hos potius, magis hos calamos sectare: canalis
exprime qui dignas
cecinerunt
consule siluas.
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Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening
thy power to lend base subjects light?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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My wife and child clutched at my coat and wept:
"Some people want to be rich and grand:
I only want to share my
porridge
with you.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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To Marc Chagall
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
On to the skin of a violin
A singing man a single bird
An agile dancer with his wife
A couple
drenched
in their youth
The gold of the grass lead of the sky
Separated by azure flames
Of the health-giving dew
The blood glitters the heart rings
A couple the first reflection
And in a cellar of snow
The opulent vine draws
A face with lunar lips
That never slept at night.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Wharton, in whose altogether admirable little
volume we find all that is known and the most
apposite
of all that has been
said up to the present day about
"Love's priestess, mad with pain and joy of song,
Song's priestess, mad with joy and pain of love.
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Sappho |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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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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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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as fades the vale, they fade away:
Yet still the tender, vacant gloom remains;
Still the cold cheek its
shuddering
tear retains.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Howe'er, be careful, said the wily wight,
That with your infant ev'ry thing goes right;
To you, from thence, great happiness will spring:
You'll reign the parent of what's more than king;
Your
relatives
to noble rank will rise:
Some will be princes; others lords comprise;
Your nephews cardinals; your cousins too
Will dukes become, if they the truth pursue;
And places, castles, palaces, there'll be,
For you and them of every high degree;
You'll nothing want: eternal is the source,
Like waters flowing in the river's course.
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La Fontaine |
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Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire
Sprinkled
with stars, like Ariadne's tiar:
Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet!
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Keats |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Ridicule pendu, tes
douleurs
sont les miennes!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Oft sentimental and with
saddened
vein
He looks on trifles and bemoans their pain,
And thinks the angler mad, and loudly storms
With emphasis of speech oer murdered worms.
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John Clare |
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"
So, pluck'd one way by hate and one by love,
Drain'd of her force, again she sat, and spake
To Tristram, as he knelt before her, saying,
"O hunter, and O blower of the horn,
Harper, and thou hast been a rover too,
For, ere I mated with my
shambling
king,
Ye twain had fallen out about the bride
Of one--his name is out of me--the prize,
If prize she were--(what marvel--she could see)--
Thine, friend; and ever since my craven seeks
To wreck thee villanously: but, O Sir Knight,
What dame or damsel have ye kneeled to last?
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Tennyson |
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No mercy now can clear her brow
From this world's peace to pray
For as love's wild prayer
dissolved
in air,
Her woman's heart gave way!
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Poe - 5 |
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Therefore comes an hour from Jove
Which his
ruthless
will defies,
And the dogs of Fate unties.
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Emerson - Poems |
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--Learning needs rest:
sovereignty
gives it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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_Love and
Madness_
by Sir Herbert Croft.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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the
splendour
of a crown, how vain,
From Heaven's dread eye to veil the dimmest stain!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Ronsard |
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And the shy stars grew bold and scattered gold,
And chanting voices ancient secrets told,
And an acclaim of angels
earthward
rolled.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Whence comest thou, when, with dark Winter's sadness _3660
The tears that fade in sunny smiles thou
sharest?
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Shelley |
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In the festal wine shall mingle
Unseen tears, perhaps from eyes
That look beyond the board where lies
Our plain
Thanksgiving
turkey.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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II
THE BRIDE OF WAR
(ARNOLD'S MARCH TO CANADA, 1775)
I
The trumpet, with a giant sound,
Its harsh war-summons wildly sings;
And, bursting forth like mountain-springs,
Poured from the
hillside
camping-ground,
Each swift battalion shouting flings
Its force in line; where you may see
The men, broad-shouldered, heavily
Sway to the swing of the march; their heads
Dark like the stones in river-beds.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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--Not gone to burial
secretly!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Thy master and thy
mistress
live.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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O
children
of the light, now in our grief Give us again the solace of belief.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the raven his nest has made
In its
thickest
shade.
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blake-poems |
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Almost a
powdered
footman
Might dare to touch it now!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Away with you and all your
withered
flowers,
I have a flower in my soul no one can take!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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[Illustration]
The Hasty
Higgeldipiggledy
Hen,
who went to market in a Blue Bonnet and Shawl,
and bought a Fish for her Supper.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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vn
Because of the
beautiful
white shoulders and the rounded breasts
1 can in no wise forget my beloved of the peach-
trees,
And the little winds that speak when the dawn is
unfurled
And the rose-colour in the grey oak-leaf's fold
When it first comes, and the glamour that rests On the little streams in the evening; all of these Call me to her, and all the loveliness in the world Binds me to my beloved with strong chains of gold.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Listen and hear the happy wind
Whisper and lightly pass:
'Your love is sweet as
hawthorn
is,
Your hope green as the grass.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Yet they do well who name it with a name,
For all its rash
surrenders
call it true.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But the Pasha's
attention
is failing,
O'er his visage his fair turban stealeth;
From tchebouk {13a} he sleep is inhaling
Whilst round him sweet vapours he dealeth.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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_Love and
Madness_
by Sir Herbert Croft.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those
of the earth,
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate the
theory of the earth,
No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account,
unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth,
Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality,
rectitude
of
the earth.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Il joue avec le vent, cause avec le nuage
Et s'enivre en
chantant
du chemin de la croix;
Et l'Esprit qui le suit dans son pelerinage
Pleure de le voir gai comme un oiseau des bois.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Lest as a pilgrim, again,
In such
twilight
shadows,
HE should alight, peradventure
Onto our earth, and then
Over the way he should glide,
--Parting the leaves with his radiance-
Through the copse to thy threshold,
There awhile to abide.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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God keep all evil from thy
children!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Neath the far Ethiop skies
A beast is found, most mild and meek of air,
Which seems, yet in her eyes
Danger and dool and death she still does bear:
Much needs he to be wise
To look on hers whoever turns his mien:
Although her eyes unseen,
All else securely may be viewed at will
But I to mine own ill
Run ever in rash grief, though well I know
My
sufferings
past and future, still my mind
Its eager, deaf and blind
Desire o'ermasters and unhinges so,
That in her fine eyes and sweet sainted face,
Fatal, angelic, pure, my cause of death I trace.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Always
eavesdropping
on gentlemen!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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: Animi
affectio suum cuique
tribuens
Justitia dicitur.
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Robert Herrick |
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Apollinax rolling under a chair
Or
grinning
over a screen
With seaweed in its hair.
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T.S. Eliot |
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]
_The EMPEROR FREDERICK BARBAROSSA, believed to be dead, appearing
as a beggar among the Rhenish
nobility
at a castle, suddenly reveals
himself.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The people, with accumulated heats
And faces turned one way, as if one fire
Both drew and flushed them, left their ancient beats
And went up toward the palace-Pitti wall
To thank their Grand-duke who, not quite of course,
Had
graciously
permitted, at their call,
The citizens to use their civic force
To guard their civic homes.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Leonor
But Madame, how far your
thoughts
leap apace
From a duel which perhaps may not take place.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Stephen Crane |
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After this we have no trace whatever of Mar-
vell for some years ; and his biographers have,
as usual, endeavoured to supply the
deficiency
by conjecture — some of them so idly, that they
have made him secretary to an embassy which
had then no existence.
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Marvell - Poems |
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(Only certain very bold instructions of mine,
encroachments
etc.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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in my
connubial
hour decree
This man my spouse, or such a spouse as he!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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(Er macht eine
unanstandige
Gebarde.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Lo, this day have I thrown
A net, which once
unbroken
from the sea
Drawn home, shall .
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Euripides - Electra |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout
populace
is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have flourished here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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(_c_) disce sed a doctis, indoctos ipse doceto:
propaganda
etenim est rerum doctrina bonarum.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And well they strike and
slaughter
with their lances;
But Franks, to escape they think it no great matter;
On either side dead men to the earth fall crashing.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Oh, my sparrow, thou dost breed
Thought in me beyond all telling;
Shootest through me sunlight, seed,
And fruitful blessing, with that welling
Ripple of
ecstatic
rest
Gurgling ever from thy breast!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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After inspection the two would come
up with a song from the sea, Moti Guj, all black and shining, waving a
torn tree branch twelve feet long in his trunk, and Deesa
knotting
up
his own long wet hair.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And there, as
darkness
gathers 5
In the rose-scented garden,
The god who prospers music
Shall give me skill to play.
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Sappho |
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The court in
flattering
yet itself doth please,
(And female Stewart there rules the four seas.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Such days are not the prey of setting suns,
Nor ever blurred with mist of afterthought;
Like words made magical by poets dead,
Wherein the music of all meaning is
The sense hath garnered or the soul divined, 10
They mingle with our life's ethereal part,
Sweetening and gathering sweetness evermore,
By beauty's
franchise
disenthralled of time.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Dear and cruel hope of a
generous
mind
In love, at the same time
Worthy foe of my greatest pleasure,
Blade that creates my pain,
Were you given me to retain my honour?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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I dreamed in a dream I saw a city
invincible
to the attacks of the whole of
the rest of the earth;
I dreamed that it was the new City of Friends;
Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love--it led the rest;
It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
And in all their looks and words.
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Whitman |
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In all your music, our
pathetic
minor
Your ears shall cross;
And all good gifts shall mind you of diviner,
With sense of loss.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
Quoth they, "But certes as 'twas there
The custom rose, some men to bear 15
Litter thou
boughtest?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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When the tradition
is Satyric, as here, the same process
produces
almost an opposite effect.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Thou canst not ask me with thee here to roam
Over these hills and vales, where no joy is,--
Empty of
immortality
and bliss!
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Keats - Lamia |
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In
Paradise
repose the soul of thee!
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Chanson de Roland |
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O aspect sweet of
fourfold
love to me,
Whom upon thee the heart's constraint bids call
As on my father, and the claim of love
From me unto my mother turns to thee,
For she is very hate; to thee too turns
What of my heart went out to her who died
A ruthless death upon the altar-stone;
And for myself I love thee--thee that wast
A brother leal, sole stay of love to me.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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And the host rubbed his hands and smiled at his wife; for his guests
were
spending
freely.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Christina Rossetti |
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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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_]
The maples, shedding their spinning seeds,
Called to his appleseeds in the ground,
Vast chestnut-trees, with their
butterfly
nations,
Called to his seeds without a sound.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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" Thus down our road we took
Through those
dilapidated
crags, that oft
Mov'd underneath my feet, to weight like theirs
Unus'd.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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: Animi
affectio suum cuique
tribuens
Justitia dicitur.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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I never
flinched
nor fled when thou didst aim
at me in King Arthur's house.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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the poem drags from excessive length, and the
reduction
of its
twenty-three stanzas to sixteen greatly improves it.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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It's on your slopes, visited by Venus
Setting in your lava her heels so artless,
When a sad slumber
thunders
where the flame burns low.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
1.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Title: The Golden Threshold
Author: Sarojini Naidu
Posting Date: August 30, 2008 [EBook #680]
Release Date: October, 1996
Language: English
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Good women have such a limited view of life, their horizon is so small,
their
interests
so petty.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Oh you, who have founded so
illustrious
a city in the air, you
know not in what esteem men hold you and how many there are who burn with
desire to dwell in it.
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Aristophanes |
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, to plan my course of instruction, and, as
my tutor, to
supervise
my bringing up.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It rustles at the window-pane, the smooth,
streaming
rain, and he is shut
within its clash and murmur.
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Imagists |
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[220] These
accounts
are lost.
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Tacitus |
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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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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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--one, all eyes,
Philosopher!
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William Wordsworth |
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They were more than brave: they were
inspired
with the spirit of
"Wu.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Oeneone
Your wishes thwart one another,
alternately!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The thighs now sacrificed, and entrails dress'd,
The assistants part, transfix, and broil the rest
While these officious tend the rites divine,
The last fair branch of the
Nestorean
line,
Sweet Polycaste, took the pleasing toil
To bathe the prince, and pour the fragrant oil.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And the Soul was a-tremble like as a new-born thing,
Till the spark of the dawn wrought a
conscience
in heart as in wing,
Saying, `Thou art the lark of the dawn; it is time to sing.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The old dog snaps and grins nor
ventures
nigh.
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John Clare |
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And while in peace cows eat, and chew their cuds,
Moozing cool sheltered neath the skirting woods,
To double uses they the hours convert,
Turning the toils of labour into sport;
Till morn's long
streaking
shadows lose their tails,
And cooling winds swoon into faultering gales;
And searching sunbeams warm and sultry creep,
Waking the teazing insects from their sleep;
And dreaded gadflies with their drowsy hum
On the burnt wings of mid-day zephyrs come,--
Urging each lown to leave his sports in fear,
To stop his starting cows that dread the fly;
Droning unwelcome tidings on his ear,
That the sweet peace of rural morn's gone by.
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John Clare |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the
beginning
of his four and a half year residence in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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