Come, outfence him with
some
wheelwright
slang?
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II
The
Babylonian
praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their Pyramids tall;
And that same Greek still boasting will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost labyrinthine hall.
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Expand, being than which none else is perhaps more
spiritual!
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But the crime's
wrought!
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16
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Scudder Middleton's poem, 'The Clerk," published in the June number of
Contemporary
Verse, is ranked in "An Anthology of Magazine Verse" as one of the thirty most distinguished poems published in the United States in 1916.
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And HoBACE
patiently
its strokes does take.
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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Particularly
I remark
An English countess goes upon the stage.
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T.S. Eliot |
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She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's
Beautiful
Wife
'She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife'
Auguste Rodin (France, 1840 - 1917)
LACMA Collections
That's how the bon temps we regret
Among us, poor old idiots,
Squatting on our haunches, set
All in a heap like woollen lots
Round a hemp fire men forgot,
Soon kindled, and soon dust,
Once so lovely, that cocotte.
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Villon |
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I will not ask thee what strange anger sent
That blaze of proud
contempt
in the King's face:
But ere the voice of the King seals up thy life
In an unalterable judgment, I
Am granted now to come as his last message:
And, as I will, to speak.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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the
defective
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Aeschylus |
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_insert_
to _after_ need; B.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Even as to Bacchus and to Ceres, so
To thee the swain his yearly vows shall make;
And thou thereof, like them, shalt
quittance
claim.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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When the living leave us, moved, I gaze,
For to enter death, is
entering
the temple;
And when a man dies, and goes his way,
I see my own ascent, clear, like crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
(See 'The Life and
Correspondence
of Robert Southey', vol.
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I had hoped to see
A scene of wondrous glory, as was told
Of some great God who in a rain of gold
Broke open bars and fell on Danae:
Or a dread vision as when Semele
Sickening for love and unappeased desire
Prayed to see God's clear body, and the fire
Caught her brown limbs and slew her utterly:
With such glad dreams I sought this holy place,
And now with
wondering
eyes and heart I stand
Before this supreme mystery of Love:
Some kneeling girl with passionless pale face,
An angel with a lily in his hand,
And over both the white wings of a Dove.
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Wilde - Poems |
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About twelve by the moon-dial
One, more filmy than the rest
(A kind which, upon trial,
They have found to be the best)
Comes down--still down--and down
With its centre on the crown
Of a mountain's eminence,
While its wide circumference
In easy drapery falls
Over hamlets, over halls,
Wherever
they may be--
O'er the strange woods--o'er the sea--
Over spirits on the wing--
Over every drowsy thing--
And buries them up quite
In a labyrinth of light--
And then, how deep!
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Poe - 5 |
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`Santa Maria', well thou
tremblest
down the wave,
Thy `Pinta' far abow, thy `Nina' nigh astern:
Columbus stands in the night alone, and, passing grave,
Yearns o'er the sea as tones o'er under-silence yearn.
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Sidney Lanier |
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HE BLESSES ALL THE
CIRCUMSTANCES
OF HIS PASSION.
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Petrarch |
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I am as lovely as a dream in stone,
And this my heart where each finds death in turn,
Inspires
the poet with a love as lone
As clay eternal and as taciturn.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Num gravis
horrisono
polus obruit omnia lapsu,.
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Marvell - Poems |
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ankeden god, & glade were,
And
avoweden
in ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees
That
palpitate
like the chill seas
Around the misty Hebrides!
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Poe - 5 |
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_ If two beings have the same end in view--and one
of them accomplishes his purpose by the use of natural means,
while the other not using
legitimate
means does not attain his
end--which of these two is the most powerful?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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How grown men raged at Austria's wickedness,
And smoked,--while fifty striplings in a row
Marched straight to
Piedmont
for the wrong's redress!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Once having found the beloved,
However sorry or woeful,
However
scornful
of loving, 15
Little it matters.
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Sappho |
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It were fitting she should see
In that hour thine artistry,
And her husband's speechless corse
In the garment of
remorse!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Why a Nostril wide inhaling terror trembling & affright
Why a tender curb upon the
youthful
burning boy?
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blake-poems |
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darkning
in the West
Lost!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward
in thy shadow.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Her face was of
the colour of earth, and more
wrinkled
than the face of any old hag
that was ever seen, and her grey hair was hanging in wisps, and the
rags she was wearing did not hide her dark skin that was roughened by
all weathers.
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Yeats |
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Between these two
different
opinions, a true poet
may be allowed to decide.
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Tacitus |
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: _timete Galliae, hunc time
Britannia_
Haupt: _et
huicne Gallia et metet Britannia?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Yet, Sire, you'll pardon my temerity
If I
commanded
without authority.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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what
tortures
are yours!
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Aristophanes |
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Do you fear to lose
yourself
on Hercules' track?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The comedy
is at the same time full of humor,
particularly
in the entire character
of Fitzdottrel.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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No, no, by
Aphrodite!
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Aristophanes |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And
presently
we oblige you to make peace.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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" And she writes again, with deeper
significance: "I too have learnt the subtle
philosophy
of living from
moment to moment.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Our age absolutely
lacks a standard of literary criticism; and of all standards the one
least likely to be
accepted
is that of Pope and his fellow-believers.
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Alexander Pope |
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Air from deep in her breast
penetrates
mine and there burns.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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These lines
appeared
first in 'The Friend', No.
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William Wordsworth |
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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 grim-eyed lioness pursues the wolf,
The wolf the she-goat, the she-goat herself
In wanton sport the
flowering
cytisus,
And Corydon Alexis, each led on
By their own longing.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The sky is
changed!
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Byron |
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Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Seeing Off Attendant Censor Fan (23) on his Way to a Post 289 Troops massed beneath Mounts Qi and Liang, 8 having crossed over back from the desert?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Hold me, my love — I know the answer now, O wayward, ever
wandering
feet of man— Always the journey ends where it began !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And when such a
wondrous
wife was gone!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Heavenly hurt it gives us;
We can find no scar,
But
internal
difference
Where the meanings are.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Allegory
is a beautiful way of inculcating and asserting some
special significance in life; but epic has a severer task, and a more
impressive one.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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CLXXXV
Still in that
sepulchre
she dwelt, and worn
By weary penance, praying night and day,
It was not long, ere by the Parcae shorn
Was her life's thread: already on their way
Were the three Christian warriors, homeward borne,
Sorrowing and afflicted sore in mind
For their fourth comrade who remained behind.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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" which
appeared
in
the _Nineteenth Century_ (August, 1899, vol.
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Byron |
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Were he my brother, why then I 'd have
murdered
poor Werther.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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why, oh why
Dost waste thy West in
unthrift
mystery?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Now know I what Love is: 'mid savage rocks
Tmaros or Rhodope brought forth the boy,
Or
Garamantes
in earth's utmost bounds-
No kin of ours, nor of our blood begot.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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See there a mound of
powdered
stones, all flattened,
smashed, and torn,
Gone black with damp and green with slime?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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We give you two hours to
consider
it.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The
braunches
were borly, sum of bright gold,
With leuys full luffly, light of the same;
With burions aboue bright to beholde;
And fruit on yt fourmyt of fairest of shap,
Of mony kynd that was knyt, knagged aboue.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Singet Sawney,[83] Singet Sawney,
Are ye herding the penny,
Unconscious
what evil await?
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Robert Burns |
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Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face,
The mirror where the stars and mountains view
The stillness of their aspect in each trace
Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue:
There is too much of man here, to look through
With a fit mind the might which I behold;
But soon in me shall
Loneliness
renew
Thoughts hid, but not less cherished than of old,
Ere mingling with the herd had penned me in their fold.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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--A woman, the more curious she is about her face is
commonly the more
careless
about her house.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
No churchman am I for to rail and to write,
No statesman nor soldier to plot or to fight,
No sly man of
business
contriving a snare,
For a big-belly'd bottle's the whole of my care.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Aeschylus |
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Or hawk the magic of her name about
Deaf doors and
dungeons
where no truth is brought ?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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* * * * *
I stood beside her where she lay,
But
suddenly
woke and she was not there:
And none knew how my soul was torn,
How the tears fell surging over my breast.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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S
[Illustration]
S was Papa's new Stick,
Papa's new thumping Stick,
To thump
extremely
wicked boys,
Because it was so thick.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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[15] The
variants
have _kima kisri_; _ki-[ma]?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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there is an
intensity
here, a note of passion beyond the deepest of
Herrick's.
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Robert Herrick |
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Humbug,
_General
Taylor's antislavery_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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In my jealous wings
I evermore will hold thee when though goest out or comest in
Tis thou hast darkend all My World O Woman lovely bare
Thus they
contended?
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Blake - Zoas |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Not from the grand old masters,
Not from the bards sublime,
Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the
corridors
of Time.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Lucretius |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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In heat-waves burned
that board {34d} to the boss, and the
breastplate
failed
to shelter at all the spear-thane young.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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He compares Avignon
with the Assyrian Babylon, with Egypt under the mad tyranny of Cambyses;
or rather, denies that the latter empires can be held as
parallels
of
guilt to the western Babylon; nay, he tells us that neither Avernus nor
Tartarus can be confronted with this infernal place.
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Petrarch |
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it back returns upon a nether course
Till fired with ardour fresh
recruited
in its humble spring season
It rises up on high all summer till its wearied course
Turns into autumn.
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Blake - Zoas |
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They wore
the cast-off graces of the gentry;--and this, I believe,
involves
the
best definition of the class.
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Poe - 5 |
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Hell she ignores, and Purgatory defies;
And when black Night shall roll before her eyes,
She will look
straight
in Death's grim face forlorn,
Without remorse or hate--as one new born.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But death he could not worke
himselfe
thereby;
For thousand times he so himselfe had drest,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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1295
`For certes, fresshe
wommanliche
wyf,
This dar I seye, that trouthe and diligence,
That shal ye finden in me al my lyf,
Ne wol not, certeyn, breken your defence;
And if I do, present or in absence, 1300
For love of god, lat slee me with the dede,
If that it lyke un-to your womanhede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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Now tell me, Jason, what these Hebrews call me
When they
converse
together at their games.
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Longfellow |
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A child with
glorious
eyes
Here in our arms half sleeping--
So passion wakeful lies;
Then grows to manhood, keeping
Its wistful, young surprise:
I loved you once, but now--
I love you more than ever.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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[Sidenote: Antonius (Caracalla) commanded
Papinian
to be slain by
the swords of his soldiers.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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This said, the spoils, with dropping gore defaced,
High on a spreading tamarisk he placed;
Then heap'd with reeds and gathered boughs the plain,
To guide their
footsteps
to the place again.
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Iliad - Pope |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Chanson de Roland |
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128 Xuan and Guang were truly
discerning
and wise.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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You will
perceive
that I demand something which no
Augustan nor Elizabethan age, which no _culture_, in short, can give.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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With him shalt thou see
That mortal, who was at his birth impress
So
strongly
from this star, that of his deeds
The nations shall take note.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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As this poem is to some extent connected with the lay of the Jabberwock,
let me take this opportunity of answering a
question
that has often been
asked me, how to pronounce "slithy toves.
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Lewis Carroll |
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