Ye
mountains
that see us descend to the shore,
Shall view us as victors, or view us no more!
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I see her trundling her mop, and
contemplating the
whirling
phenomenon through blurred optics; but to
term her 'a poor outcast' seems as much as to say that poor Susan was
no better than she should be, which I trust was not what you meant to
express.
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"
(12)
I drive my chariot up to the Eastern Gate;
From afar I see the
graveyard
north of the Wall.
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_The Proeme_); and Donne uses
the phrase (with a different
application
but one borrowed from this
meaning) in the _Progresse of the Soule_, p.
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The death of the
Countess
had surprised no one, as it had long been
expected.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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CAMILLUS, truly, some suspicions had,
That he was loved, though neither fool nor mad;
Nor such a novice in the Paphian scene,
But what he could at once some notions glean:
More certain tokens, howsoe'er, to get,
And set the lady's
feelings
on the fret,
By trying if the gloom that o'er her reigned
Was only sly pretence, he coldness feigned.
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for, ere they put forth sail,
Did every store, each minish'd vessel, fail,
While all the Achaean host
At Aulis anchored lay,
Looking across to Chalics and the coast
Where refluent waters welter, rock, and sway;
And rife with ill delay
From northern Strymon blew the
thwarting
blast--
Mother of famine fell,
That holds men wand'ring still
Far from the haven where they fain would be!
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there are other gods besides you, barbarian gods who
dwell above
Olympus?
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She kept with care her
beauties
rare
From lovers warm and true--
For heart was cold to all but gold,
And the rich came not to won,
But honor'd well her charms to sell.
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He took also a useless bearer, because
the man had been his wife's
favorite
servant.
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And Enlarged
With Hitherto
Unprinted
And Inedited Poems From MSS.
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It was an area wide
Of arid sand and thick,
resembling
most
The soil that erst by Cato's foot was trod.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Athwart his back his
faulchion
keen he flung,
His sandals bound to his unsullied feet,
And, godlike, issued from his chamber-door.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Third Self: And what of me, the love-ridden self, the flaming brand
of wild passion and
fantastic
desires?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Leave
tenantless
thy crystal home, and fly,
With all thy train, athwart the moony sky--
*Apart--like fire-flies in Sicilian night,
And wing to other worlds another light!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Some catch
themselves
to every mound,
Then lingeringly and slowly move
As if they knew the precious ground
Were opening for their fertile love:
They almost try to dig, they need
So much to plant their thistle-seed.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Discreetly
we worship all powers,
Hoping for favor from each god and each goddess as well.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Apres refu
portrete
ENVIE, ENVIE.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And yet this voice itself,
In passing through shut
chambers
of a house,
Is dulled, and in a jumble enters ears,
And sound we seem to hear far more than words.
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Slow, and full of doubt,
And with thin ranks, after its banner mov'd
The army of Christ (which it so clearly cost
To reappoint), when its
imperial
Head,
Who reigneth ever, for the drooping host
Did make provision, thorough grace alone,
And not through its deserving.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
The clock is on the stroke of twelve,
And Johnny is not yet in sight,
The moon's in heaven, as Betty sees,
But Betty is not quite at ease;
And Susan has a
dreadful
night.
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new collection verse
WHITE FOUNTAINS
A BOOK OF VERSE
Published on
February
2 1 st by Small, MaynarrJ & Company, 15 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Here for those busy crews
Green leaves and pale-stemmed
clusters
of green strong flowers
Build heavy-perfumed, cool, green-twilight bowers
Whence, load by load, through the long summer days
They fill their glassy cells
With dark green honey, clear as chrysoprase,
Which housewives shun; but the bee-master tells
This brand is more delicious than all else.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Arminius however, who upon the departure of the Romans and expulsion
of Maroboduus, aimed at royalty, became thence engaged in a struggle
against the liberty of his country; and, in defence of their liberty,
his countrymen took arms against him: so that, while with various
fortune he contended with them, he fell by the treachery of his own
kindred: the deliverer of Germany without doubt he was; one who
assailed the Roman power, not like other kings and leaders, in its first
elements, but in its highest pride and elevation; one sometimes beaten
in battle, but never conquered in war: thirty-seven years he lived;
twelve he commanded; and, amongst these barbarous nations, his memory is
still
celebrated
in their songs; but his name unknown in the annals of
the Greeks, who only admire their own national exploits and renown; nor
even amongst the Romans does this great captain bear much distinction,
while, overlooking instances of modern prowess and glory, we only
delight to magnify men and feats of old.
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Tacitus |
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Can't you be
quicker?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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oru his preyer,
Of his
godnesse
ben partener
At ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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to
follow them, 2946; gerund wǣron
æðelingas
eft tō lēodum fūse tō farenne,
_the nobles were ready to go again to their people_, 1806; pret.
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Beowulf |
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Childless thou art, Childless remaine:
So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two 990
Be forc'd to
satisfie
his Rav'nous Maw.
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Milton |
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Mais le soleil eveille, a travers les feuillages,
Les vieilles couleurs des vitraux ensoleilles,
La pierre sent toujours la terre maternelle,
Vous verrez des monceaux de ces cailloux terreux
Dans la campagne en rut qui fremit, solennelle,
Portant, pres des bles lourds, dans les
sentiers
sereux,
Ces arbrisseaux brules ou bleuit la prunelle,
Des noeuds de muriers noirs ou de rosiers furieux.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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E come ninfe che si givan sole
per le
salvatiche
ombre, disiando
qual di veder, qual di fuggir lo sole,
allor si mosse contra 'l fiume, andando
su per la riva; e io pari di lei,
picciol passo con picciol seguitando.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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O
LUCKLESS
bark!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Into the sky,
the red earthenware and the
galvanised
iron chimneys
thrust their cowls.
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Imagists |
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And
therefore
I thee pardon, Lucifer,
As freely as the streams of Eden flowed
When we were happy by them.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Finally, as for his moral character, we do not hesitate to say that he
has no grain of vice or
meanness
in him, but represents just that
degree of virtue which all men relish without being obliged to
respect.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of
permission
with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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is;
his
martirdom
was strong I-wys,
Of sorou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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She had so
stedfast
countenaunce,
So noble port and meyntenaunce.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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You'll find it
cheapest
in the
end.
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Kipling - Poems |
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We looked round: the path by which we had come
Was a dark cleft across the
shoulder
of the hill.
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Li Po |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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For, right within, the sword of Sin
Pierced to its
poisoned
hilt,
And as molten lead were the tears we shed
For the blood we had not spilt.
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Wilde - Poems |
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No sooner hee with them of Man and Beast
Select for life shall in the Ark be lodg'd,
And shelterd round, but all the
Cataracts
820
Of Heav'n set open on the Earth shall powre
Raine day and night, all fountaines of the Deep
Broke up, shall heave the Ocean to usurp
Beyond all bounds, till inundation rise
Above the highest Hills: then shall this Mount
Of Paradise by might of Waves be moovd
Out of his place, pushd by the horned floud,
With all his verdure spoil'd, and Trees adrift
Down the great River to the op'ning Gulf,
And there take root an Iland salt and bare, 830
The haunt of Seales and Orcs, and Sea-mews clang.
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Milton |
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Thrice rushing furious, at the chief he strook;
His blazing buckler thrice Apollo shook:
He tried the fourth: when,
breaking
from the cloud,
A more than mortal voice was heard aloud.
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Iliad - Pope |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I know, to the
security
your realms give
I owe my heart's blood, the air I breathe;
And if I lose them for some noble object,
I'd simply be acting as a loyal subject.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Would I were hers in body, and not in soul,
And she admitted me
secretly
to her chamber!
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Troubador Verse |
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Down to a beechen hollow winds the track
And tunnels past my twilit bivouac:
Two spiring wisps of smoke go singly up
And
scarcely
tremble in the leafy air.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Perished is all that grieves;
And lo, our old-new joys
Are
gathered
as in sheaves,
Held in love's equipoise.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The vida claims that
Raimbaut
spied on Beatrice in her shift practising with her husband's sword, after which he called her his Bel Cavalier.
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Troubador Verse |
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Thou art first Squire to that most puissant knight,
Lord Satan, who thy
faithful
squireship long
Hath watched and well shall guerdon.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Surely a sublime conviction, and
expressed more than once in magnificent words--none more so than the lines
beginning
"Come, I will make this
continent
indissoluble.
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Whitman |
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And as a bowl of glass to shattering
Shivers at a sounding string,
The brittle glittering self of man
At beauty of Woman throbs apieces,
And seems into
Eternity
spilled
The being it contained.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Whence Nature views her loveliness display'd
With sun-like radiance
sublimely
fair:
Nor mortal eye can the pure splendour bear:
Love, sweetness, in unmeasured grace array'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And the
Initiate
of
Tz?
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Li Po |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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ablyng hem 624
to her
p{ro}pre
offices.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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They in
unfaltering
train make towards Laocoon.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Go forth now; let the night
Befriend thee, for no other friend thou hast,
For the day shall reveal thee to men's eyes,
And they,
obedient
to the King, will hate thee.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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LXII
If cleft his vizor through the midst; 'twas well
That from the sight
diverged
the trenchant blade,
Which on the saddle's plated pommel fell;
Nor yet its double steel the faulchion stayed:
It reached his armour (like soft wax, the shell
Oped, and the skirts wherewith 'twas overlaid)
And trenched upon his thigh a grievous wound;
So that 'twas long ere he again waxed sound.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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[22]
The Lord God lies at his western lattice:
And the lesser Spirits are
together
in the eastern gallery.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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XERXES
A blackening blow--
CHORUS
A
grievous
stripe shall fall!
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Aeschylus |
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Frankly, he didn't think much of committees; they had
a
Municipal
Committee at Lahore and had elected a menial servant, an
orderly, as a member.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The
magicians
pass them from father to son and keep them imprisoned in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves, sounding out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
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Appoloinaire |
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Still follow sense, of every art the soul,
Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole,
Spontaneous
beauties
all around advance,
Start even from difficulty, strike from chance;
Nature shall join you; Time shall make it grow
A work to wonder at--perhaps a Stowe.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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some one
is
occupying
em.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
He heard the little
hysterical
gulp and took it for tribute.
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Kipling - Poems |
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) by slight extravagances and forms of words which are
sometimes epic and sometimes over-colloquial; it has a regular saga plot,
which had already been treated by the old poet Phrynichus in his
_Alcestis_, a play which is now lost but seems to have been Satyric;
and it has one character
straight
from the Satyr world, the heroic
reveller, Heracles.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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These are the
thoughts
I often think
As I stand gazing down
In act upon the cressy brink
To strip and dive and drown;
But in the golden-sanded brooks
And azure meres I spy
A silly lad that longs and looks
And wishes he were I.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And
sweetest
in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
Over the field that there
Gave back the skies
A
scattered
upward stare
From sightless eyes,
The furrowed field that lay
Striving awhile, through many a bleeding dune
Of throbbing clay,--but dumb and quiet soon,
She looked; and went her way,
The Harvest Moon.
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The flames that ever on my bosom prey
From living ice or cold fair marble pour,
And so exhaust my veins and waste my core,
Almost
insensibly
I melt away.
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Sudden her humane eyes that peer and watch
Through the deep shade, a
mouldering
dwelling find,
No light within--the thin door shakes--the thatch
O'er the green walls is twisted of the wind,
Yellow, and dirty, as a swollen rill,
"Ah, me," she saith, "here does that widow dwell;
Few days ago my good man left her ill:
I will go in and see if all be well.
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He said, and drove the Monke out of his syghte,
And with his
brothers
rouz'd each manne to bloudie fyghte.
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It is the mind of the town, and it is a delight to those only who have
seen life, and above all country life, with unobservant eyes, and
most of all to the Irish tourist, to the patriotic young
Irishman
who
goes to the country for a month's holiday with his head full of vague
idealisms.
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or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the
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LXXX
Oberto takes to wife Olympia fair,
And her of
countess
makes a puissant queen.
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Her face is fair, her heart is true;
As
spotless
as she's bonie, O:
The op'ning gowan, wat wi' dew,
Nae purer is than Nanie, O.
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quorum post abitum princeps e uertice Pelei
aduenit Chiron portans
siluestria
dona:
nam quodcumque ferunt campi, quos Thessala magnis 280
montibus ora creat, quos propter fluminis undas
aura parit flores tepidi fecunda Fauoni,
hos indistinctis plexos tulit ipse corollis,
quo permulsa domus iucundo risit odore.
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Own to light, love, attraction,
O pearls the sea mingles with its great masses,
O
gleaming
birds of the forest's sombre ocean!
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After having
mentioned
the degeneracy of other kingdoms, I
come to Scotland thus:--
Thee, Caledonia, thy wild heaths among,
Thee, famed for martial deed, and sacred song,
To thee I turn with swimming eyes;
Where is that soul of freedom fled?
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In Argos about the fold,
A story
lingereth
yet,
A voice of the mountains old,
That tells of the Lamb of Gold:
A lamb from a mother mild,
But the gold of it curled and beat;
And Pan, who holdeth the keys of the wild,
Bore it to Atreus' feet:
His wild reed pipes he blew,
And the reeds were filled with peace,
And a joy of singing before him flew,
Over the fiery fleece:
And up on the based rock,
As a herald cries, cried he:
"Gather ye, gather, O Argive folk,
The King's Sign to see,
The sign of the blest of God,
For he that hath this, hath all!
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Euripides - Electra |
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The
Character
of Holland 171
Flecno, an English Priest at Rome 178
Tom May's Death 186
Oceana and Britannia 190
Britannia and Raleigh 199
Instructioks to a Paimteb about thk Dutch
Wars, 1667 208
To the King 244
Part II 247
Tothe King 2C2
Part III 268
A Dialogue betweem two Horses, 1674.
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THE FOSTER-MOTHER'S TALE, A
DRAMATIC
FRAGMENT.
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He drew not nigh unheard, the Angel bright,
Ere he drew nigh, his radiant visage turnd,
Admonisht by his eare, and strait was known
Th' Arch-Angel Uriel, one of the seav'n
Who in Gods presence, neerest to his Throne
Stand ready at command, and are his Eyes 650
That run through all the Heav'ns, or down to th' Earth
Bear his swift errands over moist and dry,
O're Sea and Land: him Satan thus accostes;
Uriel, for thou of those seav'n Spirits that stand
In sight of God's high Throne, gloriously bright,
The first art wont his great authentic will
Interpreter through highest Heav'n to bring,
Where all his Sons thy Embassie attend;
And here art likeliest by supream decree
Like honour to obtain, and as his Eye 660
To visit oft this new Creation round;
Unspeakable
desire to see, and know
All these his wondrous works, but chiefly Man,
His chief delight and favour, him for whom
All these his works so wondrous he ordaind,
Hath brought me from the Quires of Cherubim
Alone thus wandring.
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II
Your
faithful
people gazed on a long show,
That night and day, wherein they crowded stood,
As in a theatre, and hemmed on Po
Twixt fire and sword, the hostile navies viewed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Mean while Uriel descending on a
Sunbeam warns Gabriel, who had in charge the Gate of Paradise, that some
evil spirit had escap'd the Deep, and past at Noon by his Sphere in the
shape of a good Angel down to Paradise,
discovered
after by his furious
gestures in the Mount.
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WILSON
[Sidenote: May 10, 1775]
_After the news of Concord fight, a volunteer
expedition
from
Vermont and Connecticut, under Ethan Alien and Benedict Arnold,
seized Ticonderoga and Crown Point, whose military stores were of
great service.
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Can any good come out of
Nazareth?
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