6
The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
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Appoloinaire |
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The Ox
Lucas and the Ox
'Lucas and the Ox'
Hieronymus Wierix, 1563 - before 1590, The Rijksmuseun
This cherubim sings the praises
Of
Paradise
where, with Angels,
We'll live once more, dear friends,
When the good God intends.
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Appoloinaire |
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RUTH: OR THE
INFLUENCES
OF NATURE.
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Golden Treasury |
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751
j ever one fear at the heart o me
WITH still sea-coasts Long by
coursed my Grey-Falcon, And the twin delights
of shore and sea were mine,
Sapphire
and emerald with
fine pearls between.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Perhaps the kingdom of Heaven 's
changed!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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49
Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows 50
There were no ruins, neither fragments 51
In sorrow day and night the disciple watched 52
Sunlight
slantingly
flows 53
The wild resplendence of the year resolves 54
Doth live for thee again, Beloved that October?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Beneath every spark,
The red,
tyrannous
fire
Mounts up in the dark
Ever redder and higher;
More swiftly than steed
Uncontrolled, see it pass!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Ring, for the scant
salvation!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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CXII cum CXI
continuant
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Are so
superfluous
cold,
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Have thither come the noble Martiall crew, 395
That famous hard
atchievements
still pursew;
Yet never any could that girlond win,
But all still shronke, and still he greater grew:
All they for want of faith, or guilt of sin,
The pitteous pray of his fierce crueltie have bin.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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University of
California
Berkeley
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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_W_]
[3 onely] humbly _W_]
[6 impiety]
iniquitye
_D_, _H49_]
[8 glorified.
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John Donne |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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--And Lipsius to affirm, _Scio_, _poetam
neminem praestantem fuisse_, _sine parte quadam
uberiore
divinae aurae_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Rilke sees in Rodin the dominant
personification
in our age of the
"power of servitude in all nature.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"B-o-o-m" and "B-o-o-m" from afar she hears us, She will pass on our starboard bow,
Out of the
drifting
fog she nears us, With rush of waters she's passing now.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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THE EPIC SERIES
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art
has
constantly
responded to the profound needs of the society in which
it was made.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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--
As though, forsooth, in darkling realms and woe
Our life were lying till should dawn at last
The day-spring of
creation!
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Lucretius |
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LXV
To think 'twas Rodomont the
youthful
peer
Was more inclined than any other wight;
And wherefore even from him he this should hear,
Muses, nor can the cause divine aright;
Save him, in all the world the cavalier
Knows not of one, that has him at despite.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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ai ne
suffreden
neuer de?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Hopes apace
Were changed to long despairs, till God's own grace
Could
scarcely
lift above the world forlorn
My heavy heart.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Tu te plais a plonger au sein de ton image;
Tu l'embrasses des yeux et des bras, et ton coeur
Se distrait quelquefois de sa propre rumeur
Au bruit de cette plainte
indomptable
et sauvage.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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How much it means that I say this to you--
Without these friendships--life, what
cauchemar!
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T.S. Eliot |
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We'll o'er the water and o'er the sea,
We'll o'er the water to Charlie;
Come weal, come woe, we'll gather and go,
And live or die wi'
Charlie!
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Robert Forst |
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"
"Listen," I resumed, seeing how well
disposed
he was towards me, "I do
not know what to call you, nor do I seek to know.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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In _Love's Welcome_ Jonson speaks again of 'Satan's
sumptuous
Arse',
_Wks.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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While the late snow blew from bleak Lake Erie,
Scourging
rock and river and reed,
All night long they made great medicine
For Jonathan Chapman,
Johnny Appleseed,
Johnny Appleseed;
And as though his heart were a wind-blown wheat-sheaf,
As though his heart were a new-built nest,
As though their heaven house were his breast,
In swept the snow-birds singing glory.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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" There are songs about the
children
in this book; they
are called the Lord of Battles, the Sun of Victory, the
Lotus-born, and the Jewel of Delight.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Avez-vous vu Theroigne, amante du carnage,
Excitant a l'assaut un peuple sans souliers,
La joue et l'oeil en feu, jouant son personnage,
Et montant, sabre au poing, les royaux
escaliers?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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She came
close to the bed, and the terrified man
recognized
the Countess.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every
wandering
bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"For Annie" was first
published
in the "Flag of our Union," in the
spring of 1849.
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Poe - 5 |
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Supernal
pleasures, myriads of gay
Discussions, great debates with prophet-kings!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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_deficit_
RVen || _autem_ Dp: _aut_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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* * * * *
THE POEM
I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad
thoughts
to the mind.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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the Nizam of Hyderabad
In the Forest
Past and Future Life
The Poet's Love-Song
To the God of Pain
The Song of
Princess
Zeb-un-nissa
Indian Dancers
My Dead Dream
Damayante to Nala in the Hour of Exile
The Queen's Rival
The Poet to Death
The Indian Gipsy
To my Children
The Pardah Nashin
To Youth
Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad
Street Cries
To India
The Royal Tombs of Golconda
To a Buddha seated on a Lotus
INTRODUCTION
It is at my persuasion that these poems are now published.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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One was she among many there, the thralls
Of the cold Tyrant's cruel lust; and they
Laughed mournfully in those polluted halls;
But she was calm and sad, musing alway _2860
On
loftiest
enterprise, till on a day
The Tyrant heard her singing to her lute
A wild, and sad, and spirit-thrilling lay,
Like winds that die in wastes--one moment mute
The evil thoughts it made, which did his breast pollute.
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Shelley |
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beaduscrūda
betst, 453;
acc.
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Beowulf |
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And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows
parching
lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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_"
[The Dusty Miller is an old strain,
modified
for the Museum by Burns:
it is a happy specimen of his taste and skill in making the new look
like the old.
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Robert Forst |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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By just
occasion?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Then
suddenly
the tune went false,
The dancers wearied of the waltz,
The shadows ceased to wheel and whirl.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Sonst blas ich ihm sein
Flackerleben
aus.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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With your air
indifferent
and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute--"
And--"Are we then so serious?
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T.S. Eliot |
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)
MEPHISTOPHELES:
Der
Grasaff!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The French Text
Un Coup de Des - Page 1
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Un Coup de Des - Page 7
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Un Coup de Des - Page 11
The French Text - Compressed, and Punctuated
UN COUP DE DES JAMAIS, QUAND BIEN MEME LANCE DANS DES CIRCONSTANCES ETERNELLES DU FOND D'UN NAUFRAGE, Soit que l'Abime blanchi, etale, furieux sous une inclinaison planche desesperement d'aile, la sienne, par avance retombee d'un mal a dresser le vol et couvrant les jaillissements, coupant au ras les bonds tres a l'interieur resume l'ombre enfouie dans la profondeur, par cette voile alternative jusqu'adapter sa beante profondeur entant que la coque d'un batiment penche de l'un ou l'autre bord
LE MAITRE, hors d'anciens calculs, ou la manoeuvre avec l'age oubliee surgi jadis, il empoignait la barre inferant de cette configuration a ses pieds de l'horizon unanime, que se prepare s'agite et mele au poing qui l'etreindrait, comme on menace un destin et les vents, l'unique Nombre, qui ne peut pas etre un autre Esprit, pour le jeter dans la tempete en reployer la division et passer fier; hesite, cadavre par le bras ecarte du secret qu'il detient plutot que de jouer, en maniaque: chenu la partie au nom des flots, un envahit le chef, coule en barbe, soumise naufrage, cela direct de l'homme sans nef, n'importe ou vaine
ancestralement a n'ouvrir pas la main crispee par dela l'inutile tete, legs en la disparition, a quelqu'un ambigu, l'ulterieur demon immemorial, ayant de contrees nulles induit le vieillard vers cette conjonction supreme avec la probabilite, celui son ombre puerile caressee et polie et rendue et lavee assouplie par la vague, et soustraite aux durs os perdus entre les ais ne d'un ebat, la mer par l'aieul tentant ou l'aieul contre la mer, une chance oiseuse, Fiancailles dont le voile d'illusion rejailli leur hantise, ainsi que le fantome d'un geste chancellera, s'affalera, folie N'ABOLIRA
COMME SI Une insinuation simple au silence, enroulee avec ironie, ou le mystere precipite, hurle, dans quelque proche tourbillon d'hilarite et d'horreur, voltige autour du gouffre sans le joncher ni fuir et en berce le vierge indice COMME SI
plume solitaire eperdue, sauf que la rencontre ou l'effleure une toque de minuit et immobilise au velours chiffonne par un esclaffement sonore, cette
blancheur
rigide, derisoire en opposition au ciel, trop pour ne pas marquer exigument quiconque prince amer de l'ecueil, s'en coiffe comme de l'heroique, irresistible mais contenu par sa petite raison, virile en foudre
soucieux expiatoire et pubere muet rire que SI La lucide et seigneuriale aigrette de vertige au front invisible scintille, puis ombrage, une stature mignonne tenebreuse, debout en sa torsion de sirene, le temps de souffleter, par d'impatientes squames ultimes, bifurquees, un roc faux manoir tout de suite evapore en brumes qui imposa une borne a l'infini
C'ETAIT LE NOMBRE, issu stellaire, EXISTAT-IL autrement qu'hallucination eparse, d'agonie; COMMENCAT-IL ET CESSAT-IL, sourdant que nie, et clos, quand apparu enfin, par quelque profusion repandue en rarete; SE CHIFFRAT-IL evidence de la somme, pour peu qu'une; ILLUMINAT-IL, CE SERAIT, pire non davantage ni moins indifferemment mais autant, LE HASARD Choit la plume, rythmique suspens du sinistre, s'ensevelir aux ecumes originelles nagueres, d'ou sursauta son delire jusqu'a une cime fletrie par la neutralite identique du gouffre
RIEN de la memorable crise ou se fut l'evenement accompli, en vue de tout resultat nul humain, N'AURA EU LIEU, une elevation ordinaire verse l'absence QUE LE LIEU inferieur clapotis quelconque, comme pour disperser l'acte vide abruptement, qui sinon par son mensonge eut fonde la perdition, dans ces parages du vague, en quoi toute realite se dissout
EXCEPTE a l'altitude PEUT-ETRE, aussi loin qu'un endroit fusionne avec au-dela, hors l'interet quant a lui signale, en general, selon telle obliquite, par telle declivite de feux, vers ce doit etre le Septentrion aussi Nord UNE CONSTELLATION froide d'oubli et de desuetude, pas tant qu'elle n'enumere, sur quelque surface vacante et superieure, le heurt successif, sideralement, d'un compte total en formation, veillant, doutant, roulant, brillant et meditant avant de s'arreter a quelque point dernier qui le sacre Toute pensee emet un Coup de Des.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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He prostrated himself on the
cold floor, and remained
motionless
for a long time.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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[355] In the Greek we have a play upon the
similarity
of the words,
[Greek: bous], a bull, and [Greek: boan], to shout the battle cry.
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Aristophanes |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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For strange it was to see him pass
With a step so light and gay,
And strange it was to see him look
So
wistfully
at the day,
And strange it was to think that he
Had such a debt to pay.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Why weep for him whom sweet
Favonian
airs
Will waft next spring, Asteria, back to you,
Rich with Bithynia's wares,
A lover fond and true,
Your Gyges?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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On the lone island's utmost verge there stood
Of poplars, pine, and firs, a lofty wood,
Whose
leafless
summits to the skies aspire,
Scorch'd by the sun, or seared by heavenly fire
(Already dried).
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Odyssey - Pope |
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XXXIII
"For in complete assurance that you are
A real offset of our ancient tree,
You could no better
testimony
bear
Than the tried valour which in you we see;
If your demeanour more pacific were,
We ill should have believed your ancestry:
Since neither lion from the doe proceeds,
Nor fearful pigeon, hawk or eagle breeds.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Then, when her
laughter
ceased, "Have done
With fume and fret," she cried, "my fair;
That odious bull will give you soon
His horns to tear.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Thou art a trouble here;
Seest thou not how all these
feasting
women
Pause, and the pleasure is distrest in them?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Wert thou so void of fear or shame,
As offer them to me the Son of God, 190
To me my own, on such
abhorred
pact,
That I fall down and worship thee as God?
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| Source: |
Milton |
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"
"Leave me not hopeless, ye
unpitying
dames!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Slowly, silently we wandered
From the open cottage door,
Underneath
the elm's long branches
To the pavement bending o'er;
Underneath the mossy willow
And the dying sycamore.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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A deep
displeasure
overcame my feelings;
His death destroyed the object I was seeking.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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O ye mistook, ye should have snatcht his wand
And bound him fast; without his rod revers't,
And backward mutters of
dissevering
power,
We cannot free the Lady that sits here
In stony fetters fixt, and motionless;
Yet stay, be not disturb'd, now I bethink me 820
Som other means I have which may he us'd
Which once of Meliboeus old I learnt
The soothest Shepherd that ere pip't on plains.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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The form of
government that is most
suitable
to the artist is no government at all.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And here comes
Clifford
to deny their bail.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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The following sonnet is
remarkable
for its last four lines having
puzzled all the poet's commentators to explain what he meant by the
words "Al man ond' io scrivo e fatta arnica, a questo volta.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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_ First
proffering
gain to me, do not then withhold it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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As head of
the Protestant League, he invaded Germany, defeated the armies of Conti
and Schaumburg, June-December, 1630; defeated Tilly at Leipzig and
Breitenfeld, September 7, 1631; defeated Wallenstein at Lutzen; but was
killed in battle,
November
16, 1632.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Alas for my
garland!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A pause--the armies wait,
A million flush'd embattled conquerors wait,
The world too waits, then soft as
breaking
night and sure as dawn,
They melt, they disappear.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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him at least thy love hath taught to sing,
And he hath been with thee at Thessaly,
And seen white Atalanta fleet of foot
In
passionless
and fierce virginity
Hunting the tusked boar, his honied lute
Hath pierced the cavern of the hollow hill,
And Venus laughs to know one knee will bow before her still.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Note: Dante Gabriel
Rossetti
took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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wrecched
soulen; & in-to pyne hem cast.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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One of them, who
appeared
to be the
leader, told me they were going to take me before the Tzar.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Thy lord in daily
jeopardy
at Troy,
While here a populace uncurbed may cry
"Down with the council, down!
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Aeschylus |
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though the
greenest
woods be thy domain,
Alone they can drink up the morning rain:
Though a descended Pleiad, will not one
Of thine harmonious sisters keep in tune
Thy spheres, and as thy silver proxy shine?
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Keats - Lamia |
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I'll fall flat;
Perchance
he will not mind me.
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Shakespeare |
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That hour of their homesickness, I myself
Will turn, will say farewell to Illinois,
To old
Kentucky
and Virginia,
And go with them to India, whence they came.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Then, when so
completely
dressed,
Back they flew, and reached their nest.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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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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Rilke - Poems |
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I crossed my native fields, where the scarlet poppies grew,
And the
groundlark
left his nest like a neighbour which I knew.
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John Clare |
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By reef and shoal obscurely mapped,
And
hauntings
of the gray sea-wolf,
The palmy Western Key lay lapped
In the warm washing of the Gulf.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The
happiness
of
Animals mutual, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Nuova-Jorca:
Publicata
da R.
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Byron |
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XXXVII
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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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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So is the time that keeps you as my chest,
Or as the
wardrobe
which the robe doth hide,
To make some special instant special-blest,
By new unfolding his imprison'd pride.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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So
moveless
in time past,
Hath Fortune girded up her loins at last?
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Euripides - Electra |
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I call him, and _think _him the noblest of poets,
_not
_because
the impressions he produces are at _all _times the most
profound--_not _because the poetical excitement which he induces is at
_all _times the most intense--but because it is at all times the most
ethereal--in other words, the most elevating and most pure.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The people watched with
startled
mien
And passed with frightened glance
For all know that only a Queen
May dance in the lanes: dance!
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Rilke - Poems |
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Neptune, concerned for the loss of the Grecians, upon seeing the
fortification forced by Hector, (who had entered the gate near the station
of the Ajaces,) assumes the shape of Calchas, and
inspires
those heroes to
oppose him: then, in the form of one of the generals, encourages the other
Greeks who had retired to their vessels.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I said to my heart, my feeble heart;
Haven't we had enough of
sadness?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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XI
"Lydia, the child of Lydia's king, am I,
To proud estate and princely honours born,
Condemned by
righteous
doom of God on high
In murky smoke eternally to mourn:
Because a kindly lover's constancy
I, while I lived, repaid with spite and scorn.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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But thou alone didst surpass the great
frenzies
of
these, when thou wast once united to thy yellow-haired husband.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Returning through
the Green Mountains, I was
reminded
that I had not seen in Canada such
brilliant autumnal tints as I had previously seen in Vermont.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Submitting to my husband, hiding pain instead,
Caring for the fruits of our fatal
marriage
bed.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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