Bifore the folk, hem to bigylen, 1055
These
losengeres
hem preyse, and smylen,
And thus the world with word anoynten;
But afterward they [prikke] and poynten
>>
De grant pris et de grant affaire.
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THERE were no ruins, neither fragments,
There was no chasm, nor grave nor pall,
There was no longing, was no wooing,
Where but one hour
rendered
all.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The
sacrifice
done, I joyfully tell
Anchises, and relate all in order.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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How
excellent
the heaven,
When earth cannot be had;
How hospitable, then, the face
Of our old neighbor, God!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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3, a full refund of
any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days of
receipt of the work.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Io vidi in quella giovial facella
lo
sfavillar
de l'amor che li era
segnare a li occhi miei nostra favella.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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When the flesh that nourished us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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E io li aggiunsi: <>;
per ch'elli,
accumulando
duol con duolo,
sen gio come persona trista e matta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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Villon |
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The living fires come
flashing
from her eyes,
And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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Alexander Pope |
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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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And must none close my dying feet,
And must none close my hands,
And will none do the last kind deeds
That death for all
demands?
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John Clare |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Cochituate Water, Ode written for the
Celebration
of the Introduction
of the, into the City of Boston.
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James Russell Lowell |
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" And Les Fleurs du Mal, that book of opals, blood, and
evil swamp-flowers, will never be
savoured
by the mob.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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No man doth bear his sin,
But many sins
Are
gathered
as a cloud about man's way.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Not that faire field
Of Enna, where Proserpin gathring flours
Her self a fairer Floure by gloomie Dis 270
Was gatherd, which cost Ceres all that pain
To seek her through the world; nor that sweet Grove
Of Daphne by Orontes, and th' inspir'd
Castalian
Spring might with this Paradise
Of Eden strive; nor that Nyseian Ile
Girt with the River Triton, where old Cham,
Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Libyan Jove,
Hid Amalthea and her Florid Son
Young Bacchus from his Stepdame Rhea's eye;
Nor where Abassin Kings thir issue Guard, 280
Mount Amara, though this by som suppos'd
True Paradise under the Ethiop Line
By Nilus head, enclos'd with shining Rock,
A whole dayes journey high, but wide remote
From this Assyrian Garden, where the Fiend
Saw undelighted all delight, all kind
Of living Creatures new to sight and strange:
Two of far nobler shape erect and tall,
Godlike erect, with native Honour clad
In naked Majestie seemd Lords of all, 290
And worthie seemd, for in thir looks Divine
The image of thir glorious Maker shon,
Truth, Wisdome, Sanctitude severe and pure,
Severe, but in true filial freedom plac't;
Whence true autoritie in men; though both
Not equal, as thir sex not equal seemd;
For contemplation hee and valour formd,
For softness shee and sweet attractive Grace,
Hee for God only, shee for God in him:
His fair large Front and Eye sublime declar'd 300
Absolute rule; and Hyacinthin Locks
Round from his parted forelock manly hung
Clustring, but not beneath his shoulders broad:
Shee as a vail down to the slender waste
Her unadorned golden tresses wore
Dissheveld, but in wanton ringlets wav'd
As the Vine curles her tendrils, which impli'd
Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway,
And by her yeilded, by him best receivd,
Yeilded with coy submission, modest pride, 310
And sweet reluctant amorous delay.
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Milton |
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150
On the mainland you see a misty camp
Of mountains pitched tumultuously:
That one looming so long and large
Is Saddleback, and that point you see
Over yon low and rounded marge,
Like the boss of a sleeping giant's targe
Laid over his breast, is Ossipee;
That shadow there may be Kearsarge;
That must be Great Haystack; I love these names,
Wherewith the lonely farmer tames 160
Nature to mute companionship
With his own mind's domestic mood,
And strives the surly world to clip
In the arms of
familiar
habitude.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Whither he went I may not come, it seems
He is become
estranged
from all the rest,
And all the sea is now his wonder-house.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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[258] An
Athenian
physician of the day.
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Aristophanes |
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For
somewhere
in that sacred island dwelt
A nymph, to whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt;
At whose white feet the languid Tritons poured
Pearls, while on land they wither'd and adored.
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Keats |
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Hence Offa was praised
for his
fighting
and feeing by far-off men,
the spear-bold warrior; wisely he ruled
over his empire.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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nor from Each other avert their eyes
Eternity appeard above them as One Man infolded
In Luvah robes of blood & bearing all his afflictions
As the sun shines down on the misty earth Such was the Vision
But purple night and crimson morning & [the] golden day descending
Thro' the clear changing atmosphere display'd green fields among
The varying clouds, like paradises stretch'd in the expanse
With towns & villages and temples, tents sheep-folds and pastures
Where dwell the
children
of the elemental worlds in harmony,
[But monstrous delusion ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Will it please you
question
him?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Some news is
brought?
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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***
Probably
Valens.
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Tacitus |
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Now it
murmured
a delightfully common song that filled the faubourgs with joy, an old, banal tune: why did its words pierce my soul and make me cry, like any romantic ballad?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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O ay--the wholesome madness of an hour--
They served their use, their time; for every knight
Believed himself a greater than himself,
And every follower eyed him as a God;
Till he, being lifted up beyond himself,
Did
mightier
deeds than elsewise he had done,
And so the realm was made; but then their vows--
First mainly through that sullying of our Queen--
Began to gall the knighthood, asking whence
Had Arthur right to bind them to himself?
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Tennyson |
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His
lordship had some difficulty in
ferreting
out Mar-
velFs residence ; but at last found him on a second
floor, in a dark court leading out of the Strand.
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Marvell - Poems |
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XLIX
But all Etruria's noblest
Felt their hearts sink to see
On the earth the bloody corpses,
In the path the
dauntless
Three:
And, from the ghastly entrance
Where those bold Romans stood,
All shrank, like boys who unaware,
Ranging the woods to start a hare,
Come to the mouth of the dark lair
Where, growling low, a fierce old bear
Lies amidst bones and blood.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Myself, this lighted room,
What are we but a
murmurous
pool of rain?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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_
_Grant us your mantle, Greek;
grant us but one
to fright (as your eyes) with a sword,
men, craven and weak,
grant us but one to strike
one blow for you,
passionate
Greek.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But within these broad limits the thought of the poem wanders
freely, and is quite rambling, inconsistent, and illogical enough to
show that Pope is not
formulating
an exact and definitely determined
system of thought.
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Alexander Pope |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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But we soon learned that these were no
_gelidae
valles_ into which we
had descended, and, missing the coolness of the morning air, feared it
had become the sun's turn to try his power upon us.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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What though I killed him
afterward?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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This is Jove, who, deaf to prayers,
Floods with
blessings
unawares.
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Emerson - Poems |
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But the true voyagers are they who part
From all they love because a
wandering
heart
Drives them to fly the Fate they cannot fly;
Whose call is ever "On!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Nay,
My
children
live.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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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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She
listened
with a feeling of terror
and disgust.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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haec effata super montis abit alite cursu,
attonitos
linquens
populos grauiora pauentis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Oh quanta e l'uberta che si soffolce
in quelle arche
ricchissime
che fuoro
a seminar qua giu buone bobolce!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But for
fattening
rain
We should have no flowers,
Never a bud or leaf again
But for soaking showers;
Never a mated bird
In the rocking tree-tops,
Never indeed a flock or herd
To graze upon the lea-crops.
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Christina Rossetti |
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ECLOGUE VI
TO VARUS
First my Thalia stooped in
sportive
mood
To Syracusan strains, nor blushed within
The woods to house her.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The
children
of the citadel conquered all
Their conquerors, smiting them with the pure light
That shone in that strong city fortified.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The sun, it is said,
hid his face rather than shine on so
barbarous
a deed.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Soon as those words
Alcinous
heard, the King,
Upraising by his hand the prudent Chief
Ulysses from the hearth, he made him sit, 210
On a bright throne, displacing for his sake
Laodamas his son, the virtuous youth
Who sat beside him, and whom most he lov'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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In
the forum, he was enlightened by the
experience
of others; he was
instructed in the knowledge of the laws, accustomed to the eye of the
judges, habituated to the looks of a numerous audience, and acquainted
with the popular taste.
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Tacitus |
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Wild strawberries which both
gathered
then,
None know now where they grew.
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John Clare |
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Opium
did but confirm what the natural habits of his
constitution
had bred in
him: an overwhelming indolence, out of which the energies that still arose
intermittently were no longer flames, but the escaping ghosts of flame,
mere black smoke.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The
apology for Gama's refusal to come on shore is
exceeding
artful.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It is not easy to realize the serene joy of all the earth,
when she commences to shine unobstructedly, unless you have often been
abroad alone in
moonlight
nights.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Far
different
motives yet engaged them thus.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The Caterpillar
Plants,
Caterpillars
and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II), Johannes Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
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Appoloinaire |
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Tout d'abord,
Baudelaire
voulut protester.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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My breath caught, I lurched forward--
stumbled
in the ground-myrtle.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For a true man must endure, it's natural,
Rights and wrongs, both sense and folly:
Though it's hard to achieve a victory
When he's
banished
from his own hall!
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Troubador Verse |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Yet, standing on the east side of the Common just
before sundown, when the western light is transmitted through them, I
see that their yellow even, compared with the pale lemon yellow of an
elm close by, amounts to a scarlet, without
noticing
the bright
scarlet portions.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Do not gaze at me in such surprise;
I seek death, having dealt it likewise,
My judge is my love, my judge Chimene,
I merit death for
bringing
her such pain,
And I come to receive, as sovereign good,
The sentence, from her lips, that seeks my blood.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The two weak points in our age are its want of
principle
and its want of
profile.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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hic futuit multas et se facit esse uenustum,
et non pistrino
traditur
atque asino?
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Latin - Catullus |
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When all was darkened, with Etnean throe
The earth clos'd--gave a solitary moan--
And left him once again in
twilight
lone.
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Keats |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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'
Than
thoughte
he thus: `If I my tale endyte
Ought hard, or make a proces any whyle,
She shal no savour han ther-in but lyte,
And trowe I wolde hir in my wil bigyle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Moreover, his
character
is licentious.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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She was nor this nor that of those beings divine,
But each and the whole--an essence of all the Nine;
With tentative foot she neared to my halting-place,
A pensive smile on her sweet, small,
marvellous
face.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'twas too much;
Methought I fainted at the charmed touch,
Yet held my recollection, even as one
Who dives three fathoms where the waters run
Gurgling in beds of coral: for anon, 640
I felt upmounted in that region
Where falling stars dart their
artillery
forth,
And eagles struggle with the buffeting north
That balances the heavy meteor-stone;--
Felt too, I was not fearful, nor alone,
But lapp'd and lull'd along the dangerous sky.
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Keats |
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XXX
And all the while she stood upon the ground,
The
wakefull
dogs did never cease to bay,?
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Je suis un vieux boudoir plein de roses fanees,
Ou git tout un fouillis de modes surannees,
Ou les pastels plaintifs et les pales Boucher,
Seuls,
respirent
l'odeur d'un flacon debouche.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
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Appoloinaire |
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complete
list of Masefield's works sent on request.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And yet I live, to endless grief a prey,
'Reft of that star, my loved, my certain guide,
Disarm'd my bark, while
tempests
round me blow!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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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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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon
Turns Ashes--or it prospers; and anon,
Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face,
Lighting
a little hour or two--is gone.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Dei cinque che mi fan cerchio per ciglio,
colui che piu al becco mi s'accosta,
la
vedovella
consolo del figlio:
ora conosce quanto caro costa
non seguir Cristo, per l'esperienza
di questa dolce vita e de l'opposta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But in general they represent mere
joyous creatures of nature, unthwarted by law and
unchecked
by
self-control.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Ere long if she nor welcomes me, nor frees,
But, as her wont, between the two retains,
By the sweet poison
circling
through my veins,
My life, O Love!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Forthwith from Councel to the work they flew,
None arguing stood, innumerable hands
Were ready, in a moment up they turnd
Wide the Celestial soile, and saw beneath 510
Th' originals of Nature in thir crude
Conception; Sulphurous and Nitrous Foame
They found, they mingl'd, and with suttle Art,
Concocted
and adusted they reduc'd
To blackest grain, and into store conveyd:
Part hidd'n veins diggd up (nor hath this Earth
Entrails unlike) of Mineral and Stone,
Whereof to found thir Engins and thir Balls
Of missive ruin; part incentive reed
Provide, pernicious with one touch to fire.
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Milton |
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Say they who counsel Warr, we are decreed, 160
Reserv'd and destin'd to Eternal woe;
Whatever
doing, what can we suffer more,
What can we suffer worse?
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Milton |
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For thrice three hundred years the full parade
Files past, a
cavalcade
of fear and wonder.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Poe - 5 |
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What if the breath that kindl'd those grim fires 170
Awak'd should blow them into
sevenfold
rage
And plunge us in the Flames?
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Milton |
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At this moment I cannot
say that I was much overjoyed at my deliverance, but I cannot say either
that I
regretted
it, for my feelings were too upset.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Aeschylus |
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In its present dress, it has gained
immortal
honour from
Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man's knead,
And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed:
Yea, the first Morning of
Creation
wrote
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Hine hālig god
"for ār-stafum us onsende,
"tō West-Denum, þæs ic wēn hæbbe,
"wið
Grendles
gryre: ic þǣm gōdan sceal
385 "for his mōd-þræce mādmas bēodan.
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Beowulf |
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