How vainly men themselves amaze
To win the palm, the oak, or bays,
And their
incessant
labours see
Crown'd from some single herb or tree,
Whose short and narrow-verged shade
Does prudently their toils upbraid;
While all the flowers and trees do close
To weave the garlands of Repose.
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Golden Treasury |
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The
harlot halts outside the city of Erech with the
enamoured
Enkidu,
while she relates to him the two dreams of the king, Gilgamish.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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It would appear the wind has changed its mind,
On seeing all that sailed in her are gone;
And blows the vessel from those
shallows
free,
Through better course, into a safer sea.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"Now, dear knave,
Be kind and tell me -- tell me quickly, too, --
Some proper
reasonable
ground or cause,
Nay, tell me but some shadow of some cause,
Nay, hint me but a thin ghost's dream of cause,
(So will I thee absolve from being whipped)
Why I, Lord Raoul, should turn my horse aside
From riding by yon pitiful villein gang,
Or ay, by God, from riding o'er their heads
If so my humor serve, or through their bodies,
Or miring fetlocks in their nasty brains,
Or doing aught else I will in my Clermont?
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_ _1633-69:_ (_in 1633 it is the first poem;
in 1633-69 it follows the_
Funerall
Elegies, _from which it
is separated by some prose letters, and precedes_ Divine Poems
_as here_), _A18_, _G_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD_
Metempsychosis.
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John Donne |
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Then I saw the morning sky:
Heigho, the tale was all a lie;
The world, it was the old world yet,
I was I, my things were wet,
And nothing now
remained
to do
But begin the game anew.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A man whose father and mother were Irish
Ran a goat farm half-way down the mountain;
He drove a covered wagon years ago,
Understood
how to handle a rifle,
Shot grouse, buffalo, Indians, in a single year,
And now was raising goats around a shanty.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the raven his nest has made
In its
thickest
shade.
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blake-poems |
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In the other little light
serenely
smiles
That pleader for the Christian temples, he
Who did provide Augustin of his lore.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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One spot on the margin of Lake Regillus was
regarded during many ages with
superstitious
awe.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Nor shun the blessing proffer'd to thy arms,
Ascend her bed, and taste
celestial
charms;
So shall thy tedious toils a respite find,
And thy lost friends return to human kind.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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you are in the wrong
The world's good word is better than a song)
Who has not learned fresh
sturgeon
and ham-pie
Are no rewards for want, and infamy?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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--foreknew his devices, and at
once caught the
presaging
stir.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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CANTO I
Lines '1-2'
Pope opens his mock-epic with the usual epic formula, the
statement
of
the subject.
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Alexander Pope |
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(Replied the king elated with his praise)
My
strength
were still, as once in better days:
When the bold Cephalens the leaguer form'd.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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All down the hills of Habersham,
All through the valleys of Hall,
The rushes cried `Abide, abide,'
The willful waterweeds held me thrall,
The laving laurel turned my tide,
The ferns and the fondling grass said `Stay,'
The
dewberry
dipped for to work delay,
And the little reeds sighed `Abide, abide,
Here in the hills of Habersham,
Here in the valleys of Hall.
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Sidney Lanier |
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" From that day forth
The
serpents
were my friends; for round his neck
One of then rolling twisted, as it said,
"Be silent, tongue!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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There, take the darkling gold, the gentle gray
From birches and from box--the zephyrs sway,
Few
lingering
roses yet their perfumes breathe,
Select them, kiss them and a crown enwreathe.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But none the less the world
believed
that they
Unto the powers of hell their souls had sold.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And what a
privilege
to be
But the remotest star!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"Haud aff your hands, young man," she says,
"And dinna sae uncivil be:
If ye hae onto love for me,
O wrang na my
virginitie!
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Robert Burns |
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With useless endeavor,
Forever, forever,
Is
Sisyphus
rolling
His stone up the mountain!
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Longfellow |
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Alexius was sett to boke,
To gode
maistres
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Sachet
toujours
frais qui parfume
L'atmosphere d'un cher reduit,
Encensoir oublie qui fume
En secret a travers la nuit,
Comment, amour incorruptible,
T'exprimer avec verite?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And so growing gentler and clearer, it changes
and is
dispersed
and dies.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
LIV
Back darted Spurius Lartius;
Herminius
darted back:
And, as they passed, beneath their feet
They felt the timbers crack.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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wearð hē
Heaðolāfe
tō hand-bonan, 460; so, wearð,
906, 1262; ne wearð Heremōd swā (i.
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Beowulf |
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Sweet face, do not misunderstand my
thought!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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MENALCAS
"In
dazzling
sheen with unaccustomed eyes
Daphnis stands rapt before Olympus' gate,
And sees beneath his feet the clouds and stars.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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ein & bad hem seke
in
Eufemians
house; 375
ffor ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Try then,
instrument
of flights, O malign
Syrinx by the lake where you await me, to flower again!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The serpent too shall die,
Die shall the
treacherous
poison-plant, and far
And wide Assyrian spices spring.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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DAMON
"Rise, Lucifer, and, heralding the light,
Bring in the genial day, while I make moan
Fooled by vain passion for a
faithless
bride,
For Nysa, and with this my dying breath
Call on the gods, though little it bestead-
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Sweet Aganippe, and Castalia have
A
thousand
more; all there sung by the brave
And deathless poets, on their fair banks placed;
Cydippe by an apple fool'd at last.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But even thus highly by Feodor am I
Already raised; the army I command;
For me he scorned
nobility
of rank
And the wrath of the boyars.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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or
affecciou{n}s
wiche ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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you proud, friendly, free
Manhattanese!
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Whitman |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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[Linenotes:
1458 _greet[e]_--grete
1460 _letee_--let
1461
_somtyme
slou?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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There ys ne house, athrow thys shap-scurged[85] isle,
Thatte has ne loste a kynne yn these fell fyghtes,
Fatte blodde has
sorfeeted
the hongerde soyle, 605
And townes enlowed[86] lemed[87] oppe the nyghtes.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Thou hast had power to hunt the Trojans over land or wave,
to kindle
accursed
war, to put the house in mourning, and plunge the
bridal in grief: further attempt I forbid thee.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It took the hall door for the novelty,
And set off briskly for so slow a thing,
Still going every which way in the joints, though,
So that it looked like
lightning
or a scribble,
From the slap I had just now given its hand.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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There
pilgrims
climb slowly one by one,
And behind them a blind man goes:
With him I will walk till day is done
Up the pathway that no one knows .
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Rilke - Poems |
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Then I saw the morning sky:
Heigho, the tale was all a lie;
The world, it was the old world yet,
I was I, my things were wet,
And nothing now
remained
to do
But begin the game anew.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Where wert thou, mighty Mother, when he lay, _10
When thy Son lay, pierced by the shaft which flies
In
darkness?
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Shelley |
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O'er her limbs the
glittering
current
In soft torrent
Rains adown the gentle girl,
As if, drop by drop, should fall,
One and all
From her necklace every pearl.
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Hugo - Poems |
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WINDFLOWER
LEAF
This flower is repeated
out of old winds, out of
old times.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Pretty surely 'twere to see
By young Love old Time beguiled,
While our
sportings
are as free
As the nurse's with the child.
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Marvell - Poems |
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It's as if I began to build in the ocean depths
A
thousand
tombs: to vanish still virgin there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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,
_enjoyment
of the air_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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)[34] Going
round
mountains
and skirting lakes was as nothing to them.
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Li Po |
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After that hour he never looked on it,
Investiture
gat never, nor seizin.
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Chanson de Roland |
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That Youth's sweet-scented
Manuscript
should close!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Act IV Scene VI (Phaedra, Oenone)
Phaedra
Dear Oenone, do you know what I have
learned?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Poor poet thou, and
grateful
senate they.
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Marvell - Poems |
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When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said--
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, 140
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Now Albert's coming back, make
yourself
a bit smart.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The real you is fierce, of
pitiless
cruelty:
The false you one enjoys, in true intimacy,
I sleep beside your ghost, rest by an illusion:
Nothing's denied me.
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Ronsard |
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Mary Morris Duane
Freshness, strength, beauty and dignity
characterize
the poems in store for subscribers.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In the sun,
Upon the second step of that small pile,
Surrounded by those wild
unpeopled
hills,
He sat, and ate [1] his food in solitude: 15
And ever, scattered from his palsied hand,
That, still attempting to prevent the waste,
Was baffled still, the crumbs in little showers
Fell on the ground; and the small mountain birds,
Not venturing yet to peck their destined meal, 20
Approached within the length of half his staff.
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William Wordsworth |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
"To-morrow," said they, strong with hope,
And dwelt upon the
pleasant
way:
"To-morrow," cried they, one and all,
While no one spoke of yesterday.
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Christina Rossetti |
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_
Caduceus
was the name of Hermes' staff of wondrous
powers, the touch of which, evidently, was powerful to give the serpent
human form.
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Keats |
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"Good Susan tell me, and I'll stay;
"I fear you're in a
dreadful
way,
"But I shall soon be back again.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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From the Northwest comes a shadowy wind,1
somberly
following the Uighurs.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Who 'midst
surrounding
frosts, and vapours chill,
Presid'st on bleak Dodona's vocal hill:
(Whose groves the Selli, race austere!
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Iliad - Pope |
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64, and frequently in
Shakespeare
(see Schmidt).
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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" And though it may be less
picturesque
than that more famous
example of the romantic drama, it is on the whole a finer effort of
genius.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I said to my heart, my feeble heart;
Haven't we had enough of
sadness?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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You
Japanese
man or woman!
| Guess: |
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Whitman |
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-- The hardy Scylding,
battle-thane best, {16i} on his
balefire
lay.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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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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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Thus, till dry teares soulder mine eyes, I weepe;
And then, I dreame, how you
securely
sleepe,
And in your dreames doe laugh at me.
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John Donne |
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the most human, the most
generous
of the gods, be favourable
toward us, if it be true that you detest the haughty crests and proud
brows of Pisander;[296] we shall never cease, oh master, offering you
sacred victims and solemn prayers.
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Aristophanes |
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God grant that it may find you and yours in
prospering
health and
good spirits!
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Meredith - Poems |
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There's smoke in you, I know,
And
splutter
too.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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416
Maggior
Consiglio
(Great Council, Venice), _iv.
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Byron |
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Sara Teasdale |
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After a few
moments there enter
stealthily
two armed men,_ ORESTES _and_ PYLADES.
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Euripides - Electra |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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Appoloinaire |
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_bouillon_
in senses derived from
that of "bubble.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the
glittering
forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Barrett was a man of intellect and culture, and
therefore able to direct his daughter's education, but be that so or
not, he
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for her the tutorial assistance of the well-known Greek
scholar Hugh Stuart Boyd .
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His falling temples you have reared,
The
withered
garlands ta'en away;
His altars kept from the decay
That envy wished, and nature feared;
And on them burns so chaste a flame,
With so much loyalty's expense,
As Love, t' acquit such excellence,
Is gone himself into your name.
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A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
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Is not Mount Tabor
As
beautiful
as Carmel by the Sea?
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'Tis more than sixty years ago
Since first I watched your to-and-fro;
Two generations come and gone
From silence to oblivion,
With all their noisy strife and stress
Lulled in the grave's forgivingness,
While you
unquenchably
survive
Immortal, almost more alive.
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And who wants to swallow a
mouthful
of sorrow?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Whitman |
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XVIII
=Sonnet=
The palid
thunderstricken
sigh for gain,
Down an ideal stream they ever float,
And sailing on Pactolus in a boat,
Drown soul and sense, while wistfully they strain
Weak eyes upon the glistering sands that robe
The understream.
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And only yesterday it was I saw
Veil'd in streamers of grey
wavering
smoke
My shapely Malvern Hills.
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The Tartar began to hum a
plaintive
song; Saveliitch, fast asleep,
oscillated from one side to the other.
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