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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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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Not less
delighted
did I take my place
At our domestic table: and, [P] dear Friend
In this endeavour simply to relate
A Poet's history, may I leave untold 80
The thankfulness with which I laid me down
In my accustomed bed, more welcome now
Perhaps than if it had been more desired
Or been more often thought of with regret;
That lowly bed whence I had heard the wind 85
Roar and the rain beat hard, where I so oft
Had lain awake on summer nights to watch
The moon in splendour couched among the leaves
Of a tall ash, that near our cottage stood; [Q]
Had watched her with fixed eyes while to and fro 90
In the dark summit of the waving tree
She rocked with every impulse of the breeze.
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Yet,
(Knowing the while that they were very kind)
Remembrance
clamoured
in him: 'She was wild and free,
Magnificent in giving; she was blind
To gain or loss, and, loving, loved but me,--but me!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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De voir sachies, quant les oi,
Moult
durement
m'en esjoi: 670
Que mes si douce melodie
Ne fu d'omme mortel oie.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In
jealousy
of a Hebe's fate
Rising over this cup at your lips' kisses,
I spend my fires with the slender rank of prelate
And won't even figure naked on Sevres dishes.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Astonishd &
Confounded
he beheld
Her shadowy form now Separate he shudderd & was silent
Till her caresses & her tears revivd him to life & joy
Two wills they had two intellects & not as in times of old
This Urizen percievd & silent brooded in darkning Clouds
To him his Labour was but Sorrow & his Kingdom was Repentance
He drave the Male Spirits all away from Ahania {Alternate reading of "drove" for "drave.
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Blake - Zoas |
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methods and addresses.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Firelight
he saw,
beams of a blaze that brightly shone.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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" Hogg and Motherwell, with an ignorance which is
easier to laugh at than account for, say this Poem was "written on the
occasion of Alexander Cunningham's darling sweetheart
alighting
him
and marrying another:--she acted a wise part.
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Robert Burns |
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La Mort savante met dans ces bieres pareilles
Un symbole d'un gout bizarre et captivant,
Et lorsque j'entrevois un fantome debile
Traversant de Paris le
fourmillant
tableau,
Il me semble toujours que cet etre fragile
S'en va tout doucement vers un nouveau berceau;
A moins que, meditant sur la geometrie,
Je ne cherche, a l'aspect de ces membres discords,
Combien de fois il faut que l'ouvrier varie
La forme de la boite ou l'on met tous ces corps.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Land of the
avalanche!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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We left the house
apparently
reconciled.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
But
O O O O that
Shakespeherian
Rag--
It's so elegant
So intelligent 130
"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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To do this, he takes some great story
which has been absorbed into the prevailing
consciousness
of his people.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The knight, righting himself in his
saddle, rolls
fiercely
his red eyes about, bends his bristly green
brows, and strokes his beard awaiting a reply.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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--
Strange that I should have grown so
suddenly
blind.
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Stephen Crane |
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charming fair, said he, be not distressed;
No savage of the woods nor giant 's nigh,
A wand'ring knight alone you now descry,
Delighted
thus to meet a beauteous belle
Such charms divine, what angel can excel!
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La Fontaine |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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_Abishag_ presents the contrast between the dawning and
the fading life; _David Singing Before Saul_ shows the impatience of
awakening ambition, and
_Joshua_
is the man who forces even God to do
his will.
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Rilke - Poems |
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My mother taught me
underneath
a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointed to the east, began to say:
"Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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blake-poems |
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Voila que monte en lui le vin de la Paresse,
Soupir d'harmonica qui
pourrait
delirer;
L'enfant se sent, selon la lenteur des caresses,
Sourdre et mourir sans cesse un desir de pleurer.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Proud of this pride,
He is
contented
thy poor drudge to be,
To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But I'll
suppress
a secret that touches you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Swallows check their winding flight,
And
twittering
on the chimney light.
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John Clare |
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The boys are up the woods with day
To fetch the
daffodils
away,
And home at noonday from the hills
They bring no dearth of daffodils.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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O worthyest Cousin,
The sinne of my
Ingratitude
euen now
Was heauie on me.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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O Tiburnian groves,
And orchards
saturate
with shifting streams!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But if you had a little real love,
A little strength,
You would leave your
nonchalant
idle lovers
And go walking down the white road
Behind the waggoners.
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Imagists |
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The Sanctuary
If I could keep my innermost Me
Fearless, aloof and free
Of the least breath of love or hate,
And not disconsolate
At the sick load of sorrow laid on men;
If I could keep a
sanctuary
there
Free even of prayer,
If I could do this, then,
With quiet candor as I grew more wise
I could look even at God with grave forgiving eyes.
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Sara Teasdale |
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(gūð-byrne,
līc-syrce)
hondlocen
(because the shirts of mail consisted of interlaced
rings), 322, 551.
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Beowulf |
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X
That idle name of love, and lovers life,
As losse of time, and vertues enimy,
I ever scornd, and joyd to stirre up strife,
In middest of their
mournfull
Tragedy, 85
Ay wont to laugh, when them I heard to cry,
And blow the fire, which them to ashes brent:
Their God himselfe, griev'd at my libertie,
Shot many a dart at me with fiers intent,
But I them warded all with wary government.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The sonnets of Les
Antiquites
provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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MOERIS
'Twas in my thought to do so, Lycidas;
Even now was I revolving silently
If this I could recall- no paltry song:
"Come, Galatea, what
pleasure
is 't to play
Amid the waves?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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XV
"From sunrise unto sunset
All earth shall hear thy fame:
A glorious city thou shalt build,
And name it by thy name:
And there,
unquenched
through ages,
Like Vesta's sacred fire,
Shall live the spirit of thy nurse,
The spirit of thy sire.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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My
thoughts
tear me,
I dread their fever.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Some seed the birds devour,
And some the season mars,
But here and there will flower
The solitary stars,
And fields will yearly bear them
As light-leaved spring comes on,
And
luckless
lads will wear them
When I am dead and gone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I have no more to give, all that was mine
Is laid, a wrested tribute, at thy shrine;
Let me depart, for my whole soul is wrung,
And all my
cheerless
orisons are sung;
Let me depart, with faint limbs let me creep
To some dim shade and sink me down to sleep.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Older than Saturn, 5
Older than Rhea,
That
mournful
music,
Falling and surging
With the vast rhythm
Ceaseless, eternal, 10
Keeps the long tally
Of all things mortal.
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Sappho |
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[Illustration:
Minspysia
Deliciosa.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Give me the cups;
And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,
The trumpet to the
cannoneer
without,
The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,
'Now the King drinks to Hamlet.
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Shakespeare |
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Translated
from the Swedish by
STORK, author of "Sea and Bay," etc.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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More strong affections never reason served,
Yet still
affected
most what best deserved.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Since thou in all thy youth and charms,
Must bid the world adieu,
(A world 'gainst peace in constant arms)
To join the
friendly
few.
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Robert Forst |
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All have not
appeared
in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
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Appoloinaire |
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They have
anchored
their ships in the current,
they have bridled the neck of the sea--
The Shepherd and Lord of the East
hath bidden a roadway to be!
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Aeschylus |
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Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,--
The
punctual
stars will vigil keep,--
Embalmed by purifying cold;
The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
The snow is no ignoble shroud,
The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Says
Chemubles
"My sword is in its place,
At Rencesvals scarlat I will it stain;
Find I Rollanz the proud upon my way,
I'll fall on him, or trust me not again,
And Durendal I'll conquer with this blade,
Franks shall be slain, and France a desert made.
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Chanson de Roland |
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She's lady, they replied, to great 'squire Good,
Who's almost bald from age 'tis understood;
But as he's rich, and high in rank appears,
Why that's a
recompense
you know for years.
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La Fontaine |
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445
DE
PROFUNDIS
III.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I keep my countenance,
I remain self-possessed
Except when a street piano,
mechanical
and tired
Reiterates some worn-out common song
With the smell of hyacinths across the garden
Recalling things that other people have desired.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Oblivion here thy wisdom is,
Thy thrift, the sleep of cares;
For a proud
idleness
like this
Crowns all thy mean affairs.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven
Circe with singing changed from human form
The
comrades
of Ulysses, and by song
Is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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compared with me,
Suffering
not doing ill--fate far more mild.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Now, sir, if ye hae friends enow,
Tho' real friends, I b'lieve, are few;
Yet, if your
catalogue
be fu',
I'se no insist:
But, gif ye want ae friend that's true,
I'm on your list.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Scyria sic tenerum uirgo flammabat Achillem
fraudis adhuc expers bellatricisque docebat
ducere fila manus et, mox quos horruit Ide,
Thessalicos roseo
nectebat
pollice crinis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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'And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love;
And these black bodies and this
sunburnt
face
Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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But now let each becalm his
troubled
breast,
Wash, and partake serene the friendly feast.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Rodrigue
Chasing the harsh course of my
wretched
fate.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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XXXVII
As through the wild green hills of Wyre
The train ran,
changing
sky and shire,
And far behind, a fading crest,
Low in the forsaken west
Sank the high-reared head of Clee,
My hand lay empty on my knee.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Thinking about his embrace and its pleasures, she seems to be asking
Shouldn't our
glorious
son here at our side stand erect?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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While Spring shall pour his showers, as oft he wont,
And bathe thy
breathing
tresses, meekest Eve!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I thrust through antique blood and riches vast,
And all big claims of the
pretentious
Past
That hindered my Nirvana.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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1070
Eager for the help I expect from your care,
For this greater need I
retained
my prayer.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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A few grave words, a
question
asked;
Eyelids that with the answer fell
Like falling petals;--form that tasked
Brief time;--and so was wrought the spell!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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'
THE VILLAIN
While joy gave clouds the light of stars,
That beamed where'er they looked;
And calves and lambs had
tottering
knees,
Excited, while they sucked;
While every bird enjoyed his song,
Without one thought of harm or wrong--
I turned my head and saw the wind,
Not far from where I stood,
Dragging the corn by her golden hair,
Into a dark and lonely wood.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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There is also a
wider reference to the
struggles
between the Turks and the allied Christian
powers, which had been going on since the siege of Vienna in 1529.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Apollinax
visited the United States
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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What race
Are these, who seem so
overcome
with woe?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Never sadder tale was heard
By a man of woman born:
The
Marineres
all return'd to work
As silent as beforne.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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You who are really a lady of silks and satins
Are now become my hill and stream
companion!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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FROM HAFIZ
I said to heaven that glowed above,
O hide yon sun-filled zone,
Hide all the stars you boast;
For, in the world of love
And
estimation
true,
The heaped-up harvest of the moon
Is worth one barley-corn at most,
The Pleiads' sheaf but two.
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Emerson - Poems |
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APOLLO
Was it not well, my
worshipper
to aid,
Then most of all when hardest was the need?
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Aeschylus |
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]
* * * * *
From 1815 to 1843 these 'Lines' were placed by Wordsworth among his
"Poems of
Sentiment
and Reflection.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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All
terrified
upon their knees they fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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In the
event of its
assuming
any decided shape, IT WOULD BE MY DUTY to go to
Italy without delay.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Willow
switches
I broke and peeled bits of straws,
Ever lonely in crowds, in Nature's own laws--
My ball room the pasture, my music the bees,
My drink was the fountain, my church the tall trees.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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) plague of our
friendship
and pest.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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And, what is a stranjre thinjr, the very spunks,
which one would think should rather deface and blot
out the whole book, and were
anciently
used for that
purpose, are become now the instalments to make
them legible.
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Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Or by an
agreement
on a paper?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Next a row of soles and plaice
With querulous and twisted face,
And red-eyed bloaters, golden-grey;
Smoked
haddocks
ranked in neat array;
A group of smelts that take the light
Like slips of rainbow, pearly bright;
Silver trout with rosy spots,
And coral shrimps with keen black dots
For eyes, and hard and jointed sheath
And crisp tails curving underneath.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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In Memoriam_
_i_
_Alcimus_
ALCIME, quem raptum domino
crescentibus
annis
Lauicana leui caespite uelat humus,
accipe non Pario nutantia pondera saxo,
quae cineri uanus dat ruitura labor,
sed facilis buxos et opacas palmitis umbras
quaeque uirent lacrimis roscida prata meis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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These
travellers
were mounted on four dromedaries, and having passed through Spain, they went to Norway and from there to Babylon and the Holy Land.
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Appoloinaire |
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She
tenderly
kissed me,
She fondly caressed,
And then I fell gently
To sleep on her breast--
Deeply to sleep
From the heaven of her breast.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Þā þæt sweord ongan
æfter heaðo-swāte hilde-gicelum
wīg-bil wanian; þæt wæs wundra sum,
þæt hit eal gemealt īse gelīcost,
1610 þonne forstes bend fæder onlǣteð,
onwindeð
wæl-rāpas, sē þe geweald hafað
sǣla and mǣla; þæt is sōð metod.
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Beowulf |
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Then the priest bent
likewise
to the sod
And thanked the Lord of Love,
And Blessed Mary, Mother of God,
And all the saints above.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Remember how
Narcissus
erst was lost!
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Petrarch |
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Please contact us
beforehand
to
let us know your plans and to work out the details.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Indeed, Herrick's deepest debt to ancient
literature
lies not in the
models which he directly imitated, nor in the Anacreontic tone which
with singular felicity he has often taken.
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Robert Herrick |
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde, by Oscar
Wilde, Edited by Robert Ross
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
in the United States and most
other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
whatsoever.
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Wilde - Poems |
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That, however, the Ends of Providence and general Good
are answered in our
Passions
and Imperfections, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Sarojini
Naidu
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I'll taste the unguent of your eyelids' shore,
To see if it can grant to the heart, at your blow,
The
insensibility
of stones and the azure.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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WATERS OF BABYLON
What presses about us here in the evening
As you open a window and stare at a stone-gray sky,
And the streets give back the jangle of
meaningless
movement
That is tired of life and almost too tired to die.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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A little masterpiece in a very
difficult
style: Catullus himself could
hardly have bettered it.
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Golden Treasury |
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