A peaceful
rumbling
there,
The town's at our feet.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thrice round about
The hollow ambush, striking with thy hand
Its sides thou went'st, and by his name didst call
Each prince of Greece
feigning
his consort's voice.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Cinesias was
not a dancer, but a
dithyrambic
poet, who declaimed with much
gesticulation and movement that one might almost think he was performing
this dance.
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Aristophanes |
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'And what you have to do now
is to go out and sing that song for a while, to the tune of the Green
Bunch of Rushes, to
everyone
you meet, and to the old men themselves.
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Yeats |
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"
Took the olifant, that he would not let go,
Struck him on th' helm, that
jewelled
was with gold,
And broke its steel, his skull and all his bones,
Out of his head both the two eyes he drove;
Dead at his feet he has the pagan thrown:
After he's said: "Culvert, thou wert too bold,
Or right or wrong, of my sword seizing hold!
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Chanson de Roland |
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In the dread scale
Which princes weighted with their horrid tale
Of craft and violence, and blood and ill,
And fire and shocking deeds, his sword was still
God's
counterpoise
displayed.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And see how dark the
backward
stream!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Oh you, who have founded so
illustrious
a city in the air, you
know not in what esteem men hold you and how many there are who burn with
desire to dwell in it.
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Aristophanes |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And
microbes
more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
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Appoloinaire |
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dost thou murmur, that my span of time
Has join'd eternity's
unchanging
tide?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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IN THE GOLD ROOM
A HARMONY
HER ivory hands on the ivory keys
Strayed in a fitful fantasy,
Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees
Rustle their pale-leaves listlessly,
Or the
drifting
foam of a restless sea
When the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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all that I behold
Within my Soul has lost its splendor & a
brooding
Fear
Shadows me oer & drives me outward to a world of woe
So waild she trembling before her own Created Phantasm*
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Blake - Zoas |
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placement
in his edition.
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Blake - Zoas |
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First time, this,
for the
gleaming
blade that its glory fell.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Retaking the Capital 359 All at once I hear of an edict of remorse1 4 once again coming from our sage court.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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discountenance
every one
among you who shall pretend to despise art and science.
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Yeats |
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Take up the steel, and show us if indeed
Rumour speak true," Right swift Orestes took
The Dorian blade, back from his
shoulders
shook
His brooched mantle, called on Pylades
To aid him, and waved back the thralls.
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Euripides - Electra |
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And yet, forgive me, so strong are the
prepossessions of youth, that I must confess I pine for Vaucluse, even
whilst I
acknowledge
its inferiority to Italy.
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Petrarch |
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We find him
returned
to Milan, and writing to Simonides on the 20th of
September.
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Petrarch |
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In that manuscript the
constant
forms are me, wee, yee.
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Milton |
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With some hesitation I have
included
literal versions of six poems
(three of the "Seventeen Old Poems," "Autumn Wind," "Li Fu-j?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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--one, all eyes,
Philosopher!
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William Wordsworth |
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for the great triumph
That
stretches
many a mile.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Rodrigue
Your boldness is
followed
by ignoble pity:
You'll steal my honour yet fear to kill me!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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[78]
What has become of my
strength?
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Aristophanes |
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"
What bearing may we assume the
foregoing
couplet to have
upon Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And now another in my teeming brain
Prepares
itself: whence I resume the strain.
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Petrarch |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The Conquest of Summer
THE blue-toned campions and the blood-red poppies
Escape the murmuring and
fleeting
grain!
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Mine eyes that are weary of bliss
As of light that is
poignant
and strong
O silence my lips with a kiss,
My lips that are weary of song!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Now, the Mother Superior of a Convent and the Colonel of a British
Infantry Regiment would be justly shocked at any comparison being made
between their
respective
charges.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_ when my spirit slips
Down the great
darkness
from the mountain sky;
And those who shall behold me where I lie
Shall murmur: 'Look, you!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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--Is it not a fact that this report
Is artfully
concocted?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Drooping
blossom,
Gas-standards over
Spray out jingling tumult
Of white-hot rays.
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Imagists |
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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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150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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)
Walpurgisnacht
Harzgebirg
Gegend von Schierke und Elend
Faust.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Nec tamen illa mihi dextra deducta paterna
Fragrantem Assyrio venit odore domum,
Sed furtiva dedit muta
munuscula
nocte, 145
Ipsius ex ipso dempta viri gremio.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And you feathered flute-players,
Who instructed you to fill
All the blossomy
orchards
now
With melodious desire?
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Sappho |
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And you climbed yet
further!
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The eyes are drowned in opium
In universal licence
The
clownish
mouth bewitched
A singular geranium.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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uiuerit_ O: _fouerit_ potest uideri legisse Agius
in Epicedio
Hathumodae
73, 4 (Poet.
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Latin - Catullus |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Shuddering
the body stood
One instant in an agony of blood,
And gasped and fell.
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Euripides - Electra |
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They are _Two Stories of Prague_,
_The Touch of Life_ and _The Last_; three volumes of short stories; a
two-act drama, _The Daily Life_, points to a strong Maeterlinck
influence, and finally
_Stories
of God_.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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I'll teach the
villains!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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To whom he gave the lyre that sweetly sounded,
Which
skilfully
he held and played thereon.
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Shelley |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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Rilke - Poems |
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White and golden Lizzie stood,
Like a lily in a flood,--
Like a rock of blue-veined stone
Lashed by tides obstreperously,--
Like a beacon left alone
In a hoary roaring sea,
Sending up a golden fire,--
Like a fruit-crowned orange-tree
White with
blossoms
honey-sweet
Sore beset by wasp and bee,--
Like a royal virgin town
Topped with gilded dome and spire
Close beleaguered by a fleet
Mad to tug her standard down.
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Christina Rossetti |
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In her embrace--it's by no means unusual--I've composed poems
And the hexameter's beat gently tapped out on her back,
Fingertips counting in time with the sweet
rhythmic
breath of her slumber.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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These at the foemen scaled, upon all hands,
Form cruel
garlands
for the paynim bands.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"I fear thee and thy
glittering
eye
"And thy skinny hand so brown"--
Fear not, fear not, thou wedding guest!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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''T was all I had,' she
stricken
gasped;
Oh, what a livid boon!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Therefore
they shall do my will
To-day while I am master still,
And flesh and soul, now both are strong,
Shall hale the sullen slaves along,
Before this fire of sense decay,
This smoke of thought blow clean away,
And leave with ancient night alone
The stedfast and enduring bone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Silius neatly translates it,
"Turpe duci totam somno
consumere
noctem.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold
philosophy?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Its repression
of individuality, its insistence upon the necessity of
following
in the
footsteps of the classic poets, and of checking the outbursts of
imagination by the rules of common sense, simply incapacitated the poets
of the period from producing works of the highest order.
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Alexander Pope |
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Peace and union, he was to remind
him, serve the interest of the losers, and only the
reputation
of the
winners.
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Tacitus |
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Besides, he is
descended
from a noted Gaelic magician who
raised the 'dhoul' in Great Eliza's century, and he has a kind of
prescriptive right to hear tell of all kind of other-world creatures.
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Yeats |
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Unheard Midnight counts out his empty number,
Wakefulness urges you never to close an eye,
Before in the ancient armchair's embrace my
Shade is
illuminated
by the dying embers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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At ale he slew not
comrade or kin; nor cruel his mood,
though of sons of earth his
strength
was greatest,
a glorious gift that God had sent
the splendid leader.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
Last eve, as I was leading the king's
children
From the pasture where they played,
A fairy bugle sounded from an oak-tree Where tired elves had strayed;
And as it thrilled across the purple uplands And dropped to one soft note,
A golden birdie darted from the branches With white and silver throat.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Brodie tells me that the
muir where
Shakspeare
lays Macbeth's witch-meeting is still
haunted--that the country folks won't pass it by night.
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Robert Burns |
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"Beneath my palm trees, by the river side,
I sat a weeping: in the whole world wide
There was no one to ask me why I wept,--
And so I kept
Brimming
the water-lily cups with tears
Cold as my fears.
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Keats |
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The child
inclined
his ear,
And then grew weary and gray.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And left--her slender sweetness to divine,
Alone a
necklace
wreathed with silken tresses,
(With which a godly friend arrayed her shrine)
A marble block amid the weeds and cresses.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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III
O distant,
terrible
forests of Maine,
With huge trees numberless as the rain
That falls on your lonely lakes!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love
And these black bodies and this
sunburnt
face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
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blake-poems |
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With futile hands we seek to gain
Our inaccessible desire,
Diviner summits to attain,
With faith that sinks and feet that tire;
But nought shall conquer or control
The
heavenward
hunger of our soul.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The
footsteps
of people on the pavement sounded, as they grew
indistinct in the distance, like a many-times-repeated kiss that was
all one long kiss.
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Kipling - Poems |
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For ever left alone am I,
Then
wherefore
should I fear to die?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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les colliers tinteront
cherront
les masques
Va-t'en va-t'en contre le feu l'ombre prevaut
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Then inland just where the small meadow begins,
Well
bulwarked
with boulders that jut in the tide,
Lies safe beyond storm-beat the harbour in sun.
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Sappho |
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Then keep your heart for men like me
And safe from
trustless
chaps.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Mine eyes were dim with tears unshed;
Yes, I was firm--thus wert not thou;--
My baffled looks did fear yet dread
To meet thy looks--I could not know
How anxiously they sought to shine _5
With
soothing
pity upon mine.
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Shelley |
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In the amplitude of her joy, the Moon filled all your chamber as with a
phosphorescent air, a luminous poison; and all this living radiance
thought and said: "You shall be for ever under the
influence
of my kiss.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The softest dreams, the
sweetest
rest,
The brightest sun, the bluest sky,
Are love's own home and canopy.
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John Clare |
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So owned and enjoyed it
after
downfall
of devils, the Danish lord,
wonder-smiths' work, since the world was rid
of that grim-souled fiend, the foe of God,
murder-marked, and his mother as well.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The
prehistoric
Sumerian dynasties were all transformed into the realm
of myth and legend.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Like a fair house built on another man's ground; so
that I have lost my edifice by
mistaking
the place where
erected it.
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Shakespeare |
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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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Compare Coleridge's
description
of Christabel's
room: _Christabel_, i.
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"Only be no atheist,
Like a non-bear who respects not
His great Maker--Yes, a Maker
Hath this
universe
created.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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So doth the greater glory dim the less:
A
substitute
shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as doth an inland brook
Into the main of waters.
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Shakespeare |
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The maples, shedding their spinning seeds,
Called to his appleseeds in the ground,
Vast chestnut-trees, with their
butterfly
nations,
Called to his seeds without a sound.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the
gashouse
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Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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_The Poet's Death_
The world is taking little heed
And plods from day to day:
The vulgar
flourish
like a weed,
The learned pass away.
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John Clare |
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The first word that he
uttered was, "Where is the
govenour
of this gang?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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There is a city Canopus, last of the land,
By Nile's very mouth and bank;
There at length Zeus makes thee sane,
Stroking with gentle hand, and
touching
only.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Some
travelers
tell us that an
Indian had no name given him at first, but earned it, and his name was
his fame; and among some tribes he acquired a new name with every new
exploit.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Any one could have told him that
Sappers and Gunners are
perfectly
different branches of the Service.
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Kipling - Poems |
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But how do the
Corinthians
concern me?
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Aristophanes |
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