Many of these ballads still survive, but in all these
traditions it is quite
impossible
to disentangle fact from fiction.
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What if our ruler
Be sick in very deed of cares of state
And hath no
strength
to mount the throne?
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"
He holds him with his
glittering
eye--
The wedding guest stood still
And listens like a three year's child;
The Marinere hath his will.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Twelve days'
truce is struck, and in mediation of the peace
Teucrians
and Latins
stray mingling unharmed on the forest heights.
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A stillness of white faces wrought
A
transient
death on all the hands and breasts
Of all the crowd, and men and women stood,
One instant, fixed, as they had died upright.
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Sidney Lanier |
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`And nece, woot ye wher I wol yow leye,
For that we shul not liggen fer asonder, 660
And for ye neither shullen, dar I seye,
Heren noise of reynes nor of
thondre?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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--'tis well for me
My years already doubly number thine;
My loveless eye unmoved may gaze on thee,
And safely view thy ripening
beauties
shine:
Happy, I ne'er shall see them in decline;
Happier, that while all younger hearts shall bleed
Mine shall escape the doom thine eyes assign
To those whose admiration shall succeed,
But mixed with pangs to Love's even loveliest hours decreed.
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The staff I yet remember which upbore
The bending body of my active sire;
His seat beneath the honeyed sycamore
When the bees hummed, and chair by winter fire;
When market-morning came, the neat attire
With which, though bent on haste, myself I deck'd;
My
watchful
dog, whose starts of furious ire,
When stranger passed, so often I have check'd;
The red-breast known for years, which at my casement peck'd.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And just as in the ages gone before
We felt no touch of ill, when all sides round
To battle came the Carthaginian host,
And the times, shaken by tumultuous war,
Under the aery coasts of arching heaven
Shuddered and trembled, and all humankind
Doubted to which the empery should fall
By land and sea, thus when we are no more,
When comes that sundering of our body and soul
Through which we're fashioned to a single state,
Verily naught to us, us then no more,
Can come to pass, naught move our senses then--
No, not if earth
confounded
were with sea,
And sea with heaven.
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they love thee least who owe thee most--
Their birth, their blood, and that sublime record
Of hero sires, who shame thy now
degenerate
horde!
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fyrndagum
(_in old
times_), 1452.
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There are two of the lines in which a sentiment is conveyed that
embodies the _all in all _of the divine passion of Love--a sentiment
which, perhaps, has found its echo in more, and in more passionate,
human hearts than any other single sentiment ever embodied in words:--
Come, rest in this bosom, my own
stricken
deer
Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here;
Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast,
And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last.
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BROTHER TO A YOUNG LADY, A
PARTICULAR
FRIEND
OF THE AUTHOR'S.
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Robert Burns |
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CLYTEMNESTRA
A Sea there is--and who shall stay its
springs?
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Aeschylus |
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the burial of Haki on a funeral-pyre ship,
_Inglinga
Saga;_
the burial of Balder, Sinfiötli, Arthur, etc.
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Beowulf |
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And 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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Wilde - Poems |
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Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping
melancholy
mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Each sundown makes them mournful, each sunrise
Brings back the
brightness
in their failing eyes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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)
The final
draught!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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_100
A man who thus twice
crucifies
his God
May well .
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Shelley |
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"I saw my sons resume their ancient fire;
I saw fair freedom's
blossoms
richly blow:
But ah!
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Robert Burns |
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How much better is it to be silent, or at least to speak
sparingly!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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One can view as from the clouds
Our whole
dominion
at a glance; its frontiers,
Its towns, its rivers.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
la la
To
Carthage
then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou pluckest me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But the other name of
_Desperati_ they rejected as a calumny, retorting it back upon their
adversaries, who more justly
deserved
it.
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Tacitus |
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'Non (ita Caecilio placeam, cui tradita nunc sum)
Culpa meast,
quamquam
dicitur esse mea, 10
Nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam:
Verum istud populi fabula, Quinte, facit,
Qui, quacumque aliquid reperitur non bene factum,
Ad me omnes clamant: ianua, culpa tuast.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Then lord Anchises: 'Souls, for whom second bodies are destined
and due, drink at the wave of the Lethean stream the
heedless
water of
long forgetfulness.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Bold and accursed are they who all this while
Have strove to isle this monarch from this isle,
And to improve
themselves
by false pretence.
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Marvell - Poems |
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God suffers not His saints and
servants
dear
To have continual pain or pleasure here;
But look how night succeeds the day, so He
Gives them by turns their grief and jollity.
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Robert Herrick |
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But thou
sincere!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The third most
glorious
of these majesties
Give aid, O sapphires of th' eternal see, And by your light illume pure verity.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I lift my heavy heart up solemnly,
As once Electra her
sepulchral
urn,
And, looking in thine eyes, I overturn
The ashes at thy feet.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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She was
purely an Indian deity--an Anglo-Indian deity, that is to say--and
we called her THE Venus Annodomini, to
distinguish
her from other
Annodominis of the same everlasting order.
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Kipling - Poems |
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THE COUNTRY JUSTICE
TWO lawyers to their cause so well adhered,
A country justice quite
confused
appeared,
By them the facts were rendered so obscure
With which the truth remained he was not sure.
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La Fontaine |
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In the course of the evening, you find chance for certain
Soft
speeches
to Anne, in the shade of the curtain:
You tell her your heart can be likened to _one_ flower,
'And that, O most charming of women, 's the sunflower,
Which turns'--here a clear nasal voice, to your terror, 270
From outside the curtain, says, 'That's all an error.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Thus the
relation between lender and
borrower
was mixed up with the
relation between sovereign and subject.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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970
And now when I think to
approach
so joyfully
All that the gods have made most dear to me:
What do I find?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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As children bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their
nightgowns
on.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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As he draws nearer to the
confines
of
authentic history, he will become less and less hard of belief.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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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 - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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'twas a
precious
flock to me,
As dear as my own children be;
For daily with my growing store
I loved my children more and more.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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A haunting music, sole perhaps and lone
Supportress
of the faery-roof, made moan
Throughout, as fearful the whole charm might fade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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'4
THE GOOSE GIRL'S SONG By Laura Benet
Last morn as I was
bleaching
the queen's linen On the moor-grass sere and dry,
A breath of summer breeze it blew my apron To the four parts of the sky;
And as I started up tiptoe with wonder And gazed towards the town,
A little round well opened to my footsteps With water clear and brown.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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188 ||
_rustica_ Turnebus: _et
trirustice_
Munro || _Post 3 reuocaui
uersum qui extat apud Porphynonem ad Hor.
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Latin - Catullus |
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=_
Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee,
And do it well, must first beginne to be
Such as thou wert; for, none can truly know
Thy worth, thy life, but he that hath liv'd so;
He must have wit to spare and to hurle downe: 5
Enough, to keepe the
gallants
of the towne.
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John Donne |
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Could you guess what word she
uttered?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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But
the
Landlord
can afford to live without privacy.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Beneath these battlements, within those walls,
Power dwelt amidst her passions; in proud state
Each robber chief upheld his armed halls,
Doing his evil will, nor less elate
Than
mightier
heroes of a longer date.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Any fairly practised writer,
with the
slightest
ear for rhythm, could compose, for hours together, in
the easy running metre of 'The Song of Hiawatha.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Golden Treasury |
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But thou, who, in my voice's sink and fall
When the sob took it, thy divinest Art's
Own
instrument
didst drop down at thy foot
To harken what I said between my tears, .
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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This
youthful
devil was a titled lord;
In manners simple:--naught to be abhorred;
He might, so ignorant, be duped at ease;
As yet he'd scarcely ventured to displease:
Said he, I'd have thee know, I was not born,
Like clods to labour, dig nor sow the corn;
A devil thou in me beholdest here,
Of noble race: to toil I ne'er appear.
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La Fontaine |
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XXXVIII
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand
wherewith
I write;
And ever since, it grew more clean and white.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Lucretius |
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Yet I feared this time that I had hurt him, Such offended silence long he kept:
On his hand I laid my hand in pity, Penitent, —and softly he began,
"Ah that night in May, do you
remember?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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So Sir Bedivere
departed
and by the way he beheld that noble sword,
that the pommel and the haft were all of precious stones, and then he
said to himself, 'If I throw this rich sword in the water, thereof
shall never come to good but harm and loss'.
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Tennyson |
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[83] The
distance
to Chung-chou.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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<>,
rispuose
lui, <
virtu del ciel mi mosse, e con lei vegno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Within yon forest is a gloomy glen--
Each tree which guards its
darkness
from the day,
Waves o'er a warrior's tomb.
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Shelley |
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Latin - Catullus |
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Of all
the qualities we assign to the author and
director
of nature, by far
the most enviable is--to be able "to wipe away all tears from all
eyes.
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Robert Forst |
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Such testimony, even though not a single fragment remained to us from which
to judge her poetry for ourselves, might well convince us that the
supremacy acknowledged by those who knew all the
triumphs
of the genius of
old Greece was beyond the assault of any modern rival.
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Sappho |
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Mochte selbst solch einen Herren kennen,
Wurd ihn Herrn
Mikrokosmus
nennen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Catch, catch the fawning villain, and send him to
Solovetsky to
perpetual
penance.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I know the grass
Must grow somewhere along this
Thracian
coast, If only he would come some little while and find
it me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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{a}t
dignitees
{and} powers ben ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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First the 1645 volume of the Minor Poems has been
printed entire; then follow in order the poems added in the reissue of
1673; the Paradise Lost, from the edition of 1667; and the Paradise
Regain'd and Samson
Agonistes
from the edition of 1671.
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Milton |
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Thirlwall, had made a very
remarkable speech, and had been kept till past
daybreak
in the House
of Lords, before the division was over, and he was able to walk home.
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William Wordsworth |
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Thou, who since yesterday hast rolled o'er all
The busy, idle
blockheads
of the ball,
Hast thou, oh, sun!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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In the meadow ground the frogs
With their
deafening
flutes begin,--
The old madness of the world 15
In their golden throats again.
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Sappho |
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You may notice this down at Jamalpur in Bengal,
one of the oldest railway centres; and at other places, and in other
industries, they are following the same
inexorable
Indian law.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Down rushed the night: east, west, together roar;
And south and north roll
mountains
to the shore.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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th knowe,
ffor so naked was he;
And als a
straunge
man he went
To his fader wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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(That large reprisal he might justly claim,
For prize defrauded, and insulted fame,
When Elis' monarch, at the public course,
Detain'd his chariot, and
victorious
horse.
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Iliad - Pope |
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`For prestes of the temple tellen this, 365
That dremes been the revelaciouns
Of goddes, and as wel they telle, y-wis,
That they ben infernals illusiouns;
And leches seyn, that of complexiouns
Proceden
they, or fast, or glotonye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Out of my dark hours wisdom dawns apace,
Infinite Life unrolls its
boundless
space .
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say I love thee not,
When I against myself with thee
partake?
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WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
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Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of
mudcracked
houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water 350
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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And when it showed this relic, damp,
To that father attempting an inimical smile,
The
solitude
shuddered, azure, sterile.
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non illi quisquam bello se conferet heros,
cum Phrygii Teucro manabunt sanguine campi,
Troicaque obsidens longinquo moenia bello, 345
periuri Pelopis
uastabit
tertius heres.
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Snooks,
But, as men deepest read in books
Are perfectly aware, bones,
If buried fifty years or so,
Lose their
identity
and grow
From human bones to bare bones.
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With these faults, Ovid had such
enchanting
graces, that his style and
manner infected every branch of literature.
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A soul
trembling
to sit by a hearth so bright,
To exist again, it's enough if I borrow from
Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.
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Now when, declining from the noon of day,
The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray;
When hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 85
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine;
When merchants from th' Exchange return in peace,
And the long labours of the toilet cease,
The board's with cups and spoons, alternate, crowned,
The berries crackle, and the mill turns round; 90
On shining altars of Japan they raise
The silver lamp, and fiery spirits blaze:
From silver spouts the
grateful
liquors glide,
While China's earth receives the smoking tide.
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Alexander Pope |
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But belief is utterly
distinct
from and
unconnected with volition: it is the apprehension of the agreement or
disagreement of the ideas that compose any preposition.
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Then my heart it grew ashen and sober
As the leaves that were crisped and sere--
As the leaves that were
withering
and sere--
And I cried--"It was surely October
On _this_ very night of last year,
That I journeyed--I journeyed down here!
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Li Po |
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Sweet bird, that singest on thy airy way,
Or else bewailest
pleasures
that are past;
What time the night draws nigh, and wintry blast;
Leaving behind each merry month, and day;
Oh, couldst thou, as thine own, my state survey,
With the same gloom of misery o'ercast;
Unto my bosom thou mightst surely haste
And, by partaking, my sad griefs allay.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Phlebas, le Phenicien, pendant quinze jours noye,
Oubliait les cris des mouettes et la houle de Cornouaille,
Et les profits et les pertes, et la
cargaison
d'etain:
Un courant de sous-mer l'emporta tres loin,
Le repassant aux etapes de sa vie anterieure.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Orpheus
Orpheus
'Orpheus'
Pierre -Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824 - 1898, Yale
University
Art Gallery
His heart was the bait: the heavens were the pond!
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Appoloinaire |
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The azure vault in silver
shimmers
soft,
A dewy breeze with fragrance soars aloft.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Oh, swift as light they speed, The first light into
darkness
hurled, Each to his work, above, below,
The sons of God that make the world.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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