--that heavy sound breaks in once more,
As if the clouds its echo would repeat;
And nearer, clearer,
deadlier
than before!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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_("Ho,
guerriers!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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To rob a
neighbour
with a smile, to bestow gifts with a graceful
wave of the hand, to praise prudently, to blame cautiously, to
destroy a sound with a word, to burn a body with a breath, and then
to wash the hands when the day's work is done.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Except for insults, do you lack
courage?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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False love he makes, slave of a far country,
Now
laughter
and jests turn to misery.
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Troubador Verse |
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Above the
plunging
surge's play
Dream-like they hovered, day by day.
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Can you see it
still—as
in an ocean Every sea-drop sparkles of the sea,
"Foams, and perishes—, so for a moment From each living face the dauntless, dear
Eyes of life look out at us to greet us, Shine —and hurry by into the night!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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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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Laughing
at their guile,
And crying, "Why tie the fetters?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The
treasure
of a fool is always in his tongue, said the witty comic
poet; {33c} and it appears not in anything more than in that nation,
whereof one, when he had got the inheritance of an unlucky old grange,
would needs sell it; {33d} and to draw buyers proclaimed the virtues of
it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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It lacked the brilliant enthusiasm of
Elizabethan
times as
well as the religious earnestness of the Puritans and the devotion to
patriotic and social ideals which marked a later age.
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Alexander Pope |
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Grant, if thou wilt, thou art belov'd of many,
But that thou none lov'st is most evident:
For thou art so possess'd with murderous hate,
That 'gainst thy self thou stick'st not to conspire,
Seeking that
beauteous
roof to ruinate
Which to repair should be thy chief desire.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi'
bickering
brattle!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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* * * * *
We're pretty nearly crazy here with change and go ahead, 80
With flinging our caught bird away for two i' th' bush instead,
With butting 'gainst the wall which we declare _shall_ be a portal,
And questioning Deeps that never yet have oped their lips to mortal;
We're growing pale and hollow-eyed, and out of all condition,
With _mediums_ and prophetic chairs, and crickets with a mission,
(The most
astounding
oracles since Balaam's donkey spoke,--
'Twould seem our furniture was all of Dodonean oak.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The praise of Bacchus then the sweet
musician
sung:
Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young:
The jolly god in triumph comes!
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Golden Treasury |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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He ended, and the Prince, at his command,
Guided by flaming torches, sought the couch
Where he was wont to sleep, and there he slept
On that night also, waiting the
approach
60
Of sacred dawn.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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--There is a greater
reverence
had of things remote or
strange to us than of much better if they be nearer and fall under our
sense.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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325
Till Una cried, O hold that heavie hand,
Deare Sir, what ever that thou be in place:
Enough is, that thy foe doth
vanquisht
stand
Now at thy mercy: Mercie not withstand:
For he is one the truest knight alive, 330
Though conquered now he lie on lowly land,
And whilest him fortune favourd, faire did thrive
In bloudie field: therefore of life him not deprive.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Half of my life has
entombed
the other,
I must revenge myself, this fatal blow,
For one no more, on one still here below.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Fēða eal gesæt;
gesāwon
þā æfter wætere wyrm-cynnes fela,
sellīce sǣ-dracan sund cunnian,
swylce on næs-hleoðum nicras licgean,
þā on undern-mǣl oft bewitigað
1430 sorh-fulne sīð on segl-rāde,
wyrmas and wil-dēor; hīe on weg hruron
bitere and gebolgne, bearhtm ongeāton,
gūð-horn galan.
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Beowulf |
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If I mistook not, didn't we hear
Some well-trained voices chorus
singing?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Tarry a while, till I am satisfied
Of love and grief, of earth and
altering
sky;
Till all my human hungers are fulfilled,
O Death, I cannot die!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The strong light only
increases
its effect.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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His first comedy "The Brigadier,"
procured
him the
favour of the second Catherine.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
The last part of _The Book of Hours_, _The Book of Poverty and Death_,
is finally a symphony of variations on the two great
symbolic
themes in
the work of Rilke.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Loud clanged beneath his horse-hoofs
The helmets of the dead,
And many a
curdling
pool of blood
Splashed him heel to head.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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XLII
'I am a mother,--spirits do not shake
This much of earth from them,--and I must pine 610
Till I can feel his little hands, and take
His weary head upon this heart of mine;
And, might it be, full gladly for his sake
Would I this
solitude
of bliss resign
And be shut out of heaven to dwell with him
Forever in that silence drear and dim.
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James Russell Lowell |
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m sortz
I am the one that knows the pain that flows
Quan chai la fueilha
When the pale leaves descend
Douz braitz e critz
Sweet tweet and cry
Er vei vermeilhs, vertz, blaus, blancs, gruocs
I see scarlet; green, blue, white, yellow
Anc ieu non l'aic, mas elha m'a
I have him not, yet he has me
Lo ferm voler qu'el cor m'intra
The firm desire that in my heart enters
En cest sonnet coind'e leri
To this light tune,
graceful
and slender,
Peire Vidal (1175 - 1205)
Ab l'alen tir vas me l'aire
I breathe deeply, draw in the air:
Ges quar estius
Though spring's glorious
Plus que.
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Troubador Verse |
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Fairer than Enna's field when Ceres sows
The stars of
hyacinth
and puts off grief,
Fairer than petals on May morning blown Through apple-orchards where the sun hath shed
His brighter petals down to make them fair; Fairer than these the Poppy-crowned One flees, And Joy goes weeping in her scarlet train.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The Warders strutted up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their
uniforms
were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the quicklime on their boots.
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Wilde - Poems |
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For the crimson flower of our life is eaten by
the
cankerworm
of truth,
And no hand can gather up the fallen withered
petals of the rose of youth.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I
breathed
Oenone, then, and given his absence
My days, less troubled, were spent in innocence.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Ho for the women, their beauty and my
pleasure!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The "fifty sisters" are the
fifty Danaides, who, for slaying their husbands, were
condemned
to pour
water forever into a vessel full of holes.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I rule them as I ought, discreetly,
An' aften labour them completely;
An' ay on Sundays, duly, nightly,
I on the
Questions
targe them tightly;
Till, faith, wee Davock's turn'd sae gleg,
Tho' scarcely langer than your leg,
He'll screed you aff Effectual calling,
As fast as ony in the dwalling.
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Robert Forst |
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fforto
disputen
a?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"--Forgive me, Jupiter, is not
Rome's
Capitoline
Hill second Olympus to you?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The second victor claims a mare unbroke,
Big with a mule, unknowing of the yoke:
The third, a charger yet untouch'd by flame;
Four ample
measures
held the shining frame:
Two golden talents for the fourth were placed:
An ample double bowl contents the last.
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Iliad - Pope |
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A sharp snatch, swirling to-fro of the line,
He's lost, he's won, with splash and
scuffling
shine
Past the low-lapping brandy-flowers drawn in,
The ogling hunchback perch with needled fin.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
How many times have I cursed those frivolous pages that broadcast
Out among all mankind
passions
I felt in my youth!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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O, I will tell Conchubar and
Cuchulain
and all the kings about
you!
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Yeats |
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use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I have no doubt that we shall see a good many
of these political plays during the next two or three years, and it
may be even the rise of a more or less
permanent
company of political
players, for the revolutionary clubs will begin to think plays as
necessary as the Gaelic League is already thinking them.
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Yeats |
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"
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Hear how it
babbles!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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They, the
unresting?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Too strait and low our cottage doors,
And all unmeet our carpet floors;
Nor
spacious
court, nor monarch's hall,
Suffice to hold the festival.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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O, Homestead of ours, whether Sabine or Tiburtine (for that thou'rt
Tiburtine folk concur, in whose heart 'tis not to wound Catullus; but those
in whose heart 'tis, will wager anything thou'rt Sabine) but whether Sabine
or more truly Tiburtine, o'erjoyed was I to be within thy rural
country-home, and to cast off an ill cough from my chest, which--not
unearned--my belly granted me, for
grasping
after sumptuous feeds.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Thou lay'st unspotted souls to rest;
Thy golden rod pale
spectres
know;
Blest power!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Riches, Honour, Triumph, Fame,
Than that _you_ should long endure,
It were
likelier
the stream of the River Han
Should flow to the North-West!
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Li Po |
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Round
paradise
is such a wall,
And all the day, in such a way,
In paradise the wild birds call.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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36_;
_Stories
from the Italian Poets_,
iv.
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Byron |
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But if (again) all this be a vain
impossible
fiction,
If of a truth men's fears and the cares which hourly beset them
Heed not the javelin's fury, regard not clashing of broad-swords,
But all boldly amongst crowned heads and the rulers of empires
Stalk, not shrinking abashed from the dazzling glare
of the red gold,
Not from the pomp of the monarch who walks forth purple-apparelled:
These things shew that at times we are bankrupt, surely, of reason:
Think too that all man's life through a great Dark laboureth onward.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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For each breed
And various of the wild beasts fled apart
Hither or thither, as often in wars to-day
Flee those Lucanian oxen, by the steel
Grievously mangled, after they have wrought
Upon their friends so many a
dreadful
doom.
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Lucretius |
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Baudelaire
worked
and worried.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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[44] Text _PA-it-tam_
clearly!
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Though
kingdoms
join, yet church will kirk
oppose;
The mitre still divides, the crown does close ;
As in Hogation week they whip us round.
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Marvell - Poems |
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John Anderson, my jo, John,
We clamb the hill thegither;
And mony a canty day, John,
We've had wi' ane anither:
Now we maun totter down, John,
But hand in hand we'll go;
And sleep
thegither
at the foot,
John Anderson, my jo.
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Robert Forst |
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At once and
in a moment Arruns heard the whistle of the dart and the
resounding
air,
as the steel sank in his body.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Then certes
sheeniest
suns for thee did shine.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning's flagons up,
And say how many dew;
Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the
breadths
of blue!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Whose
spacious
boughs are hung with trophies
round,
And honored wreaths have ofl the victor
crowned.
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Marvell - Poems |
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End of the Project
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EBook of Some Imagist Poets, by
Richard Aldington and H.
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Imagists |
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I see these locks in silvery slips,
This drooping gait, this altered size:
But Spring-tide
blossoms
on thy lips,
And tears take sunshine from thine eyes!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The well-reeved guns, the netted canopy,
The hoarse command, the busy humming din,
When, at a word, the tops are manned on high:
Hark to the boatswain's call, the
cheering
cry,
While through the seaman's hand the tackle glides
Or schoolboy midshipman that, standing by,
Strains his shrill pipe, as good or ill betides,
And well the docile crew that skilful urchin guides.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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La sombre Nuit les prend a la gorge; ils finissent
Leur
destinee
et vont vers le gouffre commun;
L'hopital se remplit de leurs soupirs.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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[The dragon guarding the Hesperian fruit, was simply a military
officer, who, with the
courtesy
of those whose trade is arms, paid
attention to the lady.
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Robert Burns |
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[83] The
distance
to Chung-chou.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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My heart unable to defend itself,
I gave away what I dared not take myself;
In my stead, let Chimene drink the wine,
And fire their passion to
extinguish
mine.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Thou
beholdest
him and art distracted(?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Essential oils are wrung:
The attar from the rose
Is not
expressed
by suns alone,
It is the gift of screws.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Now the heavy hand of war dealt equal woe and counterchange of death; in
even balance
conquerors
and conquered slew and fell; nor one nor other
knows of retreat.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Erewhile
to my desire so sweet were tears
Their tenderness refined my else rude song,
And made me wake and watch the livelong nights;
But sorrow now to me is worse than death,
Since lost for aye that look of modest joy,
The lofty subject of my lowly rhyme!
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Petrarch |
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Pyrrhus pursues him fiercely
with aimed [530-563]wound, just
catching
at him, and follows hard on
him with his spear.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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an adden reuerence to
suffisaunce
{and}
to power ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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We
wandered
from pine-hills
through oak and scrub-oak tangles,
we broke hyssop and bramble,
we caught flower and new bramble-fruit
in our hair: we laughed
as each branch whipped back,
we tore our feet in half buried rocks
and knotted roots and acorn-cups.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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CHORUS
Justice, the
daughter
of right-dealing Zeus,
Justice, the queen of suppliants, look down,
That this our plight no ill may loose
Upon your town!
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Aeschylus |
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POICTIERS, POICTIERS: this grain i' the eye of France
Had swelled it to a big and
bloodshot
ball
That looked with rage upon a world askew.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Beyond thy lectures learn'd professor,
Beyond thy telescope or spectroscope
observer
keen, beyond all mathematics,
Beyond the doctor's surgery, anatomy, beyond the chemist with his chemistry,
The entities of entities, eidolons.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It will
determine
one way.
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Shakespeare |
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Pavel Tomsky took his leave, and, left to herself,
Lisaveta
glanced
out of the window.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A
neighbor
and a warrior too,
With shrill felicity
Pursuing winds that censure us
A February day,
The brother of the universe
Was never blown away.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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E'en as the river, that holds on its course
Unmingled, from the mount of Vesulo,
On the left side of Apennine, toward
The east, which
Acquacheta
higher up
They call, ere it descend into the vale,
At Forli by that name no longer known,
Rebellows o'er Saint Benedict, roll'd on
From the' Alpine summit down a precipice,
Where space enough to lodge a thousand spreads;
Thus downward from a craggy steep we found,
That this dark wave resounded, roaring loud,
So that the ear its clamour soon had stunn'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Lepidus
flatters
both,
Of both is flatter'd; but he neither loves,
Nor either cares for him.
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Shakespeare |
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We cannot
overcome
destiny.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Where is the
instrument
whence the sounds flow?
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Rilke - Poems |
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When Charles my lord shall come into this field,
Such discipline of
Sarrazins
he'll see,
For one of ours he'll find them dead fifteen;
He will not fail, but bless us all in peace.
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Chanson de Roland |
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One thought in my mind went over and over
While the
darkness
shook and the leaves were thinned--
I thought it was you who had come to find me,
You were the wind.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Yet with a head freshly honed and
cunningly
fledged, certain others
Pierce to the marrow, inflame rapidly there our blood.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I assure you that the seconds are strongly and
solemnly
accentuated now;
and each, as it drips from the pendulum, says: "I am Life: intolerable,
implacable Life!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I sat there mutely and biting my
passionate
lips almost bloody
Half from delight at the ruse, partly from stifled desire:
Such a long time until dark, then another four hours of waiting.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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