St Gudula was a Brabant saint (late 7th-early 8th century),
patroness
of Brussels.
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Atrides from the voice the storm divined,
And thus
explored
his own unconquer'd mind:
"Then shall I quit Patroclus on the plain,
Slain in my cause, and for my honour slain!
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Iliad - Pope |
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The
fortress
of Kazan
Thou fought'st beneath, with Shuisky didst repulse
The army of Litva.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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So th' assemblies of each Nation
Will
surround
thee, seeking right,
Thence to thy glorious habitation
Return on high and in their sight.
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Milton |
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Just then, Clarissa drew with
tempting
grace
A two-edged weapon from her shining case:
So ladies, in romance, assist their knight,
Present the spear, and arm him for the fight; 110
He takes the gift with rev'rence, and extends
The little engine on his fingers' ends;
This just behind Belinda's neck he spread,
As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head.
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Alexander Pope |
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You will see me any morning in the park
Reading the comics and the
sporting
page.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I feel as if out of my
bleeding
bosom _170
My heart was torn in fragments; ay,
Some mortal spell is wrought against my frame;
So potent was the charm that, had not God
Shielded my humble innocence from wrong,
I should have sought my sorrow and my shame _175
With willing steps.
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Shelley |
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Thetis herself to all our peers proclaims
Heroic prizes and
exequial
games;
The gods assented; and around thee lay
Rich spoils and gifts that blazed against the day.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I--I--I----
GOVERNOR
(_aside_): Good heavens, what a rage he is in!
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The fairest flower of the youth sit listening
Before your play, and wait the revelation;
Each
melancholy
heart, with soft eyes glistening,
Draws sad, sweet nourishment from your creation;
This passion now, now that is stirred, by turns,
And each one sees what in his bosom burns.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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at bene non poterat sine puro pectore uiui;
quo magis hic merito nobis deus esse uidetur,
ex quo nunc etiam per magnas didita gentis
dulcia
permulcent
animos solacia uitae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"Now summon'd
Proserpine
to hell's black hall
The heroine shades: they vanish'd at her call.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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One of the
countless
victims of the Assassin's dagger was Nizam ul
Mulk himself, the old school-boy friend.
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thou art he, the most mighty, the
one man whose lingering
retrieves
our State.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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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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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The amazing
wall of defence against the Tartars, though 1500 miles in extent, is a
labour
inferior
to the canals, lined on the sides with hewn stone, which
everywhere enrich, and adorn their country; some of which reach 1000
miles, and are of depth to carry vessels of burthen.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Fine, natural verse, and good, I say,
To him who can clearly
understand
it,
If he hopes for joy, the better the fit.
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Troubador Verse |
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Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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5200
COMMENT RAISOUN
DIFFINIST
AMISTIE.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Now, the pears;
So shall your children's
children
pluck their fruit.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Is thy hand set against us, O Ares,
in ruin and wrath to o'erwhelm
Thine own
immemorial
land,
O god of the golden helm?
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Aeschylus |
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"
His reasonings were based on the atomic theory, which the Greek
Epicurus had taken as the
physical
side of his system.
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Once, among the Pleiads walking,
Seyd
overheard
the young gods talking;
And the treason, too long pent,
To his ears was evident.
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Emerson - Poems |
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If an
individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are
located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from
copying, distributing, performing,
displaying
or creating derivative
works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg
are removed.
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Keats - Lamia |
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XLVI
Bring, in this timeless grave to throw,
No cypress, sombre on the snow;
Snap not from the bitter yew
His leaves that live December through;
Break no rosemary, bright with rime
And
sparkling
to the cruel clime;
Nor plod the winter land to look
For willows in the icy brook
To cast them leafless round him: bring
No spray that ever buds in spring.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Item
This I give to my poor mother
As a prayer now, to our Mistress
- She who bore bitter pain for me,
God knows, and also much sadness -
I've no other castle or fortress,
That my body and soul can summon,
When I'm faced with life's distress,
Nor has my mother, poor woman:
Ballade
'Lady of Heaven, earthly queen,
Empress of the
infernal
regions,
Receive me, a humble Christian,
To live among the chosen ones,
Though I'm worth less than anyone.
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Villon |
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And when I
descended
to the valleys and the plains God was there
also.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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MNISHEK,
Governor
of Sambor.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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= _Defeat_ is often
used by
Shakespeare
in this sense.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Now, Amaryllis, ply in triple knots
The
threefold
colours; ply them fast, and say
This is the chain of Venus that I ply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I am married to my love; and it is vile,
Yea, it is burning in me like a sin,
That when my love was absent, thy desire
Shouldst
trespass
where my love is single lord.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Your father is Mercury,
whom white Maia conceived and bore on the cold summit of Cyllene; but
Maia, if we give any credence to report, is daughter of Atlas, that same
Atlas who bears up the starry heavens; so both our
families
branch from
a single blood.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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full of
presumptuous
pride .
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John Donne |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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What do you need,
Camerado?
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Whitman |
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More
beautiful
than whom Alcaeus wooed,
The Lesbian woman of immortal song!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The investing of Pug with such attributes was, as we have
seen, no
startling
innovation on Jonson's part.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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45
But you who seek to give and merit fame,
And justly bear a Critic's noble name,
Be sure
yourself
and your own reach to know,
How far your genius, taste, and learning go;
Launch not beyond your depth, but be discreet, 50
And mark that point where sense and dulness meet.
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Alexander Pope |
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About the hollows of
his temples the helmet rings with incessant clash, and the solid brass
is riven beneath the stones; the horsehair crest is rent away; the
shield-boss avails not under the blows;
Mnestheus
thunders on with his
Trojans, and pours in a storm of spears.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They
stripped
him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
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blake-poems |
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CHORUS
Up to action, O my
comrades!
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Aeschylus |
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I acquire,
As I reflect and compare, my first
understanding
of marble,
See with an eye that feels, feel with a hand that sees.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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She was dressed always in
clinging
dresses of Eastern silk, and
as she was so small, and her long black hair hung straight down
her back, you might have taken her for a child.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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--The church was thronged: the hymn was raised;
"_Te Deum_" pealed from nations rather than
From choirs, in one great cry of "God be praised"
For one day's peace, after thrice ten dread years,
Each bloodier than the former: I arose,
With all the nobles, and as I looked down
Along the lines of lifted faces,--from
Our
bannered
and escutcheoned gallery, I 100
Saw, like a flash of lightning (for I saw
A moment and no more), what struck me sightless
To all else--the Hungarian's face!
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Byron |
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Indeed, it is this that
explains
the word _rare_ (which has
Dryden's support), and which we say of meat where an Englishman would
use _underdone_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Therein I treasure the spice and scent
Of rich and passionate
memories
blent
Like odours of cinnamon, sandal and clove,
Of song and sorrow and life and love.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Never on earth, nor in the lower world,
Shall
lewdness
such as theirs escape the ban:
There too, if men say right, a God there is
Who upon dead men turns their sin to doom,
To final doom.
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Aeschylus |
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To
continue
drinking night and day
without intermission, is a reproach to no man.
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Tacitus |
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`But, sith that thou hast don me this servyse
My lyf to save, and for noon hope of mede, 415
So, for the love of god, this grete empryse
Performe
it out; for now is moste nede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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First Titus gave tall Caeso
A death wound in the face;
Tall Caeso was the bravest man
Of the brave Fabian race:
Aulus slew Rex of Gabii,
The priest of Juno's shrine;
Valerius smote down Julius,
Of Rome's great Julian line;
Julius, who left his mansion,
High on the Velian hill,
And through all turns of weal and woe
Followed
proud Tarquin still.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Eternal alembic of antique
distress!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Pandarus, at his brother's
fall, sees how fortune stands, what hap rules the day; and swinging the
gate round on its hinge with all his force, pushes it to with his broad
shoulders, leaving many of his own people shut outside the walls in the
desperate conflict, but
shutting
others in with him as they pour back in
retreat.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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You're as white as I turned once down by the mill,
When one told me you and ship and crew were lost:
Philip my playfellow, when we were boy and girl
(It was the Miller's Nancy told it to me),
Philip with the merry life in lip and curl,
Philip my
playfellow
drowned in the sea!
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Christina Rossetti |
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Fine was the
mitigated
fury, like
Apollo's presence when in act to strike
The serpent--Ha, the serpent!
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Keats - Lamia |
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The hound had but a
churlish
wit.
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Sidney Lanier |
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He wishes also to acknowledge the courtesies
generously
extended
by the following authors, periodicals, and
publishers in granting permission for the use of the poems indicated,
rights in which are in each case reserved by the owner of the
copyright:--
Mr.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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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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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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For just a hundred
Francs a furrier
purchased
it.
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If thought is life
And
strength
and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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But those beasts to whom
Nature has granted naught of these same things--
Beasts quite unfit by own free will to thrive
And vain for any service unto us
In thanks for which we should permit their kind
To feed and be in our
protection
safe--
Those, of a truth, were wont to be exposed,
Enshackled in the gruesome bonds of doom,
As prey and booty for the rest, until
Nature reduced that stock to utter death.
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Lucretius |
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Suppliant to thee he kneels,
imploring
grace
For virtue, yet more high to lift his ken
Toward the bliss supreme.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
So rudely forced; yet there the
nightingale
100
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Cheetah
I
remember
a slice of lemon and a bitten macaroon.
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T.S. Eliot |
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was
marching
to Honan with three
thousand soldiers from Kiangsu.
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Li Po |
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But the tinker he
grumbled
and cried Fiddle-dee!
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John Clare |
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--Went to the
churchyard
where Burns is
buried.
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William Wordsworth |
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Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and
indicative
hand?
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Whitman |
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'The fine Cockle or Muscle shels
which
painters
put their colours in.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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That it should be one the first away alone, and
by itself, no man that hath tasted letters ever would say, especially
having
required
before a just magnitude and equal proportion of the parts
in themselves.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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So many a duke of royal name,
Marquis and count of
spotless
fame,
And baron brave,
That might the sword of empire wield,
All these, O Death, hast thou concealed
In the dark grave!
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Longfellow |
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Then with his swerde he sett on Fitz du Valle, 505
A knyghte mouch famous for to runne at tylte;
With thilk a furie on hym he dyd falle,
Into his neck he ranne the swerde and hylte;
As myghtie
lyghtenynge
often has been founde,
To drive an oke into unfallow'd grounde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The Spirit turns away,
Just laying off, for evidence,
An
overcoat
of clay.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Out of the window
perilously
spread
Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And if all the world now holds -
All those under heaven's power,
Were
gathered
in some sweet bower,
I'd only wish for one I know.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Already
thousands
attack his vulnerability:
You alone can protect him from his enemies.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Spring of all woe, O den of curssed ire,
Scoole of errour, temple of heresye;
Thow Pope, I meane, head of hypocrasye,
Thow and thie churche,
unsaciat
of desyre,
Have all the world filled full of myserye;
Well of disceate, thow dungeon full of fyre,
That hydes all truthe to breed idolatrie.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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e cloudes of sorowe
dissolued
{and} don awey.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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e last[e]
day of a ma{n}nis lijf is a
man{er}e
dee?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Oh, if thy soul's at latter gasp for space,
With trying to breathe no bigger than thy race
Just to be fellow'd, when that thou hast found
No man with room, or grace enough of bound
To
entertain
that New thou tell'st, thou art, --
'Tis here, 'tis here thou canst unhand thy heart
And breathe it free, and breathe it free,
By rangy marsh, in lone sea-liberty.
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And thus he spoke: "Do not yourself
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Heir of Tyrrhenian kings, for you
A mellow cask, unbroach'd as yet,
Maecenas
mine, and roses new,
And fresh-drawn oil your locks to wet,
Are waiting here.
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El Desdichado (The Disinherited)
I am the darkness - the widower - the un-consoled,
The prince of
Aquitaine
in the ruined tower;
My sole star is dead - and my constellated lute
Bears the black sun of Melancholy.
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" He affected, indeed, to despise his assailants,
but there is only too good evidence that their
poisoned
arrows rankled
in his heart.
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Cleopatra_
NVNC est bibendum, nunc pede libero
pulsanda tellus; nunc Saliaribus
ornare
puluinar
deorum
tempus erat dapibus, sodales.
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in
mutinous
game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The elements freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
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All is
contained
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Wren,
Being free from modern scepticism,
A bottle for her rheumatism;
Also some
peppermints
to take
In case of wind; an oval cake
Of scented soap; a penny square
Of pungent naphthaline to scare
The moth.
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was changed to "Edmund"; in later
editions
"Edmund" was
changed to "Lady," except in the seventh stanza, where "Otway" is
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When such as we spun at the wheel,
Our mothers kept us in-doors after dark;
While she stood cozy with her spark,
Or sate on the door-bench, or
sauntered
round,
And never an hour too long they found.
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