The
selection
here offered to the English reader contains a little less
than half the entire bulk of Whitman's poetry.
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Monieman
identified
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Pope and he were
engaged in frequent quarrels, but this first reference to him in Pope's
works is
distinctly
complimentary.
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Alexander Pope |
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Ye cedars, with
innumerable
boughs
Hide me, where I may never see them more!
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I
sometimes
think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The hues of old
Revisit not the wool we steep;
And genuine worth, expell'd by fear,
Returns not to the
worthless
slave.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Lear's works, and
state your theory, if you have any, as to the character and
appearance
of Nupiter Piffkin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Who is it
clutches
me
By the neck behind?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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= 'A perfect idea of his
activity
may be
formed from the incessant skipping of the modern Harlequin.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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" to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-
field,
And both
understand
him, and know that his speech is right.
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Whitman |
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till we find where the sly one hides
and bring him forth,
Ever love, ever the sobbing liquid of life,
Ever the bandage under the chin, ever the
trestles
of death.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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There through the dews beside me
Behold a youth that trod,
With
feathered
cap on forehead,
And poised a golden rod.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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--Ho, fling me a
Thessalian
steel!
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Euripides - Electra |
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There came a wind like a bugle;
It quivered through the grass,
And a green chill upon the heat
So ominous did pass
We barred the windows and the doors
As from an emerald ghost;
The doom's
electric
moccason
That very instant passed.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Hermes inconnu qui m'assistes
Et qui
toujours
m'intimidas,
Tu me rends l'egal de Midas,
Le plus triste des alchimistes;
Par toi je change l'or en fer
Et le paradis en enfer;
Dans le suaire des nuages
Je decouvre un cadavre cher.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Insect lover of the sun,
Joy of thy
dominion!
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Emerson - Poems |
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O cities memories of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their
thinkers
their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the clusters of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Thou art grown old,
But Hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth
Are
children
of one mother, even Love--behold!
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Shelley |
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I am the pool of blue
That worships the vivid sky;
My hopes were heaven-high,
They are all
fulfilled
in you.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"And where those
villains
ripped me in the flitch
With their old iron in my early time,
I'm apt at change of wind to feel a twitch,
Or at a change of clime.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'
"Thus he: the beeves around
securely
stray,
When swift to ruin they invade the prey;
They seize, they kill!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The religious allegory signifies the extension of Protestantism through
the
outlying
rural districts of England and in Ireland.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Loosen thou mine arm, yet
steadfast
stay,
Leave the park ere sunlight's parting ray,
And the mists descend o'er mount and lea,
Let's depart ere winter bids us flee.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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A day it was when I could bear
To think, and think, and think again;
With so much
happiness
to spare,
I could not feel a pain.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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At length, with conjugal
endearment
both
Satiate, Ulysses tasted and his spouse
The sweets of mutual converse.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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--Entre le laurier-rose et le lotus jaseur
Glisse amoureusement le grand Cygne reveur
Embrassant la Leda des blancheurs de son aile;
--Et tandis que Cypris passe, etrangement belle,
Et, cambrant les
rondeurs
splendides de ses reins,
Etale fierement l'or de ses larges seins
Et son ventre neigeux brode de mousse noire,
--Heracles, le Dompteur, qui, comme d'une gloire
Fort, ceint son vaste corps de la peau du lion,
S'avance, front terrible et doux, a l'horizon!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Nor made, nor marr'd,
By help or
hindrance
of slow Time was she:
O'er this fair growth Time had no mastery:
So quick she bloomed, she seemed to bloom at birth,
As Eve from Adam, or as he from earth.
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Sidney Lanier |
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When I
bestride
him I soar, I
am a hawk.
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Shakespeare |
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Bernard de
Ventadour
understands it,
Speaks it; makes it, and wishes joy of it.
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Troubador Verse |
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"--think some:
Others--"How blest the
Paradise
to come!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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If I had encouraged him the
khansamah
would have wandered all through
Bengal with his corpse.
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Kipling - Poems |
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It,
groaning
thing,
Turned black and sank.
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Stephen Crane |
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through a marble
wilderness?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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As soon as sweet
Angelica
he saw,
Towards her full of rapture sprang Ferrau.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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nam populus mortale genus;
plebisque
caducae
quis fleat interitus?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Many a time and oft
Toilsome and
profitless
my service was,
When his shrill outcry called me from my couch!
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Aeschylus |
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So we retired aside, and left the throng,
When thus he spake: "I have expected long
To see you here with us; your face did seem
To
threaten
you no less.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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He often does this in his later poetry as well, but the clarity of the
problems
in the current political crisis gives these poems an edge.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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net),
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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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Without commander, countless, still,
The regiment of wood and hill
In bright
detachment
stand.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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{3b} That is, since Beowulf
selected
his ship and led his men to the
harbor.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag--
It's so elegant
So
intelligent
130
"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In uninterrupted silence
Looked they at the gamesome labor
Of the young men and the women;
Listened to their noisy talking,
To their
laughter
and their singing,
Heard them chattering like the magpies,
Heard them laughing like the blue-jays,
Heard them singing like the robins.
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Longfellow |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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3006 as a thoughtless
repetition
of l.
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Beowulf |
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Who stirs the waves by the women's
seraglio?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Has not Sir Mammon
gloriously
lighted
His palace for this festive night?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Together
we bathe in waves of Grace by Phoenix Pool, 8 at every dawn court dipping our brushes to serve our Lord and Ruler.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"
"Because," said he, "They come weeping and go weeping--you only
come
laughing
and go laughing.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Adown the pale-green, glacier-river floats
A dark boat through the gloom--and
whither?
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Imagists |
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Wherefore, O Lord of heaven, now also send
Before us a good angel for a fear,
And through the might of thy right arm let those
Be stricken with terror that have come this day
Against thy holy people to
blaspheme!
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Longfellow |
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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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At last, with head erect, thus cried aloud,
"Hitherto, lords, what your
commands
imposed
I have performed, as reason was, obeying,
Not without wonder or delight beheld;
Now, of my own accord, such other trial
I mean to show you of my strength yet greater
As with amaze shall strike all who behold.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The dogs were handsomely
provided
for,
But shortly afterwards the parrot died too.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Sam: Such usage as your honourable Lords
Afford me
assassinated
and betray'd,
Who durst not with thir whole united powers 1110
In fight withstand me single and unarm'd,
Nor in the house with chamber Ambushes
Close-banded durst attaque me, no not sleeping,
Till they had hir'd a woman with their gold
Breaking her Marriage Faith to circumvent me.
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Milton |
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_ Now with an adamantine wedge's
stubborn
fang
Through the breasts nail strongly.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I am torn, torn with thy beauty,
O Rose of the
sharpest
thorn !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And
worschiped
hym in word & dede,
Alle ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Swā þā driht-guman
drēamum
lifdon
100 ēadiglīce, oð þæt ān ongan
fyrene fremman, fēond on helle:
wæs se grimma gæst Grendel hāten,
mǣre mearc-stapa, sē þe mōras hēold,
fen and fæsten; fīfel-cynnes eard
105 won-sǣlig wer weardode hwīle,
siððan him scyppend forscrifen hæfde.
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Beowulf |
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Come now to my castle, and we shall
enjoy
together
the festivities of the New Year" (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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TO ----
I mix in life, and labour to seem free,
With common persons pleased and common things,
While every thought and action tends to thee,
And every impulse from thy
influence
springs.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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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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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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We have been, let us say, to hear the latest Pole
Transmit
the Preludes, through his hair and finger-tips.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I was just coming to myself enough
To wonder where the cold was coming from,
When I heard Toffile
upstairs
in the bedroom
And thought I heard him downstairs in the cellar.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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_Die Insel_, ober
Christian
u.
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Byron |
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Thine is the
plentiful
bosom that feeds us,
Thine is the womb where our riches have birth.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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All joys are humbled, all must dance
To her law, and all lords obey
My lady, with her lovely way
Of greeting, her sweet
pleasant
glance,
A hundred years of life I'd grant
To him who has her love in play.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
LXXIV
To threaten him with vengeance, and to lay
Hands on her sword and charge him now, was done
All in a thought; but first she barred the way
By which he might his
fortilage
have won.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Is't not like
That devil-spider that devours her mate
Scarce freed from her
embraces?
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Emerson - Poems |
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30
Ignosces
igitur, si, quae mihi luctus ademit,
Haec tibi non tribuo munera, cum nequeo.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The cedar feeleth not the rose's head,
Nor he the woman's
presence
at his feet!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Must I perchance a thousand books turn over,
To find that men are everywhere distrest,
And here and there one happy one
discover?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a
daughter
of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand rejoiced to grant me life again.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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MAIDENS AT CONFIRMATION
(Paris in May, 1903)
The white veiled maids to confirmation go
Through deep green garden paths they slowly wind;
Their
childhood
they are leaving now behind:
The future will be different, they know.
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Rilke - Poems |
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(Zu Faust, der aus dem Tanz
getreten
ist.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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From
thieving
light of eyes impure,
From coveting sun or wind's caress,
Her days are guarded and secure
Behind her carven lattices,
Like jewels in a turbaned crest,
Like secrets in a lover's breast.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And the
crucifixion
appeased
me.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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In these woods, thy small Labrador,
At this pinch, wee San
Salvador!
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Emerson - Poems |
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Atheists are as dull,
Who cannot guess God's
presence
out of sight.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Jia Zhi was a Drafter in the
Secretariat
(zhongshu sheren ?
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Kaiser, face a
question
new--
This--does God approve of you?
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The
helmsman
steerd, the ship mov'd on;
Yet never a breeze up-blew;
The Marineres all 'gan work the ropes,
Where they were wont to do:
They rais'd their limbs like lifeless tools--
We were a ghastly crew.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Then, glancing narrow at the wall,
And narrow at the floor,
For firm conviction of a mouse
Not exorcised before,
Peruse how
infinite
I am
To -- no one that you know!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The
fortress
of Kazan
Thou fought'st beneath, with Shuisky didst repulse
The army of Litva.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
XXXIX
Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace
To look through and behind this mask of me,
(Against which, years have beat thus blanchingly,
With their rains,) and behold my soul's true face,
The dim and weary witness of life's race,--
Because thou hast the faith and love to see,
Through that same soul's
distracting
lethargy,
The patient angel waiting for a place
In the new Heavens,--because nor sin nor woe,
Nor God's infliction, nor death's neighbourhood,
Nor all which others viewing, turn to go,
Nor all which makes me tired of all, self-viewed,--
Nothing repels thee, .
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue;
And they went to sea in a sieve.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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SOLNESS: If I do, I will talk to Him once again up
there--"Mighty Lord,
henceforth
I will build nothing
but the loveliest thing in the world.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Oh, fling it to the wind,
The
parchment
wall that bars us from the least of human kind,
That makes us cringe and temporize, and dumbly stand at rest,
While Pity's burning flood of words is red-hot in the breast!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Her eyes are carved of minerals pure and cold,
And in her strange
symbolic
nature where
An angel mingles with the sphinx of old,
Where all is gold and steel and light and air,
For ever, like a vain star, unafraid
Shines the cold hauteur of the sterile maid.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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what, from feeling's deepest fountain springing,
Scarce from the stammering lips had faintly passed,
Now, hopeful,
venturing
forth, now shyly clinging,
To the wild moment's cry a prey is cast.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But why this
mourning
hair, this garb of woe?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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E io: <
impossibil
veggio
che la natura, in quel ch'e uopo, stanchi>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then Aegle, fairest of the Naiad-band,
Aegle came up to the half-frightened boys,
Came, and, as now with open eyes he lay,
With juice of blood-red
mulberries
smeared him o'er,
Both brow and temples.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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