To
Introduce
Myself.
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He with the brother solely took a place,
That better he the sister's charms might trace;
And under this
disguise
he fully gained
What he desired, so well his part he feigned:
An able master, or a lover true,
To teach or sigh, whichever was in view,
So thoroughly he could attention get,
Success alike in ev'ry thing he met.
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Herman did not recover his usual
composure
during the entire day.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Again, if Nature, creatress of all things,
Were wont to force all things to be resolved
Unto least parts, then would she not avail
To reproduce from out them anything;
Because whate'er is not endowed with parts
Cannot possess those
properties
required
Of generative stuff--divers connections,
Weights, blows, encounters, motions, whereby things
Forevermore have being and go on.
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Aye, they would blush to ask for money and
cleverly
disguise their
shame.
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Aristophanes |
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"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
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Golden Treasury |
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Conversation Galante
I observe: "Our
sentimental
friend the moon!
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Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,
And all the air a solemn
stillness
holds,
Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds:
Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower
The moping owl does to the moon complain
Of such as, wandering near her secret bower,
Molest her ancient solitary reign.
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Golden Treasury |
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syllīcran
wiht (the dragon),
3039.
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Beowulf |
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Rilke - Poems |
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in the light
Of common day, so
heavenly
bright,
I bless Thee, Vision as thou art,
I bless thee with a human heart;
God shield thee to thy latest years!
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Golden Treasury |
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"
The Wind that blows between the worlds, it cut him like a knife,
And
Tomlinson
took up the tale and spoke of his sin in life:--
"Once I ha' laughed at the power of Love and twice at the grip of the Grave,
And thrice I ha' patted my God on the head that men might call me brave.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
Now, whether it is a marvellous coincidence, or whether it is that the
name itself has an imperceptible effect upon the character, I have never
yet been able to ascertain; but the fact is unquestionable, that there
never yet was any person named Charles who was not an open, manly,
honest, good-natured, and frank-hearted fellow, with a rich, clear
voice, that did you good to hear it, and an eye that looked you always
straight in the face, as much as to say: "I have a clear conscience
myself, am afraid of no man, and am
altogether
above doing a mean
action.
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Poe - 5 |
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And, what's more, when sorrow's beating
Down on me, through Fate's
incessant
rage,
Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging,
Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away.
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Villon |
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Dulcarnon called is "fleminge of wrecches";
It semeth hard, for
wrecches
wol not lere
For verray slouthe or othere wilful tecches; 935
This seyd by hem that be not worth two fecches.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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XXXV
His malady, whose cause I ween
It now to
investigate
is time,
Was nothing but the British spleen
Transported to our Russian clime.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Laugh at the unshed leaf, say what you will,
Call me in all things what I was before,
A
flutterer
in the wind, a woman still;
I tell you I am what I was and more.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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270
XXXI
All in a kirtle of discolourd say
He clothed was, ypainted full of eyes;
And in his bosome
secretly
there lay
An hatefull Snake, the which his taile uptyes
In many folds, and mortall sting implyes.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Both these
statements
would be quite
true.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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[29] Or
_azzammim_?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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XXIII
Brought by a pedlar vagabond
Unto their solitude one day,
This monument of thought profound
Tattiana
purchased
with a stray
Tome of "Malvina," and but three(56)
And a half rubles down gave she;
Also, to equalise the scales,
She got a book of nursery tales,
A grammar, likewise Petriads two,
Marmontel also, tome the third;
Tattiana every day conferred
With Martin Zadeka.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The children of whose
turbaned
seas,
Or what Circassian land?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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For noon is of so mochel prys,
Ne no man founden [is] so wys,
Ne noon so high is of parage,
Ne no man founde of wit so sage, 4760
No man so hardy ne so wight,
Ne no man of so mochel might,
Noon so
fulfilled
of bounte,
[But] he with love may daunted be.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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GD}
For
Elemental
Gods their thunderous Organs blew; creating
Delicious Viands.
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Blake - Zoas |
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the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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[Footnote C: This description of the Calenture is sketched from an
imperfect
recollection
of an admirable one in prose, by Mr.
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William Wordsworth |
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The maiden at her casement sits
As
daylight
glimmers, darkness flits,
But ah!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I'll teach my boy the
sweetest
things;
I'll teach him how the owlet sings.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Now in the days of youthful prime
A mistress I must find,
For _love_, I heard, gave one an air
And ev'n
improved
the mind:
On Phillis fair above the rest
Kind fortune fixt my eyes,
Her piercing beauty struck my heart,
And she became my choice;
To Cupid now with hearty prayer
I offer'd many a vow;
And danc'd, and sung, and sigh'd, and swore,
As other lovers do;
But, when at last I breath'd my flame,
I found her cold as stone;
I left the jilt, and tun'd my pipe
To John o' Badenyon.
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Robert Burns |
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It is not my design, therefore,
to vituperate my
deceased
friend, Toby Dammit.
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Poe - 5 |
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Revivd her Soul with lives of beasts & birds
Slain on the Altar up ascending into her cloudy bosom
Of terrible workmanship the Altar labour of ten thousand Slaves
One thousand Men of
wondrous
power spent their lives in its formation
It stood on twelve steps namd after the names of her twelve sons
And was Erected at the chief entrance of Urizens hall
When Urizen descended returnd from his immense labours & travels
Descending She reposd beside him folding him around
In her bright skirts.
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Blake - Zoas |
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[Note 65: Lepage--a celebrated
gunmaker
of former days.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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97 the walks of
Lincolnes
Inne.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Not far; you might get there by evening, but for
the tsar's
frontier
barriers, and the captains of the
guard.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Then came a sudden gust
Of
mingling
winds, that in the middle snapp'd
His mast, and, hurried o'er the waves afar,
Both sail and sail-yard fell into the flood.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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" His
immediate
predecessors had carried to the highest
refinement the art of writing in elaborate patterns of tone.
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Li Po |
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How down they pulled the Duke's arms
everywhere!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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When
knowledge
only could have filled,
And virtue all those furrows tilled.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Within this houre, at most,
I will aduise you where to plant your selues,
Acquaint you with the perfect Spy o'th' time,
The moment on't, for't must be done to Night,
And
something
from the Pallace: alwayes thought,
That I require a clearenesse; and with him,
To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:
Fleans , his Sonne, that keepes him companie,
Whose absence is no lesse materiall to me,
Then is his Fathers, must embrace the fate
Of that darke houre: resolue your selues apart,
Ile come to you anon
Murth.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And would you persuade me
That a mere dancing-girl, who shows herself,
Nightly, half naked, on the stage, for money,
And with voluptuous motions fires the blood
Of
inconsiderate
youth, is to be held
A model for her virtue?
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Longfellow |
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Belgium, where dwelleth reverence for right
Enthroned
above all ideals; where your fate
And your supernal patience and your might
Most sacred grow in human estimate,
You shine a star above this stormy night
Little no more, but infinitely great.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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To these
injunctions
every one doth swear
That comes to hazard for my worthless self.
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Shakespeare |
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Strange unto her each
childish
game,
But when the winter season came
And dark and drear the evenings were,
Terrible tales she loved to hear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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This Hector opposes, and
continues
the attack; in
which, after many actions, Sarpedon makes the first breach in the wall.
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Iliad - Pope |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Has that sweet sister of the cruel Pallantides
Ever been involved in her brothers'
perfidies?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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ye old
mesmerizer
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Still, the
alacrity
with
which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for
the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat
astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Chimene
My
troubled
mind dares hope for nothing there.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Unworthy of
pleasing
you, or approaching you,
I must only think now of hiding from you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Da mag denn Schmerz und Genuss,
Gelingen
und Verdruss
Miteinander wechseln, wie es kann;
Nur rastlos betatigt sich der Mann.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Her step seemed to pity the grass it pressed;
You might hear by the heaving of her breast,
That the coming and going of the wind
Brought
pleasure
there and left passion behind.
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Shelley |
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Therefore
like her, I sometime hold my tongue:
Because I would not dull you with my song.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He wrote histories of the Revolution,
of
Napoleon
and of France.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went shuffling through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his
numbered
tomb.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But now secure the painted vessel glides,
The sun-beams trembling on the
floating
tides:
While melting music steals upon the sky,
And soften'd sounds along the waters die; 50
Smooth flow the waves, the Zephyrs gently play,
Belinda smil'd, and all the world was gay.
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Alexander Pope |
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A little onward ran the very stream
By which he took his first soft poppy dream;
And on the very bark 'gainst which he leant
A
crescent
he had carv'd, and round it spent
His skill in little stars.
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Keats |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Her women
removed her wraps and proceeded to get her in
readiness
for the night.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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" He
fired, and slightly wounded his opponent,
shouting
"Bravo!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Das war ein schoner
Zeitvertreib!
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e
Emperour
whan he was brou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Then
followed
a torrent of laughter and cheers:
Then the ominous words "It's a Boo--"
Then, silence.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Who here
Dares to compare in beauty with my
mistress?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous
portrait
indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Werejeweledtales
An opiate meet to quell the malady Oflifeunlived?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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" Like to the lark,
That warbling in the air
expatiates
long,
Then, trilling out his last sweet melody,
Drops satiate with the sweetness; such appear'd
That image stampt by the' everlasting pleasure,
Which fashions like itself all lovely things.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Here he stopped, and, with a couple of dexterous
turns of the wrist, pegged the bird on its back with
outstretched
wings.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
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Golden Treasury |
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O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Fast by the springs where she to bathe was wont,
And in those meads where
sometime
she might haunt,
Were strewn rich gifts, unknown to any Muse,
Though Fancy's casket were unlock'd to choose.
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Keats - Lamia |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men
On the hills o' Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between, Wi' his eyes like the grey o' the sea.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"Shut, shut those juggling eyes, thou
ruthless
man!
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Keats |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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Golden Treasury |
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Here on this rugged and woody
hillside
has
grown an apple tree, not planted by man, no relic of a former orchard,
but a natural growth, like the pines and oaks.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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ROME
THE VATICAN--SALA DELLE MUSE
(1887)
I SAT in the Muses' Hall at the mid of the day,
And it seemed to grow still, and the people to pass away,
And the
chiselled
shapes to combine in a haze of sun,
Till beside a Carrara column there gleamed forth One.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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From out the long shade of a road high-bankt,
I came on shelving fields;
And from my feet cascading,
Streaming down the land,
Flickering lavish of daffodils flowed and fell;
Like sunlight on a water thrill'd with haste,
Such clear pale
quivering
flame,
But a flame even more marvellously yellow.
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"Then you are a thick-and-thin supporter of the
Government
as it is.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Text and
interpretation
uncertain.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And naked to the hangman's noose
The morning clocks will ring
A neck God made for other use
Than
strangling
in a string.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Timotheus
placed on high
Amid the tuneful quire
With flying fingers touch'd the lyre:
The trembling notes ascend the sky
And heavenly joys inspire.
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Golden Treasury |
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To
Introduce
Myself.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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An
honourable
conduct let him have-
Pembroke, look to 't.
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Shakespeare |
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We, heroes all, our wounds disdain;
Dismounted now, our horses slain,
Yet we advance--more courage show,
Though stricken, seek to overthrow
The victor-knights who tread in mud
The writhing slaves who bite the heel,
While on
caparisons
of steel
The maces thunder--cudgels thud!
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Hugo - Poems |
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But whilst with grief and rage my bosom burn'd,
Sudden the tyrant of the skies returned;
Perch'd on the
battlements
he thus began
(In form an eagle, but in voice a man):
`O queen!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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`Now blisful Venus, thou me grace sende,' 705
Quod Troilus, `for never yet no nede
Hadde I er now, ne
halvendel
the drede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of
Delight!
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Golden Treasury |
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The King of France in a loud voice has called:
"Barons and Franks, good vassals are ye all,
Ye in the field have fought so great combats;
See the pagans; they're felons and cowards,
No
pennyworth
is there in all their laws.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I go without my clothes now,
One thin shirt for me,
For noble love
protects
now
From the chilly breeze.
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Troubador Verse |
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"Well," murmured one, "Let whoso make or buy,
My Clay with long Oblivion is gone dry:
But fill me with the old
familiar
Juice,
Methinks I might recover by and by.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Thus, Venice, if no stronger claim were thine,
Were all thy proud
historic
deeds forgot,
Thy choral memory of the bard divine,
Thy love of Tasso, should have cut the knot
Which ties thee to thy tyrants; and thy lot
Is shameful to the nations,--most of all,
Albion!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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do not dread thy mother's door,
Think not of me with grief and pain:
I now can see with better eyes;
And worldly
grandeur
I despise
And fortune with her gifts and lies.
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Golden Treasury |
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Her path a sick
imagination
guides,
Its true light underneath--ah, no!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Fear no more the
lightning
flash
Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finish'd joy and moan:
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.
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Golden Treasury |
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