SEMI-CHORUS
Be thy will for the cause of the
maidens!
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`But Troilus, I pray thee tel me now, 330
If that thou trowe, er this, that any wight
Hath loved
paramours
as wel as thou?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Thus, in security and peace trepann'd,
I was enlisted in that wayward band,
Who short-lived joys by anguish long obtain,
And whom the
pleasures
of a rival pain
More than their proper joys.
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or engaged in
business?
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Whitman |
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To him Populonia had
given six hundred of her children, tried in war, but Ilva three hundred,
the island rich in
unexhausted
mines of steel.
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete
and ready for the revels rude,
When dreadful guests would come to spoil her solitude.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Why am I crying after love,
With youth, a singing voice, and eyes
To take earth's wonder with
surprise?
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Sara Teasdale |
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[The command which the Comyns held on the Nith was lost to the
Douglasses: the Nithsdale power, on the downfall of that proud name,
was divided; part went to the Charteris's and the better portion to
the Maxwells: the
Johnstones
afterwards came in for a share, and now
the Scots prevail.
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Robert Forst |
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As if I had not, my
fathers!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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e toumbe
richeliche
I-grey|?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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We gallop along
Alert and penetrating,
Roads open about us,
Housetops
keep at a distance.
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Imagists |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Lucretius |
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If
consequence
do but approve my dream,
My boat sails freely, both with wind and stream.
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Shakespeare |
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omnis honos, cuncti ueniunt ad limina fasces
omnis plebeio teritur
praetexta
tumultu;
hinc eques, hinc iuuenum questus, stola mixta laborat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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They were all
glittering
with rich robes and
arms.
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Keats |
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If thou hadst had a sword,
Insolent prisoner, then (pointing to his sword) with this I'd soon
Have
vanquished
thee.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Two
articles
on T'ao Ch'ien and one on Li Po.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is
something
he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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_]
Long, long after,
When
settlers
put up beam and rafter,
They asked of the birds: "Who gave this fruit?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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LXXV
So are you to my
thoughts
as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Propitious heavens I had not you them crossed,
Excise had got the day, and all been lost :
For t'other side all in close quarters lay
Without intelligence, command or pay ;
A
scattered
body, which the foe ne'er tried,
But often did among themselves divide.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Hir fader hath hir in his armes nome, 190
And tweynty tyme he kiste his
doughter
swete,
And seyde, `O dere doughter myn, wel-come!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I am yong, but something
You may
discerne
of him through me, and wisedome
To offer vp a weake, poore innocent Lambe
T' appease an angry God
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Invidens
Privata deduci superto
Non humilis mulier triumpho.
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Tennyson |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO
REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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As children bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their
nightgowns
on.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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XXVIII
My
letters!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Or when little airs arise,
How the merry
bluebell
rings [1]
To the mosses underneath?
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Tennyson |
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Still,
I fear that I will die as I have lived,
A long-nosed heathen playing with his scars,
A pagan killed by
weltschmerz
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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_ O) _secum ut
meditare
querunt_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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XXIX
Agramant
recognized this truth; but thought
That ill his royal word could be repealed;
Yet Mandricardo and the Child besought
That they the right, conferred by him, would yield:
More; that the question was a thing of nought,
Nor worthy to be tried in martial field;
And prayed them -- would they not obey his hest
At least somewhile, to let their quarrel rest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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--is there no farther aid
Thou needest,
Jacinta?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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How much better is it to be silent, or at least to speak
sparingly!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Her bonnet is the firmament,
The universe her shoe,
The stars the trinkets at her belt,
Her
dimities
of blue.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Be with us now or we betray our trust — And say, "There is no wisdom but in death"
—
The changeless regions of our empery,
Where once we moved in
friendship
with the stars.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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They were more than brave: they were
inspired
with the spirit of
"Wu.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Li Po |
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"
--Chaucer,
_Knightes
Tale_, l.
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Beowulf |
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Stephen Crane |
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AS I CAME DOWN IN THE HARBOR By Louis Ginsberg
As I came down in the harbor, I saw ships careening — Tall ships with taut sails, bulging slowly away;
As I came down in the harbor, like far
swallows
flying, Delicate were the sails I saw, poised faint and dim !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Mirth is the mail of anguish,
In which it cautions arm,
Lest anybody spy the blood
And "You're hurt"
exclaim!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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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 disdain and
calmness
of martyrs,
The mother of old, condemn'd for a witch, burnt with dry wood, her
children gazing on,
The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the fence,
blowing, cover'd with sweat,
The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous
buckshot and the bullets,
All these I feel or am.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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THETIS AND
EURYNOME
RECEIVING THE INFANT VULCAN.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Our
household
is but small, I own,
And yet needs care, if truth were known.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Instant, amid their golden ringlets strove
Each flow'ret, planted by the hand of Love;
At strife, who first th' enamour'd powers to gain,
Who rule the
tempests
and the waves restrain:
Bright as a starry band the Nereids shone,
Instant old Eolus' sons their presence[437] own;
The winds die faintly, and, in softest sighs,
Each at his fair one's feet desponding lies:
The bright Orithia, threatening, sternly chides
The furious Boreas, and his faith derides;
The furious Boreas owns her powerful bands:
Fair Galatea, with a smile commands
The raging Notus, for his love, how true,
His fervent passion and his faith she knew.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning's flagons up,
And say how many dew;
Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the
breadths
of blue!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Yea, and how like, that in the world's chance-medley
This our
exulting
destiny had been slain,
Though here it lords the world as a man his shadow!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Nusch
The
sentiments
apparent
The lightness of approach
The tresses of caresses.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Her face, sad and worn,
was in perfect keeping with the deep
mourning
in which she was dressed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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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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Resemble
nothing that is ours.
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Poe - 5 |
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Aricia
And you think Hippolytus, kinder than his father,
Being more humane, will make my chains
lighter?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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NONE FORGOES
THE LEAP,
ATTAINING
THE REPOSE.
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Sappho |
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Je sais l'art d'evoquer les minutes
heureuses!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Each sundown makes them mournful, each sunrise
Brings back the
brightness
in their failing eyes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Strangely enough, that very night at the ball, Tomsky had rallied her
about her preference for the young officer,
assuring
her that he knew
more than she supposed he did.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
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Appoloinaire |
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les grands pres,
La grande
campagne
amoureuse!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Lamia beheld him coming, near, more near--
Close to her passing, in
indifference
drear,
His silent sandals swept the mossy green;
So neighbour'd to him, and yet so unseen
She stood: he pass'd, shut up in mysteries,
His mind wrapp'd like his mantle, while her eyes
Follow'd his steps, and her neck regal white
Turn'd--syllabling thus, "Ah, Lycius bright,
And will you leave me on the hills alone?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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their
brooding
was deep,?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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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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And, again,
The gloomy planter of the
withered
vine
Rails at the season's change and wearies heaven,
Nor grasps that all of things by sure degrees
Are wasting away and going to the tomb,
Outworn by venerable length of life.
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Lucretius |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan
translation
which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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In a burnt, ashen land, where no herb grew,
I to the winds my cries of anguish threw;
And in my thoughts, in that sad place apart,
Pricked gently with the
poignard
o'er my heart.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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May no wolf howl, or screech-owl stir
A wing about thy
sepulchre!
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Robert Herrick |
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Mark by what
wretched
steps their glory grows,
From dirt and seaweed as proud Venice rose;
In each how guilt and greatness equal ran,
And all that raised the hero, sunk the man:
Now Europe's laurels on their brows behold,
But stained with blood, or ill exchanged for gold;
Then see them broke with toils or sunk with ease,
Or infamous for plundered provinces.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he
may not love you, but he will take a deep
interest
in your movements
ever afterwards.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Even Peter
trembles
only for his ears.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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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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Of all these ways, if each pursues his own,
Satire be kind, and let the wretch alone:
But show me one who has it in his power
To act
consistent
with himself an hour.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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VII
When smoke stood up from Ludlow,
And mist blew off from Teme,
And blithe afield to ploughing
Against the morning beam
I strode beside my team,
The blackbird in the coppice
Looked out to see me stride,
And
hearkened
as I whistled
The tramping team beside,
And fluted and replied:
"Lie down, lie down, young yeoman;
What use to rise and rise?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The eager charioteers stand
round and pat their chests with clapping
hollowed
hands, and comb their
tressed manes.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Methinks
I find her now, and now perceive
She's distant; now I soar, and now descend;
Now what I wish, now what is true believe.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"
Insensible
to all relief
Sat the poor girl, and forth did send
Sob after sob, as if her grief [8]
Could never, never have an end.
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William Wordsworth |
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And now the other maidens in the hall
Assembling, kindled on the hearth again
Th'
unwearied
blaze; then, godlike from his couch 150
Arose Telemachus, and, fresh-attired,
Athwart his shoulders his bright faulchion slung,
Bound his fair sandals to his feet, and took
His sturdy spear pointed with glitt'ring brass;
Advancing to the portal, there he stood,
And Euryclea thus, his nurse, bespake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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say I love thee not,
When I against myself with thee
partake?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Some natives say that it came from the other side of Kulu, where
the eleven-inch Temple
Sapphire
is.
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Kipling - Poems |
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It must be known that Ser Giovanni Sanudo, the councillor, was not
present when the aforesaid
sentence
was pronounced; because he was
unwell and remained at home.
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Byron |
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Of all
the qualities we assign to the author and
director
of nature, by far
the most enviable is--to be able "to wipe away all tears from all
eyes.
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Robert Forst |
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And while the old dames gossip at their ease,
And pinch the snuff-box empty by degrees,
The young ones join in love's delightful themes,
Truths told by gipsies, and expounded dreams;
And mutter things kept secrets from the rest,
As sweethearts' names, and whom they love the best;
And dazzling ribbons they delight to show,
And last new favours of some veigling beau,
Who with such
treachery
tries their hearts to move,
And, like the highest, bribes the maidens' love.
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John Clare |
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Euripides seems to have taken positive pleasure in Admetus, much as
Meredith did in his famous Egoist; but Euripides all through is kinder to
his victim than
Meredith
is.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I brake thy
bracelet
'gainst my will, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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are near; and now
Th' ascent is without
difficulty
gain'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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He "never deviates into
sense;" but those who
appreciate
him never feel the need of such deviation.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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(That large reprisal he might justly claim,
For prize defrauded, and insulted fame,
When Elis' monarch, at the public course,
Detain'd his chariot, and
victorious
horse.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I seem that which I am;
And therefore do I ask of thee, if thou
Wouldst be
immortal?
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Byron |
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Why and what art thou
dreaming
here?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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FIGHTING
Last year we were
fighting
at the source of the San-kan;
This year we are fighting at the Onion River road.
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Li Po |
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Has the cock's-feather, too, escaped
attention?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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This was the utmost
incivility
we met with in Canada.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And who avers the
contrary?
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Aristophanes |
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This
French poet has suffered more from the friendly malignant
biographer
and
chroniclers than did Poe.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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