Much admired modern
work seems to me, in its lack of
inspiration
and its disregard of form,
like gravy imitating lava.
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More daring crime requires a loftier meed: _205
Without a shudder, the slave-soldier lends
His arm to murderous deeds, and steels his heart,
When the dread eloquence of dying men,
Low mingling on the lonely field of fame,
Assails that nature, whose applause he sells _210
For the gross blessings of a patriot mob,
For the vile gratitude of
heartless
kings,
And for a cold world's good word,--viler still!
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1922
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
Fire and Wine Grant Richards (London) 1913
The
Dominant
City Max Goschen (London) 1913
Fool's Gold Max Goschen (London) 1913
The Book of Nature Constable & Co.
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By what fearful design are you being
tempted?
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O
blaspheme
de l'art!
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No, those are not the words--the
substantial
words are in the ground and
sea,
They are in the air--they are in you.
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Liberty
On my
notebooks
from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old man of Dee-side
Whose hat was
exceedingly
wide,
But he said, "Do not fail, if it happen to hail,
To come under my hat at Dee-side!
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Therfore
on thy firme hand religion leanes
In peace, & reck'ns thee her eldest son.
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I believe in my conscience such ideas as
"my country; her independence; her honour; the
illustrious
names that
mark the history of my native land;" &c.
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But at such now no more of her veil or her fillet a-floating
Had she regard: on thee, O
Theseus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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But please
transmit
th' enclosed letter,--Igo, and ago,
Which will oblige your humble debtor.
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O ye thrice holy
virgins!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Quid faciunt hostes capta
crudelius
urbe?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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_ I hear a sound of life--of life like ours--
Of laughter and of wailing, of grave speech,
Of little plaintive voices innocent,
Of life in
separate
courses flowing out
Like our four rivers to some outward main.
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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For if thus rude and whetted words
Thou wilt hurl out, quickly may Zeus, though sitting
Far above, hear thee, so that thy present wrath
Of
troubles
child's play will seem to be.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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_ The confusion of
elements
from which the
world was created.
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Keats |
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My bedroom rocks
With breezes; quakes in storms,
When
dangling
locks
Of seaweed mock the forms
Of straggling clouds that trail o'erhead
Like tresses from disrupted coffin-lead.
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Hugo - Poems |
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_Scaur_, apt to be scared; a
precipitous
bank of earth which the stream
has washed red.
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Why, do you not
perceive
the jest?
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1160
I have loved you: and despite your offence,
My heart is
troubled
for you in advance.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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ic þē
þūsenda
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1830.
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Here, sometimes, in this
paradise
of shade,
Rippled with western winds, the dusty Tramp,
Seeing the treeless causey burn beyond,
Halts to unroll his bundle of strange food 210
And munch an unearned meal.
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I was
splintered
and torn:
the hill-path mounted
swifter than my feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"'Gifted for giving, I receive
The
maythorn
and its scent outgive:
I grieve not that I once did grieve.
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Sick is the land to th' heart; and doth endure
More
dangerous
faintings by her desperate cure.
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Virgil has celebrated him as a poet, and a commander of armies, in the
Illyrican and
Dalmatic
wars.
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= Whalley restores the right
reading,
correctly
explained as a pun on Ingine's name.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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O les grands pres,
La grande campagne
amoureuse!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Shall worms,
inheritors
of this excess,
Eat up thy charge?
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These also flow onward to others--you and I fly onward,
But in due time you and I shall take less
interest
in them.
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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is
dwelling
too.
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LXV Vnius uersus spatium in O _AD
ORTALEM_
GRVenC Laur.
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How should they know that Sappho lived and died
Faithful to love, not faithful to the lover,
Never
transfused
and lost in what she loved,
Never so wholly loving nor at peace.
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Loosen thou mine arm, yet
steadfast
stay,
Leave the park ere sunlight's parting ray,
And the mists descend o'er mount and lea,
Let's depart ere winter bids us flee.
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The promise of a god
I gave, and seal'd it with the
almighty
nod,
Achilles' glory to the stars to raise;
Such was our word, and fate the word obeys.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Yet lovely in captivity she lies,
Filled with soft colours, where the wavering weed
Moves gently and discloses to our eyes
Blurred shining veins of rock and lucent shells
Under the light-shot water; and here repose
Small quiet fish and dimly glowing bells
Of
sleeping
sea-anemones that close
Their tender fronds and will not now awake
Till on these rocks the waves returning break.
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O lover, in this radiant world
Whence is the race of mortal men, 10
So frail, so mighty, and so fond,
That fleets into the vast
unknown?
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Rejects not your long yoke, O Love, my heart,
But its own ill by study,
sufferings
vast:
Virtue is not of chance, but painful art.
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569, _574_;
_Nightmare
Abbey_, iv.
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Byron |
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) must fall,
And stain the pavement of my regal hall;
Where famish'd dogs, late
guardians
of my door,
Shall lick their mangled master's spatter'd gore.
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Iliad - Pope |
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As for the rest of the world, it languished away, while Ceres,
Derelict
of her true task, dalliance offered in love.
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Scorn not the sad reverse,
injurious
maid!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And if patriotism means the
flattery
of one's nation in every case,
then the patriot, take it as you please, is merely the courtier which
I am not, though I have written "Napoleon III.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe
everywhere
in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the evidence ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Beowulf spake, the bairn of Ecgtheow: --
"Through store of
struggles
I strove in youth,
mighty feuds; I mind them all.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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What hissing and twirling, what
chattering
and bustling!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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[Illustration]
The
Bountiful
Beetle,
who always carried a Green Umbrella when it didn't rain,
and left it at home when it did.
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n should have offered to
withdraw
from the Hall.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The driver looked
attentively
in the direction I was pointing out.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Again, if ev'r all motions are co-linked,
And from the old ever arise the new
In fixed order, and primordial seeds
Produce not by their swerving some new start
Of motion to sunder the
covenants
of fate,
That cause succeed not cause from everlasting,
Whence this free will for creatures o'er the lands,
Whence is it wrested from the fates,--this will
Whereby we step right forward where desire
Leads each man on, whereby the same we swerve
In motions, not as at some fixed time,
Nor at some fixed line of space, but where
The mind itself has urged?
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er most[e]
dep{ar}ten
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Meredith - Poems |
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What was man's strength, what
puissance
then?
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Christina Rossetti |
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_Firwood_
The fir trees taper into twigs and wear
The rich blue green of summer all the year,
Softening the roughest tempest almost calm
And
offering
shelter ever still and warm
To the small path that towels underneath,
Where loudest winds--almost as summer's breath--
Scarce fan the weed that lingers green below
When others out of doors are lost in frost and snow.
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John Clare |
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Time bring back the order of classic days;
Earth has shuddered with
prophetic
breath.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears
As salt as mine, and hear the sighing years
Re-sighing on my lips renunciative
Through those infrequent smiles which fail to live
For all thy
adjurations?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The channel, that I know no more, Whence, to
unfathomed
oceans, rolls The current of my being, now 1
Into the dark is turning me.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I read the book eagerly, and
perceived
that its substantiality
and power were still ahead of any eulogium with which it might have come
commended to me--and, in fact, ahead of most attempts that could be made at
verbal definition of them.
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Whitman |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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These
bondwomen
are all
I keep in mine own house.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Hence he is called a poet, not he which writeth in measure only,
but that
feigneth
and formeth a fable, and writes things like the truth.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The Elephant
Two Elephants
'Two Elephants'
Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594, The Rijksmuseun
I carry
treasure
in my mouth,
As an elephant his ivory.
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Appoloinaire |
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"As longe as EDWARDE rules thys lande,
Ne quiet you wylle knowe;
Youre sonnes and
husbandes
shalle bee slayne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Unhappily those who agree in
regarding
the metre as purely
accentual agree in little else.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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[82]
At Chu-t'ang a
straight
cleft yawns:
At Yen-yu islands block the stream.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The
thrall o' love Septumius his only Acme far would choose, than Tyrian or
Britannian realms: the faithful Acme with Septumius unique doth work her
love
delights
and wantonings.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Its
lifeless
shadow lies oblique
Upon the pool where, javelin-like,
The star-rays quiver while they strike.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Oh
faithless
man!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Is it that death forgets to free
You fishes of
melancholy?
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Appoloinaire |
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HE EXTOLS THE LAUREL AND ITS
FAVOURITE
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner,
But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing
thinner?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The gentleman of perfect blood
acknowledges
his perfect blood;
The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves
in the ways of him--he strangely transmutes them,
They are not vile any more--they hardly know themselves, they are so grown.
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Whitman |
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They sing, and lash the wet-flanked wind:
Sing, from Col to Hafod Mynd,
And fling their voices half a score
Of miles along the mounded shore:
Whip loud music from a tree,
And roll their pæan out to sea
Where crowded
breakers
fling and leap,
And strange things throb five fathoms deep.
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Duncan was a lad o' grace;
Maggie's was a piteous case;
Duncan could na be her death,
Swelling
pity smoor'd his wrath;
Now they're crouse and canty baith:
Ha, ha, the wooing o't!
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Golden Treasury |
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Colonel Hugo had become General, and there, besides being
governor
over
three provinces, was Lord High Steward at King Joseph's court, where his
eldest son Abel was installed as page.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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At our revised rates of production, we will reach only one-third
of that goal by the end of 2001, or about 3,333 Etexts unless we
manage to get some real funding; currently our funding is mostly
from Michael Hart's salary at Carnegie-Mellon University, and an
assortment of sporadic gifts; this salary is only good for a few
more years, so we are looking for something to replace it, as we
don't want Project Gutenberg to be so
dependent
on one person.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The smitten rock that gushes,
The
trampled
steel that springs;
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's
Beautiful
Wife
'She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife'
Auguste Rodin (France, 1840 - 1917)
LACMA Collections
That's how the bon temps we regret
Among us, poor old idiots,
Squatting on our haunches, set
All in a heap like woollen lots
Round a hemp fire men forgot,
Soon kindled, and soon dust,
Once so lovely, that cocotte.
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Villon |
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God has
breathed
in the nostrils of night,
And behold, it is day!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Before you accuse my
judgement
further
Consult your heart: Rodrigue is its master.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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In 4528
whiche
man{er}e
knowe?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Far up the great bells wallowed in delight,
Tossing their clangors o'er the
heedless
town,
To call the worshippers who never came,
Or women mostly, in loath twos and threes.
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woe for young Virginia, the
sweetest
maid in Rome!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Go to, goe to, you doe ne understonde:
Theie yeave mee lyffe and dyd mie bowkie[148] kepe;
Theie dyd mee feeste, and did embowre[149] me gronde;
To trete hem ylle wulde lette mie
kyndnesse
slepe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Where the
individual only suffers by the consequences of his own thoughtlessness,
indolence, or folly, he may be excusable; nay, shining abilities, and
some of the nobler virtues, may half sanctify a heedless character; but
where God and nature have intrusted the welfare of others to his care;
where the trust is sacred, and the ties are dear, that man must be far
gone in selfishness, or
strangely
lost to reflection, whom these
connexions will not rouse to exertion.
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Robert Forst |
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Where's your
handkerchief?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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As to
a tragedy or a comedy, the action may be
convenient
and perfect that
would not fit an epic poem in magnitude.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Tell her, that wastes her time and me,
That now she knows,
When I
resemble
her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.
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Golden Treasury |
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What coral, what lilies, and what roses,
In seeming, my open hand discloses,
Now, with twin caresses
stroking
her.
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Ronsard |
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The allusions are oflen so obscure — the
wit of one page is so dependent on that of an-
other — the humour and pleasantry are so continu-
ous — ^and the
character
of the work, from its very
nature, is so excursive, that its merits can be
fully appreciated only on a regular perusal.
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Marvell - Poems |
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