Unto a heart filled with
funereal
things
That since old days hoar frosts have gathered on,
Naught is more sweet, O pallid, queenly springs,
Than the long pageant of your shadows wan,
Unless it be on moonless eves to weep
On some chance bed and rock our griefs to sleep.
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Why should he live, now Nature
bankrupt
is,
Beggar'd of blood to blush through lively veins?
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Yet _more_ than worthy of the love
My spirit struggled with, and strove,
When, on the mountain peak, alone,
Ambition lent it a new tone--
I had no being--but in thee:
The world, and all it did contain
In the earth--the air--the sea--
Its joy--its little lot of pain
That was new pleasure--the ideal,
Dim, vanities of dreams by night--
And dimmer
nothings
which were real--
(Shadows--and a more shadowy light!
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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You're
frightfully
kind----
MRS.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And how she danced with
pleasure
to see my civic crown,
And took my sword, and hung it up, and brought me forth my gown!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The rat is the
concisest
tenant.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Sir Iohn Wingefield 76
1633 41 A selfe accuser 76
42 A licentious person 77
42 Antiquary 77
42
Disinherited
77
42 Phryne 77
42 An obscure writer 77
42 Klockius 77
43 Raderus 78
43 Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus 78
43 Ralphius 78
Westmoreland MS.
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John Donne |
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No harbor shall hide her -- heed my
promise!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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XVII
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
Bearing the fire of Heaven's menaces,
Heaven feared not the dire audaciousness,
That so stoked the Giants'
reckless
might.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
She'd the brooch I had bought
And the
necklace
and sash on,
And her heart, as I thought,
Was alive to my passion;
And she'd done up her hair in the style that
the Empress had brought into fashion.
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Lewis Carroll |
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In short, unable by their schemes to get
The morsel she'd so
fortunately
met,
Each nun exerted all her art to find,
What equally might satisfy the mind.
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La Fontaine |
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A young man comes to me bearing a message from his brother,
How shall the young man know the whether and when of his
brother?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Emerson - Poems |
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_Liete e pensose,
accompagnate
e sole.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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) shows the
influence
of Martial.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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et Montagnone ||
_anne_ p, uulgo
Emendarunt _an quod auentum_ Munro, _an quod amantum_ Owen,
_atque
maritum_
Schmidt, Postgate, Palmer
16 _frustratur_ cod.
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Latin - Catullus |
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But since your worth--wide as the ocean is,--
The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,
My saucy bark,
inferior
far to his,
On your broad main doth wilfully appear.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Heorogar
was dead,
my elder brother, had breathed his last,
Healfdene's bairn: he was better than I!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And by our banners march'd Muirhead,
And Buittle was na slack;
Whase haly
priesthood
nane could stain,
For wha could dye the black?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I went out
with Chvabrine,
speculating
upon what we had just heard.
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Soon she turn'd up a soiled glove, whereon
Her silk had play'd in purple phantasies, 370
She kiss'd it with a lip more chill than stone,
And put it in her bosom, where it dries
And freezes utterly unto the bone
Those
dainties
made to still an infant's cries:
Then 'gan she work again; nor stay'd her care,
But to throw back at times her veiling hair.
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Keats |
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Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls
With desp'rate
charcoal
round his darken'd walls?
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Alexander Pope |
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In their own
ateliers
often I 've visited them.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Stunn'd by that loud and
dreadful
sound,
Which sky and ocean smote:
Like one that hath been seven days drown'd
My body lay afloat:
But, swift as dreams, myself I found
Within the Pilot's boat.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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We know them all, Gudrun the strong men's bride,
Aslaug and Olafson we know them all,
How giant Grettir fought and Sigurd died,
And what enchantment held the king in thrall
When lonely
Brynhild
wrestled with the powers
That war against all passion, ah!
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Wilde - Poems |
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All the two Coventrys their
generals
chose.
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Marvell - Poems |
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' Thus had he spoken;
when from beneath the sanctuary a snake slid out in seven vast coils and
sevenfold
slippery
spires, quietly circling the grave and gliding from
altar to altar, his green chequered body and the spotted lustre of his
scales ablaze with gold, as the bow in the cloud darts a thousand
changing dyes athwart the sun: Aeneas stood amazed at the sight.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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'
Thus taught and preched hath Resoun, 5135
But Love spilte hir sermoun,
That was so imped in my thought,
That hir
doctrine
I sette at nought.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Donne is always conscious of
the import of his moods; and so it is that there emerges from his
poems a philosophy or a suggested philosophy of love to take the place
of the
idealism
which he rejects.
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John Donne |
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If you like I will be your
_marriage godfather_,
Chvabrine
best man; then we will set to and drink
with closed doors.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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A good trooper values his
mount exactly as much as he values himself, and believes, or should
believe, that the two together are
irresistible
where women or men,
girls or guns, are concerned.
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Kipling - Poems |
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a word that must be, and hath been--
A sound which makes us linger; yet,
farewell!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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In the depth of the night not daring to let any one know
I
secretly
took a huge stone and dashed it against my arm.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I' m'accostai con tutta la persona
lungo 'l mio duca, e non torceva li occhi
da la
sembianza
lor ch'era non buona.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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'Twas then he loved the tangled grove
And solitude and calm delight,
The moon, the stars, and shining night--
The moon, the lamp of heaven above,
To whom we used to consecrate
A promenade in twilight late
With tears which secret sufferers love--
But now in her effulgence pale
A
substitute
for lamps we hail!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I've paced much this weary, mortal round,
And sage experience bids me this declare--
"If heaven a draught of
heavenly
pleasure spare,
One cordial in this melancholy vale,
'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair,
In other's arms, breathe out the tender tale,
Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the ev'ning gale.
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Robert Forst |
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With regard to his
marriage
in A.
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Li Po |
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--And now, Morris, now you know
Why you are the man that ought to
frighten
me!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And here we may find a genuine
difference between "literary" and "authentic"; not so much in the nature
of the
condition
as in its closeness and insistence.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"This is Spirit from above,
Who
marshals
us our upward way, unsought;
And in his own light shrouds him.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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My fellow-students got more and
more interested in certain modern schools of mystical belief, and I
never found anybody to share my one
unshakable
belief.
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Yeats |
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" said the Bellman in wrath, as he heard
The Butcher
beginning
to sob.
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Lewis Carroll |
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If true, if faithful thou, her
grateful
mind
Of decent robes a present has design'd:
So finding favour in the royal eye,
Thy other wants her subjects shall supply.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Ah, that the pure and simple never know
Aught of
themselves
and all their holy worth!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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They are often clumsily written
for they are in English, and if you have not read a great deal, it is
difficult to write well in a
language
which has been long separated,
from the 'folk-speech'; but they have not a thought a proud and simple
man would not have written.
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Yeats |
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Come,
blitheful
neat-herds, let us lay, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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in its
branches
the birds lodge and build their nests, the
souls and the angels have their place.
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Yeats |
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Nay, the wild rocks and woods then voiced the roar
Of Afric lions
mourning
for thy death.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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), and Tullus tore the flesh of the liar
through the forest, his splashed blood
dripping
from the briars.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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tombe neige
Tombe et que n'ai-je
Ma bien-aimee entre mes bras
POEME LU AU MARIAGE D'ANDRE SALMON
Le 13 juillet 1909
En voyant des drapeaux ce matin je ne me suis pas dit
Voila les riches vetements des pauvres
Ni la pudeur democratique veut me voiler sa douleur
Ni la liberte en honneur fait qu'on imite maintenant
Les feuilles o liberte vegetale o seule liberte terrestre
Ni les maisons flambent parce qu'on partira pour ne plus revenir
Ni ces mains agitees travailleront demain pour nous tous
Ni meme on a pendu ceux qui ne savaient pas profiter de la vie
Ni meme on renouvelle le monde en reprenant la Bastille
Je sais que seuls le renouvellent ceux qui sont fondes en poesie
On a pavoise Paris parce que mon ami Andre Salmon s'y marie
Nous nous sommes rencontres dans un caveau maudit
Au temps de notre jeunesse
Fumant tous deux et mal vetus attendant l'aube
Epris epris des memes paroles dont il faudra changer le sens
Trompes trompes pauvres petits et ne sachant pas encore rire
La table et les deux verres devinrent un mourant qui nous jeta le
dernier regard d'Orphee
Les verres tomberent se briserent
Et nous apprimes a rire
Nous partimes alors pelerins de la perdition
A travers les rues a travers les contrees a travers la raison
Je le revis au bord du fleuve sur lequel flottait Ophelie
Qui blanche flotte encore entre les nenuphars
Il s'en allait au milieu des Hamlets blafards
Sur la flute jouant les airs de la folie
Je le revis pres d'un moujik mourant compter les beatitudes
En admirant la neige semblable aux femmes nues
Je le revis faisant ceci ou cela en l'honneur des memes paroles
Qui changent la face des enfants et je dis toutes ces choses
Souvenir et Avenir parce que mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
Rejouissons-nous non pas parce que notre amitie a ete le fleuve
qui nous a fertilises
Terrains riverains dont l'abondance est la nourriture que tous
esperent
Ni parce que nos verres nous jettent encore une fois le regard
d'Orphee mourant
Ni parce que nous avons tant grandi que beaucoup pourraient
confondre nos yeux et les etoiles
Ni parce que les drapeaux claquent aux fenetres des citoyens qui
sont contents depuis cent ans d'avoir la vie et de menues choses a
defendre
Ni parce que fondes en poesie nous avons des droits sur les
paroles qui forment et defont l'Univers
Ni parce que nous pouvons pleurer sans ridicule et que nous savons
rire
Ni parce que nous fumons et buvons comme autrefois
Rejouissons-nous parce que directeur du feu et des poetes
L'amour qui emplit ainsi que la lumiere
Tout le solide espace entre les etoiles et les planetes
L'amour veut qu'aujourd'hui mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
L'ADIEU
J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyere
L'automne est morte souviens-t'en
Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre
Odeur du temps brin de bruyere
Et souviens-toi que je t'attends
SALOME
Pour que sourie encore une fois Jean-Baptiste
Sire je danserais mieux que les seraphins
Ma mere dites-moi pourquoi vous etes triste
En robe de comtesse a cote du Dauphin
Mon coeur battait battait tres fort a sa parole
Quand je dansais dans le fenouil en ecoutant
Et je brodais des lys sur une banderole
Destinee a flotter au bout de son baton
Et pour qui voulez-vous qu'a present je la brode
Son baton refleurit sur les bords du Jourdain
Et tous les lys quand vos soldats o roi Herode
L'emmenerent se sont fletris dans mon jardin
Venez tous avec moi la-bas sous les quinconces
Ne pleure pas o joli fou du roi
Prends cette tete au lieu de ta marotte et danse
N'y touchez pas son front ma mere est deja froid
Sire marchez devant trabants marchez derriere
Nous creuserons un trou et l'y enterrerons
Nous planterons des fleurs et danserons en rond
Jusqu'a l'heure ou j'aurai perdu ma jarretiere
Le roi sa tabatiere
L'infante son rosaire
Le cure son breviaire
LA PORTE
La porte de l'hotel sourit terriblement
Qu'est-ce que cela peut me faire o ma maman
D'etre cet employe pour qui seul rien n'existe
Pi-mus couples allant dans la profonde eau triste
Anges frais debarques a Marseille hier matin
J'entends mourir et remourir un chant lointain
Humble comme je suis qui ne suis rien qui vaille
Enfant je t'ai donne ce que j'avais travaille
MERLIN ET LA VIEILLE FEMME
Le soleil ce jour-la s'etalait comme un ventre
Maternel qui saignait lentement sur le ciel
La lumiere est ma mere o lumiere sanglante
Les nuages
coulaient
comme un flux menstruel
Au carrefour ou nulle fleur sinon la rose
Des vents mais sans epine n'a fleuri l'hiver
Merlin guettait la vie et l'eternelle cause
Qui fait mourir et puis renaitre l'univers
Une vieille sur une mule a chape verte
S'en vint suivant la berge du fleuve en aval
Et l'antique Merlin dans la plaine deserte
Se frappait la poitrine en s'ecriant Rival
O mon etre glace dont le destin m'accable
Dont ce soleil de chair grelotte veux-tu voir
Ma Memoire venir et m'aimer ma semblable
Et quel fils malheureux et beau je veux avoir
Son geste fit crouler l'orgueil des cataclysmes
Le soleil en dansant remuait son nombril
Et soudain le printemps d'amour et d'heroisme
Amena par la main un jeune jour d'avril
Les voies qui viennent de l'ouest etaient couvertes
D'ossements d'herbes drues de destins et de fleurs
Des monuments tremblants pres des charognes vertes
Quand les vents apportaient des poils et des malheurs
Laissant sa mule a petits pas s'en vint l'amante
A petits coups le vent defripait ses atours
Puis les pales amants joignant leurs mains dementes
L'entrelacs de leurs doigts fut leur seul laps d'amour
Elle balla mimant un rythme d'existence
Criant Depuis cent ans j'esperais ton appel
Les astres de ta vie influaient sur ma danse
Morgane regardait de haut du mont Gibel
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In these first two volumes the poet is
satisfied
with painting in words,
full of sonorous beauty, the surrounding world.
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Rilke - Poems |
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" He answer'd thus:
"Our progress with this day shall be as much
As we may now dispatch; but otherwise
Than thou
supposest
is the truth.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In a breast-pocket of his coat
appeared
conspicuously a
small black volume fastened with clasps of steel.
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Poe - 5 |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Stephen Crane |
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He does not die a death of shame
On a day of dark disgrace,
Nor have a noose about his neck,
Nor a cloth upon his face,
Nor drop feet
foremost
through the floor
Into an empty space.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Spring comes and goes and comes again
And all is
nakedness
and fen.
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John Clare |
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St Gudula was a Brabant saint (late 7th-early 8th century),
patroness
of Brussels.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Peg Nicholson was a good bay mare,
An' rode thro' thick and thin;
But now she's
floating
down the Nith,
And wanting even the skin.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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VII
But ye that prosper in the exercise
Of goodly labours, aye your way pursue;
Nor halt, O women, in your high emprise,
For fear of not receiving honour due:
For, as nought good endures beneath the skies,
So ill endures no more; if hitherto
Unfriendly by the poet's pen and page,
They now
befriend
you in our better age.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And
blackening
in the sea-foam swayed a boat,
Half-swallowed in it, anchored with a chain;
And in my madness to myself I said,
'I will embark and I will lose myself,
And in the great sea wash away my sin.
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O, may thou ne'er
forgather
up,
Wi' ony blastit, moorland toop;
But aye keep mind to moop an' mell,
Wi' sheep o' credit like thysel'!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping
melancholy
mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Hab ich dies Angesicht
versteckt?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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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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His
presence
stirs my blood, I own.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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What tears of bitter grief till then
unknown!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But I see the athletes--and I see the results glorious and inevitable--and
they again leading to other results;
How the great cities appear--How the Democratic masses, turbulent, wilful,
as I love them,
How the whirl, the contest, the wrestle of evil with good, the sounding and
resounding, keep on and on;
How society waits unformed, and is between things ended and things begun;
How America is the continent of glories, and of the triumph of freedom, and
of the Democracies, and of the fruits of society, and of all that
is begun;
And how the States are complete in themselves--And how all triumphs and
glories are complete in themselves, to lead onward,
And how these of mine, and of the States, will in their turn be convulsed,
and serve other
parturitions
and transitions.
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Whitman |
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A priest himself the blameless rustic rose;
Expert the
destined
victim to dispart
In seven just portions, pure of hand and heart.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The eyes are drowned in opium
In universal licence
The clownish mouth bewitched
A
singular
geranium.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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XI
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
To his
offspring
who, with mortal frailty,
Engorged with pride in Rome's bravery,
Looked to infringe on Heaven's grandeur,
Cooling again from his initial ardour,
With which Roman hearts he'd filled completely,
Blew new fires, with ardent breath, and fiercely,
Warmed the chilly Goths with his hot valour.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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There came a day - at Summer's full -
Entirely for me -
I thought that such were for the Saints -
Where
Resurrections
- be -
The sun - as common - went abroad -
The flowers - accustomed - blew,
As if no soul - that solstice passed -
Which maketh all things - new -
The time was scarce profaned - by speech -
The falling of a word
Was needless - as at Sacrament -
The _Wardrobe_ - of our Lord!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Late in the Spring, when all the ice was gone,
The elder brother, fishing in the lake,
Upon whose edge his father's wigwam stood,
Heard a low moaning noise upon the shore: 100
Half like a child it seemed, half like a wolf,
And
straightway
there was something in his heart
That said, 'It is thy brother Sheemah's voice.
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James Russell Lowell |
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"You trust a woman who puts forth
Her
blossoms
thick as summer's?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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and neither fleet nor fort
Can stay or aid thee as the deathly port
Receives
thy harried frame!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Longing
outspeeds
the breeze, I know.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Though other things have birth,
And leap and sing for mirth,
When
springtime
wakes and clothes and feeds the earth.
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Christina Rossetti |
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My honourable
friend,
Agrippa!
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Shakespeare |
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]
[Sidenote D: Here are brave ones many,]
[Sidenote E: if any be bold enough to 'strike a stroke for another,']
[Sidenote F: this axe shall be his;]
[Sidenote G: but I shall give him a 'stroke' in return]
[Sidenote H: within a
twelvemonth
and a day.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Nor had I time to love; but since
Some
industry
must be,
The little toil of love, I thought,
Was large enough for me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The public like to insult
poets because they are individual, but once they have
insulted
them,
they leave them alone.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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LXXV
As he that layeth siege to well-walled town,
And flanked about with solid bulwarks, still
Renews the assault; now fain would batter down
Gateway or tower; now gaping fosse would fill;
Yet vainly toils (for
entrance
is there none)
And wastes his host, aye frustrate of his will;
So sorely toils and strives without avail
The damsel, nor can open plate or mail.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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at
shoullde
hym see.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Say, Muse, their Names then known, who first, who last,
Rous'd from the slumber, on that fiery Couch,
At thir great Emperors call, as next in worth
Came singly where he stood on the bare strand,
While the
promiscuous
croud stood yet aloof?
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Milton |
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The series of animated things
Thou bidst pass by me,
teaching
me to know
My brothers in the waters, woods, and air.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Hymns of such sort pass away, wanting
prosodical
tact.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Swift, swift, with purple strew his passage fair,
That justice lead him to a home, at last,
He
scarcely
looked to see.
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Aeschylus |
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Was none so daring that durst make bold
(save her lord alone) of the
liegemen
dear
that lady full in the face to look,
but forged fetters he found his lot,
bonds of death!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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My brain it shall be your occult
convolutions!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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[Sidenote: Do you
recollect
too, that it has been shown that
happiness is the supreme good of men--and all desire this good,
since all seek happiness?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Foule whisp'rings are abroad: vnnaturall deeds
Do breed vnnaturall troubles: infected mindes
To their deafe
pillowes
will discharge their Secrets:
More needs she the Diuine, then the Physitian:
God, God forgiue vs all.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Fiddling
for ocean liners, while the dance
Sweeps through the decks, your brown tribes all will go!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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