Cast off then his corselet of iron,
helmet from head; to his
henchman
gave, --
choicest of weapons, -- the well-chased sword,
bidding him guard the gear of battle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Some day I'll show thee how thou may'st procure
The means that will thy happiness insure,
And make thee feel
contented
as a king.
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La Fontaine |
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For
frequent
tears have run
The colours from my life, and left so dead
And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done
To give the same as pillow to thy head.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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But let its fortune be what it will, mine
is happy enough, to have given me this occasion of
assuring
you that I
am, with the truest esteem, Madam,
Your most obedient, Humble Servant,
A.
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Alexander Pope |
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Strangely
enough, Pushkin appeared anxious to
deceive the public as to the real cause of his sudden disappearance
from the capital; for in an Ode to Ovid composed about this time
he styles himself a "voluntary exile.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Li Po |
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Every
wayfarer
he meets
What himself declared repeats,
What himself confessed records,
Sentences him in his words;
The form is his own corporal form,
And his thought the penal worm.
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Emerson - Poems |
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you, a pack of
thieves!
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Hugo - Poems |
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We'll
properly
equip you as a belle,
And I will certainly reward you well.
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La Fontaine |
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Descending
geese float on cold waters, 4 hungry crows roost on the tower of a fort.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
and he knew that it was mine, --
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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blake-poems |
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Did Bacchus yield to Reason's voice divine,
Bacchus the cause of Lusus' sons would join,
Lusus, the lov'd
companion
of his cares,
His earthly toils, his dangers, and his wars:
But envy still a foe to worth will prove,
To worth, though guarded by the arm of Jove.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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You to your beauteous
blessings
add a curse,
Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The tops are each a shining square
Shuttles that
steadily
press through woolly fabric.
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Imagists |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I imagine to myself the scowl of your
spiritual
eye upon
the profanity of that scurrilous Ursa Major.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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XXXIV
Why didst thou promise such a
beauteous
day,
And make me travel forth without my cloak,
To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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50
I am not growne up, for thy riper parts,
Then should I praise thee, through the Tongues, and Arts,
And have that deepe Divinity, to know,
What
mysteries
did from thy preaching flow,
Who with thy words could charme thy audience, 55
That at thy sermons, eare was all our sense;
Yet have I seene thee in the pulpit stand,
Where wee might take notes, from thy looke, and hand;
And from thy speaking action beare away
More Sermon, then some teachers use to say.
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John Donne |
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And thus we rust Life's iron chain
Degraded
and alone:
And some men curse, and some men weep,
And some men make no moan:
But God's eternal Laws are kind
And break the heart of stone.
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Wilde - Poems |
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gif
him
þyslīcu
þearf gelumpe, 2638; pret.
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Beowulf |
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THE
PRINCESS
ELIZABETH.
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Tennyson |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Joy to Admetus, Lord of
Thessaly!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Ye icy Springs, stagnant with wrinkling frost,
Which
vibrated
to hear me, and then crept
Shuddering through India!
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Shelley |
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' I doubt indeed if the crude
circumstance of the world, which seems to create all our emotions, does
more than reflect, as in multiplying mirrors, the
emotions
that have
come to solitary men in moments of poetical contemplation; or that
love itself would be more than an animal hunger but for the poet and
his shadow the priest, for unless we believe that outer things are the
reality, we must believe that the gross is the shadow of the subtle,
that things are wise before they become foolish, and secret before they
cry out in the market-place.
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Yeats |
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slow sweet sighs
Torn from the bosom, silent wails, the birth
Of such long-treasured tears as pain his eyes,
Who, waking, hears the divine solicitudes
Of
midnight
with ineffable purport charged.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Du fingst mit einem
heimlich
an
Bald kommen ihrer mehre dran,
Und wenn dich erst ein Dutzend hat,
So hat dich auch die ganze Stadt.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He sits in a beautiful parlor,
With
hundreds
of books on the wall;
He drinks a great deal of Marsala,
But never gets tipsy at all.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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But Rienzo was fallen
irrecoverably, and
Petrarch
now desired as ardently to see the Emperor
in Italy, as ever he had sighed for the success of the Tribune.
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Petrarch |
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I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some
infinitely
gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
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T.S. Eliot |
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His
dwindled
body half awry,
Rests upon ancles swoln and thick;
His legs are thin and dry.
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William Wordsworth |
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It
is said that the sacrilegious British
soldiers
made a target of the
stone during the war of Independence.
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James Russell Lowell |
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How was the distress which
these changes
involved
to be met?
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Byron |
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Then swift as wind, o'er Lemnos' smoky isle
They wing their way, and Imbrus' sea-beat soil;
Through air, unseen,
involved
in darkness glide,
And light on Lectos, on the point of Ide:
(Mother of savages, whose echoing hills
Are heard resounding with a hundred rills:)
Fair Ida trembles underneath the god;
Hush'd are her mountains, and her forests nod.
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Iliad - Pope |
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exercent
memores obita iam morte dolores.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Out of the window
perilously
spread
Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was
transparent
as a needle
Was it cooing about something else?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
From the proud, pale east the patient morning
Glimmered
sadly on million rooves.
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Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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From murderous
Epigrams
flee,
Cruel Wit and Laughter impure
That brings tears to the high Azure,
And all that base garlic cuisine!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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ten
thousand
times I'd rather
That he had died, that cruel father!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old person of Pisa,
Whose
daughters
did nothing to please her;
She dressed them in gray, and banged them all day,
Round the walls of the city of Pisa.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Could the
passionate
past that is fled
Call back its dead,
Could we live it all over again,
Were it worth the pain!
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Wilde - Poems |
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The sky is gray, gray:
And the steppe wide, wide:
Over grass that the wind has
battered
low
Sheep and oxen roam.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with
automatic
hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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To Walpole then Chatterton
addressed a short letter enclosing some verses by John a Iscam and
a manuscript on the _Ryse of
Peyncteyning
yn Englande wroten by T.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Ab la dolchor del temps novel
Out of the
sweetness
of the spring,
The branches leaf, the small birds sing,
Each one chanting in its own speech,
Forming the verse of its new song,
Then is it good a man should reach
For that for which he most does long.
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Troubador Verse |
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Then clubs an' hearts were Charlie's cartes,
He swept the stakes awa', man,
Till the diamond's ace, of Indian race,
Led him a sair _faux pas_, man;
The Saxon lads, wi' loud placads,
On Chatham's boy did ca', man;
An'
Scotland
drew her pipe, an' blew,
"Up, Willie, waur them a', man!
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Robert Burns |
|
Hard strove the frightened maiden, and screamed with look aghast;
And at her scream from right and left the folk came running fast;
The money-changer Crispus, with his thin silver hairs,
And Hanno from the stately booth
glittering
with Punic wares,
And the strong smith Muraena, grasping a half-forged brand,
And Volero the flesher, his cleaver in his hand.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Down through the world
Of infinite mourning, and along the mount
From whose fair height my lady's eyes did lift me,
And after through this heav'n from light to light,
Have I learnt that, which if I tell again,
It may with many
woefully
disrelish;
And, if I am a timid friend to truth,
I fear my life may perish among those,
To whom these days shall be of ancient date.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
XLI
Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,
When I am
sometime
absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty, and thy years full well befits,
For still temptation follows where thou art.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And some have been who could believe,[hi]
(So fondly
youthful
dreams deceive, 1190
Yet harsh be they that blame,)
That note so piercing and profound
Will shape and syllable[191] its sound
Into Zuleika's name.
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Byron |
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Then Sir
Percival
answered:
"It was the sweet vision of the Holy Grail.
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Tennyson |
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And while in peace cows eat, and chew their cuds,
Moozing cool sheltered neath the skirting woods,
To double uses they the hours convert,
Turning the toils of labour into sport;
Till morn's long streaking shadows lose their tails,
And cooling winds swoon into faultering gales;
And searching sunbeams warm and sultry creep,
Waking the teazing insects from their sleep;
And dreaded gadflies with their drowsy hum
On the burnt wings of mid-day zephyrs come,--
Urging each lown to leave his sports in fear,
To stop his
starting
cows that dread the fly;
Droning unwelcome tidings on his ear,
That the sweet peace of rural morn's gone by.
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John Clare |
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9 Gradually aging, how can I at this parting 52 hold back tears, alone keeping
feelings
within?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I was among the tribe,
Who rest suspended, when a dame, so blest
And lovely, I besought her to command,
Call'd me; her eyes were brighter than the star
Of day; and she with gentle voice and soft
Angelically tun'd her speech address'd:
"O
courteous
shade of Mantua!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Send me far into Thy barren land
Where the snow clouds the wild wind drives,
Where
monasteries
like gray shrouds stand--
August symbols of unlived lives.
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Rilke - Poems |
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They who figured as guests on that ultimate eve,
In their turn on the morrow were
destined
to give
To the lions their food;
For, behold, in the guise of a slave at that board,
Where his victims enjoyed all that life can afford,
Death administering stood.
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Hugo - Poems |
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You must
consider
the next from the native point of view.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning
striding
behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Index of First Lines
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've gathered this sprig of heather
The strollers in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my abandoned youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the
expected
guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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OSWALD Is it
possible?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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MARMADUKE This
Daughter
of yours
Is very dear to you.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I have given the first lines of the poems, the incipits, as Occitan
headings
(one only is in Latin), so that a quick search on the Web for the line, remembering to enclose it in double quotes, will usually turn up the original text for those who need to see it.
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Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Theseus
Oenone is dead: and you wish to die,
Phaedra?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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So, forth he goeth, making a
noise like a cart-wheel; and if he have any young ones in his nest,
they pull off his load
wherewithal
he is loaded, eating thereof what
they please, and laying up the residue for the time to come.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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TO HIS BROTHER,
NICHOLAS
HERRICK.
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Robert Herrick |
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Here Agamemnonian Halaesus, foe of the Trojan name, yokes his chariot
horses, and draws a
thousand
warlike peoples to Turnus; those who turn
with spades the Massic soil that is glad with wine; whom the elders of
Aurunca sent from their high hills, and the Sidicine low country
[728-761]hard by; and those who leave Cales, and the dweller by the
shallows of Volturnus river, and side by side the rough Saticulan and
the Oscan bands.
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Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Hence
evermore
Gradasso had opined,
The gentle baron was of craven kind.
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Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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This I know: in death all silently
He does a kindlier thing,
In
beckoning
pilgrim feet
With marble finger high
To where, by shadowy wall and history-haunted street,
Those matchless singers lie .
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Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Then Murray on the auld grey yaud,
Wi' winged spurs did ride,
That auld grey yaud a'
Nidsdale
rade,
He staw upon Nidside.
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Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)
Guillaume
Apollinaire
'Guillaume Apollinaire'
Guillaume Apollinaire - Wybor Poezji", Zak?
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Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
655
Mid
muttering
prayers all sounds of torment meet,
Dire clap of hands, distracted chafe of feet,
While loud and dull ascends the weeping cry,
Surely in other thoughts contempt may die.
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Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were
climbing
all the while
Till when they reached the other side,
A dominie in gray
Put gently up the evening bars,
And led the flock away.
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Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A populous solitude of bees and birds,
And fairy-formed and many
coloured
things,
Who worship him with notes more sweet than words,
And innocently open their glad wings,
Fearless and full of life: the gush of springs,
And fall of lofty fountains, and the bend
Of stirring branches, and the bud which brings
The swiftest thought of beauty, here extend,
Mingling, and made by Love, unto one mighty end.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"For if indeed Julian had caused all those that were under his dominion
to be richer than Midas, and each of the cities greater than Babylon
once was, and had also surrounded each of them with a golden wall, but
had corrected none of the
existing
errors respecting divinity, he would
have acted in a manner similar to a physician, who receiving a body
full of evils in each of its parts, should cure all of them except the
eyes.
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Tacitus |
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Free us, for without be goodly colours, Green of the wood-moss and flower-colours, And
coolness
beneath the trees.
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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In fact the
satyr stands between
Gilgamish
and Ishara(?
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Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Il faut que le gibier paye le vieux chasseur
Qui se morfond
longtemps
a l'affut de la proie.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The
sweetest
vintage at last turns sour;
The full moon in the end begins to wane.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The work here mentioned, his
J^cclesiasttcal
Polity, was published in the year 1670.
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Marvell - Poems |
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" Lycius replied,
'Tis
Apollonius
sage, my trusty guide
And good instructor; but to-night he seems
The ghost of folly haunting my sweet dreams.
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Keats - Lamia |
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onkke3,
[B] "I haf
soiorned
sadly, sele yow bytyde,
& he 3elde hit yow 3are, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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darkning
in the West
Lost!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Pug, in a
sense, represents a
satirical
trend.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The French Text
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UN COUP DE DES JAMAIS, QUAND BIEN MEME LANCE DANS DES CIRCONSTANCES ETERNELLES DU FOND D'UN NAUFRAGE, Soit que l'Abime blanchi, etale, furieux sous une inclinaison planche desesperement d'aile, la sienne, par avance retombee d'un mal a dresser le vol et couvrant les jaillissements, coupant au ras les bonds tres a l'interieur resume l'ombre enfouie dans la profondeur, par cette voile alternative jusqu'adapter sa beante profondeur entant que la coque d'un batiment penche de l'un ou l'autre bord
LE MAITRE, hors d'anciens calculs, ou la manoeuvre avec l'age oubliee surgi jadis, il empoignait la barre inferant de cette configuration a ses pieds de l'horizon unanime, que se prepare s'agite et mele au poing qui l'etreindrait, comme on menace un destin et les vents, l'unique Nombre, qui ne peut pas etre un autre Esprit, pour le jeter dans la tempete en reployer la division et passer fier; hesite, cadavre par le bras ecarte du secret qu'il detient plutot que de jouer, en maniaque: chenu la partie au nom des flots, un envahit le chef, coule en barbe, soumise naufrage, cela direct de l'homme sans nef, n'importe ou vaine
ancestralement a n'ouvrir pas la main crispee par dela l'inutile tete, legs en la disparition, a quelqu'un ambigu, l'ulterieur demon immemorial, ayant de contrees nulles induit le vieillard vers cette conjonction supreme avec la probabilite, celui son ombre puerile caressee et polie et rendue et lavee assouplie par la vague, et soustraite aux durs os perdus entre les ais ne d'un ebat, la mer par l'aieul tentant ou l'aieul contre la mer, une chance oiseuse, Fiancailles dont le voile d'illusion rejailli leur hantise, ainsi que le fantome d'un geste chancellera, s'affalera, folie N'ABOLIRA
COMME SI Une insinuation simple au silence, enroulee avec ironie, ou le mystere precipite, hurle, dans quelque proche tourbillon d'hilarite et d'horreur, voltige autour du gouffre sans le joncher ni fuir et en berce le vierge indice COMME SI
plume solitaire eperdue, sauf que la rencontre ou l'effleure une toque de minuit et immobilise au velours chiffonne par un esclaffement sonore, cette blancheur rigide, derisoire en opposition au ciel, trop pour ne pas marquer exigument quiconque prince amer de l'ecueil, s'en coiffe comme de l'heroique, irresistible mais contenu par sa petite raison, virile en foudre
soucieux expiatoire et pubere muet rire que SI La lucide et seigneuriale aigrette de vertige au front invisible scintille, puis ombrage, une stature mignonne tenebreuse, debout en sa torsion de sirene, le temps de souffleter, par d'impatientes squames ultimes, bifurquees, un roc faux manoir tout de suite evapore en brumes qui imposa une borne a l'infini
C'ETAIT LE NOMBRE, issu stellaire, EXISTAT-IL autrement qu'hallucination eparse, d'agonie; COMMENCAT-IL ET CESSAT-IL,
sourdant
que nie, et clos, quand apparu enfin, par quelque profusion repandue en rarete; SE CHIFFRAT-IL evidence de la somme, pour peu qu'une; ILLUMINAT-IL, CE SERAIT, pire non davantage ni moins indifferemment mais autant, LE HASARD Choit la plume, rythmique suspens du sinistre, s'ensevelir aux ecumes originelles nagueres, d'ou sursauta son delire jusqu'a une cime fletrie par la neutralite identique du gouffre
RIEN de la memorable crise ou se fut l'evenement accompli, en vue de tout resultat nul humain, N'AURA EU LIEU, une elevation ordinaire verse l'absence QUE LE LIEU inferieur clapotis quelconque, comme pour disperser l'acte vide abruptement, qui sinon par son mensonge eut fonde la perdition, dans ces parages du vague, en quoi toute realite se dissout
EXCEPTE a l'altitude PEUT-ETRE, aussi loin qu'un endroit fusionne avec au-dela, hors l'interet quant a lui signale, en general, selon telle obliquite, par telle declivite de feux, vers ce doit etre le Septentrion aussi Nord UNE CONSTELLATION froide d'oubli et de desuetude, pas tant qu'elle n'enumere, sur quelque surface vacante et superieure, le heurt successif, sideralement, d'un compte total en formation, veillant, doutant, roulant, brillant et meditant avant de s'arreter a quelque point dernier qui le sacre Toute pensee emet un Coup de Des.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Love's veriest wretch, despairing, I
Fain, fain, my crime would cover;
Th' unweeting groan, the
bursting
sigh,
Betray the guilty lover.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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--soul," replied the metaphysician,
referring
to his MS.
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Poe - 5 |
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In the same work will be
inserted
_A Discorse on
Bristowe_, and the other historical pieces in prose, which Chatterton
at different times delivered out, as copied from Rowley's MSS.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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It would have been obviously
improper
to mimic the manner of any
particular age or country.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Moti Guj grunted and
shuffled
from foot to foot.
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Kipling - Poems |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I need only mention, as a sample, the use of the
phrase "silent tides" to
describe
the waters of a lake.
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Seeks wretched good, arraigns
successful
crimes ;
Digitized by VjOOQIC
188 THE POBMS
But thou, base man, first prostituted hast.
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Marvell - Poems |
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There prowling,
And grim under cover,
Satan is
howling!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down
Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina
Quando fiam ceu chelidon-- O swallow swallow
Le Prince d'Aquitaine a la tour abolie 430
These
fragments
I have shored against my ruins
Why then Ile fit you.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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