Up the
mountain
wheeled the steed--girth to ground, and fetlocks
spread--
_Toll slowly.
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Orpheus
invented
all the sciences, all the arts.
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Appoloinaire |
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The morning lit, the birds arose;
The monster's faded eyes
Turned slowly to his native coast,
And peace was
Paradise!
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start not at that sparkling light;
'Tis but the moon that shines so bright
On the window pane
bedropped
with rain:
Then, little Darling!
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And yet how
thoroughly
he has caught the note
that catches a public who think with their boots and read with their
elbows!
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"
Then he cried aloud, "Who dwells in this place,
discourse
with me to
hold?
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for report
Proclaims _thee_
shrewdest
of mankind, with whom
In ingenuity may none compare.
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And as the bees o'er bright flowers joyous roam,
Around their curtained cradles
clustering
come.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The
original
is far more musical, as you can gather from the text at the start of this selection of his verse.
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Troubador Verse |
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" she asked in a
frightened
whisper.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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We
could not dream of
resuming
our journey.
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To whom Ulysses,
glorious
Chief, replied.
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_Both omit;
supplied
as in_
Morris; F.
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I wake again, and all alone
Sits
Darkness
on his ebon throne.
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John Clare |
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The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was
pleasure
there.
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I was called by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they
saw me approaching or passing,
Felt their arms on my neck as I stood, or the
negligent
leaning of their
flesh against me as I sat;
Saw many I loved in the street, or ferry-boat, or public assembly, yet
never told them a word;
Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laughing, gnawing,
sleeping;
Played the part that still looks back on the actor or actress,
The same old role, the role that is what we make it,--as great as we like,
Or as small as we like, or both great and small.
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Whitman |
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Keats - Lamia |
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I'll kneel to Vesta, for a flame of fire;
And to god Phoebus, for a golden lyre;
To Empress Dian, for a hunting spear;
To Vesper, for a taper silver-clear,
That I may see thy beauty through the night;
To Flora, and a
nightingale
shall light 710
Tame on thy finger; to the River-gods,
And they shall bring thee taper fishing-rods
Of gold, and lines of Naiads' long bright tress.
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Keats |
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'
I saw from a distant saddle; from the earth she made her moan;
'I would die like a small withered leaf in the autumn, for breast unto
breast
We shall mingle no more, nor our gazes empty their sweetness lone
'In the isles of the
farthest
seas where only the spirits come.
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Yeats |
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ASIA:
A Spirit with a
dreadful
countenance
Checks its dark chariot by the craggy gulf.
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Shelley |
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And faint the perfume-bearing rose,
And faint the lily on its stem,
And faint the perfect violet
Compared
with them.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Un soir de demi-brume a Londres
Un voyou qui ressemblait a
Mon amour vint a ma rencontre
Et le regard qu'il me jeta
Me fit baisser les yeux de honte
Je suivis ce mauvais garcon
Qui sifflotait mains dans les poches
Nous semblions entre les maisons
Onde ouverte de la Mer Rouge
Lui les Hebreux moi Pharaon
Que tombent ces vagues de briques
Si tu ne fus pas bien aimee
Je suis le souverain d'Egypte
Sa soeur-epouse son armee
Si tu n'es pas l'amour unique
Au
tournant
d'une rue brulant
De tous les feux de ses facades
Plaies du brouillard sanguinolent
Ou se lamentaient les facades
Une femme lui ressemblant
C'etait son regard d'inhumaine
La cicatrice a son cou nu
Sortit saoule d'une taverne
Au moment ou je reconnus
La faussete de l'amour meme
Lorsqu'il fut de retour enfin
Dans sa patrie le sage Ulysse
Son vieux chien de lui se souvint
Pres d'un tapis de haute lisse
Sa femme attendait qu'il revint
L'epoux royal de Sacontale
Las de vaincre se rejouit
Quand il la retrouva plus pale
D'attente et d'amour yeux palis
Caressant sa gazelle male
J'ai pense a ces rois heureux
Lorsque le faux amour et celle
Dont je suis encore amoureux
Heurtant leurs ombres infideles
Me rendirent si malheureux
Regrets sur quoi l'enfer se fonde
Qu'un ciel d'oubli s'ouvre a mes voeux
Pour son baiser les rois du monde
Seraient morts les pauvres fameux
Pour elle eussent vendu leur ombre
J'ai hiverne dans mon passe
Revienne le soleil de Paques
Pour chauffer un coeur plus glace
Que les quarante de Sebaste
Moins que ma vie martyrises
Mon beau navire o ma memoire
Avons-nous assez navigue
Dans une onde mauvaise a boire
Avons-nous assez divague
De la belle aube au triste soir
Adieu faux amour confondu
Avec la femme qui s'eloigne
Avec celle que j'ai perdue
L'annee derniere en Allemagne
Et que je ne reverrai plus
Voie lactee o soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons-nous d'ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nebuleuses
Je me souviens d'une autre annee
C'etait l'aube d'un jour d'avril
J'ai chante ma joie bien-aimee
Chante l'amour a voix virile
Au moment d'amour de l'annee
Aubade chantee a Laetare l'an passe
C'est le printemps viens-t'en Paquette
Te promener au bois joli
Les poules dans la cour caquetent
L'aube au ciel fait de roses plis
L'amour chemine a ta conquete
Mars et Venus sont revenus
Ils s'embrassent a bouches folles
Devant des sites ingenus
Ou sous les roses qui feuillolent
De beaux dieux roses dansent nus
Viens ma tendresse est la regente
De la floraison qui parait
La nature est belle et touchante
Pan sifflote dans la foret
Les grenouilles humides chantent
Beaucoup de ces dieux.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Or here of a ship at sea, in the distance:--
And on through zones of light and shadow
_Glimmer
away to the lonely deep_.
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Tennyson |
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This school has been widely
discussed
by those interested in new
movements in the arts, and has already become a household word.
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Imagists |
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--
There was Cabestaing, whose unequall'd lays
From all his rivals won
superior
praise.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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No help it were to us, the horn to blow,
But, none the less, it may be better so;
The King will come, with
vengeance
that he owes;
These Spanish men never away shall go.
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Chanson de Roland |
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_ When man is mute, how oft the spirit grieves,
In
clamorous
woe!
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Petrarch |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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SONG OF THE STATUE
Who so loveth me that he
Will give his
precious
life for me?
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Rilke - Poems |
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Rude boy, he flies like lightning o'er the heath
Past wither'd trees like you; you're
wrinkled
now;
The white has left your teeth
And settled on your brow.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They
stripped
him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
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blake-poems |
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Therefore, fii*st growing to thyself a law,
The
ambitious
shrubs thou in just time didst awe.
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Marvell - Poems |
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That boy, that came the other day
To dig some flag-root down this way,
His jack-knife left, and 'tis a sign
That Heaven
approves
of our design:
'Twere wicked not to urge the step on,
When Providence has sent the weapon.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In 1833 the song began thus, the present stanza taking its place in
1842:--
I wish I were her earring,
Ambushed
in auburn ringlets sleek,
(So might my shadow tremble
Over her downy cheek),
Hid in her hair, all day and night,
Touching her neck so warm and white.
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Tennyson |
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Then farther he hied;
for the hardy hero with hand he grasped,
felt for the foe with
fiendish
claw,
for the hero reclining, -- who clutched it boldly,
prompt to answer, propped on his arm.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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e
maystres
of Merlyn, mony ho[2] taken;
For ho hat3 dalt drwry ful dere sum tyme,
With ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I too leave the rest--great as it is, it is nothing--houses, machines are
nothing--I see them not;
I see but you, O warlike
pennant!
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Whitman |
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Having so altered, it has naturally lost in significance; but in the
greatest
instances
of later epic, that for which the device was used has
been as profoundly absorbed into the poet's being as Homer's matter was
into his being.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I shall wear the bottoms of my
trousers
rolled.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Quickly to the
Patriarch!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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goes on
thus: "And also the said Baldewyn, the said first yere of your noble
reign, at
Bristowe
in the shere of Bristowe, before Henry Erle of
Essex William Hastyngs of Hastyngs Knt.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Tu quoque
Sanctorum
fa.
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Marvell - Poems |
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We know of no scripture which records the pure
benignity
of the
gods on a New England winter night.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He marvels at the paradox,
drums his head with the tattoo:
how can a thing as small as he
shape and
maintain
an art
out of himself universal enough
to carry her daily vigil
to crystalled immortality?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your
thoughts
for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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VOICE OF UNSEEN SPIRITS:
Bright clouds float in heaven, _40
Dew-stars gleam on earth,
Waves
assemble
on ocean,
They are gathered and driven
By the storm of delight, by the panic of glee!
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Shelley |
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For fame is
ultimately
but the
summary of all misunderstandings that crystallize about a new name.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Thus crowned with maiden majesty
She peered into the night,
Looked up the hill and down the hill,
To left hand and to right,
Flashing
like fire-flies to and fro.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Meredith - Poems |
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MELIBOEUS
I grudge you not the boon, but marvel more,
Such wide
confusion
fills the country-side.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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and the temple of Jupiter, and of Minerva, and of
Bacchus?
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Tacitus |
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It tells how Dacia had the
privilege
of exchanging blows with
Rome, and how a pretender claiming to be Nero almost deluded the
Parthians into declaring war.
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Tacitus |
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The
poems were first collected by their author when he was twenty-sex years
old, and though never, until recently, well
received
by the critics, have
survived the test of NINE editions.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Itaque
indicaui
lacunam
13 _Catulli_ (_Catuli_ OLa1) ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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To him who
speaketh
words as fair as these, Say that I also know the "Yearly Slain.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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There came a day at summer's full
Entirely for me;
I thought that such were for the saints,
Where
revelations
be.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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" Ever to that truth,
Which but the semblance of a
falsehood
wears,
A man, if possible, should bar his lip;
Since, although blameless, he incurs reproach.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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)
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so
digress?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Annie of Tharaw, her heart once again
To me has
surrendered
in joy and in pain.
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Longfellow |
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Waves were welling, the
warriors
saw,
hot with blood; but the horn sang oft
battle-song bold.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Hush, call no echo up in further proof
Of
desolation!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
F3.
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Sara Teasdale |
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'
As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,
So
nobleness
enkindleth nobleness.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Minerva appearing to Ulysses,
commands him to
discover
himself to his son.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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SAS}
Luvah was cast into the Furnaces of affliction & sealed
And Vala fed in cruel delight, the furnaces with fire
Stern Urizen beheld urg'd by necessity to keep
The evil day afar, & if perchance with iron power
He might avert his own despair; in woe & fear he saw
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Vala incircle round the furnaces where Luvah was clos'd
In joy she heard his howlings, & forgot he was her Luvah
With whom she walkd in bliss, in times of innocence & youth
Hear ye the voice of Luvah from the furnaces of Urizen
If I indeed am Valas King [Luvahs Lord] & ye O sons of Men
The workmanship of Luvahs hands; in times of Everlasting
When I calld forth the Earth-worm from the cold & dark obscure
I nurturd her I fed her with my rains & dews, she grew
A scaled Serpent, yet I fed her tho' she hated me
Day after day she fed upon the
mountains
in Luvahs sight
I brought her thro' the Wilderness, a dry & thirsty land
And I commanded springs to rise for her in the black desart
Till she became a Dragon winged bright & poisonous {Erdman notes that a revision was made to this line while it was still wet mending "fordemon" to "Dragon".
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Blake - Zoas |
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Loud o'er the rout was heard the victor's cry,
Where the war bleeds, and where the thickest die,
Where horse and arms, and chariots he o'erthrown,
And
bleeding
heroes under axles groan.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I hod no
judgment
when to her I swore.
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Shakespeare |
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who not his blood would spare,
But did the dark
Tartarean
bolts unbrace;
He, too, doth from my soul death's terrors chase:
Then welcome, death!
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Petrarch |
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The others
foully mangled his arms and legs (his breast was covered) and with
bestial
savagery
continued to stab the headless corpse.
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Tacitus |
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Ah, such a life
prefigures
its own moral:
That first "Last Leaf" is now a leaf of laurel,
Which--smiling not, but trembling at the touch--
Youth gives back to the hand that gave so much.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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O, all of you, forget your
darkened
faith.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And you said it was a place most joyous,
All our poor
imaginings
above,
With the winged cherubim for playmates,
And the good God evermore to love.
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Hugo - Poems |
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He won, I lost her; and my loss
I bore I know not how;
But I do think I suffered then
Less
wretchedness
than now.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Heaven from all
creatures
hides the book of Fate,
All but the page prescribed, their present state:
From brutes what men, from men what spirits know:
Or who could suffer being here below?
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It attained a still higher degree
of
excellence
among the English and the Lowland Scotch, during
the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.
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Great guide-boards of stone,
But travelers none;
Cenotaphs
of the towns
Named on their crowns.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And we
probably
never shall see her more.
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If even
I were as in my boyhood, and could be
The comrade of thy
wanderings
over Heaven,
As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed _50
Scarce seemed a vision; I would ne'er have striven
As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.
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Heed not the suitors' projects; neither wise
Are they, nor just, nor aught suspect the doom
Which now
approaches
them, and in one day
Shall overwhelm them all.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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XXI
This done, into the church she called the maid,
Where she had drawn a magic ring, as wide
As might contain the damsel,
prostrate
laid;
With the full measure of a palm beside.
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but O my soul is white!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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LXXXV
"Comrade Rollanz, once sound your
olifant!
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Chanson de Roland |
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No Knight of the Round Table has been so highly
honoured
by the old
Romance-writers as Sir Gawayne, the son of Loth, and nephew to the renowned
Arthur.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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When I detect a beauty in any
of the recesses of nature, I am reminded, by the serene and retired
spirit in which it
requires
to be contemplated, of the inexpressible
privacy of a life,--how silent and unambitious it is.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Music-hall posters squall out:
The passengers shrink together,
I enter
indelicately
into all their souls.
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Then seem'd I in a vision borne away,
Where a deep winding vale sequester'd lay;
Nor long I rested on the flowery green
Ere a soft
radiance
dawn'd along the scene.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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According
to Nares, "A pilgrim's staff; either from
the frequent pilgrimages to St.
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Some were taking away in
wheelbarrows
the
rubbish which filled the ditch; others were hollowing out the earth with
spades.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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XXI
As long as tinted haze the
mountain
covered,
Upon my course the track I soon discovered.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Must he then only live to weep,
Who'd prove his
friendship
true and deep?
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Lewis Carroll |
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O I could sing such
grandeurs
and glories about you!
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I'll give you the best help I can:
Before you up the
mountain
go,
Up to the dreary mountain-top,
I'll tell you all I know.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Timour--he
Whom the
astonished
people saw
Striding o'er empires haughtily
A diadem'd outlaw--
O!
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Poe - 5 |
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Is it
magnificent
hospitality, or is it gross want of
tact?
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