The notion had
occurred
to her,
The children would be happier,
If they were taught to vary.
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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, _to
surround
with iron-work, bands_, etc.
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Beowulf |
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Just now when she came near I thought I heard
Other small steps beating upon the floor,
And a faint music blowing in the wind,
Invisible
pipes giving her feet the time.
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Yeats |
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(she cries)
Snatch'd in thy bloom from these
desiring
eyes!
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Iliad - Pope |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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My draught of passion hath been deep--
I revell'd, and I now would sleep
And after
drunkenness
of soul
Succeeds the glories of the bowl
An idle longing night and day
To dream my very life away.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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O Atthis, how I loved thee long ago
In that fair
perished
summer by the sea!
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Sappho |
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Thus Harold inly said, and passed along,
Yet not
insensible
to all which here
Awoke the jocund birds to early song
In glens which might have made e'en exile dear:
Though on his brow were graven lines austere,
And tranquil sternness which had ta'en the place
Of feelings fierier far but less severe,
Joy was not always absent from his face,
But o'er it in such scenes would steal with transient trace.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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My song take flight,
present
yourself
to her sweetly,
but for her might
Arnaut might strive more lightly.
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Troubador Verse |
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This Guest of Summer,
The Temple-haunting Barlet does approue,
By his loued Mansonry, that the Heauens breath
Smells
wooingly
here: no Iutty frieze,
Buttrice, nor Coigne of Vantage, but this Bird
Hath made his pendant Bed, and procreant Cradle,
Where they must breed, and haunt: I haue obseru'd
The ayre is delicate.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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All that's best remains
In the
essential
vision that can make
One light for life, love, death, their joys, their pains.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Then fret not lest the state should ail;
A private man such
thoughts
may spare;
Enjoy the present hour's regale,
And banish care.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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hoc tibi, quod potui,
confectum
carmine munus
pro multis, Alli, redditur officiis,
ne uestrum scabra tangat rubigine nomen
haec atque illa dies atque alia atque alia.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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However, there is no cue from the manuscript about exactly where these lines should be inserted, so Erdman's
placement
of them is conjectural.
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Blake - Zoas |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up,
nonproprietary
or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Her throat has the
antelope
curve,
And her cheek just the colour and line
Which fade not before him nor swerve:
Yet _she_ has no child!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Oh, many a Cup of this
forbidden
Wine
Must drown the memory of that insolence!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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II
I squared the broad foundations in
Of ashlared masonry;
I moulded mullions thick and thin,
Hewed fillet and ogee;
I circleted
Each
sculptured
head
With nimb and canopy.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Songs of a Strolling Player
THROUGH the blossoms softly simmer
Drops
profound
and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
So spoke the wretch, but,
shunning
farther fray,
Turn'd his proud step, and left them on their way.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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, the foolish
enchanter
(Archimago) would
not have rued his (St.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Howsoe'er,
I let my
business
wait upon their sport.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The editors feel so encouraged at the kind reception
accorded
their edition
of Bēowulf (1883), that, in spite of its many shortcomings, they have
determined to prepare a second revised edition of the book, and thus
endeavor to extend its sphere of usefulness.
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Beowulf |
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[38] The story goes that a traveller who had hired an ass, having placed
himself in its shadow to escape the heat of the sun, was sued by the
driver, who had
pretended
that he had let the ass, not but its shadow;
hence the Greek proverb, _to quarrel about the shade of an ass_, i.
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Aristophanes |
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Seven of these he restored in
printing
his
second edition, as noted on p.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The thing ended, however, in the consolidation of the
thirteen
states,
with some fifteen or twenty others, in the most odious and insupportable
despotism that was ever heard of upon the face of the Earth.
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Poe - 5 |
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General Terms of Use and
Redistributing
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Some desperate attempts were made
To start a conversation;
"Madam," the sportive Brown essayed,
"Which kind of recreation,
Hunting or fishing, have you made
Your special
occupation?
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Lewis Carroll |
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She sings,
regardless
of her rest, 1820.
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William Wordsworth |
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Enter
Macbeths
Wife alone with a Letter.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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[in Anhui], poured a
libation
on his grave and
forbade the woodmen to cut down the trees which grew there.
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Li Po |
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385
`And that thou hast so muche y-doon for me,
That I ne may it never-more deserve,
This knowe I wel, al mighte I now for thee
A
thousand
tymes on a morwen sterve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
IV
Yes, I have a
thousand
tongues,
And nine and ninety-nine lie.
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Stephen Crane |
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The present volume
contains
a reproduction[2] in black and white of
the original MS.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Yet more; the tyrant Genius, still at strife
With all the tender Charities of life,
When close and closer they begin to strain, 610
No fond hand left to staunch th' unclosing vein,
Tearing their
bleeding
ties leaves Age to groan
On his wet bed, abandon'd and alone.
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William Wordsworth |
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Hast thou not tried us enough,
Jehovah?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For the Gods' sake, desert me not,
For thine own
desolate
children's sake.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I sit and think of it all,
And the blue June twilight dies,--
Down in the
clanging
square
A street-piano cries
And stars come out in the skies.
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Sara Teasdale |
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But--dream o'er all to stir my soul,
And shine the
brightest
on the roll,
Is when a land of tyrant's toll
By sword is rid.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Se Giove stanchi 'l suo fabbro da cui
crucciato
prese la folgore aguta
onde l'ultimo di percosso fui;
o s'elli stanchi li altri a muta a muta
in Mongibello a la focina negra,
chiamando "Buon Vulcano, aiuta, aiuta!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The dogs were handsomely
provided
for,
But shortly afterwards the parrot died too.
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T.S. Eliot |
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" KAU}
The heavens were closd & and spirits mournd their bondage night and day
And the Divine Vision appeard in Luvahs robes of blood {This line written over an erased line,
possibly
ending "within.
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Blake - Zoas |
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'113-132'
Pope here
describes
the flatterers who were foolish enough to pay him
personal compliments.
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Alexander Pope |
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Tapestries
were hung on
the walls, and willing hands prepared the banquet.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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_4432
there]then
edition 1818.
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Shelley |
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Before his face his lady Bramimunde
Bewailed and cried, with very bitter rue;
Twenty
thousand
and more around him stood,
All of them cursed Carlun and France the Douce.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Vieni a veder Montecchi e Cappelletti,
Monaldi e Filippeschi, uom sanza cura:
color gia tristi, e questi con
sospetti!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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They shall find
their
inspiration
in real objects to-day, symptoms of the past and future.
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Whitman |
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Onward I mov'd: he also onward mov'd,
Who led me,
coasting
still, wherever place
Along the rock was vacant, as a man
Walks near the battlements on narrow wall.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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XI
When the Cretan maidens
Dancing up the full moon
Round some fair new altar,
Trample the soft
blossoms
of fine grass,
There is mirth among them.
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Sappho |
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One can, at home, enough
retirement
get.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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too soon of it we were bereft
When on that riven night and stormy sea
Panthea claimed her singer as her own,
And slew the mouth that praised her; since which time we walk alone,
Save for that fiery heart, that morning star {129}
Of re-arisen England, whose clear eye
Saw from our tottering throne and waste of war
The grand Greek limbs of young Democracy
Rise mightily like Hesperus and bring
The great
Republic!
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Wilde - Poems |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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CHORUS
Would God that on the wand'ring brine
Thou and this
braggart
tongue of thine
Had sunk beneath the main--
Thy mast and planks, made fast in vain!
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Aeschylus |
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Some tread the thicket by the babbling stream,
Their hearts with untold secrets ill at ease;
Calling the lover of their childhood's dream,
They wound the green bark of the
shooting
trees.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The
gentleman
is pleased to jest now!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Cain said to Jabal (father of them that dwell
In tents): "Spread here the curtain of thy tent,"
And they spread wide the
floating
canvas roof,
And made it fast and fixed it down with lead.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The man's rank, the
magnitude
of the offence,
Demand your concession and submission,
Beyond the customary reparation.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Graham's goodness to me
has been
generous
and noble!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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neas was the first who dared to stay;
Apollo wedged him in the warrior's way,
But swell'd his bosom with
undaunted
might,
Half-forced and half-persuaded to the fight.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Had my lips been smitten into music by the
kisses that but made them bleed,
You had walked with Bice and the angels on
that verdant and
enamelled
mead.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Mussulmans and Giaours
Throw
kerchiefs
at a smile, and have no ruth
For any weeping.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And with
inveigling
colours court the air,
While the red fiags breathe on their topmasts high
Terror and war, but want an enemy.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Then change the scene, and let the next
present
A landscape of our motley
Parliament
;
And place, hard by the bar, on the left hand,
Circean Clifibrd with his charming wand j
Our pig-eyed on his — fashion.
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Marvell - Poems |
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A sense of
breathlessness
stilled all the world.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Denn jedem kommt sie wie sein
Liebchen
vor.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And I and all the souls in pain,
Who tramped the other ring,
Forgot if we
ourselves
had done
A great or little thing,
And watched with gaze of dull amaze
The man who had to swing.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Was it humility, to feel
honoured?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The little God o' the world jogs on the same old way
And is as
singular
as on the world's first day.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The little God o' the world jogs on the same old way
And is as
singular
as on the world's first day.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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His first patron was
Viscount
Eble III of Ventadorn.
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Troubador Verse |
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Fifth Self: Nay, it is I, the thinking self, the
fanciful
self,
the self of hunger and thirst, the one doomed to wander without
rest in search of unknown things and things not yet created; it is
I, not you, who would rebel.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Stung
And
poisoned
was my spirit: despair sung
A war-song of defiance 'gainst all hell.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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He's ours, though he kissed her but now,
He's ours, though she kissed in reply:
He's ours, though himself disavow,
And God's
universe
favour the lie;
Ours to claim, ours to clasp, ours below,
Ours above, .
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Came next in order, which they could not miss ;
How could the Dutch but be converted, when
The
Apostles
were so many fishermen ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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Grandson
of Atlas, wise of tongue,
O Mercury, whose wit could tame
Man's savage youth by power of song
And plastic game!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Thispoemforerunsatranslationof"TheSonnetsand
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Ballate of Guido
now in
preparation
E.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Mantillas
elsewhere
hide dull eyes--
Compared with these, how small!
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Sunday last as I was walking
In the gardens with Julietta,
By the railing round the bear-pit--
Gracious
Heavens!
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation
permitted
by
the applicable state law.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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In return for your glad words
Be sure all
greeting
that mine house affords
Is yours.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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In this my volume, the
chapters
are not numbered:
for the omission, I am not responsible; and I can only lament, what I
may not control.
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Tacitus |
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In one corner the car of summer's greenery
gloriously
motionless
forever.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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T.S. Eliot |
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for that detested band
Thy lying
prophecies
deceived the land;
Against Ulysses have thy vows been made,
For them thy daily orisons were paid:
Yet more, e'en to our bed thy pride aspires:
One common crime one common fate requires.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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There's chaps from the town and the field and the till and the cart,
And many to count are the stalwart, and many the brave,
And many the
handsome
of face and the handsome of heart,
And few that will carry their looks or their truth to the grave.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Imagists |
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And now how abhorred
in my
imagination
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Shakespeare |
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Pursue what chance or fate
proclaimeth
best;
Peace waits us on the shores of Acheron:
There no forced banquet claims the sated guest,
But Silence spreads the couch of ever welcome rest.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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There is one
commission
that I must trouble you with.
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Robert Forst |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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MEPHISTOPHELES (die Flamme besprechend):
Sei ruhig, freundlich
Element!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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If I have wander'd in those paths
Of life I ought to shun,
As something, loudly, in my breast,
Remonstrates I have done;
Thou know'st that Thou hast formed me
With
passions
wild and strong;
And list'ning to their witching voice
Has often led me wrong.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And Phaedra has delayed his
punishment!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Imprimis--ten day's "liver"--due to his
drinking
beer;
Later, a dose of fever--slight, but he called it severe.
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Kipling - Poems |
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An' wha on Ayr your
chanters
tune!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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