At Rhodes, indeed, and also at Athens, orators existed without number,
and the reason is, in those communities the people
directed
every
thing; a giddy multitude governed, and, to say the truth, all things
were in the power of all.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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It seemeth him but the
skeleton
of a ship.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Across the stage with pallor on her face, yet lurid passion,
Stalks Norma
brandishing
the dagger in her hand.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But now he fared like Mars himself, so brandishing his lance
As through the deep shades of a wood a raging fire should glance,
Held up to all eyes by a hill; about his lips a foam
Stood, as when th' ocean is enraged; his eyes were overcome
With fervour, and
resembled
flames, set off by his dark brows,
And from his temples his bright helm abhorred lightnings throws.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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What wonder then if fields and regions here
Breathe forth Elixir pure, and Rivers run
Potable Gold, when with one
vertuous
touch
Th' Arch-chimic Sun so farr from us remote
Produces with Terrestrial Humor mixt 610
Here in the dark so many precious things
Of colour glorious and effect so rare?
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Milton |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with discordant mutiny,
Working on you its eternal
vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Carlyle
ridiculed
Sterling's
"Pantheism.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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What
majestic
stillness broods
Over these colored solitudes.
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Emerson - Poems |
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O troubled
reflection
in the sea!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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490
Wonder not then, what God for you saw good
If I refuse not, but convert, as you,
To proper substance; time may come when men
With Angels may participate, and find
No inconvenient Diet, nor too light Fare:
And from these corporal
nutriments
perhaps
Your bodies may at last turn all to Spirit
Improv'd by tract of time, and wingd ascend
Ethereal, as wee, or may at choice
Here or in Heav'nly Paradises dwell; 500
If ye be found obedient, and retain
Unalterably firm his love entire
Whose progenie you are.
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Milton |
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Shall not that Western Goth, of whom we spoke,
So
fiercely
practical, so keen of eye, 680
Find out, some day, that nothing pays but God,
Served whether on the smoke-shut battle-field,
In work obscure done honestly, or vote
For truth unpopular, or faith maintained
To ruinous convictions, or good deeds
Wrought for good's sake, mindless of heaven or hell?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Iste panis meus pretiosus
super aquas
literarias
faeculentas praefidenter jactus, quasi Harpyiaram
quarundam (scilicet bibliopolarum istorum facinorosorum supradictorum)
tactu rancidus, intra perpaucos dies mihi domum rediit.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Greetings, in pale libation and madness,
Don't think to some hope of magic corridors I offer
My empty cup, where a monster of gold
suffers!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Ist es nicht Staub, was diese hohe Wand
Aus hundert Fachern mit
verenget?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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_, 81-4 preserves a
defective
text of this
part of the epic.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Lanier's latest completed poem, was written
while his sun of life seemed fairly at the setting,
and the hand which first
pencilled
its lines had not strength
to carry nourishment to the lips.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Contents
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere
Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
Le Testament: Rondeau
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Ballade: Du
Concours
De Blois
Ballade: Epistre
L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
Index of First Lines
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Tell me where, or in what country
Is Flora, the lovely Roman,
Archipiades or Thais,
Who was her nearest cousin,
Echo answering, at clap of hand,
Over the river, and the meadow,
Whose beauty was more than human?
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Villon |
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A best disgrace a brave man feels,
Acknowledged of the brave, --
One more "Ye Blessed" to be told;
But this
involves
the grave.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Pope did not notice that he
describes
Belinda as waking
in I.
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Alexander Pope |
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Ye lispers, whisperers, singers in storms,
Ye consciences murmuring faiths under forms,
Ye ministers meet for each passion that grieves,
Friendly, sisterly,
sweetheart
leaves,
Oh, rain me down from your darks that contain me
Wisdoms ye winnow from winds that pain me, --
Sift down tremors of sweet-within-sweet
That advise me of more than they bring, -- repeat
Me the woods-smell that swiftly but now brought breath
From the heaven-side bank of the river of death, --
Teach me the terms of silence, -- preach me
The passion of patience, -- sift me, -- impeach me, --
And there, oh there
As ye hang with your myriad palms upturned in the air,
Pray me a myriad prayer.
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Sidney Lanier |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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He must be rare if even / have not And lost mid-page
Such age
As his pardons the habit,
He
analyzes
form and thought to see
How I 'scaped immortality.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that
transfigures
you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Surely the ripe fruits tremble on their bough,
They cling and linger trembling till they drop:
I, trembling, cling to dying life; for how
Face the
perpetual
Now?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Down his wan cheek the
trickling
torrent ran,
As mixing words with sighs he thus began:
"Great deeds, O friends!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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What stays with you latest and
deepest?
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Whitman |
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They
certainly
could not have worshiped in groves then.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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It was not an uncommon
affectation
in England at this time.
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Alexander Pope |
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Matrimonial
bed's insecure and so's fornication;
Husband, lover and wife pass to each other the hurt.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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His ship farre come from watrie wildernesse,
He hurles out vowes, and Neptune oft doth blesse:
So forth they past, and all the way they spent 285
Discoursing of her
dreadful
late distresse,
In which he askt her, what the Lyon ment:
Who told her all that fell in journey as she went.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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ei
reioisen
hem to
putte{n} vndir hem ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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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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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on
friendly
pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From mournful climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLIX
That night Love drew you down into the ballroom
To dance a sweet love-ballet with subtle art,
Your eyes though it was evening, brought the day
Like so many
lightning
flashes through the gloom.
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Ronsard |
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Thus, as I view'd th' interminable host,
The
prospect
seem'd at last in dimness lost:
But still the wish remain'd their doom to know,
As, watchful, I survey'd the passing show.
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Petrarch |
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LXX
That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's
sweetest
air.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Her belief only made the Colonel's Wife more wretched, because it
insisted so strongly on the
villainy
of men.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I well remember that
my first thought, upon beholding it, was that Retzch, had he viewed it,
would have greatly
preferred
it to his own pictural incarnations of the
fiend.
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Poe - 5 |
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And wines, purple and blue and like gold fire,
Made of the colours of the morning sea
And
fragrance
wild as woman's need of love.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And dost thou think
my untamed thoughts and speak my vast
language?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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[On the title-page of the second or
Edinburgh
edition, were these
words: "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, by Robert Burns,
printed for the Author, and sold by William Creech, 1787.
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Robert Burns |
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"
The
popularity
of his lighter poems lasted till the Ming dynasty, when a
wave of pedantry swept over China.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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and stem
A tide of suffering, rather than forego
Such
feelings
for the hard and worldly phlegm
Of those whose eyes are only turned below,
Gazing upon the ground, with thoughts which dare not glow?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"Thou canst not learn, nor can I show,
To paint with Thomson's
landscape
glow;
Or wake the bosom-melting throe,
With Shenstone's art;
Or pour, with Gray, the moving flow,
Warm on the heart.
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Robert Burns |
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They part; while,
lessening
from the hero's view
Swift to the town the well-row'd galley flew:
The hero trod the margin of the main,
And reach'd the mansion of his faithful swain.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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That very life his learned hunger craves,
He saves from famine, from the savage saves;
Nay, feasts the animal he dooms his feast,
And, till he ends the being, makes it blest;
Which sees no more the stroke, or feels the pain,
Than favoured man by touch
ethereal
slain.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Now, if chilly April days
Delay the Apple-blossom, and the May's
First week come in with sudden summer weather,
The Apple and the Hawthorn bloom together,
And all day long the plundering hordes go round
And every
overweighted
blossom nods.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And
vanishes
along the level of the roofs.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Though none but Atis with me had success,
I now desire, he may
Lucretia
bless,
And wish her to surrender up her charms,
(Just like myself) to his extended arms.
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La Fontaine |
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Letters were written to
all the armies and their
generals
with instructions that they should
try to win over those of the Guards who were hostile to Vitellius by
promising them renewal of service.
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Tacitus |
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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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Unless you get a-trotting, I shall catch you and prick up
your behind, you sorry
packhorse!
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Aristophanes |
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I might indeed get a job of
officiating, where a settled
supervisor
was ill, or aged; but that
hauls me from my family, as I could not remove them on such an
uncertainty.
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Robert Forst |
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So talk'd the
spirited
sly Snake; and Eve
Yet more amaz'd unwarie thus reply'd.
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Milton |
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"
"A fable,"
remarked
Herman; "perhaps the cards were marked.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Nash speaks of the Vice as an
antiquated
figure as early as 1592
(_Wks.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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How from my father should I
vengeance
dread!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Sifting soft winds with
sentence
and rhyme_.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no more
To thee, God's daughter,
powerful
as God,
It is that thou hast made my life too sweet
To hold the added sweetness of a song.
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Sara Teasdale |
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This
displeases
thee; well, surely,
Thou hast a right to say "for shame" demurely.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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There, on
thoughts
that once were mine,
Day looks down the eastern steep,
And the youth at morning shine
Makes the vow he will not keep.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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XXIV [8]
"A little croft we owned--a plot of corn,
A garden stored with peas, and mint, and thyme,
And flowers for posies, oft on Sunday morn 210
Plucked while the church bells rang their
earliest
chime.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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LI
Loitering with a vacant eye
Along the Grecian gallery,
And brooding on my heavy ill,
I met a statue
standing
still.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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An exquisite sense
of the ridiculous belonged to the Greek character; and closely
connected with this faculty was a strong
propensity
to flippancy
and impertinence.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The serpent fled; and to their
stations
back
The angels up return'd with equal flight.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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God gave a loaf to every bird,
But just a crumb to me;
I dare not eat it, though I starve, --
My
poignant
luxury
To own it, touch it, prove the feat
That made the pellet mine, --
Too happy in my sparrow chance
For ampler coveting.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"Let us over countries rove,
On our
charming
steeds content,
In the azure light of love,
And its sweet bewilderment.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The tablet is said to have been found at Senkere, ancient
Larsa near Warka, modern Arabic name for and vulgar descendant
of the ancient name Uruk, the
Biblical
Erech mentioned in Genesis
X.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Send me now, and I shall go;
Call me, I shall hear you call;
Use me ere they lay me low
Where a man's no use at all;
Ere the
wholesome
flesh decay,
And the willing nerve be numb,
And the lips lack breath to say,
"No, my lad, I cannot come.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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O words are poor
receipts
for what time hath stole away,
The ancient pulpit trees and the play.
| Guess: |
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John Clare |
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I am as one lost in a
midnight
wood,
Who dares not ask some harmless passenger
The path across the wilderness, lest he, _95
As my thoughts are, should be--a murderer.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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XXVI
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
In all her vast dimensions, all her might,
Her length and breadth, and all her depth and height
Needs no line or lead, compass or measure:
He only need draw a circle, at his leisure,
Round all that Ocean in his arms holds tight,
Be it where Sirius
scorches
with his light,
Or where the northerlies blow cold forever.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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haec, fora
perpetuis
signis clarisque frequentans,
ipse deum genitor caelo terrisque canebat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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--Also, _late,
belonging
to former
time_: gen.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements
concerning
tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Since I have touched my lips to your brimming cup,
Since I have bowed my pale brow in your hands,
Since I have
sometime
breathed the sweet breath
Of your soul, a perfume buried in shadow lands;
Since it was granted to me to hear you utter
Words in which the mysterious heart sighs,
Since I have seen smiles, since I have seen tears
Your mouth on my mouth, your eyes on my eyes;
Since I have seen over my enraptured head
A light from your star shine, ah, ever veiled!
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Descendez, descendez, lamentables victimes,
Descendez le chemin de l'enfer eternel;
Plongez au plus profond du gouffre ou tous les crimes,
Flagelles par un vent qui ne vient pas du ciel,
Bouillonnent pele-mele avec un bruit d'orage;
Ombres folles, courez au but de vos desirs;
Jamais vous ne pourrez
assouvir
votre rage,
Et votre chatiment naitra de vos plaisirs.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Your
melancholy
looks do pierce me through;
Corruption swathes the paleness of your beauty.
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Each of the books, after the first,
consists
of a digest
with commentary of various works on ancient history, the aim being
apparently to reconcile Biblical and heathen chronology and to
establish the genealogy of Christ.
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John Donne |
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Steal from corroding care one
transient
day,
To glory give the space thou hast to stay;
Short is the time, and lo!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
The Eye
Said the Eye one day, "I see beyond these valleys a
mountain
veiled
with blue mist.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Or who is he so fond will be the tomb,
Of his self-love to stop
posterity?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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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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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Now spurres the lated
Traueller
apace,
To gayne the timely Inne, and neere approches
The subiect of our Watch
3.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Though absent long,
These forms of beauty have not been to me,
As is a
landscape
to a blind man's eye:
But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart,
And passing even into my purer mind
With tranquil restoration:--feelings too
Of unremembered pleasure; such, perhaps,
As may have had no trivial influence
On that best portion of a good man's life;
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Le gouffre a
toujours
soif; la clepsydre se vide.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Is it word from Ninus or Arbela,
Babylon the great, or
Northern
Imbros?
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Sappho |
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skich, Biblioteka Narodowa, 1975, Wikimedia Commons
Annie
On the coast of Texas
Twixt Mobile and
Galveston
there was a
Great garden full of roses
That also contained a villa
Like a giant rose.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And on one, that's Earth, a yellow dot, Paris,
Where hangs, a light, a poor ageing fool:
In the frail
universal
order, unique miracle.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The jew is
underneath
the lot.
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T.S. Eliot |
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In Florence he beheld a certain fair,
With
charming
face and smart engaging air;
Of noble birth, but puffed with empty pride;
Some marks of virtue, though not much beside.
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La Fontaine |
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"To-day be wise and great,
And put off
hesitation
and go forth 5
With cheerful courage for the diurnal need.
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Sappho |
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One would think that the following definition
of
Tragedian
would be rather superfluous after this,--'_a maker of dites
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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