XXIX
Says Blancandrins "Gentle the Franks are found;
Yet a great wrong these dukes do and these counts
Unto their lord, being in counsel proud;
Him and
themselves
they harry and confound.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The syndicate did not concern itself greatly with
criticisms
of
attack and the like.
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"
Far and faint, yet each moment clearer, Straight as an arrow down the sound,
An old-time freighter is drawing nearer, "City of Taunton"
westward
bound.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Planh below was
previously
attributed, by Pound and others, to Bertran de Born.
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Troubador Verse |
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Now
that they have grafted trees, and pay a price for them, they collect
them into a plat by their houses, and fence them in,--and the end of
it all will be that we shall be
compelled
to look for our apples in a
barrel.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Each of these
landlords
walked amidst his farm,
Saying, ''Tis mine, my children's and my name's.
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Emerson - Poems |
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XVIII
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
Were once
enclosures
of the open field:
And these brave palaces that to Time must yield,
Were shepherd's huts in some past century.
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And when she saw him she cried, 'An old mortal song heard
floating
from
a tent of skin, as we rode, I and mine, through a camping-place at
night.
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Yeats |
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e dyuersite of preciouse
ostelment?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Can he for me so pitously
compleyne?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Yet I feared this time that I had hurt him, Such
offended
silence long he kept:
On his hand I laid my hand in pity, Penitent, —and softly he began,
"Ah that night in May, do you remember?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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So
scoffing
in ambiguous words, he scarce
Had ended; when to Right and Left the Front
Divided, and to either Flank retir'd.
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Milton |
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The red hot boiling billows foamed in the
stooping
clouds,
And in that fatal tempest the whole ship's crew were lost.
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John Clare |
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= Jonson makes
frequent
use of the
subjunctive.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The water lives so far,
Like neighbor from another world
Residing
in a jar.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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they wander on
In gladness all; but thou, me thinks, most glad,
My gentle-hearted
Charles!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And then I crept along the gloom and saw
They had hewn the
drawbridge
down into the river.
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Tennyson |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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THE PANTHER
His weary glance, from passing by the bars,
Has grown into a dazed and vacant stare;
It seems to him there are a
thousand
bars
And out beyond those bars the empty air.
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Rilke - Poems |
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According to her vida, she was married to Guillem or Guilhem de Poitiers, Count of Viennois, but was in love with and sang about
Raimbaut
of Orange, 1146-1173.
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Troubador Verse |
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{28a}
"Nor haply will like it the Heathobard lord,
and as little each of his liegemen all,
when a thane of the Danes, in that doughty throng,
goes with the lady along their hall,
and on him the old-time
heirlooms
glisten
hard and ring-decked, Heathobard's treasure,
weapons that once they wielded fair
until they lost at the linden-play {28b}
liegeman leal and their lives as well.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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This translation or rather adaptation contains many of the two hundred or so fragments, in some cases fragments of the fragments,
excluding
things I found too partial or obscure to resonate.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Lance and spear upon the height,
bristling
strange in fiery light,
While the castle stood in shade.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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THE TREE
CONTENTS
PERSONAE
LA FRAISNE 5 CINO 7 NA AUDIART
VILLONAUD FOR THIS YULE II A VILLONAUD, BALLAD OF THE GIBBET 12 MESMERISM 14 FAMAM LIBROSQUE CANO
IN TEMPORE
SENECTUTIS
17
CAMARADERIE
FOR E.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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You know, my Friends, how long since in my House
For a new
Marriage
I did make Carouse:
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Even so, gentle, strong and wise and happy, 5
Through the soul and
substance
of my being,
Comes the breath of thy great love to me-ward,
O thou dear mortal.
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Sappho |
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Et, sur le debut suivant, apres passablement d'autres choses d'autres
gens:
_On dirait des soldats d'Agrippa d'Aubigne
Alignes au cordeau par
Philibert
Delorme.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Thy blood and virtue
Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness
Share with thy
birthright!
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Shakespeare |
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_incinxerat_
GD:
_inexcinxerat_ Bod.
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Latin - Catullus |
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If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg"
associated
with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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Beowulf |
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You Felons on Trial in Courts
You felons on trial in courts,
You convicts in prison-cells, you
sentenced
assassins chain'd and
handcuff'd with iron,
Who am I too that I am not on trial or in prison?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Enter_ OVERREACH, _with
distracted
looks,
driving in_ MARRALL _before him_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Ye crystal
firmamental
bars
That hold the skyey waters free
From tide or tempest's ecstasy!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Two years have passed, and with the
second volume it has seemed best to state at once the reasons which
actuated its
contributors
to join in such a venture.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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)
This is not only one man, this the father of those who shall be
fathers in their turns,
In him the start of populous states and rich republics,
Of him countless
immortal
lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
Mais alors, tu as ton
vautour!
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T.S. Eliot |
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'
When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
A certain old dream, sick desire of my spine,
Beneath
funereal
ceilings afflicted by dying
Folded its indubitable wing there within me.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Treacherous
now he is keeping his word: giving me themes for my poems
While he is stealing my time, potency, presence of mind.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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{40c} Ten Brink points out the
strongly
heathen character of this
part of the epic.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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For
though the argument of an epic poem be far more
diffused
and poured out
than that of tragedy, yet Virgil, writing of AEneas, hath pretermitted
many things.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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London:
Macmillan
and Co.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Or des vergers fleuris se figeaient en arriere
Les petales tombes des cerisiers de mai
Sont les ongles de celle que j'ai tant aimee
Les petales fleuris sont comme ses paupieres
Sur le chemin du bord du fleuve lentement
Un ours un singe un chien menes par des tziganes
Suivaient une roulotte trainee par un ane
Tandis que s'eloignait dans les vignes rhenanes
Sur un fifre lointain un air de regiment
Le mai le joli mai a pare les ruines
De lierre de vigne vierge et de rosiers
Le vent du Rhin secoue sur le bord les osiers
Et les roseaux jaseurs et les fleurs nues des vignes
La synagogue
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren
Coiffes de feutres verts le matin du sabbat
Vont a la synagogue en longeant le Rhin
Et les coteaux ou les vignes rougissent la-bas
Ils se disputent et crient des choses qu'on ose a peine traduire
Batard concu pendant les regles ou Que le diable entre dans ton
pere
Le vieux Rhin souleve sa face ruisselante et se detourne pour
sourire
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren sont en colere
Parce que pendant le sabbat on ne doit pas fumer
Tandis que les chretiens passent avec des cigares allumes
Et parce qu'Ottomar et Abraham aiment tous deux
Lia aux yeux de brebis et dont le ventre avance un peu
Pourtant tout a l'heure dans la synagogue l'un apres l'autre
Ils baiseront la thora en soulevant leur beau chapeau
Parmi les feuillards de la fete des cabanes
Ottomar en chantant sourira a Abraham
Ils dechanteront sans mesure et les voix graves des hommes
Feront gemir un Leviathan au fond du Rhin comme une voix d'automne
Et dans la synagogue pleine de chapeaux on agitera les loulabim
Hanoten ne Kamoth bagoim tholahoth baleoumim
Les cloches
Mon beau tzigane mon amant
Ecoute les cloches qui sonnent
Nous nous aimions eperdument
Croyant n'etre vus de personne
Mais nous etions bien mal caches
Toutes les cloches a la ronde
Nous ont vus du haut des clochers
Et le disent a tout le monde
Demain Cyprien et Henri
Marie Ursule et Catherine
La boulangere et son mari
Et puis Gertrude ma cousine
Souriront quand je passerai
Je ne saurai plus ou me mettre
Tu seras loin Je pleurerai
J'en mourrai peut-etre
La Loreley
A Jean Seve
A Bacharach il y avait une sorciere blonde
Qui laissait mourir d'amour tous les hommes a la ronde
Devant son tribunal l'eveque la fit citer
D'avance il l'absolvit a cause de sa beaute
O belle Loreley aux yeux pleins de pierreries
De quel magicien tiens-tu ta sorcellerie
Je suis lasse de vivre et mes yeux sont maudits
Ceux qui m'ont regardee eveque en ont peri
Mes yeux ce sont des flammes et non des pierreries
Jetez jetez aux flammes cette sorcellerie
Je flambe dans ces flammes O belle Loreley
Qu'un autre te condamne tu m'as ensorcele
Eveque vous riez Priez plutot pour moi la Vierge
Faites-moi donc mourir et que Dieu vous protege
Mon amant est parti pour un pays lointain
Faites-moi donc mourir puisque je n'aime rien
Mon coeur me fait si mal il faut bien que je meure
Si je me
regardais
il faudrait que j'en meure
Mon coeur me fait si mal depuis qu'il n'est plus la
Mon coeur me fit si mal du jour ou il s'en alla
L'eveque fit venir trois chevaliers avec leurs lances
Menez jusqu'au couvent cette femme en demence
Va t'en Lore en folie va Lore aux yeux tremblants
Tu seras une nonne vetue de noir et blanc
Puis ils s'en allerent sur la route tous les quatre
La Loreley les implorait et ses yeux brillaient comme des astres
Chevaliers laissez-moi monter sur ce rocher si haut
Pour voir une fois encore mon beau chateau
Pour me mirer une fois encore dans le fleuve
Puis j'irai au couvent des vierges et des veuves
La-haut le vent tordait ses cheveux deroules
Les chevaliers criaient Loreley Loreley
Tout la-bas sur le Rhin s'en vient une nacelle
Et mon amant s'y tient il m'a vue il m'appelle
Mon coeur devient si doux c'est mon amant qui vient
Elle se penche alors et tombe dans le Rhin
Pour avoir vu dans l'eau la belle Loreley
Ses yeux couleur du Rhin ses cheveux de soleil
Schinderhannes
Dans la foret avec sa bande
Schinderhannes s'est desarme
Le brigand pres de sa brigande
Hennit d'amour au joli mai
Benzel accroupi lit la Bible
Sans voir que son chapeau pointu
A plume d'aigle sert de cible
A Jacob Born le mal foutu
Juliette Blaesius qui rote
Fait semblant d'avoir le hoquet
Hannes pousse une fausse note
Quand Schulz vient portant un baquet
Et s'ecrie en versant des larmes
Baquet plein de vin parfume
Viennent aujourd'hui les gendarmes
Nous aurons bu le vin de mai
Allons Julia la mam'zelle
Bois avec nous ce clair bouillon
D'herbes et de vin de Moselle
Prosit Bandit en cotillon
Cette brigande est bientot soule
Et veut Hannes qui n'en veut pas
Pas d'amour maintenant ma poule
Sers-nous un bon petit repas
Il faut ce soir que j'assassine
Ce riche juif au bord du Rhin
Au clair des torches de resine
La fleur de mai c'est le florin
On mange alors toute la bande
Pete et rit pendant le diner
Puis s'attendrit a l'allemande
Avant d'aller assassiner
Rhenane d'automne
A Toussaint-Luca
Les enfants des morts vont jouer
Dans le cimetiere
Martin Gertrude Hans et Henri
Nul coq n'a chante aujourd'hui
Kikiriki
Les vieilles femmes
Tout en pleurant cheminent
Et les bons anes
Braillent hi han et se mettent a brouter les fleurs
Des couronnes mortuaires
C'est le jour des morts et de toutes leurs ames
Les enfants et les vieilles femmes
Allument des bougies et des cierges
Sur chaque tombe catholique
Les voiles des vieilles
Les nuages du ciel
Sont comme des barbes de biques
L'air tremble de flammes et de prieres
Le cimetiere est un beau jardin
Plein de saules gris et de romarins
Il vous vient souvent des amis qu'on enterre
ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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That gaily blooms, but ev'n in
blooming
dies.
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Alexander Pope |
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Every other would have taken like offence,
And I'd have
suffered
insults the more intense.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Scarce can my knees these
trembling
limbs sustain,
And scarce my heart support its load of pain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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That some spot in
darkness
could be found
That does not vibrate whene'er your depths sound.
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Rilke - Poems |
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--Peregrine Pickle, Launcelot Greaves, and Ferdinand
Count Fathom, I still want; but as I said, the veriest
ordinary
copies
will serve me.
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Robert Burns |
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The Building of the Ship
Seaweed
Chrysaor
The Secret of the Sea
Twilight
Sir
Humphrey
Gilbert
The Lighthouse
The Fire of Drift-Wood
BY THE FIRESIDE.
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Longfellow |
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The latter see the
totality of a
sentence
or passage, and then project it entire.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The writing is admirable, the wealth of comic
matter is only too copious, the characters are as firm in outline or as
rich in color as any but the most triumphant examples of his satirical
or sympathetic skill in
finished
delineation and demarcation of humors.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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[Cromek informed me, on the
authority
of Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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250
A-cursed be the day which that nature
Shoop me to ben a lyves
creature!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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--But I dare say I have by this time tired your patience; so
I shall
conclude
with begging you to give Mrs.
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Robert Burns |
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[2] Honor the etext refund and
replacement
provisions of this
"Small Print!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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payments
should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Phantom
assigned
to this place by his brilliance,
The Swan in his exile is rendered motionless,
Swathed uselessly by his cold dream of defiance.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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At the
beginning
of the T'ien-pao period[10] he went south to Kuei-chi,
and became intimate with Wu Yun.
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Li Po |
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What strange words, how
grievous
to hear!
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thence he pursues his
appointed
path.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
Immediate
Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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170
Our vessel there, noiseless, we push'd to land
Within a spacious haven, thither led
By some
celestial
Pow'r.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Death grants ye everything,
But vital sense and
exhalation
hot.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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'
Sols sui qui sai lo
sobrafan
que?
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Troubador Verse |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The same
stealthy
blow .
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Euripides - Electra |
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Can my misery meal on an ordered walking
Of surpliced
numskulls?
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Stephen Crane |
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MÆSIA, a district of the ancient Illyricum,
bordering
on Pannonia,
containing what is now called _Bulgaria_, and part of _Servia_.
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The bill of 1819 was really a great
relaxation of the Pitt system, and when you are crying out _spoliation_
and _confiscation_, when you are bawling out so lustily about the robbery
committed on you by the fund-holders and the placemen, and are praising
the
infernal
Pitt system at the same time, .
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That all the
revelations
wise,
At which the Brownites made big eyes,
Might have been given by Jared Keyes,
A natural fool and ninny,
And, last week, didn't Eliab Snooks
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As sharp as new-bought mackerel hooks,
And bright as a new pin, eh?
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They neither love god, ne drede;
They kepe more than it is nede,
And in her bagges sore it binde, 5775
Out of the sonne, and of the winde;
They putte up more than nede ware,
Whan they seen pore folk forfare,
For hunger dye, and for cold quake;
God can wel
vengeaunce
therof take.
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There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before combating one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is
necessary
to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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So they kept us close till nigh on noon,
And then they rang the bell,
And the warders with their
jingling
keys
Opened each listening cell,
And down the iron stair we tramped,
Each from his separate Hell.
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WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The
shouting
and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
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Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
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A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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e
glyterande
golde glent vpon ende3,
2040 [E] Bot forto sauen hym-self, when suffer hym by-houed,
To byde bale with-oute dabate, of bronde hym to were,
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You
yourself
can bring the past the mind, too,
It was not enough to avoid you: I exiled you.
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I must take a gold-bound pipe,
And outmatch the bubbling call
From the
beechwoods
in the sunlight,
From the meadows in the rain.
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With sacred fire
My breast, If e'er it loved thy lore, inspire:
So may the patron[175] of the healing art,
The god of day to thee consign his heart;
From thee, the mother of his darling son,[176]
May never wand'ring thought to Daphne run:
May never Clytia, nor Leucothoe's pride
Henceforth with thee his
changeful
love divide.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Soone after them all
dauncing
on a row 50
The comely virgins came, with girlands dight,
As fresh as flowres in medow greene do grow,
When morning deaw upon their leaves doth light:
And in their hands sweet Timbrels all upheld on hight.
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Friendships formed in human life take no account of age, in considering association why need one put
sameness
of temper first?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose:
"Give me a rival, O King Feroz.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Except
for
purposes
of historical investigation it is quite absurd to take the
'Essay on Criticism' seriously.
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Never again will thy beauty
Quell their desire nor rekindle,
O
Lityerses?
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though now the traveller sees
Thy three-striped banner fluctuate on the breeze;[177]
Though martial songs have banished songs of love,
And nightingales desert the village grove, [178] 615
Scared by the fife and rumbling drum's alarms,
And the short thunder, and the flash of arms;
That cease not till night falls, when far and nigh,
Sole sound, the Sourd [Gg] prolongs his
mournful
cry!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I remember so well the room,
And the lilac bloom
That beat at the
dripping
pane
In the warm June rain;
And the colour of your gown,
It was amber-brown,
And two yellow satin bows
From your shoulders rose.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Chimene
And Rodrigue's arm
performed
these miracles?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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" Or there 's no
Purgatory
for the dead ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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But at a later, sterile age,
The
solstice
of our earthly years,
Mournful Love's deadly trace appears
As storms which in chill autumn rage
And leave a marsh the fertile ground
And devastate the woods around.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Him
Even the laurels and the tamarisks wept;
For him,
outstretched
beneath a lonely rock,
Wept pine-clad Maenalus, and the flinty crags
Of cold Lycaeus.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The strain He blew
Sounds on,
outliving
chains and death.
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it is that calm and patient,
It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions,
It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions
of diseased corpses,
It distils such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor,
It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops,
It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such
leavings
from them
at last.
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Whitman |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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FAUST:
Wie rast die
Windsbraut
durch die Luft!
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er it lay on bere,
As sonne
schinede
bry?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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