Good for
selfgood
doth half destroy selfgood.
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Act IV Scene V (The King, Diegue, Arias, Alonso, Sanche, Chimene, Elvire)
King
Be content
Chimene, victory answers your intent:
Though Rodrigue
overcame
our enemies
He died before our eyes from wounds received.
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ere to-morrow's dawn be here,
"Send forth my messengers over the sea,
To seek seven
beautiful
brides for me;
"Radiant of feature and regal of mien,
Seven handmaids meet for the Persian Queen.
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And now the sea
reddened
with shafts of light, and high in heaven the
yellow dawn shone rose-charioted; when the winds fell, and every breath
sank suddenly, and the oar-blades toil through the heavy ocean-floor.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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{95} The art plastic was
moulding
in clay, or potter's
earth anciently.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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_ _B:_ Valediction 4: of Glasse
_O'F:_ Valediction in Glasse _P:_ The Diamond and Glasse _S:_
Vpon the ingravinge of his name with a
Diamonde
in his mistris
windowe when he was to travel.
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With power
congenial
join'd, propitious aid
The chief adopted by the martial maid!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Do not seek
to
dissuade
me.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Chanson de Roland |
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An Irish critic has told us
to study the stage-management of Antoine, but that is like telling a
good Catholic to take his
theology
from Luther.
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received the work on a
physical
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Now I know--
For all my speculation soareth up,
A bird taking
eternity
for air,--
Now being mixt with thee, in the burning midst
Of Beauty for my sense and mind and soul,--
That life hath highest gone which hath most joy.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own,
Else it were time lost
listening
to me.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I tell him
we shall stay here at the least a month, and he heartly prays
some
occasion
may detain us longer.
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Shakespeare |
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Properly speaking, Government should establish a
Matrimonial
Department,
efficiently officered, with a Jury of Matrons, a Judge of the Chief
Court, a Senior Chaplain, and an Awful Warning, in the shape of a
love-match that has gone wrong, chained to the trees in the courtyard.
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Kipling - Poems |
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On the long dyke he seemed to be far away;
In the narrow lane
suddenly
we were face to face.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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563
stations]
station 1674
The End of the Seventh Book
BOOK VIII.
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Milton |
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Sara Teasdale |
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'34 Maevius:'
a
poetaster
whose name has been handed down by Virgil and Horace.
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Alexander Pope |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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You're
strangely
proud.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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stephene
mylde & meke,
& bad hem vp arise, & seke
A godes man of rome, 363
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By this the flood of people was swollen from every side,
And streets and porches round were filled with that o'erflowing
tide;
And close around the body
gathered
a little train
Of them that were the nearest and dearest to the slain.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my
delicate
youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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She
strained
his baby in her arms,
His baby to her heart:
'Even let it go, the love that harms:
We twain will never part;
Mine own, his own, how dear thou art.
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Christina Rossetti |
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It was the tune of a Gaelic song, which
an
Inverness
lady sung me when I was there; and I was so charmed with
it that I begged her to write me a set of it from her singing; for it
had never been set before.
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Robert Forst |
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"
Cato the Censor, who also lived in the days of he Second Punic
War, mentioned this lost
literature
in his lost work on the
antiquities of his country.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Prayer
may be considered under two points of view;--as an
endeavour
to change
the intentions of God, or as a formal testimony of our obedience.
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Shelley |
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60
Thy virtue makes not vice of mine,
Unlike, but none the less divine;
Thy toil adorns, not chides, my play;
Nature of sameness is so chary,
With such wild whim the
freakish
fairy
Picks presents for the christening-day.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The Mohammedan was the first witness and
Strickland
beamed upon him from
the back of the Court.
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Kipling - Poems |
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For 'tis the nicest touch of human honour,
When some ethereal and high-favouring donor
Presents
immortal bowers to mortal sense;
As now 'tis done to thee, Endymion.
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Keats |
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Naroumov
invited Herman
to accompany him to the club, and the young man accepted the invitation
only too willingly.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The annual
occasion
once past, she withdrew again into her seclusion,
and except for a very few friends was as invisible to the world as if
she had dwelt in a nunnery.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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He with an
innocence
extreme
His inner consciousness laid bare,
And Eugene soon discovered there
The story of his young love's dream,
Where plentifully feelings flow
Which we experienced long ago.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you
something
different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I have betrayed thee,
thinking
that in this
I did God service.
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Longfellow |
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Bottomless vales and boundless floods,
And chasms, and caves, and Titian woods,
With forms that no man can discover
For the dews that drip all over;
Mountains
toppling evermore
Into seas without a shore;
Seas that restlessly aspire,
Surging, unto skies of fire;
Lakes that endlessly outspread
Their lone waters--lone and dead,--
Their still waters--still and chilly
With the snows of the lolling lily.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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LYCIDAS
But surely I had heard
That where the hills first draw from off the plain,
And the high ridge with gentle slope descends,
Down to the brook-side and the broken crests
Of yonder veteran beeches, all the land
Was by the songs of your
Menalcas
saved.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Enter a Sewer, and diuers
Seruants
with Dishes
and
Seruice ouer the Stage.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Among the stars your feet are set;
Your little feet are dancing yet
Their
rhythmic
beat, as when on earth.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The porter of my father's lodge
As much
abasheth
me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Of these literary records nothing has survived to us:
even of
epitaphs
preserved to us in inscriptions none is earlier than
the age of Cato.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Come,
no haggling, lay down your sword; we threw away
everything
while crossing
from one side of the stage to the other.
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Aristophanes |
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),
containing
a device (St.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Copyright
(C) 2001, 2002 by
Michael S.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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[Sidenote: For before the age of Plato she contended against
folly, and by her help Socrates
triumphed
over an unjust death.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Hor ich
Rauschen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And the
clockmen
mark the hours as they go.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It fell out otherwise
Than he divined, for when, by aid of Heaven,
The Hellenes held the victory on the sea,
Their sailors then and there begirt themselves
With brazen mail and bounded from their ships,
And then
enringed
the islet, point by point,
So that our Persians in bewilderment
Knew not which way to turn.
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Aeschylus |
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O, to see him when anointed he is
plunging
in the flood!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Shall we not bind and cast into the sea
This drunken sailor whose
ecstatic
mood
Makes bitterer still the water's weary flood?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Sous les
plafonds
duquel tant de pompe avait lui.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A
different
figure one would make.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills,
For you
bouquets
and ribbon'd wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Et mon coeur s'effraya d'envier maint pauvre homme
Courant avec ferveur a l'abime beant,
Et qui, soul de son sang,
prefererait
en somme
La douleur a la mort et l'enfer au neant!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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In the meantime the
inhabitants
had massacred all the
stray Germans to be found in the town.
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Tacitus |
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There's many have
committed
it.
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Shakespeare |
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There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before
combating
one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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In all
external
grace you have some part,
But you like none, none you, for constant heart.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Apollinaire's Notes to the Bestiary
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It praises the line that forms the images, marvellous
ornaments
to this poetic entertainment.
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Appoloinaire |
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Unauthenticated
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Du Fu - 5 |
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These but deprive my sweet boy of his most
opportune
times.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The first that keeps such state,
By whom our lives and freedoms we forego,
The world hath call'd him Love; and he (you know,
But shall know better when he comes to be
A lord to you, as now he is to me)
Is in his
childhood
mild, fierce in his age;
'Tis best believed of those that feel his rage.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Ah, there shall never come 'twixt me and thee
Gross
dissonances
of the mile, the year;
But in the multichords of ecstasy
Our souls shall mingle, yet be featured clear,
And absence, wrought to intervals divine,
Shall part, yet link, thy nature's tone and mine.
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Sidney Lanier |
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To satin races he is nought;
But children on the Don
Beneath his
tabernacles
play,
And Dnieper wrestlers run.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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SAADI
Trees in groves,
Kine in droves,
In ocean sport the scaly herds,
Wedge-like cleave the air the birds,
To northern lakes fly wind-borne ducks,
Browse the
mountain
sheep in flocks,
Men consort in camp and town,
But the poet dwells alone.
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Emerson - Poems |
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of his Poems, mutilated beyond the
average Casualties of
Oriental
Transcription, are so rare in the East
as scarce to have reacht Westward at all, in spite of all the
acquisitions of Arms and Science.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And lest some hideous
listener
tells,
I'll ring my bells.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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scilicet a calamis tribuit cui Francia nomen,
quique notat turbae
praetereuntis
iter.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Her yellow hair, beyond compare,
Comes
trinkling
down her swan-white neck;
And her two eyes, like stars in skies,
Would keep a sinking ship frae wreck.
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Robert Burns |
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Light was my sleep; my days in transport roll'd:
With
thoughtless
joy I stretch'd along the shore
My father's nets, or watched, when from the fold
High o'er the cliffs I led my fleecy store,
A dizzy depth below!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Ah, state
surcharged
with woes!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Forslagenn atte thie fote lette wylde beastes bee,
Lett thie floes drenche yer blodde, yett do ne
bredrenn
slee.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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There Past, Present, Future, shoot
Triple blossoms from one root;
Substances at base divided,
In their summits are united;
There the holy essence rolls,
One through
separated
souls;
And the sunny Aeon sleeps
Folding Nature in its deeps,
And every fair and every good,
Known in part, or known impure,
To men below,
In their archetypes endure.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Cosi a se e noi buona ramogna
quell' ombre orando, andavan sotto 'l pondo,
simile a quel che talvolta si sogna,
disparmente angosciate tutte a tondo
e lasse su per la prima cornice,
purgando
la caligine del mondo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
)
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The Warders with their shoes of felt
Crept by each padlocked door,
And peeped and saw, with eyes of awe,
Grey figures on the floor,
And
wondered
why men knelt to pray
Who never prayed before.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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The Muse of men is coy,
Oft courted will not come;
In palaces and market squares
Entreated, she is dumb;
But my
minstrel
knows and tells
The counsel of the gods,
Knows of Holy Book the spells,
Knows the law of Night and Day,
And the heart of girl and boy,
The tragic and the gay,
And what is writ on Table Round
Of Arthur and his peers;
What sea and land discoursing say
In sidereal years.
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Emerson - Poems |
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She was very much
surprised
at such a proposal.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Tomorrow
we depart from Cracow.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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proffering lowly gaze
And servile knees to
thrones?
| Guess: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"Well met," I thought the look would say,
"We both were
fashioned
far away;
We neither knew, when we were young,
These Londoners we live among.
| Guess: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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If
you have
resolved
to go I will e'en go along with you, were it on foot;
but I will not forsake you.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Ah,
Chloris!
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Golden Treasury |
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Their
good is so entangled with their bad as
forcibly
one must draw on the
other's death with it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Those coming after your work on the
Central
Southern
Syndicate appear to have done your business.
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Kipling - Poems |
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XVIII
'Her cheaper broods in palaces
She raises under glasses,
But souls like these, heav'n's hostages,
Spring shelterless as grasses: 140
They share Earth's
blessing
and her bane,
The common sun and shower;
What makes your pain to them is gain,
Your weakness is their power.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Tattiana fades away,
Grows pale and sinks, but nothing says;
Listless is she the
livelong
day
Nor interest in aught betrays.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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As I came, oh, my
brother!
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Hugo - Poems |
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20 and the
remaining
spawn still rage at will.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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[Sidenote: Some, imagining the supreme good to consist in lacking
nothing, labour for an abundance of _riches_; others, supposing
that this good lies in the
_reverence_
and _esteem_ of their
fellow men, strive to acquire honourable positions.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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(_Inventing fibs as he goes along_) There's someone I want to look
up--a person you don't know, on the other side of the river--yes, far
away--he's
confined
to bed--near Caesar's Park.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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That dark,
mysterious
name of horrid sound?
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John Clare |
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'Tis not
greatness
they require, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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TO A PORTRAIT PAINTER WHO DESIRED HIM TO SIT
_You_, so bravely
splashing
reds and blues!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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