Silver and gold he show'rs upon his band,
Chargers
and mules, garments and silken mats.
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Chanson de Roland |
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To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays,
And yet deny the
careless
husband praise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Now it passed into power of the people's king,
best of all that the oceans bound
who have
scattered
their gold o'er Scandia's isle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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At the awful sight
tottered that guest, and terror seized him;
yet the
wretched
fugitive rallied anon
from fright and fear ere he fled away,
and took the cup from that treasure-hoard.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The wings, the
eyebrows
and ah, the eyes!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said--
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, 140
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Now Albert's coming back, make
yourself
a bit smart.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Thus came the
Heritage
to thee.
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Byron |
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The scents of red roses and sandalwood flutter
and die in the maze of their gem-tangled hair,
And smiles are entwining like magical serpents
the poppies of lips that are opiate-sweet;
Their glittering
garments
of purple are burning
like tremulous dawns in the quivering air,
And exquisite, subtle and slow are the tinkle
and tread of their rhythmical, slumber-soft feet.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I am
dishonoured
of you, thrust to scorn!
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Aeschylus |
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Besides, as it is fit for grown and able writers to stand of
themselves, and work with their own strength, to trust and endeavour by
their own faculties, so it is fit for the
beginner
and learner to study
others and the best.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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When the dynasty was falling, tumult and
disorder
arose,
Thieves and robbers roamed like wild beasts.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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) gif to a spryte
Syrr Rychardes forme ys lyped, I'll holde dystraughte
Hys
bledeynge
claie-colde corse, and die eche daie ynn thoughte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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In the
southern
clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.
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blake-poems |
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Unable at the Child to aim her blow,
The lady spent her rage in other part,
And mighty deeds achieved, which fame will earn,
While overhead the
circling
heavens shall turn.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Meredith - Poems |
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XXXVIII
The winds out of the west land blow,
My friends have
breathed
them there;
Warm with the blood of lads I know
Comes east the sighing air.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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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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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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La Fontaine |
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No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
Of
perilous
seas, in faery lands forlorn.
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Keats |
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For ever left alone am I,
Then
wherefore
should I fear to die?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And the wrath of Achilles against Agamemnon was
assuaged; and they two were reconciled at a
gathering
of the chiefs.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And the citizen whom the lot has not given a letter showing
where he is to dine will be driven off by
everyone?
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Aristophanes |
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Faire Venus sonne, that with thy cruell dart 20
At that good knight so cunningly didst rove,
That
glorious
fire it kindled in his hart,
Lay now thy deadly Heben bow apart,
And with thy mother milde come to mine ayde;
Come both, and with you bring triumphant Mart,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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For an
Historiographer discourseth of affaires orderly as they were done,
accounting as well the times as the actions; but a Poet
thrusteth
into the
middest, even where it most concerneth him, and there recoursing to the
things forepast, and divining of things to come, maketh a pleasing analysis
of all.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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There was the
semblance
of disgrace, that kept
The youth from dire mischance on whom it fell,
And glory darken'd on the gloom of hell;
Perfidious loyalty, and honest fraud,
And wisdom slow, and headlong thirst of blood;
The dungeon, where the flowery paths decoy;
The painful, hard escape, with long annoy.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Emerson - Poems |
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What a
charming
land!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais,
beautiful
Athenian courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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There was a king reigned in the East:
There, when kings will sit to feast,
They get their fill before they think
With
poisoned
meat and poisoned drink.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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It fanned their temples, filled their lungs,
Scattered
their forelocks free;
My friends made words of it with tongues
That talk no more to me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Epitaph On A
Henpecked
Country Squire
As father Adam first was fool'd,
(A case that's still too common,)
Here lies man a woman ruled,
The devil ruled the woman.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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'Thus are we wholly at the disposal
of His will, and our present and future
condition
framed and ordered
by His free, but wise and just, decrees.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The
flooring
sounds 'neath Eviradnus' tread
Above abysses many.
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Hugo - Poems |
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BEGGAR
Daughter!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast,
Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs;
What careth she for hearts when once
possessed?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I by no means assert that
the
intercourse
would be promiscuous: on the contrary, it appears, from
the relation of parent to child, that this union is generally of long
duration, and marked above all others with generosity and self-devotion.
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Shelley |
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"
Poor Avarice one torment more would find;
Nor could
Profusion
squander all in kind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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'Twas not love's dart,
Or any blow
Of want, or foe,
Did wound my heart
With an eternal smart;
But only you,
My sometimes known
Companion,
My dearest Crew,
That me
unkindly
slew.
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Robert Herrick |
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And if I can speak and do my share,
I've her to thank, who every learning
Granted me, and all understanding,
And made me a singer debonair,
And
anything
I make that's fine,
From her sweet lovely body's mine,
True-hearted thought including.
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Troubador Verse |
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He continues: 'Indeed, no common supply was required; for, besides
what the
Corporation
(great devourers of custard) consumed on the
spot, it appears that it was thought no breach of city manners to
send, or take some of it home with them for the use of their ladies.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But my mind was weary Almost as the
twilight
of the day,
And my soul was sullen, and a little Tired of his everlasting talk.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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" Whereas the early poems were characterized by a
tendency
to turn
away from the turmoil of life--in fact, the concrete world of reality
does not seem to exist--there is noticeable in these two later volumes
an advance toward life in the sense that the poet is beginning to
approach and to vision some of its greatest symbols.
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Rilke - Poems |
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(Er fasst das Buch und spricht das Zeichen des Geistes
geheimnisvoll
aus.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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'Tis mine with food the hungry to supply,
And clothe the naked from the
inclement
sky.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The pigeons from the dove cote cooed over the old lane,
The crow flocks from the oakwood went flopping oer the grain;
Like lots of dear old
neighbours
whom I shall see no more
They greeted me that morning I left the English shore.
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John Clare |
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e whiche
blisfulnesse
as
I haue seid alle mortal folke enforcen hem to geten by
dyuerse weyes.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Soon as the force of that fallacious Fruit,
That with
exhilerating
vapour bland
About thir spirits had plaid, and inmost powers
Made erre, was now exhal'd, and grosser sleep
Bred of unkindly fumes, with conscious dreams 1050
Encumberd, now had left them, up they rose
As from unrest, and each the other viewing,
Soon found thir Eyes how op'nd, and thir minds
How dark'nd; innocence, that as a veile
Had shadow'd them from knowing ill, was gon,
Just confidence, and native righteousness,
And honour from about them, naked left
To guiltie shame: hee cover'd, but his Robe
Uncover'd more.
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Milton |
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O Fosterer of the Helicon Hill, sprung from Urania, who beareth the gentle
virgin to her mate, O
Hymenaeus
Hymen, O Hymen Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Mark by what
wretched
steps their glory grows,
From dirt and seaweed as proud Venice rose;
In each how guilt and greatness equal ran,
And all that raised the hero, sunk the man:
Now Europe's laurels on their brows behold,
But stained with blood, or ill exchanged for gold;
Then see them broke with toils or sunk with ease,
Or infamous for plundered provinces.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not:
I am no summer friend, but wintry cold,
A silly sheep benighted from the fold,
A
sluggard
with a thorn-choked garden plot.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Certys
resou{n}
whan it loke?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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One
stratagem
has fail'd, and others will:
Ye find, Achilles is unconquer'd still.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Let song itself, and votaries of verse,
Breathe
mournful
accents o'er our Cino's bier,
Who late is gone to number with the blest!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty
flitches
decorate the walls,
Moore's Almanack where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
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John Clare |
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"
But when it broke its shell
It slipped and
stumbled
and fell about its prison
And tried to climb to the light
For space to dry its wings.
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Imagists |
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THE ECHOING GREEN
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells'
cheerful
sound;
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Poi che 'l tripudio e l'altra festa grande,
si del cantare e si del fiammeggiarsi
luce con luce gaudiose e blande,
insieme a punto e a voler quetarsi,
pur come li occhi ch'al piacer che i move
conviene insieme
chiudere
e levarsi;
del cor de l'una de le luci nove
si mosse voce, che l'ago a la stella
parer mi fece in volgermi al suo dove;
e comincio: <
mi tragge a ragionar de l'altro duca
per cui del mio si ben ci si favella.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Or ask of yonder argent fields above,
Why Jove's
satellites
are less than Jove?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Nicolas, whose Edition has
reminded
me of several things, and
instructed me in others, does not consider Omar to be the material
Epicurean that I have literally taken him for, but a Mystic, shadowing
the Deity under the figure of Wine, Wine-bearer, &c.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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At length their expression appeared to flash suddenly
out into the external world, when, with a quick leap, he sprang from his
chair, and falling heavily with his head and shoulders upon the table,
and in contact with the corpse, poured out rapidly and
vehemently
a
detailed confession of the hideous crime for which Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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Wilde - Poems |
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The
violinist
had played it,
or something like it, but had not written it down; but the man with
the wind instrument said it could not be played because it contained
quarter-tones and would be out of tune.
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Yeats |
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Am I not
In truth a
favoured
plant!
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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That fine lyric, beginning "The gloomy night is
gathering
fast,"
was the offspring of these moments of regret and sorrow.
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Robert Forst |
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Stand
With no man
hankering
for a dagger's heft,
No, not for Italy!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays
Those painted clouds that beautify our days;
Each want of
happiness
by hope supplied,
And each vacuity of sense by pride:
These build as fast as knowledge can destroy;
In folly's cup still laughs the bubble, joy;
One prospect lost, another still we gain;
And not a vanity is given in vain;
Even mean self-love becomes, by force divine,
The scale to measure others' wants by thine.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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70
So whan this Calkas knew by calculinge,
And eek by answere of this Appollo,
That Grekes sholden swich a peple bringe,
Thorugh which that Troye moste been for-do,
He caste anoon out of the toun to go; 75
For wel wiste he, by sort, that Troye sholde
Destroyed
ben, ye, wolde who-so nolde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The chosen angels, and the spirits blest,
Celestial
tenants, on that glorious day
My Lady join'd them, throng'd in bright array
Around her, with amaze and awe imprest.
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Petrarch |
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"As I am speaking of poetry, it will not be amiss to touch slightly upon
the most
singular
heresy in its modern history-the heresy of what is
called, very foolishly, the Lake School.
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Poe - 5 |
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Wrinkles where his eyes are,
Wrinkles where his nose is,
Wrinkles where his mouth is,
And a little old devil looking out of every
wrinkle!
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Yeats |
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The two verses were unaltered, but the two
choruses
were
re-written.
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Tennyson |
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Yet, love and hate mee too,
So, these
extreames
shall neithers office doe;
Love mee, that I may die the gentler way;
Hate mee, because thy love is too great for mee; 20
Or let these two, themselves, not me decay;
So shall I, live, thy Stage, not triumph bee;
Lest thou thy love and hate and mee undoe,
_To let mee live, O love and hate mee too.
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John Donne |
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They speak of him
As of one who entered madly into life,
Drinking
the cup of pleasure to the dregs.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Whoso had seen that shattering of shields,
Whoso had heard those shining
hauberks
creak,
And heard those shields on iron helmets beat,
Whoso had seen fall down those chevaliers,
And heard men groan, dying upon that field,
Some memory of bitter pains might keep.
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Chanson de Roland |
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)--"which flows
continuously, with only an aspirate pause in the middle, like that
before the short line in the Sapphic Adonic, while the fifth has at the
middle pause no similarity of sound with any part besides, gives the
versification an
entirely
different effect.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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And since I've neither heart nor might,
How should I sing or find
delight?
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The
conversion of a
publican
into a Pharisee would not have seemed to him a
great achievement.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Theories
are poor things at the best, and the bulk of
mine have perished long ago.
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will it improve
manners?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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, signifying primarily
_touching
on, contact
with_: I.
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Beowulf |
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That ought to be
sufficient
for those American Intellectuals who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
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A story born out of the dreaming eyes
And crazy brain and
credulous
ears of famine.
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dost cast away my words with scorn,
Thou, prey
prepared
and dedicate to me?
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Aeschylus |
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Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for
reasons;
(With
gathering
murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we
all duly awake,
South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.
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Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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'For this wilt thou not
henceforth
pardon me?
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Shelley |
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O
phantoms!
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Whitman |
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And, looking o'er the hedge, be-fore me I espied
A snow-white
mountain
lamb, with a-maiden at its side.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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It rises under the
name of Cairn, runs through a wild country, under the name of
Dalgonar,
affording
fine trout-fishing as well as fine scenes, and
under that of Cluden it all but washes the walls of Lincluden College,
and then unites with the Nith.
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Robert Forst |
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I'll allow my eyes to be
deceived
forever.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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That wight that list to have knowing
Of Fals-Semblant, ful of flatering, 6140
He must in worldly folk him seke,
And, certes, in the cloistres eke;
I wone no-where but in hem tweye;
But not lyk even, sooth to seye;
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There I hope best to hulstred be;
And certeynly, sikerest hyding
Is undirneth
humblest
clothing.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Gradually
it became plain to him he could not
finish it.
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Yeats |
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What care have I
To please Apollo since Love
hearkens
not?
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Sara Teasdale |
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yourself
I see, great as any, good as the best,
Waiting secure and content, which the bullet could never kill,
Nor the bayonet stab O friend.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The presence of Chvabrine and of the crowd around us prevented me from
expressing to him all the
feelings
which filled my heart.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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