My mother taught me
underneath
a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointed to the east, began to say:
"Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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Are we not
tempted to explore it,--to penetrate to the shores of its Lake Tchad,
and
discover
the source of its Nile, perchance the Mountains of the
Moon?
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Ye chariot-lords, ye
spurrers
of the steed,
Shear close your horses' manes!
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Where the moon riseth not,
Nor sun seeks the west,
There to sing their glory
Which they sing at rest,
There to sing their love-song
When they sing their best: 30
Not in any garden
That mortal foot hath trod,
Not in any
flowering
tree
That springs from earthly sod,
But in the garden where they dwell,
The Paradise of God.
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the thick black cloud is cleft,
And the Moon is at its side:
Like waters shot from some high crag,
The
lightning
falls with never a jag
A river steep and wide.
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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King
You lack respect; I'll allow for your age,
Excuse the ardour of your
youthful
courage.
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When I had chosen on the river's edge
Such station, that the distance of the stream
Alone did separate me; there I stay'd
My steps for clearer prospect, and beheld
The flames go onward, leaving, as they went,
The air behind them painted as with trail
Of
liveliest
pencils!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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My boy was by my side, so slim
And
graceful
in his rustic dress!
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And then the bray of brazen horns 5
Arose above their
clanking
march,
As the long waving column filed
Into the odorous purple dusk.
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Into Moses' wholesale shop:
There they bought a hat and bonnet,
And a gown with spots upon it,
A satin sash of Cloxam blue,
And a pair of
slippers
too.
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But in general the
effect of reading many criticisms on the _Alcestis_ is to make a
scholar realize that, for all the seeming simplicity of the play,
competent Grecians have been strangely
bewildered
by it, and that after
all there is no great reason to suppose that he himself is more sensible
than his neighbours.
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Jiucheng
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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splendides
lueurs des forges!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The
mushroom
is the elf of plants,
At evening it is not;
At morning in a truffled hut
It stops upon a spot
As if it tarried always;
And yet its whole career
Is shorter than a snake's delay,
And fleeter than a tare.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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My
brothers
these; the same our native shore,
One house contain'd us, as one mother bore.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Auf einmal seh ich Rat
Und
schreibe
getrost: Im Anfang war die Tat!
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on
sightless
eyes doth stay!
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All must lie down together
Where the turf is green,
The foulest face hidden,
The fairest not seen;
Gone as if never
They had
breathed
or been.
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Wilt overtread
The eternal judgment, and abate
And spoil the
portions
of the dead?
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Sara Teasdale |
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When the Queen frowned, or smiled, he knows; and what
A subtle minister may make of that;
Who sins with whom: who got his pension rug,
Or quickened a
reversion
by a drug;
Whose place is quartered out, three parts in four,
And whether to a bishop, or a w***e;
Who having lost his credit, pawned his rent,
Is therefore fit to have a Government;
Who in the secret, deals in stocks secure,
And cheats the unknowing widow and the poor;
Who makes a trust or charity a job,
And gets an Act of Parliament to rob;
Why turnpikes rise, and now no cit nor clown
Can gratis see the country, or the town;
Shortly no lad shall chuck, or lady vole,
But some excising courtier will have toll.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Riches, like insects, when
concealed
they lie,
Wait but for wings, and in their season fly.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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But the fact is, I fell into catalepsy,
and it was considered by my best friends that I was either dead or
should be; they accordingly embalmed me at once--I presume you are aware
of the chief principle of the embalming
process?
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Poe - 5 |
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Then my heart it grew ashen and sober
As the leaves that were crisped and sere--
As the leaves that were
withering
and sere--
And I cried--"It was surely October
On _this_ very night of last year,
That I journeyed--I journeyed down here!
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We fled inland with our flocks,
we
pastured
them in hollows,
cut off from the wind
and the salt track of the marsh.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Unless you think fit to accuse even their
private method of eating, by which it has been customary for the
inhabitants of several places in the country to assemble
together
in
those [places] which are the more considerable, on holidays, and having
sacrificed, to feast together.
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Tacitus |
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She was [not] bisy, in no wyse, 3845
To kepe thee and [to] chastyse,
And for to helpen Chastitee
To kepe the roser, as
thinkith
me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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A soul
trembling
to sit by a hearth so bright,
To exist again, it's enough if I borrow from
Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I am gratified with your kind
inquiries
after Jean; as, after all, I
may say with Othello:--
--------------------"Excellent wretch!
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Robert Forst |
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"Did they make
something
lonesome go through you?
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Robert Forst |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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My noble
partners
and myself thus pray:
All comfort, joy, in this most gracious lady,
Heaven ever laid up to make parents happy,
May hourly fall upon ye!
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Shakespeare |
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Farai
chansoneta
nueva
I'll make a little song that's new,
Before wind, frost, and rain come too;
My lady tests me, and would prove
How, and in just what way, I am
In love, yet despite all she may do
I'd rather be stuck here in this jam.
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Troubador Verse |
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Why didst render not
Back unto us, the
children
of the dead,
Our father's portion?
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Euripides - Electra |
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I
likewise beg leave to trouble you with
compliments
to Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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II
De sa
fourrure
blonde et brune
Sort un parfum si doux, qu'un soir
J'en fus embaume, pour l'avoir
Caressee une fois, rien qu'une.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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A radical in thought, he puffed away
With shrewd contempt the dust of usage gray, 30
Yet loathed democracy as one who saw,
In what he longed to love, some vulgar flaw,
And, shocked through all his delicate reserves,
Remained a Tory by his taste and nerves,
His fancy's thrall, he drew all ergoes thence,
And thought himself the type of common sense;
Misliking women, not from cross or whim,
But that his mother shared too much in him,
And he half felt that what in them was grace
Made the unlucky
weakness
of his race.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Make her a corpse," said Zeno; "marked you how
The jade
insulted
me just now!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Peaks and ridges
tottered
and broke.
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Li Po |
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They were joined by
the selected
legionaries
who had also been led to hope for service in
the Guards, and they now demanded the pay they had been promised.
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Tacitus |
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Doch dieser Mangel lasst sich ersetzen,
Wir lernen das Uberirdische schatzen,
Wir sehnen uns nach Offenbarung,
Die
nirgends
wurd'ger und schoner brennt
Als in dem Neuen Testament.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Can it be that the morn shall fulfil
My dream, and
refashion
our clay
As the poet may fashion his rhyme?
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"The literal meaning of the term is, a mass, or crooked ear of
grain; but the ear of corn so called is a
conventional
type of a
little old man pilfering ears of corn in a cornfield.
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"
But Torpenhow was in the south of England, inspecting
dockyards
in the
company of the Nilghai.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The morrow dawned with needless glow;
Each snowbird chirped, each fowl must crow;
Each tramper started; but the feet
Of the most
beautiful
and sweet
Of human youth had left the hill
And garden,--they were bound and still.
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Emerson - Poems |
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PALACE OF THE TSAR
The
TSAREVICH
is drawing a map.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Dante
Alighieri
put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer-up of strife.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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For
pleasure
never gives me full delight,
Unless a little pain the bliss invite.
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La Fontaine |
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The blood-red sun bent over me
Your eyes are like the
sea—the
bitter sea!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Taught now in quite another school,
he will know nothing but the
pleasures
of ease.
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Aristophanes |
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It was the limit of my dream,
The focus of my prayer, --
A perfect, paralyzing bliss
Contented
as despair.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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reads on
nacan, but inserts
irrelevant
matter (_Beit.
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Beowulf |
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"
Again the goddess: "Much my father's prayer,
And much my mother's, press'd me to forbear:
My friends
embraced
my knees, adjured my stay,
But stronger love impell'd, and I obey.
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Iliad - Pope |
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er
tournayed
tulkes bi-tyme3 ful mony,
Iusted ful Iolile ?
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Thel is like a watry bow, and like a parting cloud,
Like a
reflection
in a glass: like shadows in the water
Like dreams of infants, like a smile upon an infants face.
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blake-poems |
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Mussulmans and Giaours
Throw
kerchiefs
at a smile, and have no ruth
For any weeping.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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For Destiny never swerves
Nor yields to men the helm;
He shoots his thought, by hidden nerves,
Throughout
the solid realm.
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Emerson - Poems |
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, whose
singing and dancing
enlivened
his retreat.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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If we may ask the reason, say
The why and
wherefore
all things here
Seem like the spring-time of the year.
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Robert Herrick |
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MEROPS
What care I, so they stand the same,--
Things of the
heavenly
mind,--
How long the power to give them name
Tarries yet behind?
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Emerson - Poems |
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"What are you
standing
there for like a stock?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Many's the time I talked to a woman myself that was
a faery, or
something
of the sort, and no less and more than mortal
anyhow.
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Yeats |
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what eyes hath love put in my head
O
mistress
mine, where are you roaming?
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Golden Treasury |
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My mariners,
Souls that have toil'd and wrought, and thought with me--
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads--you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil;
Death closes all; but
something
ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
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Tennyson |
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So high that he shall hector the
parliament^
And all wholesome laws for the public prevent,
IX.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Better the King's waste hearth and aching heart
Than thou
reseated
in thy place of light,
The mockery of my people, and their bane.
| Guess: |
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Tennyson |
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A Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
With nothing of language but
A beating in the sky
From so
precious
a place yet
Future verse will rise.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make,
Of all that strong
divineness
which I know
For thine and thee, an image only so
Formed of the sand, and fit to shift and break.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Down upon us heavily runs,
Silent and sullen, the
floating
fort;
Then comes a puff of smoke from her guns,
And leaps the terrible death,
With fiery breath,
From each open port.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Condensed mythological
references
abound.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Thy Future calls thee with a manifold sound
To crescent honours, splendours, victories vast;
Waken, O
slumbering
Mother and be crowned,
Who once wert empress of the sovereign Past.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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" Here ceas'd the
lamentable
sound;
And I continu'd thus: "Still would I learn
More from thee, farther parley still entreat.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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One only, true to Hymen's flame,
Was
traitress
to her sire forsworn:
That splendid falsehood lights her name
Through times unborn.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But why should I keep my
thoughts
to myself?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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O
Prophet!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Would God thou hadst never won those
victories!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vexed with
watching
and with tears?
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Dit celle dont jadis nous
baisions
les genoux.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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We fled inland with our flocks,
we
pastured
them in hollows,
cut off from the wind
and the salt track of the marsh.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But me mad love of the stern war-god holds
Armed amid weapons and
opposing
foes.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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All things within it would the world possess,
And have them in the tide of its desire:
Man hath his nature of the
vehement
world;
He is a torrent like the stars and beasts
Flowing to answer the fierce world's desire.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In a
single passage, however, it seems possible that Sir John Popham (see
page lx) is
referred
to.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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[Footnote 2: Another preacher, an equal
favourite
with the few,
who was at that time ailing.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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What had Death in store to awe
Those eyes, that huge sea-beasts unmelting saw,
Saw the swelling of the surge,
And high Ceraunian cliffs, the seaman's
scourge?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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So through the
moonlight
lanes they go,
And far into the moonlight dale,
And by the church, and o'er the down,
To bring a Doctor from the town, 120
To comfort poor old Susan Gale.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I do not mean the force alone--
The grace and
versatility
of the man!
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Tennyson |
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In the budding chestnuts
Whose sticky buds glimmer and are half-burst open
The starlings make their clitter-clatter;
And the
blackbirds
in the grass
Are getting as fat as the pigeons.
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Imagists |
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