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Ah, smiles and joyance quickly died,
For public hope grew pale and dim
In an altered time and tide,
And in its wasting withered him,
As a summer flower that blows too soon _695
Droops in the smile of the waning moon,
When it
scatters
through an April night
The frozen dews of wrinkling blight.
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No one knows what made those wild thoughts arise:
But the waves have
snatched
her forever from our eyes.
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This nonsense, that dishonest seems,
This wicked, that absurd he deems,
All are constrained and fetters bear,
Antiquity no pleasure gave,
The moderns of the ancients rave--
Books he
abandoned
like the fair,
His book-shelf instantly doth drape
With taffety instead of crape.
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You know, my Friends, how long since in my House
For a new Marriage I did make Carouse:
Divorced
old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
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TAVERN ON THE
LITHUANIAN
FRONTIER
MISSAIL and VARLAAM, wandering friars; GREGORY in secular attire; HOSTESS
HOSTESS.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--Of many a clime and tongue
Commix'd the
mournful
pageant moved along
While scarce the fortunes or the name of one
Among a thousand passing forms was known.
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Baligant sees his gonfalon disgraced,
And Mahumet's standard thrown from its place;
That admiral at once
perceives
it plain,
That he is wrong, and right is Charlemain.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Hearest thou voices on the shore,
That our ears
perceive
no more,
Deafened by the cataract's roar?
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I
thenceforward
and long after
Listen for their harp-like laughter,
And carry in my heart, for days,
Peace that hallows rudest ways.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Instead of going out of the small door
behind the screen, however, he
concealed
himself in a closet to await
the return of the old Countess.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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pars patris_ Schuler
64 _solit tu est noli
tuignare_
T
66 _Kymeno kymene?
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Latin - Catullus |
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The ancient
centuries
came back
To cover us a moment's space,
And thro' the dome the light was glad
Because it shone upon your face.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Were I as patient as the
midnight
sleep,
By Jove, 'twould be my mind!
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Shakespeare |
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In a hollow rounded space it ended
With a
luminous
Lamp within suspended,
All fenced about
With a bandage stout
To prevent the wind from blowing it out;
And with holes all round to send the light
In gleaming rays on the dismal night
And now each night, and all night long,
Over those plains still roams the Dong;
And above the wail of the Chimp and Snipe
You may hear the squeak of his plaintive pipe,
While ever he seeks, but seeks in vain,
To meet with his Jumbly Girl again;
Lonely and wild, all night he goes,--
The Dong with a luminous Nose!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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EJC}
Then I am dead till thou revivest me with thy sweet song
Now taking on Ahanias form & now the form of Enion
I know thee not as once I knew thee in those blessed fields
Where memory wishes to repose among the flocks of Tharmas
Enitharmon answerd Wherefore didst thou throw thine arms around
Ahanias Image I decievd thee & will still decieve
Urizen saw thy sin & hid his beams in darkning Clouds
I still keep watch altho I tremble & wither across the heavens
In strong
vibrations
of fierce jealousy for thou art mine
Created for my will my slave tho strong tho I am weak {This line appears to have been inserted between 2 existing lines.
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Blake - Zoas |
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But the
solution
offered by Aeschylus did
not satisfy him.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Know, if thou wouldst number them
That two and twenty miles the valley winds
Its circuit, and already is the moon
Beneath our feet: the time
permitted
now
Is short, and more not seen remains to see.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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GREECE
THE sea was
sapphire
coloured, and the sky
Burned like a heated opal through the air;
We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair
For the blue lands that to the eastward lie.
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Wilde - Poems |
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'
She looks into me
The
unknowing
heart
To see if I love
She has confidence she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea and air,
Possessing
all things with intensest love,
O Liberty!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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These seen, thou go'st to view thy flocks
Of sheep, safe from the wolf and fox,
And find'st their bellies there as full
Of short sweet grass as backs with wool,
And leav'st them, as they feed and fill,
A
shepherd
piping on a hill.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
Aunt Helen
Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt,
And lived in a small house near a
fashionable
square
Cared for by servants to the number of four.
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T.S. Eliot |
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With
blameless
carriage, I lived here, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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The rest of us our way to Phocis won,
And thence to Doris and the Melian gulf,
Where with soft stream
Spercheus
laves the soil.
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Aeschylus |
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Her teeth are like the nightly snow
When pale the morning rises keen,
While hid the murmuring
streamlets
flow;
An' she has twa sparkling roguish een
X.
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Robert Forst |
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Why turn a
compliment
to the emperor into a slight
upon some one else?
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Tacitus |
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You
loitered
on the road too long,
You trifled at the gate:
The enchanted dove upon her branch
Died without a mate; 480
The enchanted princess in her tower
Slept, died, behind the grate;
Her heart was starving all this while
You made it wait.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Thine this universal frame,
Thus
wondrous
fair--Thyself how wondrous then!
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The shrivelled seeds
are spilt on the path--
the grass bends with dust,
the grape slips
under its
crackled
leaf:
yet far beyond the spent seed-pods,
and the blackened stalks of mint,
the poplar is bright on the hill,
the poplar spreads out,
deep-rooted among trees.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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To a Common Prostitute
Be composed--be at ease with me--I am Walt Whitman, liberal and
lusty as Nature,
Not till the sun
excludes
you do I exclude you,
Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to
rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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bull,"
Said a movie news reel camera man,
Said a Washington newspaper correspondent,
Said a baggage handler lugging a trunk,
Said a two-a-day
vaudeville
juggler,
Said a hanky-pank selling jumping-jacks.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Now, let woman no more trust her to man when he sweareth,
Ne'er let her hope to find or truth or faith in his pleadings,
Who whenas lustful thought forelooks to
somewhat
attaining, 145
Never an oath they fear, shall spare no promise to promise.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I have no precious time at all to spend;
Nor
services
to do, till you require.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Walls and
ceiling are adorned 'with the most
singular
witch-household stuff_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The
fighting
man shall from the sun
Take warmth, and life from the glowing earth;
Speed with the light-foot winds to run,
And with the trees to newer birth;
And find, when fighting shall be done,
Great rest, and fullness after dearth.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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'Twas thou, didst bend my mother to her shame:
Thy weak hand
murdered
him who led to fame
The hosts of Hellas--thou, that never crossed
O'erseas to Troy!
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Euripides - Electra |
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FORMIÆ, a
maritime
town of Italy, to the south-east of _Cajeta_.
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Contents
Translator's note:
The Ruins Of Rome
Divine spirits, whose powdery ashes lie
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
Newcomer, who looks for Rome in Rome,
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
He who would see the vast power of Nature,
As in her chariot the Phrygian goddess rode,
You sacred ruins, and you holy shores,
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
You cruel stars, inhuman deities,
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
As we pass the summer stream without danger
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
All
perfection
Heaven showers on us,
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
All that the Egyptians once devised,
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
That we see nothing but an empty waste
Do you have hopes that posterity
Translator's note:
The text used is from the 1588 edition of Les Antiquites de Rome.
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And me
beguiled
at Plato's house to stay.
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Marvell - Poems |
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For the crimson flower of our life is eaten by
the
cankerworm
of truth,
And no hand can gather up the fallen withered
petals of the rose of youth.
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Forth from Sabryna ran a ryverre cleere,
Roarynge and rolleynge on yn course bysmare[51]; 95
From female
Vyncente
shotte a ridge of stones,
Eche syde the ryver rysynge heavenwere;
Sabrynas floode was helde ynne Elstryds bones.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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' And Florian said:
'I have a sister at the foreign court,
Who moves about the Princess; she, you know,
Who wedded with a
nobleman
from thence:
He, dying lately, left her, as I hear,
The lady of three castles in that land:
Through her this matter might be sifted clean.
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Tennyson |
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I am coming, Valkyr, I am coming, where the channel fog-banks lie;
I can see your signals
blinking
through the mist of their changing smoke; When I rush with the speed of a whirlwind I feel you are riding nigh;
I am counting the days, beloved, the days that I live to die.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Thou, who shalt trace this bloody plain,
If
goodness
rules thy generous breast,
Sigh for the wasted rural reign;
Sigh for the shepherds, sunk to rest!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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'
Dawn now breaks;
sunlight
rakes the swollen seas;
Ah, alas!
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Troubador Verse |
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Our pace took sudden awe,
Our feet
reluctant
led.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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anxia nec mater discordis maesta puellae
secubitu
caros mittet sperare nepotes.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The rest of soul,
Throughout
the body scattered, but obeys--
Moved by the nod and motion of the mind.
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Lucretius |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Arise, as in that elder time,
Warm, energetic, chaste,
sublime!
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Golden Treasury |
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Now, gentles, what shall I
produce?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire,
And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire,
Cast on the
Darkness
into which Ourselves,
So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Alack, O sisters, O
dishonoured
brood
Of mother Night!
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Aeschylus |
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And he who takes what love brings too,
Though little it grant of hope's fine brew,
Cannot fail to find
pleasures
new
And in fresh joy rich recompense:
So that I praise the honours sent,
The gifts, neck, hands that make me kiss,
My remedy for all amiss.
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Troubador Verse |
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So, through all humors, thou 'rt the same sweet one:
Doubt not I love thee well in each, who see
Thy
constant
change is changeful constancy.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Ornytus the
hunter rides near in strange arms on his Iapygian horse, his broad
warrior's shoulders swathed in the hide stripped from a bullock, his
head covered by a wolf's wide-grinning mouth and white-tusked jaws; a
rustic pike arms his hand; himself he moves amid the
squadrons
a full
head over all.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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'
So cried I,
bitterly
thrusting pity aside,
Closing my lids to sleep.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Keats - Lamia |
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e ne
sprede{n}
his name to many manere
peoples.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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er
tournayed
tulkes bi-tyme3 ful mony,
Iusted ful Iolile ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Go if thou wilt,
ambrosial
flower,
Go match thee with thy seeming peers;
I will wait Heaven's perfect hour
Through the innumerable years.
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Meredith - Poems |
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ou art
confessed
so clene, be-knowen of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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In the uncritical and
boisterous
atmosphere of the Satyr-play it was
natural hospitality, not especially laudable or surprising.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Thou of him
Th' eternal portion bear'st with thee away
For one poor tear that he
deprives
me of.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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at oure vices ben
refferred
to ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I can't, because _my_ legs
Are so
extremely
short.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The Caterpillar
Plants,
Caterpillars
and Insects
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Appoloinaire |
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At
midnight
in the month of June,
I stand beneath the mystic moon.
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Poe - 5 |
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What have we to do
With
Kaikobad
the Great, or Kaikhosru?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And lo,
permitted
by the power divine,
The hov'ring demon gives the dreadful sign.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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For they've been to the Lakes, and the
Torrible
Zone,
And the hills of the Chankly Bore.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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'
She looks into me
The
unknowing
heart
To see if I love
She has confidence she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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several
passages
in the poems, as printed in Mr.
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I also hope for him a
misfortune
at night.
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Aristophanes |
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Presently
he
stopped and asked again whose burying it was, and a man answered: 'We
are carrying Dermott's daughter Winny whom you murdered, to be buried
in the island of the Holy Trinity,' and the man stooped and picked up
a stone and cast it at Costello, striking him on the cheek and making
the blood flow out over his face.
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old person of Skye,
Who waltz'd with a
Bluebottle
fly:
They buzz'd a sweet tune, to the light of the moon,
And entranced all the people of Skye.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"The
Pereyras," says he, "deserve no stain on their memory for joining the
King of Castile, whose title to the crown of
Portugal
was infinitely
more just and solid than that of Don John.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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By a
transition
readily
understood, and which might have been as readily foreseen, we have been
brought to merge in simple _show_ our notions of taste itself.
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Poe - 5 |
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O
Prophet!
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Hugo - Poems |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and
reported
to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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little marked, how fast they rolled away:
Then rose a mansion proud our woods among,
And cottage after cottage owned its sway,
No joy to see a neighbouring house, or stray
Through
pastures
not his own, the master took;
My Father dared his greedy wish gainsay;
He loved his old hereditary nook,
And ill could I the thought of such sad parting brook.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Sic certest: clamant
Victoris
rupta miselli
Ilia, et emulso labra notata sero.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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He felt it was his turn to speak,
And, with a shamed and crimson cheek,
Moaned "This is harder than
Bezique!
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How should thy
revelling
hurt, if that were all?
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But best befriended of the God
He who, in evil times,
Warned by an inward voice,
Heeds not the
darkness
and the dread,
Biding by his rule and choice,
Feeling only the fiery thread
Leading over heroic ground,
Walled with mortal terror round,
To the aim which him allures,
And the sweet heaven his deed secures.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Nor sea, nor earth, nor shining vaults of sky,
Nor breed of mortals, nor holy limbs of gods
Could keep their place least portion of an hour:
For, driven apart from out its
meetings
fit,
The stock of stuff, dissolved, would be borne
Along the illimitable inane afar,
Or rather, in fact, would ne'er have once combined
And given a birth to aught, since, scattered wide,
It could not be united.
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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And every human heart that breaks,
In prison-cell or yard,
Is as that broken box that gave
Its
treasure
to the Lord,
And filled the unclean leper's house
With the scent of costliest nard.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Now it is night in nest and kennel,
And where was the wood,
Just a dome of abyss is nodding
Into
solitude!
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