Or to achieve yourself a
position?
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To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears
As salt as mine, and hear the sighing years
Re-sighing on my lips renunciative
Through those
infrequent
smiles which fail to live
For all thy adjurations?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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On the morrow morning
Pugatchef
sent someone to call me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Faitisse
estoit et avenant,
Je ne sai fame plus plaisant.
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The walls were alabaster, the roof gold,
Ivory the doors, the sapphire windows lent
Whence on my heart of old
Its
earliest
sigh, as shall my last, was sent;
In arrowy jets of fire thence came and went
Arm'd messengers of love, whereof to think
As then they were, with awe
--Though now for them with laurel crown'd--I shrink
Of one rare diamond, square, without a flaw,
High in the midst a stately throne was placed
Where sat the lovely lady all alone:
In front a column shone
Of crystal, and thereon each thought was traced
In characters so clear, and quick, and true,
By turns it gladden'd me and grieved to view.
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Petrarch |
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Though oak-beams split,
though boats and sea-men flounder,
and the strait grind sand with sand
and cut boulders to sand and drift--
your eyes have pardoned our faults,
your hands have touched us--
you have leaned forward a little
and the waves can never thrust us back
from the
splendour
of your ragged coast.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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answer for fear]
[XXX for vindication of Urizens word] [Thy name is
familiar
XXX] {These 2 partially recovered erased pencil lines are discerned by Erdman beneath line 3.
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Blake - Zoas |
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ilk same day
was
receyued
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Ay, Venus smiles; the pure nymphs smile,
And Cupid, tyrant-lord of hearts,
Sharpening
on bloody stone the while
His fiery darts.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Simaetha calls on Hecate
And hears the wild dogs at the gate;
Dost thou
remember
Sicily?
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Wilde - Poems |
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The apron's vertical long flow
Warped grandly
outwards
to display
His hale, round belly hung midway,
Whose apex was securely bound
With apron-strings wrapped round and round.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Thine was the sword that Drusus drew,
When on the
Breunian
hordes he fell,
And storm'd the fierce Genaunian crew
E'en in their Alpine citadel,
And paid them back their debt twice told;
'Twas then the elder Nero came
To conflict, and in ruin roll'd
Stout Raetian kernes of giant frame.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Ceaselessly
up to thee, white peak of snow,
My stormy spirit will in vapours go!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
Aunt Helen
Miss Helen
Slingsby
was my maiden aunt,
And lived in a small house near a fashionable square
Cared for by servants to the number of four.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And, god wot, I wol hate hir
evermore!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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As through the spirit paling,
The pathways--then across the weald
Caressing breezes sailing
Respond
themselves
o'er fence and field.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But over them, lying there
shattered
and mute,
What deep echo rolls?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Herman watched the proceedings with a
curiosity
not unmingled with
superstitious fear.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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He was picked
up, and, at the same moment,
Lisaveta
was carried out in a faint.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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at it be
wrecchednesse
to wilne to don yuel[;] ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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A
thousand
masses I hear and offer,
Burn oil, wax candles in my hand,
So that success God might ensure,
For striving alone won't climb her stair.
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Troubador Verse |
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This
describes
nearly enough what we
saw.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the
bystanders
started--
His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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0 toi, que la nuit rend si belle,
Qu'il m'est doux, penche vers tes seins,
D'ecouter la plainte eternelle
Qui
sanglote
dans les bassins!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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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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Imagists |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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Preposterous
is that order, when we run
To ask our wages ere our work be done.
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Robert Herrick |
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My lands are sold, my father's house is gone;
I'll hire another's; is not that my own,
And yours, my
friends?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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At Siena I was tabled in the House of one Alberto Scipioni, an
old Roman Courtier in
dangerous
times, having bin Steward to
the Duca di Pagliano, who with all his Family were strangled
save this onely man that escap'd by foresight of the Tempest:
With him I had often much chat of those affairs; Into which he
took pleasure to look back from his Native Harbour: and at my
departure toward Rome (which had been the center of his
experience) I had wonn confidence enough to beg his advice,
how I might carry my self securely there, without offence of
mine own conscience.
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Milton |
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ALCHIMIE
DE LA DOULEUR
L'un t'eclaire avec son ardeur
L'autre en toi met son deuil.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_poppied_, because of the sleep-giving
property
of the
poppy-heads.
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Keats |
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For he was at the same time making preparations
for an
invasion
of the adjacent province of Africa[127] by land and
sea.
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Tacitus |
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Lost arts, one
sorrowfully
added to list of.
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James Russell Lowell |
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If e'er he bore the sword to
strengthen
ill,
Or, having power to wrong, betray'd the will,
On me, on me your kindled wrath assuage,
And bid the voice of lawless riot rage.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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O voices
strangely
speaking,
Voices of man and woman, voices of bells,
Diversely making comment on our time
Which flows and bears us with it into dusk,
Repeat the things you say!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Lo, he
all the fiercer was poising another weapon high by his ear; while they
hesitate, the spear went
whizzing
through both Tagus' temples, and
pierced and stuck fast in the warm brain.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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[610] An
allusion
to the tragedy by Euripides called 'Palamedes,' which
belonged to the tetralogy of the Troades, and was produced in 414 B.
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Aristophanes |
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Form
contracted
with the negative: prs.
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Beowulf |
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He leaves the anchor
fastened
in his tongue,
And grasps the rope which from the anchor hung.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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That brow, that smile, that cheek so fair,
Beseem my child, who weeps and plays:
A
heavenly
spirit guards her ways,
From whom she stole that mixture rare.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It might have been the lighthouse spark
Some sailor, rowing in the dark,
Had
importuned
to see!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Ere yet that last strain dying awed the air,
With
steadfast
eye I viewed thee in the choir
Of ever-enduring men.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Around it boys and unwedded girls chant
hymns and
joyfully
lay their hand on the rope.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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O all the kings, my men,
Shall fear this
terrible
happiness of mine!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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UXOR
PAUPERIS
IBYCI.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly
Landscape
with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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Appoloinaire |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And in the moment after, wild Limours,
Borne on a black horse, like a thunder-cloud
Whose skirts are
loosened
by the breaking storm,
Half ridden off with by the thing he rode,
And all in passion uttering a dry shriek,
Dashed down on Geraint, who closed with him, and bore
Down by the length of lance and arm beyond
The crupper, and so left him stunned or dead,
And overthrew the next that followed him,
And blindly rushed on all the rout behind.
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Tennyson |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
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blake-poems |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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that didst arise
But to be
overcast!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And at thy coming some
immortal
star,
Bearded with flame, blazed in the Eastern skies,
And waked the shepherds on thine island-home.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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BUBBLES
You had best be very
cautious
how
you say, I love you.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I have drawn my blade where the
lightnings
meet But the ending is the same:
Who loseth to God as the sword blades lose
Shall win at the end of the game.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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560
Ulysses, at that sound, for trial sake
Of his good host, if putting off his cloak
He would accommodate him, or require
That service for him at some other hand,
Addressing
thus the family, began.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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KINGS IN LEGENDS
Kings in old legends seem
Like
mountains
rising in the evening light.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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_ And do you
hesitate?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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THE LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS
Preface to the Kilmarnock Edition of 1786
Dedication to the
Edinburgh
Edition of 1787
* * * * *
POEMS.
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Robert Burns |
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The debtor was imprisoned, not in a public jail
under the care of impartial public functionaries, but in a
private workhouse
belonging
to the creditor.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I shall therefore now unfold at once the motives of my silence then,
and the rules which for the future I am
determined
to observe.
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Tacitus |
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All of us know that lance, and well may speak
Whereby Our Lord was wounded on the Tree:
Charles, by God's grace,
possessed
its point of steel!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Here first gave he response to me
soliciting
favor:
"Feed as before your heifers, ye boys, and yoke up your bullocks.
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Longfellow |
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Canto XXII
Oppresso
di stupore, a la mia guida
mi volsi, come parvol che ricorre
sempre cola dove piu si confida;
e quella, come madre che soccorre
subito al figlio palido e anelo
con la sua voce, che 'l suol ben disporre,
mi disse: <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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