In the
Epitaph on the
Marchioness
of Winchester, it reads--' And som flowers
and some bays.
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Papa he said, "Oh,
dreadful
man!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
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Stephen Crane |
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Cloud another lord awaited,
Or that in scenes Le Notre's art created
For
princely
sport and ease,
Crimean steeds, trampling the velvet glade,
Should browse the bark beneath the stately shade
Of the great Louis' trees?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Oh, some
scholar!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For do you love her, do you hate,
She knows not--cares not she:
Only the living feel the weight
Of
loveless
misery!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But the 1645 text and Milton's manuscript read self-consum'd; after
which word there is to be
understood
a metrical pause to mark the
violent transition of the thought.
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740 Nē þæt se āglǣca yldan þōhte,
ac hē gefēng hraðe forman siðe
slǣpendne
rinc, slāt unwearnum,
bāt bān-locan, blōd ēdrum dranc,
syn-snǣdum swealh: sōna hæfde
745 unlyfigendes eal gefeormod
fēt and folma.
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Beowulf |
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POISON PERDU
Des nuits du blond et de la brune
Pas un
souvenir
n'est reste;
Pas une dentelle d'ete,
Pas une cravate commune.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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They pricked their steeds and moving all
together
bore down upon him
like a wild wave that upsets a ship.
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i'th' name of truth
Are ye fantasticall, or that indeed
Which
outwardly
ye shew?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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" --Alas, what a
misapprehension!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Ah,
happiest
spot of earth!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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--Semele, the
daughter
of Cadmus and Hermione and mother of
Bacchus; both seduced by Zeus.
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Aristophanes |
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I have nothing to say to
any one as to which sect he belongs to, or what creed he believes: but
I look on the man, who is firmly persuaded of infinite wisdom and
goodness, superintending and directing every
circumstance
that can
happen in his lot--I felicitate such a man as having a solid
foundation for his mental enjoyment; a firm prop and sure stay, in the
hour of difficulty, trouble, and distress; and a never-failing anchor
of hope, when he looks beyond the grave.
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Robert Forst |
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<>,
disse 'l maestro, ansando com' uom lasso,
<
dipartir
da tanto male>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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There were packed in it a trunk
and a box
containing
a tea service, and some napkins tied up full of
rolls and little cakes, the last I should get of home pampering.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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What are we to think of
this
behaviour?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Grand go the years in the crescent above them;
Worlds scoop their arcs, and
firmaments
row,
Diadems drop and Doges surrender,
Soundless as dots on a disk of snow.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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LXXIII
He, that with other scope had thither soared,
Pauses not all these wonder to peruse:
But led by the disciple of our Lord,
His way towards a spacious vale pursues;
A place wherein is wonderfully stored
Whatever
on our earth below we lose.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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(editorial,
December
12, 1832), pp.
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Byron |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Take ye the truth, that Atreus, this man's sire,
The lord and monarch of this land of old,
Held with my sire
Thyestes
deep dispute,
Brother with brother, for the prize of sway,
And drave him from his home to banishment.
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Aeschylus |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Lewis Carroll |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Abundance
of berries for all who will eat,
But an aching meat.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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It
cost, in 1710, from twelve to twenty-eight
shillings
per pound.
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Alexander Pope |
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With what a deadly sore my soul doth smart;
My heart, with venom filled, doth like a hammer
Beat in mine ears reproach; all things revolt me,
And my head whirls, and in my eyes are children
Dripping
with blood; and gladly would I flee,
But nowhere can find refuge--horrible!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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How sweet its
streamlet
murmurs in mine ear!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I'll give it, sir: and
therefore
spare my life.
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Shakespeare |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Grosser,
herrlicher
Geist, der du mir zu erscheinen wurdigtest, der du mein
Herz kennest und meine Seele, warum an den Schandgesellen mich schmieden,
der sich am Schaden weidet und am Verderben sich letzt?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Dark Muchtar his son to the Danube is sped,
Let the yellow-haired Giaours view his horsetail with dread;
When his Delhis come dashing in blood o'er the banks,
How few shall escape from the
Muscovite
ranks!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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In two
or three small
instances
lately, I have been most shamefully out.
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Robert Burns |
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Hamilton
and family; and Mrs.
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Robert Burns |
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If I may have it when it's dead
I will
contented
be;
If just as soon as breath is out
It shall belong to me,
Until they lock it in the grave,
'T is bliss I cannot weigh,
For though they lock thee in the grave,
Myself can hold the key.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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They would not
pretend that they were the only painters worthy of a public showing;
they would
maintain
that their work was, generally speaking, most
interesting to one another.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It is one to me that they come or go
If I have myself and the drive of my will,
And
strength
to climb on a summer night
And watch the stars swarm over the hill.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The nymphs of ocean, and the ocean's queen,
The isle angelic, ev'ry raptur'd scene,
The charms of honour and its meed confess,
These are the raptures, these the wedded bliss:
The glorious triumph and the laurel crown,
The ever blossom'd palms of fair renown,
By time unwither'd, and
untaught
to cloy;
These are the transports of the Isle of Joy.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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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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Lewis Carroll |
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, _not any, none, no_: 1)
substantively
w.
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Beowulf |
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Thou know'st her grace in moving, Thou dost her skill in loving,
Thou know'st what truth she proveth, Thou knowest the heart she moveth, O song where grief
assoneth
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I see her trundling her mop, and
contemplating the whirling
phenomenon
through blurred optics; but to
term her 'a poor outcast' seems as much as to say that poor Susan was
no better than she should be, which I trust was not what you meant to
express.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"
He is old, and kind, and deaf, and blind,
And very, very pleased with his
charming
moat
And the swans which float.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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er
charcole
brenned,
876 Wat3 gray?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
"Because he
proposed
to me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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He
thought he could do
everything
well; which is a beautiful belief when
you hold it with all your heart.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Their groves o' sweet myrtle let Foreign Lands reckon,
Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume;
Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan,
Wi' the burn
stealing
under the lang, yellow broom.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Don Sanche caused me ill, in my defence,
And that ill-dealing arm I must
recompense!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Boldly
defending
your own beautiful apples of gold.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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if he pleases yet,
His moral pleases, not his pointed wit;
Forget his epic, nay
Pindaric
art;
But still I love the language of his heart.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Shakespeare |
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The Count, her lover, was
probably
Roger of Foix (1188-1223).
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Troubador Verse |
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"
THE SISTER
What has happened, my
brothers?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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States without
permission
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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For thou, for man
Has such a treasure in his heart of love,
It must be
squandered
out in charity,
Not used as a gentle money to repay
Worth (as a woman spends her love).
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"And now beside thee,
bleating
lamb,
I can lie down and sleep,
Or think on Him who bore thy name,
Graze after thee, and weep.
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blake-poems |
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I too survey that endless line
Of men whose
thoughts
are not as mine.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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O
Liberty!
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Whitman |
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All afire, he hunts Dares headlong
over the lists, and
redoubles
his blows now with right hand, now with
left; no breath nor pause; heavy as hailstones rattle on the roof from a
storm-cloud, so thickly shower the blows from both his hands as he
buffets Dares to and fro.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"'Comest thou alive to view the Stygian bounds,
Where the wan spectres walk eternal rounds;
Nor fear'st the dark and dismal waste to tread,
Throng'd with pale ghosts,
familiar
with the dead?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Or touch, if
tremblingly
alive all o'er,
To smart and agonize at every pore?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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O
children
of the light, now in our grief Give us again the solace of belief.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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and open my heart;
That my
thoughts
torment me no longer,
But glitter in your hair.
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Imagists |
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LXV
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o'ersways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no
stronger
than a flower?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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e cloude of
ignoraunce {and} ben troubled by
felonous
talent?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Th'
accursed
dice that rolled at Calvary
You rolled a woman's murder to decree
It was a dark disastrous game to play;
But not for me a moral to essay.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Phoebus slew
Rhexenor at his home, a
bridegroom
yet,
Who, father of no son, one daughter left,
Areta, wedded to Alcinous now,
And whom the Sov'reign in such honour holds,
As woman none enjoys of all on earth
Existing, subjects of an husband's pow'r.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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[383] Instead of the
expected
"son of Zeus," he calls himself the "son of
a wine-jar.
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Aristophanes |
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The close union of the
arts of prophecy and song explains his additional office of god of
music, while the arrows with which he and his sister were armed,
symbols of sudden death in every age, no less naturally
procured
him
that of god of archery.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The Hour arrived--and it became
A
wandering
mass of shapeless flame,
A pathless Comet, and a curse,
The menace of the Universe;
Still rolling on with innate force, 120
Without a sphere, without a course,
A bright deformity on high,
The monster of the upper sky!
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Byron |
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nunc iam illa non uolt: tu quoque
inpotens
noli,
nec quae fugit sectare, nec miser uiue,
sed obstinata mente perfer, obdura.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"What's the use
"Of all your
scolding
and abuse?
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La Fontaine |
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who saw not the
Rutulian
prince burst in amid their
columns, and fairly shut him into the town, like a monstrous tiger among
the silly flocks.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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es
han firste tastid
sauoures
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Sun never rose so beautiful and bright
When skies above most clear and
cloudless
show'd,
Nor, after rain, the bow of heaven e'er glow'd
With tints so varied, delicate, and light,
As in rare beauty flash'd upon my sight,
The day I first took up this am'rous load,
That face whose fellow ne'er on earth abode--
Even my praise to paint it seems a slight!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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O sweet
content!
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Golden Treasury |
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A heart that is distant creates a
wilderness
round it.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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monarch, judge, what less than Lusian fire
Could still the
hopeless
scorn of fate inspire!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
MARY
MAGDALENE
AND THE OTHER MARY.
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Christina Rossetti |
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ELECTRA
Hand maidens,
orderers
of the palace-halls,
Since at my side ye come, a suppliant train,
Companions of this offering, counsel me
As best befits the time: for I, who pour
Upon the grave these streams funereal,
With what fair word can I invoke my sire?
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Aeschylus |
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She dried her feet on the
riverside
grass;
She looked at me once again,
And the playful beauty then took thought.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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God love thee for the
sweetness
of thy word!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Sorrow would strive
backward
to wrench the sun,
But the sun moves.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLX
Now, when Jupiter, fired by his lusts,
Wants to conceive the jewels of his eyes,
And with the heat of his burning thighs
Fills Juno's moist womb with his thrusts:
Now, when the sea, or when violent gusts
Of wind grant way to great ships of war,
And when the nightingale, in forest far,
Renews her
grievance
against Tereus:
Now, when the meadows and when the flowers
With thousands upon thousands of colours
Paint the breast of the earth so bright all round,
Alone and thoughtful among the secret cliffs,
With a silent heart I tell over my regrets,
And through the woods I go, hiding my wound.
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Ronsard |
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John, upon which occasion the
shepherds hereabout used to light bonfires on the hills (no doubt a
relic of the custom of the Beltane fires of old Norse days, perhaps of
earlier sun-worship festivals of British times), may have had
something to do with the naming of the
mountain
Blencathara of which
Southen-fell (or Shepherd's-fell, as the name implies) is part.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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`Ensample why, see now these wyse clerkes,
That erren
aldermost
a-yein a lawe,
And ben converted from hir wikked werkes
Thorugh grace of god, that list hem to him drawe, 1005
Than arn they folk that han most god in awe,
And strengest-feythed been, I understonde,
And conne an errour alder-best withstonde.
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Then this most
wretched
father went his way
Into the woods, that round his castle lay,
Where once his daughters in their childhood played
With their young mother in the sun and shade.
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Longfellow |
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IN PRAISE OF LAURA'S EYES: THEY LEAD HIM TO
CONTEMPLATE
THE PATH OF
LIFE.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Fragments
of the Saliar Hymns_
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DIVOM templa cante,
diuom deo supplicate.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And their long holiday that feared not grief,
For all
belonged
to all, and each was chief.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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For the king of Erech of the wide places
open,
addressing
thy speech as unto a husband.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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ALTMAYER
(leise):
Sie sind vom Rheine, wie ich spure.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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[A bound copy: smooth blue calf,
lettered
"LORD BYRON.
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Byron |
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Imagination
flowers and vanishes, swiftly, following the flow of the writing, round the fragmentary stations of a capitalised phrase introduced by and extended from the title.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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his heart 'gan warm
With pity, for the grey-hair'd
creature
wept.
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Keats |
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[149] "The same day were all the
fountains
of the great deep broken up,
and the windows of heaven were opened.
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Byron |
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