What they've been doing all this time,
Oh could I put it into rhyme,
A most
delightful
tale pursuing!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Who is
resolved
to venture his vain life
On the deceitful wave and 'mid the rocks,
Alone, unfearing death, in little bark,
Can never be far distant from his end:
Therefore betimes he should return to port
While to the helm yet answers his true sail.
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Petrarch |
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In Erech of the wide spaces [57]
he hurled the axe,
and they
assembled
about him.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Cosi
rispuose
allora il duca mio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
CANTO IV
When by sensations of delight or pain,
That any of our
faculties
hath seiz'd,
Entire the soul collects herself, it seems
She is intent upon that power alone,
And thus the error is disprov'd which holds
The soul not singly lighted in the breast.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Grange,
Whose manners were
scroobious
and strange;
He sailed to St.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy,
Naething
could resist my Nancy:
But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I will relate
A
faithful
tale, nor will from thee withhold
Such tidings of Ulysses living still,
And of his safe return, as I have heard
Lately, in yon neighb'ring opulent land
Of the Thesprotians.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The blush of health, that crimson'd o'er
Her youthful cheek; her modest mien;
The gay-green garment that she wore,
Have ever dear to memory been;
More dear they grow as time the more inflames
This tender breast o'ercome by passion's wild
extremes!
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Petrarch |
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If
ever the country should be seized with another such mania _pro
propaganda fide_, I think it would be wise to fill our bombshells with
alternate copies of the Cambridge Platform and the Thirty-nine Articles,
which would produce a mixture of the highest
explosive
power, and to
wrap every one of our cannon-balls in a leaf of the New Testament, the
reading of which is denied to those who sit in the darkness of Popery.
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
[Sidenote A: Sir Gawayne, in answer to
questions
put to him,]
[Sidenote B: tells the prince that he is of Arthur's court.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The wheels of Phoebus from the zodiac turn'd;
No more the nightly constellations burn'd;
Green earth and undulating ocean roll'd
Away, by some resistless power controll'd;
Immensity
conceived, and brought to birth
A grander firmament, and more luxuriant earth.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Around, around, they waltzed and wound;
Some wheeled in
smirking
pairs;
With the mincing step of a demirep
Some sidled up the stairs:
And with subtle sneer, and fawning leer,
Each helped us at our prayers.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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Soll ich mit Griffel, Meissel, Feder
schreiben?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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and
refreshment
take
Such as thou may'st; God[64] gives, and God denies
At his own will, for He is Lord of all.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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For pity do not this sad heart belie--
Even as thou
vanishest
so I shall die.
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Keats |
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O'er hill and dale
We pass'd, and oft I told my doleful tale,
Disclosing all my wounds, end not in vain:
Their sacred
presence
seem'd to soothe my pain.
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Petrarch |
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There she stood
About a young bird's flutter from a wood,
Fair, on a sloping green of mossy tread,
By a clear pool, wherein she passioned
To see herself escap'd from so sore ills,
While her robes
flaunted
with the daffodils.
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Keats - Lamia |
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), Euripides'
_Electra_
(413 B.
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Euripides - Electra |
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when from one
Of the two brightest eyes which ever were,
Beholding
it with pain dis urb'd and dim,
Moved influence which my own made dull and weak.
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Petrarch |
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Meantime
their fight the Spartan king survey'd,
And stood by Meges' side a sudden aid.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The Boy had been
The pride and pleasure of all lookers-on
In whatsoever place, but seemed in this
A sort of alien
scattered
from the clouds.
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William Wordsworth |
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That you are cut, torn, mangled,
torn by the stress and beat,
no
stronger
than the strips of sand
along your ragged beach.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The countries which the three brothers shared amongst them comprehended
not only what was
commonly
called the Duchy, before the King of Sardinia
acquired a great part of it, but the territories of Parma, Piacenza,
Bologna, Lodi, Bobbio, Pontremoli, and many other places.
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Petrarch |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Grosart
conjectured
that Donne had in view the
_Gullinge Sonnets_ preserved in the Farmer-Chetham MS.
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John Donne |
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Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
Exploring hands encounter no defence; 240
His vanity
requires
no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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" For this reason the book on Rodin is
far more than a purely aesthetic valuation of the sculptor's work; Rilke
traces
throughout
the book the strongly ethical principle which works
itself out in every creative act in the realm of art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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LIV
How soon will all my lovely days be over,
And I no more be found beneath the sun,--
Neither beside the many-murmuring sea,
Nor where the plain-winds whisper to the reeds,
Nor in the tall beech-woods among the hills 5
Where roam the bright-lipped Oreads, nor along
The pasture-sides where berry-pickers stray
And
harmless
shepherds pipe their sheep to fold!
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Sappho |
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Then why not rather presuppose there be
Bodies with such a nature furnished forth
That, if perchance they have created fire,
Can still (by virtue of a few withdrawn,
Or added few, and motion and order changed)
Fashion the winds of air, and thus all things
Forevermore be
interchanged
with all?
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Lucretius |
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In 842 Liu Yu-hsi, the last
survivor
of the four friends, and a constant
visitor at the monastery, "went to wander with Yuan Ch?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Go
ravisshe
hir ne canstow not for shame!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your
thoughts
for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I will depart, re-tune the songs I framed
In verse Chalcidian to the oaten reed
Of the
Sicilian
swain.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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A vendre les habitations et les migrations, sports, feeries et conforts
parfaits, et le bruit, le mouvement et l'avenir qu'ils font:
A vendre les
applications
de calcul et sauts d'harmonie inouis.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Flavius
Postumius
Varus_
VIXI beatus dis, amicis, literis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
That
oracular
Lady of Prague.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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When heavy, dark, continued a'-day rains,
Wi' deepening deluges o'erflow the plains;
When from the hills where springs the brawling Coil,
Or stately Lugar's mossy
fountains
boil,
Or where the Greenock winds his moorland course,
Or haunted Garpal[64] draws his feeble source,
Arous'd by blust'ring winds an' spotting thowes,
In mony a torrent down the snaw-broo rowes;
While crashing ice born on the roaring speat,
Sweeps dams, an' mills, an' brigs, a' to the gate;
And from Glenbuck,[65] down to the Ratton-key,[66]
Auld Ayr is just one lengthen'd tumbling sea--
Then down ye'll hurl, deil nor ye never rise!
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Robert Forst |
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_ We may quote again from Barron
Field's account in the _Quarterly Review_ (1810) of his
cross-examination of the Dean Prior villagers for
Reminiscences
of
Herrick: "The person, however, who knows more of Herrick than all the
rest of the neighbourhood we found to be a poor woman in the 99th year
of her age, named Dorothy King.
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Robert Herrick |
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--Nay,
Traveller!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--
To these, thou hast thy times to go
And trace the hare i' th'
treacherous
snow:
Thy witty wiles to draw, and get
The lark into the trammel net:
Thou hast thy cockrood, and thy glade
To take the precious pheasant made:
Thy lime-twigs, snares, and pit-falls then
To catch the pilfering birds, not men.
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Robert Herrick |
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_We are often made to feel, with a shivering delight,
that from an earthly harp are
stricken
notes which _cannot _have been
unfamiliar to the angels.
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Poe - 5 |
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Auf deiner
Schwelle
wessen Blut?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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March of
Lafayette
College, T.
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Beowulf |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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When she dashed by me I seized her,
mistaking
her not.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Of
resurrection?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Now let us meet the
Pilgrims
ere the day
Close on the remnant of their weary way; 1827.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The red hot boiling billows foamed in the
stooping
clouds,
And in that fatal tempest the whole ship's crew were lost.
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John Clare |
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Seal'd lips have blessings sure to come:
Who drags Eleusis' rite to day,
That man shall never share my home,
Or join my voyage: roofs give way
And boats are wreck'd: true men and thieves
Neglected Justice oft confounds:
Though
Vengeance
halt, she seldom leaves
The wretch whose flying steps she hounds.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Unauthenticated
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But hark, a troop of new woe comes this way,
Making the street to ring and the stones wet
With cried despair and
brackish
agony.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
The woman fled, and the red-haired girl looked at her own
reflection
in
the glass for an instant and covered her face with her hands.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Her bosom heaved--she stepped aside,
As
conscious
of my look she stepped--
Then suddenly, with timorous eye
She fled to me and wept.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"
Then up she springs as if on wings;
She thinks no more of deadly sin;
If Betty fifty ponds should see,
The last of all her
thoughts
would be,
To drown herself therein.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Before yonne roddie sonne has droove hys wayne
Throwe halfe hys joornie, dyghte yn gites[1] of goulde,
Mee, happeless mee, hee wylle a wretche behoulde,
Mieselfe, and al that's myne, bounde ynne
myschaunces
chayne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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But the
terrible
trumpet-note afar rang on the shrill brass; a shout
follows, and is echoed from the sky.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Quid sum miser tunc
dicturus?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Meantime various quacks and
charlatans, each with a special scheme for
improving
things, arrive from
earth, and are one after the other exposed and dismissed.
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Aristophanes |
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_ This is a large quarto manuscript, beautifully transcribed,
belonging to Lord Leconfield and
preserved
at Petworth House.
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John Donne |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into
immortal
spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Doch dieser Wahn ist uns ins Herz gelegt,
Wer mag sich gern davon
befreien?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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do weare the ground, 120
Leaping like wanton kids in
pleasant
Spring.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Death sets a thing significant
The eye had hurried by,
Except a
perished
creature
Entreat us tenderly
To ponder little workmanships
In crayon or in wool,
With "This was last her fingers did,"
Industrious until
The thimble weighed too heavy,
The stitches stopped themselves,
And then 't was put among the dust
Upon the closet shelves.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Of all the herd that throng around,
Thy
simpering
or thy sighing train,
Come tell me who to thee is bound
By Love's or Plutus' heavier chain.
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Byron |
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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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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Pry the stone from the chancel floor,--
Dream ye that
Shakespeare
shall live no more?
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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You will not then on palfrey nor on steed,
Jennet nor mule, come
cantering
in your speed;
Flung you will be on a vile sumpter-beast;
Tried there and judged, your head you will not keep.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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It is to be remarked that the third
division is styled "Twenty-Six
Nonsense
Rhymes and Pictures," although
there is no more rhyme than reason in any of the set.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Just so may love, although 'tis understood
The mere commingling of
passionate
breath,
Produce more than our searching witnesseth:
What I know not: but who, of men, can tell
That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell
To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail,
The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale,
The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones, 840
The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones,
Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet,
If human souls did never kiss and greet?
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Keats |
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yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,
Steal from his figure, and no pace perceiv'd;
So your sweet hue, which
methinks
still doth stand,
Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceiv'd:
For fear of which, hear this thou age unbred:
Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Dreaming
when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky
I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,
"Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup
Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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A holy maid hither with me I bring,
Which, by a vision sent to her from heaven,
Ordained
is to raise this tedious siege
And drive the English forth the bounds of France.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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ra
On barren days,
At hours when I, apart, have
Bent low in thought of the great charm thou hast, Behold with music's many
stringed
charms
The silence groweth thou.
| Guess: |
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Again, all odour, smoke, and heat, and such
Streams out of things diffusedly, because,
Whilst coming from the deeps of body forth
And rising out, along their bending path
They're torn asunder, nor have gateways straight
Wherethrough to mass themselves and
struggle
abroad.
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Lucretius |
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Contact the
Foundation
as set forth in Section 3 below.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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On as we drove, the
equinoctial
deep
Ran mountains--high before the howling blaft.
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You will do better to be
searching
out
All sharpen'd steel that may take weapon-use.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Light
Kindled in heav'n, spontaneous, self-inform'd,
Or
likelier
gliding down with swift illapse
By will divine.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Her delegates in arms with them combined;
Prudence appear'd, the
daughter
of the mind;
Pure Temperance next, and Steadiness of soul,
That ever keeps in view the eternal goal;
And Gentleness and soft Address were seen,
And Courtesy, with mild inviting mien;
And Purity, and cautious Dread of blame,
With ardent love of clear unspotted fame;
And sage Discretion, seldom seen below,
Where the full veins with youthful ardour glow;
Benevolence and Harmony of soul
Were there, but rarely found from pole to pole;
And there consummate Beauty shone, combined
With all the pureness of an angel-mind.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Don Quixote was mad, but his was a madness that proceeded
from that 'blind and awful lair,' a
disordered
stomach, rather than
from an injured brain.
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And only inwardly inclines,
As we are wont if there draws nigh
A
stranger
on his final round.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Like Parnassian
pinnacle
yet to be scaled,
In its form from afar, by the aspirant hailed;
On its side the rainbow plays,
And at eve, when the shadow sinks sleeping below,
The last slanting ray on its crest of snow
Makes its cap like a crater to blaze.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Information about Project
Gutenberg
(one page)
We produce about two million dollars for each hour we work.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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'457'
This was especially true in Pope's day when literature was so closely
connected with
politics
that an author's work was praised or blamed not
upon its merits, but according to his, and the critic's, politics.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
And I must borrow every
changing
shape
To find expression.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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You
incongruous
Old Woman of Smyrna!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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In both those ballads the English,
commanded
by the
Percy, fight with the Scots, commanded by the Douglas.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"Oh there, beyond
expression
blest,
I'd feast on beauty a' the night,
Seal'd on her silk-saft faulds to rest,
Till fley'd awa by Phoebus light!
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Robert Burns |
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In the rymes the
equiva|lence
of final '?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that arrogant display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice
threefold
array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You contemplate the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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