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drunkard
in rags.
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[Burns looks back with
something
of regret to the days of rich dinners
and flowing wine-cups which he experienced in Edinburgh.
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for, prudent though she be,
My mother,
inattentive
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Thither speeds Norandine on that alarm,
And for his guard above a
thousand
arm.
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"For he
promised
that he would come:
His word was given; from earth or heaven,
He must keep his word, and must come home.
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_ To us indeed Hermes appears to say not
unseasonable
things,
For he directs thee, leaving off
Self-will, to seek prudent counsel.
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But as it was
communicated
with the air of a Secret, it soon found
its way into the world.
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Ebb Tide
When the long day goes by
And I do not see your face,
The old wild,
restless
sorrow
Steals from its hiding place.
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And yet, to times in hope, my verse shall stand
Praising
Thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
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_'What time I wasted
youthful
hours'_
xlvii.
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Thus an ox in fetters tied,
While death's strong pangs distend his labouring side,
His bulk
enormous
on the field displays;
His heaving heart beats thick as ebbing life decays.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: XX
I'd like to turn the deepest of yellows,
Falling, drop by drop, in a golden shower,
Into her lap, my lovely Cassandra's,
As sleep is
stealing
over her brow.
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550
How dare I thinke such glory to
attaine?
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XVI
When I
consider
how my light is spent,
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide,
Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, least he returning chide,
Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd,
I fondly ask; But patience to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts, who best 10
Bear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his State
Is Kingly.
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Our God is
marching
on.
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Such was the scene,--and such the hour, when, in a
corner of my prospect, I spied one of the fairest pieces of nature's
workmanship that ever crowned a poetic landscape or met a poet's eye,
those
visionary
bards excepted, who hold commerce with aerial beings!
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Robert Forst |
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Where lambs have nibbled, silent move
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each
sleeping
bosom.
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Their voices rouse no echo now, their
footsteps
have no speed;
They sleep, and have forgot at last the sabre and the bit--
Yon vale, with all the corpses heaped, seems one wide charnel-pit.
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What adds much to the interest that attends it is its
habit of shutting itself up and opening out
according
to the degree of
light and temperature of the air.
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous bourgmestres vous bateliers
Et vous
conseillers
de regence
Vous aussi tziganes sans papiers
La vie vous pourrit dans la panse
La croix vous pousse entre les pieds
Le vent du Rhin ulule avec tous les hiboux
Il eteint les cierges que toujours les enfants rallument
Et les feuilles mortes
Viennent couvrir les morts
Des enfants morts parlent parfois avec leur mere
Et des mortes parfois voudraient bien revenir
Oh!
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'
Scarce had he spoken when the
encircling
cloud suddenly parts and melts
into clear air.
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And to Pandare he held up bothe his hondes,
And seyde, `Lord, al thyn be that I have; 975
For I am hool, al brosten been my bondes;
A
thousand
Troians who so that me yave,
Eche after other, god so wis me save,
Ne mighte me so gladen; lo, myn herte,
It spredeth so for Ioye, it wol to-sterte!
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(The soldiers in companies or regiments--some starting away, flush'd
and reckless,
Some, their time up, returning with thinn'd ranks, young, yet very
old, worn, marching,
noticing
nothing;)
Give me the shores and wharves heavy-fringed with black ships!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"Behold the king of simple life and plain,
Harry of England, sitting there alone:
He through his
branches
better issue spreads.
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) ('_po_ pro
_potissimum_
positum est in
Saliari carmine', _Festus_).
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what a
wretched
mother I!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Purgatorio
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Command to ripen the last fruits of thine,
Give to them two more burning days and press
The last
sweetness
into the heavy wine.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Pox of your love
letters!
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Shakespeare |
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Macneile
Dixon, of the
University of Glasgow; Professor Kemp Smith, of Princeton University;
Miss Esther C.
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In me behold the messenger of Jove:
He bids thee from
forbidden
wars repair
To thine own deeps, or to the fields of air.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Veggiolo un'altra volta esser deriso;
veggio
rinovellar
l'aceto e 'l fiele,
e tra vivi ladroni esser anciso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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--For in this mortal frame
Our's is the reptile's lot, much toil, much blame,
Manifold
motions making little speed,
And to deform and kill the things whereon we feed.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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For was ther never herte yet so blythe
To han his lyf, as I shal been as swythe
As I yow see; and, though no maner routhe 1385
Commeve yow, yet
thinketh
on your trouthe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Then, worthy sir, bethink
yourself
in season.
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[230] [Charles de Bourbon, Comte de Montpensier et de la Marche, Dauphin
d'Auvergne, was born
February
17, 1490.
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Byron |
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What does it
signify?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The son of Nestor plied the lash, and forth
Through vestibule and
sounding
portico
The royal coursers, not unwilling, flew.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll
remember
each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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BOBADILL: Sir, I have been in the Indies where this
herb grows; where neither myself nor a dozen gentlemen
more of my knowledge have received the taste of any
other
nutriment
in the world for the space of one and
twenty weeks, but the fume of this simple only.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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From there I rode over
to the sea-shore where such a blast of wind began to blow that you could
not hear the waves even although they were heaped up in
mountains
and
drove the sea like a cataract, while the sand on the beach swept by like
a river.
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Tennyson |
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The
tsarevich
a boyar hath sent to us.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But those [27] two
Orphans!
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William Wordsworth |
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CCVI
That
Emperour
is from his swoon revived.
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Chanson de Roland |
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1 Thrice the brinded Cat hath mew'd
2 Thrice, and once the Hedge-Pigge whin'd
3 Harpier cries, 'tis time, 'tis time
1 Round about the Caldron go:
In the poysond Entrailes throw
Toad, that vnder cold stone,
Dayes and Nights, ha's thirty one:
Sweltred Venom
sleeping
got,
Boyle thou first i'th' charmed pot
All.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The poor brat gasped an hour or so,
A goodly child, a thoughtful child;
Perceiving nought for us but woe
It
stretched
and sudden died;
But I, when Spring breaks fresh and mild,
To Baldon lane return again,
For there's my home, and women vain
Must hold their homes in pride.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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then you should have mark'd us
Our volleys on them pour
Have heard our joyous rifles
Ring sharply through the roar,
And seen their foremost columns
Melt hastily away
As snow in
mountain
gorges
Before the floods of May.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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or in womanly
housework?
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LXXXI
Hark, love, to the tambourines
Of the
minstrels
in the street,
And one voice that throbs and soars
Clear above the clashing time!
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Sappho |
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Can I console my soul wi' the helpful love of a helpmate
Who flies me with pliant oars, flies
overbounding
the sea-depths?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Quintessence of all
soporific
flowers,
Extract of all the finest deadly powers,
Thy favor to thy master now impart!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Then to his side each hastily repairs;
And mid their several powers are
harboured
both.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The following extract from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal gives the date
of the stanzas added to 'Ruth' in
subsequent
editions:
"Sunday, March 8th, 1802.
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Eliot
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A proud man was Lars Porsena
Upon the
trysting
day.
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On foot bold Merion fought; and now laid low,
Had graced the triumphs of his Trojan foe,
But the brave squire the ready
coursers
brought,
And with his life his master's safety bought.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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FACIT VERSUS, QUALES
CATULLUS
AUT
CALVUS.
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For we always desire Nuance,
Not Colour, nuance
evermore!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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So safer, guess, with just my soul
Upon the window-pane
Where other
creatures
put their eyes,
Incautious of the sun.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A stately
frontispiece
of poor,.
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Marvell - Poems |
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His steed and he right well agree,
For of this pony there's a rumour,
That should he lose his eyes and ears,
And should he live a
thousand
years,
He never will be out of humour.
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drench with your
splendor
me, or the
men and women generations after me!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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She stands with eager haste at slander's tale,
And drinks the news as
drunkards
drink their ale.
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e grete
ensample
lede?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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All this time, and at all times, wait the words of poems;
The
greatness
of sons is the exuding of the greatness of mothers and
fathers;
The words of poems are the tuft and final applause of science.
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Whitman |
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" To the topsails fly
The bounding youths, and o'er the yardarms whirl
The
whizzing
ropes, and swift the canvas furl;
When, from their grasp the bursting tempests bore
The sheets half-gather'd, and in fragments tore.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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O shield our Caesar as he goes
To furthest Britain, and his band,
Rome's
harvest!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I see my hours run on with cruel speed,
And in my doom the fate of all I read;
A certain doom, which nature's self must feel
When the dread
sentence
checks the mundane wheel.
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till the marks
Of fire and belching thunder fill the dark
And, almost torn asunder, one falls stark,
Hammering
upon the other!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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When senses, which thy souldiers are,
Wee arme against thee, and they fight for sinne,
When want, sent but to tame, doth warre
And worke
despaire
a breach to enter in,
When plenty, Gods image, and seale 185
Makes us Idolatrous,
And love it, not him, whom it should reveale,
When wee are mov'd to seeme religious
Only to vent wit, Lord deliver us.
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duos ego et Otto credimus excidisse
4, 5 post 12
transponebat
Lachm.
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TO SIR
CLIPSEBY
CREW.
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Robert Herrick |
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The
Anglo-American people have produced an
enormous
amount of poetry which
they do not often quote, and the Chinese have produced an enormous
amount of poetry which, according to experts, they quote a great deal.
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Li Po |
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But when Ulysses rose, in thought profound,(116)
His modest eyes he fix'd upon the ground;
As one unskill'd or dumb, he seem'd to stand,
Nor raised his head, nor stretch'd his sceptred hand;
But, when he speaks, what
elocution
flows!
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Iliad - Pope |
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,
_perpetual
night, night after night_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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I have heard the
townsfolk
come,
I have heard the roll and thunder of the nearest drum
As the drummer stopped and cried, "Hear!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Cessez donc de chercher, o belle
curieuse!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray
Warbl'st at eeve, when all the Woods are still,
Thou with fresh hope the Lovers heart dost fill,
While the jolly hours lead on
propitious
May,
Thy liquid notes that close the eye of Day,
First heard before the shallow Cuccoo's bill
Portend success in love; O if Jove's will
Have linkt that amorous power to thy soft lay,
Now timely sing, ere the rude Bird of Hate
Foretell my hopeles doom in som Grove ny: 10
As thou from yeer to yeer hast sung too late
For my relief; yet hadst no reason why,
Whether the Muse, or Love call thee his mate,
Both them I serve, and of their train am I.
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' I
wondered
at the words he spake, but I knew that his were
no idle words.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
"Yea, we are twin brothers, O, Night; for thou
revealest
space and
I reveal my soul.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were
climbing
all the while
Till when they reached the other side,
A dominie in gray
Put gently up the evening bars,
And led the flock away.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Chanson de Roland |
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He can scarcely be expected to
distinguish
between the
ambitions of a new oligarchy and the real wants of the people of whom he
knows nothing.
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Kipling - Poems |
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What cant assumes, what
hypocrites
will dare,
Speaks home to truth and shows it what they are.
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John Clare |
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Far be from me any
intention
of describing the siege of Orenburg, which
belongs to history, and not to a family memoir.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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they catch'd him at the last,
And bound him in a dungeon fast:
My curse upon them every one,
They've hang'd my braw John
Highlandman!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Oh dear, night and day
the
experiments
are going on, and every man who brings a new
prescription is welcome as a brother.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The more my own fond wishes would impel
My steps to you, sweet company of
friends!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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and when my fears would rise,
With thy broad heart serenely interpose:
Brood down with thy divine sufficiencies
These
thoughts
which tremble when bereft of those,
Like callow birds left desert to the skies.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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This hope hath been to me for love and fame,
Hath made me wholly lonely on the earth,
Building me up as in a thick-ribbed tower,
Wherewith enwalled my watching spirit burned,
Conquering its little island from the Dark,
Sole as a scholar's lamp, and heard men's steps,
In the far hurry of the outward world,
Pass dimly forth and back, sounds heard in dream, 130
As Ganymede by the eagle was snatched up
From the gross sod to be Jove's cup-bearer,
So was I lifted by my great design:
And who hath trod Olympus, from his eye
Fades not that broader outlook of the gods;
His life's low valleys overbrow earth's clouds,
And that
Olympian
spectre of the past
Looms towering up in sovereign memory,
Beckoning his soul from meaner heights of doom.
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James Russell Lowell |
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