namque uelut densas
praecerpens
cultor aristas
sole sub ardenti flauentia demetit arua,
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Latin - Catullus |
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And woe to
Godunov!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Would you that spangle of
Existence
spend
About THE SECRET--quick about it, Friend!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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He next
followed his father's business of
carpenter
and builder.
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Whitman |
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Saint Peter sat by the
celestial
gate:
His keys were rusty, and the lock was dull,
So little trouble had been given of late;
Not that the place by any means was full,
But since the Gallic era "eighty-eight"
The Devils had ta'en a longer, stronger pull,
And "a pull altogether," as they say
At sea--which drew most souls another way.
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Byron |
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"
18
For my heart was sick and sore within me, — The poor fellow, every word he spoke
Shamed me, there was
something
in his gesture Almost comic that I could not bear.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the
secretaries
of Cardinal Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Funeral
Libation
(At Gautier's Tomb)
To you, gone emblem of our happiness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Blind
Whose hopes in thee alone have centred been;
In thee my heart was captived by her mien
Who bore it with her when she earth rejoin'd:
Her better spirit, now a
deathless
flower,
And in the highest heaven that still shall be,
Each day inflames me with its beauties more.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"
LXXIII
The sun on the tide, the peach on the bough,
The blue smoke over the hill,
And the shadows
trailing
the valley-side,
Make up the autumn day.
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Sappho |
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e whiche
soc{ra}tes
in hys oppiniou{n} of [[pg 11]]
felicite ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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ā-ledon þā lēofne
þēoden
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Beowulf |
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Yea, I shall haunt until the dusk of time
The heavy eyelids filled with
fleeting
dreams.
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Sara Teasdale |
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5600
But the povre that
recchith
nought,
Save of his lyflode, in his thought,
Which that he getith with his travaile,
He dredith nought that it shal faile,
Though he have lytel worldis good, 5605
Mete and drinke, and esy food,
Upon his travel and living,
And also suffisaunt clothing.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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On them such outrage
Vengeance
will repay; 810
Man is our foe, and such 'tis ours to slay:
But still we spared--must spare the weaker prey.
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Byron |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them
imprisoned
in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves, sounding out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
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Appoloinaire |
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III
More than ever I dreamed, I have found it: my happy good
fortune!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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better far
In Want's most lonely cave till death to pine,
Unseen, unheard, unwatched by any star;
Or in the streets and walks where proud men are,
Better our dying bodies to obtrude,
Than dog-like, wading at the heels of war,
Protract
a curst existence, with the brood
That lap (their very nourishment!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Yet fear her, O thou minion of her
pleasure!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The warrior band leaps forth eagerly on the
Hesperian
shore; some
seek the seeds of flame hidden in veins of flint, some scour the woods,
the thick coverts of wild beasts, and find and shew the streams.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Grant me one line and I'm
contented!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Whether in the simplicity
of the Ballad, or the pathos of the song, I can only hope to please
myself in being allowed at least a
sprinkling
of our native tongue.
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Robert Forst |
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Then as, with a fall
Of frost, the buds upon the hawthorn spread
Are withered in untimely burial,
So love, occasion gone, his crown puts by,
And as a beggar walks unfriended ways,
With but
remembered
beauty to defy
The frozen sorrows of unsceptred days.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Nor had they yet among the Sons of Eve
Got them new Names, till wandring ore the Earth,
Through Gods high sufferance for the tryal of man,
By
falsities
and lyes the greatest part
Of Mankind they corrupted to forsake
God their Creator, and th' invisible
Glory of him, that made them, to transform 370
Oft to the Image of a Brute, adorn'd
With gay Religions full of Pomp and Gold,
And Devils to adore for Deities:
Then were they known to men by various Names,
And various Idols through the Heathen World.
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Milton |
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On the house-tops was no woman
But spat towards him and hissed,
No child but
screamed
out curses,
And shook its little fist.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Upon the throne
He sat, and
suddenly
he fell; blood gushed
From his mouth and ears.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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LXXVI
Ye have heard how Marsyas,
In the folly of his pride,
Boasted of a matchless skill,--
When the great god's back was turned;
How his fond imagining 5
Fell to ashes cold and grey,
When the
flawless
player came
In serenity and light.
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Sappho |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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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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fair no doubt, and worthy well
Thy cherishing, thy honouring, and thy love,
Not thy subjection: weigh with her thy self; 570
Then value: Oft times nothing profits more
Then self-esteem, grounded on just and right
Well manag'd; of that skill the more thou know'st,
The more she will acknowledge thee her Head,
And to
realities
yeild all her shows;
Made so adorn for thy delight the more,
So awful, that with honour thou maist love
Thy mate, who sees when thou art seen least wise.
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Milton |
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Faites, pour egayer l'ennui de nos prisons,
Passer sur nos esprits, tendus comme une toile,
Vos
souvenirs
avec leurs cadres d'horizons.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The full stop, accidentally dropped after 'fell'
in the editions of _1633_ and _1635_, was
restored
in _1639_.
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John Donne |
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Don't you know how they have just washed us
down--and with no very
fragrant
soap!
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Aristophanes |
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Sad my nights; from morn till eve,
Tenanting
the woods, I sigh:
But, ere I shall cease to grieve,
Ocean's vast bed shall be dry,
Suns their light from moons shall gain.
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Petrarch |
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Hung on the wire, between trenches, burning and freezing,
Groaning for water with armies of men so near;
The fall over cliff, the clutch at the rootless grass,
The beach rushing up, the whirling, the turning headfirst;
Stiff writhings of strychnine, taken in error or haste,
Angina pectoris, shudders of the heart;
Failure and crushing by flying weight to the ground,
Claws and jaws, the stink of a lion's breath;
Swimming, a white belly, a crescent of teeth,
Agony, and a spirting shredded limb,
And crimson blood
staining
the green water;
And, horror of horrors, the slow grind on the rack,
The breaking bones, the stretching and bursting skin,
Perpetual fainting and waking to see above
The down-thrust mocking faces of cruel men,
With the power of mercy, who gloat upon shrieks for mercy.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I that beheld,
But therein nought distinguish'd, save the surge,
Rais'd by the boiling, in one mighty swell
Heave, and by turns
subsiding
and fall.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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LAUGHING SONG
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs
laughing
by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
When the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene;
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing 'Ha ha he!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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You may esteem him
A child for his might;
Or you may deem him
A coward from his flight;
But if she whom love doth honour
Be conceal'd from the day,
Set a
thousand
guards upon her,
Love will find out the way.
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Golden Treasury |
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Once he saw a fat, stupid ass
Grinning
at him from a green place.
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Stephen Crane |
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Thou, bethink thee, art
A guest for queens to social pageantries,
With gages from a hundred
brighter
eyes
Than tears even can make mine, to play thy part
Of chief musician.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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There, -- sandals for the barefoot;
There, -- gathered from the gales,
Do the blue havens by the hand
Lead the
wandering
sails.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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This is my hour of
triumph!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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But surely France must be a pleasant place
That greets the
stranger
with so fair a face;
The English maiden blushes down the dance,
But few can equal the fair maid of France.
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John Clare |
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a Golden World whose porches round the heavens
And pillard halls & rooms recievd the eternal wandering stars
A wondrous golden Building; many a window many a door
And many a
division
let in & out into the vast unknown
[Cubed] Circled in infinite orb immoveable, within its arches all walls & cielings {According to Erdman, "The second reading is erased; yet it is supported by the reference back to "Cubes" and "window" in 33:4-5.
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Blake - Zoas |
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But hunger of new viands tempts his flock,
So that they needs into strange
pastures
wide
Must spread them: and the more remote from him
The stragglers wander, so much mole they come
Home to the sheep-fold, destitute of milk.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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MARTIAL[Y]
Epigrams,
Epitaphs
and Poems
_I.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Of
everything
that stirs she dreameth wrong
And pipes her "tweet tut" fears the whole day long.
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John Clare |
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May my verse, which I so reverse
That it's
unhindered
by woods or hills,
Go, where one feels not frost or ice,
Nor does the cold have power to sting.
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Troubador Verse |
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O thou deep heaven,
unsullied
yet,
Into thy gulfs sublime--
Up azure tracts of flaming light--
Let my free pinion climb;
Till from my sight, in that clear light,
Earth and her crimes be gone--
The men who act the evil deeds--
The caitiffs who look on.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Ah, who may trace this
tranquil
loveliness
In verse felicitous?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Royalty payments must be paid within 60
days following each date on which you prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax returns.
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Stephen Crane |
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Heron of
Kerroughtree, a gentleman widely
esteemed
in Galloway, was about to
engage in an election contest, and these noble lines served the
purpose of announcing the candidate's sentiments on freedom.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Poets and
musicians
fight their battles best in the region of the
ideal.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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They will confess they are
offended
with their manner of living
like enough; who is not?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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gearwe ne wisson (_ye
certainly
have not known_, etc.
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Beowulf |
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I never
flinched
nor fled when thou didst aim
at me in King Arthur's house.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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THE LITTLE VAGABOND
Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold;
But the
Alehouse
is healthy, and pleasant, and warm.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles
Baudelaire, by Charles Baudelaire
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Next day there was no
Muhammad
Din at the head of the carriage-drive,
and no "Talaam Tahib" to welcome my return.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Talk Of Him That's Far Awa
Musing on the roaring ocean,
Which divides my love and me;
Wearying
heav'n in warm devotion,
For his weal where'er he be.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And the prince
inquired
of him, "What has
befallen you?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Tall
thriving
trees confess'd the fruitful mould:
The reddening apple ripens here to gold.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the
strength
to force the moment to its crisis?
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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How condescending to descend,
And be of
buttercups
the friend
In a New England town!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Long ones are not good; and the best, if not
carefully
shelled, are apt
to be a little rancid on account of the gall!
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Poe - 5 |
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And all
outrageous
ugliness of time,
Excess and Blasphemy and squinting Crime
Beset me, but I kept my calm sublime:
I hate them not, Nirvana.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Telemachus
welcomed the wayworn suppliant; the feasting Wooers, too,
sent him portions of meat, save Antinous, who
Rapt up a stool, with which he smit
The king's right shoulder, 'twixt his neck and it.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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For all this, we are better off so far as the law is
concerned
than
we would be in England.
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Yeats |
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Canto I
Per correr miglior acque alza le vele
omai la
navicella
del mio ingegno,
che lascia dietro a se mar si crudele;
e cantero di quel secondo regno
dove l'umano spirito si purga
e di salire al ciel diventa degno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The one
advantage
of playing with fire is that one never gets even
singed.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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XII
In cruel solitude each day
With flame more ardent passion burns,
And to
Oneguine
far away
Her heart importunately turns.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Don't be afraid
of my
compromising
you.
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Kipling - Poems |
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So, when a
statesman
wants a day's defence,
Or envy holds a whole week's war with sense,
Or simple pride for flattery makes demands,
May dunce by dunce be whistled off my hands!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A lustreless
protrusive
eye
Stares from the protozoic slime
At a perspective of Canaletto.
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T.S. Eliot |
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CCLXXXVI
Sees Tierris then 'that in the face he's struck,
On grassy field runs clear his flowing blood;
Strikes Pinabel on 's helmet brown and rough,
To the nose-piece he's broken it and cut,
And from his head scatters his brains in th' dust;
Brandishes
him on th' sword, till dead he's flung.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Little--oh "little dwells in thee"
Like unto what on earth we see:
Beauty's eye is here the bluest
In the falsest and untruest--On the sweetest
air doth float
The most sad and solemn note--
If with thee be broken hearts,
Joy so
peacefully
departs,
That its echo still doth dwell,
Like the murmur in the shell.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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He
vnneiled
his honden two,
And seide, 'wi?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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'--
It costs no inward
struggle
not to go,
Ah, no!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Oh, sacrament of summer days,
Oh, last
communion
in the haze,
Permit a child to join,
Thy sacred emblems to partake,
Thy consecrated bread to break,
Taste thine immortal wine!
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Such
cowardice
of that
knight did I never hear.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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birthplace
of deep Love!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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), Euripides'
_Electra_
(413 B.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Surely, whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her I shall follow,
As the water follows the moon, silently, with fluid steps
anywhere
around
the globe.
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Whitman |
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"
"He was
interfering
with me.
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Kipling - Poems |
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, _bold, daring_: þēah þe hē dǣda gehwæs dyrstig wǣre,
_although he had been
courageous
for every deed_, 2839.
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Beowulf |
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From all their dens the one-eyed race repair,
From rifted rocks, and
mountains
bleak in air.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Et quand tu le verras sonder tout l'horizon,
Contempteur
des vieux jougs, libre de toute crainte,
Tu viendras lui donner la Redemption sainte!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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For
additional
contact information:
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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IN THE
MOUNTAINS
ON A SUMMER DAY
Gently I stir a white feather fan,
With open shirt, sitting in a green wood.
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Li Po |
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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Herman did not recover his usual
composure
during the entire day.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Full of first hope, burning with youthful love,
She, at her will, as plainly now appears,
Has led me many years,
But for one end, my nature best to prove:
Oft showing me her shadow, veil, and dress,
But never her sweet face, till I, who right
Knew not her power to bless,
All my green youth for these,
contented
quite,
So spent, that still the memory is delight:
Since onward yet some glimpse of her is seen,
I now may own, of late,
Such as till then she ne'er for me had been,
She shows herself, shooting through all my heart
An icy cold so great
That save in her dear arms it ne'er can thence depart.
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Petrarch |
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William Wordsworth |
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A rumour, scarcely yet to be reckoned sound,
But a pulse quicker or slower, then I know
My plea is granted; death
prevails
not yet.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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