Not tears for the dead nor sighs,
But worship and joy divine
Shall win thee peace in thy skies,
O
daughter
mine!
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"
Quoth she, and
whistled
thrice.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"To kindle her shapely beauty,
And
illumine
her mind withal,
I give to the little person
The glowing and craving soul.
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Alban entitle his work _Novum
Organum_; which, though by the most of superficial men, who cannot get
beyond the title of nominals, it is not penetrated nor understood, it
really openeth all defects of
learning
whatsoever, and is a book
"Qui longum note scriptori proroget aevum.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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It came from the fang--like
teeth of the dwarf, who ground them and gnashed them as he foamed at
the mouth, and glared, with an expression of maniacal rage, into the
upturned
countenances
of the king and his seven companions.
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Poe - 5 |
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I joy
To come on undefiled
fountains
there,
To drain them deep; I joy to pluck new flowers,
To seek for this my head a signal crown
From regions where the Muses never yet
Have garlanded the temples of a man:
First, since I teach concerning mighty things,
And go right on to loose from round the mind
The tightened coils of dread religion;
Next, since, concerning themes so dark, I frame
Song so pellucid, touching all throughout
Even with the Muses' charm--which, as 'twould seem,
Is not without a reasonable ground:
For as physicians, when they seek to give
Young boys the nauseous wormwood, first do touch
The brim around the cup with the sweet juice
And yellow of the honey, in order that
The thoughtless age of boyhood be cajoled
As far as the lips, and meanwhile swallow down
The wormwood's bitter draught, and, though befooled,
Be yet not merely duped, but rather thus
Grow strong again with recreated health:
So now I too (since this my doctrine seems
In general somewhat woeful unto those
Who've had it not in hand, and since the crowd
Starts back from it in horror) have desired
To expound our doctrine unto thee in song
Soft-speaking and Pierian, and, as 'twere,
To touch it with sweet honey of the Muse--
If by such method haply I might hold
The mind of thee upon these lines of ours,
Till thou dost learn the nature of all things
And understandest their utility.
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An illness
which has long hung about me in all probability will speedily send me
beyond that bourne whence no
traveller
returns.
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the soaring genius'd Sylvester
That earlier loosed the knot great Newton tied,"
An algebraic theorem announced by Newton was
demonstrated
and extended
by Sylvester.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Thou
wanderer
through the woods,
How often has my spirit turned to thee!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Thine the tribunal which surpasseth
The show of human justice,
As God
surpasses
man.
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Shelley |
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"
--"Many mourn; many think
It is not
unattractive
to prink
Them in sables for heroes.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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RORLUND: Do you not all make
sacrifices
in a good
cause to save the lapsed and lost?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Gramercy
Park
For W.
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Sara Teasdale |
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With firm and regular step they wend--they never stop,
Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions;
One generation playing its part, and passing on,
Another generation playing its part, and passing on in its turn,
With faces turned sideways or
backward
towards me, to listen,
With eyes retrospective towards me.
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Whitman |
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sez he, 'I guess,
Though physic's good,' sez he,
'It doesn't foller thet he can swaller
Prescriptions
signed "J.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly
Landscape
with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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Appoloinaire |
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THE PASSIONATE
SHEPHERD
TO HIS LOVE.
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Golden Treasury |
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An
experienced
eye is never deceived.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Here
dwelling
on the hills
Little I know of Argos and its ills.
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Euripides - Electra |
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And Galahad fled along them bridge by bridge,
And every bridge as quickly as he crost
Sprang into fire and vanished, though I yearned
To follow; and thrice above him all the heavens
Opened and blazed with thunder such as seemed
Shoutings of all the sons of God: and first
At once I saw him far on the great Sea,
In silver-shining armour starry-clear;
And o'er his head the Holy Vessel hung
Clothed in white samite or a
luminous
cloud.
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Tennyson |
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The streets were strewed with flowers, and the windows filled
with ladies, dressed in the most splendid manner, who showered perfumed
waters
profusely
on the poet[I].
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Petrarch |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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To speak once more of odour;
Whatever
assail the nostrils, some can travel
A longer way than others.
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Lucretius |
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suae
10
_flamina_
GORVen, B m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Stephen Crane |
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The monarch sees but that which he commands,
Nor marks how wax or waste his
leaguering
bands.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Whether in death he waits for me, I know not;
But it had been an unforgivable thing
To have made this the end; not to have gone
To death as unto spousals, leaving life
As one sets down a work
faithfully
done,
And knows oneself by service justified,
Worthy of love, whether love be or not.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Is it no dream that nothing else remains
Of all my torments but this
answered
cry,
And have I had, O God, amid my chains,
The happiness to die?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
The
stranger
vanished .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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[101]
He drank to drunkenness, and being drunk,
Committed great enormities beneath
Pirithous' roof, and such as fill'd with rage
The Hero-guests; who therefore by his feet
Dragg'd him right through the vestibule, amerced
Of nose and ears, and he
departed
thence
Provoked to frenzy by that foul disgrace,
Whence war between the human kind arose 360
And the bold Centaurs--but he first incurred
By his ebriety that mulct severe.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Full many a stranger and from many a land
Hath lodged in this old castle, and my hand
Served them; but never has there passed this way
A
scurvier
ruffian than our guest to-day.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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129
_uilice_
Oh: _malulae_ Pauckstadt
132 _misera miser_ O: _miser ah miser_ GDAVen et sic R sed prius
_er_ super rasuram || _ha_ BC
134 _diceris_ ed.
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Latin - Catullus |
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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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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Why in that
rawnesse
left you Wife, and Childe?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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womb," are marked to be inserted; the entire group of lines is also crossed with a diagonal line which may
indicate
1) a later intention to delete them; or 2) that the stanza is meant to replace the stanza beginning "I die not Enitharmon.
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Blake - Zoas |
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from our grace receive
Such honours as befit a prince to give;
Sandals, a sword and robes, respect to prove,
And safe to sail with
ornaments
of love.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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In the death-chamber for a moment Death,
Shamed by the
presence
of that living Might,
Blushed to annihilation, and the breath
Revisited those lips, and Life's pale light _220
Flashed through those limbs, so late her dear delight.
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Shelley |
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and at once I visited
The
ceaseless
wonders of this ocean-bed.
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Keats |
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"
Thus speaking, on the floor the bow he placed
(With rich inlay the various floor was graced):
At
distance
far the feather'd shaft he throws,
And to the seat returns from whence he rose.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Garmented
soft in white,
Haughty, and yet how love-imbuing and tender!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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that our
knowledge
of
the dates--both as to the composition and first publication of the poems
--is now much more exact than before.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Came a black
And guarded
palanquin
to bear
The girl that ne'er comes back;
By royal writ, some nunnery
Still shields her from us all
Away, ye merry maids, and haste
To gather ere they fall!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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In every heart (quoth he) since Adam's sin
Two Founts there are, of
Suffering
and of Cheer!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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But my mind was weary Almost as the twilight of the day,
And my soul was sullen, and a little Tired of his
everlasting
talk.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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quamuis ista mihi mors est
inhonesta
futura:
mors inhonesta quidem, tu moriere tamen.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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10
XLVII
Like torn sea-kelp in the drift
Of the great tides of the sea,
Carried past the harbour-mouth
To the deep beyond return,
I am buoyed and borne away 5
On the
loveliness
of earth,
Little caring, save for thee,
Past the portals of the night.
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Sappho |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Plenam
interpunctionem
ante et post _certe_ statuerunt Scal.
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Latin - Catullus |
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But how will you make the
journey?
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Aristophanes |
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Not flowers, but peaches,
gathered
where the bees,
As downy, bask and boom
In sunshine and in gloom of trees.
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Christina Rossetti |
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I will only say that with an occasional exception
for some piece of rebelliousness or even levity which may have taken my
fancy, I have tried to choose no verse but such as in Wordsworth's phrase
The high and tender Muses shall accept
With gracious smile,
deliberately
pleased.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor venerates another so,
Nor is it
possible
to thought
A greater than itself to know.
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blake-poems |
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mulgus_ GRVen
11 _abhoret_ O:
fortasse
_aberrat_
13 _ac re_ O: _aut re_ cod.
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Latin - Catullus |
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And when they both had wept and wayld their fill, 195
Then forth they ran like two amazed deare,
Halfe mad through malice, and
revenging
will,
To follow her, that was the causer of their ill.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He preached upon "breadth" till it argued him narrow, --
The broad are too broad to define;
And of "truth" until it proclaimed him a liar, --
The truth never
flaunted
a sign.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Landed at Pevensey--I am from Pevensey--
Hath wasted all the land at Pevensey--
Hath harried mine own cattle--God
confound
him!
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Tennyson |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A
Sorceress
there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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When, too, fierce force of fury-winds at sea
Sweepeth a navy's admiral down the main
With his stout legions and his elephants,
Doth he not seek the peace of gods with vows,
And beg in prayer, a-tremble, lulled winds
And
friendly
gales?
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Lucretius |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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(225)
But this the gods in later times perform;
As yet the bulwark stood, and braved the storm;
The strokes yet echoed of
contending
powers;
War thunder'd at the gates, and blood distain'd the towers.
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Iliad - Pope |
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With _Advent_ and _Mir Zur Feier_, both published within the following
three years, a phase of
questioning
commences, a dim desire begins to
stir to reach out into the larger world "deep into life, out beyond
time.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with
ripeness
to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease;
For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
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Golden Treasury |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Fierce Love it was once steeled a mother's heart
With her own offspring's blood her hands to imbrue:
Mother, thou too wert cruel; say wert thou
More cruel, mother, or more
ruthless
he?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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[Sidenote C: Many sad birds upon bare twigs piped
piteously
for the cold.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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THE NIZAM OF HYDERABAD
(Presented at the Ramzan Durbar)
Deign, Prince, my tribute to receive,
This lyric offering to your name,
Who round your jewelled scepter bind
The lilies of a poet's fame;
Beneath whose sway concordant dwell
The peoples whom your laws embrace,
In brotherhood of diverse creeds,
And harmony of diverse race:
The votaries of the Prophet's faith,
Of whom you are the crown and chief
And they, who bear on Vedic brows
Their mystic symbols of belief;
And they, who worshipping the sun,
Fled o'er the old Iranian sea;
And they, who bow to Him who trod
The
midnight
waves of Galilee.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A dangerous insurrection, headed
by one Velasquez, a tailor, drove the king and his
adulterous
bride from
Lisbon.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Now winds live all in light,
Light has come down to earth and
blossoms
here,
And we have golden minds.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Came Wealhtheow forth,
queen of Hrothgar, heedful of courtesy,
gold-decked,
greeting
the guests in hall;
and the high-born lady handed the cup
first to the East-Danes' heir and warden,
bade him be blithe at the beer-carouse,
the land's beloved one.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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5
LIBATION
By
Marjorie
Allen Seiffert .
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Behold in thy body
The
yearnings
of all men measured and told,
Insatiate endless agonies of desire
Given thy flesh, the meaning of thy shape!
| Guess: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening
thy power to lend base subjects light?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons
scarcely
done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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She was crazed, we knew, and we
Humoured
her infirmity.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a
pleasant
fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the livelong day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
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Can you see it still," he cried, "my
brother?
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This banquet hall
Of Titans is so high, that he who shall
With wandering eye look up from beam to beam
Of the
confused
wild roof will haply seem
To wonder that the stars he sees not there.
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Between that zone where endless winter reigns
And that where flaming heat consumes the plains;
Array'd in green, beneath
indulgent
skies,
The queen of arts and arms, fair Europe lies.
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[Who animating times on times by the Force of her sweet song]
But standing on the Rocks her woven shadow glowing bright* {The line indicated here as erased (as it appears to be in the reproduction) Erdman notes is penciled in, as a replacement for the line indicated as struck out LFS}
PAGE 6 She drew the Spectre forth from Tharmas in her shining loom
Of Vegetation weeping in wayward infancy & sullen youth
Listning to her soft lamentations soon his tongue began
To Lisp out words & soon in masculine strength
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'T is more to guide, than spur the Muse's steed;
Restrain
his fury, than provoke his speed; 85
The winged courser, like a gen'rous horse,
Shows most true mettle when you check his course.
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Ah, better at the elm-tree's
sunbrowned
feet
If he had been content to let life fleet
Its wonted way!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Sur le plancher
frissonnaient
d'aise
Ses petits pieds si fins, si fins.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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He has quarrelled with his neighbours, he has scourged his foes;
Vassal counts and princes follow where his pennon goes,
Long-descended valiant lords whom the vulture knows,
On whose track the vulture swoops, when they ride in state
To break the strength of armies and topple down the great:
Each of these my
courteous
servant, none of these my mate.
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Christina Rossetti |
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But
speedily
now
shall I prove him the prowess and pride of the Geats,
shall bid him battle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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What
wretched
errors hath my heart committed,
Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
Cathedral
is a torch, and the houses next to it begin to scorch.
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Imagists |
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Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The
cherubim
are winged oxen, but in no way monstrous.
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Appoloinaire |
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TO
MISTRESS
DOROTHY PARSONS.
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Robert Herrick |
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This is one of the most
important
of the lyrics as a statement
of Donne's metaphysic of love, of the interconnexion and mutual
dependence of body and soul.
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John Donne |
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The
'purifi'd' of some editions points to a misunderstanding of Donne's
meaning; for saltness and
putrefaction
were not identical: 'For Salt
as incorruptible was the Symbol of friendship, and before the other
service was offered unto their guests.
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John Donne |
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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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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Gilgamish
and Enkidu
grappled with each other,
goring like an ox.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Amid the Tree now got, where plentie hung
Tempting so nigh, to pluck and eat my fill
I spar'd not, for such
pleasure
till that hour
At Feed or Fountain never had I found.
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Milton |
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'Please God, now, night fail us not cruelly,
Nor my friend be parted far from me,
Nor day nor dawn, let the
watchman
see!
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