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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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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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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To prove the truth of what I state
Let me an
anecdote
relate:
A Gascon with his comrade sat
At tavern drinking.
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La Fontaine |
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And will they not repay the
treasures
lent?
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Byron |
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"There are many other things worthy of note, such as
'crazed
By love and feeling, and internal thought
Protracted among endless solitudes,'
all of which are 'fit epithets blessed in the marriage of pure words,'
which the author of 'The Prelude', without any special learning, or
personal
knowledge
of Spain, has given us, and are so striking as to
compel us once again to go to Wordsworth and say, 'we do not all
understand thee yet, not all that thou hast given us.
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William Wordsworth |
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I brave not heaven: but if the fruits of earth
Sustain thy life, and human be thy birth,
Bold as thou art, too
prodigal
of breath,
Approach, and enter the dark gates of death.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Nature, the gentlest mother,
Impatient of no child,
The feeblest or the waywardest, --
Her
admonition
mild
In forest and the hill
By traveller is heard,
Restraining rampant squirrel
Or too impetuous bird.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Though I could have gone off to my
ramshackle
gate,1 12 I could not bring myself to mention it right then.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The filth and
repulsiveness
of the assembly were beyond
all description, and I shuddered to think what their life in the
badger-holes must be.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Golden lights will gleam out
sullenly
into silence,
Before I return.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
The stranger
vanished
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Hero ever found
Eviradnus
is kinsman of the race
Of Amadys of Gaul, and knights of Thrace,
He smiles at age.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The pass was steep and rugged,
The wolves they howled and whined;
But he ran like a
whirlwind
up the pass,
And he left the wolves behind.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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They walked out
together
in all sorts of weather,
That affable person of Nice!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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ey wollde for no need
Com to gedur in
Flesschely
ded.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Three sweet and
precious
names in thee combine,
Of mother, daughter, wife,
Virgin!
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Petrarch |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Wailing and praying
The spirits rise and go: 60
Clear
stainless
spirits
White as white as snow;
Pale spirits, wailing
For an overthrow.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Only he mourned the
baseness
of mankind,
And--that the beds too short he still doth find.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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Petersburg, Boldino, Tsarskoe Selo, 1880-1881]
I
In the Lyceum's
noiseless
shade
As in a garden when I grew,
I Apuleius gladly read
But would not look at Cicero.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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There, take the
darkling
gold, the gentle gray
From birches and from box--the zephyrs sway,
Few lingering roses yet their perfumes breathe,
Select them, kiss them and a crown enwreathe.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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underneath
the dens of Earth
The Cities send to one another saying My sons are Mad
With wine of cruelty.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Meredith - Poems |
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So I lose none,
In seeking to augment it, but still keepe
My Bosome franchis'd, and
Allegeance
cleare,
I shall be counsail'd
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And I said, "I will seek that city and the
blessedness
thereof.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Children
before their fleshly birth
Are lights in the blue sky.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
croupier
raked in the money while he looked on in stupid terror.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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volunteers
and donations
from people in all walks of life.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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To Cleis
"I have a fair
daughter
with a form like a golden flower,
Cleis, the beloved.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The genre, which is becoming one, like the symphony, little by little, alongside personal poetry, leaves intact the older verse; for which I maintain my worship, and to which I attribute the empire of passion and dreams, though this may be the
preferred
means (as follows) of dealing with subjects of pure and complex imagination or intellect: which there is no remaining justification for excluding from Poetry - the unique source.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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III
IN Debtors' Yard the stones are hard,
And the
dripping
wall is high,
So it was there he took the air
Beneath the leaden sky,
And by each side a Warder walked,
For fear the man might die.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Thel is like a watry bow, and like a parting cloud,
Like a
reflection
in a glass: like shadows in the water
Like dreams of infants, like a smile upon an infants face.
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blake-poems |
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Neighbor East, come over West;
Pledge me in good wine and words
While I count my hundred herds,
Sum the substance of my Past
From the first unto the last,
Chanting o'er the generous brim
Cloudy memories yet more dim,
Ghostly rhymes of
Norsemen
pale
Staring by old Bjoerne's sail,
Strains more noble of that night
Worn Columbus saw his Light,
Psalms of still more heavenly tone,
How the Mayflower tossed alone,
Olden tale and later song
Of the Patriot's love and wrong,
Grandsire's ballad, nurse's hymn --
Chanting o'er the sparkling brim
Till I shall from first to last
Sum the substance of my Past.
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Sidney Lanier |
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No distinct empire is
assigned to fate or fortune; the will of the father of gods and men
is
absolute
and uncontrollable.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Hereupon it was agreed to
postpone
the internal examination
until the next evening; and we were about to separate for the present,
when some one suggested an experiment or two with the Voltaic pile.
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Christina Rossetti |
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O love, in mercy, now, thy
swiftest
pinions grant me!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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XVI
And yet, because thou
overcomest
so,
Because thou art more noble and like a king,
Thou canst prevail against my fears and fling
Thy purple round me, till my heart shall grow
Too close against thine heart henceforth to know
How it shook when alone.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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O to have life
henceforth
a poem of new joys!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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s
usefulness
in the crisis was a delusion that Suzong could not afford to entertain.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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If she's to press in comfort a lover against that soft bosom,
Doesn't he want her to be free from all
brooches
and chains?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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L
"Bust she, that moves us like the dust which flies
Before the restless wind, which whirls it round,
Lifts if aloft awhile, and from the skies
Blows back anew the rising cloud to ground,
To a hundred thousand swells, in Francis' eyes,
The
soldiers
who Pavia's walls surround.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The proud and tender heart that sat in shade
Nor once solicited another's aid,
Yet was so grateful always
For trifles lightly given,
The silences, the
melancholy
guessed
Sometimes, when your eyes strayed.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Now, hovering bee-like, she would stop
Entranced before some
tempting
shop,
Getting in people's way and prying
At things she never thought of buying:
Now wafted on without an aim,
Until in course of time she came
To Watson's bootshop.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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If, by Paris slain,
Great
Menelaus
press the fatal plain;
The dame and treasures let the Trojan keep,
And Greece returning plough the watery deep.
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Iliad - Pope |
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When the dawn had reached its prime, we enjoyed
the view of a distinct horizon line, and could fancy
ourselves
at sea,
and the distant hills the waves in the horizon, as seen from the deck
of a vessel.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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With dun-red bark
The fir-trees, and the unfrequent slender oak,
Forth from this tangle wild of bush and brake
Soar up, and form a
melancholy
vault
High o'er me, murmuring like a distant sea.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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To some extent this is no doubt
explained
by a fact to which
he often refers in his letters, and which, in his own opinion, hindered him
not only from writing about himself in verse, but from writing verse at
all.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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THEY SAY--
They say I have a constant heart, who know
Not anything of how it turns and yields
First here, first there; nor how in
separate
fields
It runs to reap and then remains to sow;
How, with quick worship, it will bend and glow
Before a line of song, an antique vase,
Evening at sea; or in a well-loved face
Seek and find all that Beauty can bestow.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Again doth flash our old ancestral sword,
This
glorious
sword--the dread of dark Kazan!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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nam neque mortiferas quisquam magis oderit herbas,
quod non arbitrio ueniunt, sed semine certo;
gratia nec leuior
tribuetur
dulcibus escis
quod natura dedit fruges, non ulla uoluntas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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ou quelque vieux desir,
Eperonnant encor ta vivante carcasse,
Te pousse-t-il, credule, au sabbat du
Plaisir?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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How didst thou stand, in high
abstracted
mood,
Scarce moving with slow dignity thine eyes!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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e
teccheles
termes of talkyng noble,
Wich spede is in speche, vnspurd may we lerne,
[G] Syn we haf fonged ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations where
we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Stephen Crane |
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Prince Rupert continued to honour him with his
friendship long after the rest of his party had
honoured him by their hatred, and
occasionally
visited the patriot at his lodgings.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And this perfume of another world, whereof I intoxicated myself with a
so perfected sensitiveness; alas, its place is taken by an odour of
stale tobacco smoke, mingled with I know not what
nauseating
mustiness.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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They put arsenic in his meat
And stared aghast to watch him eat;
They poured
strychnine
in his cup
And shook to see him drink it up:
They shook, they stared as white's their shirt:
Them it was their poison hurt.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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As bold Sir Plume had drawn
Clarissa
down,
Chloe stepped in, and killed him with a frown;
She smiled to see the doughty hero slain,
But at her smile the beau revived again.
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Alexander Pope |
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Artists enjoy ateliers which are furnished
So as to make for a space Pantheon-like in decor:
Jupiter lowers that godly brow while his Juno looks upward;
Phoebus takes forward strides, shaking his curly head;
While phlegmatic Minerva peers down on us,
frivolous
Hermes
Seems to be looking askance, roguish, though tender as well.
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(Sigemund had
begotten
Fitela by his sister, Signȳ.
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His canvas is the
beautiful
bright veil
Through which her sorrow shines.
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At open barriers, one by one, the place
They kept against all comers for a day;
At first with lance, and next with sword or mace,
While them the king
delighted
to survey.
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ou
p{ur}posest
to [[pg 93]]
seke.
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A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Dans cette grande plaine ou l'autan froid se joue,
Ou par les longues nuits la
girouette
s'enroue,
Mon ame mieux qu'au temps du tiede renouveau
Ouvrira largement ses ailes de corbeau.
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Let me
confess!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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They taught me pothooks--
I wanted to be alone, although I was so little,
Alone, away from the rain, the dingyness, the dullness,
Away somewhere else--
The town was dull;
The front was dull;
The High Street and the other street were dull--
And there was a public park, I remember,
And that was damned dull too,
With its beds of
geraniums
no one was allowed to pick,
And its clipped lawns you weren't allowed to walk on,
And the gold-fish pond you mustn't paddle in,
And the gate made out of a whale's jaw-bones,
And the swings, which were for "Board-School children,"
And its gravel paths.
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Imagists |
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As killing as the Canker to the Rose,
Or Taint-worm to the
weanling
Herds that graze,
Or Frost to Flowers, that their gay wardrop wear,
When first the White thorn blows;
Such, Lycidas, thy loss to Shepherds ear.
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Milton |
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But for this
defection
Arnold might have
triumphed in his assault on Quebec.
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'And now beside thee,
bleating
lamb,
I can lie down and sleep,
Or think on Him who bore thy name,
Graze after thee, and weep.
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Aiken was consulted, and in
consequence of his advice, the certificate of
marriage
was destroyed.
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Robert Burns |
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Upon this
point there is no
difference
of opinion.
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Tacitus |
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Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days,
Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise:
Born with whate'er could win it from the wise,
Women and fools must like him or he dies;
Though
wondering
senates hung on all he spoke,
The club must hail him master of the joke.
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but not without a plan;
A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot;
Or garden
tempting
with forbidden fruit.
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These are the whole, and four's a number round;
You'll probably remark, 'tis strange I've found
Such
pleasure
in detailing convent scenes:--
'Tis not my whim, but TASTE, that thither leans:
And, if you'd kept your breviary in view,
'Tis clear, you'd nothing had with this to do;
We know, howe'er, 'tis not your fondest care;
So, quickly to our hist'ry let's repair.
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La Fontaine |
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