His poems, written during the War and Siege, collected under the title of
"L'Annee Terrible" (The
Terrible
Year, 1870-71), betray the long-tried
exile, "almost alone in his gloom," after the death of his son Charles and
his child.
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He is said to have
originated
the title of
the celebrated tract from the pen of the latter.
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crowds collected after the
sittings
of
the Congress, to witness dramatic representations.
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Byron |
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Ma perche l'occhio cupido e vagante
a me rivolse, quel feroce drudo
la
flagello
dal capo infin le piante;
poi, di sospetto pieno e d'ira crudo,
disciolse il mostro, e trassel per la selva,
tanto che sol di lei mi fece scudo
a la puttana e a la nova belva.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Say, with ours wilt thou let us rekindle in thine
The glow that has
departed?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Heaven approved the
innocence
of their sighs:
They followed their loving thoughts without remorse:
Each day rose clear, serene to light their course.
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"
{146a} "If it were allowable for
immortals
to weep for mortals, the
Muses would weep for the poet Naevius; since he is handed to the chamber
of Orcus, they have forgotten how to speak Latin at Rome.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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His
expedition
to Italy was a turning-point in the history of the
world.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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XXXIII
Now Roman is to Roman
More hateful than a foe,
And the
Tribunes
beard the high,
And the Fathers grind the low.
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[[Pope eras't]]
Anon to
Eufemians
in,--
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Et couche dans les glaieuls, Favre,
Fait son cillement aqueduc
Et ses
reniflements
a poivre!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Amongst the swarms fixed like the rooted stars, my folk is a
streaming
Comet,
Comet of the Asian tiger-darkness,
The Wanderer of Eternity, the eternal Wandering Jew.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Avarice en sa main tenoit
Une borse qu'el reponnoit,
Et la nooit si durement,
Que demorast moult
longuement
230
Aincois qu'el en peust riens traire,
Mes el n'avoit de ce que faire.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"I fear thee and thy
glittering
eye
"And thy skinny hand so brown"--
Fear not, fear not, thou wedding guest!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Led by that perfume to these lands of ease,
I see a port where many ships have flown
With sails
outwearied
of the wandering seas;
While the faint odours from green tamarisks blown,
Float to my soul and in my senses throng,
And mingle vaguely with the sailor's song.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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the almond-bough
And olive-branch is wither'd now;
The wine-press now is ta'en from us,
The saffron and the calamus;
The spice and
spikenard
hence is gone,
The storax and the cinnamon;
CHOR.
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Robert Herrick |
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Manna is dropt you thrice a day
From some kind heaven not far away,
And still you snatch its
softening
crumbs,
Nor, more than we, think whence it comes.
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James Russell Lowell |
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It was sweet to hear your note,
I'll not deny,
When April set pale clouds afloat
O'er the blue tides of sky,
And 'mid the wind's
triumphant
drums
You, in your white and azure coat,
A herald proud, came forth to cry,
"The royal summer comes!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Methought it was but added pain on pain
If thou
shouldst
leave me, and roam forth again
Seeking another's roof.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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t swiche comparisou{n} as [it] is of
skilynge to
vndirstondyng
{and} of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Like
blossoms
blown, their souls have flown
Past war and reeking sod,
In the book unbound their names are found--
They are known in the courts of God!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And what I feel, across the
inferior
features
Of what I am, doth flash itself, and show
How that great work of Love enhances Nature's.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her
enduring
pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who commanded them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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"It
contains
no criticism, no letters, nothing but verse, and that usually of a high order of excellence.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Sous les pieds, un
troupeau
de jaloux quadrupedes,
Le museau releve, tournoyait et rodait;
Une plus grande bete au milieu s'agitait
Comme un executeur entoure de ses aides.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"The Lord be with thee, O my
daughter!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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At least, I am so much more
accustomed to meet with
ingratitude
than the north wind, that I thought
the latter the sharper of the two.
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Byron |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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[427]
_In that proud port half circled by the wave,
Which
Portugallia
to the nation gave,
A deathless name.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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GOYA, a nightmare full of things unknown;
The foetus witches broil on Sabbath night;
Old women at the mirror;
children
lone
Who tempt old demons with their limbs delight.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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Your eyes are like fantastic moons that shiver in some
stagnant
lake,
Your tongue is like a scarlet snake that dances to fantastic tunes,
Your pulse makes poisonous melodies, and your black throat is like the
hole
Left by some torch or burning coal on Saracenic tapestries.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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es better weren;
ysustened
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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She gave him minute
instructions
and a key with which to open the street
door.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft
deceitful
wiles.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"
They are caked with ice from the driving sleet,
And they sling their arms, and they stamp their feet And glory in the pain and the
freezing
sleet,
For they are the soldiers of the Lord!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Entered a dame,
bedecked
with spotted pride.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And I go not knowing
Whether I've
offended
charms worth adoring.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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At last, by
thinking
of the time before she was born,
By thought and reason I drove the pain away.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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As, on my lips Castilia's
language
glows,
So, from my tongue the speech of India flows:
Mozaide my name, in India's court belov'd,
For honest deeds (but time shall speak) approv'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Among the chief of these
reasons is the
interest
which the mind attaches to words, not only as
symbols of the passion, but as 'things', active and efficient, which
are of themselves part of the passion.
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William Wordsworth |
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[_The other two go to the door, but they stop for a
moment upon the
threshold
and wail.
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Yeats |
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" The epigram
might just as
reasonably
have been the other way round.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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It stops a moment on
the carved head of Saint John, then slides on again,
slipping
and
trickling over his stone cloak.
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Imagists |
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_Il mal mi preme, e mi
spaventa
il peggio.
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Petrarch |
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Have we not seen, or by relation heard,
In Courts and Regal
Chambers
how thou lurk'st,
In Wood or Grove by mossie Fountain side,
In Valley or Green Meadow to way-lay
Some beauty rare, Calisto, Clymene,
Daphne, or Semele, Antiopa,
Or Amymone, Syrinx, many more
Too long, then lay'st thy scapes on names ador'd,
Apollo, Neptune, Jupiter, or Pan, 190
Satyr, or Fawn, or Silvan?
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Milton |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the
cockerel
so tardily calls the day,
When night to the troubled soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly deceiving me with a specious view.
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Ronsard |
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Thus made their
mourning
the men of Geatland,
for their hero's passing his hearth-companions:
quoth that of all the kings of earth,
of men he was mildest and most beloved,
to his kin the kindest, keenest for praise.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Another tyme
imaginen
he wolde
That every wight that wente by the weye 625
Had of him routhe, and that they seyen sholde,
`I am right sory Troilus wole deye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Forgive me
Both my
temptations
and my sins, my wilful
And secret injuries.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"It's
Christmas
time, it's Christmas time," The quavering tambourines repeat.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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For truth and
goodness
are plain and open; but imposture is
ever ashamed of the light.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But I see the athletes--and I see the results glorious and inevitable--and
they again leading to other results;
How the great cities appear--How the Democratic masses, turbulent, wilful,
as I love them,
How the whirl, the contest, the wrestle of evil with good, the sounding and
resounding, keep on and on;
How society waits unformed, and is between things ended and things begun;
How America is the continent of glories, and of the triumph of freedom, and
of the Democracies, and of the fruits of society, and of all that
is begun;
And how the States are complete in themselves--And how all triumphs and
glories are complete in themselves, to lead onward,
And how these of mine, and of the States, will in their turn be convulsed,
and serve other
parturitions
and transitions.
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Whitman |
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It,
groaning
thing,
Turned black and sank.
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Stephen Crane |
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Know, sire, six years
Since then have fled; 'twas in that very year
When to the seat of sovereignty the Lord
Anointed
thee--there came to me one evening
A simple shepherd, a venerable old man,
Who told me a strange secret.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The
fountains
mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single,
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle--
Why not I with thine?
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Golden Treasury |
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"What need hath He of flesh
Made
flawless
now afresh?
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Christina Rossetti |
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which was narrowly known; and I thought that anyone, however
unprofessional and meagrely gifted, who presented a
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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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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Conrad beheld the danger--he beheld
His followers faint by freshening foes repelled:
"One effort--one--to break the
circling
host!
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Byron |
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Rilke - Poems |
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There is a beautiful Carthusian
monastery
in my neighbourhood,
where, at all hours of the day, I find the innocent pleasures which
religion offers.
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Petrarch |
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And a-reaching out your long hands Between me and my
beloved?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Lyche prymrose,
droopynge
wythe the heavie rayne,
Laste nyghte I lefte her, droopynge wythe her wiere,
Her love the gare, thatte gave her harte syke peyne--
AELLA.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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'
Therwith
she lough, and seyde, `Go we dyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The grass so little has to do, --
A sphere of simple green,
With only
butterflies
to brood,
And bees to entertain,
And stir all day to pretty tunes
The breezes fetch along,
And hold the sunshine in its lap
And bow to everything;
And thread the dews all night, like pearls,
And make itself so fine, --
A duchess were too common
For such a noticing.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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a
prophecy
now strikes my mind
With force, my father's.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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A moment their guns have glowed
Sun-smitten: then out of sight
They
suddenly
sink,
Like men who touch a new grave's brink!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But
apparently
it told how
Admetus, King of Pherae in Thessaly, received from Apollo a special
privilege which the God had obtained, in true Satyric style, by making the
Three Fates drunk and cajoling them.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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When Fate hath taunted last
And thrown her furthest stone,
The maimed may pause and breathe,
And glance
securely
round.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Cassandra, maiden
daughter
of Priam, was being dragged with
disordered tresses from the temple and sanctuary of Minerva, straining
to heaven her blazing eyes in vain; her eyes, for fetters locked her
delicate hands.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
She ceas'd--and buried then her burning cheek
Abash'd, amid the lilies there, to seek
A shelter from the fervour of His eye;
For the stars
trembled
at the Deity.
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Poe - 5 |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"You are right, lady; I only arrived
yesterday
from the country.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_ is all it has to say
In
plaintive
cadence o'er and o'er,
Like children that have lost their way,
And know their names, but nothing more.
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James Russell Lowell |
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my ears
With sounds
seraphic
ring:
Lend, lend your wings!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Meredith - Poems |
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And while the pony moves his legs,
In Johnny's left-hand you may see,
The green bough's
motionless
and dead;
The moon that shines above his head
Is not more still and mute than he.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Overhead,
the creamy-yellow smoke-clouds were thinning away one by one against a
pale-blue sky, and the improvident
sparrows
broke off from water-spout
committees and cab-rank cabals to clamour of the coming of spring.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And never a flake
That the vapour can make
With the moon-tints of purple and pearl,
Can vie with the modest Eulalie's most unregarded curl--
Can compare with the bright-eyed Eulalie's most humble and
careless
curl.
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Poe - 5 |
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"Yet still before him as he flies
One pallid form shall ever rise,
And, bodying forth in glassy eyes
"The vision of a
vanished
good,
Low peering through the tangled wood,
Shall freeze the current of his blood.
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Lewis Carroll |
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XIV
There pass the
careless
people
That call their souls their own:
Here by the road I loiter,
How idle and alone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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[_During the last few lines_ ADMETUS _has been looking at the
veiled Woman and, though he does not consciously
recognize
her,
feels a strange emotion overmastering him.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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blake-poems |
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For
straight
those giddy rockets fail,
Which from the putrid earth exhale,
But by her flames, in heaven tried.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And see the third house on the left, with that gleam 20
Of red
burnished
copper--the hinge of the door
Whereat I shall enter, expected so oft
(Let love be your sea-star!
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Sappho |
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She swoons away with loss of blood;
chilling
in
death her eyes swoon away; the once lustrous colour leaves her face.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Sir, he answered me in the
roundest
manner, he would not.
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Shakespeare |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Sara Teasdale |
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O but you've had such
practice
in being caught,
You'll break away quite easily when you want.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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A
CANTICLE
TO APOLLO
Play, Phoebus, on thy lute,
And we will sit all mute;
By listening to thy lyre,
That sets all ears on fire.
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Robert Herrick |
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There was such
intricate
clamor of tongues,
That still the reason was not.
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Stephen Crane |
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"
Thenne FLORENCE, fault'ring ynne her saie,
Tremblynge these wordyes spoke,
"Ah, cruele
EDWARDE!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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