[Illustration]
There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was
horribly
bored by a Bee;
When they said, "Does it buzz?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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What profit hast thou in such
manslaying?
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Then, when numerous flock'd
The tribe of lowly ones, that trac'd HIS steps,
Whose marvellous life deservedly were sung
In heights empyreal, through Honorius' hand
A second crown, to deck their Guardian's virtues,
Was by the eternal Spirit inwreath'd: and when
He had, through thirst of martyrdom, stood up
In the proud Soldan's presence, and there preach'd
Christ and his followers; but found the race
Unripen'd for conversion: back once more
He hasted (not to
intermit
his toil),
And reap'd Ausonian lands.
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What end (quoth she) should cause us take such paine,
But that same end which every living wight
Should make his marke, high heaven to
attaine?
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HE TELLS THE STORY OF HIS LOVE, RESOLVING
HENCEFORTH
TO DEVOTE HIMSELF
TO GOD.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Whispering in midnight silence, said the youth,
"Sure some sweet name thou hast, though, by my truth,
I have not ask'd it, ever
thinking
thee
Not mortal, but of heavenly progeny,
As still I do.
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Keats - Lamia |
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But men of long enduring hopes,
And
careless
what this hour may bring,
Can pardon little would-be Popes
And Brummels, when they try to sting.
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Tennyson |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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At night if he
suddenly
screams and wakes,
Do they bring him only a few small cakes, or a LOT,
For the Akond of Swat?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I fear thee, for I hear the tongue and sword
At battle on the deck, and the wild
mutineers
are bold!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Here, alone, before thine eyes,
Simon's sickly daughter lies,
From
weakness
now, and pain defended, 15
Whom he twenty winters tended.
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William Wordsworth |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Ils ecoutent, pensifs, comme un
lointain
murmure.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
"A fable,"
remarked
Herman; "perhaps the cards were marked.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Thelwall came to Alfoxden at the
commencement
of Wordsworth's
tenancy; and the visit to Wales took place when the tenancy was over,
July 3-10.
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William Wordsworth |
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TO THE HANDSOME
MISTRESS
GRACE POTTER.
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Robert Herrick |
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Therwith his pous and pawmes of his hondes
They gan to frote, and wete his temples tweyne, 1115
And, to
deliveren
him from bittre bondes,
She ofte him kiste; and, shortly for to seyne,
Him to revoken she dide al hir peyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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--With
backward
gaze, lock'd joints, and step of pain,
Her seat scarce left, she strives, alas!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Valerius
struck at Titus,
And lopped off half his crest;
But Titus stabbed Valerius
A span deep in the breast.
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que d'amours
splendides
j'ai revees!
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown;
Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth,
And
Melancholy
mark'd him for her own.
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Golden Treasury |
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The fourth
appointed
by his office was,
Poore prisoners to relieve with gratious ayd,
And captives to redeeme with price of bras,?
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What happens then to
Individualism?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Pugatchef
withdrew
his hand and said, smiling--
"Apparently his lordship is quite idiotic with joy; raise him.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Aghast he laid the weapon down,
But bold
Telemachus
thus urged him on:
"Proceed, false slave, and slight their empty words:
What!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
THE SIEGE OF KAZAN
Black are the moors before Kazan,
And their
stagnant
waters smell of blood:
I said in my heart, with horse and man,
I will swim across this shallow flood.
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Longfellow |
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CHORUS
Like a snake that is human he comes,
he
shudders
and crawls to my side;
As an adder that biteth the foot,
his clutch on my flesh doth abide.
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Aeschylus |
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He will see several meeting-houses, at least, and,
perhaps, that somebody ought to be assessed higher than he is, since
he has so
handsome
a wood-lot.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I wish to escape them both if I may;
If not, it's for
Rodrigue
that I will pray:
Not because foolish passion so decides;
But because I'll be Sanche's if he dies.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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He was in th'host, even in Spain with me;
There of my Franks a thousand score did steal,
And my nephew, whom never more you'll see,
And Oliver, in 's pride and courtesy,
And, wealth to gain,
betrayed
the dozen peers.
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Chanson de Roland |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
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This
coronation
of poets, it
is said, ceased under the reign of the Emperor Theodosius.
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Petrarch |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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[435]
Vitellius had given the command of the Guards to
Publilius
92
Sabinus, who had commanded an auxiliary cohort,[436] and Julius
Priscus, hitherto only a centurion.
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Tacitus |
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I will declare the truth; thou keep'st
Female domestics fifty in thy house,
Whom we have made
intelligent
to comb 490
The fleece, and to perform whatever task.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the
viewpoint
of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Revere the remnants nations once revered;
So may our country's name be undisgraced,
So mayst thou prosper where thy youth was reared,
By every honest joy of love and life
endeared!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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III
He sov'ran Priest stooping his regall head
That dropt with odorous oil down his fair eyes,
Poor fleshly Tabernacle entered,
His starry front low-rooft beneath the skies;
O what a Mask was there, what a
disguise!
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Milton |
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Qui ut nihil attingit, nisi quod fas tangere non est, 5
Quantumvis
quare sit macer invenies.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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RUBENS, oblivious garden of indolence,
Pillow of cool flesh where no man dreams of love,
Where life flows forth in troubled opulence,
As airs in heaven and seas in ocean move,
LEONARD DA VINCI, sombre and
fathomless
glass,
Where lovely angels with calm lips that smile,
Heavy with mystery, in the shadow pass,
Among the ice and pines that guard some isle.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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LICINIVS
GALLIENVS
IMPERATOR
circa 260 A.
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Unauthenticated
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Or des vergers fleuris se figeaient en arriere
Les petales tombes des cerisiers de mai
Sont les ongles de celle que j'ai tant aimee
Les petales fleuris sont comme ses paupieres
Sur le chemin du bord du fleuve lentement
Un ours un singe un chien menes par des tziganes
Suivaient une roulotte trainee par un ane
Tandis que s'eloignait dans les vignes rhenanes
Sur un fifre lointain un air de regiment
Le mai le joli mai a pare les ruines
De lierre de vigne vierge et de rosiers
Le vent du Rhin secoue sur le bord les osiers
Et les roseaux jaseurs et les fleurs nues des vignes
La synagogue
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren
Coiffes de feutres verts le matin du sabbat
Vont a la
synagogue
en longeant le Rhin
Et les coteaux ou les vignes rougissent la-bas
Ils se disputent et crient des choses qu'on ose a peine traduire
Batard concu pendant les regles ou Que le diable entre dans ton
pere
Le vieux Rhin souleve sa face ruisselante et se detourne pour
sourire
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren sont en colere
Parce que pendant le sabbat on ne doit pas fumer
Tandis que les chretiens passent avec des cigares allumes
Et parce qu'Ottomar et Abraham aiment tous deux
Lia aux yeux de brebis et dont le ventre avance un peu
Pourtant tout a l'heure dans la synagogue l'un apres l'autre
Ils baiseront la thora en soulevant leur beau chapeau
Parmi les feuillards de la fete des cabanes
Ottomar en chantant sourira a Abraham
Ils dechanteront sans mesure et les voix graves des hommes
Feront gemir un Leviathan au fond du Rhin comme une voix d'automne
Et dans la synagogue pleine de chapeaux on agitera les loulabim
Hanoten ne Kamoth bagoim tholahoth baleoumim
Les cloches
Mon beau tzigane mon amant
Ecoute les cloches qui sonnent
Nous nous aimions eperdument
Croyant n'etre vus de personne
Mais nous etions bien mal caches
Toutes les cloches a la ronde
Nous ont vus du haut des clochers
Et le disent a tout le monde
Demain Cyprien et Henri
Marie Ursule et Catherine
La boulangere et son mari
Et puis Gertrude ma cousine
Souriront quand je passerai
Je ne saurai plus ou me mettre
Tu seras loin Je pleurerai
J'en mourrai peut-etre
La Loreley
A Jean Seve
A Bacharach il y avait une sorciere blonde
Qui laissait mourir d'amour tous les hommes a la ronde
Devant son tribunal l'eveque la fit citer
D'avance il l'absolvit a cause de sa beaute
O belle Loreley aux yeux pleins de pierreries
De quel magicien tiens-tu ta sorcellerie
Je suis lasse de vivre et mes yeux sont maudits
Ceux qui m'ont regardee eveque en ont peri
Mes yeux ce sont des flammes et non des pierreries
Jetez jetez aux flammes cette sorcellerie
Je flambe dans ces flammes O belle Loreley
Qu'un autre te condamne tu m'as ensorcele
Eveque vous riez Priez plutot pour moi la Vierge
Faites-moi donc mourir et que Dieu vous protege
Mon amant est parti pour un pays lointain
Faites-moi donc mourir puisque je n'aime rien
Mon coeur me fait si mal il faut bien que je meure
Si je me regardais il faudrait que j'en meure
Mon coeur me fait si mal depuis qu'il n'est plus la
Mon coeur me fit si mal du jour ou il s'en alla
L'eveque fit venir trois chevaliers avec leurs lances
Menez jusqu'au couvent cette femme en demence
Va t'en Lore en folie va Lore aux yeux tremblants
Tu seras une nonne vetue de noir et blanc
Puis ils s'en allerent sur la route tous les quatre
La Loreley les implorait et ses yeux brillaient comme des astres
Chevaliers laissez-moi monter sur ce rocher si haut
Pour voir une fois encore mon beau chateau
Pour me mirer une fois encore dans le fleuve
Puis j'irai au couvent des vierges et des veuves
La-haut le vent tordait ses cheveux deroules
Les chevaliers criaient Loreley Loreley
Tout la-bas sur le Rhin s'en vient une nacelle
Et mon amant s'y tient il m'a vue il m'appelle
Mon coeur devient si doux c'est mon amant qui vient
Elle se penche alors et tombe dans le Rhin
Pour avoir vu dans l'eau la belle Loreley
Ses yeux couleur du Rhin ses cheveux de soleil
Schinderhannes
Dans la foret avec sa bande
Schinderhannes s'est desarme
Le brigand pres de sa brigande
Hennit d'amour au joli mai
Benzel accroupi lit la Bible
Sans voir que son chapeau pointu
A plume d'aigle sert de cible
A Jacob Born le mal foutu
Juliette Blaesius qui rote
Fait semblant d'avoir le hoquet
Hannes pousse une fausse note
Quand Schulz vient portant un baquet
Et s'ecrie en versant des larmes
Baquet plein de vin parfume
Viennent aujourd'hui les gendarmes
Nous aurons bu le vin de mai
Allons Julia la mam'zelle
Bois avec nous ce clair bouillon
D'herbes et de vin de Moselle
Prosit Bandit en cotillon
Cette brigande est bientot soule
Et veut Hannes qui n'en veut pas
Pas d'amour maintenant ma poule
Sers-nous un bon petit repas
Il faut ce soir que j'assassine
Ce riche juif au bord du Rhin
Au clair des torches de resine
La fleur de mai c'est le florin
On mange alors toute la bande
Pete et rit pendant le diner
Puis s'attendrit a l'allemande
Avant d'aller assassiner
Rhenane d'automne
A Toussaint-Luca
Les enfants des morts vont jouer
Dans le cimetiere
Martin Gertrude Hans et Henri
Nul coq n'a chante aujourd'hui
Kikiriki
Les vieilles femmes
Tout en pleurant cheminent
Et les bons anes
Braillent hi han et se mettent a brouter les fleurs
Des couronnes mortuaires
C'est le jour des morts et de toutes leurs ames
Les enfants et les vieilles femmes
Allument des bougies et des cierges
Sur chaque tombe catholique
Les voiles des vieilles
Les nuages du ciel
Sont comme des barbes de biques
L'air tremble de flammes et de prieres
Le cimetiere est un beau jardin
Plein de saules gris et de romarins
Il vous vient souvent des amis qu'on enterre
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Knopf 1920
To Jean
Verdenal
1889-1915
Certain of these poems first appeared in Poetry, Blast, Others, The
Little Review, and Art and Letters.
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
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with what
device or in what hope loiters he among a hostile race, and casts not a
glance on his
Ausonian
children and the fields of Lavinium?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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Villon |
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LYCIDAS
Your pleas but linger out my heart's desire:
Now all the deep is into silence hushed,
And all the
murmuring
breezes sunk to sleep.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The
Wendlas are,
according
to Grundtvig and Bugge, the inhabitants of Vendill,
the most northern part of Jutland, between Limfjord and the sea.
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Beowulf |
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Then shepherds took the badge of royalty,
And the stout labourer the sword did wield:
The Consuls' power was annually revealed,
Till six month terms won greater majesty,
Which, made perpetual, accrued such power
That the
Imperial
Eagle seized the hour:
But Heaven, opposing such aggrandisement,
Handed that power to Peter's successor,
Who, called a shepherd, fated to reign there,
Shows that all returns to its commencement.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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You know
yourself
how easy it would be
For the flood tide to carry them to me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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LIII
THE TRUE LOVER
The lad came to the door at night,
When lovers crown their vows,
And
whistled
soft and out of sight
In shadow of the boughs.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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But let us now consult what way her grief,
Which is not to be
understood
by us,
May spend itself, with naught to urge its power.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Few books are more
striking
from the circumstances of
their production.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
X
'Twas so Christ's servant with the cavalier
Discoursed; they having satisfied their view
With sight of that fair mansion, far and near,
That whence
conveyed
were human lives, the two
Issued upon the stream, whose waves appear
Turbid with sand and of discoloured hue;
And found that ancient man upon the shore,
Who names, engraved on metal, thither bore.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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(clutches his sword and staggers towards POLITIAN, but his purpose
is changed before
reaching
him, and he falls upon his knee at the feet of
the Earl)
Alas!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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--
or fancy I'm
lonesome?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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the wave is
freshest
in the ray
Of the young morning; the reapers are asleep;
The river bank is lonely: come away!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And he had nothing to say, nothing easy--
He
mentioned
ten million men, mentioned them as having gone west,
mentioned them as shoving up the daisies.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The
insensate
fire of love still glowed
Nor discontinued to distress
A spirit which for sorrow yearned.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The bee will make its bloom a bed,
The humble bee in tawny brown;
And one in jacket fringed with red
Will rest upon its velvet down
When
overtaken
in the rain,
And wait till sunshine comes again.
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John Clare |
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Oh, wise was he, oh, wise was he
Who first within his spirit knew
And with his tongue
declared
it true
That love comes best that comes unto
The equal of degree!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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vainly fears
Thy flooded cheek to wet them with its tears;
[85] No tears can chill them, and no bosom warms,
Thy breast their death-bed,
coffined
in thine arms!
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William Wordsworth |
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Why does Pope call him "th'
egregious
wizard"?
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Alexander Pope |
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Alcides too shall be my theme,
And Leda's twins, for horses be,
He famed for boxing; soon as gleam
Their stars at sea,
The lash'd spray trickles from the steep,
The wind sinks down, the storm-cloud flies,
The threatening billow on the deep
Obedient
lies.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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What is this sudden cradle song
That
gradually
lulls my poor being?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Her work was in the
world's possession for not far short of a thousand years--a thousand years
of
changing
tastes, searching criticism, and familiar use.
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Sappho |
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Come, let us gather our nets from the shore,
and set our
catamarans
free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for
we are the sons of the sea.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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This tablet has been erroneously
assigned
to Book
IV, but it appears to be Book III.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The
braunches
were borly, sum of bright gold,
With leuys full luffly, light of the same;
With burions aboue bright to beholde;
And fruit on yt fourmyt of fairest of shap,
Of mony kynd that was knyt, knagged aboue.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And how their num'rous creditors rejoice;
But just as hopes to warm enjoyment rise,
Cry
Convalescence!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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720
With all the
patience
that he can;
To the end that, at your meeting,
He may give thee decent greeting.
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William Wordsworth |
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"
When old
Headsman
Death laid hands
On a babe or twain,
She would feast, and by her brands
Sing her songs again.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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So
freehanded
and so gay!
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Readers will be able to make for
themselves the obvious and striking contrasts between these first and
last phases of Oscar Wilde's
literary
activity.
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Wilde - Poems |
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THE INDIAN UPON GOD
I PASSED along the water's edge below the humid trees,
My spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round my knees,
My spirit rocked in sleep and sighs; and saw the moorfowl pace
All
dripping
on a grassy slope, and saw them cease to chase
Each other round in circles, and heard the eldest speak:
_Who holds the world between His bill and made us strong or weak
Is an undying moorfowl, and He lives beyond the sky.
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Yeats |
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Sweeney shifts from ham to ham
Stirring
the water in his bath.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Somme hyltren matters doe mie
presence
fynde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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We got
our first fair view of the lake at dawn, just before reaching
Plattsburg, and saw blue ranges of
mountains
on either hand, in New
York and in Vermont, the former especially grand.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the
strength
to force the moment to its crisis?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Meredith - Poems |
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The tapers slowly fade
Thou
speedest
from these halls,
Now that thy love is dead--
And sound of weeping falls.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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[Picture: Book cover]
POEMS OF THE PAST
AND THE PRESENT
* * * * *
BY
THOMAS HARDY
* * * * *
* * * * *
* * * * *
MACMILLAN
AND CO.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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[44] Text _PA-it-tam_
clearly!
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A gruesome man, bald, clad in black,
Who kept us youthful drudges in the track,
Thinking it good for them to leave home care,
And for a while a harsher yoke to bear;
Surrender all the careless ease of home,
And be forbid from schoolyard bounds to roam;
For this with blandest smiles he softly asks
That they with him will
prosecute
their tasks;
Receives them in his solemn chilly lair,
The rigid lot of discipline to share.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Au gibet noir, manchot aimable,
Dansent, dansent les paladins,
Les maigres paladins du diable,
Les
squelettes
de Saladins.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The Bandersnatch fled as the others appeared
Led on by that fear-stricken yell:
And the Bellman
remarked
"It is just as I feared!
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Lewis Carroll |
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'Tis not wise until the latest hour
To enjoy delight's
ephemeral
dower:
Birds to southern seas have taken flight,
Fading flow'rs wait till the snows alight.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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FEMMES DAMNEES
Comme un betail pensif sur le sable couchees,
Elles tournent leurs yeux vers l'horizon des mers,
Et leurs pieds se cherchant et leurs mains rapprochees
Ont de douces langueurs et des frissons amers:
Les unes, coeurs epris des longues confidences,
Dans le fond des bosquets ou jasent les ruisseaux,
Vont epelant l'amour des
craintives
enfances
Et creusent le bois vert des jeunes arbrisseaux;
D'autres, comme des soeurs, marchent lentes et graves
A travers les rochers pleins d'apparitions,
Ou saint Antoine a vu surgir comme des laves
Les seins nus et pourpres de ses tentations;
Il en est, aux lueurs des resines croulantes,
Qui dans le creux muet des vieux antres paiens
T'appellent au secours de leurs fievres hurlantes,
O Bacchus, endormeur des remords anciens!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I love to pour out all myself, as plain
As
downright
Shippen, or as old Montaigne:
In them, as certain to be loved as seen,
The soul stood forth, nor kept a thought within;
In me what spots (for spots I have) appear,
Will prove at least the medium must be clear.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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DIE KUCHE
She lets the hydrant water run:
He fancies lonely, banal,
bald-headed mountains,
affected by the daily
caress of the
tropical
sun,
weeping tears the length of brooks
down their faces and flanks.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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