Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was transparent as a needle
Was it cooing about
something
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A
careless
shepherd once would keep
The flocks by moonlight there, (1)
And high amongst the glimmering sheep
The dead man stood on air.
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Ofspring
of Heav'n and Earth, and all Earths Lord,
That such an enemie we have, who seeks
Our ruin, both by thee informd I learne,
And from the parting Angel over-heard
As in a shadie nook I stood behind,
Just then returnd at shut of Evening Flours.
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And if we had
not enough
artistic
feeling, enough feeling for the perfect that is,
to admit the authority of the vision; or enough faith to understand
that all that is imperfect passes away, he would not, as I think, have
argued with us in a serious spirit.
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This word, even from the young, let age and wisdom learn:
If thou to
suppliants
show grace,
Thou shalt not lack Heaven's grace in turn,
So long as virtue's gifts on heavenly shrines have place.
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* * * * *
FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A: See an
anecdote
related in Mr.
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the
expected
guest.
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In October, 1916, he was recalled to England, was promoted to the rank
of Staff Captain in the
Intelligence
Corps, and was sent to Italy to
engage in special duties.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Ye see that I have not
Wherewith
to guard him, O angels, divine ones That pass us a-flying,
Sith sleepeth my child here Stay ye the branches.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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[_Here begins a lamentable chasm in this "Annal" for almost three years;
and by it we have lost the detail of the most
remarkable
incidents in
this reign, the exile of Agrippina into the Isle of Pandataria; of
Nero, into that of Pontia; and the murder of both there by the orders of
Tiberius: the conspiracy and execution of Sejanus, with that of all
his friends and dependents: the further wickedness of Livia, and her
death.
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Tacitus |
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[In his
memoranda
on this song in the Museum, Burns says simply, "This
song is mine.
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Then seyde he thus--"myn hertes lady swete,
Ye knowe wel my mischef in that place;
For sikerly, til that I with yow mete,
My lyf stant ther in
aventure
and grace; 60
But when I see the beaute of your face,
Ther is no dreed of deth may do me smerte,
For al your lust is ese to myn herte.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Hymen o Hymenaee, Hymen ades o
Hymenaee!
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Latin - Catullus |
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83, where a
hundred pieces is
evidently
somewhat above a hundred pounds.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Cependant las hommes se sont
toujours
payes de ce
cercle vicieux; la paresse de leur esprit leur fit trouver plus court de
s'en rapporter au jugament des autres.
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Shelley |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
Eftsoons
his hand dropt he.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Wilde - Poems |
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For
certainly
her way might pass
Beside your twinkling door.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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This
weakness
grows upon me.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Thou must indeed: words such as thine
Never were
impudent
in men's ears before.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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In cassocks clad I have had many brothers
In southern cloisters where the laurel grows,
They paint
Madonnas
like fair human mothers
And I dream of young Titians and of others
In which the God with shining radiance glows.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
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Villon |
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Passing the Indus, winding poisonous forests,
Blowing soft flutes at
scandalous
temple girls,
Filling the highways with their magpie loot,
What brass from my Chicago will they heap,
What gems from Walla Walla, Omaha,
Will they pile near the Bodhi Tree, and laugh?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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]
XXX
These to the coach of state are bound,
Breakfast the busy cooks prepare,
Baggage is heaped up in a mound,
Old women at the
coachmen
swear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies
wearinesses
ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The first two stanzas
describe
the two main words, and each
subsequent stanza one of the cross "lights.
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Lewis Carroll |
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BEATRICE:
'Tis the
restless
life
Tortured within them.
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Shelley |
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It had been swept away by an
irresistible
outbreak
of popular fury; and its memory was still
held in abhorrence by the whole city.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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[Sidenote: For
argument
sake let us suppose there is no
prescience, would, then, the events which proceed from free-will
alone be under the power of necessity?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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But now through oceans, lands, and heights of heaven,
By divers causes and in divers modes,
Before our eyes we mark how much may move,
Which, finding not a void, would fail deprived
Of stir and motion; nay, would then have been
Nowise begot at all, since matter, then,
Had staid at rest, its parts
together
crammed.
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Lucretius |
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I have, however, been at no pains to
separate
my own beliefs from those
of the peasantry, but have rather let my men and women, dhouls and
faeries, go their way unoffended or defended by any argument of mine.
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Yeats |
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In _our_ fields, in _our_ paths, shall
strangers
stray,
In _thy_ wood, my dearest, new lovers go lost,
And other fair forms in the stream shall play
Which of old thy delicate feet have crossed.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Broad-faced asters by my garden walk,
You are but coarse
compared
with roses:
More choice, more dear that rosebud which uncloses
Faint-scented, pinched, upon its stalk,
That least and last which cold winds balk;
A rose it is though least and last of all,
A rose to me though at the fall.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Two
spreading
horns, most strangely fastened
Upon the head of young Benvolio!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Dicitur et nostros mcerens audisse labores,
Fortis et
ingenuam
gentis amilsse fidem.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Night is the mother of stars,
And wind the mother of foam--
The world is
brimming
with beauty,
But I must stay at home.
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Sara Teasdale |
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chiefly, when he knows
How only she bestows
The wealthy treasure of her love on him;
Making his
fortunes
swim
In the full flood of her admired perfection?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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III
ON A RUINED HOUSE IN A ROMANTIC COUNTRY
And this reft house is that the which he built,
Lamented
Jack!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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A layman from the suburb; I have
conducted
the
old men as far as the frontier; from here I am going to
my own home.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So the men rush like clouds,
They strike their iron edges on the Bishop's chair
And fling down the
lanterns
by the tower stair.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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[The
Tragedie
of Macbeth by William Shakespeare 1603]
Actus Primus.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Das find ich gut, da liesse sich ein Pakt,
Und sicher wohl, mit euch, ihr Herren,
schliessen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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--
I must have more
divinity
within me.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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No ship have I known so nobly dight
with weapons of war and weeds of battle,
with
breastplate
and blade: on his bosom lay
a heaped hoard that hence should go
far o'er the flood with him floating away.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I never
flinched
nor fled when thou didst aim
at me in King Arthur's house.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"He is a
charming
man"--"But after all what did he mean?
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T.S. Eliot |
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--
The wraththe, as I began yow for to seye, 1800
Of Troilus, the Grekes
boughten
dere;
For thousandes his hondes maden deye,
As he that was with-outen any pere,
Save Ector, in his tyme, as I can here.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I, too, have pass'd her on the hills
Setting her little water-mills
By spouts and fountains wild--
Such small
machinery
as she turn'd
Ere she had wept, ere she had mourn'd,
A young and happy child!
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Golden Treasury |
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There is a very life in our despair,
Vitality of poison,--a quick root
Which feeds these deadly branches; for it were
As nothing did we die; but life will suit
Itself to Sorrow's most
detested
fruit,
Like to the apples on the Dead Sea shore,
All ashes to the taste: Did man compute
Existence by enjoyment, and count o'er
Such hours 'gainst years of life,--say, would he name threescore?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It
strikes!
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They all were saying, "Benedictus qui venis,"
And
scattering
flowers above and round about,
"Manibus o date lilia plenis.
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Longfellow |
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'Tis Marie, walking midway of the street,
As she had just stepped forth from out the gate
Of the very, very Heaven where God is,
Still
glittering
with the God-shine on her!
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Sidney Lanier |
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(but
denoting
only one sword) ēacnum ecgum, 2141;
gen.
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Beowulf |
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And now I only
remember
my dead Joy in remembering my dead Sorrow.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The monuments and traces of antiquity, scattered in abundance over
that region, led me unavoidably to compare what we know or guess of
those remote times with certain aspects of modern society, and with
calamities,
principally
those consequent upon war, to which, more than
other classes of men, the poor are subject.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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A light on the
mountains
cold
Is lit, yea, a fire burneth,
'Tis the light of one that turneth
From roamings manifold,
Back out of exile old
To the house that knew him not.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Meredith - Poems |
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540
Nowe, bie the goddes yatte reule the
Dacyanne
state,
Speacke thou yn rage once moe, I wyll thee dysregate.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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" KAU}
Roaring let out the fluid, the molten metal ran in channels
Cut by the plow of ages held in Urizens strong hand
In many a valley, for the Bulls of Luvah dragd the Plow
With trembling horror pale aghast the Children of Men Man
Stood on the
infinite
Earth & saw these visions in the air
In waters & in Earth beneath they cried to one another
What are we terrors to one another - Come O brethren wherefore
Was this wide Earth spread all abroad.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I went back to my mountain to seek
my old nest, and you, too, went home,
crossing
the Wei Bridge.
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Li Po |
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+ Keep it legal
Whatever
your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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He could
say, with all the boldness of truth, in a letter to Ugolino di Rossi,
the Bishop of Parma, "I pleaded against your house for Azzo Correggio,
but you were present at the pleading; do me justice, and confess that I
carefully avoided not only attacks on your family and reputation, but
even those
railleries
in which advocates so much delight.
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Petrarch |
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yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,
Steal from his figure, and no pace perceiv'd;
So your sweet hue, which
methinks
still doth stand,
Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceiv'd:
For fear of which, hear this thou age unbred:
Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thou His image ever see,
Heavenly
face that smiles on thee!
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blake-poems |
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I never take care, yet I've taken great pain
To acquire some goods, but have none by me:
Who's nice to me is one I hate: it's plain,
And who speaks truth deals with me most falsely:
He's my friend who can make me believe
A white swan is the
blackest
crow I've known:
Who thinks he's power to help me, does me harm:
Lies, truth, to me are all one under the sun:
I remember all, have the wisdom of a stone,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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He finds Jesus placidly
sleeping
on a bare rock, and
after long contemplation, apostrophises all nature to be silent, for
her Creator sleeps.
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He knowing well the
miserable
hags
Who tend the queen of endless woe, thus spake:
"Mark thou each dire Erinnys.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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APOLLO
Yea, for it stands not with a common death,
That he should die, a
chieftain
and a king
Decked with the sceptre which high heaven confers--
Die, and by female hands, not smitten down
By a far-shooting bow, held stalwartly
By some strong Amazon.
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Aeschylus |
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150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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e
firmame{n}t
stont derked by wete ploungy cloudes.
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[35] Probably
phonetic
variant of _edir_.
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It
cost, in 1710, from twelve to twenty-eight
shillings
per pound.
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Alexander Pope |
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Having studied so long it
is
astonishing
that I have learnt so little.
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Petrarch |
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What then will become of
Clisthenes
and of Strato?
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Aristophanes |
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je veux qu'on me couche
Parmi les Morts des eaux
nocturnes
abreuves!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Death I would have them till thou comest; yea,
The earthly stone whereof man's fortune here
Is made, strongly into
deliberate
death
I have built about my soul, to fend its life
From gazes of the world.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy
highways
where I went
And cannot come again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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or the best-
built
steamships?
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Whitman |
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With unawed hand a god he grasps,
He thrusts, to stiffen, in a narrow case,
Or cell, where struggling air-blasts constant moan;
Walling them round with huge, damp, slimy stone;
And (leaving mem'ry of
bloodshed
as drink,
And thoughts of crime as food) he stops each chink.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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3 The far west suffers the worst wounds, 20 linked
mountains
darken beacon fires night and day.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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þā þæt monige gewearð, þæt hine
sēo
brimwylf
ābroten hæfde, _many believed that the sea-wolf_ (Grendel's
mother) _had killed him_, 1600; hī hyne .
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Beowulf |
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And I said, "I will seek that city and the
blessedness
thereof.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The
invisible
worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
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blake-poems |
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'Tis sure no
pleasure
to be shot.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Heaven's boughs bent down with their alchemy,
Perfumed airs, and
thoughts
of wonder.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Why, all his behaviours did make their retire
To the court of his eye, peeping
thorough
desire.
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Shakespeare |
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[_He forces_
MEPHISTOPHELES
_to sit down_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Three men, whose looks he very much approved,
And thought such honest fellows he had round,
Their like could nowhere be discovered round;
Without
suspecting
any thing was wrong,
The three, with complaisance and fluent tongue,
Saluted him in humble servile style,
And asked, (the minutes better to beguile,)
If they might bear him company the way;
The honour would be great, and no delay;
Besides, in travelling 'tis safer found,
And far more pleasant, when the party's round;
So many robbers through the province range,
(Continued they) 'tis wonderfully strange,
The prince should not these villains more restrain;
But there:--bad MEN will somewhere still remain.
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