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OF GRACE
(BALLATA,
FRAGMENT)
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FPULL well thou knowest, song, what grace I mean,
E'en as thou know'st the sunlight I have lost.
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I the ready
sacrifice
prepare:
Lo!
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How, then, are you not liable to
punishment?
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Tacitus |
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Close at his side was Titus
On an Apulian steed,
Titus, the
youngest
Tarquin,
Too good for such a breed.
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III
Blancandrins was a pagan very wise,
In
vassalage
he was a gallant knight,
First in prowess, he stood his lord beside.
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Think: when you were born my arms
received
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The King of Cochin's troops
amounted only to 5000 men, while the army of the zamorim numbered
57,000,
provided
with brass cannon, and assisted by two Italian
engineers.
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"But judge yourself," replied I; "could I declare before all your
people that she was Mironoff's
daughter?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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O'er India's shore the sable night descends,
And GAMA, now, secluded from his friends,
Detain'd a captive in the room of state,
Anticipates in thought to-morrow's fate;
For just Mozaide no gen'rous care delays,
And VASCO'S trust with
friendly
toils repays.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Lune de Miel
Ils ont vu les Pays-Bas, ils rentrent a Terre Haute;
Mais une nuit d'ete, les voici a Ravenne,
A l'sur le dos
ecartant
les genoux
De quatre jambes molles tout gonflees de morsures.
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Meredith - Poems |
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What has the
Calendar
to do
With poets?
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Canto XVIII
Luogo e in inferno detto Malebolge,
tutto di pietra di color ferrigno,
come la cerchia che
dintorno
il volge.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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[_Staggering, and
speaking
wearily.
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The Pentagram
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thee?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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On oozy throne
Smooth-moving came Oceanus the old,
To take a latest glimpse at his sheep-fold,
Before he went into his quiet cave
To muse for ever--Then a lucid wave,
Scoop'd from its
trembling
sisters of mid-sea,
Afloat, and pillowing up the majesty
Of Doris, and the Egean seer, her spouse-- 1010
Next, on a dolphin, clad in laurel boughs,
Theban Amphion leaning on his lute:
His fingers went across it--All were mute
To gaze on Amphitrite, queen of pearls,
And Thetis pearly too.
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The
Headsman
of the Pit, above
Earth's floor, to ravish her!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Ah, ah,
Heosphoros!
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With but one thought aflush,
Driving their lords like chaff,
In the guns' mouths they laugh;
Or at the
slippery
brands
Leaping with open hands,
Down they tear man and horse,
Down in their awful course;
Trampling with bloody heel
Over the crashing steel,
All their eyes forward bent,
Rushed the black regiment.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Abel was accepted as a page,
too, but there was no money awarded the ex-Bonapartist--money being what
the Eaglet at Reichstadt most required for an attempt at his father's
throne--and the poor officer was left in seclusion to write consolingly
about his campaigns and "Defences of
Fortified
Towns.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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There shall ye find grazing the flocks and herds
Of the all-seeing and all-hearing Sun,
Which, if
attentive
to thy safe return,
Thou leave unharm'd, though after num'rous woes,
Ye may at length arrive in Ithaca.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Elvire
From those who shout his praises, those who
Call him their joy's object and its author,
Their
guardian
angel and their liberator.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Among whom Horace and (he that taught him)
Aristotle
deserved
to be the first in estimation.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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_ And did those
watchers
bid you take me captive?
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Exiled from home am I; while, Tityrus, you
Sit
careless
in the shade, and, at your call,
"Fair Amaryllis" bid the woods resound.
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twelve months old: 'tis quite an age, and brings
Grave moments, though your soul to rapture clings,
You're at that hour of life most like to heaven,
When present joy no cares, no sorrows leaven
When man no shadow feels: if fond caress
Round parent twines,
children
the world possess.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Elements merge in the night, ships make tacks in the dreams,
The sailor sails, the exile returns home,
The fugitive returns unharm'd, the immigrant is back beyond months
and years,
The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood with
the well known neighbors and faces,
They warmly welcome him, he is barefoot again, he forgets he is well off,
The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and
Welshman
voyage
home, and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home,
To every port of England, France, Spain, enter well-fill'd ships,
The Swiss foots it toward his hills, the Prussian goes his way, the
Hungarian his way, and the Pole his way,
The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which
prisoners
call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Happy at the News that the
Imperial
Army is Already at the Edge ofRebel Territory 355 Today I look on the will of Heaven, how can those wandering souls forgive you?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And only
inwardly
inclines,
As we are wont if there draws nigh
A stranger on his final round.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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What immortal grief hath touched thee
With the
poignancy
of sadness,--
Testament of tears?
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(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I remember it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A charlatan of twilight formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having unhooked a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf observes with saddened pose
How Harlequin magically grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where Melancholy sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the
midnight
will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
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Appoloinaire |
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Sisyphus had to roll a
huge stone forever up a hill for
betraying
the designs of the gods.
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My rimes I know unsavory and sowre,
To taste the streames, that, like a golden showre,
Flow from thy fruitfull head, of thy Loves praise;
Fitter perhaps to thunder martiall stowre,
When so thee list thy loftie Muse to raise:
Yet, till that thou thy poeme wilt make knowne,
Let thy faire
Cinthias
praises be thus rudely showne.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Your book will be the standard of Scots songs for
the future: let this idea ever keep your
judgment
on the alarm.
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Robert Burns |
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Now Earl of
Leicester!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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When was it ever known that the
Ammonites
proved wanting to
their own interests?
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= This
occupation
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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She
struggles
in a deathly trance,
As in a dream her pulses stir,
She hears the nations calling her,
"France, France, France!
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_Hodge_
He plays with other boys when work is done,
But feels too clumsy and too stiff to run,
Yet where there's
mischief
he can find a way
The first to join and last [to run] away.
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But where it fell
The saved will tell
On patriotic day,
Some
epauletted
brother
Gave his breath away.
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to their kinds applyde:
Of which the first, that all the rest did guyde,
Was sluggish Idlenesse the nourse of sin;
Upon a
slouthful
Asse he chose to ryde, 160
Arayd in habit blacke, and amis thin,
Like to an holy Monck, the service to begin.
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Latin - Catullus |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Save for my daily range
Among the
pleasant
fields of Holy Writ
I might despair.
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Tennyson |
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Assent, and you are sane;
Demur, -- you're
straightway
dangerous,
And handled with a chain.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Whatever
is realised is right.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The
sepulchre
made sure with ponderous Stone,
Seal that same stone, O Priest; 10
It may be thou shalt block the holy One
From rising in the east:
Set a watch about the sepulchre
To watch on pain of death;
They must hold fast the stone if One should stir
And shake it from beneath.
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Athwart the rain thou seest the
lightning
fly;
Now here, now there, bursting from out the clouds,
The fires dash zig-zag--and that flaming power
Falls likewise down to earth.
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They are like persons who have had a very
weighty and impressive experience; they are more truly than others under
the empire of facts, and more
independent
of the language current among
those with whom they live.
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How beautiful to wake at night,
Within the room grown strange, and still, and sweet,
And live a century while in the dark
The
dripping
wheel of silence slowly turns;
To watch the window open on the night,
A dewy silent deep where nothing stirs,
And, lying thus, to feel dilate within
The press, the conflict, and the heavy pulse
Of incommunicable sad ecstasy,
Growing until the body seems outstretched
In perfect crucifixion on the arms
Of a cross pointing from last void to void,
While the heart dies to a mere midway spark.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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tarry with us still,
It is not quenched the torch of poesy,
The star that shook above the Eastern hill
Holds
unassailed
its argent armoury
From all the gathering gloom and fretful fight--
O tarry with us still!
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Wilde - Poems |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
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Tacitus |
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`Or hastow som remors of conscience,
And art now falle in som devocioun, 555
And waylest for thy sinne and thyn offence,
And hast for ferde caught
attricioun?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In
singleness
the parts that thou shouldst bear.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold,
Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold; 60
Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight,
Their fluid bodies half dissolv'd in light,
Loose to the wind their airy
garments
flew,
Thin glitt'ring textures of the filmy dew,
Dipt in the richest tincture of the skies, 65
Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes,
While ev'ry beam new transient colours flings,
Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings.
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Alexander Pope |
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Tu dici: "Ben discerno cio ch'i' odo;
ma perche Dio volesse, m'e occulto,
a nostra
redenzion
pur questo modo".
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Even Gautier's revolutionary red waistcoat worn at
the premiere of Hernani was,
according
to Gautier, a pink doublet.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me;
I have not
flattered
its rank breath, nor bowed
To its idolatries a patient knee,--
Nor coined my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud
In worship of an echo; in the crowd
They could not deem me one of such; I stood
Among them, but not of them; in a shroud
Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could,
Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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He took
over from Apollonius love as part of the epic
symbolism
of life, and
delicate psychology as part of the epic method.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Then to my lord, where by the meadow side
He prays the
woodland
nymphs.
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Euripides - Electra |
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It pleases me as much, and even more,
Than the
antiques
about it; and yet they
Are of the best one sees.
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Longfellow |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside,
And naked on the Air of Heaven ride,
Were't not a Shame--were't not a Shame for him
In this clay carcass
crippled
to abide?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It is doubtful whether he
would himself have
admitted
it into a collection of his works.
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Shelley |
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Refuge
From my spirit's gray defeat,
From my pulse's
flagging
beat,
From my hopes that turned to sand
Sifting through my close-clenched hand,
From my own fault's slavery,
If I can sing, I still am free.
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que le coeur d'un mortel);
Je ne vois qu'en esprit tout ce camp de baraques,
Ces tas de
chapiteaux
ebauches et de futs,
Les herbes, les gros blocs verdis par l'eau des flasques
Et, brillant aux carreaux, le bric-a-brac confus.
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A cotton dress her morning gown,
Her face was rosy health:
She traced the
pastures
up and down
And nature was her wealth.
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John Clare |
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Thence with
abounding
praise returned he, guiding his footsteps,
Whiles did a fine drawn thread check steps in wander abounding,
Lest when issuing forth of the winding maze labyrinthine
Baffled become his track by inobservable error.
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Thus Hafiz, copying Omar in so many ways: "When thou
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Canzon That my heart is half afraid
For the
fragrance
on him laid; Even so love's might amazes !
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And a seventh said, "I have such a clear idea how
everything
will
be, but I cannot put it into words.
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Will you tread
The shores, woods, mountains, with me, among men
Like the dark spirits of your haunted dreams,--
Suspect all eyes, all voices, every footstep,--
Sleep on the grass, drink of the torrent, hear
By night the sharp hiss of the musket-ball
Whistling too near your ear,--a fugitive
Proscribed, and doomed mayhap to follow me
In the path leading to my father's
scaffold?
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Hugo - Poems |
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We'll have as witness the god
worshipped
there:
We will pray that he acts towards us as a father.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Blind
Whose hopes in thee alone have centred been;
In thee my heart was
captived
by her mien
Who bore it with her when she earth rejoin'd:
Her better spirit, now a deathless flower,
And in the highest heaven that still shall be,
Each day inflames me with its beauties more.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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how can one
deliberately
renounce
this coloured, unquiet, fiery human life of
the earth?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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[Sidenote C: One wise in
woodcraft
begins to unlace the boar.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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No boast can be from breed of Grendel,
any on earth, for that uproar at dawn,
from the longest-lived of the
loathsome
race
in fleshly fold!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I have
accomplished
all.
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Yeats |
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There no mortal man dares to swear in vain: 1395
Against false oaths, his punishment is certain:
And fearing to meet there with inexorable death,
Nothing more surely constrains
deceitful
breath.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"'Rivers to the Sea' is the most
beautiful
book of pure lyrics that has
come to my hand in years.
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Sara Teasdale |
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But then, continued she, we ought to take
An oath, that we will full discov'ry make,
To one another of the various facts,
Without disguising even
trifling
acts.
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La Fontaine |
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"And where those
villains
ripped me in the flitch
With their old iron in my early time,
I'm apt at change of wind to feel a twitch,
Or at a change of clime.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Then temper flew from words, and men did squeak,
Look red, and blow, and bluster, but not speak;
No holy rage or frantic fires did stir
Or flash about the
spacious
theatre.
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Robert Herrick |
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er
stephene
mylde & meke,
& bad hem vp arise, & seke
A godes man of rome, 363
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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In the case of the
present author, there was
absolutely
no choice in the matter; she
must write thus, or not at all.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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None finds me ugly today, though I am
monstrously
strong.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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