Let him alone, for I
remember
now
How he's employ'd; he shall in time be ready.
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Shakespeare |
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I do not like to
remember
things any more.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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800
I noot; but, as for me, my litel tonge,
If I
discreven
wolde hir hevinesse,
It sholde make hir sorwe seme lesse
Than that it was, and childishly deface
Hir heigh compleynte, and therfore I it pace.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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e
wrecched
soulen; & in-to pyne hem cast.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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true freedom is to share
All the chains our
brothers
wear
And, with heart and hand, to be
Earnest to make others free!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Indeed, indeed,
Repentance
oft before
I swore--but was I sober when I swore?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The
raindrops
on his [ ] track
Lodge like pearls upon his back.
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John Clare |
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They can take down all the huff and
swelling
of
their looks, and like dexterous auditors place the counter where he shall
value nothing.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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For the
delights
of Venus, verily,
Are more unmixed for mortals sane-of-soul
Than for those sick-at-heart with love-pining.
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Lucretius |
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Sin and Death amain
Following
his track, such was the will of Heav'n,
Pav'd after him a broad and beat'n way
Over the dark Abyss, whose boiling Gulf
Tamely endur'd a Bridge of wondrous length
From Hell continu'd reaching th' utmost Orbe
Of this frail World; by which the Spirits perverse 1030
With easie intercourse pass to and fro
To tempt or punish mortals, except whom
God and good Angels guard by special grace.
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Milton |
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The Romany
Has crossed such
delicate
palms with lead or gold,
Wheedling in sun and rain, through perilous years,
All coins now look alike.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Ben: Jonson_ ('The state
and mens affairs'), 'Deare Love, continue nice and chaste',
'Wherefore peepst thou envious Daye', 'Great and good, if she
deride me', _To the Blessed Virgin Marie_ ('In that o Queene
of Queenes'), 'What if I come to my
Mistresse
bed', 'Thou
sentst to me a heart as sound', 'Believe your glasse', _A
Paradox of a Painted Face_ ('Not kisse!
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John Donne |
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Raising himself on his elbow, the wounded man called for
another pistol, crying, "I've
strength
left to fire my shot!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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_ quae spargit ramos, tremula nos uestiet umbra
ulmus, et in tenero corpus
summittere
prato
herba iubet: tu dic quae sit tibi causa tacendi.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And this was the boy
who only ten days before had
decorated
Amomma's horns with cut-paper
ham-frills and turned him out, a bearded derision, among the public
ways!
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Kipling - Poems |
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at were
enbrawded
& beten wyth ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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For, fisherman, what fresh or seawater catch
equals him, either in form or savour,
that lovely divine fish, Jesus, My
Saviour?
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Appoloinaire |
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And ever against eating cares,
Lap me in soft Lydian airs
Married to
immortal
verse,
Such as the meeting soul may pierce
In notes, with many a winding bout
Of linked sweetness long drawn out,
With wanton heed and giddy cunning
The melting voice through mazes running,
Untwisting all the chains that tie
The hidden soul of harmony;
That Orpheus' self may heave his head
From golden slumber, on a bed
Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear
Such strains as would have won the ear
Of Pluto, to have quite set free
His half-regain'd Eurydice.
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Golden Treasury |
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Replaced
anon,
Its cameo of the abjured one drew
Her musings thereupon.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Tell me too, for I would learn--
Took he
perforce
thy sable bark away,
Or gav'st it to him at his first demand?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Some were red like
cinnabar
pebbles, 40 others, black like spots of lacquer.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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<>, diss' io, <
colui che mostra se piu negligente
che se
pigrizia
fosse sua serocchia>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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This wondrous Phoenix with the golden plumes
Forms without art so rare a ring to deck
That beautiful and soft and snowy neck,
That every heart it melts, and mine consumes:
Forms, too, a natural diadem which lights
The air around, whence Love with silent steel
Draws liquid subtle fire, which still I feel
Fierce burning me though sharpest winter bites;
Border'd with azure, a rich purple vest,
Sprinkled
with roses, veils her shoulders fair:
Rare garment hers, as grace unique, alone!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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By God's truth I 've seen The arrowy
sunlight
in her golden snares.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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O studious Poet,
eloquent
for truth!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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2
Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with
perfumes,
I breathe the
fragrance
myself and know it and like it,
The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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--is, then, a sequence of odes expressing, in the image of some
fortunate and lofty mind, as much of the spiritual significance which
the epic purpose must continue from Milton, as is possible, in the style
of
Lucretius
and Wordsworth, for subjective symbolism.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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As the dulce downie barbe beganne to gre,
So was the well thyghte texture of hys lore;
Eche daie
enhedeynge
mockler for to bee, 105
Greete yn hys councel for the daies he bore.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
_James Norman Hall_
"ALL THE HILLS AND VALES ALONG"
All the hills and vales along
Earth is
bursting
into song,
And the singers are the chaps
Who are going to die perhaps.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The bird watches Lysicrates,
because,
according
to Pisthetaerus, he had a right to a share of the
presents.
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Aristophanes |
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Then when a little more I rais'd my brow,
I spied the master of the sapient throng,
Seated amid the
philosophic
train.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Is the Duke aware
We seek his
presence?
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Byron |
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Project Gutenberg's Etext of Poems, Series 1, by Emily Dickinson
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the copyright laws for your country before posting these files!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Lewis Carroll |
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But now of these,
Who here proceed, instruct me, if thou see
Any that merit more
especial
note.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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NA AUDIART
"QUE BE-M VOLS MAL"
Any one who has read
anything
of the troubadours knows well the tale of Bertran of Born and My Lady Maent of Mon- taignac, and knows also the song he made when she would none
her love-lit glance, of Aelis her speech free-running, of the Vicomp- tess of Chales her throat and her two hands, at Roacoart of Anhes her hair golden as Iseult's ; and even in this fashion of Lady Audiart, " although she would that ill come unto him" he sought
and praised the lineaments of the torse.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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ei ben a manere
norissinges
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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And
plenipotentiaries
sent into France,
With an addle-headed knight, and a lord without
brains.
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Marvell - Poems |
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'
"To whom with tears: 'These rites, O
mournful
shade,
Due to thy ghost, shall to thy ghost be paid.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Which, with religion so
inflamed
his ire.
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Marvell - Poems |
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As she leans, so sweet and soft,
Flitting
oft,
O'er the mirror to and fro,
Seems that airy floating bat,
Like a feather
From some sea-gull's wing of snow.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good
mistress
reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Rise, Mother, rise,
regenerate
from thy gloom,
And, like a bride high-mated with the spheres,
Beget new glories from thine ageless womb!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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_ Munro:
_sciuntque
Galliae
ultimam et Britanniae_ Birt: fort.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Ronsard |
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they're quickly fled,
A legend that grew in the forest's hush,
A lily thou wast when I saw thee first,
A poet cannot strive for despotism,
A presence both by night and day,
A race of nobles may die out,
A stranger came one night to Yussouf's tent,
About the oak that framed this chair, of old,
Alike I hate to be your debtor,
Along a river-side, I know not where,
Amid these fragments of heroic days,
An ass munched thistles, while a nightingale,
'And how could you dream of
meeting?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Myself, this lighted room,
What are we but a
murmurous
pool of rain?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Yea, and eastward thou art free
To the portals of the sea,
And Pelion, the unharboured, is but
minister
to thee.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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205
Harde as the thonder dothe she drive ytte on,
Wytte scillye[202] wympled[203] gies[204] ytte to hys crowne,
Hys longe sharpe speere, hys spreddynge sheelde ys gon,
He falles, and fallynge rolleth
thousandes
down.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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'
And after this he to the yates wente
Ther-as
Criseyde
out-rood a ful good paas,
And up and doun ther made he many a wente, 605
And to him-self ful ofte he seyde `Allas!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Under Heaven's high cope
Fortune is God--all you endure and do
Depends on
circumstance
as much as you.
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Shelley |
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and hast thou no compassion on [361-392]thy
daughter
and on
thyself?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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TO TERZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be consumed with the earth,
To rise from
generation
free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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blake-poems |
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"
As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise
was more favorably situated on the whole than the
backwoodsman
in this
country.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The whole passage reads not so much like the heated
plea of an advocate as the measured summing-up of a judge, and the last
couplet falls on our ears with the
inevitability
of a final sentence.
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Alexander Pope |
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, _ready for death,
foreboding
death_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the beginning of his four and a half year
residence
in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering
fuel in vacant lots.
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T.S. Eliot |
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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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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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Ed elli a me: <
preghiera
e degna
di molta loda, e io pero l'accetto;
ma fa che la tua lingua si sostegna.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awaken'd birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The
casement
slowly grows a glimmering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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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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O
beauteous
eyes, where Love doth nestling stay!
| Guess: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I
THE noble hart, that harbours vertuous thought,
And is with child of
glorious
great intent,
Can never rest, untill it forth have brought
Th' eternall brood of glorie excellent.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But what can have
attracted
such a
crowd at that early hour?
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Aristophanes |
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That's all that's left already of our true play,
Where the pure poet's gesture, humble, vast
Must deny the dream, the enemy of his trust:
So that on the morning of his exalted stay,
When ancient death is for him as for Gautier,
The un-opening of sacred eyes, the being-still,
The solid tomb may rise,
ornament
this hill,
The sepulchre where lies the power to blight,
And miserly silence and the massive night.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of
Replacement
or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And I
would premise, that, although I can no longer resist the evidence of my
own senses from the stone before me to the ante-Columbian discovery of
this continent by the Northmen, _gens inclytissima_, as they are called
in a Palermitan inscription, written fortunately in a less debatable
character than that which I am about to decipher, yet I would by no
means be
understood
as wishing to vilipend the merits of the great
Genoese, whose name will never be forgotten so long as the inspiring
strains of 'Hail Columbia' shall continue to be heard.
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James Russell Lowell |
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I'm alone--
He with a
numerous
train: I weak--he strong
In gold, in numbers, rank, authority.
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At the feet of a colossal Venus, one of those motley fools, those
willing clowns whose business it is to bring
laughter
upon kings when
weariness or remorse possesses them, lies wrapped in his gaudy and
ridiculous garments, coined with his cap and bells, huddled against the
pedestal, and raises towards the goddess his eyes filled with tears.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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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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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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rusticus hunc magna postquam deprendit ab aure,
correptum stimulis uerberibusque domat;
et simul abstracto denudans corpora tergo
increpat
his miserum uocibus ille pecus;
'forsitan ignotos imitato murmure fallas;
at mihi, qui quondam, semper asellus eris.
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And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the
sprinkled
streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the
floor--
And this, and so much more?
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NURSE'S SONG
When voices of
children
are heard on the green,
And whisperings are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.
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blake-poems |
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Here had we now our Countries Honor, roof'd,
Were the grac'd person of our Banquo present:
Who, may I rather
challenge
for vnkindnesse,
Then pitty for Mischance
Rosse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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forgive that I
Thus violate thy bower's
sanctity!
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Keats |
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LXXXII
The images below them in their hand
Long scrolls and of an ample size contain,
Which of the worthiest figures of that band
The several names with mickle praise explain
As well their own at little distance stand,
Inscribed
upon that scroll, in letters plain,
Rinaldo, by the help of blazing lights,
Marked, one by one, the ladies and their knights.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Point for them the virtue of the slaughter,
Make plain to them the
excellence
of killing
And a field where a thousand corpses
lie.
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Stephen Crane |
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36 The La Festival2 On the La Festival in ordinary years warm weather is still far away, this year on the La Festival the ice has
entirely
melted.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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1173)
Raimbaut, Lord of Orange, Corethezon and other lands in Provence and Languedoc, was the first
troubadour
originating from Provence proper.
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Troubador Verse |
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there did appear
A curious rainbow smiling there;
Which was the
covenant
that she
No more would drown mine eyes or me.
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Robert Herrick |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Lotus-maiden, may you be
Fragrant
of all ecstasy.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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For
Hrothgar
that was the heaviest sorrow
of all that had laden the lord of his folk.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Now my crimes have
overflowed
the measure.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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They were
afterwards
incorporated in full in the edition of
1857, issued by Mr.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"After fifteen years of such religious, almost superstitious
idolatry
and
self-sacrifice!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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He always doted on the youth, and now
His love grew desperate; and defying death,
He made that cunning
entrance
I described:
And the young man escaped.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I think
Thorwaldsen
desired to
have roses grow over him; a wish religiously fulfilled for him to the
present day, I believe.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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How sadly sings the
bobolink!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Canto XXXIII
La bocca sollevo dal fiero pasto
quel peccator,
forbendola
a' capelli
del capo ch'elli avea di retro guasto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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IX
So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right,
And each to deadly shame would drive his foe:
The cruell steele so greedily doth bight 75
In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow,
With which the armes, that earst so bright did show,
Into a pure
vermillion
now are dyde:
Great ruth in all the gazers harts did grow,
Seeing the gored woundes to gape so wyde, 80
That victory they dare not wish to either side.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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His
inaccessible
heart is opposed to love:
Let's find a weaker spot that he might be moved.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Poebel, who also copied this text, has shown that
_Nin-lil_ is an
erroneous
reading for _Nin-sun_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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