No, no,
kindness
is lost upon the people;
Act well--it thanks you not at all; extort
And execute--'twill be no worse for you.
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The star about the Pole
conceals
its bright rays.
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Troubador Verse |
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[The following letter was written on the blank leaf of a new edition
of his poems,
presented
by the poet, to one whom he regarded, and
justly, as a patroness.
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That this is
particularly
true of its poetry will
be gauged from the present volume.
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Imagists |
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'Luck again,' says Dravot, across the Lodge, to me;
'they say it's the missing Mark that no one could
understand
the why of.
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Kipling - Poems |
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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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Mallarme - Poems |
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Behold ye--yonder on the palace roof
The spectre-children sitting--look, such things
As dreams are made on, phantoms as of babes,
Horrible shadows, that a kinsman's hand
Hath marked with murder, and their arms are full--
A rueful burden--see, they hold them up,
The
entrails
upon which their father fed!
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Aeschylus |
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Have not I seen the fallen
Balclutha?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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AN ODE TO THE RAIN
COMPOSED BEFORE DAYLIGHT, ON THE MORNING
APPOINTED FOR THE
DEPARTURE
OF A VERY
WORTHY, BUT NOT VERY PLEASANT VISITOR,
WHOM IT WAS FEARED THE RAIN MIGHT
DETAIN.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Telemachus into the chariot first
Ascended, and beside him, next, his place
Pisistratus the son of Nestor took,
Then seiz'd the reins, and lash'd the
coursers
on.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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FAUST:
Ist uber
vierzehn
Jahr doch alt.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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--
Be welcome,
strangers
both, and pass below
My lintel.
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Euripides - Electra |
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O'er the roof of the helmet high, a ridge,
wound with wires, kept ward o'er the head,
lest the relict-of-files {15c} should fierce invade,
sharp in the strife, when that
shielded
hero
should go to grapple against his foes.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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CXXXI
Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,
As those whose
beauties
proudly make them cruel;
For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart
Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thy God in vain shall call thee if by my strong power
I can infuse my dear revenge into his glowing breast
Then
jealousy
shall shadow all his mountains & Ahania
Curse thee thou plague of woful Los & seek revenge on thee
So saying in deep sobs he languishd till dead he also fell
Night passd & Enitharmon eer the dawn returnd in bliss
She sang Oer Los reviving him to Life his groans were terrible
But thus she sang.
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Blake - Zoas |
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VII
Happily now on
classical
soil I feel inspiration.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
"What
rascals?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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God from His holy seat, in calm of unarmed power,
Brings forth the deed, at its
appointed
hour!
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Aeschylus |
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They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care
They pursued it with forks and hope;
They
threatened
its life with a railway-share;
They charmed it with smiles and soap.
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Lewis Carroll |
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e accusour
to be
destourbed
schal cese.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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For Heaven's and man's esteem
If still he keep, the praise is due to us,
Whom in its thankless pride his blind rage
censures
thus!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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der Teufel ist ein Egoist
Und tut nicht leicht um Gottes willen,
Was einem andern
nutzlich
ist.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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For [this] Fortune that I of telle,
With men whan hir lust to dwelle,
Makith hem to lese hir conisaunce, 5465
And
nourishith
hem in ignoraunce.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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[2] Several of the Lakes in the north of England are let out to
different Fishermen, in parcels marked out by
imaginary
lines
drawn from rock to rock.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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[Footnote 1: Natural
daughter
of Prince Charles Edward.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And who hath said
There should be
likeness
in a brother's tread
And sister's?
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Euripides - Electra |
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One half-hour
completes
the breach; and thy lord grows wild of speech--
Get thee in, sweet lady, and pray!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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So perfectly is the
supernatural
element welded
with the human, that it almost ceases to appear supernatural.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Jesus
preserve
your royal Majesty!
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Shakespeare |
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S'il est immuable, de quel droit pretendrions-nous faire
changer ses
decrets?
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Shelley |
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received
the work electronically, the person or entity
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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For each
ecstatic
instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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When all my mind I turn to the one part
Where sheds my lady's face its
beauteous
light,
And lingers in my loving thought the light
That burns and racks within me ev'ry part,
I from my heart who fear that it may part,
And see the near end of my single light,
Go, as a blind man, groping without light,
Who knows not where yet presses to depart.
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Petrarch |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Had Lycius liv'd to hand his story down,
He might have given the moral a fresh frown,
Or clench'd it quite: but too short was their bliss
To breed
distrust
and hate, that make the soft voice hiss.
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Keats - Lamia |
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FIRST SCHOLAR: Worthy Faustus, methinks your looks are
changed!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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30, qui quamuis annum quo
scriptus
est prae se non ferat, aut eiusdem
est aeui cum Germanensi, aut certe anno 1400 non recentior.
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Latin - Catullus |
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390
What spell drew him to that
formidable
shore?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The
wandering
airs they faint
On the dark, the silent stream--
The champak odours fail
Like sweet thoughts in a dream;
The nightingale's complaint,
It dies upon her heart,
As I must on thine,
Oh, beloved as thou art!
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Golden Treasury |
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" KAU}
Severe the labour, female slaves the mortar trod oppressed
Twelve halls after the names of his twelve sons composd
The golden
wondrous
building & three [centr f[orm]] Central Domes after the Names {Erdman posits that Blake erased the words "centr f[orm]" and replaced them with "Central Domes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Cut it into the shape of
ordinary
cutlets, and serve up in a clean
table-cloth or dinner-napkin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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CXXXII
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,
Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain,
Have put on black and loving
mourners
be,
Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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No long
discourse
together may we have;
Full well I know, Charles waits not our attack,
I take the glove from you, in spite of that.
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Chanson de Roland |
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, New York
CONTEMPORARY
VERSE
offers a particularly remarkable series of poems for
the year 1917.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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4515
For how shuld I
evermore
him seen?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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till nothing can I see
But the blind walls enclosing me,
And no sound and no motion hear
But the vague water throbbing near,
Sole voice upon the
darkening
hill
Where all is blank and dead and still.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
At the same moment
resounded
wild war cries.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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[End of the Second Night]
Ahania heard the
Lamentation
& a swift Vibration
Spread thro her Golden frame.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Seafarers say how stands this hall,
of
buildings
best, for your band of thanes
empty and idle, when evening sun
in the harbor of heaven is hidden away.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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In the Highlands of
Scotland
may
still be gleaned some relics of the old songs about Cuthullin and
Fingal.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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* * * * *
But let me pause or ere I cover
All my
treasures
darkly over:
I will speak not in thine ears,
Only tell my beaded tears
Silently, most silently.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Two Truths are told,
As happy Prologues to the swelling Act
Of the
Imperiall
Theame.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Of the dragon who,
crouching
in forest green glen,
Lies in wait for the unwary--
Of the maid who was freed by her knight from the den
Of the ogre, whose club was uplifted, but then
Turned aside by the wand of a fairy?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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what a knight, were he a
Christian
yet!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Where, oh where, Blesus, hast thou thrown his
unoffending
and mangled
corpse?
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Tacitus |
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Who late and
lingering
seeks thy shrine,
On him but seldom, Power divine,
Thy spirit rests!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"This pedal strikes out in the air:
My
instrument
has room to bear
Still fuller strains and perfecter.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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By which means it happens that what they have
discredited
and
impugned in one week, they have before or after extolled the same in
another.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And did the
Ninevite
demon treat with them?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Your feet cut steel on the paths,
I
followed
for the strength
of life and grasp.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A moment in the British camp--
A moment--and away
Back to the
pathless
forest,
Before the peep of day.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The
frequent
stone is hurled where eer they go;
When badgers fight, then every one's a foe.
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John Clare |
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I reached
Uglich, repair unto the holy minster,
Hear mass, and, glowing with zealous soul, I weep
Sweetly, as if the
blindness
from mine eyes
Were flowing out in tears.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The old man said he was born and reared in the
District
of Hsin-f?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And
everything
else is still.
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blake-poems |
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A room of state
Enter two or three
MURDERERS
running over the stage,
from the murder of DUKE HUMPHREY
FIRST MURDERER.
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Shakespeare |
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O
2
_antistans_
Auantius: _antistas_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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They have their stereotyped
smile and their
fashionable
mauve.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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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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So in your freshness, so in all your first newness,
When earth and heaven both honoured your loveliness,
The Fates
destroyed
you, and you are but dust below.
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Ronsard |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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--and who shall stand
Amid the rocking
earthquake
steadfast still, _790
But Laon?
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Shelley |
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After a passage of what we feel to be
true poetry, there follows, inevitably, a passage of platitude which no
critical prejudgment can force us to admire; but if, upon completing
the work, we read it again, omitting the first book--that is to say,
commencing with the second--we shall be surprised at now finding
that admirable which we before condemned--that
damnable
which we had
previously so much admired.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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is tyme
twelmonyth
take at ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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They will confess they are
offended
with their manner of living
like enough; who is not?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
I smile, of course,
And go on
drinking
tea.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Wherfore to geten more and more
He set his herte and his desire; 5705
So hote he
brennith
in the fire
Of coveitise, that makith him wood
To purchase other mennes good.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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says Jack, On that sweet kiss,
Which full of nectar and
ambrosia
is,
The food of poets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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MARVOIL Notes
The
Personae
arc :
Arnaut of Marvoil, a troubadour, date 1170-1200.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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He seem'd a stripling in his prime,
His cheeks cloath'd only with their
earliest
down,
For youth is then most graceful; fast he lock'd 340
His hand in mine, and thus, familiar, spake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Fortunate
they
Who, though once only and then but far away,
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
| Guess: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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In the
mythical
poem, _Kings in Legends_, this
concrete element in the art of Rilke has found perhaps its supreme
expression:
"Kings in old legends seem
Like mountains rising in the evening light.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Free from the world I would a
prisoner
be
And my own shadow all my company;
And lonely see the shooting stars appear,
Worlds rushing into judgment all the year.
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The enclosed ballad
on that business is, I confess, too local, but I laughed myself at
some conceits in it, though I am
convinced
in my conscience that there
are a good many heavy stanzas in it too.
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Robert Forst |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Johns, who known to reader* Contemporary Verse as the
author "The Dance," "The Mad woman" and "The Interpreter", a poet who sees life clearly and
whose lyric gift has grown
stronger
from year to year, with his philos ophy life.
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The mouth cannot be sure
Of tasting anything in its bite
Unless your
princely
lover cares
In that mighty brush of hair
To breathe out, like a diamond,
The cry of Glory stifled there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The
kingfisher
flies like an arrow, and wounds the air.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Silly rich peasants stamp the carpets of men,
Dead men who dreamed fragrance and light
Into their woof, their lives;
The rug of an honest bear
Under the feet of a cryptic slave
Who speaks always of baubles,
Forgetting state, multitude, work, and state,
Champing
and mouthing of hats,
Making ratful squeak of hats,
Hats.
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Stephen Crane |
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It had become absolutely necessary
that the classification of the
citizens
should be revised.
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