She'd no recourse to that nobility,
Who by their exploits won
themselves
glory.
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Thy
faithful
bedesman, one in worldly matters
No prudent judge, ventures today to offer
His voice to thee.
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A hundred and forty of those I have chosen have not
been
translated
by any one else.
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Whose hopes united banish our despair 1
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A
DIALOGUE
BETWEEN THYRSIS AND
DORINDA.
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She was a pool the winter paves with ice
That the wild hunter in the hills must leave
With thirst
unslaked
in the brief southward sun.
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Sara Teasdale |
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II
Donna
leggiadra
il cui bel nome honora
L'herbosa val di Rheno, e il nobil varco,
Ben e colui d'ogni valore scarco
Qual tuo spirto gentil non innamora,
Che dolcemente mostra si di fuora
De suoi atti soavi giamai parco,
E i don', che son d'amor saette ed arco,
La onde l' alta tua virtu s'infiora.
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[This etext has been transcribed from the
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published in New York in 1911.
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Under
the
influence
of the good wine, however, the conversation then became
general.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The Lion
Wild Animals
'Wild Animals'
Caspar Luyken, Christoph Weigel, 1695 - 1705, The Rijksmuseun
O lion, miserable image
Of kings
lamentably
chosen,
Now you're only born in a cage
In Hamburg, among the Germans.
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Appoloinaire |
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Valerius Catullus and Robinson Ellis
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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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--
I am too weak to stand; and Death is near,
And a slow
darkness
stealing on my sight.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Strange that the feet so
precious
charged
Should reach so small a goal!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The way I pass
Ne'er yet was run: Minerva
breathes
the gale,
Apollo guides me, and another Nine
To my rapt sight the arctic beams reveal.
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[Footnote 9: Here in 1833 was inserted the stanza, "One showed an
English home,"
afterwards
transferred to its present position 85-88.
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That Ametina, worn-out whore,
Me for a myriad oft would bore,
That
strumpet
of th' ignoble nose,
To leman, rakehell Formian chose.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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When now they shall plight
peace with prosperous
marriages
(be it so!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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One comes and sees by chance, one burns, one stays,
And feels the gradual, sweet
entangling!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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ra
On barren days,
At hours when I, apart, have
Bent low in thought of the great charm thou hast, Behold with music's many
stringed
charms
The silence groweth thou.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In our two loves there is but one respect,
Though in our lives a
separable
spite,
Which though it alter not love's sole effect,
Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.
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Lucretius |
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[Illustration]
There was an old man in a tree,
Whose whiskers were lovely to see;
But the birds of the air pluck'd them
perfectly
bare,
To make themselves nests in that tree.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Burroughs)
"by far the noblest and purest of the political
characters of the time;" and, if anything can cast, in the eyes of
posterity, an added halo of brightness round the unsullied personal
qualities and the great doings of Lincoln, it will assuredly be the written
monument reared to him by Whitman.
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Whitman |
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The Might-have-been with tooth accursed
Gnaws at the piteous souls of men,
The deep
foundations
suffer first,
And all the structure crumbles then
Beneath the bitter tooth accursed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Qui si rimira ne l'arte ch'addorna
cotanto affetto, e
discernesi
'l bene
per che 'l mondo di su quel di giu torna.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Lastly, before our very eyes is seen
Thing to bound thing: air hedges hill from hill,
And
mountain
walls hedge air; land ends the sea,
And sea in turn all lands; but for the All
Truly is nothing which outside may bound.
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Lucretius |
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In Virgyne the sweltrie sun gan sheene,
And hotte upon the mees[2] did caste his raie;
The apple rodded[3] from its palie greene,
And the mole[4] peare did bende the leafy spraie;
The peede chelandri[5] sunge the
livelong
daie; 5
'Twas nowe the pride, the manhode of the yeare,
And eke the grounde was dighte[6] in its mose defte[7] aumere[8].
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"My eyes are dim with
childish
tears,
My heart is idly stirr'd,
For the same sound is in my ears
Which in those days I heard.
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Golden Treasury |
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The
Laurentine
columns rush forth against them; again
from the other side Trojans and Agyllines and Arcadians in painted
armour flood thickly in: so hath one passion seized all to make decision
by the sword.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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My heart replied: It's never enough,
It's never enough to love one's mistress;
And don't you see that changeableness
Makes past delights dearer and
sweeter?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Down flow'd her robe, a tartan sheen,
Till half a leg was
scrimply
seen;
An' such a leg!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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1
_First Edition, November_ 1905
_Reprinted, November_ 1906
" _February_ 1908
" _March_ 1910
" _December_ 1910
" _February_ 1913
" _April_ 1914
" _June_ 1916
" _November_ 1919
" _April_ 1921
" _January_ 1923
" _May_ 1925
"
_August_
1927
" _January_ 1929
_(All rights reserved)_
PERFORMED AT
THE COURT THEATRE, LONDON
IN 1907
_Printed in Great Britain by
Unwin Brothers Ltd.
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Euripides - Electra |
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'Mid the green
mountains
many and many a song
We two had sung, like little birds in May.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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A precious, mouldering
pleasure
't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think,
His venerable hand to take,
And warming in our own,
A passage back, or two, to make
To times when he was young.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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We
leave the harbour of Ortygia, and fly along the main, by the revel-trod
ridges of Naxos, by green Donusa, Olearos and snow-white Paros, and the
sea-strewn Cyclades, threading the racing
channels
among the crowded
lands.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Page 38
146
I haue hade robbys maney and fayre,
Nowe woll I next me were the ayre,
Tyll I maye some
tydynges
here
of my sone that was so dere.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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They were jesting and
laughing
as they came.
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Tennyson |
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A Villon- These that we loved shall God love less
fadoftfie Gibbet
^nc* sm*te alwav at their
feebleness?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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It sifts from leaden sieves,
It powders all the wood,
It fills with
alabaster
wool
The wrinkles of the road.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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THESE reasons with Catella greatly weighed
Since things,
continued
he, are thus displayed;
And cannot be repaired, console your mind;
A perfect being never was designed.
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La Fontaine |
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By our first strange and fatall interview,
By all desires which thereof did ensue,
By our long starving hopes, by that remorse
Which my words masculine perswasive force
Begot in thee, and by the memory 5
Of hurts, which spies and rivals threatned me,
I calmly beg: But by thy fathers wrath,
By all paines, which want and
divorcement
hath,
I conjure thee, and all the oathes which I
And thou have sworne to seale joynt constancy, 10
Here I unsweare, and overswear them thus,
Thou shalt not love by wayes so dangerous.
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John Donne |
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Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you
something
different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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4
THE
SALVATION
ARMY'S SONG By Phoebe Hoffman
"It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time," Echo the feet in the dusty street.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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King
You wish us to believe the
impossible?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Nature her
delicate
form by bonds so slight
Holds in existence, that no help sustains;
She is so modest that she now disdains
Longer to brook this vile life's painful fight.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The spirit of the old sea-kings lived
again in Drake and his bold buccaneers, who swept the proud
Spaniards
from
the seas.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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for
herdsman
and for herd!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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altars four,
Twain to thee, Daphnis, and to Phoebus twain
For sacrifice, we build; and I for thee
Two beakers yearly of fresh milk afoam,
And of rich olive-oil two bowls, will set;
And of the wine-god's bounty above all,
If cold, before the hearth, or in the shade
At harvest-time, to glad the festal hour,
From flasks of
Ariusian
grape will pour
Sweet nectar.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The meadow grass could be
cemented
down
From growing under pavements of a town;
The apple trees be sent to hearth-stone flame.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Lucretius |
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The
Countess
(in her own right) of Burlatz, and of Beziers, be-
ing the wife of
The Vicomte of Beziers.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Don't think that
Hercules
be still that boy whom Alcmene once bore you;
His adulation of me makes him now god upon earth.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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But the glitter of luxury at the
banquets
of the rich
cannot satisfy this craving: there are the simpler joys of the open
country in spring.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Which when I saw rehears'd, I must confess,
Made mine eyes water; but more merry tears
The passion of loud
laughter
never shed.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Doctor, the, a
proverbial
saying of.
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James Russell Lowell |
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He
pretends
to stroke the bird.
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Yeats |
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He springs by stock from those whom Ares spared,
The men called Sown, a right son of the soil,
And
Melanippus
styled.
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Aeschylus |
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FAUST:
Und
Gretchen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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he heard
The sudden singing of a bird,
A snow-white bird, that from a cloud
Dropped down,
And among the branches brown
Sat singing,
So sweet, and clear, and loud,
It seemed a
thousand
harp-strings ringing.
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Longfellow |
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"The best
treasure
is in that
man's tongue, and he has mighty thanks, who metes out each thing in a few
words.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Next on his sons his erring fury falls,
Polites, Paris, Agathon, he calls;
His threats Deiphobus and Dius hear,
Hippothous, Pammon, Helenes the seer,
And generous Antiphon: for yet these nine
Survived, sad relics of his
numerous
line.
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Iliad - Pope |
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As _Bēowulf_ is
essentially _the_ Epic of Philanthropy, of the true love of man, as
distinguished from the
ordinary
love-epic, the number twelve in this
passage may be reminiscent of another Friend of Man and another Twelve.
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Beowulf |
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No hope for Rome, free France,
chivalric
France?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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EASTWARD IN THE "COMMONWEALTH" By Esther Morton Smith
She churns her way down the foaming sound; Her
feathering
paddles dip and shove
And rise again on their endless round
From the nether plunge to the heights above.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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_Wild Bees_
These
children
of the sun which summer brings
As pastoral minstrels in her merry train
Pipe rustic ballads upon busy wings
And glad the cotters' quiet toils again.
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John Clare |
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Wright's
Political
Songs, for the Camden Society, 1839, p.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Yon gentle hills,
Robed in a garment of untrodden snow;
Yon darksome rocks, whence icicles depend, _10
So stainless, that their white and
glittering
spires
Tinge not the moon's pure beam; yon castled steep,
Whose banner hangeth o'er the time-worn tower
So idly, that rapt fancy deemeth it
A metaphor of peace;--all form a scene _15
Where musing Solitude might love to lift
Her soul above this sphere of earthliness;
Where Silence undisturbed might watch alone,
So cold, so bright, so still.
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Shelley |
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and life and death
are
altogether
for it!
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Whitman |
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distribute
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Livius
and Ennius were 'semi-Graeci' from Calabria, Naevius and
Lucilius
were
natives of Campania.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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LA CLOCHE FELEE
Il est amer et doux, pendant les nuits d'hiver,
D'ecouter pres du feu qui palpite et qui fume
Les souvenirs lointains lentement s'elever
Au bruit des
carillons
qui chantent dans la brume.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Wilde - Poems |
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I long to hear from you how you go on--not so much in
business
as in
life.
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Robert Burns |
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Each groan he doubled, and each sigh she sighed,
Repeated over to the restless night ;
No
trembling
string, composed to numbers new,
Answers the touch in notes more sad, more true.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Apart from its brilliant epigrammatic
expression the 'Essay on Criticism' might have been written by almost
any man of letters in Queen Anne's day who took the trouble to think a
little about the laws of literature, and who thought about those laws
strictly in accordance with the
accepted
conventions of his time.
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Alexander Pope |
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270
La: Nay gentle Shepherd ill is lost that praise
That is addrest to
unattending
Ears,
Not any boast of skill, but extreme shift
How to regain my sever'd company
Compell'd me to awake the courteous Echo
To give me answer from her mossie Couch.
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Milton |
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He lay as one who lies and dreams
In a pleasant meadow-land,
The
watchers
watched him as he slept,
And could not understand
How one could sleep so sweet a sleep
With a hangman close at hand.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The man
was totally unknown to her, and as she was not accustomed to coquetting
with the
soldiers
she saw on the street, she hardly knew how to explain
his presence.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Thus use the dogs in summer still to ply
Their jaws and feet by turns, when bitten sore
By gnats, or flies, or
gadflies
swarming round.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"[55]
"You are not our
Emperor!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Thys
Celmonde
menes.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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He is a member of the American
Aviation
Corps in
France, and author of _Kitchener's Mob_ and _High Adventure_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Michael suspends not the
avenging
stroke
Till hunted to the Moorish camp she flies,
Then thus: "Believe worse vengeance yet in store,
If I beyond these lines behold thee more.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In half-an-hour I was in the saddle on my horse, and Saveliitch on a
thin and lame "_garron_," which a townsman had given him for nothing,
having no longer anything
wherewith
to feed it.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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1630
She has
punished
herself, and escaped my anger,
By seeking in the waves a far gentler torture.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Marks, notations and other
marginalia
present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Once I saw thee idly rocking
--Idly rocking--
And chattering
girlishly
to other girls,
Bell-voiced, happy,
Careless with the stout heart of unscarred
womanhood,
And life to thee was all light melody.
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Stephen Crane |
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Oh quanto e corto il dire e come fioco
al mio
concetto!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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copyright
law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works,
so the
Foundation
(and you!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Better be whelmed beneath the waves, and shun,
Even in Destruction's depth, her foreign foes,
From whom submission wrings an
infamous
repose.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice
indicating
that it is
posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
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or charges.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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decreed
To the brave rulers of the racing steed;
Prizes which none beside ourself could gain,
Should our
immortal
coursers take the plain;
(A race unrivall'd, which from ocean's god
Peleus received, and on his son bestow'd.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Very few have been translated;
and it is obvious that they are
unsuitable
for translation, since their
whole merit lies in metrical dexterity.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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See now my pencils--paper--here,
And pointless compasses, and dear
Old lacquer-work; and
stoneware
clear
Through glass protecting; all man's toys
So coveted by girls and boys.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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This fact makes the new text the more interesting since the
legend of Gilgamish is said to have
originated
at Erech and the
hero in fact figures as one of the prehistoric Sumerian rulers of
that ancient city.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Thrill of the Dawn
CAN such a pain be
branded?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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