Hakluyt's _Principall
Navigations_
appeared in 1589, Davis's _Worldes
Hydrographical Description_ in 1594, and descriptions of Hudson's
voyages in 1612-3.
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Such is thy name with this my verse entwined;
And long as kinder eyes a look shall cast
On Harold's page, Ianthe's here enshrined
Shall thus be first beheld, forgotten last:
My days once numbered, should this homage past
Attract thy fairy fingers near the lyre
Of him who hailed thee, loveliest as thou wast,
Such is the most my memory may desire;
Though more than Hope can claim, could
Friendship
less require?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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VIII
What can I give thee back, O liberal
And
princely
giver, who hast brought the gold
And purple of thine heart, unstained, untold,
And laid them on the outside of the wall
For such as I to take or leave withal,
In unexpected largesse?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Their gaze draws me into
infinite
space.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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How many bullets
bearest?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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the lotus-buds upon the stream
Are
stirring
like sweet maidens when they dream.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I'm
overjoyed
at being here,
And even among these rude ones;
For if bad spirits are, 'tis clear,
There also must be good ones.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The
sounding
furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
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Tennyson |
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Standing
after the dat.
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Beowulf |
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LI
Is the day long,
O Lesbian maiden,
And the night endless
In thy lone chamber
In
Mitylene?
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Sappho |
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But the clearest
and most
probable
account of him is in the chronicle of Fleury, wherein
is preserved a fragment of French history, written by a Benedictine monk
in the beginning of the twelfth century, and in the time of Count Henry.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Hippolyte
Her
fruitless
enmity's not what I have in view.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I think the eyebrow, the forehead, the cheek, chin,
lip, or any part else are as
necessary
and natural in the place.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Why so glum,
comrade?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Such poems form the dullest section of Chinese poetry, and are
certainly
frequent
in Li's works.
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Li Po |
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The Jews,
The People of God, the Jews, lament their fortune;
Their souls are
violated
by the world;
Jewry is conquered; and the crop of men
Sown for the barns of God, is withered down,
Like feeblest grass flat-trodden by the sun,
In one short season of fear.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Would all
Christians
plain
Could have such joy anew,
As I felt, and feel all through,
For all else but this is vain.
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Troubador Verse |
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Clement's death was
ascribed
to
different causes.
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Petrarch |
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Our very Father hath
forsaken
us,
Our God hath cast us from Him: we oppress'd
Unto our foes are even marvellous,
A hissing and a butt for pointing hands,
Whilst God Almighty hunts and grinds us thus;
For He hath scattered us in alien lands,
Our priests, our princes, our anointed king,
And bound us hand and foot with brazen bands.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Here in the midmost
struggle
combining--
Flags immingled and weapons crossed--
Still in union your States troop shining:
Never a star from the lustre is lost!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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No more
Can we observe what's lost at any time,
When things wax old with eld and foul decay,
Or when salt seas eat under
beetling
crags.
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Lucretius |
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Divine mere,
Aphrodite
marine!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The prison style is absolutely and
entirely
wrong.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Erewhile 'twas corn
resplendent
and unstained,
Or crystal, that through morning radiance shone,
Now flowing agate, deep and sombre-veined,
Then like a crimson sparkling precious stone.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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So spake the Son of God, and Satan stood
A while as mute confounded what to say,
What to reply, confuted and convinc't
Of his weak arguing, and fallacious drift;
At length collecting all his Serpent wiles,
With
soothing
words renew'd, him thus accosts.
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Milton |
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For I know I shall never escape from this dull
barbarian
country,
Where there is none now left to lift a cool jade winecup,
Or share with me a single human thought.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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(Sie pfluckt eine
Sternblume
und zupft die Blatter ab, eins nach dem
andern.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Imagists |
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They look in every
thoughtless
nest
Where birds are covered warm;
They visit caves of every beast,
To keep them all from harm:
If they see any weeping
That should have been sleeping,
They pour sleep on their head,
And sit down by their bed.
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blake-poems |
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[First published,
_Letters
and Journals_, 1830, ii.
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Byron |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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,
OF ARNISTON,
LATE LORD
PRESIDENT
OF THE COURT OF SESSION.
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Robert Forst |
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They roused him with muffins--they roused him with ice--
They roused him with mustard and cress--
They roused him with jam and judicious advice--
They set him
conundrums
to guess.
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Lewis Carroll |
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<
tu vuo' saper>>, mi disse quelli allotta,
<
imperadrice
di molte favelle.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Oh, there are words and looks _30
To bend the
sternest
purpose!
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Shelley |
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ei ben boun
to wenden & sechen his deore sone,
in
eueriche
a ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Oh sea, look
graciously!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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quid datur a diuis felici
optatius
hora?
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Latin - Catullus |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Even as you list invite your many guests;
But if, as now it seems, your vision rests
With any
pleasure
on me, do not bid
Old Apollonius--from him keep me hid.
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Keats - Lamia |
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It is
scarcely
necessary to say
that every day we met, Chvabrine and I.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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III
_Then dawned a mood of musing thoughtfulness;
As if he doubted whether he could bless
Her wayward spirit, through each fickle hour,
With love's serenity of
flawless
power,
Or she remain a vision, as when first
She came to soothe his fancy all athirst.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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ever gay with smiles,
Meet prelude to the
harmonies
of night;
As birds beneath the wing enfold their head,
Nestled in prayer the infant seeks its bed.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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money paid for a work or a
replacement
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of receipt of the work.
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Keats - Lamia |
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It is the
greatest
part of
his liberality, his favour; and from whom doth he hear discipline more
willingly, or the arts discoursed more gladly, than from those whom his
own bounty and benefits have made able and faithful?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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: _maximum_ Guarino tribuitur
|| _horis_ Ven, non R: _in auris_ Weber
44 _Thiae_ Voss, Bentley:
_Phitie_
(_Phyt.
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Latin - Catullus |
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In the budding chestnuts
Whose sticky buds glimmer and are half-burst open
The
starlings
make their clitter-clatter;
And the blackbirds in the grass
Are getting as fat as the pigeons.
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Imagists |
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LONDON,
December
22, 1864.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The Cloud
descended
and the Lily bowd her modest head:
And went to mind her numerous charge among the verdant grass.
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blake-poems |
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Sur La Mort de Marie: IV
As in May month, on its stem we see the rose
In its sweet youthfulness, in its freshest flower,
Making the heavens jealous with living colour,
Dawn
sprinkles
it with tears in the morning glow:
Grace lies in all its petals, and love, I know,
Scenting the trees and scenting the garden's bower,
But, assaulted by scorching heat or a shower,
Languishing, it dies, and petals on petals flow.
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Ronsard |
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More I will not say; and dark,
I know, my words are, but thy
neighbours
soon
Shall help thee to a comment on the text.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Audientium me in gemitu esse nemo
consolatur
me.
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John Donne |
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THEY carried ladders for the escalade,
And each was furnished with a tempered blade;
No other thing
embarrassing
they'd got;
No drums; but all was silent as the grot.
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La Fontaine |
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Oh, swift as light they speed, The first light into
darkness
hurled, Each to his work, above, below,
The sons of God that make the world.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The "deflected" tones are
distinctly
more emphatic, and so have a faint
analogy to our stressed syllables.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Yet he is more than huge and strong--
Twelve
brilliant
colors play along
His sides until, compared to him,
The naked, burning sun seems dim.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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As
Proserpine
still weeps for her Sicilian air.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Therefore we gladly confess to singling a special immortal
And our
devotions
each day pledging but solely to her.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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What must they feel whom no false vision
But truest,
tenderest
Passion warmed?
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Byron |
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[*The Russian text has here a play on the words which cannot
be
satisfactorily
rendered into English.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Where is this
mankinde
now?
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John Donne |
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With mien to match the morning
And gay delightful guise
And
friendly
brows and laughter
He looked me in the eyes.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Then Eno [Ono] a daughter of Beulah took a Moment of Time *
And drew it out to twenty years Seven
thousand
years with much care & affliction *
And many tears & in the twenty Every years gave visions toward heaven made windows into Eden *
She also took an atom of space & opend its center
Into Infinitude & ornamented it with wondrous art
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Blake - Zoas |
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sole
daughter
of my house and heart?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
So spake the
sovereign
lord, and from his lips
Sweetly the accents flowed.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Joined with extreme
contempt!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_)
Regret that
dropping
sun's dusk;
Love this cold stream's clearness.
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Li Po |
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My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
(pauses--turns over some leaves, and resumes)
"No
lingering
winters there, nor snow, nor shower--
"But Ocean ever to refresh mankind
"Breathes the shrill spirit of the western wind.
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Poe - 5 |
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I would be heartily out of humour with myself
if I thought I were capable of having so poor a notion of the sex,
which were designed to crown the
pleasures
of society.
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Robert Burns |
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_ Of a
Hounsditch
man, sir, one of the devil's
near kinsmen, a broker.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Ther' 's times when I'm
unsoshle
ez a stone,
An' sort o' suffercate to be alone,--
I'm crowded jes' to think thet folks are nigh,
An' can't bear nothin' closer than the sky;
Now the wind's full ez shifty in the mind
Ez wut it is ou'-doors, ef I ain't blind,
An' sometimes, in the fairest sou'west weather, 120
My innard vane pints east for weeks together,
My natur' gits all goose-flesh, an' my sins
Come drizzlin' on my conscience sharp ez pins:
Wal, et sech times I jes' slip out o' sight
An' take it out in a fair stan'-up fight
With the one cuss I can't lay on the shelf,
The crook'dest stick in all the heap,--Myself.
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James Russell Lowell |
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He thus relates it, in a letter to his friend,
Neri Morandi:--"I have a great volume of the
epistles
of Cicero, which I
have taken the pains to transcribe myself, for the copyists understand
nothing.
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Petrarch |
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The
moonlight
bay was white all o'er,
Till rising from the same,
Full many shapes, that shadows were,
Like as of torches came.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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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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and
straightway
put an end
To what men undergo.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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His Le
Drageoir
aux Epices is a
continuation of Petits Poemes en Prose.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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technical
restrictions on automated querying.
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Meredith - Poems |
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_Farewell and
Defiance
to Love_
Love and thy vain employs, away
From this too oft deluded breast!
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John Clare |
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"We have sailed many weeks, we have sailed many days,
(Seven days to the week I allow),
But a Snark, on the which we might
lovingly
gaze,
We have never beheld till now!
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Lewis Carroll |
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"
His lips he writhes, his eyes far round he throws,
And, from his breast, deep hollow groans arose,
Sternly askance he stood: with wounded pride
And anguish torn, "In me, behold," he cried,
While dark-red
sparkles
from his eyeballs roll'd,
"In me the Spirit of the Cape behold,
That rock, by you the Cape of Tempests nam'd, }
By Neptune's rage, in horrid earthquakes fram'd, }
When Jove's red bolts o'er Titan's offspring flam'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe,
And a
scornful
laugh laughed he.
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Longfellow |
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Never the treasures in her nest
The
cautious
grave exposes,
Building where schoolboy dare not look
And sportsman is not bold.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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O the
bleeding
drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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XX
"I am in love," her
whispers
tell
The aged woman in her woe:
"My heart's delight, thou art not well.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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_November_
The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon;
And, if the sun looks through, tis with a face
Beamless and pale and round, as if the moon,
When done the journey of her nightly race,
Had found him sleeping, and
supplied
his place.
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John Clare |
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`Nay' (so, dear Heart, thou
whisperest
in my soul),
`'Tis a half time, yet Time will make it whole.
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Sidney Lanier |
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With both beauty of detail and
problematic interest, the short stories show an incoherence of treatment
and a lack of dramatic co-ordination easily
conceivable
in a poet who is
essentially lyrical and who at that time had not mastered the means of
technique to give to his characters the clear chiselling of the epic
form.
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Rilke - Poems |
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At midnight, at cockcrow, at morning, one certain day
Lo, the
Bridegroom
shall come and shall not delay:
Watch thou and pray.
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Christina Rossetti |
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But whilst the thing we long for
Is lacking, that seems good above all else;
Thereafter, when we've touched it,
something
else
We long for; ever one equal thirst of life
Grips us agape.
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Lucretius |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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as silver cleene,
His tombling billowes roll with gentle rore: 35
There all my dayes he traind me up in
vertuous
lore.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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org), you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense
to the user, provide a copy, a means of
exporting
a copy, or a means
of obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain
Vanilla ASCII" or other form.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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What of earls with whom you have supt,
And of dukes that you dined with
yestreen?
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Robert Forst |
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What few
perceive
he thence to me reveals;
So read I clearly in her eyes' dear light
Whate'er of love I speak, whate'er I write.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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They subsist
entirely
on vegetables,
excepting when they eat veal or mutton or pork or beef or fish or
saltpetre.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Fear the gaze in the blind wall that watches:
There is a verb
attached
to matter itself.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it
Since what is kept must be
adulterated?
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T.S. Eliot |
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