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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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quod
"data sunt daemonibus aliqua dona, quae
nequaquam
mutata esse dicimus,
sed sunt integra et splendidissima.
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John Donne |
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The
Anglo-American people have produced an
enormous
amount of poetry which
they do not often quote, and the Chinese have produced an enormous
amount of poetry which, according to experts, they quote a great deal.
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Li Po |
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We
celebrate
the feast of Ides,
Which April's month, to Venus dear,
In twain divides.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I scarce can think him such a
worthless
thing,
Unless he praise some monster of a king;
Or virtue, or religion turn to sport,
To please a lewd or unbelieving court.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Then was riding and railroading and
expressing
here and thither;
And the Martinsburg Sharpshooters and the Charlestown
Volunteers,
And the Shepherdstown and Winchester Militia hastened whither
Old Brown was said to muster his ten thousand grenadiers.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
Ivan
Kouzmitch
turned to his wife.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Forsaking me, to her my fond heart bound
--Divorce for aye were welcome as discreet--
Notes where the turf is mark'd by her fair feet,
Or from these eyes for her in sorrow drown'd,
Then inly
whispers
as her steps advance,
"Would for awhile that wreteh were here alone
Who pines already o'er his bitter lot.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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So we who bear
This beam must rear
Ourselves
to such a height
As that the stay
Of either may
Create the burden light.
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Robert Herrick |
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If an
individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are
located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from
copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative
works based on the work as long as all
references
to Project Gutenberg
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And then the
lighting
of the lamps.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Long Susan lay deep lost in thought,
And many
dreadful
fears beset her,
Both for her messenger and nurse;
And as her mind grew worse and worse,
Her body it grew better.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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cancelled
by Shelley for why not fatherless?
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Shelley |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
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Ronsard |
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Thy voice is as the hill-wind over me,
And all my
changing
heart gives heed, my lover.
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Sappho |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXXXV
Sweet beauty,
murderess
of my life,
Instead of a heart you've a boulder:
Living, you make me waste and shudder,
Impassioned by amorous desire.
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Ronsard |
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Nearly all the individual
works in the
collection
are in the public domain in the United
States.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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He sits down with holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then
Humility
takes its root
Underneath his foot.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine, soldiers of worth,
Nor Germany with other
warriors
graced.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Here the air is calm and fine
For the father of the flocks;--
Here the grass is soft and sweet,
And the river-eddies meet _50
In the trough beside the cave,
Bright as in their
fountain
wave.
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Shelley |
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"
So even now, too,
Come and release me
From mordant love pain,
And all my heart's will 35
Help me
accomplish!
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Sappho |
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The Elephant
Two Elephants
'Two Elephants'
Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594, The Rijksmuseun
I carry
treasure
in my mouth,
As an elephant his ivory.
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Appoloinaire |
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Tastes are various in matters of poetry,
but the present work possesses a more solid claim to attention in
the series of faithful
pictures
it offers of Russian life and manners.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Never so fertile, spawned upon this shore
More
pregnant
than their Marg*ret, that laid
down
For Hans-in-Kelder of a whole Hans-Town.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Padmaja, aetat 3
Lotus-maiden, you who claim
All the
sweetness
of your name,
Lakshmi, fortune's queen, defend you,
Lotus-born like you, and send you
Balmy moons of love to bless you,
Gentle joy-winds to caress you.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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LXII
"Terence, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your
victuals
fast enough;
There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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La veissies fleuteors,
Menesterez
et jougleors;
Si chantent li uns rotruenges,
Li autres notes Loherenges,
Por ce qu'en set en Loheregne
Plus cointes notes qu'en nul regne.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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)
(So people far from the asphalt footing of Pennsylvania
Avenue look, wonder, mumble--the riding white-jaw
phantoms ride hi-eeee, hi-eeee, hi-yi, hi-yi, hi-eeee--
the proclamations of the honorable orators mix with the
top-sergeants
whistling
the roll call.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Thus fled in rout confus'd the treach'rous Moors
From field to field_,[111] then, hast'ning to the shores,
Some trust in boats their wealth and lives to save,
And, wild with dread, they plunge into the wave;
Some spread their arms to swim, and some beneath
The whelming billows, struggling, pant for breath,
Then whirl'd aloft their nostrils spout the brine;
While show'ring still from many a carabine
The leaden hail their sails and vessels tore,
Till, struggling hard, they reach'd the neighb'ring shore:
Due
vengeance
thus their perfidy repaid,
And GAMA'S terrors to the East display'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Plunged in his throat, the weapon drank his blood,
And deep
transpiercing
through the shoulder stood;
In clanging arms the hero fell and all
The fields resounded with his weighty fall.
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Iliad - Pope |
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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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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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XIII
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
Nor the cutting edge of conquering blade,
Nor the havoc ruthless soldiers made,
In sacking you, Rome, ever and again,
Nor the tricks that fickle fortune played,
Nor envious
centuries
corrosive rain,
Nor the spite of men, nor gods' disdain,
Nor your own power in civil strife displayed,
Nor the impetuous storms that you withstood,
Nor the river-god's winding course in flood,
That has so often drowned you in its thunder,
Not all combined have so abased your pride,
As that this nothing left you, by Time's tide,
Still makes the world halt here, and gaze in wonder.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_ What
squeezing
and pushing, what rustling and hustling!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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This would make her an exact or close
contemporary
of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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The painful warrior famoused for fight,
After a
thousand
victories once foiled,
Is from the book of honour razed quite,
And all the rest forgot for which he toiled:
Then happy I that love and am beloved
Where I may not remove nor be removed.
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Shakespeare |
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Come forth, O flower of Theseus' Attic land,
O glorious band of
children
and of wives,
And ye, O train of matrons crowned with eld!
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Aeschylus |
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He's hidden in the grass, Verlaine
Only to catch, naively, not drying with his breath
And without his lip
drinking
there, at peace again,
A shallow stream that's slandered, and named Death.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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automated
querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Sur vos nuques d'enfants
baissant
ses mains croisees
Le Poete vous dit: o laches, soyez fous!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Independently of its
militating with the
received
ideas of the justice of God, it is by no
means obvious to a superficial inquiry.
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Shelley |
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Tis eight o'clock,--a clear March night,
The moon is up--the sky is blue,
The owlet in the moonlight air,
He shouts from nobody knows where;
He
lengthens
out his lonely shout,
Halloo!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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There's not a
blessing
individuals find,
But some way leans and hearkens to the kind:
No bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride,
No caverned hermit, rests self-satisfied:
Who most to shun or hate mankind pretend,
Seek an admirer, or would fix a friend:
Abstract what others feel, what others think,
All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink:
Each has his share; and who would more obtain,
Shall find, the pleasure pays not half the pain.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And the still Valkyrie hover panting for
hallowed
souls.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive
Foundation
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permitted by U.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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A ghostly horn
Blowing continually, and faint battle-hymns,
And cries, and clashes, and the groans of men;
And
dreadful
shadows strove upon the hill,
And dreadful lights crept up from out the marsh--
Corpse-candles gliding over nameless graves--
HAROLD.
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Tennyson |
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But they made a sad
impression
on the whole, for it was
obvious that all true manhood was in the process of being drilled out
of them.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Some must go off: and yet by these I see,
So great a day as this is
cheapely
bought
Mal.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Homeward doth he flee
Cursing his own stupidity,
And
brooding
o'er the ills he bore,
Society renounced once more.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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let me suffer, being at your beck,
The imprison'd absence of your liberty;
And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each check,
Without
accusing
you of injury.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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XXVI
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
In all her vast dimensions, all her might,
Her length and breadth, and all her depth and height
Needs no line or lead, compass or measure:
He only need draw a circle, at his leisure,
Round all that Ocean in his arms holds tight,
Be it where Sirius scorches with his light,
Or where the
northerlies
blow cold forever.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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, had not greater grace (than was granted
my comrade) saved me from it, I should have been
partaker
(with him of his
doom) in that place.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one, settling a pillow or
throwing
off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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How neai- they failed, and in thy sudden fall,
At oiHH' assayed to
overturn
us all ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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'Tis dark: quick pattereth the flaw-blown sleet:
"This is no dream, my bride, my
Madeline!
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Keats |
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For some were hung with arras green and blue,
Showing a gaudy summer-morn,
Where with puff'd cheek the belted hunter blew
His
wreathed
bugle-horn.
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Tennyson |
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The
Chaplain's wife said that the girl ought to take service in Simla as a
nurse or
something
"genteel.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Then yet again
Melantho
with rude speech
Opprobrious, thus, assail'd Ulysses' ear.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Stephane Mallarme (1844-1896)
Stephane Mallarme
'Stephane Mallarme'
Paul Gauguin, 1891, The Rijksmuseum
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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19th Century French Poetry |
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With tears I
received
the Reminder?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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wut Nothun town d' ye know
Would take a totle
stranger
up an' treat him gratis so?
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James Russell Lowell |
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She felt herself supremer, --
A raised, ethereal thing;
Henceforth for her what
holiday!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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With the great gale we journey
That breathes from gardens thinned,
Borne in the drift of blossoms
Whose petals throng the wind;
Buoyed on the heaven-heard whisper
Of dancing leaflets whirled
From all the woods that autumn
Bereaves
in all the world.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I was made to repeat it several times over
till they could
pronounce
it; and then 'Stepney Marai no Toote' was
echoed through an hundred mouths at once.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I twine
My hopes of being remembered in my line
With my land's language: if too fond and far
These
aspirations
in their scope incline,--
If my fame should be, as my fortunes are,
Of hasty growth and blight, and dull Oblivion bar.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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We thus take into our mouths
cherry-stones as big as peas, a dozen at once, for Nature can persuade
us to do almost
anything
when she would compass her ends.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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For these are actors too, as well as those:
Wants reach all states; they beg but better drest,
And all is
splended
poverty at best.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The Tarentines
gave him
audience
in their theatre, where he addressed them in
such Greek as he could command, which, we may well believe, was
not exactly such as Cineas would have spoken.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Onwordie
syke a marvelle[176] of a kynge!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I saw him out of the door,
I thought:
there will never be a poet,
in all the
centuries
after this,
who will dare write,
after my friend's verse,
"a girl's mouth
is a lily kissed.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The water
caressed
the shore so gently!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Cease now, my flute, now cease
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Blazed
battlement
and pinnet high,
Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair--
So still they blaze, when fate is nigh
The lordly line of high Saint Clair.
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Golden Treasury |
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Yet at intervals some one grew tired
Of
everything
desired,
And sank, I knew not whither, in sorry plight,
Out of sight.
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Christina Rossetti |
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O I could play the woman with mine eyes,
And
Braggart
with my tongue.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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IVNIVS
MODERATVS
COLVMELLA
10-80 A.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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A Villon- These that we loved shall God love less
fadoftfie Gibbet
^nc* sm*te alwav at their
feebleness?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Avant que ton coeur ne se blase,
A la gloire de Dieu rallume ton extase;
C'est la Volupte vraie aux
durables
appas!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Lewis Carroll |
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I follow you whoever you are from the present hour,
My words itch at your ears till you
understand
them.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"Soon shall thy home greet thee in joy no more,
Nor
faithful
wife nor darling children run
To snatch first kiss, and stir within thy heart
Sweet thoughts too deep for words.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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What delight it is, a wonder rather,
When her hair, caught above her ear,
Imitates the style that Venus
employed!
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Ronsard |
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The rush of their charge is
resounding
still
That saved the army at Chancellorsville.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Fair maid, is 't thou wilt do these
wondrous
feats?
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Shakespeare |
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) nīða ofercumen,
_compelled
by combats_, 846.
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If
Ielousye
doth thee payne,
Quyte him his whyle thus agayne,
To venge thee, atte leest in thought,
If other way thou mayest nought;
And in this wyse sotilly 4395
Worche, and winne the maistry.
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And they, and all, in one loud symphony
My name with Liberty commingling, lifted,
'The friend and the
preserver
of the free!
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Caesenas
et corr.
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almighty Zeus, and thou, god with the golden lyre,[577] who reignest on
sacred Delos, and thou, oh,
invincible
virgin, Pallas, with the eyes of
azure and the spear of gold, who protectest our illustrious city, and
thou, the daughter of the beautiful Latona, the queen of the
forests,[578] who art adored under many names, hasten hither at my call.
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My joyful call should instantly bring all who love me most,--
For ne'er were seen such arch delights from Greek or Roman host;
Nor at the free, control-less jousts, where, spite of cynic vaunts,
Austere but lenient Seneca no "Ercles" bumper daunts;
Nor where upon the Tiber floats Aglae in galley gay,
'Neath Asian tent of brilliant stripes, in
gorgeous
array;
Nor when to lutes and tambourines the wealthy prefect flings
A score of slaves, their fetters wreathed, to feed grim, greedy
things.
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OSWALD Last night
When I
returned
with water from the brook,
I overheard the Villains--every word
Like red-hot iron burnt into my heart.
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To what further rigorous pruning her verses would have been
subjected had she
published
them herself, we cannot know.
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Meanwhile
the sound of steeds Frontino's ear
Had reached, and thither had he quickly made:
Him Leo's squires at his commandment caught,
And saddled, and to good Rogero brought;
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Who, though by Leo helped, with much ado
And labour sore the gentle courser scaled.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Hier ist ein
Kastchen
leidlich schwer,
Ich hab's wo anders hergenommen.
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SEMI-CHORUS
Great Zeus, this wedlock turn from me--
Me from the kinsman
bridegroom
guard!
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[Sidenote D: Queen
Guenever
appears gaily dressed.
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"The king himself proclaimed her
peerless
beauty
Before the court,
And held it were to win a kiss his duty
To give a fort,
Or, more, to sign away all bright Dorado,
Tho' gold-plate tiled--
Oh!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Quinci
addivien
ch'Esau si diparte
per seme da Iacob; e vien Quirino
da si vil padre, che si rende a Marte.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Thus from the rage of Jove-like Hector flew
All Greece in heaps; but one he seized, and slew:
Mycenian Periphes, a mighty name,
In wisdom great, in arms well known to fame;
The minister of stern Eurystheus' ire
Against Alcides, Copreus was his sire:
The son redeem'd the honours of the race,
A son as generous as the sire was base;
O'er all his country's youth
conspicuous
far
In every virtue, or of peace or war:
But doom'd to Hector's stronger force to yield!
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Iliad - Pope |
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"
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose:
"Give me a rival, O King Feroz.
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