In this act of
creation
he serves eternity.
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Well I remember how the flowers
Descended from these boughs in showers,
Encircled in the
fragrant
cloud
She set, nor midst such glory proud.
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Of Eve's first fire he has a cinder;
Auld Tubal-Cain's fire-shool and fender;
That which
distinguished
the gender
O' Balaam's ass;
A broom-stick o' the witch o' Endor,
Weel shod wi' brass.
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35 Seeing Off Zheng Qian (18) Who Has Been
Banished
to the Post of Revenue Manager in Taizhou.
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Raymond's
interesting
observations annexed to his
translation of Coxe's 'Tour in Switzerland'.
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On the sands I sat 650
Weeping, nor life nor light
desiring
more.
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Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping,
suddenly
there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
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And Elde merveilith right gretly,
Whan they
remembre
hem inwardly
Of many a perelous empryse,
Whiche that they wrought in sondry wyse, 4970
How ever they might, withoute blame,
Escape awey withoute shame,
In youthe, withoute[n] damage
Or repreef of her linage,
Losse of membre, sheding of blode, 4975
Perel of deth, or losse of good.
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"Stars" are the jeweled
decorations
worn by members
of other noble orders.
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,
_defensive
fight, fight in self-defence_: dat.
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Beowulf |
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My thoughts on former pleasures ran;
I thought of Kilve's delightful shore,
My
pleasant
home, when spring began,
A long, long year before.
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, of which the
foundation
is feudalism,
with its ideas of lords and ladies, its imported standard of gentility, and
the manners of European high-life-below-stairs in every line and verse.
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Whitman |
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But He conferr'd not on
imperial
Rome
His birth's renown; He chose a lowlier sky,--
To stand, through Him, the proudest spot on earth!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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While some, on earnest
business
bent
Their murmuring labours ply
'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint
To sweeten liberty:
Some bold adventurers disdain
The limits of their little reign
And unknown regions dare descry:
Still as they run they look behind,
They hear a voice in every wind
And snatch a fearful joy.
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Golden Treasury |
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Piangera
Feltro ancora la difalta
de l'empio suo pastor, che sara sconcia
si, che per simil non s'entro in malta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Coleridge and Wordsworth
were influenced by the publication of Percy's
_Reliques_
to the making
of a simplicity altogether unlike that of old ballad-writers.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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the lake
A
conscious
slumber seems to take,
And would not, for the world, awake.
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Poe - 5 |
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5 secuntur in
codicibus
_Non custos.
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the years
Have lost their ancient leader, and no word
Breaks from the voiceless tripod on our ears:
While as a ruined mother in some spasm
Bears a base child and loathes it, so our best enthusiasm
Genders unlawful children, Anarchy
Freedom's own Judas, the vile prodigal
Licence who steals the gold of Liberty
And yet has nothing, Ignorance the real
One Fraticide since Cain, Envy the asp
That stings itself to anguish, Avarice whose palsied grasp
Is in its extent stiffened, moneyed Greed
For whose dull appetite men waste away
Amid the whirr of wheels and are the seed
Of things which slay their sower, these each day
Sees rife in England, and the gentle feet
Of Beauty tread no more the stones of each
unlovely
street.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Lo, a rill upsprings,
And from out its bosom
Comes a voice that sings
Lovelier
there appear
Sire and sisters dear,
While his mother near
Plumes her new-born wings.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Lesbia's Sparrow_
_a_
PASSER,
deliciae
meae puellae,
quicum ludere, quem in sinu tenere,
quoi primum digitum dare adpetenti
et acris solet incitare morsus,
cum desiderio meo nitenti
carum nescio quid libet iocari,
et solaciolum sui doloris,
credo, et cum grauis acquiescit ardor:
tecum ludere, sicut ipsa, possem,
et tristis animi leuare curas.
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XX
I know not, sir, if you the
adventure
dread
Of that so daring Moor to mind recall,
The leader, who had left his people dead,
Between the second work and outer wall;
Upon those limbs the ravening fire so fed,
Was never sight more sad!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I *11 have a rare son, in marrying though marred,
Shall govern (if not my
kingdom)
my guard,
And shall be successor to me or Gerard.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Now
wrinkled
forehead, hair gone grey:
Sparse eyelashes: eyes so dim,
That laughed and flashed once every way,
And reeled their roaming victims in:
Nose bent from beauty, ears thin,
Hanging down like moss, a face,
Pallid, dead and bleak, the chin
Furrowed, a skinny-lipped disgrace.
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Villon |
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See they
encounter
thee with their harts thanks
Both sides are euen: heere Ile sit i'th' mid'st,
Be large in mirth, anon wee'l drinke a Measure
The Table round.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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To view the glorious leader of the fleet
Increasing thousands swell o'er every street;
High o'er the roofs the struggling youths ascend,
The hoary fathers o'er the portals bend,
The windows sparkle with the glowing blaze
Of female eyes, and
mingling
diamond's rays.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The ageing of his manuscript of the _Vita Burtoni_, to take a further
instance, was effected by
smearing
the middle of it with glue or
varnish.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Shall will in others seem right gracious,
And in my will no fair
acceptance
shine?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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en depreced prouinces, &
patrounes
bicome
Welne3e of al ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
and he knew that it was mine, --
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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blake-poems |
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The Tartar horse prefers the North wind,
The bird from Yueh nests on the
Southern
branch.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Long have we dwelt together, thou and I;
Together
drunk of many an alien dawn,
And plucked the fruit of many an alien sky.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Behold where stands
Th' Vsurpers cursed head: the time is free:
I see thee compast with thy
Kingdomes
Pearle,
That speake my salutation in their minds:
Whose voyces I desire alowd with mine.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Quand parfois sur ce globe, en sa langueur oisive,
Elle laisse filer une larme furtive,
Un poete pieux, ennemi du sommeil,
Dans le creux de sa main prend cette larme pale,
Aux reflets irises comme un
fragment
d'opale,
Et la met dans son coeur loin des yeux du soleil.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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comme un reve de pierre,
Et mon sein, ou chacun s'est meurtri tour a tour,
Est fait pour
inspirer
au poete un amour
Eternel et muet ainsi que la matiere.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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This is clear--
you fell on the downward slope,
you dragged a bruised thigh--you limped--
you
clutched
this larch.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Be, as thy presence is,
gracious
and kind,
Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove:
Make thee another self for love of me,
That beauty still may live in thine or thee.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Then my guide, his palms
Expanding on the ground, thence filled with earth
Rais'd them, and cast it in his
ravenous
maw.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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MY DEAR SIR,
Let me tell you, that you are too
fastidious
in your ideas of songs
and ballads.
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Robert Burns |
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Evil by custom, as by nature frail,
I am so wearied with the long disgrace,
That much I dread my
fainting
in the race
Should let th' original enemy prevail.
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Petrarch |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Leopards, tigers, play
Round her as she lay;
While the lion old
Bowed his mane of gold,
And her bosom lick,
And upon her neck,
From his eyes of flame,
Ruby tears there came;
While the lioness
Loosed her slender dress,
And naked they conveyed
To caves the
sleeping
maid.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Heu misere exagitans inmiti corde furores
Sancte puer, curis hominum qui gaudia misces, 95
Quaeque regis Golgos quaeque Idalium frondosum,
Qualibus incensam iactastis mente puellam
Fluctibus
in flavo saepe hospite suspirantem!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Henceforth
she hath all the part
Of mother, yea, and father in my heart.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Hell is a city much like London--
A
populous
and a smoky city;
There are all sorts of people undone,
And there is little or no fun done; _150
Small justice shown, and still less pity.
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Shelley |
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CXIII
Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;
And that which governs me to go about
Doth part his function and is partly blind,
Seems seeing, but effectually is out;
For it no form
delivers
to the heart
Of bird, of flower, or shape which it doth latch:
Of his quick objects hath the mind no part,
Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch;
For if it see the rud'st or gentlest sight,
The most sweet favour or deformed'st creature,
The mountain or the sea, the day or night:
The crow, or dove, it shapes them to your feature.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Of partial Jove too justly we complain,
And heavenly oracles
believed
in vain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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[25] _namastu_ a late form which has
followed
the analogy of _restu_
in assuming the feminine _t_ as part of the root.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The son of
Hyrtacus
began thus:
'Euryalus, now for daring hands; all invites them; here lies our way;
see thou that none raise a hand from behind against us, and keep
far-sighted watch.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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For voice, nor hand, nor manage, will he stir,
Rebellious
to the rein or goading spur.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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This gift, long since when Sparta's shore he trod,
On young Ulysses Iphitus bestowed:
Beneath Orsilochus' roof they met;
One loss was private, one a public debt;
Messena's state from Ithaca detains
Three hundred sheep, and all the
shepherd
swains;
And to the youthful prince to urge the laws,
The king and elders trust their common cause.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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when day by day I gaze upon thee,
Thy
graceful
step, thy purely-polished brow,
Thine eyes' calm fire,--I feel my heart leap up,
And an eternal sunshine bathe my soul.
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Hugo - Poems |
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But come, my dear son, come with me
to take vengeance on this wretched
Chaerephon
and on Socrates, who have
deceived us both.
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Aristophanes |
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Silent
appeared
the gloomy place, and one
Fitting the cruel deed which should be done.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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]
Led by Wilhelm, as you tell,
God has done
extremely
well;
You with patronizing nod
Show that you approve of God.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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VI
God
fashioned
the ship of the world carefully
With the infinite skill of an All-Master
Made He the hull and the sails,
Held He the rudder
Ready for adjustment.
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Stephen Crane |
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No more Campania's hinds shall fly
To woods and caverns when they spy
Thy thrice
accursed
sail.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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A wizard told him in these words our fate:
"At length corruption, like a gen'ral flood
(So long by watchful
Ministers
withstood),
Shall deluge all; and av'rice, creeping on,
Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun;
Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocks,
Peeress and butler share alike the box,
And judges job, and bishops bite the town,
And mighty dukes pack cards for half-a-crown.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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not for wild beasts to roam
But many stood silent & busied in their
families
And many said We see no Visions in the darksom air
Measure the course of that sulphur orb that lights the dismal darksom day
Set stations on this breeding Earth & let us buy & sell
Others arose & schools Erected forming Instruments
To measure out the course of heaven.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Lines are always
daringly
constructed, and
the "thought-rhyme" appears frequently,--appealing, indeed, to an
unrecognized sense more elusive than hearing.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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, the
following
beautiful passage, for the translation of which
I am indebted to Coleridge, Classic Poets, p.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Experience, this; by man's
oppression
curst,
They seek the second not to lose the first.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Notes:
[The
references
are, except in the first note only, to the stanzas of
the Fifth edition.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It then goes forth against the King of Spain in
obedience
to
the command of Queen Elizabeth.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Little they think how sternly
That day the trumpets pealed;
How in the
slippery
swamp of blood
Warrior and war-horse reeled;
How wolves came with fierce gallops,
And crows on eager wings,
To tear the flesh of captains,
And peck the eyes of kings;
How thick the dead lay scattered
Under the Porcian height;
How through the gates of Tusculum
Raved the wild stream of flight;
And how the Lake Regillus
Bubbled with crimson foam,
What time the Thirty Cities
Came forth to war with Rome.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
When Attis,
spurious
woman, had thus chanted to her comity, the chorus
straightway shrills with trembling tongues, the light tambour booms, the
concave cymbals clang, and the troop swiftly hastes with rapid feet to
verdurous Ida.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Such a poet would naturally take for
his subject the battle of Regillus, the appearance of the Twin
Gods, and the
institution
of their festival.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
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Golden Treasury |
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though the
greenest
woods be thy domain,
Alone they can drink up the morning rain:
Though a descended Pleiad, will not one
Of thine harmonious sisters keep in tune
Thy spheres, and as thy silver proxy shine?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Praising
thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Who sent in secret
The brothers
Bityagovsky
with Kachalov?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And Oliver goes on to strike with speed;
No blame that way deserve the dozen peers,
For all the Franks they strike and slay with heat,
Pagans are slain, some swoon there in their seats,
Says the Archbishop: "Good
baronage
indeed!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Behind the
mountain
sank the moon.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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How glad I am to be
suffered
to stay.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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XXIII
What by weak herd, in fields of Hircany,
The tiger does, or Indian Ganges near,
Or wolf, by lamb or kid, on heights which lie
On Typheus' back, the cruel cavalier
Now executes on those, I will not, I
Call phalanxes or squadrons, but a mere
Rabble, that I should term a race forlorn,
Who but
deserved
to die ere they were born.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When
hurricanes
its surface fan,
O object of my fond devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Heaven frown'd--Dark vengeance lowering on his brows,
And sheath'd in brass, the proud
Castilian
rose,
Resolv'd the rigour to his daughter shown
The battle should avenge, and blood atone.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Of all the company
Now serving here besides, not one but you
Mine ear hath
witnessed
willing to bestow
Their wishes of my life, so long held dead.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Stephen Crane |
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When the stern demon, burning with disdain,
Beheld the fleet triumphant plough the main:
The powers of heav'n, and heav'n's dread lord he knew,
Resolv'd in Lisbon glorious to renew
The Roman honours--raging with despair
From high Olympus' brow he cleaves the air,
On earth new hopes of vengeance to devise,
And sue that aid denied him in the skies;
Blaspheming
Heav'n, he pierc'd the dread abode
Of ocean's lord, and sought the ocean's god.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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My little son
pretended
he knew what to do, he kept seeking bitter plums to eat.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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It is
as if a sculptor of to-day were to set himself, with reverence, and trained
craftsmanship, and studious
familiarity
with the spirit, technique, and
atmosphere of his subject, to restore some statues of Polyclitus or
Praxiteles of which he had but a broken arm, a foot, a knee, a finger upon
which to build.
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Sappho |
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Hinter den Ofen gebannt,
Schwillt
es wie ein Elefant
Den ganzen Raum fullt es an,
Es will zum Nebel zerfliessen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth, --
The
sweeping
up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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(1) To
vindicate
the text of 1633.
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John Donne |
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were I the leaf that the wind of the West,
His course through the forest uncaring;
To sleep on the gale or the wave's placid breast
In a
pendulous
cradle is bearing.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Stunn'd by that loud and
dreadful
sound,
Which sky and ocean smote:
Like one that hath been seven days drown'd
My body lay afloat:
But, swift as dreams, myself I found
Within the Pilot's boat.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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When the
tradition
in question is really
heroic, we know what his way is.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The room betrayed the mother--so she felt--
She kissed her boy and
questioned
"Are you here?
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Rilke - Poems |
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Were it otherwise,
What dost thou here, vouchsafing tender thoughts
To that earth-angel or earth-demon--which,
Thou and I have not solved the problem yet
Enough to argue,--that fallen Adam there,--
That red-clay and a breath,--who must, forsooth,
Live in a new
apocalypse
of sense,
With beauty and music waving in his trees
And running in his rivers, to make glad
His soul made perfect?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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