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O mie upswalynge[51] harte, whatt wordes can saie
The peynes, thatte
passethe
ynn mie soule ybrente?
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I think it did not hit him,
But suddenly that part of him that was left behind convulsed in
undignified
haste,
Writhed like lightning, and was gone
Into the black hole, the earth-lipped fissure in the wall-front,
At which, in the intense still noon, I stared with fascination.
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To a modern romantic reader her
insistence
that her husband
shall not marry again seems hardly delicate.
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Yet some affirm,
pretending
art.
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" she asked, when the young girl
concluded
her
story.
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So again, with murderous slaughter, pelted
backward
to the water,
Fly Pigot's running heroes and the frightened braves of Howe;
And we shout, "At last they're done for, it's their barges they
have run for:
They are beaten, beaten, beaten; and the battle's over now!
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A century of blue and stilly light
Bowed down before me, the dew came again,
The moon my sibyl worshipped through the night,
The sun
returned
and long abode; but then
Hoarse drooping darkness hung me with a shroud
And switched at me with shrivelled leaves in scorn.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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New Brig was buskit in a braw new coat,
That he at Lon'on, frae ane Adams got;
In's hand five taper staves as smooth's a bead,
Wi' virls and
whirlygigums
at the head.
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We may
put up with the pleas of those
wretches
who prefer to ruin others
rather than endanger their own lives.
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Tacitus |
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' Poetry
is 'the creation of actions according to the unchangeable process of
human nature as
existing
in the mind of the creator, which is itself
the image of all other minds.
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Yeats |
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The Project
Gutenberg
eBook of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience,
by William Blake
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I hear thy voice and vow,
Perplexed, uncertain, since thou art out of sight,
As he, in his
swooning
ears, the choir's amen.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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Baith
careless
and fearless
Of either heaven or hell;
Esteeming and deeming
It's a' an idle tale!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I went with more, and kissed her for the last,
And thought with tears on
pleasures
that were past;
And, the last kindness left me then to do,
I went, at milking, where the blossoms grew,
And handfuls got of rose and lambtoe sweet,
And put them with her in her winding-sheet.
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John Clare |
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Like wind, leaving no
footsteps
in the grass, It will depart.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Of Sigemund grew,
when he passed from life, no little praise;
for the doughty-in-combat a dragon killed
that herded the hoard: {13a} under hoary rock
the
atheling
dared the deed alone
fearful quest, nor was Fitela there.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Has this obscure line any
reference
to prophecy?
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Keats - Lamia |
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For heavenly beauty he in vain inquires,
Who ne'er beheld her eyes'
celestial
stain,
Where'er she turns around their brilliant fires:
He knows not how Love wounds, and heals again,
Who knows not how she sweetly smiles, respires
The sweetest sighs, and speaks in sweetest strain!
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Petrarch |
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All
things appeared to contend there, as I have implied, with a certain
rust of antiquity, such as forms on old armor and iron guns,--the rust
of
conventions
and formalities.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He is about it, the Doores are open:
And the
surfeted
Groomes doe mock their charge
With Snores.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Zourine laughed, and said,
shrugging
his shoulders--
"Wait a bit, wait till you be married; you'll see all go to the devil
then.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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So when the shadows laid asleep, ms
From
underneath
these banks do creep,
And on the river, as it flows.
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Marvell - Poems |
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{32c} Usual
euphemism
for death.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Again, as erst, began in hall
warriors' wassail and words of power,
the proud-band's revel, till presently
the son of Healfdene
hastened
to seek
rest for the night; he knew there waited
fight for the fiend in that festal hall,
when the sheen of the sun they saw no more,
and dusk of night sank darkling nigh,
and shadowy shapes came striding on,
wan under welkin.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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So, till the
judgment
that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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SAID Neria,
mortified
at this reply,
Though he's a friend on whom you may rely,
Calista beauty has; much worth the man,
With smart address to execute his plan;
And when we meet accomplishments so rare;
Few women but will tumble in the snare.
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La Fontaine |
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Ay waking, oh,
Waking ay and weary;
Sleep I canna get
For
thinking
o' my dearie.
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Robert Forst |
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There, through the summer day
Cool streams are laving:
There, while the
tempests
sway,
Scarce are boughs waving;
There thy rest shalt thou take,
Parted for ever,
Never again to wake
Never, O never!
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Golden Treasury |
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Mine ireful mood had
sweetness
tamed,
And soothed each wound which pride inflamed:--
Yes, God and man might now approve me
If thou hadst lived, and lived to love me!
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Golden Treasury |
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tho' thou'rt bereft
Of my
parental
care,
A faithful brother I have left,
My part in him thou'lt share!
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Robert Forst |
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148
In
wildernesse
he woned; ?
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His piteous legs scarce propped him up:
His arms mere sickles seemed to be:
But most o'erflowed our sorrow's cup
When that we saw -- or did not see --
His belly: we remembered how
It shook like a bowl of jelly fine:
An
earthquake
could not shake it now;
He HAD no belly -- not a sign.
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Sidney Lanier |
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MARGARETE:
Wollte nicht mit
seinesgleichen
leben!
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Till by her radiant smile deceived,
I say, "Young angel, lately given,
When was thy martyrdom
achieved?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Alike I mourn in sunshine and in rain,
Suffering
the same in warm and wintry winds;
For only then my lady shall want ice
At heart, and on her brow th' accustom'd cloud,
When dry shall be the seas, the lakes, and streams.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Fierier and
stormier
from restraining, break
Into some madness even before the Queen?
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Was
grinsest
du mir, hohler Schadel, her?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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But it was said, in words of gold
No time or sorrow e'er shall dim,
That little
children
might be bold
In perfect trust to come to Him.
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James Russell Lowell |
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10
There's GARRISON, his features very
Benign for an incendiary,
Beaming forth sunshine through his glasses
On the surrounding lads and lasses,
(No bee could blither be, or brisker,)--
A Pickwick somehow turned John Ziska,
His bump of firmness
swelling
up
Like a rye cupcake from its cup.
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James Russell Lowell |
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then it
follows that in doing what is
unworthy
to be done, or what _has _been
done before, no genius can be evinced; yet the picking of pockets is an
unworthy act, pockets have been picked time immemorial, and Barrington,
the pickpocket, in point of genius, would have thought hard of a
comparison with William Wordsworth, the poet.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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At vobis male sit, malae tenebrae
Orci, quae omnia bella devoratis:
Tam bellum mihi
passerem
abstulistis.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Yea, here I stand for the whole earth to see
How life, breathing its fortune like sweet air,
Mixing it with the kindled heart of man,
May utter it proud against the double truth
Of darkness fronting him and
following
him,
In a prevailing, burning, marvellous lie!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Doubtfull
it stood,
As two spent Swimmers, that doe cling together,
And choake their Art: The mercilesse Macdonwald
(Worthie to be a Rebell, for to that
The multiplying Villanies of Nature
Doe swarme vpon him) from the Westerne Isles
Of Kernes and Gallowgrosses is supply'd,
And Fortune on his damned Quarry smiling,
Shew'd like a Rebells Whore: but all's too weake:
For braue Macbeth (well hee deserues that Name)
Disdayning Fortune, with his brandisht Steele,
Which smoak'd with bloody execution
(Like Valours Minion) caru'd out his passage,
Till hee fac'd the Slaue:
Which neu'r shooke hands, nor bad farwell to him,
Till he vnseam'd him from the Naue toth' Chops,
And fix'd his Head vpon our Battlements
King.
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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
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CONTEMPORARY VERSE
offers a
particularly
remarkable series of the year 1917.
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I say, as if this little flower
To Eden
wandered
in --
What then?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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For the Reader
cannot be too often reminded that Poetry is passion: it is the history
or science of feelings: now every man must know that an attempt is
rarely made to communicate
impassioned
feelings without something of
an accompanying consciousness of the inadequateness of our own powers,
or the deficiencies of language.
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LXXXIX
"When to Anselmo's early doubt and fear
Are joined the
threatnings
of the signs above,
How stands his heart may well to thee appear,
If thou hast known the accidents of love;
And worse than every woe, wherewith whilere
The afflicted spirits of that husband strove,
Is that it by the prophet is foretold,
Argais' honour will be bought and sold.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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For Vice, gnawing this inborn
nobleness
of mine
Marked me, like you, with its sterility,
But shroud-haunted, pale, destroyed, I flee
While that heart no tooth of any crime
Can wound lives in your breast of stone,
Frightened of dying while I sleep alone.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Forthwith my master spake:
"That to the full thy
knowledge
may extend
Of all this round contains, go now, and mark
The mien these wear: but hold not long discourse.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Tell you the Duke it is not so good to come
to the mines; for, look you, the mines is not
according
to the
disciplines of the war; the concavities of it is not sufficient.
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Shakespeare |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Kipling - Poems |
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plesaunce
of your prys, hit were a pure ioye.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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No bone had he to bind him,
His speech was like the push
Of
numerous
humming-birds at once
From a superior bush.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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22 Jiucheng Palace1 I went into gray-green
mountains
a hundred leagues, the cliff was broken, like a mortar.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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Give me a fee: the right to smite
Rollanz!
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
[206] When Darius laid siege to Babylon, one of his lords, named
Zopyrus, having cut off his own nose and ears, persuaded the enemy that
he had received these
indignities
from the cruelty of his master.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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'Poor fellow,'
murmured
Howard, 'he is broken-hearted.
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Yeats |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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After thus giving his orders, Ivan Kouzmitch
dismissed
us.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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him þā
gegiredan
Gēata lēode
ād .
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Beowulf |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The Lord
commands
that monstrous beast,
Leviathan, to be our feast.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Other than errors resulting from corruption of the plates over 20 years,
the
following
differences are the only changes:
1) The 1898 copy was printed by Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company,
New York.
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"The
workmanship
of the transla tions is excellent.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"THE
HAPPIEST
DAY.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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To Cleis
"I have a fair
daughter
with a form like a golden flower,
Cleis, the beloved.
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Sara Teasdale |
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A hermit's life
Oneguine
led,
At seven in summer rose from bed,
And clad in airy costume took
His course unto the running brook.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Now men say "They are not":
But in the dusk
Ere the white sun comes--
A gay child that bears a white candle--
I am afraid of their rustling,
Of their
terrible
silence,
The menace of their secrecy.
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Imagists |
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I will only notice
that the description of the valley filled with mist, beginning--'In
solemn shapes'--was taken from that beautiful region of which the
principal
features
are Lungarn and Sarnen.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Thus, this
telluric
earth
Out-streams with all these dread effluvia
And breathes them out into the open world
And into the visible regions under heaven.
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Lucretius |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
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blake-poems |
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Then flows amain
The surge of summer's beauty; dell and crag,
Hollow and lake,
hillside
and pine arcade,
Are touched with genius.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And many a
thousand
summers
My gardens ripened well,
And light from meliorating stars
With firmer glory fell.
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Emerson - Poems |
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ifte_--yift
2019 _folke_--foolk
_done_--don]
[Headnote:
DIGNITIES
DO CONFER ESTEEM.
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Far the calling bugles hollo,
High the
screaming
fife replies,
Gay the files of scarlet follow:
Woman bore me, I will rise.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I lived on dread; to those who know
The
stimulus
there is
In danger, other impetus
Is numb and vital-less.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Keats |
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He foresaw how the brave Roman nation,
Impatient of the
blandishments
of pleasure
Once sated with vain amusements' measure,
Would turn to civil war as a distraction.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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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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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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FREDERICK: Was this that stern aspect, that awful frown
Made the grim monarchs of infernal spirits
Tremble and quake at his
commanding
charms?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Each wicked scheme for power all stops,
With grandeurs false and mock display,
As eve's shades from high
mountain
tops
Fade with the rest away.
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John Clare |
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Are they panic-struck and
helpless?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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PORTRAIT OF A MACHINE
What nudity is
beautiful
as this
Obedient monster purring at its toil;
These naked iron muscles dripping oil
And the sure-fingered rods that never miss.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Old men and harlots through thy chambers dance;
Then in the midst see
Belzebub
advance
With mirrors and provocatives obscene.
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Petrarch |
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[3] Fashionable
quarters
in the capital of Ch'u state.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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