Things oft appear
That
minister
false matters to our doubts,
When their true causes are remov'd from sight.
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Assai
leggeramente
quel salimmo;
e volti a destra su per la sua scheggia,
da quelle cerchie etterne ci partimmo.
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" Lycius blush'd, and led
The old man through the inner doors broad-spread;
With
reconciling
words and courteous mien
Turning into sweet milk the sophist's spleen.
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But tell me true--for whom
labourest
thou,
And whose this garden?
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His
grandeur
we will try for,
His name we 'll live and die for--
The name of Washington!
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Others will lead me towards happiness
By the horns on my brow knotted with many a tress:
You know, my passion, how ripe and purple already
Every pomegranate bursts,
murmuring
with the bees:
And our blood, enamoured of what will seize it,
Flows for all the eternal swarm of desire yet.
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Say, on the noon when the half-sunny hours told that April was nigh,
And I upgathered and cast forth the snow from the crocus-border,
Fashioned and furbished the soil into a summer-seeming order,
Glowing in
gladsome
faith that I quickened the year thereby.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Now (sayd the Lady) draweth toward night,
And well I wote, that of your later fight
Ye all
forwearied
be: for what so strong, 285
But wanting rest will also want of might?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
LXXXVI
Love is so strong a thing,
The very gods must yield,
When it is welded fast
With the
unflinching
truth.
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Sappho |
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Now lat hir wende un-to hir owne place,
And torne we to Troilus a-yein,
That gan ful lightly of the lettre passe 220
That
Deiphebus
hadde in the gardin seyn.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Then believe me, my sweetheart, do,
While time still flowers for you,
In its freshest novelty,
Cull, ah cull your
youthful
bloom:
As it blights this flower, the doom
Of age will blight your beauty.
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Ronsard |
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] Unuk-(ki) ri-bi-tim [22]
ha-as-si-nu na-di-i-ma
e-li-su pa-ah- ru
ha-as-si-nu-um-ma sa-ni bu-nu-su
a-mur-su-ma ah-ta-ta a-na-ku
a-ra-am-su-ma ki-ma as-sa-tim
a-ha-ap-pu-up el-su
el-ki-su-ma as-ta-ka-an-su
a-na a-hi-ia
um-mi
iluGilgamish
mu-da-at ka-la-ma
[iz-za-kar-am a-na iluGilgamish]
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Ramsay's of Auchtertyre as I came up the
country, and am so delighted with him that I shall certainly accept of
his
invitation
to spend a day or two with him as I return.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I would indeed have had every illusion had I believed in
that straightforward logic, as of
newspaper
articles, which so tickles
the ears of the shopkeepers; but I always knew that the line of Nature
is crooked, that, though we dig the canal beds as straight as we can,
the rivers run hither and thither in their wildness.
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But why should I keep my
thoughts
to myself?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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It was preserved somehow, however; and after other kinds of
literature had arisen as inevitably and
naturally
as epic, and had
become, in their turn, things of less instant necessity than they were,
it was found that, in the manner and purpose of epic poetry, something
was given which was not given elsewhere; something of extraordinary
value.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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To try
theology
I'm almost minded.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Then hear my counsel, and to reason yield,
The bravest soon are satiate of the field;
Though vast the heaps that strow the crimson plain,
The bloody harvest brings but little gain:
The scale of
conquest
ever wavering lies,
Great Jove but turns it, and the victor dies!
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Iliad - Pope |
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O
hebbenly
Marster, what thou willest, dat mus' be jes' so,
And ef Thou hast bespoke de word, some nigger's bound to go.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Who will say that he saw, as midnight struck
Its
tremulous
golden twelve, a light in the window,
And first heard music, as of an old piano,
Music remote, as if it came from the earth,
Far down; and then, in the quiet, eager voices?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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She snuffs and barks if any passes bye
And swings her tail and turns
prepared
to fly.
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John Clare |
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Meredith - Poems |
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The author
has
endeavoured
to preserve the language adapted to his characters; and
where it is (and this is but rarely) taken from actual _Scripture_, he
has made as little alteration, even of words, as the rhythm would
permit.
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Byron |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Appoloinaire |
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"
With _Das Buch der Bilder_ the dream is ended, the veil of mist is
lifted and before us are revealed
pictures
and images that rise before
our eyes in clear colourful contours.
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Rilke - Poems |
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I never take care, yet I've taken great pain
To acquire some goods, but have none by me:
Who's nice to me is one I hate: it's plain,
And who speaks truth deals with me most falsely:
He's my friend who can make me believe
A white swan is the blackest crow I've known:
Who thinks he's power to help me, does me harm:
Lies, truth, to me are all one under the sun:
I
remember
all, have the wisdom of a stone,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Villon |
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"Then heavenly beauty could allay
As heavenly beauty stirred the strife:
By them a slave was
worshipped
more
Than is by us a wife.
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Christina Rossetti |
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This makes bold mouths;
Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze
Allegiance in them; their curses now
Live where their prayers did; and it's come to pass
This tractable obedience is a slave
To each
incensed
will.
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Shakespeare |
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I trust his paper will
be printed and
preserved
with the rest of our publications, because
these poems, as far as I can judge--but hearing them read does not
impress one so much as reading them at leisure--are well worthy of
careful perusal.
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Li Po |
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Then I went off to Huai-nan to pluck the laurel-branches,[35] and you
stayed north of the Lo, sighing over
thoughts
and dreams.
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Li Po |
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Endless ages shall cherish your fame,
Embalmed
in their echoing songs!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Loud he cried:
"Why
greedily
thus bendest more on me,
Than on these other filthy ones, thy ken?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Dear father, soul and
substance
of us all-
MARCUS.
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Shakespeare |
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My long thread
trembles
almost at the knife;
The breeze, that takes you, lifts me up alive,
And I'll follow those I loved, I the exile.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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We fight for it as for
a
principle
of liberty.
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Imagists |
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But, old owl, you should
eternally
pray God for me and my lads
that you and your master do not swing up there with the other rebels.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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His
persistence
finally roused an interest entirely
strange to her.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Towns and
strongholds were founded as places of defence; and possessions were
secured by
personal
beauty, strength, or cleverness.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Though scanty were their means, LOVE thither flew;
And with him brought a friend to take a view;
'Twas Cuckoldom
accompanied
the boy,
Two gods most intimate, who like to toy,
And, never ceremonious, seek to please
Go where they will, still equally at ease;
'Tis all for them good lodging, fare, or bed;
And, hut or palace, pleasantly they tread.
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La Fontaine |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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ABOUT THE ELEGIES
Goethe cultivated a special,
italianate
hand for this portfolio of
twenty-four "elegies," so called because he was emulating the elegiasts
of Imperial Rome, Tibullus, Propertius, Catullus.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Virgynne
and hallie Seyncte, who sitte yn gloure[52], 90
Or give the mittee[53] will, or give the gode man power.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Pale through
pathless
ways
The fancied image strays,
Famished, weeping, weak,
With hollow piteous shriek.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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and furthermore, had she a friend who exerted himself to put an
end to the
fighting?
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Aristophanes |
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Him walking on a Sunny hill he found,
Back'd on the North and West by a thick wood,
Out of the wood he starts in wonted shape;
And in a
careless
mood thus to him said.
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Milton |
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But now they are
jubilant
anew,
From cliff and tower, tu-whoo!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"
That
repulsive
old person of Sestri.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Hail, virgin, if you be, as those cheek-roses
Proclaim
you are no less.
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Shakespeare |
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When at the mess I used to sit,
Where many a one will show his wit,
And heard my comrades one and all
The flower of the sex extol,
Drowning their praise with bumpers high,
Leaning upon my elbows, I
Would hear the
braggadocios
through,
And then, when it came my turn, too,
Would stroke my beard and, smiling, say,
A brimming bumper in my hand:
All very decent in their way!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Lucan's determined
stoicism
may, philosophically, be more consistent
than the dubious stoicism of Virgil.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For
additional
contact information:
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare,
And those that after some TO-MORROW stare,
A Muezzin from the Tower of
Darkness
cries,
"Fools!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Nae hair-brain'd, sentimental traces,
In your unletter'd
nameless
faces!
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Robert Burns |
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Zourine
received
soon afterwards the news that the robber had been taken
and the order to halt.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_29 or]and Wise
manuscript
only.
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Shelley |
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Red glows the tyrant's stamp-mark on its bloom, _230
Withering and
cankering
deep its passive prime.
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Shelley |
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The ploughman hears its humming rage begin,
And hies for shelter from his naked toil;
Buttoning
his doublet closer to his chin,
He bends and scampers oer the elting soil,
While clouds above him in wild fury boil,
And winds drive heavily the beating rain;
He turns his back to catch his breath awhile,
Then ekes his speed and faces it again,
To seek the shepherd's hut beside the rushy plain.
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John Clare |
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Be where you list, your charter is so strong
That you
yourself
may privilage your time
To what you will; to you it doth belong
Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Wild
strawberries
which both gathered then,
None know now where they grew.
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John Clare |
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Quid hunc malum
fovetis?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I have given the first lines of the poems, the incipits, as Occitan
headings
(one only is in Latin), so that a quick search on the Web for the line, remembering to enclose it in double quotes, will usually turn up the original text for those who need to see it.
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Troubador Verse |
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I'm
thinking
of Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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League all your forces, then, ye powers above,
Join all, and try the
omnipotence
of Jove.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I ran to the place, drained of
strength
and colour,
And found him lifeless.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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" With our modern
and altogether
rational
ideas of the absurdity and impiety of warfare,
we are not precisely in that frame of mind best adapted to sympathize
with the sentiments, and thus to appreciate the real excellence of the
poem.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"That Spectre left you on the Third--
Since then you've not been haunted:
For, as he never sent us word,
'Twas quite by
accident
we heard
That any one was wanted.
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Lewis Carroll |
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you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of
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a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Stephen Crane |
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Making thy waves a
blessing
as they flow
Through banks whose beauty would endure for ever,
Could man but leave thy bright creation so,
Nor its fair promise from the surface mow
With the sharp scythe of conflict,--then to see
Thy valley of sweet waters, were to know
Earth paved like Heaven; and to seem such to me
Even now what wants thy stream?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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_My soul's half:_ Animae
dimidium
meae, Hor.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
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Ronsard |
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_Gillie_, _gillock_,
diminutive
of gill.
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Robert Burns |
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Am I to change my manners, Simon Renard,
Because these
islanders
are brutal beasts?
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Tennyson |
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But if his ideas were sometimes crude and boyish they were not by any
means always so; he has flashes of genius, sudden
beauties
that take
away the breath.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Chimene
That happiness so near, would fail
instead?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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I am
poisoned
with the rage of song.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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_S96_]
[53 do covet] doth covet _1669_, _O'F_, _S96_]
_To the
Countesse
of_ Bedford.
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John Donne |
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e
co{n}tre
of siriens wi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
'And so that you may carry news of me, know that I am
Bertrand
de Born,
he who gave evil counsel to the Young King.
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Troubador Verse |
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_16
festival
Harvard, Fred.
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Shelley |
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I had as lief have a reed that will do me no service
as a
partizan
I could not heave.
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from thy searching eyes
So saying--From her bosom weaving soft in Sinewy threads
A
tabernacleof
Delight for Jerusalem.
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Blake - Zoas |
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IV
FROM THE SEA
ALL beauty calls you to me, and you seem,
Past twice a
thousand
miles of shifting sea,
To reach me.
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"But who can tell if that uncertain glare
Be Phoebus' self, adorned with glowing vest;
Or, if illusions,
pregnant
in the air,
Have drawn our glances to the radiant west?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Whan that he herde him blamed so, 4065
He seide, 'Out of my wit I go;
To be
discomfit
I have gret wrong.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Even so, gentle, strong and wise and happy, 5
Through the soul and
substance
of my being,
Comes the breath of thy great love to me-ward,
O thou dear mortal.
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Sappho |
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(They were all of them fond of quotations:
So they drank to his health, and they gave him three cheers
While he served out
additional
rations).
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Lewis Carroll |
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The
helpless
worm arose and sat upon the Lillys leaf,
And the bright Cloud saild on, to find his partner in the vale.
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blake-poems |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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The stars of Night contain the glittering Day
And rain his glory down with sweeter grace
Upon the dark World's grand,
enchanted
face --
All loth to turn away.
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Sidney Lanier |
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But with a free and graceful soul
To strike the old familiar lyre,
And to a self-appointed goal
Sweep lightly o'er the
trembling
wire,
There lies, old gentlemen, to-day
Your task; fear not, no vulgar error blinds us.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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* I have often noticed a peculiar
movement
of the fire-flies;
--they will collect in a body and fly off, from a common
centre, into innumerable radii.
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Poe - 5 |
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Unwary, they
Oft for
themselves
themselves would then outpour
The poison; now, with nicer art, themselves
They give the drafts to others.
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Lucretius |
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