The
politics
are base;
The letters do not cheer;
And 'tis far in the deeps of history,
The voice that speaketh clear.
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"O'er earth (returns the prince)
resounds
thy name,
Thy well-tried wisdom, and thy martial fame,
Yet at thy words I start, in wonder lost;
Can we engage, not decades but an host?
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He passes on his Journey
to Hell Gates, finds them shut, and who sat there to guard them, by whom
at length they are op'nd, and
discover
to him the great Gulf between
Hell and Heaven; with what difficulty he passes through, directed by
Chaos the Power of that place, to the sight of this new World which he
sought.
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Greek sang and
Tcherkass
for his pleasure,
And Kergeesian captive is dancing;
In the eyes of the first heaven's azure,
And in those black of Eblis is glancing.
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Still from side to side his eyes went roaming, As in fever earnestly he moaned
Old forgotten ecstasies and
splendors
Ebbed from out my heart forevermore.
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Avec tes yeux de feu,
brillants
comme des fetes!
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For sure 'tis quite beside the mark to think
That
judgment
and the nature of the mind
In any kind of body can exist--
Just as in ether can't exist a tree,
Nor clouds in the salt sea, nor in the fields
Can fishes live, nor blood in timber be,
Nor sap in boulders: fixed and arranged
Where everything may grow and have its place.
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Verlangst
du nicht nach einem Besenstiele?
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King
You wish us to believe the
impossible?
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LUSTIGE PERSON:
Wenn ich nur nichts von
Nachwelt
horen sollte.
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And I must borrow every
changing
shape
To find expression.
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Though but a lonely way, yet mystery hangs
Oer crowds of
pastoral
scenes recordless here.
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" to her
youthful
spouse she cried,
"Wake!
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XXXVI
When I pass thy door at night
I a benediction breathe:
"Ye who have the
sleeping
world
In your care,
"Guard the linen sweet and cool, 5
Where a lovely golden head
With its dreams of mortal bliss
Slumbers now!
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And for the Grekes weren me so leve,
I com my-self in my propre persone,
To teche in this how yow was best to done;
`Havinge
un-to my tresour ne my rente 85
Right no resport, to respect of your ese.
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The spot referred to in this poem can be
identified
with perfect
accuracy.
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But--I _can_ leave them,
children
as they are,
To teach you to be less a child.
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Byron |
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[Footnote 11: Almost everything that we know of
Chatterton
in London
was ascertained by Sir H.
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And one--they called her Fame; and one,--O Mother,
How can ye keep me
tethered
to you--Shame.
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'
As in the old poetic fame
The gods are blind and lame,
And the simular despite
Betrays the more abounding might,
So call not waste that barren cone
Above the floral zone,
Where forests starve:
It is pure use;--
What sheaves like those which here we glean and bind
Of a
celestial
Ceres and the Muse?
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THE ARGUMENT OF MINE
AFFLICTED
STILE, the subject of my humble pen.
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O,
confound
the rest!
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Shakespeare |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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exclaimed
Lisa, drying her eyes.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Though
frankincense
the deities require,
_We must not give all to the hallowed fire_.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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But, if perchance thou
thinkest
that the soul,
From outward winding in its way, is wont
To seep and soak along these members ours,
Then all the more 'twill perish, being thus
With body fused--for what will seep and soak
Will be dissolved and will therefore die.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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If thy
Phoenician eyes are stayed on
Carthage
towers and thy Libyan city, what
wrong is it, I pray, that we Trojans find our rest on Ausonian land?
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To whom, sweet-slumb'ring in the shadowy gate 980
By which dreams pass,
Penelope
replied.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Their arms, their
gradations
of rank, their
order of battle, their method of intrenchment, were all of Latin
origin, and had all been gradually brought near to perfection,
not by the study of foreign models, but by the genius and
experience of many generations of great native commanders.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Person of Mold,
Who shrank from
sensations
of cold;
So he purchased some muffs, some furs, and some fluffs,
And wrapped himself well from the cold.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Mais je
poursuis
en vain le Dieu qui se retire;
L'irresistible Nuit etablit son empire,
Noire, humide, funeste et pleine de frissons;
Une odeur de tombeau dans les tenebres nage,
Et mon pied peureux froisse, au bord du marecage,
Des crapauds imprevus et de froids limacons.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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You'll find when you come to
consult the
unofficial
Briton that our fault, as a class--I speak of
the civilian now--is rather to magnify the progress that has been made
toward liberal institutions.
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Kipling - Poems |
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But with the breath which fills
Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers
With the fierce native daring which instils
The stirring memory of a
thousand
years,
And Evan's--Donald's[4.
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Aeschylus |
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Here, where on one
promiscuous
pile they blazed,
High o'er them all a general tomb be raised;
Next, to secure our camp and naval powers,
Raise an embattled wall, with lofty towers;
From space to space be ample gates around,
For passing chariots; and a trench profound.
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Iliad - Pope |
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For a brief account of Roe's life will explain some features of his
poetry, especially the vivid picture of life in London in the Satire,
'Sleep next Society,' which is strikingly different in tone, and in
the aspects of that life which are presented, from
anything
in Donne's
_Satyres_.
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John Donne |
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--As Tytler was most intimately
acquainted
with Allan Ramsay, I
think the anecdote may be depended on.
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Robert Burns |
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copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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II My late years press hard on a stolen life, coming home, the
pleasures
are few.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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then indeed
She feared his lips upon her lips would never care to feed,
And cried, 'Awake, already the pale moon
Washes the trees with silver, and the wave
Creeps grey and chilly up this sandy dune,
The croaking frogs are out, and from the cave
The
nightjar
shrieks, the fluttering bats repass,
And the brown stoat with hollow flanks creeps through the dusky grass.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'105 who thy
protection
claim':
what is the exact meaning of his phrase?
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Alexander Pope |
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of that lovely number one
Of Virgins blest and wise,
Even the first and with the brightest lamp:
O solid buckler of
afflicted
hearts!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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HE
INVEIGHS
AGAINST THE COURT OF ROME.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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420
Warm gaberdines and rugs of splendid hue
To me have odious been, since first the sight
Of Crete's snow-mantled mountain-tops I lost,
Sweeping the billows with
extended
oars.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Meredith - Poems |
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she dipt her finger into ink, and drew with it the lines
of
partition
on a map of Poland which lay before them.
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Byron |
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Look out, beyond, and see
The far horizon's
beckoning
span!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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O fickle joys, that fleet upon the wind,
And leave the
lassitude
of life behind!
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Petrarch |
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Spirit-shriven
I viewed Heaven,
Till you smiled--"Is earth unclean,
Sweetest
eyes were ever seen?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Nymph of the
unreturning
feet,
How may I win thee back?
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James Russell Lowell |
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I heard a
thousand
blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Upon a daye
I
bethoghte
me what wo
And sorwe that I suffred tho
For hir, and yet she wiste hit noght, 1185
Ne telle hir durste I nat my thoght.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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'378 the two Curlls':
Curll, the bookseller, and Lord Hervey whom Pope here couples with him
because of Hervey's vulgar abuse of Pope's
personal
deformities and
obscure parentage.
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Alexander Pope |
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The approach of evening or nightfall,
the coming of dawn, the change of the seasons, the slow changes of light
into darkness and of darkness into light, in short, the most silent yet
greatest metamorphoses in the
external
aspects of nature form the
contents of many of these first poems.
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Rilke - Poems |
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She has seen that the tears are not dry on
These cheeks, where the worm never dies,
And has come past the stars of the Lion,
To point us the path to the skies--
To the Lethean peace of the skies--
Come up, in despite of the Lion,
To shine on us with her bright eyes--
Come up, through the lair of the Lion,
With love in her
luminous
eyes.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Ach, dass Gewerb und Pflicht uns dazu
treiben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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--
An anthem for the
queenliest
dead that ever died so young--
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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V 25 of the
Assyrian
text, [7]
where Gilgamish begins to relate his dreams to his mother Ninsun.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Stay for an answer to your embassy,
Lest unadvis'd you stain your swords with blood;
My Lord
Chatillon
may from England bring
That right in peace which here we urge in war,
And then we shall repent each drop of blood
That hot rash haste so indirectly shed.
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Shakespeare |
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--In the difference of wits I have
observed there are many notes; and it is a little maistry to know them,
to discern what every nature, every
disposition
will bear; for before we
sow our land we should plough it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
Deluded swain, the pleasure
The fickle Fair can give thee,
Is but a fairy treasure,
Thy hopes will soon deceive thee:
The billows on the ocean,
The breezes idly roaming,
The cloud's
uncertain
motion,
They are but types of Woman.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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[13] Yet with all his devotion to realism in matters of petty
detail, of local color, and of
contemporary
allusion, he was, as we
have seen, not without an inclination toward allegory.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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A SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER In "Los
Pastores
de Belen.
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for she shelter'd him
From the damp and chilling air;
Blessed,
blessed!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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At the feet of Laughing Water
Down he threw his
lifeless
burden;
Nobler, handsomer she thought him,
Than when first he came to woo her,
First threw down the deer before her,
As a token of his wishes,
As a promise of the future.
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Longfellow |
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Keep a watch, watchman there, on the tower,
For your lord:
jealously
he holds power,
He's more vexing than the dawn:
While words of love we speak here.
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Troubador Verse |
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LFS}
All Love is lost Terror
succeeds
& Hatred instead of Love
And stern demands of Right & Duty instead of Liberty.
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Blake - Zoas |
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] and had first began the sedition: nor
was there any wickedness so horrid, that they had not perpetrated; nay,
at this time, neither
terrified
by the punishment, nor reclaimed by the
reformation of their fellow-soldiers, they persevered in their fury.
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Tacitus |
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I see the flowers and spreading trees
I hear the wild birds singing;
But what a weary wight can please,
And care his bosom
wringing?
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Robert Burns |
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At the awful sight
tottered that guest, and terror seized him;
yet the wretched
fugitive
rallied anon
from fright and fear ere he fled away,
and took the cup from that treasure-hoard.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Lest, perchance,
Concerning these affairs thou ponderest
In silent meditation, let me say
'Twas lightning brought
primevally
to earth
The fire for mortals, and from thence hath spread
O'er all the lands the flames of heat.
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Lucretius |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Spare your son, if
sufficient
time is left, 1170
Respect your ancestry: I dare to beg you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Those corpses of young men,
Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets, those hearts pierc'd by
the gray lead,
Cold and motionless as they seem live
elsewhere
with unslaughter'd vitality.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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XXI
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
Found no way to tame, this proud city,
That with a courage forged in adversity,
Sustained the shock of endless wars,
Though her ship, plagued at the source
By great waves, felt the world's enmity,
None ever saw the reefs of adversity
Wreak havoc on her fortunate course:
But, the object of her virtue failing,
Her power opposed its own flailing,
Like the voyager whom a cruel gale
Has long since
separated
from the shore,
Driven now by the storm's wild roar,
And shipwrecked there, when all efforts fail.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Shall I meet you next session at Simla, O
sweetest
and best of your kind?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Do you wish her named by some slanderer
As receiving the
murderer
of her father?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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'My
boldnesse
is turned to shame,
For fals Fortune hath pleyd a game
Atte ches with me, allas!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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So small they are, with
feathers
ruffled blown,
Adrift between earth desolate and leaden sky;
Nor have they ever known
Any but frozen earth, and scudding clouds on high.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The
shepherd
broke his hook and lost the skin;
He found a badger hole and bolted in.
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John Clare |
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Yet arts are thine that soothe the unquiet heart,
And smiles to
Solitude
and Want impart.
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William Wordsworth |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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[Sidenote: _While you read, see
conventions
of deer go by.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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ecce super fessas uolitat Victoria puppis;
tandem ad
Troianos
diua superba uenit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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nowe thou pottest takells[54] yn mie harte;
Mie soulghe dothe nowe begynne to see herselle;
I wylle upryse mie myghte, and doe mie parte, 280
To flea the
foemenne
yn mie furie felle.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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a8
DOWN AND OUT By
Fullerton
L.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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O
metamorphose
mystique
De tous mes sens fondus en un!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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My breath caught, I lurched forward--
stumbled
in the ground-myrtle.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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XXX
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a thousand sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till barbarous power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the
leavings
find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Let him go free, and you will get a good
ransom; but for an example and to
frighten
the rest, let them hang me,
an old man!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your
obsessions
in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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