But for
fattening
rain
We should have no flowers,
Never a bud or leaf again
But for soaking showers;
Never a mated bird
In the rocking tree-tops,
Never indeed a flock or herd
To graze upon the lea-crops.
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Christina Rossetti |
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If this
interpretation
be correct
the preterite _edir_ is established.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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: _huc_ Muretus ||
_inualuisse_
Birt
7 _euitamus_ Dh: _euitabimus_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Let us sing the Pythian
chant in honour of the god, and let Chaeris
accompany
our voices.
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Aristophanes |
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'
Sometimes
he thinks they change into wild
cats, and then a nail grows on the end of their tails; but these wild
cats are not the same as the marten cats, who have been always in the
woods.
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Yeats |
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I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid
Beaumont
lie
A little further off, to make thee room:
Thou art a monument without a tomb,
And art alive still, while thy book doth live
And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Whate'er of blessed life there be
For high souls to the
darkness
flown,
Be thine for ever, and a throne
Beside the crowned Persephone.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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He gathered all that springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling,
seasoned
sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Then, when the splendour of the sun had set,
And night drew on, each master of the oar
And each armed warrior
straightway
went aboard.
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Aeschylus |
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Ay, look: high heaven and earth ail from the prime foundation;
All
thoughts
to rive the heart are here, and all are vain:
Horror and scorn and hate and fear and indignation-
Oh why did I awake?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
It being remembered that there were six of us with Master Villon, when that
expecting
presently to be hanged he writ a ballad whereof ye know :
"
Frtres humftins qui aprls nous vivez" NK ye a skoal for the gallows tree !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Oh soon, and better so than later
After long disgrace and scorn,
You shot dead the
household
traitor,
The soul that should not have been born.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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In A New Night
Woman I've lived with
Woman I live with
Woman I'll live with
Always the same
You need a red cloak
Red gloves a red mask
And dark stockings
The reasons the proofs
Of seeing you quite naked
Nudity pure O ready finery
Breasts O my heart
Fertile Eyes
Fertile Eyes
No one can know me more
More than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
The two of them
Have cast a spell on my male orbs
Greater than worldly nights
Your eyes where I voyage
Have given the road-signs
Directions detached from the earth
In your eyes those that show us
Our
infinite
solitude
Is no more than they think exists
No one can know me more
More than you know me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But the robin might have said,
"To the farthest West he has
followed
the sun,
His life and his empire just begun.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Now homeward-bound, the hedger bundles round
His evening faggot, and with every stride
His leathern doublet leaves a
rustling
sound.
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John Clare |
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Information about Project
Gutenberg
(one page)
We produce about two million dollars for each hour we work.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He sits down with holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then
Humility
takes its root
Underneath his foot.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Amid no bells nor bravos
The
bystanders
will tell!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the raven his nest has made
In its
thickest
shade.
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blake-poems |
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So did
wretched
Daphnis look.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft
deceitful
wiles.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Rilke - Poems |
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That did you, sir, and well I knew at the time
You were wrong, it being not the character
Of the Earl-whom all the world allows to be
A most
hilarious
man.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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We came to that
wonderful
Island;
Girt by a ring of foam
It lay in the sea like a jewel
Under an azure dome.
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Tennyson |
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"
Then the young officer asked me by what chance and at what time I had
entered Pugatchef's service, and on what affairs he had
employed
me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Where, with Beatrice, many a saint
Stretch their clasp'd hands, in
furtherance
of my suit!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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'81 These':
the gnomes who urge the vain
beauties
to disdain all offers of love and
play the part of prudes.
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Alexander Pope |
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
A new light rises 'neath the evening star,
A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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In war under water this work I essayed
with endless effort; and even so
my
strength
had been lost had the Lord not shielded me.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide
Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world;
Or whether thou to our moist vows deny'd,
Sleep'st by the fable of
Bellerus
old, 160
Where the great vision of the guarded Mount
Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold;
Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth.
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Milton |
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Fill with it, to its utmost stretch, thy breast,
And in the
consciousness
when thou art wholly blest,
Then call it what thou wilt,
Joy!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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PROMETHEUS
He may not shun the fate
ordained
for him.
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Aeschylus |
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Muffle the sound of bells,
Mournfully
human, that cries from the darkening valley;
Close, with your leaves, about the sound of water:
Take me among your hearts as you take the mist
Among your boughs!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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inges men sholde
bysechen
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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MOERIS
'Twas in my thought to do so, Lycidas;
Even now was I revolving silently
If this I could recall- no paltry song:
"Come, Galatea, what
pleasure
is 't to play
Amid the waves?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The ridge of your breast is taut,
and under each the shadow is sharp,
and between the
clenched
muscles
of your slender hips.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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320
Sir, what ill chance hath brought thee to this place
So far from path or road of men, who pass
In Troop or Caravan, for single none
Durst ever, who return'd, and dropt not here
His Carcass, pin'd with hunger and with
droughth?
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Milton |
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Yet not too far to come at call,
And do the little toils
That make the circuit of the rest,
And deal occasional smiles
To lives that stoop to notice mine
And kindly ask it in, --
Whose invitation, knew you not
For whom I must
decline?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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CATERPILLARS
Of
caterpillars
Fabre tells how day after day
Around the rim of a vast earth pot they crawled,
Tricked thither as they filed shuffling out one morn
Head to tail when the common hunger called.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Who can be wise, amazed,
temperate
and furious,
Loyal and neutral, in a moment?
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Shakespeare |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Hee synges of
seynctes
who dyed for yer Godde,
Everych wynter nyghte afresche he sheddes theyr blodde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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A terrific combat between these
heroes ensues, [10] in which Enkidu conquers, and in a magnanimous
speech he reminds
Gilgamish
of his higher destiny.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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What the General had said Strickland never knew, but Youghal received
Strickland with
moderate
civility; and Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Thy virgins girdle now untie,
And in thy nuptiall bed (loves altar) lye
A
pleasing
sacrifice; now dispossesse 75
Thee of these chaines and robes which were put on
T'adorne the day, not thee; for thou, alone,
Like vertue'and truth, art best in nakednesse;
This bed is onely to virginitie
A grave, but, to a better state, a cradle; 80
Till now thou wast but able
To be what now thou art; then that by thee
No more be said, _I may bee_, but, _I am_,
_To night put on perfection, and a womans name_.
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John Donne |
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_Scrieve, scrieven,_ to glide softly,
gleesomely
along.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Knowest thou the land
With which all tongues are busy--a land new found--
Miraculously
found by one of Genoa--
A thousand leagues within the golden west?
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Poe - 5 |
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Not from those that will jest
at their own outward imperfections, but hide their ulcers within, their
pride, lust, envy, ill-nature, with all the art and
authority
they can.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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For criterion must be found
Worthy of greater trust, which shall defeat
Through own
authority
the false by true;
What, then, than these our senses must there be
Worthy a greater trust?
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Lucretius |
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This has doubtless been the
practice
of many
distinguished authors of fiction whose names will readily occur to
the reader.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--
That
thousands
of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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That one so
eloquent
should with the weight
Of kingly cares in Ithaca be charged,
A realm, by claim hereditary, thine.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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O Hymen
Hymenaeus
io, O Hymen
Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_Conformity gives
comeliness
to things:
And equal shares exclude all murmurings.
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Robert Herrick |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"My good
fellow," said he, "I make it a point of
conscience
to allow you this
much run.
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Orpheus and Eurydice
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Look at this pestilential tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And
microbes
more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
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Appoloinaire |
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The lady, having
bestowed
two kisses
upon Sir Gawayne, takes her leave of him (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The first part was a tissue of hugged lies;
The second was its ruin fraught with pain: 10
Why raise the fair
delusion
to the skies
But to be dashed again?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Who will afford
befitting
words, and lend
Wings to my verse, to soar the pitch I scheme?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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As he wished it to retain that place in
subsequent
editions of his
Works, it retains it in this one.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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not that here thy Bust
Is mix'd with Heroes, or with Kings thy dust; 10
But that the Worthy and the Good shall say,
Striking
their pensive bosoms--_Here_ lies GAY.
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Alexander Pope |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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You
were going to say,
darling?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Yea, music is the Prophet's art;
Among the gifts that God hath sent,
One of the most
magnificent!
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Longfellow |
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_ would have damped their ardor at
once, reduced them from venison to beef, and
stiffened
their sides and
sinews like the locomotive.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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' The Vizier tells us, that when he found Omar was
really sincere in his refusal, he pressed him no further, but granted
him a yearly pension of 1200
mithkals
of gold from the treasury of
Naishapur.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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In Li Po it results only in endless
restatement
of
obvious facts.
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Li Po |
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Clear with the clear beams of the morrow's sun,
The future
presseth
on.
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Aeschylus |
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Those
familiar
fascinating
anecdotes have gone the way of all such jerry-built
spooks.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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or how
Keep Judith all
untoucht
among their hands,
When his own quietness he could not keep
Unbroken by the god's Assyrian insult?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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We are young and eager and yet we are mateless and unvisited, and
though we lie in
unbroken
half embrace, we are uncomforted.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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but why, my Ligurine,
Steal
trickling
tear-drops down my wasted cheek?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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His race, his form, his name almost
unknown?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Then Aegle, fairest of the Naiad-band,
Aegle came up to the half-frightened boys,
Came, and, as now with open eyes he lay,
With juice of blood-red
mulberries
smeared him o'er,
Both brow and temples.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in
sportive
frolic beat the time,
And stubborn oaks their branchy summits bow.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Thej approve it thus far, and said it was fine ;
Yet his
lordship
to finish it would be unable,
Unless all abroad he divulged the design,
For his house then would grow like a vegetable.
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Marvell - Poems |
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There, lurid desolation, blazing,
Foreruns
the volleyed thunder's way:
Yet, Lord, thy messengers[2] are praising
The mild procession of thy day.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The music of the
cachucha
is
played, and the dance begins.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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I, the
wretched
object of divine vengeance,
Loathe myself much more than you ever can.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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an arrowe from
Walleris
honde,
Winged with fate and dethe daunced alonge;
And slewe the noble flower of Powyslonde,
Howel ap Jevah, who yclepd the stronge.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Then thus again the
brilliance
feminine:
"Too frail of heart!
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
Nausicaa
and her maidens went forward, Ulysses following after a time;
whom Pallas met, and told him of the King Alcinous and the Queen
Arete.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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an
q{uo}d she mote we nedes graunten {and}
confessen
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And who
withholds
my pow'r that right to use?
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Milton |
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<< --Je vois ta mere, enfant de ce siecle appauvri,
Qui vers son miroir penche un lourd amas d'annees,
Et platre
artistement
le sein qui t'a nourri!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Note: The Spanish title was the motto adopted by the
disinherited
Ivanhoe in Scott's novel.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The world and its affairs
Could not absorb me so,
That when men spoke of her
My heart it would not glow,
My face not
brighten
there.
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Troubador Verse |
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And on that morning, through the grass,
And by the
steaming
rills
We travel'd merrily, to pass
A day among the hills.
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Golden Treasury |
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Ashes are feeble foes: it is more easy
To baffle such, than
countermine
a mole,
Which winds its blind but living path beneath you.
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Byron |
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But
stronger
again
Than brass
Sovereign lines remain.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I wonder not that
successful
military
achievement should attract the admiration of the
multitude.
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_ Supposed to be one of the
commonest signs of
supernatural
power.
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Keats |
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when I do but see
The painter's art in thy
sciography?
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Robert Herrick |
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