Wilt thou, for my sake, speak harshly to this
red-headed
outlander?
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Kipling - Poems |
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PINE
By John Russell McCarthy
You must have dreamed a little every year For fifty years: you must have been a child, Shy and diffident with the violets, School-girlish with the daisies, or perhaps
A
youthful
Indian with the hickory tree;
You must have been a lover with the beech, A wise young father walking with your sons Beneath the maple; then have battled long Grim and defiant with the oak : all these
You must have been for fifty dreaming years Before you may hold converse with the pine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
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makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Do not copy, display, perform,
distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Keats - Lamia |
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We have been, let us say, to hear the latest Pole
Transmit
the Preludes, through his hair and finger-tips.
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T.S. Eliot |
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When reaches through the eyes the conscious heart
Its imaged fate, all other
thoughts
depart;
The powers which from the soul their functions take
A dead weight on the frame its limbs then make.
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Petrarch |
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Sire, thus these hairs
whitened
in harness,
This blood of mine poured out in such excess,
This arm once dreaded by your enemies,
Would have perished, lost to infamy,
If I had not produced a worthy son,
Worthy of his land, and of your person.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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She that I spake of, our great captain's captain,
Left in the conduct of the bold Iago,
Whose footing here
anticipates
our thoughts
A se'nnight's speed.
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Shakespeare |
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_Charles Alexander Richmond_
HARVEST MOON
Over the twilight field,
Over the glimmering field
And bleeding furrows, with their sodden yield
Of sheaves that still did writhe,
After the scythe;
The teeming field, and darkly overstrewn
With all the garnered
fullness
of that noon--
Two looked upon each other.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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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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Wilde - Poems |
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G
[491] 177 He is W, G
[492] 178 He has W, G
[493] 178, 180 He's W, G
[494] 184
equivokes
W, G
[495] 185 You're 1716, W You are G || 'hem] 'em G || o' ret.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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AT A LUNAR ECLIPSE
THY shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea,
Now steals along upon the Moon's meek shine
In even monochrome and curving line
Of
imperturbable
serenity.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But behind the excitement of example there is a
more fundamental
movement
of opinion.
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Yeats |
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Difficilest longum subito
deponere
amorem.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Stephen Crane |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast, quenching my fire,
A deity at the gods'
ambrosial
feast.
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Ronsard |
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Notes_,
June, 1905) gives Plautus,
_Epidicus_
2.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but O my soul is white!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"
I went away to the lodging that had been
assigned
me, and where
Saveliitch was already installed.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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'30-31'
In this couplet Pope hits off the
spiteful
envy of conceited critics
toward successful writers.
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Alexander Pope |
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_m_
8 _millies_ GRVen:
_mill{i}es_
OC
10 _iniciens_ B utroque loco: _inities_ O
11 _nunt.
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Latin - Catullus |
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O remedy divine, prescription
blessed!
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La Fontaine |
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Doubt me, my dim
companion!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
I turn'd me to Beatrice; and she heard
Ere I had spoken, smiling, an assent,
That to my will gave wings; and I began
"To each among your tribe, what time ye kenn'd
The nature, in whom naught unequal dwells,
Wisdom and love were in one measure dealt;
For that they are so equal in the sun,
From whence ye drew your
radiance
and your heat,
As makes all likeness scant.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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But I move in uncertainty of Jove's ordinance, whether he will
that Tyrians and
wanderers
from Troy be one city, or approve the
mingling of peoples and the treaty of union.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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O City city, I can sometimes hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The pleasant whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable
splendour
of Ionian white and gold.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I have
resigned
a privilege;
It now becomes my duty to resume it.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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FIRST PART 57
SECOND PART 63
THIRD PART 72
FOURTH PART 80
A ROMANCE OF THE GANGES 83
RHYME OF THE DUCHESS MAY 94
THE RHYME 96
THE ROMANCE OF THE SWAN'S NEST 132
BERTHA IN THE LANE 138
LADY GERALDINE'S
COURTSHIP
150
THE RUNAWAY SLAVE AT PILGRIM'S POINT 192
THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN 205
A CHILD ASLEEP 213
THE FOURFOLD ASPECT 217
NIGHT AND THE MERRY MAN.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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So Nestor pray'd, whom Pallas
gracious
heard.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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As they seemed to me to have
an
individual
beauty of their own, I thought they ought to be
published.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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XXXIV
With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee
As those, when thou shalt call me by my name--
Lo, the vain
promise!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Again, when earth
From end to end is rocking under foot,
And shaken cities ruin down, or threaten
Upon the verge, what wonder is it then
That mortal generations abase themselves,
And unto gods in all affairs of earth
Assign as last resort almighty powers
And
wondrous
energies to govern all?
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Lucretius |
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O spirit wish'd and waited for in heaven,
That wearest
gracefully
our human clay,
Not as with loading sin and earthly stain,
Who lov'st our Lord's high bidding to obey,--
Henceforth to thee the way is plain and even
By which from hence to bliss we may attain.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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What hadst thou done, to sink so
peacefully
to rest?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The robin is the one
That speechless from her nest
Submits that home and certainty
And
sanctity
are best.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Whither fled Lamia, now a lady bright,
A full-born beauty new and
exquisite?
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Keats - Lamia |
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formd the lovely limbs of Enitharmon XXX & to
lamentation
of Enion ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Deluded by [the] summers heat they sport in
enormous
love
And cast their young out to the [?
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Blake - Zoas |
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No one reads it now but professed students of the
literature
of Queen
Anne's time.
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Alexander Pope |
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But yesterday a hundred drums were heard when I went by;
Full forty agas turned their looks respectful on mine eye,
And trembled with
contracted
brows within their hall of state.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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With joy the maid the unwary
strangers
heard
And show'd them where the royal dome appear'd.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Our Life
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
We know in pairs we will know all about us
We'll love everything our children will smile
At the dark history or mourn alone
Uninterrupted Poetry
From the sea to the source
From mountain to plain
Runs the phantom of life
The foul shadow of death
But between us
A dawn of ardent flesh is born
And exact good
that sets the earth in order
We advance with calm step
And nature salutes us
The day embodies our colours
Fire our eyes the sea our union
And all living resemble us
All the living we love
Imaginary the others
Wrong and defined by their birth
But we must
struggle
against them
They live by dagger blows
They speak like a broken chair
Their lips tremble with joy
At the echo of leaden bells
At the muteness of dark gold
A lone heart not a heart
A lone heart all the hearts
And the bodies every star
In a sky filled with stars
In a career in movement
Of light and of glances
Our weight shines on the earth
Glaze of desire
To sing of human shores
For you the living I love
And for all those that we love
That have no desire but to love
I'll end truly by barring the road
Afloat with enforced dreams
I'll end truly by finding myself
We'll take possession of earth
Index of First Lines
I speak to you over cities
Easy and beautiful under
Between all my torments between death and self
She is standing on my eyelids
In one corner agile incest
For the splendour of the day of happinesses in the air
After years of wisdom
Run and run towards deliverance
Life is truly kind
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
A face at the end of the day
By the road of ways
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
Adieu Tristesse
Woman I've lived with
Fertile Eyes
I said it to you for the clouds
It's the sweet law of men
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
On my notebooks from school
I have passed the doors of coldness
I am in front of this feminine land
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
From the sea to the source
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
I Only Wish to Love You
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We Have Created the Night
Even When We Sleep
To Marc Chagall
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We two
'At Dawn I Love You'
'She Looks Into Me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
[9] The
fragments
which have been assigned to Book II in the British
Museum collections by Haupt, Jensen, Dhorme and others belong to
later tablets, probably III or IV.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
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Appoloinaire |
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CC
"Sir admiral," said to him Clariens,
"In Rencesvals was
yesterday
battle.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Oft died the words upon our lips,
As suddenly, from out the fire
Built of the wreck of
stranded
ships,
The flames would leap and then expire.
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Longfellow |
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Is that a
happening
unknown among us?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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On this long storm the rainbow rose,
On this late morn the sun;
The clouds, like listless elephants,
Horizons
straggled
down.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Would you that spangle of
Existence
spend
About THE SECRET--quick about it, Friend!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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quos uelut in massam generans in morte coactos
conflat; et
effectum
seminis instar habet.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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From attacking others, the poet was--in the interval between penning
these
election
lampoons--called on to defend himself: for this he
seems to have been quite unprepared, though in those yeasty times he
might have expected it.
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Robert Burns |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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A
melancholy
Bird?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Non attender la forma del martire:
pensa la succession; pensa ch'al peggio
oltre la gran
sentenza
non puo ire.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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None can surmise the
struggle
that ensues--
The eyes lose sight of it and words refuse
To tell the story in its gory might.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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O, it may have been mermaids that lured her from home,
But nobody knew where
_Kilmeny_
had been.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Worthiest
man!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
[This sarcastic sally was written on the
admission
of Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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I shall report,
For most it caught me, the celestial habits-
Methinks
I so should term them- and the reverence
Of the grave wearers.
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Shakespeare |
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XXV
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
To wake from Hades, and their idle pose,
Those old Caesars, and the shades of those,
Who once raised this ancient city higher:
Or that I had Amphion's to inspire,
And with sweet harmony these stones enclose
To quicken them again, where they once rose,
Ausonian glory
conjuring
from its pyre:
Or that with skilful pencil I might draw
The portrait of these palaces once more,
With the spirit of some high Virgil filled;
I would attempt, inflamed by my ardour,
To recreate with the pen's slight power,
That which our own hands could never build.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Where every bird is bold to go,
And bees
abashless
play,
The foreigner before he knocks
Must thrust the tears away.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Henceforward
all defence too late will come,
Save this, to prove, enough or little, here
If to these mortal prayers Love lend his ear.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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The
Boeotians
were the allies of Sparta.
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Aristophanes |
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Or so much as it needes,
To dew the
Soueraigne
Flower, and drowne the Weeds:
Make we our March towards Birnan.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Bait it with the balsam,
Seek it with the knife,
Baffle, if it cost you
Everything
in life.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that renowned Colossus, great in story:
And
whatever
noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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What a full hum of life around his lips
Bore witness to the fulness of
creation!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Everyone
knows him and ought to adore him,
Herald of Zeus: Hermes, the healing god.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
MENALCAS
"Boys, get your sheep together; if the heat,
As late it did,
forestall
us with the milk,
Vainly the dried-up udders shall we wring.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any
statements
concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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So, when the Gods their parents had destroy'd,
Storms suddenly the
beauteous
daughters snatch'd[89]
Of Pandarus away; them left forlorn
Venus with curds, with honey and with wine
Fed duly; Juno gave them to surpass
All women in the charms of face and mind, 80
With graceful stature eminent the chaste
Diana bless'd them, and in works of art
Illustrious, Pallas taught them to excel.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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consul et ignoti uictor
Germanicus
orbis,
quoi fuerit mortis publica causa, legor.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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These balfull bestes were, as the boke tellus,
Full flaumond of fyre with
fnastyng
of logh.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Youth should be awed, religiously possessed 390
With a conviction of the power that waits
On knowledge, when sincerely sought and prized
For its own sake, on glory and on praise
If but by labour won, and fit to endure
The passing day; should learn to put aside 395
Her trappings here, should strip them off abashed
Before antiquity and stedfast truth
And strong book-mindedness; and over all
A healthy sound
simplicity
should reign,
A seemly plainness, name it what you will, 400
Republican or pious.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Will Gaul or
Muscovite
redress ye?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The abuse of early
marriages was
regulated
by Tsar Nicholas.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Milk-white, wine-flushed among the vines,
Up and down leaping, to and fro,
Most glad, most full, made strong with wines,
Blooming
as peaches pearled with dew,
Their golden windy hair afloat,
Love-music warbling in their throat,
Young men and women come and go.
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O
children
of the light, now in our grief Give us again the solace of belief.
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Without their
blessing
you would not be
happy.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The
yellowhammer
never makes a noise
But flies in silence from the noisy boys;
The boys will come and take them every day,
And still she lays as none were ta'en away.
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--But he who can so fare,
And
stumbleth
not on mischief anywhere,
Blessed on earth is he!
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Euripides - Electra |
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own
nurslings
stirred, in mutinous game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The elements freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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O cities memories of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their
thinkers
their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the clusters of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I am
disturbing
you in your important business.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Sideway his face repos'd
On one white arm, and
tenderly
unclos'd,
By tenderest pressure, a faint damask mouth
To slumbery pout; just as the morning south
Disparts a dew-lipp'd rose.
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Keats |
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previous
one--the old editions will
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Why do I want this,
when even last night
you
startled
me from sleep?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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E io, che mai per mio veder non arsi
piu ch'i' fo per lo suo, tutti miei prieghi
ti porgo, e priego che non sieno scarsi,
perche tu ogne nube li disleghi
di sua
mortalita
co' prieghi tuoi,
si che 'l sommo piacer li si dispieghi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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From isle to isle our trading vessels roam,
Mozambique's harbour our
commodious
home.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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WHILE I MAY
WIND and hail and veering rain,
Driven mist that veils the day,
Soul's
distress
and body's pain,
I would bear you while I may.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Wilde - Poems |
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illa deo sciet
agricolae
pro uitibus uuam,
pro segete spicas, pro grege ferre dapem.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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" Soon as they heard
My words, he and Sordello
backward
drew,
As suddenly amaz'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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How much awaits him
of lief and of loath, who long time here,
through days of warfare this world
endures!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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