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Soldier and statesman, rarest unison;
High-poised example of great duties done
Simply as breathing, a world's honors worn
As life's indifferent gifts to all men born;
Dumb for himself, unless it were to God,
But for his barefoot soldiers eloquent,
Tramping the snow to coral where they trod,
Held by his awe in hollow-eyed content;
Modest, yet firm as Nature's self; unblamed
Save by the men his nobler temper shamed;
Never seduced through show of present good
By other than unsetting lights to steer
New-trimmed in Heaven, nor than his steadfast mood
More steadfast, far from rashness as from fear,
Rigid, but with himself first, grasping still
In
swerveless
poise the wave-beat helm of will;
Not honored then or now because he wooed
The popular voice, but that he still withstood;
Broad-minded, higher-souled, there is but one
Who was all this and ours, and all men's--WASHINGTON.
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But he is saved from
isolation
by the depth of his
Americanism; with the movement of his predominant nation he is moved.
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The
struggles
of this day have overcome me.
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Longfellow |
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To whom
sleeping
before the altar, Diana in a Vision that night
thus answer'd.
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E se di voi alcun nel mondo riede,
conforti
la memoria mia, che giace
ancor del colpo che 'nvidia le diede>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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John calmly listened to her storming,
And well content with work well done,
Thinking his laurels fairly won,
Cooly replied, on taking leave:
"No cause I see to fume and grieve;
"Or for such trifle to dispute;
"To promise and to execute
"Are not the same, be it confessed,
"Suffice it to have done one's best;
"With time I'll yet
discharge
what's due;
"Meanwhile, my sweet Perrette, adieu!
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La Fontaine |
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"
"Only wait till my
servants
find that I am missing," I retorted, "and I
promise you that this place shall be cleared off the face of the earth,
and I'll give you a lesson in civility, too, my friend.
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Kipling - Poems |
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It is a thirsty season, Virgil mine:
But would you taste the grape's
Calenian
juice,
Client of noble youths, to earn your wine
Some nard you must produce.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I will not attempt to
describe
what I felt
on receiving your letter.
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Avons-nous donc commis une action
etrange?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Fill each part full of fire, active to do
What thy commanding soul shall put it to;
And till I turn
apostate
to thy love,
Which here I vow to serve, do not remove
Thy fires from me, but Apollo's curse
Blast these-like actions, or a thing that's worse.
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Robert Herrick |
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To say and strait unsay,
pretending
first
Wise to flie pain, professing next the Spie,
Argues no Leader, but a lyar trac't,
Satan, and couldst thou faithful add?
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Milton |
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Ev'n you on murd'ring errands toil'd,
Lone from your savage homes exiled,
The blood-stained roost, and sheep-cote spoiled
My heart forgets,
While
pitiless
the tempest wild
Sore on you beats.
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Robert Burns |
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Nor shall the
grateful
Muse forget to tell,
That--not the least among his many claims
To deathless honor--he was MILTON'S friend,
A man not second among those who lived 330
To show us that the poet's lyre demands
An arm of tougher sinew than the sword.
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James Russell Lowell |
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I should think I were much to blame,
If never I held some fragrant flame
Above the noises of the world,
And openly 'mid men's
hurrying
stares,
Worshipt before the sacred fears
That are like flashing curtains furl'd
Across the presence of our lord Love.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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No
ordinance
is seen,
So gradual the grace,
A pensive custom it becomes,
Enlarging loneliness.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Highbury
bore me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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LXXVI
The weird Melissa against the coming night
With
singular
and matchless ornament
Had for that pair the nuptial chamber dight;
Whereon long time before she had been bent:
Long time before desirous of the rite
Had been that dame, presageful of the event;
Presageful of futurity, she knew
What goodly fruit should from their stems ensue.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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e hauene
stable in
peisible
quiete.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Fame is the thirst of youth,--but I am not
So young as to regard men's frown or smile
As loss or guerdon of a
glorious
lot;
I stood and stand alone,--remembered or forgot.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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For one can love and lie elsewhere,
And lie all the more
smoothly
where
There's no proof.
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Troubador Verse |
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Du Camp said he was
seventeen
when he attacked
General Aupick.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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You'd do well, while you're in flow,
To make Rhyme a
fraction
wiser.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I have no hope, and
everything
to fear;
No prayer escapes to which I can consent;
Of every wish I form I soon repent.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the
expected
guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that
scatters
the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in
Khorassan
in the latter half of
our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth
Century.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Title: The Poetical Works of
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Milk newly press'd, the sacred flour of wheat,
And honey fresh, and Pramnian wines the treat:
But venom'd was the bread, and mix'd the bowl,
With drugs of force to darken all the soul:
Soon in the
luscious
feast themselves they lost,
And drank oblivion of their native coast.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--Man's race shall end, dost
threaten
thou?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'
Neis Avarice la chetive
N'ert pas si a prendre
ententive
1140
<<
As Largesse is to yeve and spende.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Facing the
timorous
nakedness of the gazelle
That trembles, on her back like an elephant gone wild,
Waiting upside down, she keenly admires herself,
Laughing with her bared teeth at the child:
And, between her legs where the victim's couched,
Raising the black flesh split beneath its mane,
Advances the palate of that alien mouth
Pale, rosy as a shell from the Spanish Main.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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e marchal,
In
stretfor?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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[A
weakened
form of _I pray thee_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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105
Hir fredom fond Arcite in swich manere,
That al was his that she hath, moche or lyte,
Ne to no
creature
made she chere
Ferther than that hit lyked to Arcite;
Ther was no lak with which he mighte hir wyte, 110
She was so ferforth yeven him to plese,
That al that lyked him, hit did hir ese.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Then mourns aloud, as was the custom there:
"Thee, gentle sir, chevalier nobly bred,
To the Glorious Celestial I commend;
Neer shall man be, that will Him serve so well;
Since the
Apostles
was never such prophet,
To hold the laws and draw the hearts of men.
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Chanson de Roland |
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_The
authorities
are_: F.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Villon |
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You too be wise, my Plancus: life's worst cloud
Will melt in air, by mellow wine allay'd,
Dwell you in camps, with
glittering
banners proud,
Or 'neath your Tibur's canopy of shade.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Tell her a
bleeding
hand
Bound it and tied it;
Tell her the knot will stand
Though she deride it.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Appoloinaire |
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O had his
powerful
Destiny ordaind
Me some inferiour Angel, I had stood
Then happie; no unbounded hope had rais'd 60
Ambition.
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Milton |
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In _1635-69_ the
somewhat
redundant 'rash' has been
altered to 'harsh'.
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John Donne |
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How
strangely
through the dim recesses
A dreary dawning seems to glow!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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After a few
moments there enter
stealthily
two armed men,_ ORESTES _and_ PYLADES.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Act IV Scene VI (Phaedra, Oenone)
Phaedra
Dear Oenone, do you know what I have
learned?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Imagists |
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But who is he,
My terrible
antagonist?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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What a scream
Of agony by torture
lengthened
out
That lute sent forth!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Are we swung like two planets, compelled in our
separate
orbits,
Yet held in a flaming circle far greater than our own?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Pride hath no other glass
To show itself but pride; for supple knees
Feed
arrogance
and are the proud man's fees.
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Shakespeare |
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And this prayer I make,
Knowing that Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege,
Through all the years of this our life, to lead
From joy to joy: for she can so inform
The mind that is within us, so impress
With quietness and beauty, and so feed
With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues,
Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men,
Nor greetings where no
kindness
is, nor all
The dreary intercourse of daily life,
Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb
Our chearful faith that all which we behold
Is full of blessings.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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better hadst thou sunk in Trojan ground,
With all thy full-blown honours cover'd round;
Then grateful Greece with streaming eyes might raise
Historic marbles to record thy praise:
Thy praise eternal on the
faithful
stone
Had with transmissive glories graced thy son.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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To what fyn made the god that sit so hye,
Benethen him, love other companye,
And
streyneth
folk to love, malgre hir hede?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Other ones this year no more bestows,
No
petitions
can recall them here,
Other ones with springtide may appear.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Into the
framework
of
his romance of chivalry he inserted a veiled picture of the struggles and
sufferings of his own people in Ireland.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I sat and mused and drank sweet wine;
A
herdsman
came from inland valleys,
Crying, the pirates drove his swine
To fill their dark-beaked hollow galleys.
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Yeats |
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--
For aye
indelible!
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Aeschylus |
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[End of the Second Night]
Ahania heard the
Lamentation
& a swift Vibration
Spread thro her Golden frame.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Noi ci
appressammo
a quelle fiere isnelle:
Chiron prese uno strale, e con la cocca
fece la barba in dietro a le mascelle.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Prison
Reading, Berkshire
July 7th, 1896
THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL
I
HE did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And
murdered
in her bed.
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Wilde - Poems |
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And I rest so composedly,
Now, in my bed,
That any beholder
Might fancy me dead--
Might start at
beholding
me,
Thinking me dead.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The
brackish
water that we drink
Creeps with a loathsome slime,
And the bitter bread they weigh in scales
Is full of chalk and lime,
And Sleep will not lie down, but walks
Wild-eyed, and cries to Time.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Ye fain, rich wights,
All woo her: thither too (the chief of
slights!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The shattered storm has left its trace
Upon this huge and heaving dome,
For the thin threads of yellow foam
Float on the waves like
ravelled
lace.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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An elderly waiter
with
trembling
hands was hurriedly spreading a pink and white checked
cloth over the rusty green iron table, saying: "If the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden .
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T.S. Eliot |
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"Veil'd with his gorgeous wings, upspringing light
Flew through the midst of heaven; th' angelic quires,
On each hand parting, to his speed gave way
Through all th'
empyreal
road; till at the gate
Of heaven arrived, the gate self-open'd wide,
On golden hinges turning.
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Iliad - Pope |
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He gathered all that springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling,
seasoned
sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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O troubled
reflection
in the sea!
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Whitman |
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auctus honos;
semperque
gradi prope numina, semper
Caesareum coluisse latus sacrisque deorum
arcanis haerere datum.
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I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring a
Cressida
to this Troilus.
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Shakespeare |
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Now the harlot urges Enkidu to enter the
beautiful
city, to clothe
himself like other men and to learn the ways of civilization.
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation
permitted
by
the applicable state law.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For just as all things of
creation
are,
In their whole nature, each to each unlike,
So must their atoms be in shape unlike--
Not since few only are fashioned of like form,
But since they all, as general rule, are not
The same as all.
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Nurtured in the womb of a chaste heroine,
I've never
betrayed
my blood, and my origin.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the
produced
babe of the vegetation.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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First let us quench the yet remaining flame
With sable wine; then, as the rites direct,
The hero's bones with careful view select:
(Apart, and easy to be known they lie
Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye:
The rest around the margin will be seen
Promiscuous, steeds and immolated men:)
These wrapp'd in double cauls of fat, prepare;
And in the golden vase dispose with care;
There let them rest with decent honour laid,
Till I shall follow to the
infernal
shade.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I had been to the play
With my pearl of a Peri--
But, for all I could say,
She
declared
she was weary,
That "the place was so crowded and hot, and
she couldn't abide that Dundreary.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Is she not supple and strong
For hurried
passion?
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Sappho |
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Bayes," under
which name the Duke of Buckingham had ridi-
culed Dryden in the well-known play of the
Rehearsal ; from the title of which Marvell de-
signated his book, The
Rehearsal
Transprosed.
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Marvell - Poems |
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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
are removed.
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Beowulf |
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"So intimate, this Chopin, that I think his soul
Should be
resurrected
only among friends
Some two or three, who will not touch the bloom
That is rubbed and questioned in the concert room.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I ask you, AM I
responsible
if a mule-headed friend sends him back
in such a manner as to disturb the peace of mind of a regiment of Her
Majesty's Cavalry?
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
Then, rushing to his arms, he kiss'd his boy
With the strong
raptures
of a parent's joy.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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nasiis_
61 _a_ C: _ha_ OB: _ah_ GRVenLa1
62
_figuraest_
Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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e
sup{er}fluite
of fortune.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Has Sanche's blade such art
It works on your
indomitable
heart?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"Prisoned on watery shore,
Starry
jealousy
does keep my den
Cold and hoar;
Weeping o're,
I hear the father of the ancient men.
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blake-poems |
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Girls, lovers, youngsters, fresh to hand,
Dancers,
tumblers
that leap like lambs,
Agile as arrows, like shots from a cannon,
Throats tinkling, clear as bells on rams,
Will you leave him here, your poor old Villon?
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Villon |
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The body grows outside, --
The more
convenient
way, --
That if the spirit like to hide,
Its temple stands alway
Ajar, secure, inviting;
It never did betray
The soul that asked its shelter
In timid honesty.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The
Headsman
of the Pit, above
Earth's floor, to ravish her!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The manner in which this sound is
produced
I have
not seen anywhere described.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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preciouse
stones; 591
In seue dayes it was dy?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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