'49 Pitholeon:'
the name of a foolish poet
mentioned
by Horace.
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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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Is it in
Nephelococcygia
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and most of Aeschines'[272] is?
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Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted;
Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone,
Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited
To any sensual feast with thee alone:
But my five wits nor my five senses can
Dissuade
one foolish heart from serving thee,
Who leaves unsway'd the likeness of a man,
Thy proud heart's slave and vassal wretch to be:
Only my plague thus far I count my gain,
That she that makes me sin awards me pain.
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To
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I must be laugh'd at
If, or for nothing or a little,
Should say myself offended, and with you
Chiefly i' the world; more laugh'd at that I should
Once name you
derogately
when to sound your name
It not concern'd me.
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Yet though the hideous prison-wall
Still hems him round and round,
And a spirit may not walk by night
That is with fetters bound,
And a spirit may but weep that lies
In such unholy ground,
He is at peace--this wretched man--
At peace, or will be soon:
There is no thing to make him mad,
Nor does Terror walk at noon,
For the
lampless
Earth in which he lies
Has neither Sun nor Moon.
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Shall I not see that hour before I die,
When I shall cull the flower of her springtime
Who makes my being
languish
in the dark?
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st_) sicut apud Lucretium; uide
Cartault
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Sigh
My soul, towards your brow where O calm sister,
An autumn dreams,
blotched
by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a melancholy garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
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Elsewhere
Agrippa, with favouring winds and gods, proudly leads on his column; on
his brows
glitters
the prow-girt naval crown, the haughty emblazonment
of the war.
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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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Till in the cold wind that
foreruns
the morn,
A blot in heaven, the Raven, flying high,
Croaked, and she thought, 'He spies a field of death;
For now the Heathen of the Northern Sea,
Lured by the crimes and frailties of the court,
Begin to slay the folk, and spoil the land.
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The French Text
Un Coup de Des - Page 1
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UN COUP DE DES JAMAIS, QUAND BIEN MEME LANCE DANS DES CIRCONSTANCES ETERNELLES DU FOND D'UN NAUFRAGE, Soit que l'Abime blanchi, etale, furieux sous une inclinaison planche desesperement d'aile, la sienne, par avance retombee d'un mal a dresser le vol et couvrant les jaillissements, coupant au ras les bonds tres a l'interieur resume l'ombre enfouie dans la profondeur, par cette voile alternative jusqu'adapter sa beante profondeur entant que la coque d'un batiment penche de l'un ou l'autre bord
LE MAITRE, hors d'anciens calculs, ou la manoeuvre avec l'age oubliee surgi jadis, il empoignait la barre inferant de cette configuration a ses pieds de l'horizon unanime, que se prepare s'agite et mele au poing qui l'etreindrait, comme on menace un destin et les vents, l'unique Nombre, qui ne peut pas etre un autre Esprit, pour le jeter dans la tempete en reployer la division et passer fier; hesite, cadavre par le bras ecarte du secret qu'il detient plutot que de jouer, en maniaque: chenu la partie au nom des flots, un envahit le chef, coule en barbe, soumise naufrage, cela direct de l'homme sans nef, n'importe ou vaine
ancestralement a n'ouvrir pas la main crispee par dela l'inutile tete, legs en la disparition, a quelqu'un ambigu, l'ulterieur demon immemorial, ayant de contrees nulles induit le vieillard vers cette conjonction supreme avec la probabilite, celui son ombre puerile caressee et polie et rendue et lavee assouplie par la vague, et soustraite aux durs os perdus entre les ais ne d'un ebat, la mer par l'aieul tentant ou l'aieul contre la mer, une chance oiseuse, Fiancailles dont le voile d'illusion rejailli leur hantise, ainsi que le fantome d'un geste chancellera, s'affalera, folie N'ABOLIRA
COMME SI Une insinuation simple au silence, enroulee avec ironie, ou le mystere precipite, hurle, dans quelque proche tourbillon d'hilarite et d'horreur, voltige autour du gouffre sans le joncher ni fuir et en berce le vierge indice COMME SI
plume solitaire eperdue, sauf que la rencontre ou l'effleure une toque de minuit et immobilise au velours chiffonne par un esclaffement sonore, cette blancheur rigide, derisoire en opposition au ciel, trop pour ne pas marquer exigument quiconque prince amer de l'ecueil, s'en coiffe comme de l'heroique,
irresistible
mais contenu par sa petite raison, virile en foudre
soucieux expiatoire et pubere muet rire que SI La lucide et seigneuriale aigrette de vertige au front invisible scintille, puis ombrage, une stature mignonne tenebreuse, debout en sa torsion de sirene, le temps de souffleter, par d'impatientes squames ultimes, bifurquees, un roc faux manoir tout de suite evapore en brumes qui imposa une borne a l'infini
C'ETAIT LE NOMBRE, issu stellaire, EXISTAT-IL autrement qu'hallucination eparse, d'agonie; COMMENCAT-IL ET CESSAT-IL, sourdant que nie, et clos, quand apparu enfin, par quelque profusion repandue en rarete; SE CHIFFRAT-IL evidence de la somme, pour peu qu'une; ILLUMINAT-IL, CE SERAIT, pire non davantage ni moins indifferemment mais autant, LE HASARD Choit la plume, rythmique suspens du sinistre, s'ensevelir aux ecumes originelles nagueres, d'ou sursauta son delire jusqu'a une cime fletrie par la neutralite identique du gouffre
RIEN de la memorable crise ou se fut l'evenement accompli, en vue de tout resultat nul humain, N'AURA EU LIEU, une elevation ordinaire verse l'absence QUE LE LIEU inferieur clapotis quelconque, comme pour disperser l'acte vide abruptement, qui sinon par son mensonge eut fonde la perdition, dans ces parages du vague, en quoi toute realite se dissout
EXCEPTE a l'altitude PEUT-ETRE, aussi loin qu'un endroit fusionne avec au-dela, hors l'interet quant a lui signale, en general, selon telle obliquite, par telle declivite de feux, vers ce doit etre le Septentrion aussi Nord UNE CONSTELLATION froide d'oubli et de desuetude, pas tant qu'elle n'enumere, sur quelque surface vacante et superieure, le heurt successif, sideralement, d'un compte total en formation, veillant, doutant, roulant, brillant et meditant avant de s'arreter a quelque point dernier qui le sacre Toute pensee emet un Coup de Des.
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Why, then, crucify self now with a
furthering
pain?
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(These are the five _Elegies_
suppressed
in _1633_--at such long
intervals did they find their way into print.
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I lost six brothers in the flower of their youth,
And the hopes of an
illustrious
house in truth!
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In
heavenly
mercies hast thou not a part?
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End all dispute; and fix the year precise
When British bards begin t'
immortalise?
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AH, SUNFLOWER
Ah, sunflower, weary of time,
Who
countest
the steps of the sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller's journey is done;
Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my Sunflower wishes to go!
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Thus had their joy wept down the setting sun,
But first the wise man ceased, and thus begun:
"Enough--on other cares your thought employ,
For danger waits on all
untimely
joy.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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He perceives it in the songs of birds--in the
harp of Bolos--in the sighing of the night-wind--in the repining voice
of the forest--in the surf that complains to the shore--in the fresh
breath of the woods--in the scent of the violet--in the voluptuous
perfume of the hyacinth--in the suggestive odour that comes to him
at
eventide
from far distant undiscovered islands, over dim oceans,
illimitable and unexplored.
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at wyth a bry3t
blaunner
was bounden with-inne;
[E] ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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_Supply_
stat;
F.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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_lumine_
Canter: _in lumine_ Voss: _in
culmine_ Maehly
8 _ebore niceo_ ?
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Since with my lady there's no use
In prayers, her pity, or
pleading
law,
Nor is she pleased at the news
I love her: then I'll say no more,
And so depart and swear it's done!
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Seven in all," she said, 15
And
wondering
looked at me.
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The faint damp wind that, ere the even, blows
Piling the west with many a tawny sheaf,
Then when the last glad wavering hours are mown Sigheth and dies because the day is sped;
This wind is like her and the
listless
air Wherewith she goeth by beneath the trees,
The trees that mock her with their scarlet stain.
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After him
Gloom
swallowed
up the universe.
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Doe staie, att leaste tylle
morrowes
sonne apperes.
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If these epistles
were really circulated at the time when they were written, it is matter
of astonishment that Petrarch never suffered from any other flames than
those of love; for many honest reformers, who have been roasted alive,
have uttered less anti-papal vituperation than our poet; nor, although
Petrarch would have been startled at a
revolution
in the hierarchy, can
it be doubted that his writings contributed to the Reformation.
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at mote maden much joye,
To apere in his
presense
prestly ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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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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That
appeared
to be his
duty when eggs were concerned.
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With what
mysterious
daring
Didst thou put forth each murmuring, odorous bough
And trust it to the frail support of air?
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Not merely to be
feasting
with delight
Man's senses, I refuse; but even his heart
I will not serve.
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May peace be an inmate of his bosom, and
rapture a
frequent
visitor of his soul!
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"Send you
straight
back to where you came from, in a cab.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And the deity
thundered
loudly,
Fat with rage, and puffing,
"Kneel, mortal, and cringe
"And grovel and do homage
"To my particularly sublime majesty.
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He was
introduced
to the dramatist Wycherly,
nearly fifty years his senior, and helped to polish some of the old
man's verses.
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Thence by the roots my weal hast thou uptorn,
Too blest in love hast shown me to that fair
Who
welcomed
once my chaste and humble prayer,
But seems to treat me now with hate and scorn.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Canto VI
Al tornar de la mente, che si chiuse
dinanzi a la pieta d'i due cognati,
che di trestizia tutto mi confuse,
novi
tormenti
e novi tormentati
mi veggio intorno, come ch'io mi mova
e ch'io mi volga, e come che io guati.
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_is included among the_ Divine Poems, _where it follows the_
Lamentations
of Jeremy.
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John Donne |
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Tes grandes visions
etranglaient
ta parole:
--Un Infini terrible effara ton oeil bleu!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Thrice he essayed either way; thrice queenly Juno checked
and
restrained
him in pity of heart.
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My prayers shall reach the
avengers
of all wrong;
No expiations shall the curse unbind.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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An imitation of an incident in the _Seven
Champions_
in which a winged
serpent attempts to swallow St.
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Nor did Luna delay about kissing that
beautiful
dreamer--
Jealous Aurora had else hastily wakened the lad.
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"
He shivered slightly and protested that he could
remember
no more.
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Kipling - Poems |
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A
Chieftain
to the Highlands bound
Cries "Boatman, do not tarry!
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Golden Treasury |
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Here,
be so good as to read what master has written to me, and see if it was I
who
denounced
you.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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To the stile
She came o'er violet carpets soft, attired,
To meet the harvest bridegroom, as erewhile,
To be his
truelove
till the feast expired.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And think me how some barter joy for care,
And waste life's summer-health in riot rude,
Of nature, nor of nature's sweets aware;
Where passions vain and rude
By calm reflection,
softened
are and still;
And the heart's better mood
Feels sick of doing ill.
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John Clare |
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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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MEPHISTOPHELES
(kommt):
Geschwind!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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All this time, and at all times, wait the words of poems;
The greatness of sons is the exuding of the greatness of mothers and
fathers;
The words of poems are the tuft and final
applause
of science.
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Whitman |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
work is
derived from texts not protected by U.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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That all the tributes
of her contemporaries show reverence not less for her personality than for
her genius is sufficient answer to the calumnies with which the ribald
jesters of that later period, the corrupt and
shameless
writers of Athenian
comedy, strove to defile her fame.
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Sappho |
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He was plagued by
increasing
deafness, and weak health, and died on New Year's Day 1560.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Others,
mostly of an early date,
remained
unpublished, doubtless because of
their personal and private nature.
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Emerson - Poems |
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wherefore with infection should he live,
And with his presence grace impiety,
That sin by him advantage should achieve,
And lace itself with his
society?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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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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Rilke - Poems |
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8
Ah, what can ever be more stately and
admirable
to me than
mast-hemm'd Manhattan?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And gently,
Unbroken when the sky fills with storm,
Jealous to add who knows what spaces
To simple day the day so true in feeling,
Does it not seem, Mery, that each year,
Where
spontaneous
grace relights your brow,
Suffices, given so much wonder and for me,
Like a lone fan with which a room's surprised,
To refresh with as little pain as is needed here
All our inborn and unvarying friendship.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I begged him to tell me how best I might aid him,
And urgently prayed him
Never to leave me,
whatever
betide;
When I saw he was hurt--
Shot through the hands that were clasped in prayer!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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115
Cleer was the water, and as cold
As any welle is, sooth to seyne;
And somdel lasse it was than Seine,
But it was
straighter
wel away.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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A book is written before a certain event, in which this event is
foretold; how could the prophet have foreknown it without
inspiration?
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Shelley |
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Saveliitch was
standing
by
me, a light in his hand.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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This love of ours it seems to be
Like a twig on a hawthorn tree
That on the tree
trembles
there
All night, in rain and frost it grieves,
Till morning, when the rays appear
Among the branches and the leaves.
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Troubador Verse |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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ante etiam sceptrum Dictaei regis et ante
impia quam caesis gens est epulata iuuencis,
aureus hanc uitam in terris Saturnus agebat;
necdum etiam audierant inflari classica, necdum
impositos duris crepitare
incudibus
ensis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Sextus, my friend of friends, good-bye,
With all our pretty
company!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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vs her
In pouere
beggeres
state.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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'Happy at conquering these treacherous fears
My crime's to have parted the
dishevelled
tangle
Of kisses that the gods kept so well mingled:
For I'd scarcely begun to hide an ardent laugh
In one girl's happy depths (holding back
With only a finger, so that her feathery candour
Might be tinted by the passion of her burning sister,
The little one, naive and not even blushing)
Than from my arms, undone by vague dying,
This prey, forever ungrateful, frees itself and is gone,
Not pitying the sob with which I was still drunk.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"The chimes will ring on
Christmas
Day, The chimes will ring on Christmas Day, And rich and poor will kneel and pray.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Enter
JAQUENETTA
and COSTARD
JAQUENETTA.
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Shakespeare |
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You who consoled me in
funereal
night,
Bring me Posilipo, the sea of Italy,
The flower that pleased my grieving heart,
And the trellis where the vine entwines the rose.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
Uncover the head and kneel--kneel down,
A monarch passes, without a crown,
Let the proud tears fall but the heart beat high:
The
Greatest
of All is passing by,
On its endless march in the endless Plan:
"_Qui vive?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Full soon I grew sick of my
sanctified
sot,
The regiment at large for a husband I got;
From the gilded spontoon to the fife I was ready,
I asked no more but a sodger laddie.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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'Twixt
gladness
and amaze,
In sooth no will had I to utter aught,
Or hear.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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--Man's race shall end, dost
threaten
thou?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"Now o'er the coast of faithless Malabar
Victorious Henry[614] pours the rage of war;
Nor less the youth a nobler strife shall wage,
Great victor of himself though green in age;
No
restless
slave of wanton am'rous fire,
No lust of gold shall taint his gen'rous ire.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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He needs something
which everyone knows about, something which indisputably, and
admittedly, _has been_ a human experience; and even Grendel, the fiend
of the marshes, was, we can clearly see, for the poet of _Beowulf_ a
figure profoundly and generally
accepted
as not only true but real;
what, indeed, can be more real for poetry than a devouring fiend which
lives in pestilent fens?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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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Peter's consecrated shade,
And Hadrian's tomb where Tiber strays;
The ruins on the Palatine
With all their
memories
of dead days.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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