Dark thick foliage
hems it in on either hand, and into it a bare footpath leads by a narrow
gorge and
difficult
entrance.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Make way, from wave-bound verge to verge
Of all our land, that this great multitude
With lamentation proud albeit subdued,
Deep
murmuring
like the ocean's mighty surge,
May pass beneath the heavens' triumphal arch!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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L'hiver, nous irons dans un petit wagon rose
Avec des
coussins
bleus.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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AT Ephesus, in former times, once shone,
A fair, whose charms would dignify a throne;
And, if to publick rumour credit 's due,
Celestial
bliss her husband with her knew.
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La Fontaine |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 346 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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his hands the lyre
explore!
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Golden Treasury |
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When
flattery
glares, all hate it in a queen,
While one there is who charms us with his spleen.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Make haste, Brothers and Sisters, push
With might and main round the ivy-bush,
Struggle and pull at the laurel-tree,
And leave the barberries be
For poor lost
lunatics
like me,
Who set them so high
They overtop the sun in the sky.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Here we
allow
absolute
freedom to the journalist, and entirely limit the artist.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'Twas thou, didst bend my mother to her shame:
Thy weak hand
murdered
him who led to fame
The hosts of Hellas--thou, that never crossed
O'erseas to Troy!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Hushing signs she made,
And breath'd a sister's sorrow to persuade 410
A
yielding
up, a cradling on her care.
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Keats |
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The other day famed Spenser I did bring,
In lofty notes Tudor's blessed race to sing ;
How Spain's proud powers her virgin arms con-
trolled,
And golden days in
peaceful
order rolled ;
How like ripe fruit she dropped from off her
throne.
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Marvell - Poems |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The sonnets of Les
Antiquites
provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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53_
Genlis, Stephanie
Felicite
Ducrest, Marquise de Sillery, Madame de, i.
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Byron |
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gins to swell
With timely pride above the Aegyptian vale,
His fattie waves do fertile slime outwell,
And overflow each plaine and lowly dale:
But when his later spring gins to avale, 185
Huge heapes of mudd he leaves, wherein there breed
Ten thousand kindes of creatures, partly male
And partly female of his
fruitful
seed;
Such ugly monstrous shapes elswhere may no man reed.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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blake-poems |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips
denounce
you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Two lovers murmur and are still In mutual oblivion
Of any soul that
saunters
by
Or smiles and blesses and is gone.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Proud
capital!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"The Raven" was first
published
on the 29th January, 1845, in the New
York "Evening Mirror"-a paper its author was then assistant editor of.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Happy Lucretius knew how in his day to forego love completely,
Fearing not to enjoy
pleasure
in anyone's arms.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Immovably and silently he stands
Placed where the confused current ebbs and flows;
Past fathomless dark depths that he commands
A shallow generation
drifting
goes.
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Rilke - Poems |
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But Patroclus, the loved
friend of Achilles, saw this destruction coming upon the Greeks, and
he earnestly
besought
Achilles, if he would not be moved to sally
forth to the rescue himself, to suffer him to go out against the
Trojans, bearing the arms of Achilles and leading his Myrmidons into
the fray.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_He _must be blind indeed who does not
perceive the radical and chasmal difference between the
truthful
and the
poetical modes of inculcation.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And when the night is deep,
Come visions, sweet and sad, and bearing pain
Of hopings vain--
Void, void and vain, for scarce the sleeping sight
Has seen its old delight,
When thro' the grasps of love that bid it stay
It
vanishes
away
On silent wings that roam adown the ways of sleep.
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Aeschylus |
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Like trains of cars on tracks of plush
I hear the level bee:
A jar across the flowers goes,
Their velvet masonry
Withstands until the sweet assault
Their chivalry consumes,
While he, victorious, tilts away
To
vanquish
other blooms.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Footsteps
shuffled on the stair.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Project
Gutenberg is a
registered
trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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But lest the breast be purged, what
conflicts
then,
What perils, must bosom, in our own despite!
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Lucretius |
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255
Harum pars tecta quatiebant cuspide thyrsos,
Pars e divolso iactabant membra iuvenco,
Pars sese tortis serpentibus incingebant,
Pars obscura cavis celebrabant orgia cistis,
Orgia, quae frustra cupiunt audire profani, 260
Plangebant aliae
proceris
tympana palmis
Aut tereti tenues tinnitus aere ciebant,
Multis raucisonos efflabant cornua bombos
Barbaraque horribili stridebat tibia cantu.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"Aegyptus,
according
to the most widely spread reports, having
landed at Argos with his fifty daughters[507] .
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Aristophanes |
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HE FEARS THAT AN ILLNESS WHICH HAS
ATTACKED
THE EYES OF LAURA MAY
DEPRIVE HIM OF THEIR SIGHT.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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In 1862, after the
breaking-out of the great Civil War, in which his enthusiastic unionism and
also his anti-slavery
feelings
attached him inseparably though not
rancorously to the good cause of the North, he undertook the nursing of the
sick and wounded in the field, writing also a correspondence in the _New
York Times_.
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Whitman |
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Je n'ai pas oublie, voisine de la ville,
Notre blanche maison, petite mais tranquille,
Sa Pomone de platre et sa vieille Venus
Dans un bosquet chetif cachant leurs membres nus;
Et le soleil, le soir, ruisselant et superbe,
Qui, derriere la vitre ou se brisait sa gerbe,
Semblait, grand oeil ouvert dans le ciel curieux,
Contempler
nos diners longs et silencieux,
Repandant largement ses beaux reflets de cierge
Sur la nappe frugale et les rideaux de serge.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Sed tuos altus amor barathro fuit altior illo,
Qui durum domitam ferre iugum docuit:
Nam nec tam carum confecto aetate parenti
Vna caput seri nata nepotis alit, 120
Qui, cum divitiis vix tandem inventus avitis
Nomen testatas intulit in tabulas,
Inpia derisi gentilis gaudia tollens
Suscitat a cano volturium capiti:
Nec tantum niveo gavisast ulla columbo 125
Conpar, quae multo dicitur inprobius
Oscula mordenti semper
decerpere
rostro,
Quam quae praecipue multivolast mulier.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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nos salives dessechees
Roux laideron
Infectent
encor les tranchees
De ton sein rond!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Now one
breathes
here the rankness of desolation.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And, for the sake of them thou
sorrowest
for,
Do me the favour to dilate at full
What have befall'n of them and thee till now.
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Shakespeare |
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"It is," said he, "a
necessity
for soldiers like us.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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A transcript exists amongst
the Shelley manuscripts at the
Bodleian
Library.
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Shelley |
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What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the
palpitating
air!
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Poe - 5 |
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`I sey not
therfore
that I wol yow love,
Ne I sey not nay, but in conclusioun,
I mene wel, by god that sit above:' --
And ther-with-al she caste hir eyen doun, 1005
And gan to syke, and seyde, `O Troye toun,
Yet bidde I god, in quiete and in reste
I may yow seen, or do myn herte breste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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He robbed the rich to give
to the poor, and waged
ceaseless
war against the wealthy prelates of the
church.
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Keats |
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te campo
quaesiuimus
minore,
te in Circo, te in omnibus libellis,
te in templo summi Iouis sacrato.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Now it passed into power of the people's king,
best of all that the oceans bound
who have
scattered
their gold o'er Scandia's isle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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yea, piles of slain
To the third
generation
shall attest
By silent eloquence to those that see--
_Let not a mortal vaunt him overmuch_.
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Aeschylus |
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Moncli (Monclis, Monclin, Mondis) and his lady, Audierna, are presumed to be
characters
in a lost romance.
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Troubador Verse |
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I
transcribe a portion thereof:
Odessa, _28th March (7th April)_ 1824
Count--Your
Excellency
is aware of the reasons for which, some
time ago, young Pushkin was sent with a letter from Count Capo
d'Istria to General Inzoff.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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This is just what the
original
contributors to the
_Miscellany_ have done.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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"Sir, Spain has sent a
thousand
jars of oil;
Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door;
A hundred oxen at your levee roar.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Sufficed, soft
whispering
thus to Nestor's son,
His head reclined, young Ithacus begun:
"View'st thou unmoved, O ever-honour'd most!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I find the meaning of their gentle look
More
difficult
than any learned book.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Young palmer sun, that to these shining sands
Pourest thy pilgrim's tale, discoursing still
Thy silver
passages
of sacred lands,
With news of Sepulchre and Dolorous Hill,
Canst thou be he that, yester-sunset warm,
Purple with Paynim rage and wrack desire,
Dashed ravening out of a dusty lair of Storm,
Harried the west, and set the world on fire?
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Sidney Lanier |
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deathless flame Gave thee thine aureole, what Lord thy
strength?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"
Herman trembled like a leaf as the
appointed
hour drew near.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For-why to every lovere I me excuse,
That of no
sentement
I this endyte,
But out of Latin in my tonge it wryte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Many men have been cured of
diseases
by
accidents; but they were not remedies.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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8164
(unpublished) _al-gar_, _al-gar-balag_ in list with _(gis)-a-la_,
also an
instrument
of music.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
Straightway
answered
and spake John Alden, the comely, the youthful:
"Yes, he was equally skilled, as you say, with his pen and his weapons.
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Longfellow |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and
reported
to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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That there is a
falsehood
in his looks,
I must and will deny:
They tell their Master is a knave,
And sure they do not lie.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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XXV "This Child with piteous lamentation then 170
Was taken up, singing his song alway;
And with procession great and pomp of men
To the next Abbey him they bare away;
His Mother
swooning
by the body [2] lay:
And scarcely could the people that were near 175
Remove this second Rachel from the bier.
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William Wordsworth |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the
changing
breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks pricking us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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140
So marcheth home, and by her takes the knight,
Whom all the people follow with great glee,
Shouting, and
clapping
all their hands on hight,
That all the aire it fils, and flyes to heaven bright.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Our auld guidman
delights
to view
His sheep an' kye thrive bonnie, O;
But I'm as blythe that hauds his pleugh,
An' has nae care but Nannie, O.
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Robert Burns |
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De Beranger has wrought innumerable
things, pungent and spirit-stirring, but in general they have been too
imponderous to stamp
themselves
deeply into the public attention, and
thus, as so many feathers of fancy, have been blown aloft only to be
whistled down the wind.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A perfume
of exalted virtue
emanated
from all her being.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Each drinks a full
oblivion
of his cares,
And to the gifts of balmy sleep repairs,
Ulysses in the regal walls alone
Remain'd: beside him, on a splendid throne,
Divine Arete and Alcinous shone.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The light of this new
learning
wanes and dies:
The ghosts of Luther and Zuinglius fade
Into the deathless hell which is their doom
Before my star!
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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"What do these tea-boxes
and
breeches
with cuffs matter to me?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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In this context Du Fu asked for and was granted
permission
to visit his family in Fuzhou, several hundred miles from Fengxiang.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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, is in Gothic, and _A
Romaunt_
in Roman type.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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How many lovers
Hath not its lulling
Cradled to slumber
With the ripe flowers, 15
Ere for our pleasure
This golden summer
Walked through the corn-lands
In
gracious
splendour!
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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The scholar's knife cuts best at its first use
And my dreams hurried on to the
completion
of my plan.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The truth of these remarks might be shown by innumerable
passages from the Bible and from the
impassioned
poetry of every
nation.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And in things unknown to a man, not
to give his opinion, lest by the affectation of knowing too much he lose
the credit he hath, by
speaking
or knowing the wrong way what he utters.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"If 'tis allowed to ask," (the lady cried,)
"Tell me in
courtesy
how ye are hight.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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MARGARET
[_darts in, hides behind the door, presses the tip of
her finger to her lips, and peeps through the crack_].
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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He was
emotionally
and artistically unable to forge a finished work from them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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" and a child
Of six years' age ran from a house close by,
And
struggled
to remain and clasped his knees,
Saying, "He is my daddy.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Thy dewy looks sink in my breast;
Thy gentle words stir poison there;
Thou hast
disturbed
the only rest
That was the portion of despair!
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Shelley |
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ou art welcome nou vs tille,
here-in
schaltou
wone.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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, il sollicitait l'amitie de Sainte-Beuve et de Flaubert (tout
recemment poursuivi pour avoir ecrit _Madame Bovary_), des moyens
de defense dont les minutes ont ete
conservees
et dont il transmettait
la teneur a son avocat, Me Chaix d'Est-Ange.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
In Italy she watches the faces of the monks, and at one moment
longs to attain to their peace by renunciation, longs for Nirvana;
"then, when one comes out again into the hot
sunshine
that warms
one's blood, and sees the eager hurrying faces of men and women
in the street, dramatic faces over which the disturbing experiences
of life have passed and left their symbols, one's heart thrills up
into one's throat.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I met Master Cheng only recently, when talking with him,
outstanding
talent shows.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He spake of plants that hourly change
Their blossoms, through a boundless range
Of
intermingling
hues;
With budding, fading, faded flowers,
They stand the wonder of the bowers
From morn to evening dews,
He told of the Magnolia, spread
High as a cloud, high over head!
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Golden Treasury |
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_12 though soon they
fall]though
soon we or so soon they cj.
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Shelley |
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Mark his
capricious
ways to draw the eye.
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Emerson - Poems |
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If such a thing should happen as that I should outlive
you, I wish you would make me your
literary
legatee
and executor.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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[11]
A love-song I had somewhere read,
An echo from a
measured
strain,
Beat time to nothing in my head
From some odd corner of the brain.
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Tennyson |
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45 to traine the youth=
=Of London, in the
military
truth.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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