MANOA: O
miserable
change!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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How dreary to be
somebody!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Turmoil grown visible beneath our peace,
And we that are grown formless rise above, Fluids intangible that have been men,
We seem as statues round whose high risen base Some
overflowing
river is run mad;
In us alone the element of calm !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Few roods of ground the piles we raise
Will leave to plough; ponds wider spread
Than Lucrine lake will meet the gaze
On every side; the plane unwed
Will top the elm; the violet-bed,
The myrtle, each delicious sweet,
On olive-grounds their scent will shed,
Where once were fruit-trees
yielding
meat;
Thick bays will screen the midday range
Of fiercest suns.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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SAID one, a
princely
husband I have got.
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La Fontaine |
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He who of those
delights
can judge, and spare
To interpose them oft, is not unwise.
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Golden Treasury |
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One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress
Or softly lightens o'er her face,
Where
thoughts
serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
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Golden Treasury |
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Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
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Ronsard |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Gradually
the birds began to sing, and when the last grains of
sand were falling, everything suddenly seemed to overflow with their
music.
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Yeats |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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whom I will send 300
Far hence at a
convenient
time on board
My bark, and sell him at no little gain.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The significance
of the poem is not in the incidents surrounding the "Achilleis"; the
whole
significance
is centred in the Wrath of Achilles, and thence made
to impregnate every part.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Yuan now held a
judicial
post at Ningpo and the two were occasionally
able to meet.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The armaments which
thunderstrike
the walls
Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,
And monarchs tremble in their capitals.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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They said The Spectre is in every man insane & most
Deformd Thro the three heavens descending in fury & fire
We meet it with our Songs & loving blandishments & give
To it a form of vegetation But this Spectre of Tharmas
Is Eternal Death What shall we do O God help pity & help
So spoke they & closd the Gate of
Auricular
power nerves the Tongue in trembling fear*
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What have I done!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Are springs the common
springs?
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John Clare |
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Because I gave
Honour to mortals, I have yoked my soul
To this
compelling
fate.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Under the discipline severe
Of Fairfax, and the starry Verb,
Where not one object can come nigh tsb
But pure, and
spotless
as the eye.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
Replied she: "While on earth your lot is cast,
Slave to the world's opinions blind and hard,
True happiness shall ne'er your search reward;
Death to the good a dreary prison opes,
But to the vile and base, who all their hopes
And cares below have fix'd, is full of fear;
And this my loss, now mourn'd with many a tear,
Would seem a gain, and, knew you my delight
Boundless
and pure, your joyful praise excite.
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Petrarch |
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Be but thy
inspiration
given,
No matter through what danger sought,
I'll fathom hell or climb to heaven,
And yet esteem that cheap which love has bought.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Oft in solitude
With him did I discourse about the end
Of civil government, and its wisest forms;
Of ancient loyalty, and chartered rights,
Custom and habit, novelty and change; 325
Of self-respect, and virtue in the few
For patrimonial honour set apart,
And ignorance in the
labouring
multitude.
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William Wordsworth |
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And do so, love; yet when they have devis'd,
What strained touches
rhetoric
can lend,
Thou truly fair, wert truly sympathiz'd
In true plain words, by thy true-telling friend;
And their gross painting might be better us'd
Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abus'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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You used occasionally to
sermonize
too; I wish
you would, in charity, favour me with a sheet full in your own way.
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Robert Burns |
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"
"What have I to do with
Shigramitish
women?
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Kipling - Poems |
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--Un chant
mysterieux
tombe des astres d'or.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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With other
ministrations
thou, O nature!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a
disdainful
smile
The short and simple annals of the Poor.
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Golden Treasury |
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That were a strife wherein no chance
Of
conquest
lies: from Zeus most high
And his resolve, no subtlety
Could win me my deliverance.
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Aeschylus |
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Bring ye the best, that we may set him forth
Before my friend from foreign climes arrived,
With whom ourselves will also feast, who find
The bright-tusk'd
multitude
a painful charge,
While others, at no cost of theirs, consume
Day after day, the profit of our toils.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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136) est urbis
suae Formiaram: _o bis
improbissimi_
E.
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Latin - Catullus |
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brȳd, 2931; brȳde, 2957, both
times of the consort of
Ongenþēow
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Beowulf |
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GiTive Primate Sheldon (much in
preaching
there)
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Marvell - Poems |
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The country saved from a cruel enemy,
Your hand securing the sceptre firmly,
The Moors defeated, before our alarms
Secured the orders to repulse their arms,
These are
exploits
that deny your King
The means of just reward for anything.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The
Londoners
gent
To the King do present,
In a booc, the City maggot ;
'Tis a thing full of weight,
That requires all the might
Of the whole Guiid-IIall team to drag it
II.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Yea, Death, we bow our faces, veil our eyes to thee,
We mourn the old, the young untimely drawn to thee,
The fair, the strong, the good, the capable,
The
household
wreck'd, the husband and the wife, the engulfed forger
in his forge,
The corpses in the whelming waters and the mud,
The gather'd thousands to their funeral mounds, and thousands never
found or gather'd.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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XLV
Henceforth sir knight, take to you wonted strength,
And maister these mishaps with patient might;
Loe where your foe lyes stretcht in monstrous length,
And loe that wicked woman in your sight, 400
The roote of all your care, and
wretched
plight,
Now in your powre, to let her live, or dye.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Where our desire is got without content:
'Tis safer, to be that which we destroy,
Then by destruction dwell in
doubtfull
ioy.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The Dresden clock
continued
ticking on the mantelpiece,
And the footman sat upon the dining-table
Holding the second housemaid on his knees--
Who had always been so careful while her mistress lived.
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T.S. Eliot |
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CATULLUS tells us, ev'ry matron sage
Will peep most
willingly
(whate'er her age),
At that gigantick gift, which Juno made,
To Venus' fruit, in gardens oft displayed.
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La Fontaine |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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--Et ces
Messieurs
riront, les reins sur notre tete!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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My long thread
trembles
almost at the knife;
The breeze, that takes you, lifts me up alive,
And I'll follow those I loved, I the exile.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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II
Various are love's effects; but from one source
All issue, though they lead a
different
way.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Letters (for by this
usurped title
epistles
are now commonly known) are of several kinds.
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James Russell Lowell |
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'396-397'
Pope
acknowledged
that in these lines he was alluding to the
uncharitable belief of his fellow-Catholics that all outside the fold of
the Catholic church were sure to be damned.
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Alexander Pope |
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Vindex come, and purge the
poisoned
state ;
Descend, descend, ere the cure's desperate.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Yet art thou mine, because thou knowest well
Thou
disobeyest
me.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly--
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping
from out their Condor wings
Invisible Wo!
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Poe - 5 |
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--Pauvrets palpitant sous ma levre,
Je baisai
doucement
ses yeux:
--Elle jeta sa tete mievre
En arriere: <
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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