And
wherefore
gone?
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_My Prew_,
Prudence
Baldwin.
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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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I'm not in love; but
altogether
posed
I am by lovers.
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charge them with the
bayonet!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The Hare
River
Landscape
with Hare
'River Landscape with Hare'
Abraham Genoels, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Lodewijk XIV, 1650 - 1690, The Rijksmuseun
Don't be fearful and lascivious
Like the hare and the amorous.
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Appoloinaire |
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"At length, her life's third flowery epoch won,
She, year by year, so grew in charms and worth,
That ne'er, methinks, the sun
Such
gracefulness
and beauty saw on earth;
Her eyes so full of modesty and mirth,
Music and welcome on her words so hung,
That mute in her high praise,
Which thine alone may sound, is every tongue:
So bright her countenance with heavenly rays,
Not long thy dazzled vision there may rest;
From this her fair and fleshly tenement
Such fire through thine is sent
(Though gentler never kindled human breast),
That yet I fear her sudden flight may be
Too soon the cause of bitter grief to thee.
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Earth's glories flee of human eyes unseen,
Earth's
kingdoms
fade to a remembered dream,
But thine henceforth shall be a power supreme,
Dazzling command and rich dominion,
The winds thy heralds and thy vassals all
The silver-belted planets and the sun.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Oh the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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blake-poems |
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In the time of Dionysius the
cavalcade
sometimes
consisted of five thousand horsemen, all
persons of fair repute and easy fortune.
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"
The Sugar-tongs
answered
distinctly, "Of course!
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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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It was made from the shell of a tortoise, stuck round with leather, with two horns and a
sounding
board and strings made from sheep's gut.
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Appoloinaire |
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Was this an
expiation?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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For like great wings forcefully smiting air
And driving it along in rushing rivers,
Desire of joy beats
mightily
pulsing forward
The world's one nature, and all the loose lives therein,
Carried and greatly streaming on a gale
Of craving, swept fiercely along in beauty;--
Like a great weather of wind and shining sun,
When the airs pick up whole huge waves of sea,
Crumble them in their grasp and high aloft
Sow them glittering, a white watery dust,
To company with light: so we are driven
Onward and upward in a wind of beauty,
Until man's race be wielded by its joy
Into some high incomparable day,
Where perfectly delight may know itself,--
No longer need a strife to know itself,
Only by its prevailing over pain.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Diegue
Yes, see, she's fainting, and from perfect love,
In this swoon, Sire, see how her
passions
move.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Thou lyest
abhorred
Tyrant, with my Sword
Ile proue the lye thou speak'st.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The consequence is, that she, who was
once the sovereign mistress of the sciences, and led them as handmaids
in her train, is now
deprived
of her attendants, reduced,
impoverished, and, stripped of her usual honours (I might say of her
genius), compelled to exercise a mere plebeian art.
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Keats |
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For I heard of few heroes, in heartier mood,
with four such gifts, so
fashioned
with gold,
on the ale-bench honoring others thus!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Lapraik, An Old Scottish Bard
April 1, 1785
While briers an' woodbines budding green,
An'
paitricks
scraichin loud at e'en,
An' morning poussie whiddin seen,
Inspire my muse,
This freedom, in an unknown frien',
I pray excuse.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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1862]
_This poetic
effusion
of Mr.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Only to be twin
elements
of joy
In this extravagance of Being, Love,
Were our divided natures shaped in twain;
And to this hour the whole world must consent.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Fifth Self: Nay, it is I, the thinking self, the
fanciful
self,
the self of hunger and thirst, the one doomed to wander without
rest in search of unknown things and things not yet created; it is
I, not you, who would rebel.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And shall that which could not fill the expectation of few
hours, entertain and take up our whole lives, when even it
appeared
as
superfluous to the possessors as to me that was a spectator?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He saw Winny's
withered face and her withered arms that were grey like
crumbled
earth,
and weak as he was he shrank back farther towards the wall.
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Yeats |
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The
Portuguese
prince even visited the Kingdoms of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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Lycius to all made
eloquent
reply, 340
Marrying to every word a twinborn sigh;
And last, pointing to Corinth, ask'd her sweet,
If 'twas too far that night for her soft feet.
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Keats |
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Bonnivard, a Genevese, was
imprisoned
by the Duke of Savoy in Chillon on
the lake of Geneva for his courageous defence of his country against the
tyranny with which Piedmont threatened it during the first half of the
seventeenth century.
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Golden Treasury |
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This they
discussed
in various mood;
Then in the silence that ensued
Was heard a sharp and sudden sound
As of a bowstring snapped in air;
And the Musician with a bound
Sprang up in terror from his chair,
And for a moment listening stood,
Then strode across the room, and found
His dear, his darling violin
Still lying safe asleep within
Its little cradle, like a child
That gives a sudden cry of pain,
And wakes to fall asleep again;
And as he looked at it and smiled,
By the uncertain light beguiled,
Despair!
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Longfellow |
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She is contemporary with the other persons, but I have no strict warrant for
dragging
her name into this particular affair.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The Moor towards her raised his haughty front,
And
straight
blasphemed the eternal Hierarchy,
That horse, so richly trapped and passing fair,
He had not found in a knight-errant's care.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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_ To have at one's command; to be able to
supply, devise or suggest (a
pregnant
use).
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Think of the Soul;
I swear to you that body of yours gives
proportions
to your Soul somehow to
live in other spheres;
I do not know how, but I know it is so.
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Whitman |
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The parted bosom clings to wonted home,
If aught that's kindred cheer the welcome hearth;
He that is lonely, hither let him roam,
And gaze
complacent
on congenial earth.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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He 58
distributed among Roman knights the court-offices which had been
usually held by freedmen,[108] paid the centurions their furlough-fees
out of the imperial purse,[109] and for the most part conceded the
soldiers' savage demands for one execution after another, though he
occasionally cheated them by
pretending
to imprison their victims.
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Tacitus |
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William Wordsworth |
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Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is
quelled from one failure or two
failures
or any number of failures, or from
the casual indifference or ingratitude of the people, or from the sharp
show of the tushes of power, or the bringing to bear soldiers and cannon or
any penal statutes.
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Whitman |
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THOUGH TRUE AS TOUCH, though true as if tested on the touchstone
(by which true gold was
distinguished
from counterfeit).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And twice
victorious
crossed Acheron:
Plucking from Orpheus' lyre one by one
The saintly sighs and the faerie cries.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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'These
buttercups
shall brim with wine
Beyond all Lesbian juice or Massic;
May not New England be divine?
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James Russell Lowell |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
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Meredith - Poems |
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But nought to me returns save sorrowing sighs,
Forced from my inmost heart by her who bore
Those keys which govern'd it unto the skies:
The blossom'd meads, the choristers of air,
Sweet courteous damsels can delight no more;
Each face looks savage, and each
prospect
drear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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SNOWY MOUNTAINS
Higher and still more high,
Palaces made for cloud,
Above the dingy city-roofs
Blue-white like angels with broad wings,
Pillars of the sky at rest
The
mountains
from the great plateau
Uprise.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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When, softly usher'd by the milky dawn,
The sun first rises[536] o'er the daisied lawn,
His silver lustre, as the shining dew
Of radiance mild, unhurt the eye may view:
But, when on high the noon-tide flaming rays
Give all the force of living fire to blaze,
A giddy
darkness
strikes the conquer'd sight,
That dares, in all his glow, the lord of light.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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During the reign of Elizabeth a large part of
Cecil's
energies
was directed toward the economic development of the
country.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Whether he was combin'd with those of Norway,
Or did lyne the Rebell with hidden helpe,
And vantage; or that with both he labour'd
In his Countreyes wracke, I know not:
But
Treasons
Capitall, confess'd, and prou'd,
Haue ouerthrowne him
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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]
[Sidenote D: In cleanness and courtesy he was never found wanting,]
[Sidenote E: therefore was the endless knot
fastened
on his shield.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your
thoughts
for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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What boots it thus to snatch at
pleasure?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Watch
patiently
till the crust begins to rise, and add a pinch of salt from
time to time.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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at mihi Persephone nigram
denuntiat
horam:
immerito iuueni parce nocere, dea.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The listener remained
perfectly
mute.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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= 'Schlegel, seizing with great felicity upon
an
untranslateable
German idiom, called the play _Der dumme Teufel_
[Schlegel's _Werke_, ed.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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hateful thou hast made thyself
To me; for thou hast hatefully soiled my beauty,
My preciousest, given me to attire my soul
For her long
marriage
festival of life.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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If I be she that may yow do gladnesse, 180
For every wo ye shal
recovere
a blisse';
And him in armes took, and gan him kisse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Oh father and mother, if buds are nipped,
And blossoms blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the
springing
day,
By sorrow and care's dismay, --
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
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blake-poems |
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And in order to secure the independence he valued so
highly he
resolved
to embark upon the great work of his life, the
translation of Homer.
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Alexander Pope |
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Next morn, as the sun rose over the bay,
Still floated our flag at the
mainmast
head.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
Nature's Law--A Poem
Humbly
inscribed
to Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
But now my master
summoning
me back
I heard, and with more eager haste besought
The spirit to inform me, who with him
Partook his lot.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Shall I not see that hour before I die,
When I shall cull the flower of her springtime
Who makes my being
languish
in the dark?
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Ronsard |
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THE LITTLE GIRL LOST
In futurity
I prophetic see
That the earth from sleep
(Grave the
sentence
deep)
Shall arise, and seek
for her Maker meek;
And the desert wild
Become a garden mild.
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blake-poems |
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of
isof is of
is
of
of
fit
This book should be
returned
to the Library on or before the last date stamped below.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"At his feet are sitting gentle
Sainted bears, who in their life-time
Uncomplaining
suffered; in their
Paws the palm of martyrdom.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Nicolas to show that Omar gave
himself up "avec passion a l'etude de la
philosophie
des Soufis"?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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" she asked in a
frightened
whisper.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I walked, with other souls in pain,
Within another ring,
And was
wondering
if the man had done
A great or little thing,
When a voice behind me whispered low,
'_That fellow's got to swing_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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' 70
--Here the laurel leaves
murmured
the name of poor Daphne.
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James Russell Lowell |
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<>,
disse 'l maestro mio
fermando
'l passo,
<
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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