To the Napoleon Column--_Author of "Critical Essays"_
Charity--_Dublin
University
Magazine_
Sweet Sister--_Mrs.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And on a beach we saw a man picking up dead
fish and
tenderly
putting them back into the water.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Rome, of cities first and best,
Deigns by her sons'
according
voice to hail me
Fellow-bard of poets blest,
And faint and fainter envy's growls assail me.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But what their care bequeathed us our madness flung away:
All the ripe fruit of threescore years was
blighted
in a day.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Doubt is fled, and clouds of reason,
Dark
disputes
and artful teazing.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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So I leave you
To the protection of the
prosperous
gods,
As thieves to keepers.
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Shakespeare |
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To-day I thought what boots it what I
thought?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Will there really be a
morning?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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CHANCE
How many times we must have met
Here on the street as strangers do,
Children
of chance we were, who passed
The door of heaven and never knew.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Have you not felt, I mean, a serious
intention?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I cannot smile again:
Yet Heaven avert that ever thou
Shouldst
weep, and haply weep in vain.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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--since
conditions
vary much.
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Lucretius |
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Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Keats - Lamia |
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[Sub-Variant 9:
Near and yet nearer, from the piny gulf
Howls, by the
darkness
vexed, the famished wolf, 1836.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And when the storm o'erwhelms the shore,
I watch
entranced
as, o'er and o'er,
The light revolves amid the roar
So still and saintly,
Now large and near, now more and more
Withdrawing faintly.
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James Russell Lowell |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Such poems form the dullest section of Chinese poetry, and are
certainly
frequent
in Li's works.
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Li Po |
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But what their care
bequeathed
us our madness flung away:
All the ripe fruit of threescore years was blighted in a day.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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With your steel face white-enamelled
Were you he, after all, and I never
Saw you or felt you in
kissing?
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Imagists |
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It has
faithfully
husbanded its sap, and afforded a
shelter to the wandering bird, has long since ripened its seeds and
committed them to the winds, and has the satisfaction of knowing,
perhaps, that a thousand little well-behaved maples are already
settled in life somewhere.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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III
Miles slid, and the sight of the port upgrew
As they sped on;
When
slipping
its bond the bracelet flew
From her fondled arm.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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XXVI
"Augustus not so holy and benign
Was as great Virgil's trumpet sounds his name,
Because he
savoured
the harmonious line.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Lady of wrong and grief,
Blameless
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Immediately, he
snatched his third child in his arms, and uttering the most lamentable
cries, he ran into the
thickest
of the wood, where the wild beasts were
soon heard to growl over their prey.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Then ponder this--this threat is not a growth
Of vain invention; it is spoken and meant;
King Zeus's mouth is impotent to lie,
Consummating the
utterance
by the act;
So, look to it, thou!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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So cried I,
bitterly
thrusting pity aside,
Closing my lids to sleep.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Whose yet
unfeathered
quills her fail ;
The edge all bloody from its breast
He draws, and does In's stroke detest.
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Marvell - Poems |
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What guilty spirit, in what
shrubbery
dim,
Heard not the stirring summons of that hymn?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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mount where science guides,
Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides;
Instruct the planets in what orbs to run,
Correct old time, and regulate the sun;
Go, soar with Plato to th' empyreal sphere,
To the first good, first perfect, and first fair;
Or tread the mazy round his followers trod,
And quitting sense call
imitating
God;
As Eastern priests in giddy circles run,
And turn their heads to imitate the sun.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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My poor, poor
little
darling!
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Kipling - Poems |
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I would not care to reach the moon,
One round
monotonous
of change;
Yet even she repeats her tune
Beyond my range.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Dehors le mur est plein d'aristoloches
Ou vibrent les
gencives
des lutins.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I hope we may find the
Preciosa
among them.
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Longfellow |
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O lover, in this radiant world
Whence is the race of mortal men, 10
So frail, so mighty, and so fond,
That fleets into the vast
unknown?
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Sappho |
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As morning dew exhales
Sunwards
pure and free,
So my spirit fails
After thee:
As dew leaves not a trace
On the green earth's face;
I, no trace
On thy face.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Thy brother, drowned in daily woe,
Is
thankful
when thou sleepest;
For if I laugh, however low,
When thou'rt awake, thou weepest!
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Lewis Carroll |
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"
"So may thy lineage find at last repose,"
I thus adjur'd him, "as thou solve this knot,
Which now
involves
my mind.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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They are
here published as they were written, with very few and superficial
changes;
although
it is fair to say that the titles have been
assigned, almost invariably, by the editors.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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This heap of earth o'ergrown with moss
Which close beside the thorn you see,
So fresh in all its
beauteous
dyes,
Is like an infant's grave in size
As like as like can be:
But never, never any where,
An infant's grave was half so fair.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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For when the conquering wolves
Into that village won, we in our huts
Lay
hearkening
to their rejoicing hunger;
But Gwat stayed out in the stars all night long.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Fame that her high worth to raise,
Seem'd erst so lavish and profuse,
We may justly now accuse 10
Of
detraction
from her praise,
Less then half we find exprest,
Envy bid conceal the rest.
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Milton |
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Qual pare a riguardar la Carisenda
sotto 'l chinato, quando un nuvol vada
sovr' essa si, ched ella
incontro
penda:
tal parve Anteo a me che stava a bada
di vederlo chinare, e fu tal ora
ch'i' avrei voluto ir per altra strada.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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To be
confused
the wily stripling feigned,
And like a statue for a time remained.
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La Fontaine |
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Oh, the grey garner that is full of half-grown apples,
Oh, the golden
sparkles
laid extinct--!
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Imagists |
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When shall she breathe her from the
blushing
toil?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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La seve est du
champagne
et vous monte a la tete.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And on the liquid mirror glow'd
The clear
perfection
of her face.
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Tennyson |
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I too survey that endless line
Of men whose
thoughts
are not as mine.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Vainly with me to your old power you trust,
While my first love is
shrouded
still in dust.
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Petrarch |
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He is certain too that the cats, of whom there are many
in the woods, have a
language
of their own--some kind of old Irish.
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Yeats |
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'"
There can be little doubt as to the
accuracy
of this suggestion.
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William Wordsworth |
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fremmendra
swylcum, _such a warrior_
(meaning Bēowulf), 299.
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Beowulf |
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Her throat has the
antelope
curve,
And her cheek just the colour and line
Which fade not before him nor swerve:
Yet _she_ has no child!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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[1]
I fear thee and thy
glittering
eye,
And thy skinny hand, so brown.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"
THE SIEGE OF KAZAN
Black are the moors before Kazan,
And their
stagnant
waters smell of blood:
I said in my heart, with horse and man,
I will swim across this shallow flood.
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Longfellow |
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CXCIX
Both
messengers
did on their horses mount;
From that city nimbly they issued out.
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Chanson de Roland |
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L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Eclogue
The Faun
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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When
this was reported to Civilis he flew into a passion, and called the
whole
Batavian
people to take arms.
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Tacitus |
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Let us stay
Rather on earth, Beloved,--where the unfit
Contrarious
moods of men recoil away
And isolate pure spirits, and permit
A place to stand and love in for a day,
With darkness and the death-hour rounding it.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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These unrevised poems are not
necessarily
exponents of Mr.
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Sidney Lanier |
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[15] The
variants
have _kima kisri_; _ki-[ma]?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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TO FURIUS
SATIRICALLY
PRAISING HIS POVERTY.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Why hast thou
awakened
the heart within me, O Rose of the crimson thorn?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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He "never deviates into
sense;" but those who
appreciate
him never feel the need of such deviation.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Lewis Carroll |
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But if one should look at me with the old hunger in Plank
her eyes,
How will I be
answering
her eyes?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The king is pleased to hear the youth impart
This counsel, nor his journey will delay:
Thence on their road, with but two squires beside,
He and the Roman knight
together
ride.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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55
In white and glowing blossomy undulation 57
Stars ascend up there 58
Par from the harbour's noise 59
My child came home 60
Love calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
61
Behold the crossways 62
Windows where I gazed with you 63
Whene'er I stand upon your bridge 64
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The tsar rewarded
His
services
with honour and with gold.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But wan memory weaves
Strange garlands, now, amongst the
darkening
leaves.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Moronto fu mio frate ed Eliseo;
mia donna venne a me di val di Pado,
e quindi il
sopranome
tuo si feo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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EPOREDIA, a town at the foot of the Alps,
afterwards
a Roman colony;
now _Jurea_, or _Jura_, a city of Piedmont.
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Tacitus |
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115
Napier, _History of the
Peninsular
War_, _i.
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Byron |
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She looks up the forest whose alleys shoot on
Like the mute minster-aisles when the anthem is done
And the
choristers
sitting with faces aslant
Feel the silence to consecrate more than the chant--
"Onora, Onora!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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This Keats, and Keats alone, could do; and his achievement is unique in
throwing all the glamour of romance over a
fragment
'sublime as
Aeschylus'.
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Keats |
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There lies our Russia; she
Is thine,
tsarevich!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--
Lord Gregory started up from sleep
And thought he heard a voice
That screamed full
dreadful
in his ear,
And once and twice and thrice.
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John Clare |
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Let Him look down on mortal
wantonness!
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Aeschylus |
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O day
remembered
yet!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Keats - Lamia |
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For Aeschylus, though steeped in the glory of the world of legend, would
not lightly accept its judgment upon
religious
and moral questions, and
above all would not, in that region, play at make-believe.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Youths and boys minding geese and ducks:
Women and girls tending
mulberries
and hemp.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The touch of Zephyr and of Spring has loosen'd Winter's thrall;
The well-dried keels are wheel'd again to sea:
The
ploughman
cares not for his fire, nor cattle for their stall,
And frost no more is whitening all the lea.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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On seats that burn'd with pearl and ruddy gold,
The subject gods their sov'reign lord enfold,
Each in his rank, when with a voice that shook
The tow'rs of heav'n, the world's dread ruler spoke:
"Immortal heirs of light, my purpose hear,
My counsels ponder, and the Fates revere:
Unless
Oblivion
o'er your minds has thrown
Her dark blank shades, to you, ye gods, are known
The Fate's decree, and ancient warlike fame
Of that bold race which boasts of Lusus' name;
That bold advent'rous race, the Fates declare,
A potent empire in the East shall rear,
Surpassing Babel's or the Persian fame,
Proud Grecia's boast, or Rome's illustrious name.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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{a}t now louen hem to gederes / wolden maken a
batayle contynuely {and} stryuen to fordoon the fasou{n} of this worlde
/ the which they now leden in acordable feith by fayre moeuynges // this
looue halt to gideres poeples Ioygned w{i}t{h} an hooly bond / {and}
knytteth sacrement of
maryages
of chaste looues // And loue enditeth
lawes to trewe felawes // O weleful weer{e} mankynde / yif thilke loue
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Heraus mit Eurem
Flederwisch!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Chanson de Roland |
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ei han not
desserued
by no weye ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The horseman did his horse's colours show
In his own dress; and hence might be divined,
He, as the mournful hue o'erpowered the clear,
Was less
inclined
to smile, than mournful tear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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[B] Abof a launde, on a lawe, loken vnder bo3e3,
Of mony
borelych
bole, aboute bi ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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SEA VIOLET
The white violet
is scented on its stalk,
the sea-violet
fragile as agate,
lies
fronting
all the wind
among the torn shells
on the sand-bank.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Yet you may bear me witness, it was
intended
only
to divert a few young Ladies, who have good sense and good humour enough
to laugh not only at their sex's little unguarded follies, but at their
own.
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Alexander Pope |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Je sais l'art d'evoquer les minutes
heureuses!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Ashamed of a passionate lover's designs 1015
The criminal desire
reflected
in his eyes,
Phaedra was dying.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Ross a fine fellow, like
Professor
Tytler,--Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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_ No, I will
languish
still;
And all the while my part shall be to weep,
And with my sighs, call home my bleating sheep:
And in the rind of every comely tree
I'll carve thy name, and in that name kiss thee.
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Robert Herrick |
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Where love is great, the
littlest
doubts are fear;
Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
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Shakespeare |
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