John
Drummond
M'Gregor,
of the family of Bochaldie.
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--Of which Aristophanes affords an ample
harvest, having not only outgone Plautus or any other in that kind, but
expressed all the moods and figures of what is
ridiculous
oddly.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Then when a little more I rais'd my brow,
I spied the master of the sapient throng,
Seated amid the
philosophic
train.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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5
Is't when like boobies sit ye
incontinent
here,
One or two hundred, deem ye that I fear
Two hundred ---- at one brunt?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I fill'd this cup to one made up
Of
loveliness
alone,
A woman, of her gentle sex
The seeming paragon--
Her health!
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Yes, if Plutus became clear-sighted again and drove out Poverty,
'twould be the
greatest
blessing possible for the human race.
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Aristophanes |
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How warm they were on such a day:
You almost feel the date,
So short way off it seems; and now,
They 're
centuries
from that.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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and is ther nother word ne chere
Ye
vouchesauf
upon myn hevinesse?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Great are the trophies they bring on whom thine hand deals
death; thou also, Turnus, wert standing now a great trunk dressed in
arms, had his age and his strength of years
equalled
thine.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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quid numerem euersas urbis
regumque
ruinas
inque rogo Croesum Priamumque in litore truncum,
cui nec Troia rogus?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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C'est la que j'ai vecu dans les voluptes calmes,
Au milieu de l'azur, des vagues, des splendeurs
Et des
esclaves
nus, tout impregnes d'odeurs,
Qui me rafraichissaient le front avec des palmes,
Et dont l'unique soin etait d'approfondir
Le secret douloureux qui me faisait languir.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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yet this one Hope should give
Such
strength
that he would bless his pains and live.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And I know a grove
Of large extent, hard by a castle huge,
Which the great lord
inhabits
not; and so
This grove is wild with tangling underwood,
And the trim walks are broken up, and grass,
Thin grass and king-cups grow within the paths.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Riches and
pleasure
seemed to him to be really greater tragedies than
poverty or sorrow.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or
redistribute
this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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He will kill
Brahmins
there, in Kali's name,
And please the thugs, and blood-drunk of the earth.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The anguish, the torpor, the toil
Will have passed to other millions
Consumed
by the same desires.
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Sara Teasdale |
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ENSAMPLE
MAKE OF HIM, witness him (the Redcross knight).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I am Ulysses, fear'd in all the earth
For subtlest wisdom, and renown'd to heaven,
The offspring of Laertes; my abode
Is sun-burnt Ithaca; there waving stands
The mountain Neritus his num'rous boughs,
And it is neighbour'd close by clust'ring isles
All populous; thence Samos is beheld,
Dulichium, and
Zacynthus
forest-clad.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Up-on my sorwes syke
Have mercy, swete herte myn,
Cryseyde!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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When this
period ended we cannot
precisely
determine.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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When he
grew up he retired to the Min Mountains, and even when summoned to the
provincial
examinations
he made no response.
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Li Po |
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Sometimes it seemed as if New England air
For his large lungs too parsimonious were,
As if those empty rooms of dogma drear 370
Where the ghost shivers of a faith austere
Counting the horns o'er of the Beast,
Still scaring those whose faith to it is least,
As if those snaps o' th' moral atmosphere
That sharpen all the needles of the East,
Had been to him like death,
Accustomed to draw Europe's freer breath
In a more stable element;
Nay, even our landscape, half the year morose,
Our practical horizon, grimly pent, 380
Our air, sincere of ceremonious haze,
Forcing hard outlines mercilessly close,
Our social monotone of level days,
Might make our best seem banishment;
But it was nothing so;
Haply this instinct might divine,
Beneath our drift of puritanic snow,
The marvel sensitive and fine
Of sanguinaria over-rash to blow
And trust its shyness to an air malign; 390
Well might he prize truth's warranty and pledge
In the grim outcrop of our granite edge,
Or Hebrew fervor flashing forth at need
In the gaunt sons of Calvin's iron breed,
As prompt to give as skilled to win and keep;
But, though such intuitions might not cheer,
Yet life was good to him, and, there or here,
With that sufficing joy, the day was never cheap;
Thereto his mind was its own ample sphere,
And, like those buildings great that through the year 400
Carry one temperature, his nature large
Made its own climate, nor could any marge
Traced by convention stay him from his bent:
He had a habitude of mountain air;
He brought wide outlook where he went,
And could on sunny uplands dwell
Of prospect sweeter than the pastures fair
High-hung of viny Neufchatel;
Nor, surely, did he miss
Some pale, imaginary bliss
Of earlier sights whose inner
landscape
still was Swiss.
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James Russell Lowell |
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III
Now on the place of slaughter
Are cots and
sheepfolds
seen,
And rows of vines, and fields of wheat,
And apple-orchards green;
The swine crush the big acorns
That fall from Corne's oaks.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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but War & Princedom
& Victory & Blood *
PAGE 12 {This page contains partially visible erased text running
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Blake - Zoas |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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replacement
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"
Answers Rollanz: "Utter not such
outrage!
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Chanson de Roland |
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The softly stealing echo comes again
From crowds of men whom, wearily, he shuns;
And many see you there--so his thought runs--
And tenderest
memories
are pierced with pain.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Bolswert, Abraham Bloemaert, Anonymous, 1590 - 1662
The Rijksmuseum
Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere
By chance, I heard the belle complain,
The one we called the Armouress,
Longing to be a girl again,
Talking like this, more or less:
'Oh, old age, proud in wickedness,
You've
battered
me so, and why?
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Villon |
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" My trusty guide, who now
Stood near his breast, where the two natures join,
Thus made reply: "He is indeed alive,
And
solitary
so must needs by me
Be shown the gloomy vale, thereto induc'd
By strict necessity, not by delight.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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For this we see forthwith is manifest:
Whatever the weight, it can't obliquely go,
Down on its
headlong
journey from above,
At least so far as thou canst mark; but who
Is there can mark by sense that naught can swerve
At all aside from off its road's straight line?
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Lucretius |
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It will be as
wonderful
as the personality of a child.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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My heart replied: It's never enough
We'll never have had enough of sadness:
And don't you see that changeableness
Makes past pain dearer to us, and
sweeter?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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--
don't you be telling us,
I'm innocent of these,
irresponsible
of happenings--
didn't we see you steal next to her,
tenderly,
with your silver mist about you
to hide your blandishment?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The angels,
happening
that way,
This dusty heart espied;
Tenderly took it up from toil
And carried it to God.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Tane, one in
contrast
to other.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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19 _Hinc Theocriti apud Graecos,
Catulli apud nos
proximeque
Vergili incantamentorum amatoria
imitatio.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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Master, must thou too die, thou beautiful
As Lucifer unstained,
fearless
as Michael helmed
For war?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Tear--
tear us an altar,
tug at the cliff-boulders,
pile them with the rough stones--
we no longer
sleep in the wind,
propitiate
us.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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Lewis Carroll |
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One day is there of the series
Termed
Thanksgiving
day,
Celebrated part at table,
Part in memory.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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receive the work
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Keats - Lamia |
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This welter of atoms is the product
of chance; the very
blemishes
of the world forbid one to regard it as
divine.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Forever float that
standard
sheet!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"There was no cause" (I soothly said)
"The
Praetors
or the Cohort made 10
Thence to return with oilier head;
The more when ruled by ----
Praetor, as pile the Cohort rating.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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_The Mother_
The only fault my husband found with me--
I went to sleep before I went to bed,
Especially
in winter when the bed
Might just as well be ice and the clothes snow.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
And--"A blind
understanding!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Ronsard |
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But this makes surety once more of my thought,
And gives again my reason its lost station;
For it may come now in my privilege
(A thing that could cure madness in my brain)
That thou from me
persuasion
hast to endure
What well I know thy soul, thy upright soul,
Feels as abominable harness on it
Fastening thee unwillingly to crime,--
The wickedness that hath delighted in thee.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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_ False Heart--thou
thinkest
more!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Do thou make
offering
for me--for the rite
I know not--as is meet on the tenth night.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The Portuguese prince even visited the
Kingdoms
of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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Shakespeare |
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Note: It may interest some to know that Georges d'Anthes was tried
by court-martial for his participation in the duel in which Pushkin
fell, found guilty, and reduced to the ranks; but, not being a
Russian subject, he was
conducted
by a gendarme across the frontier
and then set at liberty.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And then, not to mislead,
I give you an
adversary
to fear indeed.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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To pass it, scarcely he a moment took;
On Florence instantly he cast a look;--
Delighted
with the beauty of the spot,
He there resolved to fix his earthly lot,
Regarding it as proper for his wiles,
A city famed for wanton freaks and guiles.
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La Fontaine |
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Paradiso
?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Forget the anguish and the ancient bleedings,
The wounds
engendered
by the thorny rind,
And leaves of arid hours, and empty pleadings,
O'ertrample them and leave them all behind.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The Romans adopted the custom from Greece, where leafy honours
were
bestowed
on victors at public games.
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Petrarch |
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that such bulky bribes as all might see,
Still, as of old,
encumbered
villainy!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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_Laufen_ is
pronounced
_lofen_ in some
parts of Germany, and I once heard one German student say to another,
_Ich lauf_ (lofe) _hier bis du wiederkehrest_, and he began accordingly
to saunter up and down, in short, to _loaf_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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1090, he seized the castle of Alamut, in the province of Rudbar, which
lies in the mountainous tract south of the Caspian Sea; and it was
from this mountain home he obtained that evil celebrity among the
Crusaders as the OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS, and spread terror through
the Mohammedan world; and it is yet disputed where the word Assassin,
which they have left in the language of modern Europe as their dark
memorial, is derived from the hashish, or opiate of hemp-leaves (the
Indian bhang), with which they maddened
themselves
to the sullen pitch
of oriental desperation, or from the name of the founder of the
dynasty, whom we have seen in his quiet collegiate days, at Naishapur.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Had chastisement for
perjured
truth,
Barine, mark'd you with a curse--
Did one wry nail, or one black tooth,
But make you worse--
I'd trust you; but, when plighted lies
Have pledged you deepest, lovelier far
You sparkle forth, of all young eyes
The ruling star.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Meredith - Poems |
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[A]--Published 1793
[The young Lady to whom this was
addressed
was my Sister.
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William Wordsworth |
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I went down the
primrose
path to the sound of flutes.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Now, brothers, bending o'er the accursed loom,
Stamp we our
vengeance
deep, and ratify his doom.
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Golden Treasury |
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like Plutus, hold
Bosomfuls
of orchard-gold,
Learns he why that mystic core
Was sweet Venus' meed of yore?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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IT
happened
that our fair one evening said,
To her who of each infant step had led,
But of the present secret nothing knew:--
I feel unwell; pray tell me what to do.
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La Fontaine |
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POEMS
AVE IMPERATRIX
SET in this stormy Northern sea,
Queen of these
restless
fields of tide,
England!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Alas, that love should be a blight and snare
To those who seek all
sympathies
in one!
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Shelley |
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Act II Scene V (The Infanta, Leonor)
Infanta
In my mind, alas, there's such
inquietude!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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" he said, "Not at
present!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Tennyson |
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We must receive them as the Roman Bishop
Once
received
Attila, saying, I rejoice
You have come safe, whom I esteem to be
The scourge of God, sent to chastise his people.
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Je regrette les temps de la grande Cybele
Qu'on disait parcourir, gigantesquement belle,
Sur un grand char d'airain, les
splendides
cites;
Son double sein versait dans les immensites
Le pur ruissellement de la vie infinie.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Your golden hair
strewed the sweet
whiteness
of the pillows
and the counterpane.
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Imagists |
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John and yet Papias was a Millenarian,
and
expected
his thousand yeares prosperity upon the earth after the
Resurrection: some of them were Disciples of the Apostles, and some of
them were better men then the Apostles, for they were Bishops of Rome;
_Clement_ was so: and yet _Clement_ was one of them, who denied the
fruition of the sight of God, by the Saints, till the Judgement.
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Ridiculous
as much of it may seem to
the modern reader, it is by no means overdrawn.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Yes; lift your
princely
hand, and take
Revenge, if 't is revenge you seek;
Then pardon me, for Jesus' sake!
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Longfellow |
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Phaeton
was a young
enterprising
prince of Libya.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Cried he, I wish, (and truly I am grieved)
That when the gentleman a kiss received,
From her I love, he'd gone to greater height,
And with my
Petronella
passed the night.
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La Fontaine |
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How else may man make
straight
his plan
And cleanse his soul from Sin?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Riches and Poverty, long or short life,
By the Maker of Things are
portioned
and disposed.
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Li Po |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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XVI
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
Mountains of water now set in motion,
A
thousand
breakers of cliff-jarring ocean,
Striking the reef, driven in the wind's maw:
View now a fierce northerly, with emotion,
Stirring the storm to its loud-whistling core,
Then folding in air its vaster wing once more
Suddenly weary, as if at some new notion:
As we see a flame, spread in a hundred places,
Gather, in one flare, towards heaven's spaces,
Then powerless fade and die: so, in its day,
This Empire passed, and overwhelming all
Like wave, or wind, or flame, along its way,
Halted at last by Fate, sank here, in fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Though, with bare stones o'erspread, the pastures all
Be choked with rushy mire, your ewes with young
By no strange fodder will be tried, nor hurt
Through taint contagious of a
neighbouring
flock.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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ipse suas
sectatur
ouis, at filius agnos,
et calidam fesso comparat uxor aquam.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Not so
furiously
when a foaming river bursts his
banks and overflows, beating down the opposing dykes with whirling
water, is he borne mounded over the fields, and sweeps herds and
[499-529]pens all about the plains.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
remaining
lines are just too short or too
long, a circumstance very irritating to the reader, whose ear expects
the rhythm to continue.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Yet one doubt
Pursues me still, least all I cannot die,
Least that pure breath of Life, the Spirit of Man
Which God inspir'd, cannot together perish
With this
corporeal
Clod; then in the Grave,
Or in some other dismal place, who knows
But I shall die a living Death?
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Milton |
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