When, in the
edition of 1800, it was divided, the title of the first part was, 'Lines
written when sailing in a Boat at Evening'; that of the second part was
'Lines written near
Richmond
upon the Thames'.
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Enwritten upon the leaf where now are peering
Eyes
scintillating
soul, there lie _perdus_
Three eloquent words oft uttered in the hearing
Of poets, by poets--as the name is a poet's, too.
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Poe - 5 |
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Poetry has been as serious a thing to me as life
itself; and life has been a very serious thing: there has been no
playing at
skittles
for me in either.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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180
Consort revered of
Laertiades!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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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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Eumelus' mares were foremost in the chase,
As eagles fleet, and of Pheretian race;
Bred where Pieria's fruitful
fountains
flow,
And train'd by him who bears the silver bow.
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Iliad - Pope |
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no, let us rather choose 60
Arm'd with Hell flames and fury all at once
O're Heav'ns high Towrs to force resistless way,
Turning our Tortures into horrid Arms
Against the Torturer; when to meet the noise
Of his
Almighty
Engin he shall hear
Infernal Thunder, and for Lightning see
Black fire and horror shot with equal rage
Among his Angels; and his Throne it self
Mixt with Tartarean Sulphur, and strange fire,
His own invented Torments.
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Milton |
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PROMETHEUS
She now hath learned, unto its utmost end,
Her pilgrimage; but yet, that she may know
That 'tis no futile fable she hath heard,
I will recount her history of toil
Ere she came hither; let it stand for proof
Of what I told, my
forecast
of the end.
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Aeschylus |
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A GAME OF CHESS
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by
standards
wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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To them they seem merely so much brass or copper or
tarnished
silver
at the best.
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Yeats |
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]
80 (return)
[ Among these slighter offences, however, were
reckoned
homicide, adultery, theft, and many others of a similar kind.
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Tacitus |
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20 _mi_ a, Auantius ||
_Sectio_
GOLa1: _sectio al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
EARTH'S ANSWER
Earth raised up her head
From the
darkness
dread and drear,
Her light fled,
Stony, dread,
And her locks covered with grey despair.
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blake-poems |
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or where in 'Locksley Hall' a splendidly graphic touch of description is
gained by the
alteration
of "_droops_ the trailer from the crag" into
"_swings_ the trailer".
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Tennyson |
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I deem that I with but a crumb
Am
sovereign
of them all.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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CHOR:
Quid sum miser tunc
dicturus?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He is trebly a fool because (1) he loves, (2) he expresses his love in
verse, (3) he thereby enables some one to set the verse to music and
by singing it to re-awaken the passion which
composition
had lulled to
sleep.
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John Donne |
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Change thy ways,
Change thy ways;
Let the sweaty
laborers
file
A little while,
A little while,
Where Art and Nature sing and smile.
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Sidney Lanier |
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If you are willing to pledge me your heart, lover,
I'll offer mine: and so we will grasp entire
All the pleasures of life, and no strange desire
Will make my spirit
prisoner
to another.
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Ronsard |
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whom three realms obey,
Dost
sometimes
counsel take--and sometimes tea.
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Alexander Pope |
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_That it is partly upon his_
ignorance
_of_ future
_events, and partly upon the_ hope _of a_ future
_state, that all his happiness in the present
depends_.
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Alexander Pope |
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When it comes, the
landscape
listens,
Shadows hold their breath;
When it goes, 't is like the distance
On the look of death.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or
appearing
on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Meanwhile
the brothers Lucagus and Liger drive up with their
pair of white horses.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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CLXXXII
And though they might escape well charged with prey,
To save themselves they think
sufficient
gain.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Meet me by the sweet briar,
By the mole hill
swelling
there;
When the West glows like a fire
God's crimson bed is there.
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John Clare |
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Now gawkies, tawpies, gowks and fools,
Frae
colleges
and boarding schools,
May sprout like simmer puddock-stools
In glen or shaw;
He wha could brush them down to mools--
Willie's awa!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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^ Abroad a king he seems, and
sometlking
more,
" At home a subject on the equal floor ;
" Or could I once him with our title see,
" So should I hope yet he might die as we.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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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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Of Argive
anguish!
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Euripides - Electra |
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is gone,"
and he attributes it "to my long and exceedingly severe metaphysical
investigations, and these partly to ill-health, and partly to private
afflictions which
rendered
any subjects, immediately connected with
feeling, a source of pain and disquiet to me.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Pretty little swallow, fly
Village doors and windows by,
Whisking oer the garden pales
Where the blackbird finds the snails;
Whewing by the ladslove tree
For
something
only seen by thee;
Pearls that on the red rose hing
Fall off shaken by thy wing.
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John Clare |
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Nor does
Hisbo catch him stooping, for all that he hoped it; for Pallas, as he
rushes
unguarded
on, furious at his comrade's cruel death, receives him
on his sword and buries it in his distended lungs.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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[Sidenote: Do you ask for glory, to be distracted by
vexations
and
so lose all security.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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inparibus tamen es numeris dignata moueri,
in me
pugnasti
uersibus usa meis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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In so profound abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, that my adder's sense
To critic and to
flatterer
stopped are.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
Right and left the caissons drew
As the car went lumbering through,
Quick
succeeding
in review
Squadrons military;
Sunburnt men with beards like frieze,
Smooth-faced boys, and cries like these,--
"U.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Farewell
for ever; the game of bloody war,
The wide cares of my destiny, will smother,
I hope, the pangs Of love.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The dread Mogul with all his
thousands
flies,
And Dio's towers are Souza's well-earn'd prize.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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You bewitched the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was
festering
in your blood.
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Ronsard |
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O Women, let your voices from this fray
Flash me a fiery signal, where I sit,
The sword across my knees,
expecting
it.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I have seen him stained with blood and powder,
To a whole army
bringing
pain and terror.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any
specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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XCVII
When the early soft spring wind comes blowing
Over Rhodes and Samos and Miletus,
From the seven mouths of Nile to Lesbos,
Freighted with sea-odours and gold sunshine,
What news spreads among the island people 5
In the market-place of Mitylene,
Lending that unwonted stir of gladness
To the busy streets and thronging
doorways?
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Sappho |
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Yet in the morning fresh afield they hie,
Bidding the last day's
troubles
all goodbye;
When red pied cow again their coming hears,
And ere they clap the gate she tosses up
Her head and hastens from the sport she fears:
The old yoe calls her lamb nor cares to stoop
To crop a cowslip in their company.
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John Clare |
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The compressed and
punctuated
translation is offered as an aid to grasping the poem as a whole, in a swift reading.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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When I recovered consciousness, the Moon was going down, and I was
sensible of
intolerable
pain in the back of my head.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_Herbert Jones_
PLACE DE LA CONCORDE
AUGUST 14, 1914
[Since the
bombardment
of Strasburg, August 14, 1870, her statue in
Paris, representing Alsace, has been draped in mourning by the French
people.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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In our
approach
through the mystic we touch reality most deeply.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Par toy vint pes et concorde, 40
<<
Were now the bowe bent in swich manere,
As it was first, of Iustice and of yre, 30
The
rightful
God nolde of no mercy here;
But thurgh thee han we grace, as we desyre.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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All
soundlessly
unfold.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The city about me
Resolves itself into sound of many voices,
Rustling
and fluttering,
Leaves shaken by the breeze.
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Imagists |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout populace is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have flourished here,
This old
honoured
dust was the most honoured.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Con suoi prieghi devoti e con sospiri
tratto m'ha de la costa ove s'aspetta,
e
liberato
m'ha de li altri giri.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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In offering this little book--the third of its kind--to the public, I am
glad to take the opportunity of recording the pleasure I have received at
the appreciation its
predecessors
have met with, as attested by their wide
circulation, and by the universally kind notices of them from the Press.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's
lightning
bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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XXXVI
When I pass thy door at night
I a benediction breathe:
"Ye who have the
sleeping
world
In your care,
"Guard the linen sweet and cool, 5
Where a lovely golden head
With its dreams of mortal bliss
Slumbers now!
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Sappho |
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Where, group'd in one rich form, the
beauties
rare,
Which long their magic influence o'er me shed?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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O the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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What may this be,
That thou dispeyred art thus
causelees?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Thou hast no end to gain--no heart to break--
Castiglione
lied who said he loved--
Thou true--he false!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE
TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS
AGREEMENT
WILL NOT BE
LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR
INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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[22]
You say, 'We'd ha' seared 'em by growin' in peace,
A plaguy sight more then by
bobberies
like these'?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Slowly and heavily
Comes in the sea,
With memories of storm o'erfreighted,
With heaving heart and breath abated,
Pregnant
with some mysterious, endless sorrow,
And seamed with many a gaping, sighing furrow.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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385
With murdrous ravine, and devouring might
Their
kingdome
spoild, and countrey wasted quight:
Themselves, for feare into his jawes to fall,
He forst to castle strong to take their flight,
Where fast embard in mighty brasen wall, 390
He has them now foure yeres besiegd to make them thrall.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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--
Had any smart gallant
supplied
my place,
Said he, I might put up with this disgrace;
But naught consoles the thought of such a beast;
Dan Cupid wantons, or is blind at least;
A bet, or some such whim, induc'd the god,
To give his sanction to amours so odd.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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"
The great symbols of
Solitude
and of Death enter into the poet's work.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"DIE"
corrected
to _LIE_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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"
NURSE'S SONG
When voices of children are heard on the green,
And
whisperings
are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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There was room, at least, for lyrical
emotion in those first steps into the wilderness,--in that first sense
of desolation after wrath,--in that first audible gathering of the
recriminating "groan of the whole creation,"--in that first
darkening
of
the hills from the recoiling feet of angels,--and in that first silence
of the voice of God.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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ilke
p{re}science
ne my?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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"Julian set an
example of light-hearted courage," wrote Lieutenant-Colonel Machlachan,
of the Eighth Service
Battalion
Rifle Brigade, "which is famous all
through the Army in France, and has stood out even above the most
lion-hearted.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Cyrus turns away his head
To Pholoe's frown; but sooner gentle roes
Apulian wolves shall wed,
Than Pholoe to so mean a conqueror strike:
So Venus wills it; 'neath her brazen yoke
She loves to couple forms and minds unlike,
All for a
heartless
joke.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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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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Infanta
My
sweetest
hope's to lose all hope, I fear.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And as he stood in the street
of Erech of the wide places,
the people assembled
disputing
round about him:--
"How is he become like Gilgamish suddenly?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Burbank with a Baedeker:
Bleistein
with a Cigar
Tra-la-la-la-la-la-laire--nil nisi divinum stabile
est; caetera fumus--the gondola stopped, the old
palace was there, how charming its grey and pink--
goats and monkeys, with such hair too!
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T.S. Eliot |
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With better luck than wit, one woodman shear
From that tall cliff, twice thirty yards in height,
Cast himself headlong downward in his fear:
Him a moist patch of brambles, in his flight,
Received; and, amid grass and bushes, here,
From other mischief safe, the
stripling
lit,
And for some scratches in his face was quit.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Here
therefore
satisfaction shall be soon
Both to the question ask'd, and to the wish,
Which thou conceal'st in silence.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the
changing
breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks pricking us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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Ices deux ars tint Dous-Regars
Qui ne
sembloit
mie estre gars,
Avec dix des floiches son mestre.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The beacons are always alight; fighting and
marching
never stop.
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Li Po |
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This music is
successful
with a "dying fall"
Now that we talk of dying--
And should I have the right to smile?
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T.S. Eliot |
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[861] 145 not you] you not W, G
[862] 148
Coozners
1641 _Cozeners_ 1692, 1716 cozeners W, G
[863] 166 in it G
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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As when, to harbinger the dawn, springs up
On freshen'd wing the air of May, and breathes
Of fragrance, all impregn'd with herb and flowers,
E'en such a wind I felt upon my front
Blow gently, and the moving of a wing
Perceiv'd, that moving shed ambrosial smell;
And then a voice: "Blessed are they, whom grace
Doth so illume, that
appetite
in them
Exhaleth no inordinate desire,
Still hung'ring as the rule of temperance wills.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Who's there
i'th' name of
Belzebub?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Of Provence and far halls of memory,
Lo, there come echoes, faint diversity
Of blended bells at even's end, or
As the distant seas should send her
The tribute of their trembling,
ceaselessly
Resonant.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Apollinax rolling under a chair
Or
grinning
over a screen
With seaweed in its hair.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a fascinating comment on the
Classical
Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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One stroke
Rolled the smith's head from his neck, and gave
him
remembrance
undying.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A friend of mine met a man once who had been with him when he died,
but the people say that he died alone, and one
Maurteen
Gillane told
Dr.
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Yeats |
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Let your line be the finest adventure
Afloat on the tense dawn wind
That goes
wakening
thyme and mint.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Meredith - Poems |
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The
blackbird
sings us home, on a sudden peers
The round tower hung with ivy's blackened chains,
Then past the little green the byeway veers,
The mill-sweeps torn, the forge with cobwebbed panes
That have so many years looked out across the plains.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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What was Admetus really like, this gallant prince who had won the
affection of such great guests as Apollo and Heracles, and yet went round
asking other people to die for him; who, in particular, accepted his
wife's
monstrous
sacrifice with satisfaction and gratitude?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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