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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_oino_, _aede_ in _ii_) is,
however, not in any way a
peculiarity
of early Latin.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this
feminine
land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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If in the woodland
traveller
there had been
That eve, who lost himself, strange sight he'd seen.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The light of her face falls from its flower,
as a hyacinth,
hidden in a far valley,
perishes
upon burnt grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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She dried her feet on the
riverside
grass;
She looked at me once again,
And the playful beauty then took thought.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Hast heard, he touches now his hundredth year--
And that, defying fate, in face of heaven,
On his invincible peak, no force of war
Uprooting
other holds--nor powerful Caesar--
Nor Rome--nor age, that bows the pride of man--
Nor aught on earth--hath vanquished, or subdued,
Or bent this ancient Titan of the Rhine,
The excommunicated Job?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The lords of war are beaten down, your
glorious
task is done;
You fought to make the whole world free, and the victory is won.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I can't make
anything
of it
at present.
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Kipling - Poems |
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90-98 are probably the
interpolation
of a Christian scribe.
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Beowulf |
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Come give me thy
loveliest
lay.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Stephen Crane |
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When I stand where
half a dozen large elms droop over a house, it is as if I stood within
a ripe pumpkin-rind, and I feel as mellow as if I were the pulp,
though I may be
somewhat
stringy and seedy withal.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Very few perhaps are
familiar
with these lines--yet no less a poet
than Shelley is their author.
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Poe - 5 |
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Parliament passed "an act [in 1825] to provide for the
extinction of feudal and
seigniorial
rights and burdens on lands in
Lower Canada, and for the gradual conversion of those tenures into the
tenure of free and common socage," etc.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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O the
unworthy
lord!
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Golden Treasury |
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Emperour
whan he was brou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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To blurt all out--
I know that you desire her; without doubt
The flame that rages in my heart warms yours;
To carry out these subtle plans of ours,
We have become as gypsies near this doll,
You as her page--I dotard to control--
Pretended
gallants changed to lovers now.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Wilt thou not examine our hearts, O Lord God of our
strength?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Contraries
are not mixed.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Poe - 5 |
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An awe came on the
trinket!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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_See note_]
[37 However, _1633-39:_ However _1650-69:_
Howsoever
_A18_,
_B_, _D_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_]
[38 as] _om.
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John Donne |
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--We who have
laboured
long and sore
Times out of mind,
And keen are yet, must not regret
To drop behind.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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" A new American edition will be dear to many: a complete
English edition ought to be an early demand of English poetic readers, and
would be the right and
crowning
result of the present Selection.
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Whitman |
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"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
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Golden Treasury |
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e
same
chau{n}gyng
from one to an o?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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So, in the year, my favourite season is the last slow part of summer that just precedes autumn, and, in the day, the hour when I walk is when the sun
hesitates
before vanishing, with rays of yellow bronze over the grey walls, and rays of red copper over the tiles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Three days in the cathedral did I visit
His corpse,
escorted
thither by all Uglich.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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What know you of her
struggles
or her grief?
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Hugo - Poems |
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"The Fourth prohibits trespassing
Where other Ghosts are quartered:
And those convicted of the thing
(Unless when
pardoned
by the King)
Must instantly be slaughtered.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Not far from here stands fast
Agylla city, an ancient pile of stone, where of old the Lydian race,
eminent in war, settled on the
Etruscan
ridges.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Journey North 335 I wiped away tears, yearning for the court-in-exile, and my course was still an
uncertain
blur.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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To descend to those
extreme anxieties and foolish cavils of grammarians, is able to break a
wit in pieces, being a work of
manifold
misery and vainness, to be
_elementarii senes_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The page image should be consulted LFS}
PAGE 7 Examining the sins of Tharmas I have soon found my own
O slay me not thou art his Wrath embodied in Deceit
I thought Tharmas a Sinner & I murderd his
Emanations
*
His secret loves & Graces Ah me wretched What have I done *
For now I find that all those Emanations were my Childrens Souls *
And I have murderd them with Cruelty above atonement *
Those that remain have fled from my cruelty into the desarts
Singing with both to ownAnd thou the delusive tempter to these deeds sittest before me *
(illegible)But where is (illegible) Tharmas all thy soft delusive beauty cannot
Tempt me to murder honest lovemy own soul & wipe my tears & smile
In this thy world for ah!
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Blake - Zoas |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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All these are the cobwebs of
learning, and to let them grow in us is either
sluttish
or foolish.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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To rise 'tis trying,
It
struggles
still!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
Asked the Bedouin chief, the poet Antar;--
"Who unto the truth flings open our gates,
Or fashions new thoughts from the light of a star;
Or forges with craft of his finger and brain
Some
marvelous
weapon we copy in vain;
Or chants to the winds a wild song that shall
wander forever undying?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Is that
trembling
cry a song?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The last is taken from a fragment
of vellum, which
Chatterton
gave to Mr.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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--Ce qu'on ne sait pas, c'est peut-etre terrible:
Nous
saurons!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The country was
mountaineous
and the mules were most contrary,
and the inhabitants was dispersed and solitary.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Bernard, "you will
find more in the woods than in books; the forests and rocks will teach
you more than you can learn from the
greatest
Masters.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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On this
wondrous
sea,
Sailing silently,
Ho!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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Keats - Lamia |
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my friend, and clear your looks,
Why all this toil and
trouble?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Hither in
ancestral
fashion hath each borne the bodies of
his kin; the dark fire is lit beneath, and the vapour hides high heaven
in gloom.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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He warmed waters to bathe our feet, 32 and cut paper
streamers
to call back our souls.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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enne
worschupeden
heo Alle with o steuene,
Iesu, godus sone of heuene,
and his Modur Marie.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Her leaders have taken
soundings
of every man.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Keats |
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Always
eavesdropping
on gentlemen!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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at may
gone by
nat{ur}el
office of feet.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The Soudan cried: "O, Sphinxes, with the torch-like eye,
I am the Conqueror--my name is high-arrayed
In characters like flame upon the vaulted sky,
Far from oblivion's reach or an
effacing
shade.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Painting
is truly a luminous language.
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Appoloinaire |
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CLXXX
Malindo, with Andalico, he slew,
His brother, sons to the earl of
Flanders
they:
To whom has bearings (each to arms was new)
Charles had the lilies given; because that day
The monarch had beheld the valiant two
With crimsoned staves, returning from the fray;
And them with lands in Flanders vowed to glad;
And would, but that Medoro this forbad.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And now another in my teeming brain
Prepares
itself: whence I resume the strain.
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Petrarch |
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if it
wasn't mesilf thin that was mad as a
Kilkenny
cat I shud like to be
tould who it was!
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Poe - 5 |
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My Lord, I dare to say here that heaven, 615
In this case, wished to make me an
exception!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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To the gate
He came, and with his wand touch'd it, whereat
Open without
impediment
it flew.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The
neighing
troop, the flashing blade,
The bugle's stirring blast,
The charge, the dreadful cannonade,
The din and shout are past;
Nor war's wild note nor glory's peal
Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts that never more may feel
The rapture of the fight.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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You were born in Syria,
Gentle, poor in worldly goods;
Ever humble, pious, purer,
In all done, said, understood,
Fashioned by such a Master,
Without all evil, with all good,
Of such sweet company there
That in you was
harboured
God.
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Troubador Verse |
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But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown
slightly
bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet--and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And I like a guilty debtor sitting,
For fear of each casual word am
sweating!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Ask, if I caught not fair and silverly
His blessing for chief angels on my head
Until it grew there, a crown
crystallized!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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whose ne'er-spent wine
As blood doth stretch each vein,
And urge thee, sinewed like thy vine,
Through peril and all pain
To grasp Endeavor's towering Pine,
And, once ahold, remain --
Land where the strenuous-handed Wind
With sarcasm of a friend
Doth smite the man would lag behind
To frontward of his end;
Yea, where the taunting fall and grind
Of Nature's Ill doth send
Such mortal challenge of a clown
Rude-thrust upon the soul,
That men but smile where mountains frown
Or
scowling
waters roll,
And Nature's front of battle down
Do hurl from pole to pole.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Had
chastisement
for perjured truth,
Barine, mark'd you with a curse--
Did one wry nail, or one black tooth,
But make you worse--
I'd trust you; but, when plighted lies
Have pledged you deepest, lovelier far
You sparkle forth, of all young eyes
The ruling star.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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ergo
desidiam
quicumque uocabat amorem,
desinat: ingeniist experientis amor.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vexed with
watching
and with tears?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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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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The men were
trampling
all over my back,
and I lay low.
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Kipling - Poems |
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28
theye were allwaye blythe and hende,
In hope that god shollde hem sende
[folio 145b] Some maydyn chyllde, or some man,
That theyre
herytages
myght hane;
So long theye prayed with good entent, 33
that a man chyllde god hem sent;
Page 24
whan they wyst ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I love thee, Mary dearly love--
There's nought so fair on earth I see,
There's nought so dear in heaven above,
As Mary
Bayfield
is to me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The
glorious
Maid, whose soul to heaven is gone
And left the rest cold earth, she who was grown
A pillar of true valour, and had gain'd
Much honour by her victory, and chain'd
That god which doth the world with terror bind,
Using no armour but her own chaste mind;
A fair aspect, coy thoughts, and words well weigh'd,
Sweet modesty to these gave friendly aid.
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Petrarch |
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But although the footsteps of the gods o'erpress me in the
night-tide, and the daytime restoreth me to the white-haired Tethys, (grant
me thy grace to speak thus, O Rhamnusian virgin, for I will not hide the
truth through any fear, even if the stars revile me with ill words yet I
will unfold the pent-up feelings from truthful breast) I am not so much
rejoiced at these things as I am tortured by being for ever parted, parted
from my lady's head, with whom I (though whilst a virgin she was free from
all such cares) drank many a
thousand
of Syrian scents.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
"Very Young"
Gayerson
said nothing.
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Kipling - Poems |
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LXXIII
The knights determining by lot to try
Who in their common cause on listed ground,
Should slay the ten, with whom they were to vie,
And in the other field ten others wound,
Designed to pass the bold
Marphisa
by,
Believing she unfitting would be found;
And would be, in the second joust at eve,
Ill-qualified the victory to achieve.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Whom did the dwarf see
in the
dungeons
of Pride?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Where are your own creations, your service to me having
slackened?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Still am I doomed to rue the fate
That such unfriendly
neighbors
made?
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Hugo - Poems |
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I alone of all things
Fret with
unsluiced
fire.
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Sappho |
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Let whoso knoweth now
announce
the cause.
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Aeschylus |
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Early or late, the falling rain
Arrived in time to swell his grain;
Stream could not so
perversely
wind
But corn of Guy's was there to grind:
The siroc found it on its way,
To speed his sails, to dry his hay;
And the world's sun seemed to rise
To drudge all day for Guy the wise.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Intransitive
verbs, as gān, weorðan, sometimes take habban, "to
indicate independent action.
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Beowulf |
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Here thrives the balm; the plants were ever rare,
Compared
with these, which were in Jewry grown,
The musk which we possess from thence we bear,
In fine those products from this clime are brought,
Which in our regions are so prized and sought.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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There Cerberus with all his jaws shall gnash,
Megj^ra thee with all her
serpents
lash ;
Thou, riveted unto Ixion's wheel,
Shalt break and the perpetual vulture feel !
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Marvell - Poems |
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Infanta
My
inclination
has changed its object.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom
assurance
sits
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE
A
SHROPSHIRE
LAD
I
1887
From Clee to heaven the beacon burns,
The shires have seen it plain,
From north and south the sign returns
And beacons burn again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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His eye glanced at the white-nosed bee;
He knew those
children
of the Spring:
When he was well and on the lea
He held one in his hands to sing,
Which filled his heart with glee.
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John Clare |
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XXV
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
To wake from Hades, and their idle pose,
Those old Caesars, and the shades of those,
Who once raised this ancient city higher:
Or that I had Amphion's to inspire,
And with sweet harmony these stones enclose
To quicken them again, where they once rose,
Ausonian glory conjuring from its pyre:
Or that with skilful pencil I might draw
The
portrait
of these palaces once more,
With the spirit of some high Virgil filled;
I would attempt, inflamed by my ardour,
To recreate with the pen's slight power,
That which our own hands could never build.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards, still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace and
wretched
minutes kill.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I am as the gods, knowing good
and evil, but
untouched
by either.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I Sir: there are a crew of
wretched
Soules
That stay his Cure: their malady conuinces
The great assay of Art.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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