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Of
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Marvell - Poems |
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The_ SERVANT
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Has not the god of the green world, 5
In his large tolerant wisdom,
Filled with the ardours of earth
Her twenty
summers?
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Sappho |
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For this her sweetness Walt, her lover, sought
To win her; wooed her here, his heart o'er fraught
With
fragrance
of her being; and gained his plea.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Perchance my dog will whine in vain
Till fed by
stranger
hands;
But long ere I come back again
He'd tear me where he stands.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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USHER: Franz von
Sickingen
is without and sends word that having
heard how faith has been broken with his brother-in-law, he insists
upon justice, or within an hour he will fire the four quarters of the
town, and abandon it to be sacked by his men.
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But forget not the glory
Of him whose height we try for,
A name to live and die for--
The name of
Washington!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A hedge is about it, very tall,
Hazy and cool, and
breathing
sweet.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He sees that
Euripides
may have had his own
reasons for not making Admetus an ideal husband.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Why do I want this,
when even last night
you
startled
me from sleep?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Whitman |
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Thou wast not born for death,
immortal
Bird!
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Keats |
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Ah, yes, to become legendary, too,
On the brink of a
charlatan
age!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Or him wha led o'er
Scotland
a'
The meikle Ursa-Major?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Yet, would'st thou have the proffer'd combat stand,
The Greeks and Trojans seat on either hand;
Then let a midway space our hosts divide,
And, on that stage of war, the cause be tried:
By Paris there the Spartan king be fought,
For beauteous Helen and the wealth she brought;
And who his rival can in arms subdue,
His be the fair, and his the
treasure
too.
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Iliad - Pope |
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To dig for water on the spot, the Captain
Landed with a small troop, myself being one:
There I
reproached
him with his treachery.
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William Wordsworth |
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under thy favour
forbear!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Enjoining, then, my people to abide
Fast by the ship which they should closely guard, 220
I went, but not without a goat-skin fill'd
With sable wine which I had erst received
From Maron, offspring of Evanthes, priest
Of Phoebus
guardian
god of Ismarus,
Because, through rev'rence of him, we had saved
Himself, his wife and children; for he dwelt
Amid the grove umbrageous of his God.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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As soon as
I was master of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid
zone, I took a
steerage
passage in the first ship that was to sail
from the Clyde, for
"Hungry ruin had me in the wind.
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Robert Burns |
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For her this rhyme is penned, whose
luminous
eyes,
Brightly expressive as the twins of Loeda,
Shall find her own sweet name, that, nestling lies
Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader.
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Poe - 5 |
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All is avowed, and as I smote I stand
With foot set firm upon a
finished
thing!
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Aeschylus |
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Oh, victor
unsurpassed
in modern song!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Keats |
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(To Don Diegue)
See how her face
abruptly
changes hue.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Tennyson |
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What fate shall dare uncrown thee from this breast,
O god-born lover, whom my love doth gird
And armour with impregnable delight
Of Hope's
triumphant
keen flame-carven sword?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A
scholarly
edition
of the poems of Pembroke and Rudyard would be a boon.
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John Donne |
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All which,
sir, though I most powerfully and
potently
believe, yet I hold it
not honesty to have it thus set down; for you yourself, sir,
should be old as I am if, like a crab, you could go backward.
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To
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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how
shouldst
thou be fear'd
By all, who read what here my eyes beheld!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Let it touch Woman and flesh becomes
Finer and more thrilled
Than air
contrived
in tune,
Lighter round the soul
Than flame is round burning.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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This was that, when his appointed
time for death came, he might escape if he could find some
volunteer
to
die for him.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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From his
conversation
I should
have pronounced him to have been fitted to excel in whatever walk of
ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities.
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Robert Burns |
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If he by Taro, and in Naples' reign,
('Tis said), from Gauls
delivered
Italy,
'Twill be replied.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Eal þū hit
geþyldum
healdest,
"mægen mid mōdes snyttrum.
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Beowulf |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Now, O Creation of the
cerulean
main, who art in sacred Idalium, and in
Urian haven, and who doth foster Ancona and reedy Cnidos, Amathus and
Golgos, and Dyrrhachium, Adriatic tavern, accept and acknowledge this vow
if it lack not grace nor charm.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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ye
Who are so
restless
in your wisdom, ye
Who have a broom still ready in your hands
To rid the world of nuisances; ye proud, 70
Heart-swoln, while in your pride ye contemplate
Your talents, power, or [10] wisdom, deem him not
A burthen of the earth!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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MISS NEVILLE: My dear
Hastings!
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TO move, Alaciel readily agreed;
Again our couple
ventured
to proceed;
The casket safe in tow; the weather hot;
From rock to rock with care our swimmer got;
The princess, anxious on his back to keep:--
New mode of traversing the wat'ry deep.
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La Fontaine |
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' 175
Criseide un-to that purpos lyte answerde,
As she that was with sorwe
oppressed
so
That, in effect, she nought his tales herde,
But here and there, now here a word or two.
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so deeply that
purity emerges from
the
corruption!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Contributions to the
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Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the
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The genre, which is becoming one, like the symphony, little by little, alongside personal poetry, leaves intact the older verse; for which I
maintain
my worship, and to which I attribute the empire of passion and dreams, though this may be the preferred means (as follows) of dealing with subjects of pure and complex imagination or intellect: which there is no remaining justification for excluding from Poetry - the unique source.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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OUR Roman, having
satisfied
his eyes,
At length withdrew, confounded by surprise.
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La Fontaine |
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III
Soon from out of the Southward seemed nearing
A whirr, as of wings
Waved by mighty-vanned flies,
Or by night-moths of measureless size,
And in
softness
and smoothness well-nigh beyond hearing
Of corporal things.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Here round her fost'ring elm the smiling vine,
In fond embraces, gives her arms to twine,
The num'rous
clusters
pendant from the boughs,
The green here glistens, here the purple glows;
For, here the genial seasons of the year
Danc'd hand in hand, no place for winter here;
His grisly visage from the shore expell'd,
United sway the smiling seasons held.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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l'orgueil plus bienveillant que les
charites
perdues.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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At half-past
eleven enter the
vestibule
boldly, and if you see any one, inquire for
the Countess; if not, ascend the stairs, turn to the left and go on
until you come to a door, which opens into her bedchamber.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second Marriage in my house;
Divorced
old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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DREAM-LOVE
Young Love lies sleeping
In May-time of the year,
Among the lilies,
Lapped in the tender light:
White lambs come grazing,
White doves come
building
there:
And round about him
The May-bushes are white.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Antidotes
Of medicated music,
answering
for
Mankind's forlornest uses, thou canst pour
From thence into their ears.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Sir,
For holy offices I have a time; a time
To think upon the part of business which
I bear i' th' state; and nature does require
Her times of preservation, which perforce
I, her frail son, amongst my brethren mortal,
Must give my
tendance
to.
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Shakespeare |
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Do you think that he,
conscious
of Theseus' honour, 845
Will conceal what I am burning with, this ardour?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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There
is a
considerable
resemblance between this rule of the order of
St.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Him, the bold leader of the Abantian throng,(140)
Seized to despoil, and dragg'd the corpse along:
But while he strove to tug the
inserted
dart,
Agenor's javelin reach'd the hero's heart.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Thourgh yow have I seyd fully in my song
Theffect
and Ioye of Troilus servyse, 1815
Al be that ther was som disese among,
As to myn auctor listeth to devyse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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O how
enraptured
I was!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Alas, this Italy has too long swept
Heroic ashes up for hour-glass sand;
Of her own past,
impassioned
nympholept!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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By bulging rock and gaping cleft,
Even of half mere daylight reft,
Rueful he peered to right and left,
Muttering
in his altered mood: 160
'The fate is hard that weaves my weft,
Though my lot be good.
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Christina Rossetti |
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No things of air these antics were,
That
frolicked
with such glee:
To men whose lives were held in gyves,
And whose feet might not go free,
Ah!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Enter
Malcolme
and Macduffe.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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II
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now,
Will be a tatter'd weed of small worth held:
Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the
treasure
of thy lusty days;
To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Parce que vous fouillez le ventre de la Femme
Vous
craignez
d'elle encore une convulsion
Qui crie, asphyxiant votre nichee infame
Sur sa poitrine, en une horrible pression.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife,
And let me
languish
into life!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Is it some
hovering
sprite with whistling scream that hurls
Down to the deep from yon old tower a loosened stone?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the
bystanders
started--
His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It is not hard to account for elves and fairies; they
represent this light grace, this
ethereal
gentility.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly
Landscape
with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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Appoloinaire |
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That
is what the lads in the village will
remember
to the last day they live.
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Yeats |
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net
ROBERT HERRICK
THE
HESPERIDES
& NOBLE
NUMBERS: EDITED BY
ALFRED POLLARD
WITH A PREFACE BY
A.
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Robert Herrick |
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The novelist and the physician, who profess to know all things, yet
cannot explain whence comes this sudden and delirious energy to indolent
and voluptuous souls; nor how, incapable of accomplishing the simplest
and most necessary things, they are at some certain moment of time
possessed by a
superabundant
hardihood which enables them to execute the
most absurd and even the most dangerous acts.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Youth and health will be but vain,
Beauty
reckoned
of no worth:
There a very little girth
Can hold round what once the earth
Seemed too narrow to contain.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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And that
unknowing
what he did,
He leaped amid a murderous band,
And saved from outrage worse than death
The Lady of the Land!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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He is said to have taken poison in
order to avoid
fighting
against Athens.
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Aristophanes |
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Over his countenance flitted a shadow like those on the landscape,
Gloom
intermingled
with light; and his voice was subdued with emotion,
Tenderness, pity, regret, as after a pause he proceeded:
"Yonder there, on the hill by the sea, lies buried Rose Standish;
Beautiful rose of love, that bloomed for me by the wayside!
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Longfellow |
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9 Surely to such as do him fear
Salvation
is at hand
And glory shall ere long appear
To dwell within our Land.
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Milton |
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LVII
Alone stood brave Horatius,
But
constant
still in mind;
Thrice thirty thousand foes before,
And the broad flood behind.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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When he uttered these words and called
the gods to hear his vows, the
Rutulians
stir one another up to arms.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Marks, notations and other
marginalia
present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the
woodlands
I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts
creating
dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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If ye behold
Or seek it with a love remiss and lax,
This cornice after just
repenting
lays
Its penal torment on ye.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And often, lounging with friends in the soft grass
Beside a river of water, underneath
A big tree's branches, merrily they'd refresh
Their frames, with no vast outlay--most of all
If the weather were smiling and the times of the year
Were
painting
the green of the grass around with flowers.
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Lucretius |
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Stars of the night sky,
did you see that phantom fadeout,
did you see those phantom riders,
skeleton riders on skeleton horses,
stems of roses in their teeth,
rose leaves red on white-jaw slants,
grinning
along on Pennsylvania Avenue,
the top-sergeants calling roll calls--
did their horses nicker a horse laugh?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And besides,
If soul
immortal
is, and winds its way
Into the body at the birth of man,
Why can we not remember something, then,
Of life-time spent before?
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Lucretius |
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Swift let us try if
phantoms
of the air,
Or living charms, appear divinely fair!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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THE PASSION OF LOVE
This craving 'tis that's Venus unto us:
From this,
engender
all the lures of love,
From this, O first hath into human hearts
Trickled that drop of joyance which ere long
Is by chill care succeeded.
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Lucretius |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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They will know how to keep from singing
notes and from prosaic
lifeless
intonations, and they will always
understand, however far they push their experiments, that poetry and
not music is their object; and they will have by heart, like the Irish
_File_, so many poems and notations that they will never have to bend
their heads over the book to the ruin of dramatic expression and of
that wild air the bard had always about him in my boyish imagination.
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Yeats |
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The
preterite
of _ederu_,
to be in misery, has not been found.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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In sooth, we all thus err, nor man there be
But in some matter a Suffenus see
Thou canst: his lache
allotted
none shall lack 20
Yet spy we nothing of our back-borne pack.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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