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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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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number of writers doing work which appeared to me extremely good, but
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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concerning tax treatment of donations received from
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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charities and charitable
donations
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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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Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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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 |
|
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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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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Source: |
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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Source: |
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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Source: |
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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e
3693
_wronge_
(2)--wrong
3695 _had[de]_--hadde
3696 _had[de]_--hadden
_wronge_--wrong
3697 _doar_--doere
3698 _ha?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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quo tibi
singultu
fortia uerba cadent!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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No, neither he, nor his
compeers
by night
Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Death -
ridiculous
enemy
- who cannot impose on the child
the notion that you exist!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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HEPHAESTUS
Would that some other were endowed
therewith!
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Aeschylus |
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Purgatorio
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Electra, lo, my way
To thee in the dawn hath sped,
And the cot on the
mountain
grey,
For the Watcher hath cried this day:
He of the ancient folk,
The walker of waste and hill,
Who drinketh the milk of the flock;
And he told of Hera's will;
For the morrow's morrow now
They cry her festival,
And before her throne shall bow
Our damsels all.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Therewith a second Tiphys shall there be,
Her hero-freight a second Argo bear;
New wars too shall arise, and once again
Some great
Achilles
to some Troy be sent.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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It also tells you how
you can
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Meredith - Poems |
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What never was
remarked
or heard
Of Olga he in song averred;
His elegies, which plenteous streamed,
Both natural and truthful seemed.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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f
k
AsS ye go through these palm-trees,
O
Sith
sleepeth
my child here Still ye the branches.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Just girt me for the onset with eternity,
When breath blew back,
And on the other side
I heard recede the
disappointed
tide!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Thou who the girl perforce canst tear from a mother's embraces,
Tear from a parent's clasp her child despite of her clinging
And upon love-hot youth
bestowest
her chastest of maidenhoods!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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'Fair' as an epithet of 'Faith' is probably
an
antithesis
to the 'squint ungracious left-handedness' of
understanding.
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John Donne |
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Quand mes yeux, vers ce chat que j'aime
Tires comme par un aimant,
Se retournent docilement,
Et que je regarde en moi-meme,
Je vois avec etonnement
Le feu de ses prunelles pales,
Clairs fanaux, vivantes opales,
Qui me
contemplent
fixement.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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en with
frenkysch
fare & fele fayre lote3
?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But say, and truly; knows the prudent Queen
Already thy return, or shall we send
Ourselves
an herald with the joyful news?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Myself a millionnaire
In little wealths, -- as girls could boast, --
Till broad as Buenos Ayre,
You drifted your dominions
A
different
Peru;
And I esteemed all poverty,
For life's estate with you.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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As a pigeon whose house and sweet
nestlings
are in the rock's
recesses, if suddenly startled from her cavern, wings her flight over
the fields and rushes frightened from her house with loud clapping
pinions; then gliding noiselessly through the air, slides on her liquid
way and moves not her rapid wings; so Mnestheus, so the Dragon under him
swiftly cleaves the last space of sea, so her own speed carries her
flying on.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Comme, lette's awaie,
albeytte
ytte ys moke,
Yette love wille bee a tore to tourne to feere nyghtes smoke.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Worthiest
man!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Three winters cold,
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd,
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April
perfumes
in three hot Junes burn'd,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And when the light-foot mower went afield
Across the meadows laced with threaded dew,
And the sheep bleated on the misty weald,
And from its nest the waking
corncrake
flew,
Some woodmen saw him lying by the stream
And marvelled much that any lad so beautiful could seem,
Nor deemed him born of mortals, and one said,
'It is young Hylas, that false runaway
Who with a Naiad now would make his bed
Forgetting Herakles,' but others, 'Nay,
It is Narcissus, his own paramour,
Those are the fond and crimson lips no woman can allure.
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Besides when, too,
The clouds are
winnowed
by the winds, or scattered
Smitten on top by heat of sun, they send
Their rainy moisture, and distil their drops,
Even as the wax, by fiery warmth on top,
Wasteth and liquefies abundantly.
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To Charles the old, with his great
blossoming
beard,
Day shall not dawn but brings him rage and grief,
Ere a year pass, all France we shall have seized,
Till we can lie in th' burgh of Saint Denise.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And whistle: All's for the best
In this best of
Carnivals!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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An
everywhere
of silver,
With ropes of sand
To keep it from effacing
The track called land.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"The works, that follow'd,
evidence
their truth;"
I answer'd: "Nature did not make for these
The iron hot, or on her anvil mould them.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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From amber platters, the smells ascend
Of
overripe
peaches mingled with dust and heated oils.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Ages to come your
conquering
arms will bles.
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Marvell - Poems |
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