THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
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42), when he
had penetrated as far as Mount Atlas, and increased his
reputation by suppressing the rebellion of Boadicea when he
was
governor
of Britain (A.
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And Betty's still at Susan's side:
By this time she's not quite so flurried;
Demure with
porringer
and plate
She sits, as if in Susan's fate
Her life and soul were buried.
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be capable of peace, its trials,
For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous
peace, not war;)
In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in
disease shalt swelter,
The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy
breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,
Consumption of the worst, moral consumption, shall rouge thy face
with hectic,
But thou shalt face thy fortunes, thy diseases, and surmount them all,
Whatever they are to-day and whatever through time they may be,
They each and all shall lift and pass away and cease from thee,
While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still
extricating, fusing,
Equable, natural, mystical Union thou, (the mortal with
immortal
blent,)
Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of the future, the spirit of the
body and the mind,
The soul, its destinies.
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[35]
Probably
phonetic variant of _edir_.
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How dear to me, Sire, such
banishment!
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Snugly retired in yet dew-laden bowers,
This sweetest
specimen
of rural flowers
Displays, red glowing in the morning wind,
The powers of health and nature when combined.
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So this grew a proverb: 'Don't get old
Till Lionel's "Banquet in Hell" you hear,
And then you will laugh
yourself
young again.
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"
Now we are of late years beginning to
understand
much better what a
Satyr-play was.
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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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en hy3es heruest, &
hardenes
hym sone.
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The gods themselves and the
almightier
fates
Cannot avail to harm
With outward and misfortunate chance 5
The radiant unshaken mind of him
Who at his being's centre will abide,
Secure from doubt and fear.
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Harp and psaltery, harp and
psaltery
make drunk my spirit.
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And you who know my
suffering
spirit,
Will see me end this thing as I began it.
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One can view as from the clouds
Our whole
dominion
at a glance; its frontiers,
Its towns, its rivers.
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He was buried in
Twickenham
Church, near the monument he had erected to
his parents, and his coffin was carried to the grave by six of the
poorest men of the parish.
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Lest the world should
separate
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Sudden parting closer glues.
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It's the voice that the light made us understand here
That Hermes
Trismegistus
writes of in Pimander.
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DAMON
"Rise, Lucifer, and, heralding the light,
Bring in the genial day, while I make moan
Fooled by vain passion for a
faithless
bride,
For Nysa, and with this my dying breath
Call on the gods, though little it bestead-
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
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Their native fastnesses not more secure
Than they in
doubtful
time of troublous need:
Their wrath how deadly!
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And, by the Lord,
Katrina!
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Now when, declining from the noon of day,
The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray;
When hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 85
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine;
When merchants from th' Exchange return in peace,
And the long labours of the toilet cease,
The board's with cups and spoons, alternate, crowned,
The berries crackle, and the mill turns round; 90
On shining altars of Japan they raise
The silver lamp, and fiery spirits blaze:
From silver spouts the
grateful
liquors glide,
While China's earth receives the smoking tide.
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The house
trembles
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She, in after time,
Gave o'er the throne, as
birthgift
to a god,
Phoebus, who in his own bears Phoebe's name.
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"Or has the sudden frost
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LAUDANTES
wHEN your beauty is grown old in all men's
And my poor words are lost amid that throng,
Then you will know the truth of my poor words,
And mayhap
dreaming
of the wistful throng
That hopeless sigh your praises in their songs, You will think kindly then of these mad words.
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for while I sang,
And with poor skill let pass into the breeze
The dull shell's echo, from a bowery strand
Just opposite, an island of the sea,
There came
enchantment
with the shifting wind,
That did both drown and keep alive my ears.
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LXXII
As
sometimes
after thunder sudden wind
Turns the sea upside down; and far and nigh
Dim clouds of dust the cheerful daylight blind,
Raised in a thought from earth, and whirled heaven-high;
Scud beasts and herd together with the hind;
And into hail and rain dissolves the sky;
So she upon the signal bared her brand,
And fell on her Rogero, sword in hand.
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O, passing Angel, speed me with a song,
A melody of heaven to reach my heart
And rouse me to the race and make me strong;
Till in such music I take up my part,
Swelling those Hallelujahs full of rest,
One, tenfold, hundred-fold, with heavenly art,
Fulfilling north and south and east and west,
Thousand, ten-thousand-fold, innumerable,
All blent in one yet each one manifest;
Each one
distinguished
and beloved as well
As if no second voice in earth or heaven
Were lifted up the Love of God to tell.
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From
Tamworth
thither is but one day's march.
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(thus his heart he vents)
Once spread the
inviting
banquet in our tents:
Thy sweet society, thy winning care,
Once stay'd Achilles, rushing to the war.
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What porcelain vase by you was split
To
thousand
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's
sensitive
conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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SED NON SATIATA
Bizarre deite, brune comme les nuits,
Au parfum melange de musc et de havane,
OEuvre de quelque obi, le Faust de la savane,
Sorciere
au flanc d'ebene, enfant des noirs minuits,
Je prefere au constance, a l'opium, au nuits,
L'elixir de ta bouche ou l'amour se pavane;
Quand vers toi mes desirs partent en caravane,
Tes yeux sont la citerne ou boivent mes ennuis.
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O City city, I can sometimes hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The
pleasant
whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.
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Sudden the door flies open wide, and lets
Noisily in the dawn-light
scarcely
clear,
And the good fisher, dragging his damp nets,
Stands on the threshold, with a joyous cheer.
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View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes,
And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise;
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; 200
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and
hesitate
dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend.
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As many
farewells
as be stars in heaven,
With distinct breath and consign'd kisses to them,
He fumbles up into a loose adieu,
And scants us with a single famish'd kiss,
Distasted with the salt of broken tears.
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'twas a
precious
flock to me,
As dear as my own children be;
For daily with my growing store
I loved my children more and more.
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His praise ye Winds, that from four
Quarters
blow,
Breath soft or loud; and wave your tops, ye Pines,
With every Plant, in sign of Worship wave.
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But in general the
effect of reading many criticisms on the _Alcestis_ is to make a
scholar realize that, for all the seeming
simplicity
of the play,
competent Grecians have been strangely bewildered by it, and that after
all there is no great reason to suppose that he himself is more sensible
than his neighbours.
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GREAT ROMULUS,
legendary
founder of Rome (B.
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Qingzhou
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Copyright laws in most
countries
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ex illo quantos iuuenis premat anxius ignis
testis ego attonitus, quantum me nocte dieque
urgentem
ferat.
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Implacable fate, whose
harshness
parts
My honour from my desire,
Is it written my choice, counter my heart,
Must quench forever my loving fire?
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For, after all the murders of your eye, 145
When, after millions slain, yourself shall die:
When those fair suns shall set, as set they must,
And all those tresses shall be laid in dust,
This Lock, the Muse shall consecrate to fame,
And 'midst the stars
inscribe
Belinda's name.
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Digitized by VjOOQIC
14 THE POEMS
Now, Fairfax, seek her
promised
faith ;
Keligion that dispensed hath
Which she henceforward does begin ;
The Nun's smooth tongue has sucked her in.
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Edward Lear, the artist, Author of "Journals of a Landscape Painter" in
various out-of-the-way countries, and of the delightful "Books of
Nonsense," which have amused successive
generations
of children, died on
Sunday, January 29, 1888, at San Remo, Italy, where he had lived for twenty
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Live, and
forgive!
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Thence what the lofty grave Tragoedians taught
In Chorus or Iambic, teachers best
Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd
In brief sententious precepts, while they treat
Of fate, and chance, and change in human life;
High actions, and high passions best describing;
Thence to the famous Orators repair,
Those antient, whose resistless eloquence
Wielded at will that fierce Democratie,
Shook the Arsenal and fulmin'd over Greece, 270
To Macedon, and
Artaxerxes
Throne;
To sage Philosophy next lend thine ear,
From Heaven descended to the low-rooft house
Of Socrates, see there his Tenement,
Whom well inspir'd the Oracle pronounc'd
Wisest of men; from whose mouth issu'd forth
Mellifluous streams that water'd all the schools
Of Academics old and new, with those
Sirnam'd Peripatetics, and the Sect
Epicurean, and the Stoic severe; 280
These here revolve, or, as thou lik'st, at home,
Till time mature thee to a Kingdom's waight;
These rules will render thee a King compleat
Within thy self, much more with Empire joyn'd.
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And weary was the long patrol,
The thousand miles of
shapeless
strand,
From Brazos to San Blas that roll
Their drifting dunes of desert sand.
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ECLOGUE III
MENALCAS
DAMOETAS
PALAEMON
MENALCAS
Who owns the flock, Damoetas?
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Mist and Snow,
And it grew wond'rous cauld:
And Ice mast-high came
floating
by
As green as Emerauld.
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He becomes
Mere fool, since energy of mind and soul
Confounded
is, and, as I've shown, to-riven,
Asunder thrown, and torn to pieces all
By the same venom.
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Odherr Partes bie
_Knyghtes
Mynstrelles_.
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The next long hour slowly strikes at last,
The whole house stirs again, the feast is past,
And sadly passes by the
afternoon
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What not put vpon
His spungie
Officers?
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Eumelus' mares were foremost in the chase,
As eagles fleet, and of
Pheretian
race;
Bred where Pieria's fruitful fountains flow,
And train'd by him who bears the silver bow.
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Iliad - Pope |
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nē his līf-dagas lēoda
ǣnigum nytte tealde (_nor did he count his life useful to any man_), 795;
þæt ic mē ǣnigne under swegles begong ge-sacan ne tealde (_I
believed
not
that I had any foe under heaven_), 1774; cwæð hē þone gūð-wine gōdne tealde
(_said he counted the war-friend good_), 1811; hē ūsic gār-wīgend gōde
tealde (_deemed us good spear-warriors_), 2642; pl.
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Beowulf |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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These, and such only, are in ev'ry land
Call'd to the banquet; none invites the poor,
Who much consume, and no
requital
yield.
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And rarely thither came ;
For, with one spark of these, he
straight
All nature could inflame.
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Marvell - Poems |
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_ A picture of
inimitable
chilly horror.
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Keats |
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Indulgence
bids the dropsy grow;
Who fain would quench the palate's flame
Must rescue from the watery foe
The pale weak frame.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Denique testis erit morti quoque reddita praeda,
Cum terrae ex celso coacervatum aggere bustum
Excipiet
niveos percussae virginis artus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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That the English-
speaking public may gain at any rate some faint idea
of his genius, it has been my joyous task to translate
the following small
selection
of his works.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Wondrous
seems it,
what manner a man of might and valor
oft ends his life, when the earl no longer
in mead-hall may live with loving friends.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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It's going to be a
facsimile
reproduction for a weekly.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Laughs at the holy
writings
and the text divine,
O'er which the humble dervish prays and venerates.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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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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What will you do with such as
disagree?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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VII
None looked upon her but he
straightway
thought
Of all the greenest depths of country cheer, 50
And into each one's heart was freshly brought
What was to him the sweetest time of year,
So was her every look and motion fraught
With out-of-door delights and forest lere;
Not the first violet on a woodland lea
Seemed a more visible gift of Spring than she.
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James Russell Lowell |
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What is that sound high in the air
Murmur of maternal lamentation
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth 370
Ringed by the flat horizon only
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Unreal
A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light 380
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a
blackened
wall
And upside down in air were towers
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Our silence is our
reverence
for the king!
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Tennyson |
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The
brackish
water that we drink
Creeps with a loathsome slime,
And the bitter bread they weigh in scales
Is full of chalk and lime,
And Sleep will not lie down, but walks
Wild-eyed, and cries to Time.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin
down!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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BROTHER TO A YOUNG LADY, A
PARTICULAR
FRIEND
OF THE AUTHOR'S.
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Robert Burns |
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Though I lack the qualities for
offering
criticism, 12 I feared lest my ruler overlook some matter.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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We pray, an' haply irk it not when prayed,
Show us where
shadowed
hidest thou in shade!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Beside the shining scythe and
exhausted
jug.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And
laughing
is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
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blake-poems |
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Owneth thy sire one third, one third is right of thy mother,
Only the third is thine: stint thee to strive with the others,
Who to the
stranger
son have yielded their dues with a dower!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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It's you I'm mainly
thinking
of.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Round and round take up the chorus,
And in
raptures
let us sing--
Chorus
A fig for those by law protected!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Apollinaire's Notes to the Bestiary
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It praises the line that forms the images, marvellous
ornaments
to this poetic entertainment.
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Appoloinaire |
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They came o'er wild Parthenius
Tossing in waves of pine,
O'er Cirrha's dome, o'er Adria's foam,
O'er purple Apennine,
From where with flutes and dances
Their ancient mansion rings,
In lordly Lacedaemon,
The City of two kings,
To where, by Lake Regillus,
Under the Porcian height,
All in the lands of Tusculum,
Was fought the
glorious
fight.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Ils tressaillent souvent a la claire voix d'or
Du timbre matinal, qui frappe et frappe encor
Son refrain
metallique
en son globe de verre.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And the soul,
Who spake with me among the other lights
Did move away, and mix; and with the choir
Of heav'nly
songsters
prov'd his tuneful skill.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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