sustain
The
balanced
world, and open all the main;
Your country, chief, in arms abroad defend,
At home, with morals, arts, and laws amend;
How shall the muse from such a monarch, steal
An hour, and not defraud the public weal?
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Et quand, pendant que minuit sonne,
Faconne, petillant et jaune,
On sort le pain;
Quand, sous les poutres enfumees,
Chantent
les croutes parfumees,
Et les grillons;
Que ce trou chaud souffle la vie;
Ils ont leur ame si ravie
Sous leurs haillons,
Ils se ressentent si bien vivre,
Les pauvres petits pleins de givre!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The touch, the sight, had passed away,
And in its stead that vision blest,
Which
comforted
her after-rest,
While in the lady's arms she lay,
Had put a rapture in her breast,
And on her lips and o'er her eyes
Spread smiles like light!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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It is my only suit,
Provided
that you weed your better judgments
Of all opinion that grows rank in them
That I am wise.
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Shakespeare |
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While o'er the desert,
answering
every close,
Rich steam of sweetest perfume comes and goes.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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--
Jealousy
fled he,
Eormenric's hate: chose help eternal.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Prelude
Hymn to the Night
A Psalm of Life
The Reaper and the Flowers
The Light of Stars
Footsteps of Angels
Flowers
The
Beleaguered
City
Midnight Mass for the Dying Year
EARLIER POEMS.
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Longfellow |
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12, 1802, where they are headed 'To a beautiful Young
Lady, who had been harshly spoken of on account of her
fondness
for
taking long walks in the Country'.
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William Wordsworth |
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--on mine, old age doth sit;
Thine decked with jewels, mine with these gray hairs;
We both are Kings, yet bear a
different
crown;
And should some impious hand upon thy head
Heap wrongs and insult, with thine own strong arm
Thou canst avenge them!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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A sort of informal committee--consisting of more than half
the authors here represented--have arranged the book and decided what
should be printed and what omitted, but, as a general rule, the poets
have been allowed absolute freedom in this direction,
limitations
of space
only being imposed upon them.
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Imagists |
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For me,
You stand poised
In the blue and buoyant air,
Cinctured
by bright winds,
Treading the sunlight.
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Imagists |
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She is dead who never lived,
She who made
pretence
of being:
From her hands the book has slipped
In which her eyes read nothing.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But, when he had refused the proffered gold,
To cruel injuries he became a prey,
Sore
traversed
in whate'er he bought and sold:
His troubles grew upon him day by day,
Till all his substance fell into decay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Ididnotknow
One half the substance of his speech with me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I know a bright world of snowy hills at Boonton,
A blue and white dazzling light on everything one sees,
The ice-covered
branches
of the hemlocks sparkle
Bending low and tinkling in the sharp thin breeze,
And iridescent crystals fall and crackle on the snow-crust
With the winter sun drawing cold blue shadows from the trees.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The drip of
widening
waters seemed to weep,
All fountains sobbed and gurgled as they sprang,
Somewhere a cataract cried out in its leap
Sheer down a headlong steep;
High over all cloud-thunders gave a clang.
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Christina Rossetti |
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" It was no palace-hall
Lofty and
luminous
wherein we stood,
But natural dungeon where ill footing was
And scant supply of light.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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No darker joy than this
Golden amazement now
Shall dare intrude into our dazzling lives:
Stain were it now to know
Mists of sweet warmth and deep
delicious
colour,
Those lovable accomplices that come
Befriending languid hours.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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count it to thy fame
That thither many times the Painter came;-- 230
One elm yet bears his name, a
feathery
tree and tall.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The Dong with a
luminous
Nose!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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20
Nature will either end thee quite;
Or, lengthening out thy season of delight,
Preserve for thee, by
individual
right,
A young lamb's heart among the full-grown flocks.
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William Wordsworth |
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'
Sire, I went: the blade itself deceived her;
She thought me the victor seeing me there,
And
betrayed
her love in her swift anger
With so much agitation and impatience,
I could not gain a moment's audience.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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With terrors round, can Reason hold her throne,
Despise the known, nor tremble at the
unknown?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a
physical
medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Poe - 5 |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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TO cede, at first, their numbers forced the train;
But rallied by our knight they were again;
A desp'rate push he made;
repulsed
their force;
And by his valour stopt, at length, their course;
In which attack a mortal wound he got,
But was not left for dead upon the spot.
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La Fontaine |
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"They cast me living in a dreary tomb,
Never mine eyes saw
sunlight
pierce the gloom,
Only ye, brother angels, used to sweep
Down from your heaven, and visit me in sleep.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He at once gave orders that representatives should be
sent with presents to King Scydrothemis, who was then reigning at
Sinope, and on their departure he
instructed
them to consult the
oracle of Apollo at Delphi.
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Tacitus |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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--Others that in
composition
are nothing but what is rough and
broken.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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My Lady, you might trust
Your
daughter
with your fame.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Then, when the
mellowing
years have made thee man,
No more shall mariner sail, nor pine-tree bark
Ply traffic on the sea, but every land
Shall all things bear alike: the glebe no more
Shall feel the harrow's grip, nor vine the hook;
The sturdy ploughman shall loose yoke from steer,
Nor wool with varying colours learn to lie;
But in the meadows shall the ram himself,
Now with soft flush of purple, now with tint
Of yellow saffron, teach his fleece to shine.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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One must be able
to make a king of faery or an old countryman or a modern lover speak
that language which is his and nobody else's, and speak it with so much
of
emotional
subtlety that the hearer may find it hard to know whether
it is the thought or the word that has moved him, or whether these
could be separated at all.
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Yeats |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Poe - 5 |
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A SINGLE blow he patiently endured;
The second, howsoe'er, his
patience
cured;
The third was more severe, and each was worse;
The punishment he now began to curse;
Two lusty wights, with cudgels thrashed his back
And regularly gave him thwack and thwack;
He cried, he roared, for grace he begged his lord,
Who marked each blow, and would no ease accord;
But carefully observed, from time to time,
That lenity he always thought sublime;
His gravity preserved; considered too
The blows received and what continued due.
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La Fontaine |
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The myrrh-hyacinth
spread across low slopes,
violets
streaked
black ridges
through the grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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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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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Appoloinaire |
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er glent with y3en gray,
A
semloker
?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"And now beside thee,
bleating
lamb,
I can lie down and sleep,
Or think on Him who bore thy name,
Graze after thee, and weep.
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blake-poems |
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The Sun is in the Lion mounted high,
The Syrian star
Barks from afar,
And with his sultry breath infects the sky;
The ground below is parched, the heavens above us fry;
The shepherd drives his fainting flock
Beneath the covert of a rock
And seeks refreshing
rivulets
nigh.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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[_The body of_
ALCESTIS
_is carried into the house by mourners;_
ADMETUS _follows it.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The reason is to be found in the
ubiquitous
presence
of offensive men and women.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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) can copy and
distribute it in the United States without permission and
without paying
copyright
royalties.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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" It
runs thus: "Many, even as I, visited that fountain, but some of
these are dead and some have
journeyed
afar.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He would be
a poet who could impress the winds and streams into his service, to
speak for him; who nailed words to their primitive senses, as farmers
drive down stakes in the spring, which the frost has heaved; who
derived his words as often as he used them,--transplanted them to his
page with earth adhering to their roots; whose words were so true and
fresh and natural that they would appear to expand like the buds at
the approach of spring, though they lay half smothered between two
musty leaves in a library,--aye, to bloom and bear fruit there, after
their kind, annually, for the faithful reader, in
sympathy
with
surrounding Nature.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Listen,
Stranger!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_hu_ reduced to the
breathing
_'u_; read _i-ni-'u_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Would but some winged Angel ere too late
Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate,
And make the stern
Recorder
otherwise
Enregister, or quite obliterate!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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If the government of the Republic picked him saying,
"You are wanted, your country takes you"--
if the Republic put a stethoscope to his heart
and looked at his teeth and tested his eyes and said,
"You are a citizen of the Republic and a sound
animal in all parts and functions--the Republic takes you"--
then to-day the baskets of flowers are all for the Republic,
the roses, the songs, the
steamboat
whistles,
the proclamations of the honorable orators--
they are all for the Republic.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Che se 'l conte Ugolino aveva voce
d'aver tradita te de le castella,
non dovei tu i
figliuoi
porre a tal croce.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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" said the colonel: the battle
had shuddered and faded away,
Wraith of a fiery enchantment that left only
ashes and blood-sprinkled clay--
"Ride to the left and examine that ridge, where
the enemy's
sharpshooters
stood.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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For never, I fancy, did a golden cord
From off the firmament above let down
The mortal generations to the fields;
Nor sea, nor
breakers
pounding on the rocks
Created them; but earth it was who bore--
The same to-day who feeds them from herself.
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Lucretius |
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imprudence
is a word,
Which here to use would truly be absurd.
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La Fontaine |
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"
MENALCAS
"As moisture to the corn, to ewes with young
Lithe willow, as arbute to the
yeanling
kids,
So sweet Amyntas, and none else, to me.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And thou, my heart, to me alone that shows
Disloyal
still, what cruel guides of late
In thee find shelter, now the chosen mate
Of my most mischievous and bitter foes?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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SAS}
Luvah & Vala
trembling
& shrinking, beheld the great Work master {According to Erdman, the first rendition of the line read "beheld the lord of ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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XCIII
When in the spring the
swallows
all return,
And the bleak bitter sea grows mild once more,
With all its thunders softened to a sigh;
When to the meadows the young green comes back,
And swelling buds put forth on every bough, 5
With wild-wood odours on the delicate air;
Ah, then, in that so lovely earth wilt thou
With all thy beauty love me all one way,
And make me all thy lover as before?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Adieu, brave Moor, use
Desdemona
well.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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You shall sit in the middle well-pois'd
thousands
and thousands of years,
As to-day from one side the nobles of Asia come to you,
As to-morrow from the other side the queen of England sends her
eldest son to you.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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on weres
wæstmum
(_in man's form_), 1353; nom.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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MAY
I cannot tell you how it was;
But this I know: it came to pass
Upon a bright and breezy day
When May was young; ah,
pleasant
May!
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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To use the language of common speech, but to employ always the _exact_
word, not the nearly-exact, nor the merely
decorative
word.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Now for the rebels which stand out in Ireland,
Expedient manage must be made, my liege,
Ere further leisure yicld them further means
For their
advantage
and your Highness' loss.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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And I have known the eyes already, known them all--
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and
wriggling
on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
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T.S. Eliot |
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And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the
woodlands
I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Their
Poets, including Hafiz, who are (with the exception of Firdausi) the
most considerable in Persia,
borrowed
largely, indeed, of Omar's
material, but turning it to a mystical Use more convenient to
Themselves and the People they addressed; a People quite as quick of
Doubt as of Belief; as keen of Bodily sense as of Intellectual; and
delighting in a cloudy composition of both, in which they could float
luxuriously between Heaven and Earth, and this World and the Next, on
the wings of a poetical expression, that might serve indifferently for
either.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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May God never grant me power
Not
inspired
by true love's art!
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my
delicate
youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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For there, in person, Charles kept watch and ward
With many, practised
warriors
every one;
Two Angelines, two Guidos, Angelier,
Avino, Avolio, Otho, and Berlinghier.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Another wish'd, mid that eternal spring,
To meet his rosy child, with feathery sails,
Sweeping, eye-earnestly, through almond vales: 380
Who, suddenly, should stoop through the smooth wind,
And with the balmiest leaves his temples bind;
And, ever after, through those regions be
His messenger, his little Mercury,
Some were athirst in soul to see again
Their fellow
huntsmen
o'er the wide champaign
In times long past; to sit with them, and talk
Of all the chances in their earthly walk;
Comparing, joyfully, their plenteous stores
Of happiness, to when upon the moors, 390
Benighted, close they huddled from the cold,
And shar'd their famish'd scrips.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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WAGNER:
Ich seh ihn ungewiss und
furchtsam
uns umspringen,
Weil er, statt seines Herrn, zwei Unbekannte sieht.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The Clown Chastised
Eyes, lakes of my simple passion to be reborn
Other than as the actor who
gestures
with his hand
As with a pen, and evokes the foul soot of the lamps,
Here's a window in the walls of cloth I've torn.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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The same
sentiments are kept up with equal spirit and
tenderness
in the sixth
stanza, but the second and fourth lines ending with short syllables
hurt the whole.
| Guess: |
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Robert Forst |
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We
disembark
and worship Apollo's
town.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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We indeed will
gratefully
carry these words to our
fathers' city, and, if fortune grant a way, will make thee at one with
King Latinus.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where
harpsichords
and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your withered finger,
From which Woman flows in Sibylline whiteness to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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To find a friend who has these qualities,
Who has, and gives
Those qualities upon which
friendship
lives.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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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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What
pleasures
crowd its ways,
That man should take such pains
To seek them all his days?
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John Clare |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
In substance the 'Essay on Man' is a
discussion
of the moral order of
the world.
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Alexander Pope |
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" Like Lampon, he swears by the
birds, instead of
swearing
by the gods.
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Aristophanes |
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Meanwhile, within the dark of London, I
Shall, with my
forehead
resting on my hand,
Not cease remembering your distant land;
Endeavouring to reconstruct aright
How some treed hill has looked in evening light;
Or be imagining the blue of skies
Now as in heaven, now as in your eyes;
Or in my mind confusing looks or words
Of yours with dawnlight, or the song of birds:
Not able to resist, not even keep
Myself from hovering near you in my sleep:
You still as callous to my thought and me
As flowers to the purpose of the bee.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I have
forgotten
her.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Out of the window
perilously
spread
Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Aricia,
princess
of the royal blood of Athens.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And when amongst them looking round I came,
A yellow purse I saw with azure wrought,
That wore a lion's
countenance
and port.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The vane a little to the east
Scares muslin souls away;
If
broadcloth
breasts are firmer
Than those of organdy,
Who is to blame?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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What tender vows our last sad kiss
delayed!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Difficulties
arising from our
own Passions, Fancies, Faculties, etc.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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E poi ch'a riguardar oltre mi diedi,
vidi genti a la riva d'un gran fiume;
per ch'io dissi: <
ch'i' sappia quali sono, e qual costume
le fa di
trapassar
parer si pronte,
com' i' discerno per lo fioco lume>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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that hath been thy craft,
By mixing
somewhat
true to vent more lyes.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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tous les
agenouillages
anciens et les
peines _releves_ a sa suite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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