(editorial,
December
12, 1832), pp.
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Byron |
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I walked, with other souls in pain,
Within another ring,
And was
wondering
if the man had done
A great or little thing,
When a voice behind me whispered low,
'_That fellow's got to swing_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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XXXVII
Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make
Of all that strong
divineness
which I know
For thine and thee, an image only so
Formed of the sand, and fit to shift and break.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I have loved much and been loved deeply--
Oh when my spirit's fire burns low,
Leave me the
darkness
and the stillness,
I shall be tired and glad to go.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Then
Telemachus
set up the axe-heads, and himself made vain essay, the
more to tempt the Wooers.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Hope e'en to these
With
childlike
lisp will lie to please.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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MY DEAR THOMSON,
You cannot have any idea of the
predicament
in which I write to you.
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Robert Burns |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my
comrades
four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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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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, 242-53), the only
alterations being in the names, Farmer Cresswell, Dora Creswell, Walter
Cresswell, and Mary Hay
becoming
respectively Allan, Dora, William, and
Mary Morrison.
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Tennyson |
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Qui
distorse
la bocca e di fuor trasse
la lingua, come bue che 'l naso lecchi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag--
It's so elegant
So
intelligent
130
"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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This
courageous
Young Lady of Norway.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And then, maybe, if you have dreamed enough, If there are strange old terrors in your eyes
And wild new fancies singing prophecies,
You may bring tribute to the king of dreams; And -he will read your eyes' weird
mysteries
And give you stranger terrors of your own, And chant you wilder fancies — 'til you know The vague old magic of the haunted wood.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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You bewitched the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was
festering
in your blood.
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Ronsard |
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_Non nimium
credendum
antiquitati_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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e
heritage
shulde hires bene
Of Castel & londes rijf.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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SYMBOLS
From infinite longings finite deeds rise
As fountains spring toward far-off glowing skies,
But rushing swiftly upward weakly bend
And
trembling
from their lack of power descend--
So through the falling torrent of our fears
Our joyous force leaps like these dancing tears.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Herman thought she might be deaf, so he put his lips close to her
ear and
repeated
his remark.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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As
troubled
skies stain waters clear,
The storm in Peter's heart and mind _610
Now made his verses dark and queer:
They were the ghosts of what they were,
Shaking dim grave-clothes in the wind.
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Shelley |
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Guenes beholds: his sword in hand he takes,
Two fingers' width from scabbard bares the blade;
And says to it: "O clear and fair and brave;
Before this King in court we'll so behave,
That the
Emperour
of France shall never say
In a strange land I'd thrown my life away
Before these chiefs thy temper had essayed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Messapus rules the foremost ranks,
the sons of
Tyrrheus
the rear.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Little shaver--afore he knew his name
Or the place from
whereabouts
he came--
On a wagon-train the Apaches caught him.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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He dated and cross-dated, pedigreed and
triple-pedigreed, compared, noted, connoted, wove, strung, sorted,
selected, inferred,
calendared
and counter-calendared for ten hours a
day.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Varro of him, who pronounced
him the prince of letters and
elegancy
in the Roman language.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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LXIV
Then shall I soone (quoth he) so God me grace,
Abet that virgins cause disconsolate,
And shortly backe returne unto this place, 570
To walke this way in
Pilgrims
poore estate.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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286, in the
footnote
reading of 1793, the line occurs
"Or clock, that blind against the wanderer borne.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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[Footnote 7: Coilus, King of the Picts, from whom the
district of Kyle is said to take its name, lies buried, as
tradition
says, near the family seat of the Montgomeries of
Coilsfield, where his burial--place is still shown.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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had they been queans,
A' plump and
strapping
in their teens!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Coleridge, when I first
became acquainted with him, was so much impressed with this poem, that
it would have encouraged me to publish the whole as it then stood; but
the mariner's fate
appeared
to me so tragical, as to require a
treatment more subdued, and yet more strictly applicable in
expression, than I had at first given to it.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Their gallery would necessarily be limited;
but it would be
flexible
enough to admit, with every fresh exhibit,
three or four new members who had achieved an importance and an idiom
of their own.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Headlong I hurl'd them from the Olympian hall,
Stunn'd in the whirl, and
breathless
with the fall.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Now they have known her, his filled senses
Never will leave go our
wonderful
Judith.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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- Wenn ich empfinde,
Fur das Gefuhl, fur das Gewuhl
Nach Namen suche, keinen finde,
Dann durch die Welt mit allen Sinnen schweife,
Nach allen
hochsten
Worten greife,
Und diese Glut, von der ich brenne,
Unendlich, ewig, ewig nenne,
Ist das ein teuflisch Lugenspiel?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Duncan was a lad o' grace;
Maggie's was a piteous case;
Duncan could na be her death,
Swelling
pity smoor'd his wrath;
Now they're crouse and canty baith:
Ha, ha, the wooing o't!
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Golden Treasury |
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Thrice the slain hero by the foot he drew;
Thrice to the skies the Trojan
clamours
flew:
As oft the Ajaces his assault sustain;
But check'd, he turns; repuls'd, attacks again.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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=
=The
Gentleman
the ring.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
XX
While there is many an unpleasant sound, I hate to hear barking
Worse than
anything
else.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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A good swift simile, but
something
currish.
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Shakespeare |
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Methinks
he cometh late and tarries long.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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For our king is
returned
as from prison,
The old king, to be master again,
Our beloved in justice re-risen:
With guile he hath slain.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The
pleasing
wife, the house, the ground,
Must all be left, no one plant found
To follow thee,
Save only the curs'd cypress tree;
A merry mind
Looks forward, scorns what's left behind;
Let's live, my Wickes, then, while we may,
And here enjoy our holiday.
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Robert Herrick |
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Goes out with an
uncertain
smile.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Chimene
To
preserve
my honour and end my woe,
Pursue him, see him slain, and die also.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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tum primum posito remissa luctu
longos Orpheos exuit dolores
et dixit: 'puer o dicate Musis,
longaeuos
cito transiture uates,
non tu flumina nec greges ferarum
nec plectro Geticas mouebis ornos,
sed septem iuga Martiumque Thybrim
et doctos equites et eloquente
cantu purpureum trahes senatum.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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THE PARDAH NASHIN
Her life is a revolving dream
Of languid and sequestered ease;
Her girdles and her fillets gleam
Like
changing
fires on sunset seas;
Her raiment is like morning mist,
Shot opal, gold and amethyst.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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All the past we leave behind;
We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world;
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labour and the march,
Pioneers!
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Whitman |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
Resembling sire and child and happy mother,
Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose
speechless
song being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: 'Thou single wilt prove none.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their
atrophied
senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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For who that feel this burden and this strain,
This wide vacuity of hope and heart,
Would bring their
cherished
well-beloved again:
To bleed with them and wince beneath the smart,
To have with stinted bliss such lavish bane,
To hold in lieu of all so poor a part?
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Christina Rossetti |
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The Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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[Illustration]
He trilled a carol fresh and free:
He laughed aloud for very glee:
There came a breeze from off the sea:
It passed athwart the glooming flat--
It fanned his forehead as he sat--
It lightly bore away his hat,
All to the feet of one who stood
Like maid enchanted in a wood,
Frowning
as darkly as she could.
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Lewis Carroll |
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XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Whatsoever
fortune is
left is mine: I singly must expiate the treaty for you all, and make
decision with the sword.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And the great gray ships are silent, and the weary
watchers
rest;
The black cloud dies in the August skies, and deep in the golden west
Invisible hands are limning a glory of crimson bars,
And far above is the wonder of a myriad wakened stars!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme perfection depart those for whom life exists only to
discover
and glorify them?
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Appoloinaire |
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To you, fair sir, I offer it in love;
Give us your aid from Rollant the barun,
That in
rereward
against him we may come.
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Chanson de Roland |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are
everywhere
you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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at 4484
oon is
necessite
of sittynge.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Nausithous
himself two sons begat,
Rhexenor and Alcinous.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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what madness bends my
purpose?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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In a very large percentage
of
saturnian
lines we abandon the natural word-accent and have at the
same time no possible means of determining upon what syllable of what
word we are to put the verse-accent.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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From
there
Domitian
is supposed to have sent messengers to Cerialis to test
his loyalty, and to ask whether the general would transfer his army
and his allegiance to him, should he present himself in person.
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Tacitus |
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It is not true,
I am frightened, I am
frightened
of you
And of everything.
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Imagists |
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Girt by her theatre of hills, she reaps
Her corn, and wine, and oil, and Plenty leaps
To
laughing
life, with her redundant horn.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Then
suddenly
I was aware
That his feet had been wounded, too;
And, dimming the white of his side,
A dull stain grew.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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In essence this movement was a protest against the irregularity
and
individual
license of earlier poets.
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Alexander Pope |
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" the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting
each man on the top of the tide
By a finger entwined in his hair.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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So suddenly doth the fair child of him,
Whose welcome is the morn and eve his parting,
To negro
blackness
change her virgin white.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I fitted to the latch
My hand, with trembling care,
Lest back the awful door should spring,
And leave me
standing
there.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The Prophecy of Capys
It can hardly be necessary to remind any reader that according to
the popular tradition, Romulus, after he had slain his granduncle
Amulius, and
restored
his grandfather Numitor, determined to quit
Alba, the hereditary domain of the Sylvian princes, and to found
a new city.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a
daughter
of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand rejoiced to grant me life again.
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Ronsard |
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why passed he too the Rubicon--
The Rubicon of Man's awakened rights,
To herd with vulgar kings and
parasites?
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Byron |
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The axles of our
chariots
touch: our short swords meet.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Carteret the rich did the
accountants
guide.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Se cio non fosse, il ciel che tu cammine
producerebbe
si li suoi effetti,
che non sarebbero arti, ma ruine;
e cio esser non puo, se li 'ntelletti
che muovon queste stelle non son manchi,
e manco il primo, che non li ha perfetti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The good must merit God's
peculiar
care:
But who, but God, can tell us who they are?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Three great names,
Giorgione, Titian, and the Tintoretto,
Illustrate your Venetian school, and send
A
challenge
to the world.
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Longfellow |
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And now, when nature begins to lift on high
The sun's red splendour and the tremulous fires,
And raise him o'er the mountain-tops, those mountains--
O'er which he seemeth then to thee to be,
His glowing self hard by
atingeing
them
With his own fire--are yet away from us
Scarcely two thousand arrow-shots, indeed
Oft scarce five hundred courses of a dart;
Although between those mountains and the sun
Lie the huge plains of ocean spread beneath
The vasty shores of ether, and intervene
A thousand lands, possessed by many a folk
And generations of wild beasts.
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Lucretius |
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--then take
yourself off, away with you; a
mountebank
is no
companion for a priest.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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No harmless dove, no bird that singeth,
Shudders to see him overhead;
The rush of his fierce swooping bringeth
To
innocent
hearts no thrill of dread.
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James Russell Lowell |
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In
short, as vinegar is not
accounted
good until the wine be corrupted, so
jests that are true and natural seldom raise laughter with the beast the
multitude.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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THE
SLEEPING
FLOWERS.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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How you've revered the
formative
will of those ancient artists!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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CCXXXVII
That even-tide is light as was the day;
Their armour shines beneath the sun's clear ray,
Hauberks
and helms throw off a dazzling flame,
And blazoned shields, flowered in bright array,
Also their spears, with golden ensigns gay.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Untrod is their home;
by wolf-cliffs haunt they and windy headlands,
fenways fearful, where flows the stream
from
mountains
gliding to gloom of the rocks,
underground flood.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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10
XCI cum XC
continuant
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Latin - Catullus |
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_ ELECTRA _enters,
returning
from the
well.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Yet his
despondent
ghost couldn't have sought worse revenge.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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blake-poems |
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May'st thou long, sweet crimson gem,
Richly deck thy native stem:
'Till some evening, sober, calm,
Dropping dews and breathing balm,
While all around the
woodland
rings,
And ev'ry bird thy requiem sings;
Thou, amid the dirgeful sound,
Shed thy dying honours round,
And resign to parent earth
The loveliest form she e'er gave birth.
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Robert Forst |
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(Note: Written to Mademoiselle Roumanille whom
Mallarme
knew as a child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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