is
p{re}sentarie
estat
of ?
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_wrongly
puts_ there _for_ therthe; Harl.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the
evidence
ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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You bring
Your own
thoughts
with you; and they are vinegar,
Endlessly rusting what should be clear steel.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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by calling
the attention of the reader to the
interpolation
by means of a
foot-note.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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ad taedas Thetidis probante Phoebo
et Chiron cecinit minore plectro,
nec risit pia turba rusticantem,
quamuis saepe senex biformis illic
carmen rumperet
hinniente
cantu.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Gold imped by thee can compass hardest things,
Can pocket states, can fetch or carry kings;
A single leaf shall waft an army o'er,
Or ship off senates to a distant shore;
A leaf, like Sibyl's, scatter to and fro
Our fates and fortunes, as the winds shall blow:
Pregnant with
thousands
flits the scrap unseen,
And silent sells a king, or buys a queen.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The nimble mercury, ere we are aware,
Descends the elastic ladder of the air;
The
telltale
blood in artery and vein
Sinks from its higher levels in the brain;
Whatever poet, orator, or sage
May say of it, old age is still old age.
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Longfellow |
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The
Minstrel
At Lincluden
Tune--"Cumnock Psalms.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Leo himself was a
generous
patron
of art and learning.
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Alexander Pope |
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His fav'rite beauteous belle he now possessed,
And triumphed where so oft he'd been repressed,
Yet fondly hoped her pardon he should get,
Since they
together
had so gaily met.
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La Fontaine |
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What if my house be
troubled
with a rat,
And I be pleas'd to give ten thousand ducats
To have it ban'd?
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Shakespeare |
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Once I saw thee idly rocking
--Idly rocking--
And chattering girlishly to other girls,
Bell-voiced, happy,
Careless
with the stout heart of unscarred
womanhood,
And life to thee was all light melody.
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Stephen Crane |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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O tres douce vierge mere,
Par ce fait fai que se pere 260
Par plour l'ame qui cuer dura;
Fai que grace si m'apere;
Et n'en soiez pas avere
Quar
largement
la mesura.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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What have you to do with this young girl
whom Chvabrine is
persecuting?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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For "IS" and "IS-NOT" though with Rule and Line,
And, "UP-AND-DOWN" without, I could define,
I yet in all I only cared to know,
Was never deep in
anything
but--Wine.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The very thought my face with crimson dyes;
My way of life no shield for this supplies;
The moment pure
affection
's in the soul,
No longer wanton freaks the mind control.
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La Fontaine |
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This he has
executed
in the manner, which seemed to him best
suited to such a publication; and here he means that his task should
end.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
"By Arno's
pleasant
stream," I thus replied,
"In the great city I was bred and grew,
And wear the body I have ever worn.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And soon as ever
'Thas shoved unto the levels of the main
That laden cloud, the whirl
suddenly
then
Plunges its whole self into the waters there
And rouses all the sea with monstrous roar,
Constraining it to seethe.
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Lucretius |
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sure I am the wits of former days,
To subjects worse have given
admiring
praise.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Since our ftp program has
a bug in it that
scrambles
the date [tried to fix and failed] a
look at the file size will have to do, but we will try to see a
new copy has at least one byte more or less.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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e
belleward
him wend.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Man is too prone, at best, to seek the way that's easy,
He soon grows fond of
unconditioned
rest;
And therefore such a comrade suits him best,
Who spurs and works, true devil, always busy.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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so that Love winged with a fan
Paints me there, lulling the fold, flute in hand,
Princess, name me the
shepherd
of your smiles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"
"An
engineer?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Stephen Crane |
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"The Fifth is one you may prefer
That I should quote entire:--
_The King must be
addressed
as 'Sir.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The plenty hurt me, 't was so new, --
Myself felt ill and odd,
As berry of a
mountain
bush
Transplanted to the road.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Only a still place
and perhaps some outer horror
some hideousness to stamp beauty,
a mark--no
changing
it now--
on our hearts.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The myrtle groves are those of the
Underworld
in Classical mythology.
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Ronsard |
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It's on your slopes, visited by Venus
Setting in your lava her heels so artless,
When a sad slumber
thunders
where the flame burns low.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Since there
flowered
the Dry Rod,
Or from Adam sprang nephew and uncle;
Such true love as that which my heart enters
Has never, I think, existed in body or soul:
Wherever she is, abroad or in some chamber,
My heart can't part from her more than a nail.
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Troubador Verse |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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CXXIX
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action: and till action, lust
Is perjur'd, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight;
Past reason hunted; and no sooner had,
Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait,
On purpose laid to make the taker mad:
Mad in pursuit and in
possession
so;
Had, having, and in quest, to have extreme;
A bliss in proof,-- and prov'd, a very woe;
Before, a joy propos'd; behind a dream.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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LXVIII
With a new sword will he the maid await;
For well he knew against the
enchanted
blade
As soft as paste would prove all mail and plate;
For never any steel its fury stayed;
And heavily with hammer, to rebate
Its edge, as well he on this faulchion layed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Oh vanity of vanities, desire;
Stunting
my hope which might have strained up higher,
Turning my garden plot to barren mire;
Oh death-struck love, oh disenkindled fire,
Oh vanity of vanities, desire!
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Yet fals was he, but his falsnesse
Ne coude he not espye, nor gesse;
For semblant was so slye wrought,
That
falsnesse
he ne espyed nought.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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* And yet, how well soever meant,
' With them 'twould soon grow fraudulent ;
' For like
themselves
they alter all,
* And vice infects the very wall ;
* But sure those buildings last not long,
* Founded by folly, kept by wrong.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The manner of the sun to ride the air,
The stars God has
imagined
for the night?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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we strain every nerve to get to the
birds,[179] do
everything
we can to that end, and we cannot find our way!
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Aristophanes |
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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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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls
wreathed
with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Oh may he glean my lips delights unbidden,
--I gleaned them all since as a dream he rose--
The
oleanders
"mid the fragrance hidden
And others smiling as the jasmin blows.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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How silent
everywhere!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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"
In the open they stood,
Man to man in his knightlihood:
They would not deign
To profit by a stain
On the
honourable
rules,
Knowing that practise perfidy no man durst
Who in the heroic schools
Was nurst.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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We made our _adieus_
forthwith, and with gravity, perceiving the literal
signification
of
that word.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Politian is expected
Hourly in Rome--Politian, Earl of
Leicester!
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Poe - 5 |
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"
_Robert Haven Schauffler_
FLEURETTE
THE WOUNDED
CANADIAN
SPEAKS:
My leg?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Before all my tinder
Dies away into coals, coals then to ashes decline,
She will be back and new faggots as well as big logs will be blazing,
Making a
festival
where lovers will warm up the night.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Away with you and all your
withered
flowers,
I have a flower in my soul no one can take!
| Guess: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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SPIRITS OF THE DEAD
1
Thy soul shall find itself alone
'Mid dark
thoughts
of the grey tomb-stone--
Not one, of all the crowd, to pry
Into thine hour of secrecy:
2
Be silent in that solitude
Which is not loneliness--for then
The spirits of the dead who stood
In life before thee are again
In death around thee--and their will
Shall then overshadow thee: be still.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I have also printed the Laud 108 opposite the Vernon text, from which it differs
slightly
sometimes in words, and in more distinctly Midland forms (waster, was there, l.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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--
And
thorough
all the land in deadly wise
Shall scatter venom, to exude again
In pestilence on men.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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How long, O God, shall men be ridden down,
And
trampled
under by the last and least
Of men?
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Tennyson |
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But what had Herrick at any time to do
with Saffron Walden, and why should the poet, whose politics, apart from
some personal
devotion
to Charles I.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Many of
the lines, however, are rough and
difficult
of scansion.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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He to the left, the parent, whose rash taste
Proves bitter to his seed; and, on the right,
That ancient father of the holy church,
Into whose keeping Christ did give the keys
Of this sweet flow'r: near whom behold the seer,
That, ere he died, saw all the
grievous
times
Of the fair bride, who with the lance and nails
Was won.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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That seems impossible, and, to my mind, poets have the right to hope after their death for the
everlasting
happiness that obtains complete knowledge of God, that is to say of the sublime beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The meadows, the maidens, the dark
river in the evening, the spires of the cathedral at night rising like
grey mists are seen with a wonderment, the great well-spring of all
poetic imagination, with a well-nigh
religious
piety.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Far away
The dim waves rise and wrestle with each other
And fall down
headlong
on the beach.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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_Tecum habita_, _ut noris quam sit tibi curta
supellex_
{11}
PERS.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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--Et, tout pensifs, tandis que de leurs grands yeux bleus
Silencieusement
tombe une larme amere,
ils murmurent: <
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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