168), for convenience of
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We take it not precisely so;
What she in
thousand
steps can go,
Make all the haste she ever can,
'Tis done in just one leap by man.
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, _ruler, lord_, of a
temporal
ruler: nom.
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Next, Pallas azure-eyed in Mentor's form
And with the voice of Mentor, summoning
Telemachus
abroad, him thus bespake.
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In
mounting
higher,
The angels would press on us and aspire
To drop some golden orb of perfect song
Into our deep, dear silence.
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A tiny box of nard shall bring to light
The cask that in
Sulpician
cellar lies:
O, it can give new hopes, so fresh and bright,
And gladden gloomy eyes.
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My
messengers
were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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I have
therefore
dropped it and placed a comma
after 'late'.
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Love's madness he had known:
Often with more than tortured lion's groan
Moanings
had burst from him; but now that rage
Had pass'd away: no longer did he wage
A rough-voic'd war against the dooming stars.
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Nusch
The sentiments apparent
The
lightness
of approach
The tresses of caresses.
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The
Russians
flee again.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Meanwhile Aeneas sees deep withdrawn in the covert of the vale a
woodland and
rustling
forest thickets, and the river of Lethe that
floats past their peaceful dwellings.
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And still there's
something
in the world
At which his heart rejoices;
For when the chiming hounds are out,
He dearly loves their voices!
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Sire, your
highness
does me grace.
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Whence that completed form of all
completeness?
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His undisguised admiration for Byron doubtless
exposed him to imputations similar to those
commonly
levelled
against that poet.
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A gust of wind blew in and the king
bared his breast to meet it, saying: "How
pleasant
a thing is this wind
which I share with the common people.
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There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight
To me did seem
Apparell'd in celestial light,
The glory and the
freshness
of a dream.
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Li Po |
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And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the raven his nest has made
In its
thickest
shade.
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"
Then I
stretched
forth my arms.
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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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Lands of the dark-eyed maid and dusky Moor,
Alike beheld beneath pale Hecate's blaze:
How softly on the Spanish shore she plays,
Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown,
Distinct, though
darkening
with her waning phase:
But Mauritania's giant-shadows frown,
From mountain-cliff to coast descending sombre down.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Flying waterfalls and rolling
torrents
mingle their din.
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Li Po |
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'102 loads of lead':
curl papers used to be
fastened
with strips of lead.
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Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation are tax
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I quaked at heart; and still afraid, to see
All the Court filled with
stranger
things than he,
Ran out as fast as one that pays his bail
And dreads more actions, hurries from a jail.
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The English Translation
Un Coup de Des - Page 1
Un Coup de Des - Page 2
Un Coup de Des - Page 3
Un Coup de Des - Page 4
Un Coup de Des - Page 5
Un Coup de Des - Page 6
Un Coup de Des - Page 7
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The English Translation - Compressed, and Punctuated
ATHROW OF THE DICE NEVER, EVEN WHEN TRULY CAST IN THE ETERNAL CIRCUMSTANCE OF A SHIPWRECK'S DEPTH, Can be only the Abyss raging, whitened, stalled beneath the desperately sloping incline of its own wing, through an advance falling back from ill to take flight, and veiling the gushers, restraining the surges, gathered far within the shadow buried deep by that alternative sail, almost matching its yawning depth to the wingspan, like a hull of a vessel rocked from side to side
THE MASTER, beyond former calculations, where the lost manoeuvre with the age rose implying that formerly he grasped the helm of this conflagration of the concerted horizon at his feet, that readies itself; moves; and merges with the blow that grips it, as one
threatens
fate and the winds, the unique Number, which cannot be another Spirit, to hurl it into the storm, relinquish the cleaving there, and pass proudly; hesitates, a corpse pushed back by the arm from the secret, rather than taking sides, a hoary madman, on behalf of the waves: one overwhelms the head, flows through the submissive beard, straight shipwreck that, of the man without a vessel, empty no matter where
ancestrally never to open the fist clenched beyond the helpless head, a legacy, in vanishing, to someone ambiguous, the immemorial ulterior demon having, from non-existent regions, led the old man towards this ultimate meeting with probability, this his childlike shade caressed and smoothed and rendered supple by the wave, and shielded from hard bone lost between the planks born of a frolic, the sea through the old man or the old man against the sea, making a vain attempt, an Engagement whose dread the veil of illusion rejected, as the phantom of a gesture will tremble, collapse, madness, WILL NEVER ABOLISH
AS IF A simple insinuation into silence, entwined with irony, or the mystery hurled, howled, in some close swirl of mirth and terror, whirls round the abyss without scattering or dispersing and cradles the virgin index there AS IF
a solitary plume overwhelmed, untouched, that a cap of midnight grazes, or encounters, and fixes, in crumpled velvet with a sombre burst of laughter, that rigid whiteness, derisory, in opposition to the heavens, too much so not to signal closely any bitter prince of the reef, heroically adorned with it, indomitable, but contained by his petty reason, virile in lightning
anxious expiatory and pubescent dumb laughter that IF the lucid and lordly crest of vertigo on the invisible brow sparkles, then shades, a slim dark tallness, upright in its siren coiling, at the moment of striking, through impatient ultimate scales, bifurcated, a rock a deceptive manor suddenly evaporating in fog that imposed limits on the infinite
IT WAS THE NUMBER, stellar outcome, WERE IT TO HAVE EXISTED other than as a fragmented, agonised hallucination; WERE IT TO HAVE BEGUN AND ENDED, a surging that denied, and closed, when visible at last, by some profusion spreading in sparseness; WERE IT TO HAVE AMOUNTED to the fact of the total, though as little as one; WERE IT TO HAVE LIGHTED, IT WOULD BE, worse no more nor less indifferently but as much, CHANCE Falls the plume, rhythmic suspense of the disaster, to bury itself in the original foam, from which its delirium formerly leapt to the summit faded by the same neutrality of abyss
NOTHING of the memorable crisis where the event matured, accomplished in sight of all non-existent human outcomes, WILL HAVE TAKEN PLACE a commonplace elevation pours out absence BUT THE PLACE some lapping below, as if to scatter the empty act abruptly, that otherwise by its falsity would have plumbed perdition, in this region of vagueness, in which all reality dissolves
EXCEPT at the altitude PERHAPS, as far as a place fuses with, beyond, outside the interest signalled regarding it, in general, in accord with such obliquity, through such declination of fire, towards what must be the Wain also North A CONSTELLATION cold with neglect and desuetude, not so much though that it fails to enumerate, on some vacant and superior surface, the consecutive clash, sidereally, of a final account in formation, attending, doubting, rolling, shining and meditating before stopping at some last point that crowns it All Thought expresses a Throw of the Dice
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Fragments - Anatole's Tomb
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Sara
Teasdale
(1884-1933):
Teasdale was born in St.
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Sara Teasdale |
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" He hung down his head
And spake not, then
answering
blushed scarlet-red,--
"At the tryst with her lover.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I've
confessed
an unworthy love he'll deplore.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Muffling
his face, of greeting friends in fear,
Her fingers he press'd hard, as one came near
With curl'd gray beard, sharp eyes, and smooth bald crown,
Slow-stepp'd, and robed in philosophic gown:
Lycius shrank closer, as they met and past,
Into his mantle, adding wings to haste,
While hurried Lamia trembled: "Ah," said he,
"Why do you shudder, love, so ruefully?
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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(4)
Of this day's
glorious
feast and revel
The pleasure and delight are difficult to describe.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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All things, that appertain t' ye, like yourselves,
Are mortal: but
mortality
in some
Ye mark not, they endure so long, and you
Pass by so suddenly.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Haec circum sedes late
contexta
locavit,
Vestibulum ut molli velatum fronde vireret.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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What with these
sequins?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Have you forgotten what is
promised
us,
Because of stinking days and rotting nights?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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SECOND OPAL
If, from a careless hold,
One gem of these should fall,
No power of art or gold
Its wholeness could recall:
The
lustrous
wonder dies
In gleams of irised rain,
As light fades out from the eyes
When a soul is crushed by pain.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Its upholders may retort that much of the
work which I prefer seems to them, in its lack of
inspiration
and its
comparative finish, like tapioca imitating pearls.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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A
humorous
letter
LXXVI.
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Robert Forst |
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That day I strode with bridal song
Through lifted brands of Pelian pine;
A hand beloved lay in mine;
And loud behind a
revelling
throng
Exalted me and her, the dead.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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My heart that sometimes at night tries to know itself,
Or with which last word to name you the most tender
Exults in that which merely
whispered
sister
Were it not, such short tresses so great a treasure,
That you teach me quite another sweetness,
Soft through the kiss murmured only in your hair.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Ever new
My after fame shall grow, while pontiffs climb
With silent maids the
Capitolian
height.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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This love of ours it seems to be
Like a twig on a
hawthorn
tree
That on the tree trembles there
All night, in rain and frost it grieves,
Till morning, when the rays appear
Among the branches and the leaves.
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my eyes with terror glare;
My heart is
revelling
with the god;
'Tis madness!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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To them the grassy deeps divide,
And crowd a lane to either side ;
With whistling scythe and elbow strong
These
massacre
the grass along,
While one, unknowing, carves the rail.
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Marvell - Poems |
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--my
thoughts
do twine and bud
XXX I see thine image through my tears to-night
XXXI Thou comest!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Seated in
companies
they sit, with radiance all their own.
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blake-poems |
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When all
were seated, and each one had been offered a cup of tea, the General
explained lengthily and
minutely
what was the affair in hand.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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He served out some grog with a liberal hand,
And bade them sit down on the beach:
And they could not but own that their Captain looked grand,
As he stood and
delivered
his speech.
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Lewis Carroll |
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How unhappy are the maidens who with Cupid may not play,
Who may never touch the wine-cup, but must tremble all the day
At an uncle, and the
scourging
of his tongue!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Perform no
miracles
for me,
But justify Thy laws to me
Which, as the years pass by me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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But I
remember
now
I am in this earthly world: where to do harme
Is often laudable, to do good sometime
Accounted dangerous folly.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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That Popham is referred to seems not
unlikely from the fact that he was the most important personage who
had embarked upon an enterprise of this sort, that his scheme was one
of the earliest, that he was not a strict
contemporary
(d.
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My wings, pure golden, of radiant sheen
(Painted as amorous poet's strain),
Glimmer at night, when meadows green
Sparkle with the
perfumed
rain
While the sun's gone to come again.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Then Beowulf's glory
eager they echoed, and all averred
that from sea to sea, or south or north,
there was no other in earth's domain,
under vault of heaven, more valiant found,
of
warriors
none more worthy to rule!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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`Ye, that to me,' quod she, `ful lever were
Than al the good the sonne aboute gooth';
And therwith-al she swoor him in his ere,
`Y-wis, my dere herte, I am nought wrooth, 1110
Have here my trouthe and many another ooth;
Now speek to me, for it am I,
Cryseyde!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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something it must mean, for sure,
And Hylax on the
threshold
'gins to bark!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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gāst-bona is
regarded
by Ettmüller and G.
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Beowulf |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But should the play
Prove piercing earnest,
Should the glee glaze
In death's stiff stare,
Would not the fun
Look too
expensive?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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is wicked Nero hadde gret 2052
lordship
{and} ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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For change in
anything
from out its bounds
Means instant death of that which was before;
And thus a somewhat must persist unharmed
Amid the world, lest all return to naught,
And, born from naught, abundance thrive anew.
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Lucretius |
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How does he conquer every
element?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Instead of an
arbitrary
selection by an editor,
each poet has been permitted to represent himself by the work he considers
his best, the only stipulation being that it should not yet have appeared
in book form.
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Imagists |
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In a very ugly and
sensible
age the arts borrow, not from life, but from
each other.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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She looks into me
The unknowing heart
To see if I love
She has
confidence
she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Perhaps, and no
unlikely
thought!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--Je connais
Des
vieilles
qui s'en vont pleurant sous leurs bonnets
Parce qu'on leur a pris leur garcon ou leur fille:
C'est la crapule.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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For the poore Wren
(The most
diminitiue
of Birds) will fight,
Her yong ones in her Nest, against the Owle:
All is the Feare, and nothing is the Loue;
As little is the Wisedome, where the flight
So runnes against all reason
Rosse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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er it lay on bere,
As sonne
schinede
bry?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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O wild and
whirling
words, that sweep in gloom
Down to dark waves of doom!
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Aeschylus |
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But why of that epocha make such a fuss,
That gave us th'
Electoral
stem?
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Robert Forst |
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The tapers slowly fade
Thou
speedest
from these halls,
Now that thy love is dead--
And sound of weeping falls.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And whilst so many
lustrums
of the sun
Rolled on across the sky, men led a life
After the roving habit of wild beasts.
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Lucretius |
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[400] For his victories in Britain under the
auspices
of
Claudius, who nominally shared with him the command of the
expedition, A.
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Tacitus |
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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled
me--filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
"'Tis some visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door--
Some late visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door;--
This it is, and nothing more.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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In all external grace you have some part,
But you like none, none you, for
constant
heart.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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No heart there is so hard, so cold no will,
By true tears, fervent prayers, and
faithful
love
That will not deign at length to melt and move.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Have those
scalping
Indian devils come to murder us once more?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Where, group'd in one rich form, the
beauties
rare,
Which long their magic influence o'er me shed?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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With your old eyes
Do you hope to see
The triumphal march of
Justice?
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Stephen Crane |
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"
After saying which words Zourine began to whistle so slyly that all the
others began to laugh, and I
remained
confused.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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None of them had achieved any martial
exploit, such as those by which Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus,
Titus Quinctius Capitolinus, Aulus Cornelius Cossus, and, above
all, the great Camillus, had extorted the
reluctant
esteem of the
multitude.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections
3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally
accessible
and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Whatever absence from her must endure,
Sire, it is yet
happiness
to hope for more.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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hē him frēondlārum hēold,
_supported
him with friendly advice_,
2378.
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Beowulf |
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That's why I'll never have a child,
Never shut up a
chrysalis
in a match-box
For the moth to spoil and crush its bright colours,
Beating its wings against the dingy prison-wall.
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Imagists |
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The Warders
strutted
up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their uniforms were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the quicklime on their boots.
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Wilde - Poems |
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His steed and he right well agree,
For of this pony there's a rumour,
That should he lose his eyes and ears,
And should he live a
thousand
years,
He never will be out of humour.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
VIII
Aphrodite of the foam,
Who hast given all good gifts,
And made Sappho at thy will
Love so greatly and so much,
Ah, how comes it my frail heart 5
Is so fond of all things fair,
I can never choose between
Gorgo and
Andromeda?
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Sappho |
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For sure 'tis quite beside the mark to think
That
judgment
and the nature of the mind
In any kind of body can exist--
Just as in ether can't exist a tree,
Nor clouds in the salt sea, nor in the fields
Can fishes live, nor blood in timber be,
Nor sap in boulders: fixed and arranged
Where everything may grow and have its place.
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Lucretius |
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Do not fear for me:
All evil things are
powerless
on the man
Selected by Jehovah.
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Byron |
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Songs of a Strolling Player
THROUGH the
blossoms
softly simmer
Drops profound and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to
reproduce
her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Whoever laughs
somewhere
out in the night
Laughs without cause in the night
Laughs at me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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