And when this shape
Hath dropped upon the lands and burst apart,
It belches forth immeasurable might
Of
whirlwind
and of blast.
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TO TERZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be consumed with the earth,
To rise from
generation
free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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And now the javelyns, barbd with
deathhis
wynges,
Hurld from the Englysh handes by force aderne,
Whyzz dreare alonge, and songes of terror synges,
Such songes as alwaies clos'd in lyfe eterne.
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Beschaut
es recht!
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see any garbage in this
paragraph
and can't get it to display
properly, use:
--The ASCII-7 or rock-bottom version.
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Nay, though the heath-rover, harried by dogs,
the horn-proud hart, this holt should seek,
long
distance
driven, his dear life first
on the brink he yields ere he brave the plunge
to hide his head: 'tis no happy place!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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They
originally
appeared in a poetical form.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Though the villainy
of the Jesuits
defeated
their schemes of civilization in many countries,
the labours of that society have been crowned with a success in Paraguay
and in Canada, which reflects upon their industry the greatest honour.
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e me i' this, more then mine owne
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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CXXXI
Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,
As those whose
beauties
proudly make them cruel;
For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart
Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.
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of all tortures
_That_ torture the worst
Has abated--the terrible
Torture of thirst
For the
naphthaline
river
Of Passion accurst:--
I have drank of a water
That quenches all thirst:--
Of a water that flows,
With a lullaby sound,
From a spring but a very few
Feet under ground--
From a cavern not very far
Down under ground.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Long have I longed, till I am tired
Of longing and desire;
Farewell
my points in vain desired,
My dying fire;
Farewell all things that die and fail and tire.
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friend devoutest of my choice,
Thus mayest thou ever,
evermore
rejoice.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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So shall you mazed amid old
memories
stand,
So shall you toil, and shall accomplish nought,
And ever in your ears a phantom Band
Shall blare away the staid official thought.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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FROSCH:
Dem
Liebchen
Gruss und Kuss!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Seeking myself in myself, an
unsatisfied
spirit, I brooded,
Spying out pathways dark, lost in dreary reflection.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Out into God's sweet air we went,
But not in wonted way,
For this man's face was white with fear,
And that man's face was grey,
And I never saw sad men who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I only gaze at them
In silent wonder, as if they were gods,
Or the
inhabitants
of some other planet.
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Longfellow |
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Timid, self-pleasing, sensitive,
With Gods, with fools, content to live;
Bended to fops who bent to him;
Surface with
surfaces
did swim.
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Emerson - Poems |
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So one day when I was nine years old my
father
punished
me--the only time I was ever punished--by
shutting me in a room alone for a whole day.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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(Democracy, the destin'd conqueror, yet
treacherous
lip-smiles everywhere,
And death and infidelity at every step.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Love turns aside the balls that round me fly,
Lest
precious
tears should drop from Susan's eye.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Is it that death forgets to free
You fishes of
melancholy?
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Appoloinaire |
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301
The
dreadful
victor took his soft repose,
Scorning pursuit of such mechanic foes'.
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Marvell - Poems |
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When on that boy the kevil fell
To stay the
fearsome
noise,
"Gae in," they cried, "whate'er betide,
Thou prince of button-boys!
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Lewis Carroll |
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"The chimes will ring on
Christmas
Day, The chimes will ring on Christmas Day, And rich and poor will kneel and pray.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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la bague etait brisee
Que le lilas qui vient d'eclore
Que le thym la rose ou qu'un brin
De lavande ou de romarin
Les musiciens s'en etant alles
Nous
continuames
la promenade
Au bord d'un lac
On s'amusa a faire des ricochets
Avec des cailloux plats
Sur l'eau qui dansait a peine
Des barques etaient amarrees
Dans un havre
On les detacha
Apres que toute la troupe se fut embarquee
Et quelques morts ramaient
Avec autant de vigueur que les vivants
A l'avant du bateau que je gouvernais
Un mort parlait avec une jeune femme
Vetue d'une robe jaune
D'un corsage noir
Avec des rubans bleus et d'un chapeau gris
Orne d'une seule petite plume defrisee
Je vous aime
Disait-il
Comme le pigeon aime la colombe
Comme l'insecte nocturne
Aime la lumiere
Trop tard
Repondait la vivante
Repoussez repoussez cet amour defendu
Je suis mariee
Voyez l'anneau qui brille
Mes mains tremblent
Je pleure et je voudrais mourir
Les barques etaient arrivees
A un endroit ou les chevau-legers
Savaient qu'un echo repondait de la rive
On ne se lassait point de l'interroger
Il y eut des questions si extravagantes
Et des reponses tellement pleines d'a-propos
Que c'etait a mourir de rire
Et le mort disait a la vivante
Nous serions si heureux ensemble
Sur nous l'eau se refermera
Mais vous pleurez et vos mains tremblent
Aucun de nous ne reviendra
On reprit terre et ce fut le retour
Les amoureux s'entr'aimaient
Et par couples aux belles bouches
Marchaient a distances inegales
Les morts avaient choisi les vivantes
Et les vivants
Des mortes
Un genevrier parfois
Faisait l'effet d'un fantome
Les enfants dechiraient l'air
En soufflant les joues creuses
Dans leurs sifflets de viorne
Ou de sureau
Tandis que les militaires
Chantaient des tyroliennes
En se repondant comme on le fait
Dans la montagne
Dans la ville
Notre troupe diminua peu a peu
On se disait
Au revoir
A demain
A bientot
Bientot entraient dans les brasseries
Quelques-uns nous quitterent
Devant une boucherie canine
Pour y acheter leur repas du soir
Bientot je restai seul avec ces morts
Qui s'en allaient tout droit
Au cimetiere
Ou
Sous les Arcades
Je les reconnus
Couches
Immobiles
Et bien vetus
Attendant la sepulture derriere les vitrines
Ils ne se doutaient pas
De ce qui s'etait passe
Mais les vivants en gardaient le souvenir
C'etait un bonheur inespere
Et si certain
Qu'ils ne craignaient point de le perdre
Ils vivaient si noblement
Que ceux qui la veille encore
Les regardaient comme leurs egaux
Ou meme quelque chose de moins
Admiraient maintenant
Leur puissance leur richesse et leur genie
Car y a-t-il rien qui vous eleve
Comme d'avoir aime un mort ou une morte
On devient si pur qu'on en arrive
Dans les glaciers de la memoire
A se confondre avec le souvenir
On est fortifie pour la vie
Et l'on n'a plus besoin de personne
CLOTILDE
L'anemone et l'ancolie
Ont pousse dans le jardin
Ou dort la melancolie
Entre l'amour et le dedain
Il y vient aussi nos ombres
Que la nuit dissipera
Le soleil qui les rend sombres
Avec elles disparaitra
Les deites des eaux vives
Laissent couler leurs cheveux
Passe il faut que tu poursuives
Cette belle ombre que tu veux
CORTEGE
A M.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Low is my porch, as is my fate,
Both void of state;
And yet the
threshold
of my door
Is worn by th' poor,
Who thither come, and freely get
Good words or meat;
Like as my parlour, so my hall
And kitchen's small;
A little buttery, and therein
A little bin
Which keeps my little loaf of bread
Unclipt, unflead.
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Robert Herrick |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Breezes blow into the night, and the white moonshine speeds them
on; the sea
glitters
in her quivering radiance.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Go, day by day, and waste thy manly prime
In mad love-yearning by the vacant brook,
Till sickly
thoughts
bewitch thine eyes, and thou
Behold'st her shadow still abiding there,
The Naiad of the mirror!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Death reached out three crooked claws
To still my
clamoring
pain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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So is he mine: and in such bloody distance,
That euery minute of his being, thrusts
Against my neer'st of Life: and though I could
With bare-fac'd power sweepe him from my sight,
And bid my will auouch it; yet I must not,
For certaine friends that are both his, and mine,
Whose loues I may not drop, but wayle his fall,
Who I my selfe struck downe: and thence it is,
That I to your
assistance
doe make loue,
Masking the Businesse from the common Eye,
For sundry weightie Reasons
2.
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and
foolishness
may be a kind of death.
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Yeats |
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Like corn before the sickle
The stout
Laninians
fell,
Beneath the edge of the true sword
That kept the bridge so well.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Every time the frail boat laden
With the maiden
Skims the water in its flight,
Starting from its
trembling
sheen,
Swift are seen
A white foot and neck so white.
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Hugo - Poems |
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A Boy
Out of the noise of tired people working,
Harried with
thoughts
of war and lists of dead,
His beauty met me like a fresh wind blowing,
Clean boyish beauty and high-held head.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Fell the corpse of the king into keeping of Franks,
gear of the breast, and that gorgeous ring;
weaker
warriors
won the spoil,
after gripe of battle, from Geatland's lord,
and held the death-field.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Keats - Lamia |
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SOLNESS: I can't drag
commissions
down from the
moon for him.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The hunter lo'es the morning sun;
To rouse the
mountain
deer, my jo;
At noon the fisher seeks the glen
Adown the burn to steer, my jo:
Gie me the hour o' gloamin' grey,
It maks my heart sae cheery O,
To meet thee on the lea-rig,
My ain kind Dearie O.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Two sister goddesses possess the plain,
The constant guardian of the woolly train;
Lampetie fair, and
Phaethusa
young,
From Phoebus and the bright Neaea sprung;
Here, watchful o'er the flocks, in shady bowers
And flowery meads, they waste the joyous hours.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Who
fcermons
e'er can pacify and prayers ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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Perchance
she is hunting of the deer,
How could you follow o'er hill and mere?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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When I am gone, perhaps
They'll send you some inferior Sprite,
Who'll keep you in a
constant
fright
And spoil your soundest naps.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The Literary Digest says, in a recent issue :
"There are many "poetry magazines,' but so far as we know Contemporary Verse is the only
Ameriean
magazine devoted wholly to the publication of poetry.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent,
Watching the future come and the present go--
And the little shifting
pictures
of people rushing
In tiny self-importance to and fro.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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You that speak lewdly of God, you yet shall see
Jerusalem
treading
upon her foes.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
In a
beautiful
pea-green boat:
They took some honey, and plenty of money
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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His steps are not upon thy paths,--thy fields
Are not a spoil for him,--thou dost arise
And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields
For earth's destruction thou dost all despise,
Spurning
him from thy bosom to the skies,
And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray
And howling, to his gods, where haply lies
His petty hope in some near port or bay,
And dashest him again to earth:--there let him lay.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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These are the days when birds come back,
A very few, a bird or two,
To take a
backward
look.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The beast
impatient
of his smarting wound,
And of so fierce and forcible despight,
Thought with his wings to stye above the ground;
But his late wounded wing unserviceable found.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Perhaps of them and their
authority
one has spoken enough.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Oro e argento fine, cocco e biacca,
indaco, legno lucido e sereno,
fresco
smeraldo
in l'ora che si fiacca,
da l'erba e da li fior, dentr' a quel seno
posti, ciascun saria di color vinto,
come dal suo maggiore e vinto il meno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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e, which euery childe
Shall haue
throughout
the kingdome, that can read, 50
And learne to picke his teeth by.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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if we dream pale flowers,
Slow-moving
pageantry
of hours that languidly Drop as o'er-ripened fruit from sallow trees.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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NATURE AND
COMPOSITION
OF THE MIND
First, then, I say, the mind which oft we call
The intellect, wherein is seated life's
Counsel and regimen, is part no less
Of man than hand and foot and eyes are parts
Of one whole breathing creature.
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Lucretius |
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The fruit,
according
to him, is about an inch and a half in diameter,
and is intensely acid.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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e fre lorde hade de-fende in
fermysoun
tyme,
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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[Illustration]
There was a Young Lady of Lucca,
Whose lovers
completely
forsook her;
She ran up a tree, and said "Fiddle-de-dee!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Meet me at the sunset
Down in the green glen,
Where we've often met
By
hawthorn
tree and foxes' den,
Meet me in the green glen.
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John Clare |
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Or do the idols watch upon our will,
And doth an image unto us occur,
Directly
we desire--if heart prefer
The sea, the land, or after all the sky?
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Lucretius |
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The pewit, swopping up and down
And screaming round the passer bye,
Or running oer the herbage brown
With copple crown
uplifted
high,
Loves in its clumps to make a home
Where danger seldom cares to come.
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John Clare |
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17) to life, 156-65; going to Horeb, 166-73; his
choosing
Elisha, 174-7; burning up king Ahaziah's messengers (2 Kings i.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Yet I know not any charm
That can make the fleeting time
Of thy sylvan, faint alarm
Suit itself to human rhyme:
And my yearning
rhythmic
word
Does thee grievous wrong, blithe bird.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Should you
lay ear to these lines--
you will not catch
a distant drum of hoofs,
cavalcade of Arabians,
passionate horde bearing down,
destroying your citadel--
but maybe you'll hear--
should you just
listen at the right place,
hold it tenaciously,
give your full blood to the effort--
maybe you'll note the start
of a single step,
always persistently faint,
wavering
in its movement
between coming and going,
never quite arriving,
never quite passing--
and tell me which it is,
you or I
that you greet,
searching a mutual being--
and whether two aren't closer
for the labor of an ear?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Are not morals greater
than
literature?
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Yeats |
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So when that Angel of the darker Drink
At last shall find you by the river-brink,
And,
offering
his Cup, invite your Soul
Forth to your Lips to quaff--you shall not shrink.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
CORYDON
"The junipers and prickly
chestnuts
stand,
And 'neath each tree lie strewn their several fruits,
Now the whole world is smiling, but if fair
Alexis from these hill-slopes should away,
Even the rivers you would ; see run dry.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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as written in the
character
of a Soldier of Fortune
in the Seventeenth Century.
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Golden Treasury |
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Series
For the splendour of the day of
happinesses
in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Racked with sciatics,
martyred
with the stone,
Will any mortal let himself alone?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Cetera non licuit, sed vix ea tota, videri ;
Nam clausi rigido stant
adamante
sinus.
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Marvell - Poems |
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10
Nothing whereat to laugh my spleen espyes
But
bearbaitings
or Law exercise.
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John Donne |
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Lady, I shall have much honour
If ever the
privilege
is granted
Of clasping you beneath the cover,
Holding you naked as I've wanted;
For you are worth the hundred best,
And I'm not exaggerating either.
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Troubador Verse |
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Y
[Illustration]
Y was a Youth, who kicked
And
screamed
and cried like mad;
Papa he said, "Your conduct is
Abominably bad!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any
statements
concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The lovely Thais by his side
Sate like a
blooming
eastern bride
In flower of youth and beauty's pride:--
Happy, happy, happy pair!
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Golden Treasury |
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Some of the soldiers killed
themselves
beside the pyre,
not because they had harmed Vitellius or feared reprisals, but from
love of their emperor, and to follow his noble example.
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Tacitus |
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Mehus,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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'Twas sunset: when the sun will part
There comes a
sullenness
of heart
To him who still would look upon
The glory of the summer sun.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Waken him now, Father, and you'll get the
blessing
of the
generations.
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Yeats |
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And through the solitudes remote and strange
The golden gloss of eve, from tree to tree,
Descends, amid the yellow, flamingly,
Then
darksome
mists o'er darksome bushes range.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Is not the young child's slumber sweet
When no man
watcheth
over it?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Old Tiber, hurl'd in tumult back
From mingling with the
Etruscan
main,
Has threaten'd Numa's court with wrack
And Vesta's fane.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Vast cities are mine of power and delight,
Lahore laid in lilies, Golconda, Cashmere;
And Ispahan, dear to the pilgrim's sight,
And Bagdad, whose towers to heaven uprear;
Alep, that pours on the
startled
ear,
From its restless masts the gathering roar,
As of ocean hamm'ring at night on the shore.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"
Then quickly spake Orestes: "By the way
We
cleansed
us in a torrent stream.
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Euripides - Electra |
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inges
folwy{n}ge
whan
euery side of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Orso, a curb upon thy gallant horse
Well may we place to turn him from his course,
But who thy heart may bind against its will
Which honour courts and shuns
dishonour
still?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'
"He goes on to state, that years passed by, and both his old school-
friends found him out, and came and claimed a share in his good
fortune,
according
to the school-day vow.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Behold what
blessings
wealth to life can lend!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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There was the home of a motion picture director
Famous for lavish whore-house interiors,
Clothes
ransacked
from the latest designs for women
In the combats of "male against female.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Hark to a voice that is calling
To my heart in the voice of the wind:
My heart is weary and sad and alone,
For its dreams like the
fluttering
leaves have gone,
And why should I stay behind?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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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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