Humbug,
_General
Taylor's antislavery_.
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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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- 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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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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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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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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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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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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Glory and wealth and power
Are base and worthless when
compared
with it.
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"With this you make a kind of slide
(It answers best with suet),
On which you must
contrive
to glide,
And swing yourself from side to side--
One soon learns how to do it.
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Lewis Carroll |
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modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Sara Teasdale |
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You are too much
affected
with it.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Swift as a whirlwind rushing to the fleet,
He finds the lance-famed Idomen of Crete,
His pensive brow the
generous
care express'd
With which a wounded soldier touch'd his breast,
Whom in the chance of war a javelin tore,
And his sad comrades from the battle bore;
Him to the surgeons of the camp he sent:
That office paid, he issued from his tent
Fierce for the fight: to whom the god begun,
In Thoas' voice, Andraemon's valiant son,
Who ruled where Calydon's white rocks arise,
And Pleuron's chalky cliffs emblaze the skies:
"Where's now the imperious vaunt, the daring boast,
Of Greece victorious, and proud Ilion lost?
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Iliad - Pope |
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The ancients were not always right in
hiding--the goddess in a well; witness the light which Bacon has thrown
upon philosophy; witness the principles of our divine faith--that moral
mechanism by which the
simplicity
of a child may overbalance the wisdom
of a man.
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I said, 'What influence me preferred,
Elect, to dreams thus
beautiful?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Nor would they tolerate
deliberation
or
delay.
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Tacitus |
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Oh, Crusher of Countless Cities, such as earth knew
Scarce once before him, Ninus (who his brother slew),
Was borne within the walls which, in
Assyrian
rite,
Were built to hide dead majesty from outer sight.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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At noonday tumbled
Leaflets,
changing
with delight upon your lips,
And as you slept there played with you, bunches,
bushes,
Billows of roses.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Yet see you not how this that Spirit hath done
Is also
dangerous?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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My Jockie toils upon the plain,
Thro' wind and weet, thro' frost and snaw:
And o'er the lea I leuk fu' fain,
When Jockie's owsen
hameward
ca'.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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Li Po |
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In _HN_
also it bears no title
indicating
the subject of the poem.
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John Donne |
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Who after his
transgression
doth repent, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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I fear that I am not like thee:
For I walk through the vales of Har, and smell the sweetest flowers:
But I feed not the little flowers: I hear the
warbling
birds,
But I feed not the warbling birds, they fly and seek their food:
But Thel delights in these no more because I fade away
And all shall say, without a use this shining women liv'd,
Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms.
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blake-poems |
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"
And at night by the light of the Mulberry moon
They danced to the Flute of the Blue Baboon,
On the broad green leaves of the
Crumpetty
Tree,
And all were as happy as happy could be,
With the Quangle Wangle Quee.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
_Dublin
University
Magazine, 1839_
ENVY AND AVARICE.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Corbet was
likewise
my steady friend; so between Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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By a dim lantern's light I saw that wreaths
Of flowers were in their hands, as if designed
For festive decoration; and they said,
With brutal
laughter
and most foul allusion,
That they should share the banquet with their Lord
And his new Favorite.
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Heavens, with what
graceful
majesty he treads!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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oime il soave sguardo 232
O invidia, nemica di virtute 161
O misera ed orribil visione 219
Onde tolse Amor l' oro e di qual vena 198
O passi sparsi, o pensier vaghi e pronti 154
Or che 'l ciel e la terra e 'l vento tace 156
Or hai fatto 'l estremo di tua possa 283
Orso, al vostro destrier si puo ben porre 94
Orso, e' non furon mai fiumi ne stagni 43
Or vedi, Amor, che giovinetta donna 111
O tempo, o ciel volubil che
fuggendo
294
Ove ch' i' posi gli occhi lassi o giri 152
Ov' e la fronte che con picciol cenno 259
Pace non trovo, e non ho da far guerra 132
Padre del ciel, dopo i perduti giorni 62
Parra forse ad alcun, che 'n lodar quella 216
Pasco la mente d' un si nobil cibo 175
Passa la nave mia colma d' oblio 172
Passato e 'l tempo omai, lasso!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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There is nothing in the world
That has been
friendly
to us but the kisses
That were upon our lips, and when we are old
Their memory will be all the life we have.
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Yeats |
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locutio_ G:
_locutio_
uel _loquutio_ ACBLa1Dahh2: _iocatio_ Heinsius
122 _domino_ ed.
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Latin - Catullus |
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And should I then
presume?
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T.S. Eliot |
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When I awoke, I lay mid friends and foes,
And earnest countenances on me shed _1825
The light of questioning looks, whilst one did close
My wound with
balmiest
herbs, and soothed me to repose;
13.
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Shelley |
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After this line the editions of 1815-1832 have the following
couplet:
While strives a secret Power to hush the crowd,
Pain's wild rebellious burst proclaims her rights aloud,
and this is
followed
by lines 545-6 of the final text.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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For Man's grim Justice goes its way,
And will not swerve aside:
It slays the weak, it slays the strong,
It has a deadly stride:
With iron heel it slays the strong,
The
monstrous
parricide!
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Wilde - Poems |
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* * * * *
And then there came black Lords; and Dwarfs obscene
With lavish tongues; and Trolls; and
treacherous
Things
Like loose-lipp'd Councillors and cruel Kings
Who sharpen lies and daggers subterrene:
And flashed their evil eyes and weeping cried,
"We ruled the world for Peace.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Fear the gaze in the blind wall that watches:
There is a verb
attached
to matter itself.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Now, where the swift Rhone cleaves his way between
Heights which appear as lovers who have parted
In hate, whose mining depths so intervene,
That they can meet no more, though broken-hearted;
Though in their souls, which thus each other thwarted,
Love was the very root of the fond rage
Which
blighted
their life's bloom, and then departed:
Itself expired, but leaving them an age
Of years all winters--war within themselves to wage.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The
gracious
Duncan
Was pittied of Macbeth: marry he was dead:
And the right valiant Banquo walk'd too late,
Whom you may say (if't please you) Fleans kill'd,
For Fleans fled: Men must not walke too late.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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A damp and death-like odour from the hollow
--Where all must slumber--rises, yet I follow
Thy wafture still, which fire
enkindles
new
And Thy great love which ever watches true.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Those who practice poetry search for and love only the
perfection
that is God Himself.
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Appoloinaire |
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Wilde - Poems |
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where
The dancers will break footing, from the care
Of
watching
up thy pregnant lips for more.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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regardless
of their doom
The little victims play!
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Golden Treasury |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old person in black,
A
Grasshopper
jumped on his back;
When it chirped in his ear, he was smitten with fear,
That helpless old person in black.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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54
Through
cloudless
skies, in silvery sheen (_Poems 1809-1818_), iii.
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Byron |
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XLIII
THE
IMMORTAL
PART
When I meet the morning beam,
Or lay me down at night to dream,
I hear my bones within me say,
"Another night, another day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'
CXXXVI
If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy 'Will',
And will, thy soul knows, is
admitted
there;
Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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--O my God,
How
dreadfully
thou punishest small sins!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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So, when you had risen
from all the
lethargy
of love and its heat,
you would have summoned me, me alone,
and found my hands,
beyond all the hands in the world,
cold, cold, cold,
intolerably cold and sweet.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Another said--"Why, ne'er a peevish Boy
Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy;
Shall He that made the Vessel in pure Love
And Fansy, in an after Rage
destroy!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Listen to that low-laughing string of the moon
And you will recollect my face and voice,
For you have
listened
to me playing it
These thousand years.
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Yeats |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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]
XXXIII
In her friends' albums, time had been,
With blood instead of ink she scrawled,
Baptized
Prascovia
Pauline,
And in her conversation drawled.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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What fear
restrains
you?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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which bindest life around
With music of so strange a sound
And beauty of so wild a birth--
Farewell!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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No taste of sleep these heavy eyes have known,
Confused, and sad, I wander thus alone,
With fears distracted, with no fix'd design;
And all my people's
miseries
are mine.
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Iliad - Pope |
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420
Majestic as the grove of okes that stoode
Before the abbie buylt by Oswald kynge;
Majestic as
Hybernies
holie woode,
Where sainctes and soules departed masses synge;
Such awe from her sweete looke forth issuynge 425
At once for reveraunce and love did calle;
Sweet as the voice of thraslarkes in the Spring,
So sweet the wordes that from her lippes did falle;
None fell in vayne; all shewed some entent;
Her wordies did displaie her great entendement.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The ancient Mariner
inhospitably
killeth the pious bird of good omen.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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It is highly probably that the memory of the war
of Porsena was preserved by compositions much
resembling
the two
ballads which stand first in the Relics of Ancient English
Poetry.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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But soon
As thou hast skill to read of heroes' fame,
And of thy father's deeds, and inly learn
What virtue is, the plain by slow degrees
With waving corn-crops shall to golden grow,
From the wild briar shall hang the blushing grape,
And
stubborn
oaks sweat honey-dew.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Oh, there are words and looks _30
To bend the
sternest
purpose!
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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If it be thy
pleasure
let us rather cast
a lot.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A young fellow is dressed up like an old beggar;
a peruke, commonly made of carded tow, represents hoary locks; an old
bonnet; a ragged plaid, or surtout, bound with a straw rope for a
girdle; a pair of old shoes, with straw ropes twisted round his
ankles, as is done by shepherds in snowy weather: his face they
disguise as like wretched old age as they can: in this plight he is
brought into the wedding-house,
frequently
to the astonishment of
strangers, who are not in the secret, and begins to sing--
"O, I am a silly auld man,
My name it is auld Glenae," &c.
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I have
forgotten
one thing, without which all the rest is
as nothing.
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Aristophanes |
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A Persian by his garb and speed, a courier draws anear--
He
bringeth
news, of good or ill, for Persia's land to hear.
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Aeschylus |
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Haste thou who, from afar, in doubt and fear,
Dost watch, with
straining
eyes, the fated boy--
The loved of heaven!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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and open my heart;
That my
thoughts
torment me no longer,
But glitter in your hair.
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Imagists |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXXXV
Sweet beauty,
murderess
of my life,
Instead of a heart you've a boulder:
Living, you make me waste and shudder,
Impassioned by amorous desire.
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Ronsard |
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Honour
inimical
to my dear prize,
You'll cost me yet a world of tears and sighs!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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SAS Note further that in Night One, page 9, Blake had
inserted
"Night the Second", even though the end of the First Night One is indicated on page 22.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Faith, oh my faith, what fragrant breath,
What sweet odour from her mouth's excess,
What rubies and what
diamonds
were there.
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Ronsard |
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Car Lesbos entre tous m'a choisi sur la terre
Pour chanter le secret de ses vierges en fleur,
Et je fus des l'enfance admis au noir mystere
Des rires effrenes meles au sombre pleur;,
Car Lesbos entre tous m'a choisi sur la terre,
Et depuis lors je veille au sommet de Leucate,
Comme une sentinelle, a l'oeil percant et sur,
Qui guette nuit et jour brick, tartane ou fregate,
Dont les formes au loin frissonnent dans l'azur,
--Et depuis lors je veille au sommet de Leucate
Pour savoir si la mer est indulgente et bonne,
Et parmi les sanglots dont le roc retentit
Un soir
ramenera
vers Lesbos qui pardonne
Le cadavre adore de Sapho qui partit
Pour savoir si la mer est indulgente et bonne!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Why did you not constrain my lady
Before desire took me
completely?
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there came
A thing which Adam had been posed to name;
Noah had refused it lodging in his Ark,
Where all the race of reptiles might embark:
A verier monster, that on Afric's shore
The sun e'er got, or slimy Nilus bore,
Or Sloane or Woodward's
wondrous
shelves contain,
Nay, all that lying travellers can feign.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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There, by the starlit fences,
The
wanderer
halts and hears
My soul that lingers sighing
About the glimmering weirs.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The nest was full of eggs and round--
I met a
shepherd
in the vales,
And stood to tell him what I found.
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John Clare |
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_ By the bye, you are
indebted your best courtesy to me for this last compliment; as I pay
it from my sincere conviction of its truth--a quality rather rare in
compliments of these grinning, bowing,
scraping
times.
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Robert Burns |
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"
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Once more the rain on the mountain,
Once more the wind in the valley,
With the soft odours of springtime
And the long breath of remembrance,
O
Lityerses!
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Sappho |
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Gilgamish
and Enkidu
grappled with each other,
goring like an ox.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Then
bethought
him the hardy Hygelac-thane
of his boast at evening: up he bounded,
grasped firm his foe, whose fingers cracked.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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