Faith, none for me; except the north-east wind,
Which then blew
bitterly
against our faces,
Awak'd the sleeping rheum, and so by chance
Did grace our hollow parting with a tear.
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Live thou soleyn, wormes
corrupcioun!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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sergeauntz
hete apertely,
In, hym, forto take, 783
And byd his bedes in ?
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This
is
indicated
here and elsewhere by the letter A.
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Alexander Pope |
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Court, General, farmers
sometimes
attain seats in.
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James Russell Lowell |
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SONG OF NATURE
Mine are the night and morning,
The pits of air, the gulf of space,
The sportive sun, the gibbous moon,
The
innumerable
days.
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Emerson - Poems |
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'
With that she gan hir eiyen doun to caste,
And
Pandarus
to coghe gan a lyte,
And seyde, `Nece, alwey, lo!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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E'en this air so subtly gloweth,
Guerdoned
by thy sun-gold traces
Canzon: spear
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Across the lake the skaters
Flew to and fro,
With sharp turns weaving
A frail
invisible
net.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And I wonder how they should have been
together!
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T.S. Eliot |
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Thou
beholdest
him and art distracted(?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Who's the old trader that has lent this girl
The glittering cash of
pleasure
to pay me with?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The Caterpillar
Plants,
Caterpillars
and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II), Johannes Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
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Appoloinaire |
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Dear bride of Nature and most bounteous spring,
That canst give increase to the sweet-breath'd kine,
And to the kid its little horns, and bring
The soft and silky
blossoms
to the vine,
Where is that old nepenthe which of yore
Man got from poppy root and glossy-berried mandragore!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The eyes beside had wrung them dry,
And breaths were
gathering
sure
For that last onset, when the king
Be witnessed in his power.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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It
exists because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations
from people in all walks of life.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Is it in vain our
conquering
arms subdue?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Till, looking on us with strange eyes, man finds
We are not his desire: it was but sex
Inflamed, so that it roused the
breaking
forth
Of secret fury in him, consuming life,
Yea, even the life that would reach up to know
The heaven of gods above it.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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My arm that with respect all Spain admire,
My arm, that often saved that very empire,
So often affirmed the royalty of my king,
Now to betray my quarrel, leave me
wanting?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Florenz makes some rather haphazard and
inaccurate
selections
from this chronology.
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Li Po |
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XXI
He quits the fashionable throng
And
meditative
homeward goes,
Visions, now sad, now grateful, long
Do agitate his late repose.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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If ye meddle nae mair wi' the matter,
Ye may hae some
pretence
to havins and sense,
Wi' people that ken ye nae better,
Barr Steenie!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Sometimes
trooper of
The Royal Horse Guards
Obiit H.
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Wilde - Poems |
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'
'Twas Vishnu, thou vile
whirligig!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Southwind is my next of blood;
He is come through fragrant wood,
Drugged with spice from
climates
warm,
And in every twinkling glade,
And twilight nook,
Unveils thy form.
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Emerson - Poems |
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On the other hand, his old Jacobitical
affections made him the secret well-wisher to Westerhall, for up to
this time, at least till acid disappointment and the democratic
doctrine of the natural
equality
of man influenced him, Burns, or as a
western rhymer of his day and district worded the reproach--Rob was a
Tory.
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Robert Burns |
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Again, a blow beyond its nature's strength
Shatters
forthwith
each living thing soe'er,
And on it goes confounding all the sense
Of body and mind.
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Lucretius |
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Leisurely
elephants wind through the winding lanes,
Swinging their silver bells hung from their silver chains.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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They are in more
danger in your own family, among ill
servants
(allowing they be safe in
their schoolmaster), than amongst a thousand boys, however immodest.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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In such heroic games I yield to none,
Or yield to brave
Laodamas
alone:
Shall I with brave Laodamas contend?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
Thereat she vanished by the Cross
That,
entering
Kingsbere town,
The two long lanes form, near the fosse
Below the faneless Down.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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All that he
bargained for was, that he should have a habitation
sufficiently
distant
from the city, and that he should not be obliged to make any change in
his ordinary mode of living.
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Petrarch |
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The
creatures
pass to the sounds
Of my tortoise, and the songs I sing.
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Appoloinaire |
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Among al this, the fyn of the parodie
Of Ector gan
approchen
wonder blyve;
The fate wolde his soule sholde unbodie, 1550
And shapen hadde a mene it out to dryve;
Ayeins which fate him helpeth not to stryve;
But on a day to fighten gan he wende,
At which, allas!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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When Teucer fled before his father's frown
From Salamis, they say his temples deep
He dipp'd in wine, then wreath'd with poplar crown,
And bade his
comrades
lay their grief to sleep:
"Where Fortune bears us, than my sire more kind,
There let us go, my own, my gallant crew.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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98]
[Sidenote A: This marvel serves to keep up a brisk
conversation
in Court.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Loving
offenders
thus I will excuse ye:
Thou dost love her, because thou know'st I love her;
And for my sake even so doth she abuse me,
Suffering my friend for my sake to approve her.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But while he was seeking with thimbles and care,
A Bandersnatch swiftly drew nigh
And grabbed at the Banker, who
shrieked
in despair,
For he knew it was useless to fly.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Short life and bitter
nuptials
should be theirs.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Creech; and I
must own, that, at last, he has been
amicable
and fair with me.
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Robert Forst |
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To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day:
Down by the river of Adona her soft voice is heard;
And thus her gentle
lamentation
falls like morning dew.
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blake-poems |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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To revisit the
glimpses
of the moon is not for us.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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nil prosunt
lacrimae
nec possunt fata moueri.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Quis hoc potest videre, quis potest pati,
Nisi inpudicus et vorax et aleo,
Mamurram habere quod Comata Gallia
Habebat ante et ultima
Britannia?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Pliny says that
apples are the
heaviest
of all things, and that the oxen begin to
sweat at the mere sight of a load of them.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Ninmada,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Herman thought she might be deaf, so he put his lips close to her
ear and
repeated
his remark.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Thus
speaketh
one Ferdinand in the words of the play--
"She died full young"--one Bossola answers him--
"I think not so--her infelicity
"Seemed to have years too many"--Ah luckless lady!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The
charioteers
went forth nor come again,
And all the marching men
Even as a swarm of bees have flown afar,
Drawn by the king to war--
Crossing the sea-bridge, linked from side to side,
That doth the waves divide:
And the soft bridal couch of bygone years
Is now bedewed with tears,
Each princess, clad in garments delicate,
Wails for her widowed fate--
_Alas my gallant bridegroom, lost and gone,
And I am left alone_!
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Aeschylus |
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The young
Frenchman
first became infatuated with Poe's
writings in 1846 or 1847--he gave these two dates, though several
stories of Poe had been translated into French as early as 1841 or 1842;
L'Orang-Outang was the first, which we know as The Murders in the Rue
Morgue; Madame Meunier also adapted several Poe stories for the reviews.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Death has destroy'd that Laurel green, and torn
Its tender roots; and all the noble meed
Of my long warfare, passing (if aright
My
melancholy
reckoning holds) four lustres.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Back alive, I face these
children
and almost forget my hunger and thirst.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Act I Scene VI (Don Rodrigue)
Rodrigue
Pierced to my heart's depths, suddenly,
By a stroke as unexpected as it's mortal,
Wretched avenger in a just quarrel,
Miserable object of unjust severity,
I am transfixed, and my
stricken
soul
Yields to the killing blow.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And the warbler's voice
resounds
clear :?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Wondrous seems
how to sons of men Almighty God
in the
strength
of His spirit sendeth wisdom,
estate, high station: He swayeth all things.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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10
Further, wretchedmost me betrayed to unfriendliest Love-god
Never thou ceased'st to pain hurting with every harm,
So that my taste be turned and kisses
ambrosial
erstwhile
Even than hellebore-juice bitterest bitterer grow.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Thus much I've said, I trust, without offence;
Let no Court sycophant pervert my sense,
Nor sly
informer
watch these words to draw
Within the reach of treason, or the law.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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So is
remembrance
by this meal offended,
It makes me tremble yet: this done, he goes;
And being gone, the king his goatish vest
Casts off, and folds his lady to his breast.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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His Poetical Lineage_
PACVI
discipulus
dicor, porro is fuit Enni,
Ennius Musarum: Pompilius clueor.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Victory comes late,
And is held low to
freezing
lips
Too rapt with frost
To take it.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But it is easier to explain the
occasional
suppression
of a revealing title than to conceive a motive for inventing such
a gloss.
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John Donne |
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The lonely lovely trees sigh
For summer spent and gone:
A few homing leaves drift by,
Poor souls
bewildered
and wan.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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FOOTNOTES
{253} The "Race" is the
turbulent
sea-area off the Bill of Portland,
where contrary tides meet.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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One is moved by the splendour of his
youthful
beauty, one by his royal
ancestry, another by the noble deeds of his hand.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
CANTO XXII
Now we had left the angel, who had turn'd
To the sixth circle our
ascending
step,
One gash from off my forehead raz'd: while they,
Whose wishes tend to justice, shouted forth:
"Blessed!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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'SOTTO VOCE'
(To EDWARD THOMAS)
The haze of noon wanned silver-grey,
The
soundless
mansion of the sun;
The air made visible in his ray,
Like molten glass from furnace run,
Quivered o'er heat-baked turf and stone
And the flower of the gorse burned on--
Burned softly as gold of a child's fair hair
Along each spiky spray, and shed
Almond-like incense in the air
Whereon our senses fed.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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O raging Fortune's
withering
blast
Has laid my leaf full low, O!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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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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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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*****
Seated in her room, still in her ball-dress,
Lisaveta
gave herself up to
her reflections.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think,
His
venerable
hand to take,
And warming in our own,
A passage back, or two, to make
To times when he was young.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Now this is very
strange!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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)
BY THE AUTHOR OF
"EARLY ENGLISH
ALLITERATIVE
POEMS.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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* Queen Catherine wus
suspected
to be in a plot against
the king's life.
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Marvell - Poems |
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better 1180
renou{n}
to hem ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom
sometimes
talk of
suffering as a mystery.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Therein I treasure the spice and scent
Of rich and
passionate
memories blent
Like odours of cinnamon, sandal and clove,
Of song and sorrow and life and love.
| Guess: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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O dream, its own supreme
fulfillment!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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" So I my suit preferr'd:
And she, so distant, as appear'd, look'd down,
And smil'd; then tow'rds th' eternal
fountain
turn'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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ELECTRA (_trying to mask her excitement and resist the
contagion
of his_).
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Euripides - Electra |
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A little
distance
from the prow
Those crimson shadows were:
I turn'd my eyes upon the deck--
O Christ!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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e
abydyng of
multitude
of poeple ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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135
XVI
The knight gan fairely couch his steadie speare,
And fiercely ran at him with rigorous might:
The pointed steele arriving rudely theare,
His harder hide would neither perce, nor bight,
But glauncing by forth passed forward right; 140
Yet sore amoved with so
puissaunt
push,
The wrathfull beast about him turned light,
And him so rudely passing by, did brush
With his long tayle, that horse and man to ground did rush.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I knocked and, bidden, entered; found her there
At point to move, and settled in her eyes
The green
malignant
light of coming storm.
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Tennyson |
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The
Princess
hearing of her mother's statue,
which is in the keeping of Paulina- a piece many years in doing
and now newly perform'd by that rare Italian master, Julio
Romano, who, had he himself eternity and could put breath into
his work, would beguile nature of her custom, so perfectly he is
her ape.
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Shakespeare |
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"
Ulysses heard: the hero's warmth o'erspread
His cheek with blushes: and severe, he said:
"Take back the unjust
reproach!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Nous
dorerons
ton Louvre en donnant nos gros sous!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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So flies the spray of Adria
When the black squall doth blow
So corn-sheaves in the flood-time
Spin down the
whirling
Po.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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As the requirements for other states are met,
additions
to this list
will be made and fund raising will begin in the additional states.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The wind pursued the little bush,
And drove away the leaves
November left; then
clambered
up
And fretted in the eaves.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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It lingered in my heart but could not rise
The word that would have wrought the sweet surmise Which turns to
godliness
the common clay.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Beaufort's red sparkling eyes blab his heart's malice,
And Suffolk's cloudy brow his stormy hate;
Sharp
Buckingham
unburdens with his tongue
The envious load that lies upon his heart;
And dogged York, that reaches at the moon,
Whose overweening arm I have pluck'd back,
By false accuse doth level at my life.
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