Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Why like a
skittish
mare
Do you glance askance at me?
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the Albatross proveth a bird of good omen, and
followeth
the ship
as it returned northward through fog and floating ice.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Elle saigna du nez,
Et se sentant bien chaste et pleine de faiblesse,
Pour
savourer
en Dieu son amour revenant,
Elle eut soif de la nuit ou s'exalte et s'abaisse
Le coeur, sous l'oeil des cieux doux, en les devinant;
De la nuit, Vierge-Mere impalpable qui baigne
Tous les jeunes emois de ses silences gris;
Elle eut soif de la nuit forte ou le coeur qui saigne
Ecoute sans temoin sa revolte sans cris.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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[Sidenote: _While you read, see
conventions
of deer go by.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learned by rote,
And beastly Skelton heads of houses quote:
One likes no
language
but the Faery Queen;
A Scot will fight for Christ's Kirk o' the Green:
And each true Briton is to Ben so civil,
He swears the Muses met him at the devil.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Whiter she is than Helen was,
The
loveliest
flower of May,
Full of courtesy, sweet lips she has,
And ever true word does say.
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Troubador Verse |
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And thus it is
For many a day thereafter those appear
Floating
before the eyes, that even awake
They think they view the dancers moving round
Their supple limbs, and catch with both the ears
The liquid song of harp and speaking chords,
And view the same assembly on the seats,
And manifold bright glories of the stage--
So great the influence of pursuit and zest,
And of the affairs wherein 'thas been the wont
Of men to be engaged-nor only men,
But soothly all the animals.
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Lucretius |
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Grant, O Zeus,
Grant me my father's murder to avenge--
Be thou my willing
champion!
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Aeschylus |
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The poets in this volume do not
represent
a clique.
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Imagists |
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Did they achieve nothing for good for
themselves?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Juno yet smiles; but if she chance to chide,
Ill luck 'twill bode to th'
bridegroom
and the bride.
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Robert Herrick |
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XLIII
THE
IMMORTAL
PART
When I meet the morning beam,
Or lay me down at night to dream,
I hear my bones within me say,
"Another night, another day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The Chaplain would not kneel to pray
By his
dishonoured
grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Recovery
came with food: but still, my brain
Was weak, nor of the past had memory.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Thy Love with
stirrings
stronger
Pleads--Give it one year longer.
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Christina Rossetti |
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None of them,
However, 's borne so far as sound or voice--
While I omit all mention of such things
As hit the
eyesight
and assail the vision.
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Lucretius |
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There was an old familiar ballad entitled
_Fortune
my Foe_.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Ye woot your-self, as wel as any wight,
How that your love al fully graunted is 780
To Troilus, the
worthieste
knight,
Oon of this world, and ther-to trouthe plyght,
That, but it were on him along, ye nolde
Him never falsen, whyle ye liven sholde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Send your
pitchers
afloat on the tide,
Gather the leaves ere the dawn be old,
Grind them in mortars of amber and gold,
The fresh green leaves of the henna-tree.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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For indeed I
promised
to eat all of his
killing.
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Shakespeare |
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Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower,
The
periwinkle
trail'd its wreaths;
And 'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
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Golden Treasury |
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Everything
went well till we reached the barn
With a big catch to empty in a bay.
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Robert Forst |
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Flinging
a Stone into the Cup was the signal for "To
Horse!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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Thou glove most dear, most elegant and white,
Encasing ivory tinted with the rose;
More
precious
covering ne'er met mortal sight.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The controversialists as a rule either rejected or neglected
the dogmas of
revealed
religion and based their arguments upon real or
supposed facts of history, physical nature, and the mental processes and
moral characteristics of man.
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Alexander Pope |
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[Illustration:
Arthbroomia
Rigida.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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You roused
yourself
on occasion of the troubles, opened your eyes wide and took a look at the enemy.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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CHORUS
What God can wear such
ruthless
heart
As to delight in ill?
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Aeschylus |
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The shepherd threw his hook and tottered past;
The ploughman ran but none could go so fast;
The woodman threw his faggot from the way
And ceased to chop and
wondered
at the fray.
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John Clare |
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The ground swells greenest o'er the
labouring
moles.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Then in the morning, officious, she'll leave the bed of her lover,
Rouse
adroitly
the flames out from their ashes anew.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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What
counceil
wole ye to me yeven?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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True, blood and
treasure
boundlessly were spilt,
But what of that?
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Byron |
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Latinus, eldest in
years and first in royalty, sits amid them with cheerless brow, and bids
the envoys sent back from the
Aetolian
city tell the news they bring,
and demands a full and ordered reply.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Infanta
Chimene's a noble soul, and though distressed
She will not countenance a thought that's base;
But if, until that day the King shall proffer,
I make a prisoner of this perfect lover,
And thus prevent his
outpouring
of courage,
Will your loving spirit then take umbrage?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Apparently
I hadn't buried him
(I may have knocked him down); but my just trying
To bury him had hurt his dignity.
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Robert Forst |
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Whether there was perfect consistency between this hatred to
the Pope and his thinking, as he
certainly
did for a time, of becoming
his secretary, may admit of a doubt.
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Petrarch |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any
statements concerning tax treatment of donations
received
from outside
the United States.
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Stephen Crane |
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"I would sustain the cause of my kindred
No mortal man is there from whom I've fled;
Rather I'ld die than hear
reproaches
said.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Journey North 339 Seeing his dad, he turns his face away weeping, filthy and greasy, no socks on his feet.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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, since the particular stages of social life
which he
portrays
probably belong to that era.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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It stops a moment on
the carved head of Saint John, then slides on again,
slipping
and
trickling over his stone cloak.
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Imagists |
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LXIX
When they encounter in mid field, pell-mell,
And to the sky flew every
shivered
lance,
At that loud noise, the sea was seen to swell,
At that loud noise, which echoed even to France.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In the
long run, I fancy, the effect of
gracious
loveliness which Alcestis
certainly makes is not so much due to any words of her own as to what the
Handmaid and the Serving Man say about her.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The
labouring
time of autumn, winter, spring,
Eight months!
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William Wordsworth |
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InTem- Hesaith:"Redspearsborethewarriordawn Of old
**:
Strange!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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'[13]
Such in brief outline is the life of the man who in 1603, possibly
between his Irish and Low Country campaigns, appears in London as
one, with his more famous cousin Thomas, of the band of wits and poets
whose leader was Jonson, whose most
brilliant
star was Donne.
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John Donne |
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What holy mystery e'er was noosed in
thought?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument
Deserves the travail of a
worthier
pen;
Yet what of thee thy poet doth invent
He robs thee of, and pays it thee again.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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For three of his
fourscore
he did no good.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And as the bees o'er bright flowers joyous roam,
Around their curtained cradles
clustering
come.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say:
Yes, but where leaves the Rose of
Yesterday?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The mingled fate my love should give
In these mute emblems shone,
That more
intensely
burn and live--
While I am turned to stone.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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That from a patriot of
distinguished
note,
Have bled and purged me to a simple vote.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Bolswert, Abraham Bloemaert, Anonymous, 1590 - 1662
The Rijksmuseum
Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere
By chance, I heard the belle complain,
The one we called the Armouress,
Longing to be a girl again,
Talking like this, more or less:
'Oh, old age, proud in wickedness,
You've
battered
me so, and why?
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Villon |
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So saying, his tatter'd wallet o'er his back
He cast, suspended by a
leathern
twist,
Eumaeus gratified him with a staff,
And forth they went, leaving the cottage kept 240
By dogs and swains.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A wider space, an
ornamented
grave?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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THE TIGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night,
What
immortal
hand or eye
Could Frame thy fearful symmetry?
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blake-poems |
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: _nen_ h2
3
_uaciniano_
GRLa1
5 _malis_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Keats - Lamia |
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It was not, like their tragedy, their
comedy, their epic and lyric poetry, a
hothouse
plant which, in
return for assiduous and skilful culture, gave only scanty and
sickly fruits.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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1909
Songs for the New Age The Century Company 1914
War and
Laughter
The Century Company 1915
The Book of Self Alfred A.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Similarly, hǣlo ābēad, 2419; eoton
weard ābēad,
_offered
the giant a watcher_, 669.
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Beowulf |
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We
afterwards
saw them doing
various other kinds of work; indeed, I thought that we saw more women
at work out of doors than men.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"From the Coosa and Altamaha,
With a thought of the dim blue Gulf;
From the Roanoke and Kanawha;
From the musical Southern rivers,
O'er the land where the fierce war-wolf
Lies slain and buried in flowers;
I come to your chill, sad hours
And the woods where the
sunlight
shivers.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And still the more the
stranger
waited,
The less his argosy was freighted,
And still the more he stayed,
The less his debt was paid.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Though the same sun with all-diffusive rays
Blush in the rose, and in the diamond blaze,
We prize the
stronger
effort of his power,
And justly set the gem above the flower.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Atqui non solum hoc se dicit cognitum habere
Brixia Cycneae
supposita
speculae,
Flavos quam molli percurrit flumine Mella,
Brixia Veronae mater amata meae.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And I was
astonished
and said to myself,
"Shall they of this so holy city have but one eye and one hand?
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Lucretius |
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"
Here the speaker sat down in his place,
And
directed
the Judge to refer to his notes
And briefly to sum up the case.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Thy
tarrying
is a let unto the tears,
With which I hasten that whereof thou spak'st.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Das ist die Brust, die
Gretchen
mir geboten,
Das ist der susse Leib, den ich genoss.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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XXXIV
The better part now of the lingring day,
They
traveild
had, whenas they farre espide
A weary wight forwandring by the way, 295
And towards him they gan in haste to ride,
To weete of newes, that did abroad betide,
Or tydings of her knight of the Redcrosse.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Even in modern times songs have been by no
means without influence on public affairs; and we may therefore
infer that, in a society where printing was unknown and where
books were rare, a
pathetic
or humorous party-ballad must have
produced effects such as we can but faintly conceive.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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It is not
difficult
to trace the process by which the old songs
were transmuted into the form which they now wear.
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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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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Nor envies he the rich their happy store,
Nor his own peace
disturbs
with pity for the poor.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Shall I not see that hour before I die,
When I shall cull the flower of her springtime
Who makes my being
languish
in the dark?
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Ronsard |
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Dhorme _Choix de Textes
Religieux_
198, 33.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Beloved,
Tho' sorrow, futility, defeat
Surround
us,
They cannot bear us down.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Guan Zhong
eventually
became Duke Huan?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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+ Keep it legal
Whatever
your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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A hundred little things make likenesses
In
brethren
born, and show the father's blood.
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Euripides - Electra |
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If some mishap howe'er should chance to glide;
And make you limp on one or t'other side,
Endeavour, of the fault, to make the best,
And keep the secret locked within your breast;
Your own
consideration
never lose;
Untruth 'tis pardonable then to use.
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La Fontaine |
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owre the
Citizens
Creame 'gain?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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God and Nature could not thus consent,
And my dark fears are
groundless
and undue.
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And there the lion's ruddy eyes
Shall flow with tears of gold:
And pitying the tender cries,
And walking round the fold:
Saying: "Wrath by His meekness,
And, by His health, sickness,
Are driven away
From our
immortal
day.
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Note: Ronsard's later tributes to 'Marie' were written for the Duke of Anjou (the future Henri III) whose
mistress
Marie de Cleves died in 1574.
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"Tell him it wasn't a practised writer,
You guessed, from the way the
sentence
toiled;
You could hear the bodice tug, behind you,
As if it held but the might of a child;
You almost pitied it, you, it worked so.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Contact the
Foundation
as set
forth in Section 3.
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I shall know why, when time is over,
And I have ceased to wonder why;
Christ will explain each separate anguish
In the fair
schoolroom
of the sky.
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One whom the mob, when next we find or make
A Popish plot, shall for a Jesuit take,
And the wise Justice starting from his chair
Cry: "By your
priesthood
tell me what you are?
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No
mangling
torture, no, nor sleight of power
There is, by which he shall compel my speech,
Until these shaming bonds be loosed from me.
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the
gashouse
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Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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But aiblins, honest Master Heron
Had, at the time, some dainty fair one
To ware this
theologic
care on,
And holy study;
And tired o' sauls to waste his lear on,
E'en tried the body.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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