HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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Sir Job sailed forth, the evening bright and still,
"No place on earth," he cried, "like
Greenwich
Hill!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"Yes" I whispered "this, too, holy, Even this holy and divine,
Though to poets known and lovers only
The dear face that looks from meanest things
"And the majesty that moves about us,
The bright
splendor
what common guise.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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So nigh is
grandeur
to our dust,
So near is God to man,
When Duty whispers low, _Thou must_,
The youth replies, _I can_.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Prometheus-like from heaven she stole
The fire that through those silken lashes
In darkest glances seems to roll,
From eyes that cannot hide their flashes:
And as along her bosom steal
In lengthened flow her raven tresses,
You'd swear each
clustering
lock could feel,
And curled to give her neck caresses.
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Byron |
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" The two dialogues finally used as the Epilogue to
the Satires were first
published
in the year 1738, with the name of the
year, "Seventeen Hundred and Thirty-eight.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Oh Peggy was the young thing and bonny as to size;
Her lips were
cherries
of the spring and hazel were her eyes.
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John Clare |
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It is I,
The wronged
Orestes!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Sparrow sate close by,
A-making of an insect-pie
For her little children five,
In the nest and all alive;
Singing with a
cheerful
smile,
To amuse them all the while,
"Twikky wikky wikky wee,
Wikky bikky twikky tee,
Spikky bikky bee!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Enough, my dear brother,
although
we speak
reason.
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Marvell - Poems |
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105
This lady, which that al-day herde at ere
Hir fadres shame, his falsnesse and tresoun,
Wel nigh out of hir wit for sorwe and fere,
In widewes habit large of samit broun,
On knees she fil biforn Ector a-doun; 110
With pitous voys, and
tendrely
wepinge,
His mercy bad, hir-selven excusinge.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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THE
BUILDING
OF THE BALE-FIRE.
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Beowulf |
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In vain for
Catholics
ourselves we bear ;
The universal church is only there.
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Marvell - Poems |
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--The next thing to the stature, is the figure and feature in
language--that is, whether it be round and straight, which consists of
short and succinct periods,
numerous
and polished; or square and firm,
which is to have equal and strong parts everywhere answerable, and
weighed.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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2, 3) the Bard
prophesies
the fate of Edward II.
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Golden Treasury |
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Frightful
stories
were told respecting these dungeons.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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That vintage of the Heather yields so dense
And
glutinous
a syrup that it foils
Him who would spare the comb and drain from thence
Its dark, full-flavoured spoils:
For he must squeeze to wreck the beautiful
Frail edifice.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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at thy feet my tears I pour
And thy
protection
I implore.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Mid muttering prayers all sounds of torment meet,
Dire clap of hands,
distracted
chafe of feet;
While loud and dull ascends the weeping cry,
Surely in other thoughts contempt may die.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"_Afflicted_" has the
original
Latin sense of "cast down.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Then they
described
a kind of curvilinear path upon the side of the fell, and
both these first and last appearances were bounded by the top of the
mountain.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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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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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Thy
children
call, who love thee: hearken thou!
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Euripides - Electra |
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There came one who
understood
not these things.
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Stephen Crane |
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Ay, lanthorn on the North Church tower,
When that thy church hath had her hour,
Still from the top of Reverence high
Shalt thou illume Fame's ampler sky;
For,
statured
large o'er town and tree,
Time's tallest Figure stands by thee,
And, dim as now thy wick may shine
The Future lights his lamp at thine.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Youth
marshalled
against
youth!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Little Air
I
Any solitude
Without a swan or quai
Mirrors its disuse
In the gaze I abdicate
Far from that pride's excess
Too high to enfold
In which many a sky paints itself
With the twilight's gold
But languorously flows beside
Like white linen laid aside
Such
fleeting
birds as dive
Exultantly at my side
Into the wave made you
Your exultation nude.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"Lists all white and blue in the skies;
And the people hurried amain
To the
Tournament
under the ladies' eyes
Where jousted Heart and Brain.
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Sidney Lanier |
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One day, as Lisaveta was
standing
on the pavement about to enter the
carriage after the Countess, she felt herself jostled and a note was
thrust into her hand.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Ballade: Du Concours De Blois
I'm dying of thirst beside the fountain,
Hot as fire, and with
chattering
teeth:
In my own land, I'm in a far domain:
Near the flame, I shiver beyond belief:
Bare as a worm, dressed in a furry sheathe,
I smile in tears, wait without expectation:
Taking my comfort in sad desperation:
I rejoice, without pleasures, never a one:
Strong I am, without power or persuasion,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Villon |
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My
Bridegroom
Death is come o'er the meres
To wed a bride with bloody tears.
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Sidney Lanier |
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He laughed like a boy when the
holidays
heighten,
But a soldier's glance shot from his visor beneath.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Apres le moment de l'air des
bucheronnes
a la rumeur du torrent sous la
ruine des bois, de la sonnerie des bestiaux a l'echo des vals, et des
cris des steppes.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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For all I knew it may have
sharpened
spears
And arrowheads itself.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
The mother of
Gilgamish
she that knows all things,
said unto Gilgamish:--
"Truly oh Gilgamish he is
born [56] in the fields like thee.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Thus was I
manacled
for life; while she,
Proud of my bonds, enjoy'd her liberty.
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Petrarch |
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But say,
What meant that caution joind, If Ye Be Found
Obedient?
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Milton |
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/ Such
shameless
Bards we have; and yet 'tis
true,/ There are as mad, abandon'd Critics too.
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Byron |
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But if any one still anxious for literal truth should
insist--'Is not the
impression
as false as the medium that conveys
it?
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For it is seyd, `Man maketh ofte a yerde 740
With which the maker is him-self y-beten
In sondry maner,' as thise wyse treten,
And namely, in his counseyl tellinge
That
toucheth
love that oughte be secree;
For of him-self it wolde y-nough out-springe, 745
But-if that it the bet governed be.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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730
Or artow lyk an asse to the harpe,
That hereth soun, whan men the strenges plye,
But in his minde of that no melodye
May sinken, him to glade, for that he
So dul is of his
bestialitee?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Proudly floats the starry banner,
Monmouth's
glorious
field is won,
And in triumph Irish Molly
Stands beside her smoking gun.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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--thy taction is defiled;
My tears express an injured woman's grief;
No more thy wife I'll be, but seek relief;
Return my fortune--go:--thy
mistress
seek;
To be so constant:--How was I so weak?
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La Fontaine |
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For whom I robbed the dingle,
For whom betrayed the dell,
Many will
doubtless
ask me,
But I shall never tell!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"Give voice to us, we pray, O Lord,
"That we may sing Thy
goodness
to the sun.
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Stephen Crane |
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Quare habe tibi
quidquid
hoc libelli,
Qualecumque, quod o patrona virgo,
Plus uno maneat perenne saeclo.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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My spirit has passed in
compassion
and determination around the whole
earth;
I have looked for equals and lovers, and found them ready for me in all
lands;
I think some divine rapport has equalised me with them.
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Whitman |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Robinson has written nothing since his
Collected Poems with the exception of a long poem--a volume in
itself--but he hopes to appear in any
subsequent
collection.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Email
contact links and up to date contact
information
can be found at the
Foundation's web site and official page at www.
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Li Po |
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The while she
slumbereth
alone,
_Over_ the purple coverlet,
The maiden's jet-black hair hath grown.
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Tennyson |
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"O thou of primal love the prime
delight!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Try then,
instrument
of flights, O malign
Syrinx by the lake where you await me, to flower again!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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But come it will, the time when manhood grants
More
powerful
advocates than vain complaints.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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" Lycius blush'd, and led
The old man through the inner doors broad-spread;
With reconciling words and
courteous
mien
Turning into sweet milk the sophist's spleen.
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Keats |
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"
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with
automatic
hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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As for believing things, I can believe
anything
provided that it is
quite incredible.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I saw alone, dim, white and grand
As in a dream, the angel's hand
Stretched forth in gesture of command
Straight
through the haze.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Before Marsile his vaunting boast hath made:
"To Rencesvals my company I'll take,
A
thousand
score, with shields and lances brave.
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Chanson de Roland |
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`Beth glad for-thy, and live in sikernesse;
Thus seyde I never er this, ne shal to mo;
And if to yow it were a gret
gladnesse
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To turne ayein, soone after that ye go,
As fayn wolde I as ye, it were so,
As wisly god myn herte bringe at reste!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Here are the blood-stained Dukes' and Marquis' line,
Barbaric
lords, who amid war's rapine
Bore gilded saints upon their banners still
Painted on fishes' skin with cunning skill.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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One must do
something
always.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The glory of evening was spread through the west;
--On the slope of a mountain I stood;
While the joy that
precedes
the calm season of rest
Rang loud through the meadow and wood.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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So many nights
you have
distracted
me from terror.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The lord of
boundless
revenues,
Salute not him as happy: no,
Call him the happy, who can use
The bounty that the gods bestow,
Can bear the load of poverty,
And tremble not at death, but sin:
No recreant he when called to die
In cause of country or of kin.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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We grant they're thine, those
beauties
all,
So lovely in our eye;
Keep them, thou eunuch, Cardoness,
For others to enjoy!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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More I know not: my roots lie hidden deep
My
branches
only are swayed by the wind.
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Rilke - Poems |
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From this point onward the new tablet takes up a hitherto
unknown portion of the epic, henceforth to be
assigned
to the second
book.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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They did not want it to be thought that they were
shaking off their
allegiance
to the empire, so in taking the oath they
invoked the long obsolete names of the Senate and People of Rome.
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Tacitus |
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His mind is concrete and fastidious,
His nose is remarkably big;
His visage is more or less hideous,
His beard it
resembles
a wig.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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[144]
'Mid savage rocks, and seas of snow that shine, 540
Between interminable tracts of pine,
Within a temple stands an awful shrine, [145]
By an uncertain light revealed, that falls
On the mute Image and the
troubled
walls.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The _Drum Taps_,
consequent upon the war, with their _Sequel_, which comprises the poem on
Lincoln,
followed
in 1865; and in 1867, as I have already noted, a complete
edition of all the poems, including a supplement named _Songs before
Parting_.
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Whitman |
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Send your
pitchers
afloat on the tide,
Gather the leaves ere the dawn be old,
Grind them in mortars of amber and gold,
The fresh green leaves of the henna-tree.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And sometimes again we catch
glimpses
of a lyric strain,
sustained perhaps but for a line or two at a time, and making the
reader regret its sudden cessation.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
He
whistles
down the day-long road,
And, when the chilly shadows fall
And heavier hangs the weary load,
Is he down-hearted?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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There little lambtoe bunches springs
In red tinged and
begolden
dye
For ever, and like China kings
They come but never seem to die.
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John Clare |
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e pure
pentaungel
wyth ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Now, O Creation of the cerulean main, who art in sacred Idalium, and in
Urian haven, and who doth foster Ancona and reedy Cnidos, Amathus and
Golgos, and Dyrrhachium,
Adriatic
tavern, accept and acknowledge this vow
if it lack not grace nor charm.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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What fate shall dare uncrown thee from this breast,
O god-born lover, whom my love doth gird
And armour with impregnable delight
Of Hope's
triumphant
keen flame-carven sword?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It then goes out an act,
Or is
entombed
so still
That only to the ear of God
Its doom is audible.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live
everything
will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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VI
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:
Make sweet some vial;
treasure
thou some place
With beauty's treasure ere it be self-kill'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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ON GRONING BEARE, on a bier with
groaning
friends around.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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hear these tuneless numbers, wrung
By sweet
enforcement
and remembrance dear,
And pardon that thy secrets should be sung
Even into thine own soft-conched ear:
Surely I dreamt to-day, or did I see
The winged Psyche with awaken'd eyes?
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Keats |
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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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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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William does
indeed tell both the stories; but he gives us distinct notice
that he does not warrant their truth, and that they rest on no
better
authority
than that of ballads.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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These triple threads of
threefold
colour first
I twine about thee, and three times withal
Around these altars do thine image bear:
Uneven numbers are the god's delight.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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There came an officer knocking by night at my door--
In a loud voice
demanding
grain-tribute.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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These islanders were
punished
for their crime;
Naught prospers, Francis tells us, in their clime;
To Lucifer was giv'n the hateful spot,
And there his country house he now has got.
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La Fontaine |
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A proof, old traitor, of thy
cowardliness!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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He
gathered
all that springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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