Antinous
spake, whose answer all approved.
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Of al my lyf, sin that day I was born,
So gentil plee in love or other thing 485
Ne herde never no man me beforn,
Who-[so] that hadde leyser and cunning
For to reherse hir chere and hir speking;
And from the morwe gan this speche laste
Til
dounward
drow the sonne wonder faste.
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The hours slid fast, as hours will,
Clutched tight by greedy hands;
So faces on two decks look back,
Bound to
opposing
lands.
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An hundred great towns are inhabited in that opulent
realm; from it our
forefather
Teucer of old, if I recall the tale
aright, sailed to the Rhoetean coasts and chose a place for his kingdom.
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I will lead thee
into the midst of Erech of the wide places,
even unto the holy house,
dwelling
place of Anu.
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Terrified &
drinking
tears of woe
Shuddring she wove--nine days & nights Sleepless her food was tears
Wondring she saw her woof begin to animate.
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Blake - Zoas |
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TO MAKE AN
AMBLONGUS
PIE.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or
Flattery
soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
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Golden Treasury |
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Sprytes of the bleste, and everich Seyncte ydedde,
Poure owte your
pleasaunce
on mie fadres hedde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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Here they are:--
Where are the joys I have met in the
morning?
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Robert Burns |
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_ One of the twelve
divisions
of the zodiac.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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" I thus replied:
"Say who thou wast, if thou wouldst have mine aid;
And if I extricate thee not, far down
As to the lowest ice may I
descend!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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[43] The
necessaries
of life.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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What strings
symphonious
tremble in the air,
What strains of vocal transport round her play?
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Golden Treasury |
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Like rock or stone, it is o'ergrown
With lichens to the very top,
And hung with heavy tufts of moss,
A
melancholy
crop:
Up from the earth these mosses creep,
And this poor thorn they clasp it round
So close, you'd say that they were bent
With plain and manifest intent,
To drag it to the ground;
And all had joined in one endeavour
To bury this poor thorn for ever.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And when thou hast brought it, burn anear my bed
Storax and cassia; and let wealth be found
To cover my bed with such strife of colour,
Crimson and tawny and purple-inspired gold,
That eyes beholding it may take therefrom
Splendid imagination of the strife
Of love with love's
implacable
desire.
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nisi quod O
habet _leuiterque sonant_:
_lenique
sonant_ Lennep: _leni
resonant_ Lachm.
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I do believe, I have dusted some already,
That, soon or late, your
Parliament
is ours.
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Denying that which mine own spirit guesses
--Our great and ancient fame is also known--
Can I tear off the scarf which veils my tresses,
And with an early
widowhood
atone?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Sleep is
supposed
to be,
By souls of sanity,
The shutting of the eye.
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Meredith - Poems |
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How many a
doubtful
day shall sink in night,
Ere the Frank robber turn him from his spoil,
And Freedom's stranger-tree grow native of the soil?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Oberon, the beauteous God
Here, to-night
perceive
I!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The bravest of the host,
Surrendering the last,
Nor even of defeat aware
When
cancelled
by the frost.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Hardly could they tear
themselves
away; indeed,
Prince Vassily Ivanovitch, I began to think that we
should not succeed in getting any private talk.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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THIS ETEXT IS OTHERWISE
PROVIDED
TO YOU "AS-IS".
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I,
haplesse
soule, that never knew a frend
But to bewayle his too untimely end, 50
Whose hopes (cropt in the bud) have never come
But to sitt weeping on a sencelesse tombe,
That hides not dust enough to count the teares
Which I have fruitlesse spent in so few yeares,
I that have trusted those that would have given 55
For our deare Saviour and the Sonne of heaven
Ten times the valew Judas had of yore,
Onely to sell him for three peeces more;
I that have lov'd and trusted thus in vaine
Yet weepe for thee, and till the clowdes shall daigne 60
To throw on Egipt more then Nile ere sweld,
These teares of mine shalbee unparellell'd.
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John Donne |
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The early lilacs became part of this child,
And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and red
clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird,
And the Third-month lambs and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the
mare's foal and the cow's calf,
And the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side,
And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there, and the
beautiful curious liquid,
And the water-plants with their
graceful
flat heads, all became part of him.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
MUTE OPINION
I
I TRAVERSED a dominion
Whose
spokesmen
spake out strong
Their purpose and opinion
Through pulpit, press, and song.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Boys and girls,
And women, that would groan to see a child
Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war,
The best
amusement
for our morning meal!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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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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III
Puis la Vierge n'est plus que la Vierge du livre;
Les
mystiques
elans se cassent quelquefois,
Et vient la pauvrete des images que cuivre
L'ennui, l'enluminure atroce et les vieux bois.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Sweet is the
moonlight
on the tree,
The stars above the glassy lake,
That from the bottom look at me
Through shadows of the crimping brake.
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John Clare |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
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Appoloinaire |
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190
On the other side, I called to mind those truths
That are the common-places of the schools--
(A theme for boys, too hackneyed for their sires,)
Yet, with a revelation's liveliness,
In all their comprehensive bearings known 195
And visible to philosophers of old,
Men who, to
business
of the world untrained,
Lived in the shade; and to Harmodius known
And his compeer Aristogiton, [L] known
To Brutus--that tyrannic power is weak, 200
Hath neither gratitude, nor faith, nor love,
Nor the support of good or evil men
To trust in; that the godhead which is ours
Can never utterly be charmed or stilled;
That nothing hath a natural right to last 205
But equity and reason; that all else
Meets foes irreconcilable, and at best
Lives only by variety of disease.
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William Wordsworth |
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Few get enough, -- enough is one;
To that
ethereal
throng
Have not each one of us the right
To stealthily belong?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And with the gipsies there will be a king
And a thousand
desperadoes
just his style,
With all their rags dyed in the blood of roses,
Splashed with the blood of angels, and of demons.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Come, let us gather our nets from the shore,
and set our
catamarans
free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for
we are the sons of the sea.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Only Rome could mighty Rome resemble,
Only Rome force sacred Rome to tremble:
So Fate's command issued its decree,
No other power, however bold or wise,
Could boast of
matching
her who matched we see,
Her power with earth's, her courage with the sky's.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The rush of their charge is
resounding
still
That saved the army at Chancellorsville.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Bee't their comfort
We are comming thither:
Gracious
England hath
Lent vs good Seyward, and ten thousand men,
An older, and a better Souldier, none
That Christendome giues out
Rosse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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It must have been conceived and coddled first
By some old shopkeeper in Nuremberg,
His slippers warm, his
children
amply nursed,
Who, with his lighted meerschaum in his hand,
His nightcap on his head, one summer night
Sat drowsing at his door.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And when she wakt, he waited diligent,
With humble service to her will prepard:
From her faire eyes he tooke commaundement, 80
And ever by her lookes
conceived
her intent.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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No hint of mine may hence
To
theeward
fly: to thy locked sense
Explain none can
Life's pending plan:
Thou wilt thy ignorant entry make
Though skies spout fire and blood and nations quake.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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SHELLEY'S SKYLARK
(_The neighbourhood of Leghorn_: _March_, 1887)
SOMEWHERE afield here something lies
In Earth's oblivious eyeless trust
That moved a poet to prophecies--
A pinch of unseen, unguarded dust
The dust of the lark that Shelley heard,
And made
immortal
through times to be;--
Though it only lived like another bird,
And knew not its immortality.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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In one of
the ballads the Douglas is killed by a
nameless
English archer,
and the Percy by a Scottish spearman; in the other, the Percy
slays the Douglas in single combat, and is himself made prisoner.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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At
Hawkshead
he read English
literature, learned Latin and Mathematics, and wrote both English and
Latin verse.
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William Wordsworth |
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Shall lovers higgle, heart for heart,
Till wooing grows a trading mart
Where much for little, and all for part,
Make love a
cheapening
art,
Fair Lady?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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e whiche
p{re}sence
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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>>
1609
CYMBELINE
by William Shakespeare
Dramatis Personae
CYMBELINE, King of Britain
CLOTEN, son to the Queen by a former husband
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS, a gentleman, husband to Imogen
BELARIUS, a
banished
lord, disguised under the name of Morgan
GUIDERIUS and ARVIRAGUS, sons to Cymbeline, disguised under the
names of POLYDORE and CADWAL, supposed sons to Belarius
PHILARIO, Italian, friend to Posthumus
IACHIMO, Italian, friend to Philario
A FRENCH GENTLEMAN, friend to Philario
CAIUS LUCIUS, General of the Roman Forces
A ROMAN CAPTAIN
TWO BRITISH CAPTAINS
PISANIO, servant to Posthumus
CORNELIUS, a physician
TWO LORDS of Cymbeline's court
TWO GENTLEMEN of the same
TWO GAOLERS
QUEEN, wife to Cymbeline
IMOGEN, daughter to Cymbeline by a former queen
HELEN, a lady attending on Imogen
APPARITIONS
Lords, Ladies, Roman Senators, Tribunes, a Soothsayer, a
Dutch Gentleman, a Spanish Gentleman, Musicians, Officers,
Captains, Soldiers, Messengers, and Attendants
<
SHAKESPEARE IS COPYRIGHT 1990-1993 BY WORLD LIBRARY, INC.
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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[He draws
MARMADUKE
to the dungeon.
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XVII
But
meanwhile
in the centre
Great deeds of arms were wrought;
There Aulus the Dictator
And there Valerius fought.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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He went to Knowsley, and the
drawings
in the "Knowsley Menagerie"
(now a rare and highly-prized work among book collectors) are by Lear's
hand.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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after he had
gathered
up the treasure, he
hasted to return, so as to be able to show it to the mortally-wounded
Bēowulf), 2785.
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Beowulf |
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'Tis much he dares,
And to that
dauntlesse
temper of his Minde,
He hath a Wisdome, that doth guide his Valour,
To act in safetie.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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But whan that he hath founden oon
That trusty is and trew as stone,
And [hath] assayed him at al,
And found him stedefast as a wal, 5250
And of his freendship be certeyne,
He shal him shewe bothe Ioye and peyne,
And al that [he] dar thinke or sey,
Withoute
shame, as he wel may.
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Imagists |
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Boker
BARBARA FRIETCHIE, John
Greenleaf
Whittier
FREDERICKSBURG, Thomas Bailey Aldrich
MUSIC IN CAMP, John R.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But you, you miserable greybeards, you
contribute
nothing to the
public charges; on the contrary, you have wasted the treasure of our
forefathers, as it was called, the treasure amassed in the days of the
Persian Wars.
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Aristophanes |
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ee myd my body do,
Als
wisselich
Iesus of heuene my soule vndergo.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Hath not the potter power
over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and
another unto
dishonour?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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ou or
deceiuest
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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A FOREWORD
When the first Miscellany of American Poetry appeared in 1920,
innumerable were the questions asked by both readers and
reviewers
of
publishers and contributors alike.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an Old Lady of Chertsey,
Who made a
remarkable
curtsey;
She twirled round and round, till she sank underground,
Which distressed all the people of Chertsey.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Sentant ta bourse a sec autant que ton palais,
Recolteras-tu l'or des voutes
azurees?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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accepts the text but
translates
"the long
accumulating treasure.
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Beowulf |
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*****
For just as all things of
creation
are,
In their whole nature, each to each unlike,
So must their atoms be in shape unlike--
Not since few only are fashioned of like form,
But since they all, as general rule, are not
The same as all.
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None the less does the fleet run safe on its sea path, and
glides on
unalarmed
in lord Neptune's assurance.
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Shall see his bloody spoils in triumph borne,
With this keen javelin shall his breast be gored,
And
prostrate
heroes bleed around their lord.
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On losing the process, the muse
overheard
him [Holy Willie]
at his devotions, as follows:--
O Thou, who in the heavens does dwell,
Who, as it pleases best Thysel',
Sends ane to heaven an' ten to hell,
A' for Thy glory,
And no for ony gude or ill
They've done afore Thee!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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KINGS IN LEGENDS
Kings in old legends seem
Like
mountains
rising in the evening light.
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Rilke - Poems |
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WITHIN the royal breast
suspicions
rose,
But nothing then the monarch would disclose.
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La Fontaine |
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STREET CRIES
When dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky,
Rousing the world to labour's various cry,
To tend the flock, to bind the mellowing grain,
From ardent toil to forge a little gain,
And fasting men go forth on
hurrying
feet,
BUY BREAD, BUY BREAD, rings down the eager street.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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To thee clepe I, thou goddesse of torment,
Thou cruel Furie, sorwing ever in peyne;
Help me, that am the sorwful
instrument
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That helpeth lovers, as I can, to pleyne!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And Otis Yeere bore himself as
befitted
the hero of many tales.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Here were they shown thee, not that fate assigns
This for their sphere, but for a sign to thee
Of that celestial
furthest
from the height.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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They took up a roll and some
Camomile
tea,
And both were as happy as happy could be,
Till Mrs.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Thy life a banquet--but its board a
scaffold
at the close,
Where far from Christ's beatic reign, Satanic deeds arose!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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the lake
A
conscious
slumber seems to take,
And would not, for the world, awake.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"Twenty-five--thirty-five--a man's in his prime then, they
say--forty-five--a middle-aged man just entering politics--fifty-five
'died at the comparatively early age of fifty-five,'
according
to the
newspapers.
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Kipling - Poems |
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the Thane of Cawdor liues
A prosperous Gentleman: And to be King,
Stands not within the
prospect
of beleefe,
No more then to be Cawdor.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Hold me, my love — I know the answer now, O wayward, ever
wandering
feet of man— Always the journey ends where it began !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My
messengers
were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Notes:
[The
references
are, except in the first note only, to the stanzas of
the Fifth edition.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM
WHY should this flower delay so long
To show its
tremulous
plumes?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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ætgifan
= _to render, to afford_; omitted in Gloss.
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Beowulf |
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The rich_ LADY
ALLWORTH
_has
feasted him and is fallen in love with him; he lives to
be a greater prey than ever to_ OVERREACH.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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