,
_infacetiae_
are favourite words with Catullus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I tell you, Goodman Cole, that Quaker girl
Is
precious
as a sea-bream's eye.
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Longfellow |
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THE CHILD'S GRAVE
I came to the
churchyard
where pretty Joy lies
On a morning in April, a rare sunny day;
Such bloom rose around, and so many birds' cries
That I sang for delight as I followed the way.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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_ a:
_illaque
haud a.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Let's hush over all that's denied us,
Let's promise at peace to remain,
Though
everything
else be decried us
But still a stroll-round atwain.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Li Po |
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To-day one
daughter
and one son remain
Of all my goodly show:
Wellnigh in solitude my dark hours wane;
God takes my children now.
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Hugo - Poems |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Only the houses are
blocking
the sun there, it's not yet the mountains.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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That Providence which had so long the care
Of Cromwell's head, and
numbered
every hair,
Now in itself (the glass where all appears)
Had seen the period of his golden years.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The poets in this volume do not
represent
a clique.
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Imagists |
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Is my mind so lost it no longer remembers
The eternal
obstacle
that separates us?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Now even I, a fond woman,
Frail and of small understanding, 20
Yet with unslakable yearning
Greatly desiring wisdom,
Come to the
threshold
of reason
And the bright portals.
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Sappho |
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Thy father's skill, O
Phereclus!
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Iliad - Pope |
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WORLD BUILDERS By Abigail Fithian Halsev
These are the things that make the world, The sun and air, the earth and sky,
The golden sunlight everywhere,
The wings of angels
drifting
by.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Goe and give them light that sorowe 5
Or the saylor flyinge:
Our
imbraces
need noe morowe
Nor our blisses eying.
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John Donne |
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Where is the rock of Triumph, the high place
Where Rome
embraced
her heroes?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Cease, cease, (O
Charles)
thus to pollute our
isle.
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Marvell - Poems |
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" The French have
occupied
Canada, not
_udally_, or by noble right, but _feudally_, or by ignoble right.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
With conscious shame they hear the stern rebuke,
Nor longer durst sustain the
sovereign
look.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Who bade you
awake from your sleep
And track me beyond the
cerulean
foam of the
deep?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I offered Being for it;
The mighty
merchant
smiled.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A new world was made
manifest!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But when at last
Lust,
gathered
in the thews, hath spent itself,
There come a brief pause in the raging heat--
But then a madness just the same returns
And that old fury visits them again,
When once again they seek and crave to reach
They know not what, all powerless to find
The artifice to subjugate the bane.
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Lucretius |
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So cried I, bitterly
thrusting
pity aside,
Closing my lids to sleep.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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With what unpleasant pangs, with what an hoard of pains,
Hath he acquainted my green years by his false
pleasant
trains.
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Petrarch |
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He was the apothecary, and this is the doctor who has
performed
the operation.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Thus when with meats & drinks they had suffic'd,
Not burd'nd Nature, sudden mind arose
In Adam, not to let th' occasion pass
Given him by this great Conference to know
Of things above his World, and of thir being
Who dwell in Heav'n, whose excellence he saw
Transcend his own so farr, whose radiant forms
Divine effulgence, whose high Power so far
Exceeded
human, and his wary speech
Thus to th' Empyreal Minister he fram'd.
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Milton |
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For he hears the lambs' innocent call,
And he hears the ewes' tender reply;
He is watching while they are in peace,
For they know when their
Shepherd
is nigh.
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blake-poems |
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1629/30, and was incorporated at
Cambridge
in 1634.
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John Donne |
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Softly he'd stirred the bells to ring at Rheims,
He'd knocked at high Montmartre, hardly asleep;
Heard the sweet carillon of doomed Louvain,
Boylike, had tarried for a moment's play
Amid the traceries of Amiens,
And then was hast'ning on the road to Dieppe,
When he o'ertook me drowsy from the hours
Through which I'd walked, with no companions else
Than ghostly
kilometer
posts that stood
As sentinels' of space along the way.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Some indeed of the high literati of the
north--Home, the author of Douglas, was one of them--spoke of the poet
as a chance or an accident: and though they admitted that he was a
poet, yet he was not one of settled
grandeur
of soul, brightened by
study.
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Robert Forst |
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Indeed,
Professor
J.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Kalenda maia
Calends of May
Nor leafy spray
Nor songs of birds, nor flowers gay
Please me today
My Lady, nay,
Lest there's a fine message I pray
From your loveliness, to relay
The
pleasures
new love and joy may
Display
And I'll play
For you, true lady, I say,
And lay
By the way
The jealous ones, ere I go away.
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Troubador Verse |
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'34 Maevius:'
a
poetaster
whose name has been handed down by Virgil and Horace.
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Alexander Pope |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Nun ist es
geschehn!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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His instant thought a poet spoke,
And filled the age his fame;
An inch of ground the
lightning
strook
But lit the sky with flame.
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It is
somewhat
singular, that in Lanark, Renfrew, Ayr, Wigton,
Kirkudbright, and Dumfries-shires, there is scarcely an old song or
tune which, from the title, &c.
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Robert Forst |
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Mentr' io la giu
fisamente
mirava,
lo duca mio, dicendo <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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