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[Sidenote F: In this bright bower was noble bedding;]
[Sidenote G: the
curtains
were of pure silk with golden hems;]
[Sidenote H: Tarsic tapestries covered the walls and the floor.
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breeding?
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And fancy the _scion_ of a _house_ in the act
of
_throwing
itself_ upon a _germ of sentiment_ to _raise a standard!
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HIS noble entertainments raised surprise;
Magnificence alone would not suffice;
Delightful
pleasures he dispensed around,
And flattery abundantly was found,
An art in which a demon should excel:
No devil surely e'er was liked so well.
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In human works, tho' labour'd on with pain,
A thousand
movements
scarce one purpose gain;
In God's, one single can its end produce; 55
Yet serves to second too some other use.
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Meredith - Poems |
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No man:
Th'
expedition
of my violent Loue
Out-run the pawser, Reason.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I know they think me mad, for all night long
I haunt the sea-marge,
thinking
I may find
Some day the herb he offered unto me.
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90
XI
One mother, when as her
foolehardie
chyld
Did come too neare, and with his talants play,
Halfe dead through feare, her little babe revyld,
And to her gossips gan in counsell say;
How can I tell, but that his talants may 95
Yet scratch my sonne, or rend his tender hand?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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If you a goddess love, advance she'll make;
Our belle the same
advantages
would take.
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La Fontaine |
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So
slumbered
the stout-heart.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Winters know
Wise and polite,--and if I drew
Wisp and meteor nightly falling
With beams
December
planets dart
With the key of the secret he marches faster
Would you know what joy is hid
Yes, sometimes to the sorrow-stricken
You shall not be overbold
You shall not love me for what daily spends
Your picture smiles as first it smiled
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INDEX OF TITLES
[The titles in small capital letters are those of the principal
divisions of the work; those in lower case are of single poems, or the
subdivisions of long poems.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And why it
scatters
its bright beauty thro the humid air.
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blake-poems |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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gāre, 1076;
blōdigan
gāre, 2441; gen.
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Beowulf |
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I issue out on the
sloping height of the ridge, whence wretched
Teucrian
hands were hurling
their ineffectual weapons.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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A man
ascaunse
upponn a piece maye looke,
And shake hys hedde to styrre hys rede[42] aboute;
Quod he, gyf I askaunted oere thys booke,
Schulde fynde thereyn that trouthe ys left wythoute; 20
Eke, gyf[43] ynto a vew percase[44] I tooke
The long beade-rolle of al the wrytynge route,
Asserius, Ingolphus, Torgotte, Bedde,
Thorow hem[45] al nete lyche ytte I coulde rede.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Doubt is fled, and clouds of reason,
Dark
disputes
and artful teazing.
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blake-poems |
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And now to Xanthus' gliding stream they drove,
Xanthus,
immortal
progeny of Jove.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Nay--let me rather
Turn unto the
wilderness!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I and thee
Permitted
face to face to be;
After a life, a death we'll say, --
For death was that, and this is thee.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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In the first scene he makes a servant ask his
fellow-servants about things he must have known as well as they; and he
loses a dramatic moment in his third scene by
forgetting
that Seagan
Gorm has a pocket-full of money which he would certainly, being the man
he was, have offered to the woman he was urging into temptation.
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Yeats |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Listen to me: I went to King
Arthur's court to ask for Sir
Lancelot
to come to help my sister, and as
I ended my plea, up bawls this kitchen boy: 'Mine's the quest.
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Tennyson |
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Gold light and woolpacks in the west are leaving,
And leaden streaks their
splendid
place supply.
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John Clare |
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: spatium unius uersus in O titulo carens
1
_exuritionum_
uel _exuricionum_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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"Then my hammock should be silk,
White as milk;
And, more soft than down of dove,
Velvet cushions where I sit
Should emit
Perfumes
that inspire love.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And finally it teaches as hardly any other
body of English verse can be said to do, the
perennial
value of
conscious and controlling art.
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Alexander Pope |
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She through ether burns
Outpacing planetary earth,
And ere two years triumphantly returns,
And again wave-like swelling flows,
And again her flashing
apparition
comes and goes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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_Care not then, Madam,'how low your
praysers
lye.
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John Donne |
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LE DORMEUR DU VAL
C'est un trou de verdure ou chante une riviere
Accrochant
follement aux herbes des haillons
D'argent; ou le soleil, de la montagne fiere,
Luit: c'est un petit aval qui mousse de rayons.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I can see nothing: the pain, the
weariness!
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Imagists |
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Of all the things I crave,
The
thousand
things, or all that others have,
What should I pray for?
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Euripides - Electra |
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But that she goes to this old thorn,
The thorn which I've
described
to you,
And there sits in a scarlet cloak,
I will be sworn is true.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Kingfisher
blue!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall
My buried life, and Paris in the Spring,
I feel
immeasurably
at peace, and find the world
To be wonderful and youthful, after all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The owls have hardly sung their last,
While our four
travellers
homeward wend;
The owls have hooted all night long,
And with the owls began my song,
And with the owls must end.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe
Such as
eternity
at last transforms into Himself,
The Poet rouses with two-edged naked sword,
His century terrified at having ignored
Death triumphant in so strange a voice!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Will you allow me, Sir, to present
you them, as the dearest offering that a
misbegotten
son of poverty
and rhyme has to give?
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Robert Forst |
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Omnia qui magni dispexit lumina mundi,
Qui stellarum ortus comperit atque obitus,
Flammeus ut rapidi solis nitor obscuretur,
Vt cedant certis sidera temporibus,
Vt Triviam furtim sub Latmia saxa relegans 5
Dulcis amor gyro devocet aerio,
Idem me ille Conon caelesti in lumine vidit
E Beroniceo vertice caesariem
Fulgentem clare, quam cunctis illa deorum
Levia protendens brachia pollicitast, 10
Qua rex tempestate novo auctus hymenaeo
Vastatum finis iverat Assyrios,
Dulcia
nocturnae
portans vestigia rixae,
Quam de virgineis gesserat exuviis.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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satisne cum isto
Vappa frigoraque et famem
tulistis?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I wot 'twere shame
on the law of our land if alone the king
out of Geatish warriors woe endured
and sank in the
struggle!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And the brown clay is
runneled
by the rain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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CHORUS
Thou
guiltless
of this murder, thou!
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Aeschylus |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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nec discrimen habet rectaue iudicat:
inconstans
fragilis perfida lubrica
nec quos clarificat perpetuo fouet,
nec quos deseruit perpetuo premit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Since the taking of Ticonderoga
A century has rolled away;
But with pride the nation remembers
That
glorious
morning in May.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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_The wind blows out of the gates of the day,
The wind blows over the lonely of heart,
And the lonely of heart is withered away,
While the faeries dance in a place apart,
Shaking their milk-white feet in a ring,
Tossing their milk-white arms in the air;
For they hear the wind laugh, and murmur and sing
Of a land where even the old are fair,
And even the wise are merry of tongue;
But I heard a reed of
Coolaney
say,
'When the wind has laughed and murmured and sung,
The lonely of heart is withered away!
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Yeats |
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[Sidenote: They slept upon the grass, and drank of the running
stream, and
reclined
under the shadow of the tall pine.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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For oak and elm have
pleasant
leaves
That in the springtime shoot:
But grim to see is the gallows-tree,
With its adder-bitten root,
And, green or dry, a man must die
Before it bears its fruit!
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Wilde - Poems |
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610 And of an
impertinent
Critic, etc.
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Alexander Pope |
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What are the showy
treasures?
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Robert Forst |
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"God knows that for myself I've scanty care;
Past
scrimmages
have proved as much to all;
In Eastern lands and South I've had my share
Both of the blade and ball.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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To
Hondscio
then was that harassing deadly,
his fall there was fated.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Phaedra
He seems like some
terrible
monster to my glance.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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As the municipal
government had made a particular ass of itself in the prosecution of
Gustave
Flaubert
and his Madame Bovary, the Baudelaire matter was
disposed of in haste.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Yet still those eyes
retained
their tropic fire, 1837.
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William Wordsworth |
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[213] 'The Babylonians' had been
produced
at a time of year when Athens
was crowded with strangers; 'The Acharnians,' on the contrary, was played
in December.
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Aristophanes |
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I haue liu'd long enough: my way of life
Is falne into the Seare, the yellow Leafe,
And that which should
accompany
Old-Age,
As Honor, Loue, Obedience, Troopes of Friends,
I must not looke to haue: but in their steed,
Curses, not lowd but deepe, Mouth-honor, breath
Which the poore heart would faine deny, and dare not.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Wo ist dein Lieben
Geblieben?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Is it some
hovering
sprite with whistling scream that hurls
Down to the deep from yon old tower a loosened stone?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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) A very mysterious Line in the Original:
O danad O danad O danad O--
breaking off
something
like our Wood-pigeon's Note, which she is said
to take up just where she left off.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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No wine had they with which to consecrate
The blazing rites, but with
libation
poor
Of water hallow'd the interior parts.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That
censures
falsely what they see aright?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Re-enter_
FITZDOTTREL
_with a cudgel_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave once her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's,
breathing
English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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--
IDONEA O
miserable
Father!
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William Wordsworth |
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Nullam, attamen, ex agro illo meo parvulo segetem
demessui
praeter
gaudium vacuum bene de Republica merendi.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Not through the eyes alone,
shamefully
enchanted,
Do I love the beauty of him, his grace so vaunted,
Gifts with which nature wished to honour him,
Which he himself disdains, ignores it seems.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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SAS}
Thy brother Luvah hath smitten me but pity thou his youth
Tho thou hast not pitid my Age O Urizen Prince of Light {According to Erdman, "Blake first wrote and erased a
different
text for 8, ending ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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KINGS IN LEGENDS
Kings in old legends seem
Like
mountains
rising in the evening light.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Contents
Translator's note:
Les Amours de Cassandre: XX
Les Amours de Cassandre: XXXVI
Les Amours de Cassandre: XLIII
Les Amours de Cassandre: XLIV
Les Amours de Cassandre: XCIV
Les Amours de Cassandre: CXXXV
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLX
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXII
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXIV
Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCII
Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCIII
Les Amours de Marie: VI
Les Amours de Marie: IX
Les Amours de Marie: XLIV
Sur La Mort de Marie: IV
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: IX
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: XIX
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: L
Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLIII
Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLIX
Les Odes: A Sa Maistresse
Les Odes: O Fontaine Bellerie
Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Index of First Lines
Translator's note:
Most of the Classical references
mentioned
in the notes are well known, and easily found in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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Ronsard |
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No lofty crest I raise:
Wisdom that thought forbids, Maecenas mine,
The
knightly
order's praise.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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XVI
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
Mountains of water now set in motion,
A thousand breakers of cliff-jarring ocean,
Striking the reef, driven in the wind's maw:
View now a fierce northerly, with emotion,
Stirring the storm to its loud-whistling core,
Then folding in air its vaster wing once more
Suddenly weary, as if at some new notion:
As we see a flame, spread in a hundred places,
Gather, in one flare, towards heaven's spaces,
Then powerless fade and die: so, in its day,
This Empire passed, and
overwhelming
all
Like wave, or wind, or flame, along its way,
Halted at last by Fate, sank here, in fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Now,
prostrate
round the hallow'd shrine we lie,[328]
Till rosy morn bespreads the eastern sky;
Then, breathing fix'd resolves, my daring mates
March to the ships, while pour'd from Lisbon's gates,
Thousands on thousands crowding, press along,
A woful, weeping, melancholy throng.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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But
something
said, "This water is of Death!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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30
Resolv'd to win, he
meditates
the way,
By force to ravish, or by fraud betray;
For when success a Lover's toil attends,
Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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--from my house hath outcast me;
She hath borne
children
to our enemy;
She hath made me naught, she hath made Orestes naught.
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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LXVIII
"The things related I in part descried,
And from him, present at the whole, heard more;
From Norandine, through calend and through ide,
Pent, till he changed to smiles his anguish sore:
And if from other you hear aught beside,
Say, he is ill
instructed
in his lore.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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My heavy sighs no longer meet in rhyme,
And my hard
martyrdom
exceeds all song!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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He spake,
reclined
him on death's bloody bed,
And with a parting groan his spirit fled.
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Shelley |
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Their garb, discover'd as approaching nigh,
Was cotton strip'd with many a gaudy dye:
'Twas one whole piece beneath one arm confin'd,
The rest hung loose and flutter'd on the wind;
All, but one breast, above the loins was bare,
And
swelling
turbans bound their jetty hair:
Their arms were bearded darts and faulchions broad,
And warlike music sounded as they row'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The seaman strikes
His small lost bell again,
watching
the west
As she below him watches.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The myrtle groves are those of the Underworld in
Classical
mythology.
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Ronsard |
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The hillside vines dear memories of Thee bring:
A bird at evening flying to its nest
Tells me of One who had no place of rest:
I think it is of Thee the
sparrows
sing.
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Wilde - Poems |
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[617] The
cylinder
and the beams were the chief tools of the weaver.
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Aristophanes |
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De fin'amor son tot mei pensamen
On true love are all my thoughts bent
And my desires and my sweetest days,
With true and faithful heart I'll serve always,
To live close to Amor I do consent,
And in simplicity I'll serve him still
Though my service bring me only ill,
Since they are painful and dangerous
The
torments
Love grants his followers.
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Troubador Verse |
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Rise, woman, rise
To thy peculiar and best altitudes
Of doing good and of
enduring
ill,
Of comforting for ill, and teaching good,
And reconciling all that ill and good
Unto the patience of a constant hope,--
Rise with thy daughters!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I go, my lord, in heart
desiring
still
You may behold confusion of your foes.
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Shakespeare |
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I adore her, and my soul, rebelling at your order, 1125
Can only breathe, and be
inspired
by her.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
He thus: "Not if thy
Countenance
were mask'd
With hundred vizards, could a thought of thine
How small soe'er, elude me.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Nor nobly seized me in the dire alarms
Of war and slaughter, and the clash of arms
Stabb'd by a murderous hand Atrides died,
A foul adulterer, and a
faithless
bride;
E'en in my mirth, and at the friendly feast,
O'er the full bowl, the traitor stabb'd his guest;
Thus by the gory arm of slaughter falls
The stately ox, and bleeds within the stalls.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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By way of a hat he'd a loaf of Brown Bread,
In the middle of which he inserted his head;
His Shirt was made up of no end of dead Mice,
The warmth of whose skins was quite fluffy and nice;
His Drawers were of Rabbit-skins, so were his Shoes;
His Stockings were skins, but it is not known whose;
His Waistcoat and Trowsers were made of Pork Chops;
His Buttons were Jujubes and Chocolate Drops;
His Coat was all Pancakes, with Jam for a border,
And a girdle of
Biscuits
to keep it in order;
And he wore over all, as a screen from bad weather,
A Cloak of green Cabbage-leaves stitched all together.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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