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And the
daughter
spoke, and she said: "O hateful woman, selfish
and old!
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In endless motion everything goes on
Forevermore; out of all regions, even
Out of the pit below, from forth the vast,
Are hurtled bodies
evermore
supplied.
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--
Picarda next I saw, who vainly tried
To pass her days on Arno's flowery side
In single purity, till force compell'd
The virgin to the
marriage
bond to yield.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But suck'd on countrey pleasures,
childishly?
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John Donne |
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If I could see the sun, I should look up
And drink the light until my eyes were blind;
I should kneel down and kiss the blades of grass,
And I should call the birds with such a voice,
With such a longing, tremulous and keen,
That they would fly to me and on the breast
Bear
evermore
to tree-tops and to fields
The kiss I gave them.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Tu
fermeras
l'oeil, pour ne point voir, par la glace,
Grimacer les ombres des soirs,
Ces monstruosites hargneuses, populace
De demons noirs et de loups noirs.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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LFS}
Los was the fourth immortal starry one, & in the Earth
Of a bright
Universe
Empery attended day & night
Days & nights of revolving joy, Urthona was his name
PAGE 4
In Eden; in the Auricular Nerves of Human life* {The centered text block of this page appears to be written over erased text, with four clusters of added lines in various orientations in the margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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A PARANAETICALL, OR
ADVISIVE
VERSE TO HIS FRIEND, MR JOHN WICKS
Is this a life, to break thy sleep,
To rise as soon as day doth peep?
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Robert Herrick |
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For this was the great
vengeance
wrought on Tarquin's evil seed?
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Herein wonder not
How 'tis that, while the seeds of things are all
Moving forever, the sum yet seems to stand
Supremely
still, except in cases where
A thing shows motion of its frame as whole.
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Lucretius |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Upon that felon knight, for his foul scorn,
A fierce revenge Marphisa takes: a new
Statute that maid does in the town obtain,
And
Marganor
is by Ulania slain.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Don Sanche caused me ill, in my defence,
And that ill-dealing arm I must
recompense!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The octogenarian chief, Byzantium's
conquering
foe.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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But the Butcher turned nervous, and dressed himself fine,
With yellow kid gloves and a ruff--
Said he felt it exactly like going to dine,
Which the Bellman
declared
was all "stuff.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Yet the great herd, the multitude, that in all other things
are divided, in this alone
conspire
and agree--to love money.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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All this time, and at all times, wait the words of poems;
The greatness of sons is the exuding of the greatness of mothers and
fathers;
The words of poems are the tuft and final
applause
of science.
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It is not
seriously
treated.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Thou tremblest; and the
whiteness
in thy cheek
Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The streamlets they wander through meadows so fleet,
Their music enticing fond lovers to meet;
The violets are
blooming
and nestling their heads
In richest profusion on moss-coated beds.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Madame, you must
remember
your promise.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And red wher-so thou be, or elles songe,
That thou be understonde I god
beseche!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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In the
beginning
was the Word.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Do you feel the fierce paradise
Like stifled
laughter
that slips
To the unanimous crease's depths
From the corner of your lips?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Soon, trembling in her soft and chilly nest,
In sort of wakeful swoon, perplex'd she lay,
Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppress'd
Her soothed limbs, and soul fatigued away;
Flown, like a thought, until the morrow-day;
Blissfully haven'd both from joy and pain; 240
Clasp'd like a missal where swart Paynims pray;
Blinded alike from
sunshine
and from rain,
As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again.
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Keats |
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e
gouernour
of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But mark: infallibly a fixed bound
Remaineth stablished 'gainst their
breaking
down;
Since we behold each thing soever renewed,
And unto all, their seasons, after their kind,
Wherein they arrive the flower of their age.
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Lucretius |
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Hast any mortal name,
Fit appellation for this
dazzling
frame?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Ritson, ranks
with me as my coevals, have always mistaken vulgarity for simplicity;
whereas, simplicity is as much
_eloignee_
from vulgarity on the one
hand, as from affected point and puerile conceit on the other.
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Robert Forst |
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■r
LIFE'S ALCHEMY By Abigail Fithian Halsey
For love that came with laughter And left us all in tears,
The sting that followed after
And haunted all our years
With love's remembered laughter And
unforgotten
tears;
For life that came with singing And changed with time to pain, Till years the meaning bringing
Had turned our loss to gain And given back the singing Made sweeter by the pain;
For all that love has taken, For all that life has left,
Say not, "We are forsaken," Nor cry, "We are bereft.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The child
inclined
his ear,
And then grew weary and gray.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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What is your worship's
pleasure?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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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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I was a queen, the
daughter
of a king.
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Sara Teasdale |
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In many's looks, the false heart's history
Is writ in moods, and frowns, and
wrinkles
strange.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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--Oh, childish
thought!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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" Yet there is less than
the poet's usual
inspiration
in this lyric, for it is altered from an
English one.
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Robert Forst |
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Farewell, I mount and go my way,
--But oh her hair the sun sifts thro'--
The tilts and
tourneys
wait my spear,
I am the Knight of the Plume of Blue.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Ours is the love that lives;
Its springtime
blossoms
blow
'Mid the fruit that autumn gives,
And its life outlasts the snow.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Bright shone the merry
moonbeams
dancing o'er the wave.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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They claim that Theseus
appeared
in Epirus.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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iluGilgamish
su-na-tam i-pa-sar
iluEn-ki-[du w]a?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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These very
shepherds
of their flocks,
These loving lambs so meek to please,
Are worthy of recording words
And honour in their due degrees:
So I might live a hundred years,
And roam from strand to foreign strand, 30
Yet not forget this flooded spring
And scarce-saved lambs of Westmoreland.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Sighs ascended,
Thou
gleanest
not?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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copyright
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Meredith - Poems |
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His army stands in battle-line arrayed:
His
couriers
fly: all's done: now God decide!
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Sidney Lanier |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second conception during
gestation)
is possible.
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Appoloinaire |
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If any one asks me, Where
is
Merobaudes?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Yet
stranger
that the high sweet fire,
In hearts nigh foreign to desire,
Could burn, sigh, weep, and burn again
As oh, it never has since then!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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[_He
embraces
her and hurries away_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Li Po |
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the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Shuddering
the body stood
One instant in an agony of blood,
And gasped and fell.
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Euripides - Electra |
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So with me, who when I
followed
a
praetor, inscribed more gifts than gains.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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As long-drawn echoes heard far-off and dim
Mingle to one deep sound and fade away;
Vast as the night and
brilliant
as the day,
Colour and sound and perfume speak to him.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Night and her
admirable
stars again!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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th so forto do;--
his shankes semeden al blood rede;
Myne herte wop for grete drede; 64
Als a
pilgryme
he rood to Rome,
And ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The Foundation is
committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Now in my palace
I see foot-passengers
Crossing
the river:
Pilgrims of Autumn
In the afternoons.
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Imagists |
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Ye sons of Slavs, speedily will I lead
Your dread
battalions
to the longed-for conflict.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Chief, if it hurt not great Antinous' ear
(Whose sage
decision
I with wonder hear),
And if Eurymachus the motion please:
Give Heaven this day and rest the bow in peace.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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_The Book of Hours_
contains
three parts written at different periods in
the poet's life: _The Book of a Monk's Life_ (1899); _The Book of
Pilgrimage_ (1901), and _The Book of Poverty and Death_ (1903), although
the entire volume was not published until several years later.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Note: The
Scythians
at the extreme end of the Empire in Roman times were regarded as living barbaric lives (See Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto).
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Ronsard |
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How am I honoured so,
If I no honour have for the world, but rather
Hold it an odious and
traitorous
thing,
That means no honour but to those whose spirits
Have yielded to its ancient lechery?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A space is created between them there,
Like a level pass between two hills
That the snowdrift's
whiteness
softly fills,
When the gusts of wind have dropped in winter.
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Ronsard |
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She
touches these themes
sometimes
lightly, sometimes almost
humorously, more often with weird and peculiar power; but she is
never by any chance frivolous or trivial.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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), but is conveniently classed with it as being also
largely
levelled
against the fair sex.
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Aristophanes |
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Is there a sky
overhead?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain
materials
and make them widely accessible.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Stephen Crane |
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The noble
craftsman
we promote,
Disown the knave and fool;
Each honest man shall have his vote,
Each child shall have his school.
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Emerson - 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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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And all
outrageous
ugliness of time,
Excess and Blasphemy and squinting Crime
Beset me, but I kept my calm sublime:
I hate them not, Nirvana.
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Sidney Lanier |
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No sweeter a
daughter
anywhere,
By as much as the weather's stormy,
Through Adam's lineage went straying.
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Troubador Verse |
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Not falsely to
constrain!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Ful foul in
peynting
was that vice; 210
Ful sad and caytif was she eek,
And al-so grene as any leek.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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My suggestion is that the old sun-worshippers, who met in
midsummer
eve on Castrigg at the Druid circle or Donn-ring, saw just
the same phenomenon as Strichet and Lancaster saw upon Southen-fell,
and hence the name.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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See, the ox comes home
With plough up-tilted, and the shadows grow
To twice their length with the
departing
sun,
Yet me love burns, for who can limit love?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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But the universal desire to hear
him induced the Senators to postpone their sitting to the
following
day.
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Petrarch |
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Then here
contented
will I lie;
Alone I cannot fear to die.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The King of Castile is
Ferdinand
III of Castile and Leon.
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Troubador Verse |
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The strong sea-lion of England's wars
Hath left his
sapphire
cave of sea,
To battle with the storm that mars
The stars of England's chivalry.
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Wilde - Poems |
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What concerne they,
The
generall
cause, or is it a Fee-griefe
Due to some single brest?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The cresses drink--the water flows--and round
Upon the slopes the mountain rowans meet,
And 'neath the
brushwood
plant their gnarled feet,
Intwining slowly where the creepers twine.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Or Venus, laughter-loving dame,
Round whom gay Loves and Pleasures fly;
Or thou, if
slighted
sons may claim
A parent's eye,
O weary--with thy long, long game,
Who lov'st fierce shouts and helmets bright,
And Moorish warrior's glance of flame
Or e'er he smite!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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So stood these twaine, unmoved as a rocke,
Both staring fierce, and holding idely
The broken
reliques?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Theseus
Yes, you're
condemned
for that same cowardly pride.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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O wretched world, unstable,
wayward!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Our rifles firmly grasping,
And
heedless
of the din,
We stood in silence waiting
For orders to begin.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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His grandfather
on the paternal side was a
Champenois
peasant, his mother's family
presumably Norman, but not much is known of her forbears.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Catcott, who had a fine library and was the author of a
treatise
on
the Deluge; of Smith, a schoolfellow; of Palmer an engraver, and a
number of others--mere names for the most part.
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--Man is read in his face; God in His creatures; not
as the philosopher, the
creature
of glory, reads him; but as the divine,
the servant of humility; yet even he must take care not to be too
curious.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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the very prison walls
Suddenly
seemed to reel,
And the sky above my head became
Like a casque of scorching steel;
And, though I was a soul in pain,
My pain I could not feel.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Therewithal at my behest
Shall Lyctian Aegon and
Damoetas
sing,
And Alphesiboeus emulate in dance
The dancing Satyrs.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Like
resurrection
were the garments white
The wreathed procession walked through trees arched wide
Into the church, as cool as silk inside,
With long aisles of tall candles flaming bright:
The lights all shone like jewels rich and rare
To solemn eyes that watched them gleam and flare.
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Rilke - Poems |
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I have
forgotten
jou long, long ago,
Like the svteet, silver singing of thin bells
Vanished, or music fading faint and low.
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Maintenant, les petits sommeillent tristement:
Vous diriez, a les voir, qu'ils pleurent en dormant,
Tant leurs yeux sont gonfles et leur souffle
penible!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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TO-DAY we will not cross the garden railing,
For sometimes swiftly, yet in ways unclear,
This soft
caressing
or this sweet exhaling,
With long-forgotten joy again draws near:
And thus it brings us ghosts which goad and harass,
And anguish rendering weary and afraid.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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