As o'er thy plain the Pilgrim pricked his steed,
Who could foresee thee, in a space so brief,
A scene where
mingling
foes should boast and bleed.
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There's a tale about it--
It has been lying there these many years--
Some wild old
sorrowful
tale.
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The body of my brother's son
Stood by me knee to knee:
The body and I pull'd at one rope,
But he said nought to me--
And I quak'd to think of my own voice
How
frightful
it would be!
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For the rest of the
Worthies?
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Or court a wife, spread out his wily parts,
Like nets or lime-twigs, for rich widows' hearts;
Call himself barrister to every wench,
And woo in
language
of the pleas and bench?
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--Woe--woe
To the
unrivalled
city!
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Byron |
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When I
undertake
to tell the best, I find I cannot,
My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots,
My breath will not be obedient to its organs,
I become a dumb man.
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By Dilettantes it is given;
'Twas by a
Dilettante
writ.
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"So I came to Merlin to ask him whether that was all true about the
shining dragon-ship and the tiny bare baby
floating
down from heaven
over on the glory of the seas; but Merlin just laughed, as he always
does, and answered me in the riddles of the old song, this way:
"'Rain, rain and sun!
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This standard rych,
endazzlynge
mortal eyes, 185
Was borne neare Harolde at the Renters heade,
Who chargd hys broders for the grete empryze
That straite the hest for battle should be spredde.
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Sing her that streams and silvan foliage loves,
Whate'er on Algidus' chill brow is seen,
In
Erymanthian
groves
Dark-leaved, or Cragus green.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Je
celebrai
mon jour de fete
Dans une oasis d'Afrique
Vetu d'une peau de girafe.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Pleasure
he had in meeting her
CCLI.
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Robert Forst |
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My unseen power weighs upon the heads
Of nations, like the blown abasement given
By sedges when they are
wretched
to the wind.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Wait till in everlasting robes
This
democrat
is dressed,
Then prate about "preferment"
And "station" and the rest!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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_All repeat_ of king
_before_
Lamedon; _the words were caught from_ l.
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scaðan =
_warriors_
(cf.
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And trees ther were, greet foisoun,
That baren notes in hir sesoun, 1360
Such as men
notemigges
calle,
That swote of savour been withalle.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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--
Out of cold lands, not theirs,
Where they exiled them, starved them, lied on them;
Back they come like a wind, in vain
Cramped up in the hills, that roars its road
The stronger into the open plain,
Or like a fire that burns the hotter
And longer for the crust of cinder,
Serving better the ends of the potter;
Or like a restrained word of God,
Fulfilling
itself by what seems to hinder.
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Quel regret
incapable
le mord?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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All
husbands
aren't alike, you see.
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Non hanno molto a volger quelle ruote>>,
e drizzo li occhi al ciel, <
cio che 'l mio dir piu
dichiarar
non puote.
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Medusas, miserable heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
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Appoloinaire |
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The pewit turned over and stooped oer my head
Where the raven croaked loud like the
ploughman
ill-bred,
But the lark high above charmed me all the day long,
So I sat down and joined in the chorus of song.
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John Clare |
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Then one
Maim'd of each hand, uplifted in the gloom
The
bleeding
stumps, that they with gory spots
Sullied his face, and cried: "'Remember thee
Of Mosca, too, I who, alas!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Most
personalities
have
been obliged to be rebels.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And feare, thy
_wantonnesse_
should now, begin
_Example_, that hath ceased to be _Sin_?
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John Donne |
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The aged man, with garment drawn back and girt about him in
Paeonian fashion, makes many a hurried effort with healing hand and the
potent herbs of Phoebus, all in vain; in vain his hand
solicits
the
arrow-head, and his pincers' grasp pulls at the steel.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The grim-eyed lioness pursues the wolf,
The wolf the she-goat, the she-goat herself
In wanton sport the
flowering
cytisus,
And Corydon Alexis, each led on
By their own longing.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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WHOis she coming, that the roses bend
Their
shameless
heads to do her honour ?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Thou, bethink thee, art
A guest for queens to social pageantries,
With gages from a hundred
brighter
eyes
Than tears even can make mine, to play thy part
Of chief musician.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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An
encounter ensued; the
peasants
fled to the lake for shelter, and were
there slain.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The green talons grasp
The land, that stood
erewhile
the proof so long,
And pil'd in bloody heap the host of France.
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classification
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I warrant you,
Before two years my people all, and all
The Eastern Church, will
recognise
the power
Of Peter's Vicar.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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_ We reach the utmost limit of the earth,
The
Scythian
track, the desert without man.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Cuddie and his mother in 'Old
Mortality!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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thee, Lausus, I vow for the live trophy of Aeneas, dressed
in the spoils
stripped
from the pirate's body.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what impossibly flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of
darkened
crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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A prisoner by the
faithless
Switzer made,
He shows the lord who hired him with his gold:
Which double treason, without couching lance,
Has given the victory to the king of France.
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Golden Treasury |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In one wild cataleptic sprawl,
Into love's
tortures
falling.
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James Russell Lowell |
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I'm
heartily
tired of this dry prose,
Must play the devil again out hollow.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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You'd only hear my voice and see my eyes And the remembrance of old
ecstasies
Awakening within you solemn-grand
Would flood my words; you would forget my hand Lay tremulous on yours, you would arise
And go from me as night when silence dies
And dawn and shouting harrow all the land.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Around thee stand the daughters of the deep,
Robe thee in
heavenly
vests, and round thee weep:
Round thee, the Muses, with alternate strain,
In ever-consecrating verse, complain.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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XXII
My glass shall not
persuade
me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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degorgez
dans les gares!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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LXXXII
I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,
And
therefore
mayst without attaint o'erlook
The dedicated words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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My soul went forth, and, mingling with the tree,
Danced in the leaves; or,
floating
in the cloud,
Saw its white double in the stream below;
Or else, sublimed to purer ecstasy,
Dilated in the broad blue over all.
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James Russell Lowell |
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He made this
somewhat
ironic alba in 1257, a fitting coda to the troubadour era.
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Troubador Verse |
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Haste was hers; she would hie afar
and save her life when the
liegemen
saw her.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Only the maidens question not
The bridges that lead to Dream;
Their
luminous
smiles are like strands of pearls
On a silver vase agleam.
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Rilke - Poems |
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You may guess of her wit by
the
following
verses, which she sent me the other day:--
Talk not of love, it gives me pain,
For love has been my foe;
He bound me with an iron chain,
And plunged me deep in woe!
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Robert Forst |
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And I have known the arms already, known them all--
Arms that are
braceleted
and white and bare
(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!
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T.S. Eliot |
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) deemed I 'twas preference matter
Or AEmilius' mouth choose I to smell or his ----
Nothing is this more clean,
uncleaner
nothing that other,
Yet I ajudge ---- cleaner and nicer to be;
For while this one lacks teeth, that one has cubit-long tushes, 5
Set in their battered gums favouring a muddy old box,
Not to say aught of gape like wide-cleft gap of a she-mule
Whenas in summer-heat wont peradventure to stale.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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from the soul itself must issue forth
A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud--
Enveloping the Earth--
And from the soul itself must there be sent
A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth,
Of all sweet sounds the life and
element!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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much
bitterness
and gall!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Shade above shade, the aerial pines ascend,
Nor stop but where
creation
seems to end.
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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`Ne Iompre eek no discordaunt thing y-fere,
As thus, to usen termes of phisyk;
In loves termes, hold of thy matere
The forme alwey, and do that it be lyk; 1040
For if a
peyntour
wolde peynte a pyk
With asses feet, and hede it as an ape,
It cordeth nought; so nere it but a Iape.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Already my spirit, longing for better ways,
Paces through my flesh, rebelliously,
And already brings the victim fuel to feed
His
immolation
in your vision's rays.
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Ronsard |
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O poplar, you are great
among the hill-stones,
while I perish on the path
among the
crevices
of the rocks.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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[_The CHRIST is gradually transfigured, during the following phrases of
dialogue, into
humanity
and suffering.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Ils auront vu la Suisse et
traverse
la France.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I love to look, as evening fails,
On vestals
streaming
in their veils,
Within the fane past altar rails,
Green palms in hand.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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'
Then the rough Torre began to heave and move,
And bluster into stormy sobs and say,
'I never loved him: an I meet with him,
I care not
howsoever
great he be,
Then will I strike at him and strike him down,
Give me good fortune, I will strike him dead,
For this discomfort he hath done the house.
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Tennyson |
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Sounds Aeolian
Breath'd from the hinges, as the ample span
Of the wide doors disclos'd a place unknown
Some time to any, but those two alone,
And a few Persian mutes, who that same year
Were seen about the markets: none knew where
They could inhabit; the most curious
Were foil'd, who watch'd to trace them to their house:
And but the flitter-winged verse must tell,
For truth's sake, what woe
afterwards
befel,
'Twould humour many a heart to leave them thus,
Shut from the busy world of more incredulous.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Longfellow |
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Who is the
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The boughs
bore leaves of green, that for want of sunshine had faded into almost
lily-white; and from the underside of this natural sylvan bridge
depended long and beautiful tresses of ivy, which waved gently in the
breeze, that might,
poetically
speaking, be called the breath of the
waterfall.
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William Wordsworth |
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CROWNED
I WEAR a crown invisible and clear,
And go my lifted royal way apart
Since you have crowned me softly in your heart
With love that is half ardent, half austere;
And as a queen
disguised
might pass anear
The bitter crowd that barters in a mart,
Veiling her pride while tears of pity start,
I hide my glory thru a jealous fear.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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This fellow from
Aberdeen
hither did skip
With a waxy face and a blubber lip,
And a black tooth in front to show in part
What was the colour of his whole heart.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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[106] _His form divine he cloth'd in human shape_--
_Alecto torvam faciem et
furialia
membra
Exuit: in vultus sese transformat aniles,
Et frontem obscaenum rugis arat.
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The
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older file is renamed.
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Sarojini
Chattopadhyay
was born at Hyderabad on February 13,
1879.
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The maister lesith his tyme to lere,
Whan the
disciple
wol not here.
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Would the gods my heart were
innocent
as well!
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The success of the
Rehearsal
was instant and
signal.
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Yet you see Heaven wishes
something
else.
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Beheld these things with terror every man,
And many said: "We in the Judgement stand;
The end of time is
presently
at hand.
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No more, my lord, than I have told you, sir:
The Count
Castiglione
will not fight,
Having no cause for quarrel.
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Poe - 5 |
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Oh,
darkling
deities that guard the Nile,
Watch over one whose gods are far away.
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"
The stranger
vanished
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fyren-dǣdum, 1002; both times of Grendel and his mother, with
reference
to
their nocturnal inroads.
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Beowulf |
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if I were you,
And children climbed me, for their sake
Though it be winter I would break
Into spring
blossoms
white and blue!
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