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"Borne to a hospital, I lay with brain
Drowsy and weak, and shattered memory; [51]
I heard my neighbours in their beds complain 390
Of many things which never
troubled
me--
Of feet still bustling round with busy glee,
Of looks where common kindness had no part,
Of service done with cold formality, [52]
Fretting the fever round the languid heart, 395
And groans which, as they said, might [53] make a dead man
start.
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CYCLOPS:
What shall I do,
Silenus?
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[6] In his
_Sicily_
Augustus handled a theme of wide patriotic interest:
and it is more than likely, I think, that Vergil in the _Aeneid_ owed,
or affected to owe, a good deal to this poem.
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Thorowe the halle the belle han sounde;
Byelecoyle doe the Grave beseeme;
The ealdermenne doe sytte arounde,
Ande
snoffelle
oppe the cheorte steeme.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"Your queen is killed," remarked
Tchekalinsky
quietly.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Who would take on such an
adversary?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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King
Marsilies
in war is overturned,
His castles all in ruin have you hurled,
With catapults his ramparts have you burst,
Vanquished his men, and all his cities burned;
Him who entreats your pity do not spurn,
Sinners were they that would to war return;
With hostages his faith he would secure;
Let this great war no longer now endure.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I to
hexameters
tell, in pentameters I will confide it:
During the day she was joy, happiness all the night long.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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this supper is but a dream, it
appears!
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Aristophanes |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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The smallest vermin make the
greatest
waste,
And a poor warren once a city rased.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Victor's poetry became remarkable in _La Muse Francaise_ and _Le
Conservateur Litteraire_, the odes being permeated with Legitimist and
anti-revolutionary
sentiments
delightful to the taste of Madam Hugo, member
as she was of the courtly Order of the Royal Lily.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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II
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their Pyramids tall;
And that same Greek still
boasting
will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost labyrinthine hall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I offered Being for it;
The mighty
merchant
smiled.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Pinard (alors avocat general et plus tard ministre de l'Interieur), le
delit d'offense a la morale religieuse fut ecarte, mais en raison de la
prevention d'outrage a la morale publiques et aux bonnes moeurs, la
Cour prononca la suppression de six pieces: _Lesbos, Femmes damnees,
le Lethe, A celle qui est trop gaie, les Bijoux et les
Metamorphoses
du
Vampire,_ et la condamnation a une amende de l'auteur et de
l'editeur (21 aout 1857).
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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--for such the
affections
are.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Through kindred scenes,
For purpose, at a time, how
different!
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William Wordsworth |
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Loud talk
And simple feasting:
Discussion
of philosophy,
Investigation of subtleties.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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These but deprive my sweet boy of his most
opportune
times.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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1630
She has
punished
herself, and escaped my anger,
By seeking in the waves a far gentler torture.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Fifty military
treatises
find storage in your belly.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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O
blinding
hour, O holy, terrible day,
When first the shaft into his vision shone
Of light anatomized!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And their glance is
brighter
far
Than the star
Brightest in heaven's bluest deep.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Cohn has shown that this Latin work is a third- or
fourth-century
translation
of a Greek work, itself a translation from
the Hebrew.
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John Donne |
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When he came to the river he
lingered
awhile upon
the bank among the flowers of the flag, but presently rode out into the
middle and stopped his horse in a foaming shallow.
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Yeats |
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1202)
Fortz chausa es que tot lo maior dan
A harsh thing it is that brings such harm,
Peire
Cardenal
(c.
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Troubador Verse |
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He holds him, and a hundred others takes
From the kitchen, both good and evil knaves;
Then Guenes beard and both his cheeks they shaved,
And four blows each with their closed fists they gave,
They
trounced
him well with cudgels and with staves,
And on his neck they clasped an iron chain;
So like a bear enchained they held him safe,
On a pack-mule they set him in his shame:
Kept him till Charles should call for him again.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"Atta Troll" (1846), which has been
described
as the "Swan-song of
Romanticism," was written in the hey-day of his activities, and
admirably conveys something of the temper and genius of its many-sided
author.
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
I keep it staying at home,
With a
bobolink
for a chorister,
And an orchard for a dome.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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To plead with the
tsaritsa
in her cell
Now are they gone.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Praesentes
namque ante domos invisere castas
Heroum et sese mortali ostendere coetu 385
Caelicolae nondum spreta pietate solebant.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Not far aloof,
Slipped from his head, the garlands lay, and there
By its worn handle hung a
ponderous
cup.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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O bashful and
feminine!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Ronsard |
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In the case of the Cusack-Bremmils this
reaction
did not set in till the
third year after the wedding.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And all night long they sailed away;
And when the sun went down,
They whistled and warbled a moony song
To the echoing sound of a coppery gong,
In the shade of the
mountains
brown.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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All the
power of the Patricians has been exerted to throw out the two
great
champions
of the Commons.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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er, myn
honoured
ladye3.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these
floating
animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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This deed to fierce Idomeneus we owe;
Haste, and revenge it on th'
insulting
foe.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Two Doctors in the camp
Dissected the slain deer, weighed the trout's brain,
Captured the lizard, salamander, shrew,
Crab, mice, snail, dragon-fly, minnow and moth;
Insatiate skill in water or in air
Waved the scoop-net, and nothing came amiss;
The while, one leaden got of alcohol
Gave an
impartial
tomb to all the kinds.
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Emerson - Poems |
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ee pictures,
And note the
propere?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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As one
of the latter class,
Hierocles
is in haste to see this piece cut off.
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Aristophanes |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Erewhile 'twas corn resplendent and unstained,
Or crystal, that through morning radiance shone,
Now flowing agate, deep and sombre-veined,
Then like a crimson sparkling
precious
stone.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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In her embrace--it's by no means unusual--I've
composed
poems
And the hexameter's beat gently tapped out on her back,
Fingertips counting in time with the sweet rhythmic breath of her slumber.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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: uersum reposuit
Palladius
1500
8 _deposiuit_ Caesenas: _deposuit_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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My friend, blood shaking my heart
The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed
Which is not to be found in our obituaries
Or in
memories
draped by the beneficent spider
Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor
In our empty rooms 410
DA
Dayadhvam: I have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison
Only at nightfall, aetherial rumours
Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus
DA
Damyata: The boat responded
Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar 420
The sea was calm, your heart would have responded
Gaily, when invited, beating obedient
To controlling hands
I sat upon the shore
Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
Shall I at least set my lands in order?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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--O, Were I On
Parnassus
Hill
Tune--"My love is lost to me.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_33
represented
by asterisks, 1832.
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Shelley |
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Is there a horn we should not blow as proudly
For the meanest of us all, who creeps his days,
Guarding
his heart from blows, to die obscurely?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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A thing
incredible
I tell, tho' true:
The gateway, named from those of Pera, led
Into the narrow circuit of your walls.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of
Replacement
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The
wavering
corn is like gold, still,
Perhaps not so rich nor so hale,
Roses with greetings unfold still,
Be though their bloom something pale.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Portraite
fu au darrenier POVRETE.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Your sister's hand in marriage have I ta'en;
And I've a son, there is no prettier swain:
Baldwin, men say he shews the
knightly
strain.
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Chanson de Roland |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Oh, why didst hinder me to cast
This body to the dust and die
With her, the
faithful
and the brave?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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dream of mine
Wherein I dreamed that time was like a vine,
A creeping rose, that clomb a height of dread
Out of the sea of Birth, all filled with dead,
Up to the
brilliant
cloud of Death o'erhead.
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Sidney Lanier |
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I thought of the great storms of love as I
knew it,
Torn, miserable, and ashamed of my open
sorrow,
I thought of the
thunders
that lived in my
head,
And I wish to be an ogre,
And hale and haul my beloved to a castle,
And make her mourn with my mourning.
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Stephen Crane |
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alternate
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full Project Gutenberg-tm License as specified in paragraph 1.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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don't you be telling us,
I'm innocent of these,
irresponsible of happenings--
didn't we see you steal next to her,
tenderly,
with your silver mist about you
to hide your
blandishment?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The Knight was called and questioned; in reply
Did not confess the fact, did not deny;
Treated the matter as a
pleasant
jest,
And set at naught the Syndic and the rest,
Maintaining, in an angry undertone,
That he should do what pleased him with his own.
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Longfellow |
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Sheridan and Goldsmith, when they restored comedy after an epoch of
sentimentalities, had to apologise for their satiric genius by scenes
of conventional love-making and sentimental
domesticity
that have set
them outside the company of all, whether their genius be great or
little, whose work is pure and whole.
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Yeats |
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"
V
Hear how it
babbles!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And I said, "I will seek that city and the
blessedness
thereof.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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--The next
property
of epistolary style is perspicuity,
and is oftentimes by affectation of some wit ill angled for, or
ostentation of some hidden terms of art.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The flight of Cranes is most famously
mentioned
in Homer's Iliad.
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Ronsard |
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Suddenly the dark noise
Cleft and went
backward
from us, and we stood
Knowing each other in a quiet light;
And like wise music made of many strings
Following and adoring underneath
Prevailing song, fate lived beneath our love,
Under the masterful excellent silence of it,
A multitudinous obedience.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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This having said, at once he left the belle,
And wisely shut the door, and barred his cell:
Not
trusting
hair-cloth, fasting, age, nor gout;
With beauty, anchorites themselves should doubt.
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La Fontaine |
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Then forward they sprang, and spurred and clashed;
Shouted the officers, crimson-sash'd;
Rode well the men, each brave as his fellow,
In their faded coats of the blue and yellow;
And above in the air, with an
instinct
true,
Like a bird of war their pennon flew.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Somebody else thought that it was yellow flowers, and
I think the girls, though I cannot
remember
clearly, laid it between
the man's hands.
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Yeats |
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On leaving college he became a professional
writer,
producing
several novels and two books of travel sketches, one
dealing with India, the other with Canada.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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A
careless
shepherd once would keep
The flocks by moonlight there, (1)
And high amongst the glimmering sheep
The dead man stood on air.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The blond
assassin
passes on,
The sun proceeds unmoved
To measure off another day
For an approving God.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The visualization is
elevated
to
the impersonal objective level which gives to the rhythm of these poems
an imperturbable calm, to the figures presented a monumental erectness.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Than aftir, ful deliverly, 3005
Through the breres anoon wente I,
Wherof
encombred
was the hay.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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' Whalley says that the occupation of 'keeping
fleas within a circle' is taken from Socrates' employment in the
_Clouds_ of
Aristophanes
(ll.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Lords and ladies take their seats at the table--Queen
Guenever, the grey-eyed, gaily dressed, sits at the dais, the high
table, or table of state, where too sat Gawayne and Ywain together with
other
worthies
of the Round Table (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Master, hold
disaster
off
From the crest and from the trough;
Heartsease, on the heartache sea
God, thy God, will pilot thee.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The Tortoise
Feeling
'Feeling'
Raphael Sadeler (I), 1581, The Rijksmuseun
From magic Thrace, O
delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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560
From Chatelet hys launce Erle Egward drew,
And hit
Wallerie
on the dexter cheek;
Peerc'd to his braine, and cut his tongue in two:
There, knyght, quod he, let that thy actions speak--
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BATTLE OF HASTINGS.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"I will go where I am wanted, for the sergeant does not mind;
He may be sick to see me but he treats me very kind:
He gives me beer and
breakfast
and a ribbon for my cap,
And I never knew a sweetheart spend her money on a chap.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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America, curious toward foreign characters, stands by its own at all
hazards,
Stands removed, spacious, composite, sound,
initiates
the true use
of precedents,
Does not repel them or the past or what they have produced under
their forms,
Takes the lesson with calmness, perceives the corpse slowly borne
from the house,
Perceives that it waits a little while in the door, that it was
fittest for its days,
That its life has descended to the stalwart and well-shaped heir who
approaches,
And that he shall be fittest for his days.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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_Magnam eo
die
pietatis
eloquentiæque famam Vipstanius Messala adeptus est;
nondum senatoriâ ætate, ausus pro fratre Aquilio Regulo deprecari.
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Tacitus |
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_ 'Ye, sir, from hennes forewardis;
Hadde never your fader
herebiforn
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Servaunt so trewe, sith he was born.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And as
when a rock rushes
headlong
from some mountain peak, torn away by the
blast, or if the rushing rain washes it away, or the stealing years
loosen its ancient hold; the reckless mountain mass goes sheer and
impetuous, and leaps along the ground, hurling with it forests and herds
and men; thus through the scattering columns Turnus rushes to the city
walls, where the earth is wettest with bloodshed and the air sings with
spears; and beckons with his hand, and thus begins aloud: 'Forbear now,
O Rutulians, and you, Latins, stay your weapons.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Cape Finisterre is drawing near,
Cape Finisterre is past;
Into the open ocean stream
She floats, the vision of a dream
Too
beautiful
to last.
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Longfellow |
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Get their comportment and the gliding tongue
Of those mild men thou art to live among;
Then, being seated in that smoother sphere,
Decree thy
everlasting
topic there;
And to the farm-house ne'er return at all:
Though granges do not love thee, cities shall.
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Myself conjectured, Were they pearls,
What
necklaces
could be!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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ORESTES
These are no dreams, void shapes of
haunting
ill,
But clear to sight my mother's hell-hounds come!
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Aeschylus |
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original
edition.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Oenone
Well die: and so protect that inhuman silence:
But seek another hand to close your eyes, and
Though
scarcely
a feeble ray of light is left you,
My spirit will descend to the dead before you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Here, shelter'd by a
friendly
tree,
In Teian measures you shall sing
Bright Circe and Penelope,
Love-smitten both by one sharp sting.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Round brands of the pyre
a wall they built, the
worthiest
ever
that wit could prompt in their wisest men.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Their
drooping
eyes the slumberous shade oppress'd,
Sated they rose, and all retired to rest.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Know then, that when I erst
Hither
descended
to the nether hell,
This rock was not yet fallen.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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