Dissolve
the charms my friends' forced forms enchain,
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The pathways--then across the weald
Caressing breezes sailing
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Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
That steer you up and down, and high and low,
Never remaining long, when once they show,
Pulling your chariot
endlessly
there and back:
My desires and yours are never a match,
Because the passions that pierce your soul,
And the ardours that inflame mine so,
Court different desires to ease their lack.
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Increasing still in heart, and pleasant sense,
Upon his fairy journey on he hastes;
So anxious for the end, he
scarcely
wastes
One moment with his hand among the sweets:
Onward he goes--he stops--his bosom beats
As plainly in his ear, as the faint charm
Of which the throbs were born.
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My respectful kind
compliments
to Mrs.
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I kneel behind the soldier's trench,
I walk 'mid shambles' smear and stench,
The dead I mourn;
I bear the
stretcher
and I bend
O'er Fritz and Pierre and Jack to mend
What shells have torn.
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The
wilderness
is cracked and browned
But through the water pale and thin
Still shine the unoffending feet
And there above the painter set
The Father and the Paraclete.
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She waited not for his reply,
But with a
downward
leaden eye
Went on as if he were not by
Sound argument and grave defence,
Strange questions raised on "Why?
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All through the night
I have heard the
stuttering
call of a blind quail,
A caged decoy, under a cairn of stones,
Crying for light as the quails cry for love.
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To him the
hereditary
countenance descends, both
mother's and father's.
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XXV
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
To wake from Hades, and their idle pose,
Those old Caesars, and the shades of those,
Who once raised this ancient city higher:
Or that I had Amphion's to inspire,
And with sweet harmony these stones enclose
To quicken them again, where they once rose,
Ausonian glory conjuring from its pyre:
Or that with skilful pencil I might draw
The portrait of these palaces once more,
With the spirit of some high Virgil filled;
I would attempt, inflamed by my ardour,
To
recreate
with the pen's slight power,
That which our own hands could never build.
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I count myself happy if it brings delight,
My trial stroke
pleasing
him who gave me life;
But be not jealous, now, of joy's faction,
If I in turn choose to seek satisfaction.
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I observed that they always removed or settled their hats with both
hands, and wore watches, with short gold chains of a
substantial
and
ancient pattern.
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I
remember
meeting,
about twenty years ago, a lad who had a little yacht at Kingstown.
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At
midnight
in the month of June,
I stand beneath the mystic moon.
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What's this, he cried, so
elegantly
neat?
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The very hand
That barred my passage to the
peaceful
grave
Has crushed the earth to misery, and given
Its empire to the chosen of His slaves.
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Slow he woke with a drowsy pang,
Shook himself without much debate,
Turned where he saw green
branches
hang,
Started though late.
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She fain will wait
Until the
gathered
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Time
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words, like love.
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The sun those
mornings
used to find,
Its clouds were other-country mountains,
And heaven looked downward on the mind,
Like groves, and rocks, and mottled fountains.
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Adorable
sorciere, aimes-tu les damnes!
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I can not see why, ne how,
That he hath
trespassed
ageyn you,
Save that he loveth; wherfore ye shulde 3515
The more in cherete of him holde.
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Geography, the world, is in it,
The Great Sea, the brood of islands, Polynesia, the coast beyond,
The coast you
henceforth
are facing--you Libertad!
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The _Second
Anniversarie_
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France when Donne was resident there with the Drurys.
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Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in
forgetful
snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
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Wilt thou not wake to their summons,
O
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From 1815 to 1843 these 'Lines' were placed by
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He followed the town life, haunted the best companies ;
and, to polish himself from any
pedantic
roughness,
he read and saw the plays with much care, and more
proficiency than most of the auditory.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Of wealthy lustre was the banquet-room,
Fill'd with
pervading
brilliance and perfume:
Before each lucid pannel fuming stood
A censer fed with myrrh and spiced wood,
Each by a sacred tripod held aloft,
Whose slender feet wide-swerv'd upon the soft
Wool-woofed carpets: fifty wreaths of smoke
From fifty censers their light voyage took
To the high roof, still mimick'd as they rose
Along the mirror'd walls by twin-clouds odorous.
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And shall he miss
Of other thoughts no thought but this,
Harmonious
dews of sober bliss?
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Aye, they would blush to ask for money and cleverly
disguise
their
shame.
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Aristophanes |
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_Song_
I peeled bits of straws and I got
switches
too
From the grey peeling willow as idlers do,
And I switched at the flies as I sat all alone
Till my flesh, blood, and marrow was turned to dry bone.
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John Clare |
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Murray, mother to these thirty-one children, was daughter
to Murray of Strewn, one of the seventeen sons of Tullybardine, and
whose youngest son,
commonly
called the Tutor of Ardoch, died in the
year 1715, aged 111 years.
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Non
aspettar
mio dir piu ne mio cenno;
libero, dritto e sano e tuo arbitrio,
e fallo fora non fare a suo senno:
per ch'io te sovra te corono e mitrio>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The
hypothesis of a
pervading
Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains
unshaken.
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noirs
compagnons
sans oreille et sans yeux,
Voyez venir a vous un mort libre et joyeux;
Philosophes viveurs, fils de la pourriture,
A travers ma ruine allez donc sans remords,
Et dites-moi s'il est encor quelque torture
Pour ce vieux corps sans ame et mort parmi les morts?
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Sorrowing
joy, Adieu's last action,
(Lingering lips must now disjoin),
What words can ever speak affection
So thrilling and sincere as thine!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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It's as if I began to build in the ocean depths
A
thousand
tombs: to vanish still virgin there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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In charge of the fleet he still
retained
the freedman
Moschus[190] to keep an eye on his betters.
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In frost and cold though lame he's forced to go--
The call's more urgent when he
journeys
slow.
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He
prostrated
himself on the
cold floor, and remained motionless for a long time.
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What is it has
happened?
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Is it
magnificent
hospitality, or is it gross want of
tact?
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And, flocking out, streams up the rout;
And lilies nod to velvet's swish;
And
peacocks
prim on gilded dish,
Vast pies thick-glazed, and gaping fish,
Towering confections crisp as ice,
Jellies aglare like cockatrice,
With thousand savours tongues entice.
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Once or twice I believe, I swayed forward on Pornic's
neck, and
literally
hung on by my spurs--as the marks next morning
showed.
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" and I knew them
For souls of the felled
On the earth's nether bord
Under Capricorn, whither they'd warred,
And I neared in my awe, and gave heedfulness to them
With
breathings
inheld.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confined from home,
Rests and
expatiates
in a life to come.
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Why make cups of the dead clay to be filled with--"La Divinite," by
some
succeeding
Mystic?
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He himself fell
entangled
in the harness.
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ge-wāt þā
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hēan hūses,
115; hē þā fāg ge-wāt .
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Swiftly, I thought, in
strongest
gripe
on his bed of death to bind him down,
that he in the hent of this hand of mine
should breathe his last: but he broke away.
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Erewhile
to my desire so sweet were tears
Their tenderness refined my else rude song,
And made me wake and watch the livelong nights;
But sorrow now to me is worse than death,
Since lost for aye that look of modest joy,
The lofty subject of my lowly rhyme!
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And when their statues are placed on high,
Under the dome of the Union sky,
The
American
soldiers' Temple of Fame,
There with the glorious general's name
Be it said, in letters both bold and bright,
"Here is the steed that saved the day,
By carrying Sheridan into the fight,
From Winchester, twenty miles away!
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And into the grassy ditch's tomb
Fall great and small to their doom,
Seeing the corpses twice run through
By lances on which
pennants
loom.
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Out spake the Consul roundly:
"The bridge must straight go down;
For, since
Janiculum
is lost,
Nought else can save the town.
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To shining white, white as our souls that burned
With vision of our
prophecy
assured:
Suddenly white was the moon; but she
At once did on a woven modesty
Of cloud, and soon went in obscured:
And we were dark, and vanisht that strange hill.
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Clarisonas imo fudisse e pectore voces, 125
Ac tum
praeruptos
tristem conscendere montes,
Vnde aciem in pelagi vastos protenderet aestus,
Tum tremuli salis adversas procurrere in undas
Mollia nudatae tollentem tegmina surae,
Atque haec extremis maestam dixisse querellis, 130
Frigidulos udo singultus ore cientem.
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His countryman, brave Mervyn ap Teudor,
Who love of hym han from his country gone,
When he perceevd his friend lie in his gore,
As furious as a
mountayne
wolf he ranne.
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wound with wires, kept ward o'er the head,
lest the relict-of-files {15c} should fierce invade,
sharp in the strife, when that
shielded
hero
should go to grapple against his foes.
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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The ancient cloisters on their lofty walls
Had holy Truth in painted
frescoes
shown,
And, seeing these, the pious in those halls
Felt their cold, lone austereness less alone.
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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--There be many before thee,
Who have
suffered
and had patience.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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We are not idle, but send her straight
Defiance
back in a full broadside!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I hear them tuning
instruments!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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[Sidenote: But it would be impious and profane thus to conceive of
God, since nothing can excel Him in
goodness
and worth.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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B
[Illustration]
B was a book
With a binding of blue,
And
pictures
and stories
For me and for you.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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zip *******
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Wilde - Poems |
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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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Who will say that he saw, as
midnight
struck
Its tremulous golden twelve, a light in the window,
And first heard music, as of an old piano,
Music remote, as if it came from the earth,
Far down; and then, in the quiet, eager voices?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Behold the ball-room
flashing
on the sight,
From step to cornice one grand glare of light;
The noise of mirth and revelry resounds,
Like fairy melody on haunted grounds.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And when the spring comes with her host
Of flowers, that flower beloved the most
Shrinks from the crowd that may confuse
Her
heavenly
odour and virgin hues.
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Byron |
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For whatever facts
affectionate
diligence could now gather.
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Robert Herrick |
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Clasp, Wife, and kiss, and lift the head:
Harrington
lies at his doorstep dead.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Let all depart--alone
Leave the
tsarevich
with me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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