Le singulier aspect de cette solitude
Et d'un grand portrait langoureux,
Aux yeux
provocateurs
comme son attitude,
Revele un amour tenebreux,
Une coupable joie et des fetes etranges
Pleines de baisers infernaux.
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Je suis un vieux boudoir plein de roses fanees,
Ou git tout un
fouillis
de modes surannees,
Ou les pastels plaintifs et les pales Boucher,
Seuls, respirent l'odeur d'un flacon debouche.
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parcite,
pallentis
undas quicumque tenetis
duraque sortiti tertia regna dei.
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Their writings sprang immediately from the soul-and partook
intensely
of
that soul's nature.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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As the
province
changed
hands so often and was so soon after this placed under
imperial control, it is possible that Tacitus made a mistake
and that Pacarius was an ex-praetor.
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XXXII
Well, if your pistol ball by chance
The comrade of your youth should strike,
Who by a haughty word or glance
Or any trifle else ye like
You o'er your wine insulted hath--
Or even overcome by wrath
Scornfully
challenged
you afield--
Tell me, of sentiments concealed
Which in your spirit dominates,
When motionless your gaze beneath
He lies, upon his forehead death,
And slowly life coagulates--
When deaf and silent he doth lie
Heedless of your despairing cry?
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long wont to notice yet conceal,
And soothe by silence what words cannot heal,
I but half saw that quiet hand of thine
Place on my desk this
exquisite
design.
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e
titleres
at his tayl, ?
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" "Art Christian knight,
Or basely born and boorish,
Or yet that thing I still more slight--
The spawn of some dog
Moorish?
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XIV
Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck;
And yet methinks I have astronomy,
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,
Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,
Or say with princes if it shall go well
By oft predict that I in heaven find:
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And
constant
stars in them I read such art
As 'Truth and beauty shall together thrive,
If from thyself, to store thou wouldst convert';
Or else of thee this I prognosticate:
'Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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That eggeth folk, in many gyse,
To take and yeve right nought ageyn,
And grete
tresours
up to leyn.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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blake-poems |
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how brief indeed the space ere this "immortal star"
Shall be
consumed
in its own glow, and vanished--oh, how far!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Vitellius
accordingly
commended the zeal of the troops.
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Tacitus |
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My minnie does
constantly
deave me,
And bids me beware o' young men;
They flatter, she says, to deceive me,
But wha can think so o' Tam Glen?
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Robert Forst |
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'
When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
A certain old dream, sick desire of my spine,
Beneath funereal ceilings afflicted by dying
Folded its
indubitable
wing there within me.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'4
THE GOOSE GIRL'S SONG By Laura Benet
Last morn as I was
bleaching
the queen's linen On the moor-grass sere and dry,
A breath of summer breeze it blew my apron To the four parts of the sky;
And as I started up tiptoe with wonder And gazed towards the town,
A little round well opened to my footsteps With water clear and brown.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Say thou dost love me, love me, love me--toll
The silver
iterance!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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for in good health are ye all, grandly ye digest,
naught fear ye, nor arson nor house-fall, thefts impious nor poison's
furtive cunning, nor aught of
perilous
happenings whatsoe'er.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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After that, I
hope to be able to recreate my
creative
faculty.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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III
IN melancholy moonless Acheron,
Farm for the goodly earth and joyous day
Where no spring ever buds, nor ripening sun
Weighs down the apple trees, nor flowery May
Chequers with chestnut blooms the grassy floor,
Where thrushes never sing, and piping linnets mate no more,
There by a dim and dark Lethaean well
Young Charmides was lying; wearily
He plucked the
blossoms
from the asphodel,
And with its little rifled treasury
Strewed the dull waters of the dusky stream,
And watched the white stars founder, and the land was like a dream,
When as he gazed into the watery glass
And through his brown hair's curly tangles scanned
His own wan face, a shadow seemed to pass
Across the mirror, and a little hand
Stole into his, and warm lips timidly
Brushed his pale cheeks, and breathed their secret forth into a sigh.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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AT length, as Anselm through a passage came,
He suddenly beheld his
beauteous
dame.
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La Fontaine |
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And labors for some good
By us not
understood!
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Longfellow |
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For he not only beholds intensely
the present as it is, and discovers those laws according to which
present things are to be ordained, but he beholds the future in the
present, and his
thoughts
are the germs of the flowers and the fruit of
latest time.
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Yeats |
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since this worn frame
refection
know,
What scenes have I surveyed of dreadful view!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Except the heaven had come so near,
So seemed to choose my door,
The
distance
would not haunt me so;
I had not hoped before.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Stephen Crane |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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--Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern
that catch that which stands next them, the candlestick or pots; turn
everything into a weapon:
ofttimes
they fight blindfold, and both beat
the air.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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For if ther mighte been a variaunce 985
To wrythen out fro goddes purveyinge,
Ther nere no prescience of thing cominge;
`But it were rather an opinioun
Uncerteyn, and no
stedfast
forseinge;
And certes, that were an abusioun, 990
That god shuld han no parfit cleer witinge
More than we men that han doutous weninge.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Criseyde, which that wel neigh starf for fere,
So as she was the ferfulleste wight 450
That mighte be, and herde eek with hir ere,
And saw the sorwful ernest of the knight,
And in his preyere eek saw noon unright,
And for the harm that mighte eek fallen more,
She gan to rewe and dredde hir wonder sore; 455
And thoughte thus,
`Unhappes
fallen thikke
Alday for love, and in swich maner cas,
As men ben cruel in hem-self and wikke;
And if this man slee here him-self, allas!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The crown of Poland, venal twice an age,
To just three
millions
stinted modest Gage.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The two men had overheard
me speaking to the empty air, and had
returned
to look after me.
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Kipling - Poems |
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We are not come to deal
slaughter
through Libyan
homes, or to drive plundered spoils to the coast.
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Ferus ipse sese adhortans rapidum incitat animo, 85
Vadit, fremit, refringit
virgulta
pede vago.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Hold ice up to the sun,
And wax before the fire;
Nor triumph oer the reign
Which they so soon resign;
In this world's ways they gain,
Insurance
safe as thine.
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John Clare |
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XXIX
All that the Egyptians once devised,
All that Greece, with its Corinthian,
Ionic, Attic, and its Dorian
Ornament, in its temples apprised,
All that the art of
Lysippus
comprised,
The hand of Apelles, or the Phidian,
That used to adorn this city, and this land,
Grandeur that even Heaven once surprised,
All that Athens in its wisdom showed,
All that from richest Asia ever flowed,
All that from Africa strange and new was sent,
Was here on view.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll
remember
each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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97
When Juliana came, and she,
What I do to the grass, does to mj
thoughts
and me ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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Around the neck thus ensheathed, was a collar of cylindrical glass
beads, diverse in color, and so
arranged
as to form images of deities,
of the scarabaeus, etc, with the winged globe.
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Poe - 5 |
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" she sweetly said:
And the brown face flushed to scarlet; for the boy was some what shy,
And he saw her
laughing
at him from the corner of her eye.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Now, hearing from this woman's mouth of mine,
The tale and eke its warning, pray with me,
_Luck sway the scale, with no
uncertain
poise.
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Aeschylus |
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They have
no money invested in railroad stock, and
probably
never will have.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Les richesses
jaillissant
a chaque demarche!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Here
countless
pilgrims come to pray
And promenade the Mall,--
Away, ye merry maids, etc.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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thou hast need
Of others'
forethought
and device, whereby
Thou may'st elude this handicraft of ours!
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Aeschylus |
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ra
On barren days,
At hours when I, apart, have
Bent low in thought of the great charm thou hast, Behold with music's many
stringed
charms
The silence groweth thou.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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be wary how ye judge:
For we, who see our Maker, know not yet
The number of the chosen: and esteem
Such scantiness of
knowledge
our delight:
For all our good is in that primal good
Concentrate, and God's will and ours are one.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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She, in free peoples planting sovereignty,
Orbs half the civil world in British peace;
And though time dispossess her, and she cease,
Rome-like she
greatens
in man's memory.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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ue of this
conference!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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--If not, wouldst have me keep her in
The women's
chambers
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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She gave up beauty in her tender youth,
Gave all her hope and joy and
pleasant
ways;
She covered up her eyes lest they should gaze
On vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Or shall I pour this draught for Earth to drink_,
Sans word or reverence, as my sire was slain,
And homeward pass with unreverted eyes,
Casting the bowl away, as one who flings
The
household
cleansings to the common road?
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Aeschylus |
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Ker's most elegant--he
offers to
accompany
me in my English tour.
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Robert Burns |
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Do not let it serve some impious
purpose!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
On which they incautiously began to sing aloud,
"Plum-pudding Flea,
Plum-pudding Flea,
Wherever
you be,
Oh!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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uel quotiens foribus ceris incisa pependi
non uerita a populo praetereunte legi;
quin ego me memini, dum custos saeuus abiret,
ancillae
missam delituisse sinu;
quid, cum me munus natali mittis, at illa
rumpit et adposita uerba retersit aqua?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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When speaks the signal-trumpet tone,
And the long line comes
gleaming
on,
(Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet,
Has dimmed the glist'ning bayonet),
Each soldier's eye shall brightly turn
To where thy meteor-glories burn,
And, as his springing steps advance,
Catch war and vengeance from the glance!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The water
caressed
the shore so gently!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
With such
soothsaying
songs of yore did the Parcae chant from divine breast
the felicitous fate of Peleus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own
entrails
your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But here in our dear poet both are blended--
Ripe age begun, yet golden youth not ended;--
Even as his song the willowy scent of spring
Doth blend with autumn's tender mellowing,
And mixes praise with satire, tears with fun,
In strains that ever delicately run;
So musical and wise, page after page,
The sage a
minstrel
grows, the bard a sage.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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' --
`Hold
straight
into the West,' I said again.
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Sidney Lanier |
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And the Soul was a-tremble like as a new-born thing,
Till the spark of the dawn wrought a
conscience
in heart as in wing,
Saying, `Thou art the lark of the dawn; it is time to sing.
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Sidney Lanier |
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And all their hearts in silken veils to wind,
And set them in coffers of marble white;
After, they take the bodies of those knights,
Each of the three is wrapped in a deer's hide;
They're washen well in
allspice
and in wine.
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Chanson de Roland |
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CXV
Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
Even those that said I could not love you dearer:
Yet then my judgment knew no reason why
My most full flame should
afterwards
burn clearer.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Some of these
translations have
appeared
in the "Bulletin of the School of Oriental
Studies," in the "New Statesman," in the "Little Review" (Chicago), and
in "Poetry" (Chicago).
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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When charged
therewith
he gazed, and answered bold:
"Be needy I or no,
I will not help lay low a house so fair!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Triumphant
Umbriel on a sconce's height
Clapp'd his glad wings, and sate to view the fight:
Propp'd on the bodkin spears, the Sprites survey 55
The growing combat, or assist the fray.
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Alexander Pope |
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The light of her face falls from its flower,
as a hyacinth,
hidden in a far valley,
perishes
upon burnt grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
I do not
remember
in all my reading, to have met with anything more
truly the language of misery, than the exclamation in the last line.
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Robert Burns |
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and when
We've sunk to rest within its arms entwined,
Like the Phoenician virgin, wake, and find
Ourselves
alone again.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
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Imagists |
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'And yit of Daunger cometh no blame,
In reward of my
doughter
Shame,
Which hath the roses in hir warde, 3255
As she that may be no musarde.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But nature is a
stranger
yet;
The ones that cite her most
Have never passed her haunted house,
Nor simplified her ghost.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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She was thinking of all this
and a great deal more when the door of her
apartment
suddenly opened,
and Herman stood before her.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty ordained for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was
abandoned
readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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The soundest and
easiest
criterion
of right and wrong policy is to consider what you
would have approved or condemned in another emperor.
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Tacitus |
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Objects are
concealed
from our view, not so much because
they are out of the course of our visual ray as because we do not
bring our minds and eyes to bear on them; for there is no power to see
in the eye itself, any more than in any other jelly.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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e sonne-bem; 28
Of diuers
coloures
hij weren,
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Now am I but the place thy beauty brightens,
And of myself I have no light of sense
Nor certainty of being: I am made
Empty of all my wont of life before thee,
A vessel where thy
splendour
may be poured,
After the way the great vessel of air
Accepts the morning power of the sun.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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e rounde table
Ouer-walt wyth a worde of on wy3es speche;
For al dares for drede, with-oute dynt
schewed!
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And what in me seems wanting, but that I 450
May also in this poverty as soon
Accomplish
what they did, perhaps and more?
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Milton |
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"
We soon saw
twinkling
the fires of Berd.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The student was not, however,
prepared
with answers to Mr.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Phaedra
I hear that a swift
departure
takes you far
From us, my Lord.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Rodrigue
Chasing the harsh course of my
wretched
fate.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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As where Rhone
stagnates
on the plains of Arles,
Or as at Pola, near Quarnaro's gulf,
That closes Italy and laves her bounds,
The place is all thick spread with sepulchres;
So was it here, save what in horror here
Excell'd: for 'midst the graves were scattered flames,
Wherewith intensely all throughout they burn'd,
That iron for no craft there hotter needs.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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First his
patrimony
was mangled; secondly the
Pontic spoils; then thirdly the Iberian, which the golden Tagus-stream
knoweth.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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With a certain
description
of the clergy, as well as laity, it
met with a roar of applause.
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Robert Burns |
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CANTO IV
'8 Cynthia':
a
fanciful
name for any fashionable lady.
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Alexander Pope |
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Not youthful kings in battle seized alive,
Not
scornful
virgins who their charms survive,
Not ardent lover robbed of all his bliss, 5
Not ancient lady when refused a kiss,
Not tyrants fierce that unrepenting die,
Not Cynthia when her manteau's pinned awry,
E'er felt such rage, resentment, and despair,
As thou, sad virgin!
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Alexander Pope |
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Meantime the Cicons, to their holds retired,
Call on the Cicons, with new fury fired;
With early morn the gather'd country swarms,
And all the
continent
is bright with arms;
Thick as the budding leaves or rising flowers
O'erspread the land, when spring descends in showers:
All expert soldiers, skill'd on foot to dare,
Or from the bounding courser urge the war.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Carrying her
before him on his breast, he sought a long ridge of lonely woodland; on
all sides angry weapons pressed on him, and
Volscian
soldiery spread
hurrying round about.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Fire-breathing,
venomous
once, they no longer now depredate our
Flocks and meadows and woods, fields of golden grain.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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