Nisus had a purple hair
and so long as it was
untouched
he was unconquerable.
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And sometimes into cities she would send
Her dream, with feast and rioting to blend;
And once, while among mortals dreaming thus,
She saw the young Corinthian Lycius
Charioting
foremost
in the envious race,
Like a young Jove with calm uneager face,
And fell into a swooning love of him.
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Keats - Lamia |
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I am much hurried
at present,
otherwise
your diligence, so very friendly in my
subscription, should have a more lengthened acknowledgment from,
Dear Sir,
Your obliged servant,
R.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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I have often told you, my dear friend, that you had a spice of caprice
in your composition, and you have as often disavowed it; even perhaps
while your
opinions
were, at the moment, irrefragably proving it.
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Robert Burns |
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Now even the cattle court the cooling shade
And the green lizard hides him in the thorn:
Now for tired mowers, with the fierce heat spent,
Pounds
Thestilis
her mess of savoury herbs,
Wild thyme and garlic.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Methought
he fronted me with peering look
Fix'd on my heart; and read aloud in game
The loves and griefs therein, as from a book:
And uttered praise like one who wished to blame.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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211 I am]
I'm; grammatical changes, sometimes of
doubtful
correctness: e.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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And whenever a goblet thereof I drain,
The old rhyme keeps running in my brain;
At Bacharach on the Rhine,
At
Hochheim
on the Main,
And at Wurzburg on the Stein,
Grow the three best kinds of wine!
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Longfellow |
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"
Towns and countries woo together,
Forelands
beacon, belfries call;
Never lad that trod on leather
Lived to feast his heart with all.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I despised myself and the voices of my
accursed
human education.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Can it be a shade shall tear from me the purple,
A sound deprive my children of
succession?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Was she not
So honoured--and conspicuously there,
Where meaner relics must not dare to rot,
Placed to
commemorate
a more than mortal lot?
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[104] 395
Then the milk-thistle
flourished
through the land,
And forced the full-swoln udder to demand,
Thrice every day, the pail and welcome hand.
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William Wordsworth |
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Kilmarnock
lang may grunt an' grane,
An' sigh, an' sob, an' greet her lane,
An' cleed her bairns, man, wife, an wean,
In mourning weed;
To death, she's dearly paid the kane,
Tam Samson's dead!
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Robert Burns |
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A shadowless spirit kept the gate,
Blank and
unchanging
like the grave.
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Christina Rossetti |
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STREET CRIES
When dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky,
Rousing the world to labour's various cry,
To tend the flock, to bind the mellowing grain,
From ardent toil to forge a little gain,
And fasting men go forth on
hurrying
feet,
BUY BREAD, BUY BREAD, rings down the eager street.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Poi ch'ebbe
sospirando
il capo mosso,
<>, disse, <
sanza cagion con li altri sarei mosso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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,
Who sent my
favorite
pipe to me.
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James Russell Lowell |
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'
Higher far into the pure realm,
Over sun and star,
Over the
flickering
Daemon film,
Thou must mount for love;
Into vision where all form
In one only form dissolves;
In a region where the wheel
On which all beings ride
Visibly revolves;
Where the starred, eternal worm
Girds the world with bound and term;
Where unlike things are like;
Where good and ill,
And joy and moan,
Melt into one.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Why, nothing, only,
Your inference
therefrom!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Of
differing
themes the veering song was mix'd;
And now it courted Love, now raving call'd on Hate.
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Golden Treasury |
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Nay, had I powre, I should
Poure the sweet Milke of Concord, into Hell,
Vprore the
vniuersall
peace, confound
All vnity on earth
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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It is
scarcely
two months
since I came back from the grave: is it worth while to be anything
but radiantly glad?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He saw, therefore, with satisfaction that there was no
power in Italy to protract
hostilities
by strengthening the coalition.
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Petrarch |
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Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life,
The middle Tree and highest there that grew,
Sat like a Cormorant; yet not true Life
Thereby regaind, but sat
devising
Death
To them who liv'd; nor on the vertue thought
Of that life-giving Plant, but only us'd
For prospect, what well us'd had bin the pledge 200
Of immortalitie.
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Milton |
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"
Yet, in his triumph, the
chieftain
made wail:
"Slain is the craftsman, the one friend alone
Able to honor the man who creates.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine, soldiers of worth,
Nor Germany with other
warriors
graced.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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" "They are also bound to grind their corn
at the _moulin banal_, or the lord's mill, where one
fourteenth
part
of it is taken for his use" as toll.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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>>
L'orage t'a sacree supreme poesie;
L'immense
remuement
des forces te secourt;
Ton oeuvre bout, la mort gronde, Cite choisie!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Ah,
masquerader!
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Imagists |
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XXVI
Right glad were all the Romans
Who, in that hour of dread,
Against great odds bare up the war
Around
Valerius
dead,
When from the south the cheering
Rose with a mighty swell;
"Herminius comes, Herminius,
Who kept the bridge so well!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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If merely a salute her wish had been,
She might have had it, easily was seen;
But bliss
unbounded
clearly was her view,
And this with anxious ardour she'd pursue.
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La Fontaine |
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"
THE TWO LOCKS OF HAIR
BY GUSTAV PFIZER
A youth, light-hearted and content,
I wander through the world
Here, Arab-like, is pitched my tent
And
straight
again is furled.
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Longfellow |
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Thou drawest breath
Even now, long past thy
portioned
hour of death,
By murdering her .
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told
suggesting
her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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Lov'st not good
company?
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Sidney Lanier |
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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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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Keats |
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s second year, autumn, first day of the month, an
adjusted
eighth,2 I, Master Du, was to set off on a journey north, 4 over vast uncertain space to see my family.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And there we stood in silence,
And waited with a frown,
To greet with bloody welcome
The
bulldogs
of the Crown.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The latest sitter leaves him standing far in the night,
prepared
to
live right on, while suns rise and set, and his "good-night" has as
brisk a sound as his "good-morning;" and the earliest riser finds him
tasting his liquors in the bar ere flies begin to buzz, with a
countenance fresh as the morning star over the sanded floor,--and not
as one who had watched all night for travelers.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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If I might teach thee wit, better it were,
Though not to love, yet, love to tell me so;--
As testy sick men, when their deaths be near,
No news but health from their physicians know;--
For, if I should despair, I should grow mad,
And in my madness might speak ill of thee;
Now this ill-wresting world is grown so bad,
Mad slanderers by mad ears
believed
be.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Not only was this the case in Caecina's camp, who blamed
his men as being readier for mutiny than for battle, but the troops
under Fabius Valens, who had now reached Ticinum,[273] lost their
contempt for the enemy, conceived a desire to retrieve their glory,
and offered their general a more
respectful
and steady obedience.
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Tacitus |
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THE TWO FOUNTS
STANZAS
ADDRESSED
TO A LADY [MRS.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Questo
passammo
come terra dura;
per sette porte intrai con questi savi:
giugnemmo in prato di fresca verdura.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Wherefor they nowise deign our human assemblies to visit,
Nor do they suffer
themselves
be met in light of the day-tide.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The
invisible
worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
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blake-poems |
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Regarded
as god of light, 157,
1 ff.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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To tell you that which was not told before,
Melissa was the sage enchantress' name:
Who to Rogero now her purpose said,
And told with what design she thither sped:
LXVII
Dispatched by her, who him in anxious pain
Desires, nor longer can without him be,
With the intent to loose him from the chain
Wherewith he was begirt by sorcery;
And had put on, more
credence
to obtain,
Atlantes de Carena's form; but she,
Seeing his health restored, now willed the youth,
Through her should hear and see the very truth.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
A new light rises 'neath the evening star,
A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The porter of my father's lodge
As much
abasheth
me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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TITYRUS
Sooner shall light stags, therefore, feed in air,
The seas their fish leave naked on the strand,
Germans and
Parthians
shift their natural bounds,
And these the Arar, those the Tigris drink,
Than from my heart his face and memory fade.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy
highways
where I went
And cannot come again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And after seven moons, one day a soothsayer looked at me, and he
said to my mother, "Your son will be a
statesman
and a great leader
of men.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Twenty days ahead of the Indian, twenty years ahead of the white
man,
At last the Indian
overtook
him, at last the Indian hurried past
him;
At last the white man overtook him, at last the white man hurried
past him;
At last his own trees overtook him, at last his own trees hurried
past him.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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' 5
LIII cum LII
continuant
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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"The
House," which
appeared
in the first volume of _Poems_, and "Nemesis,"
"Una," "Love and Thought" and "Merlin's Songs," from the _May-Day_
volume, have been restored.
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Emerson - Poems |
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in to exp{er}ience of hem self by aspre {and}
sorweful
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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With strong repast to hearten every band;
But let the presents to
Achilles
made,
In full assembly of all Greece be laid.
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Iliad - Pope |
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If his own
statement was true, his charms of manner and
conversation
were so
great that he needed constant surveillance.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Why him with thee should thy dear light
surround?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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" Lamb, who tells us how Coleridge repeated it "so enchantingly
that it
irradiates
and brings heaven and elysian bowers into my parlour
when he says or sings it to me," doubted whether it would "bear daylight.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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" I think that the farmer
displaces
the Indian even
because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in
some respects more natural.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Then in the brazen helm the lots we throw,
And fortune casts
Eurylochus
to go;
He march'd with twice eleven in his train;
Pensive they march, and pensive we remain.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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THE HARLOT'S HOUSE
WE caught the tread of dancing feet,
We
loitered
down the moonlit street,
And stopped beneath the harlot's house.
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Wilde - Poems |
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SYMBOLS
From infinite longings finite deeds rise
As
fountains
spring toward far-off glowing skies,
But rushing swiftly upward weakly bend
And trembling from their lack of power descend--
So through the falling torrent of our fears
Our joyous force leaps like these dancing tears.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Buckingham's father was Sir George Villiers of
Brooksby
in
Leicestershire.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But the
black and green clothes fell away
wherever
his fingers touched them,
and while this was a new wonder, a slight wind blew over the pool and
crumbled the old man of learning and all his ancient gear into a little
heap of dust, and then made the little heap less and less until there
was nothing but the smooth green grass.
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Yeats |
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I'll have it torn
From its vile
babbling
roots, till you shall utter
Nothing but sobs through blood, for this!
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The land was scarred with deeds not good,
Like the
fretting
of worms on withered wood.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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He was
emotionally
and artistically unable to forge a finished work from them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Sprenger's Oriental Catalogue) speaks of Omar as "a Free-thinker, and
a great opponent of Sufism;" perhaps because, while holding much of
their Doctrine, he would not pretend to any
inconsistent
severity of
morals.
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Our Life
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
We know in pairs we will know all about us
We'll love everything our children will smile
At the dark history or mourn alone
Uninterrupted Poetry
From the sea to the source
From mountain to plain
Runs the phantom of life
The foul shadow of death
But between us
A dawn of ardent flesh is born
And exact good
that sets the earth in order
We advance with calm step
And nature salutes us
The day embodies our colours
Fire our eyes the sea our union
And all living resemble us
All the living we love
Imaginary the others
Wrong and defined by their birth
But we must struggle against them
They live by dagger blows
They speak like a broken chair
Their lips tremble with joy
At the echo of leaden bells
At the muteness of dark gold
A lone heart not a heart
A lone heart all the hearts
And the bodies every star
In a sky filled with stars
In a career in movement
Of light and of glances
Our weight shines on the earth
Glaze of desire
To sing of human shores
For you the living I love
And for all those that we love
That have no desire but to love
I'll end truly by barring the road
Afloat with enforced dreams
I'll end truly by finding myself
We'll take possession of earth
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I speak to you over cities
Easy and beautiful under
Between all my torments between death and self
She is standing on my eyelids
In one corner agile incest
For the splendour of the day of happinesses in the air
After years of wisdom
Run and run towards deliverance
Life is truly kind
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
A face at the end of the day
By the road of ways
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
Adieu Tristesse
Woman I've lived with
Fertile Eyes
I said it to you for the clouds
It's the sweet law of men
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
On my
notebooks
from school
I have passed the doors of coldness
I am in front of this feminine land
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
From the sea to the source
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The Word
Your Orange Hair in the Void of the World
Nusch
Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
I Only Wish to Love You
The World is Blue As an Orange
We Have Created the Night
Even When We Sleep
To Marc Chagall
Air Vif
Certitude
We two
'At Dawn I Love You'
'She Looks Into Me.
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So
moveless
in time past,
Hath Fortune girded up her loins at last?
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Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made,
additional
rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address.
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dum struere
inmodice
quod tenet optat, eget.
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If this
interpretation
be correct
the preterite _edir_ is established.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of
damages.
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With scented breeze, with
flowered
flame,
She touched the earth and took her name
Of May, Rose.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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[Footnote 4: Burchan's
Domestic
Medicine.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Minunthadion--hokymorotatos: those are the
imporportant
words;
key-words, they might be called.
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Ardor
animi non semper adest, isque cum consedit, omnis illa vis, et quasi
flamma
oratoris
extinguitur.
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Tacitus |
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Apollinaire's Notes to the Bestiary
Admire the vital power
And
nobility
of line:
It praises the line that forms the images, marvellous ornaments to this poetic entertainment.
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secret
whispring
in my Ear
In secret of soft wings.
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Blake - Zoas |
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It is
therefore likely that the Censors and Pontiffs, when they had
resolved to add a grand procession of knights to the other
solemnities annually
performed
on the Ides of Quintilis, would
call in the aid of a poet.
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Yong fry of
Treachery?
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Shall I have faith in this
perilous
thing?
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In A New Night
Woman I've lived with
Woman I live with
Woman I'll live with
Always the same
You need a red cloak
Red gloves a red mask
And dark stockings
The reasons the proofs
Of seeing you quite naked
Nudity pure O ready finery
Breasts O my heart
Fertile Eyes
Fertile Eyes
No one can know me more
More than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
The two of them
Have cast a spell on my male orbs
Greater than worldly nights
Your eyes where I voyage
Have given the road-signs
Directions
detached
from the earth
In your eyes those that show us
Our infinite solitude
Is no more than they think exists
No one can know me more
More than you know me.
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Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
F alse beauty that costs me so dear,
R ough indeed, a hypocrite sweetness,
A mor, like iron on the teeth and harder,
N amed only to achieve my sure distress,
C harm that's murderous, poor heart's death,
O covert pride that sends men to ruin,
I mplacable eyes, won't true redress
S uccour a poor man, without
crushing?
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In the
foulness
of earth
Thou all wearest away
Like to the loam!
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`Graunt mercy, goode myn, y-wis,' quod she, 1660
`And blisful Venus lat me never sterve
Er I may stonde of
plesaunce
in degree
To quyte him wel, that so wel can deserve;
And whyl that god my wit wol me conserve,
I shal so doon, so trewe I have yow founde, 1665
That ay honour to me-ward shal rebounde.
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