Priam is struck at his approach, and tries to
persuade
his son
to re-enter the town.
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Iliad - Pope |
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considunt apices gemini dicionis Eoae,
hic cocus, hic leno, defossi uerbere terga,
seruitio, non arte pares, hic saepius emptus,
alter ad Hispanos
nutritus
uerna penatis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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mighty queen, why so
untimely
dressed ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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Now with pallor,
I see the scarlet flag already waving;
It means the harvest-hirelings' dance with Death;
With
unpicked
fruitage tempest-toused and torn.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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For
evermore
and evermore
In the chamber by the sea,
Till death should break the spell-bound door
And end his slavery;
In the chamber strewn with flowers in bloom
With a heavy scent like death,
Echoing ever the song of doom
Which the sad sea moaned beneath.
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Tennyson |
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Erdman indicates that a linking line "must have been dropped in
transcribing
from working notes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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'The second two: they wait,' he said, 'pass on;
His Highness wakes:' and one, that clashed in arms,
By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led
Threading the soldier-city, till we heard
The drowsy folds of our great ensign shake
From blazoned lions o'er the imperial tent
Whispers
of war.
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Tennyson |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Grateful
to me is sleep!
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Longfellow |
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To be eternal--what a brilliant
thought!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Lines 646-651 were previously
Nature, as in her prime, her virgin reign
Begins, and Love and Truth compose her train;
While, with a pulseless hand, and
stedfast
gaze,
Unbreathing Justice her still beam surveys.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Stephen Crane |
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Venus comes in all her might,
Quits Cyprus for my heart, nor lets me tell
Of the Parthian, hold in flight,
Nor
Scythian
hordes, nor aught that breaks her spell.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And some there were,
Dreading the doorways of destruction
So much, lived on,
deprived
by the knife
Of the male member; not a few, though lopped
Of hands and feet, would yet persist in life,
And some there were who lost their eyeballs: O
So fierce a fear of death had fallen on them!
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Lucretius |
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Her leaders have taken
soundings
of every man.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
--And so the conversation slips
Among velleities and carefully caught regrets
Through
attenuated
tones of violins
Mingled with remote cornets
And begins.
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T.S. Eliot |
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A place there was, yet undefiled with gore,
The spot where Hector stopp'd his rage before;
When night descending, from his vengeful hand
Reprieved the relics of the Grecian band:
(The plain beside with mangled corps was spread,
And all his
progress
mark'd by heaps of dead:)
There sat the mournful kings: when Neleus' son,
The council opening, in these words begun:
"Is there (said he) a chief so greatly brave,
His life to hazard, and his country save?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Thus, we do not
necessarily keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper
edition.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Proud of this pride,
He is
contented
thy poor drudge to be,
To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Or des vergers fleuris se figeaient en arriere
Les petales tombes des cerisiers de mai
Sont les ongles de celle que j'ai tant aimee
Les petales fleuris sont comme ses paupieres
Sur le chemin du bord du fleuve lentement
Un ours un singe un chien menes par des tziganes
Suivaient une roulotte trainee par un ane
Tandis que s'eloignait dans les vignes rhenanes
Sur un fifre lointain un air de regiment
Le mai le joli mai a pare les ruines
De lierre de vigne vierge et de rosiers
Le vent du Rhin secoue sur le bord les osiers
Et les roseaux jaseurs et les fleurs nues des vignes
La synagogue
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren
Coiffes de feutres verts le matin du sabbat
Vont a la synagogue en longeant le Rhin
Et les coteaux ou les vignes rougissent la-bas
Ils se disputent et crient des choses qu'on ose a peine traduire
Batard concu pendant les regles ou Que le diable entre dans ton
pere
Le vieux Rhin souleve sa face ruisselante et se detourne pour
sourire
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren sont en colere
Parce que pendant le sabbat on ne doit pas fumer
Tandis que les chretiens passent avec des cigares allumes
Et parce qu'Ottomar et Abraham aiment tous deux
Lia aux yeux de brebis et dont le ventre avance un peu
Pourtant tout a l'heure dans la synagogue l'un apres l'autre
Ils baiseront la thora en soulevant leur beau chapeau
Parmi les feuillards de la fete des cabanes
Ottomar en chantant sourira a Abraham
Ils dechanteront sans mesure et les voix graves des hommes
Feront gemir un Leviathan au fond du Rhin comme une voix d'automne
Et dans la synagogue pleine de chapeaux on agitera les loulabim
Hanoten ne Kamoth bagoim tholahoth baleoumim
Les cloches
Mon beau tzigane mon amant
Ecoute les cloches qui sonnent
Nous nous aimions eperdument
Croyant n'etre vus de personne
Mais nous etions bien mal caches
Toutes les cloches a la ronde
Nous ont vus du haut des clochers
Et le disent a tout le monde
Demain Cyprien et Henri
Marie Ursule et Catherine
La boulangere et son mari
Et puis Gertrude ma cousine
Souriront quand je passerai
Je ne saurai plus ou me mettre
Tu seras loin Je pleurerai
J'en mourrai peut-etre
La Loreley
A Jean Seve
A Bacharach il y avait une sorciere blonde
Qui
laissait
mourir d'amour tous les hommes a la ronde
Devant son tribunal l'eveque la fit citer
D'avance il l'absolvit a cause de sa beaute
O belle Loreley aux yeux pleins de pierreries
De quel magicien tiens-tu ta sorcellerie
Je suis lasse de vivre et mes yeux sont maudits
Ceux qui m'ont regardee eveque en ont peri
Mes yeux ce sont des flammes et non des pierreries
Jetez jetez aux flammes cette sorcellerie
Je flambe dans ces flammes O belle Loreley
Qu'un autre te condamne tu m'as ensorcele
Eveque vous riez Priez plutot pour moi la Vierge
Faites-moi donc mourir et que Dieu vous protege
Mon amant est parti pour un pays lointain
Faites-moi donc mourir puisque je n'aime rien
Mon coeur me fait si mal il faut bien que je meure
Si je me regardais il faudrait que j'en meure
Mon coeur me fait si mal depuis qu'il n'est plus la
Mon coeur me fit si mal du jour ou il s'en alla
L'eveque fit venir trois chevaliers avec leurs lances
Menez jusqu'au couvent cette femme en demence
Va t'en Lore en folie va Lore aux yeux tremblants
Tu seras une nonne vetue de noir et blanc
Puis ils s'en allerent sur la route tous les quatre
La Loreley les implorait et ses yeux brillaient comme des astres
Chevaliers laissez-moi monter sur ce rocher si haut
Pour voir une fois encore mon beau chateau
Pour me mirer une fois encore dans le fleuve
Puis j'irai au couvent des vierges et des veuves
La-haut le vent tordait ses cheveux deroules
Les chevaliers criaient Loreley Loreley
Tout la-bas sur le Rhin s'en vient une nacelle
Et mon amant s'y tient il m'a vue il m'appelle
Mon coeur devient si doux c'est mon amant qui vient
Elle se penche alors et tombe dans le Rhin
Pour avoir vu dans l'eau la belle Loreley
Ses yeux couleur du Rhin ses cheveux de soleil
Schinderhannes
Dans la foret avec sa bande
Schinderhannes s'est desarme
Le brigand pres de sa brigande
Hennit d'amour au joli mai
Benzel accroupi lit la Bible
Sans voir que son chapeau pointu
A plume d'aigle sert de cible
A Jacob Born le mal foutu
Juliette Blaesius qui rote
Fait semblant d'avoir le hoquet
Hannes pousse une fausse note
Quand Schulz vient portant un baquet
Et s'ecrie en versant des larmes
Baquet plein de vin parfume
Viennent aujourd'hui les gendarmes
Nous aurons bu le vin de mai
Allons Julia la mam'zelle
Bois avec nous ce clair bouillon
D'herbes et de vin de Moselle
Prosit Bandit en cotillon
Cette brigande est bientot soule
Et veut Hannes qui n'en veut pas
Pas d'amour maintenant ma poule
Sers-nous un bon petit repas
Il faut ce soir que j'assassine
Ce riche juif au bord du Rhin
Au clair des torches de resine
La fleur de mai c'est le florin
On mange alors toute la bande
Pete et rit pendant le diner
Puis s'attendrit a l'allemande
Avant d'aller assassiner
Rhenane d'automne
A Toussaint-Luca
Les enfants des morts vont jouer
Dans le cimetiere
Martin Gertrude Hans et Henri
Nul coq n'a chante aujourd'hui
Kikiriki
Les vieilles femmes
Tout en pleurant cheminent
Et les bons anes
Braillent hi han et se mettent a brouter les fleurs
Des couronnes mortuaires
C'est le jour des morts et de toutes leurs ames
Les enfants et les vieilles femmes
Allument des bougies et des cierges
Sur chaque tombe catholique
Les voiles des vieilles
Les nuages du ciel
Sont comme des barbes de biques
L'air tremble de flammes et de prieres
Le cimetiere est un beau jardin
Plein de saules gris et de romarins
Il vous vient souvent des amis qu'on enterre
ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Livingly owning him,
Lovingly throning him,
Feasting
fraternally,
Praying diurnally,
Bearing his messages,
Sharing his promises,
Find ye your master near,
Find ye him here!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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LI
Is the day long,
O Lesbian maiden,
And the night endless
In thy lone chamber
In
Mitylene?
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Sappho |
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=Poems, 1833=
[The poems
numbered
XXXI-XXXIX were published in the 1832 volume
(_Poems by Alfred Tennyson_.
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Tennyson |
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_
HE HUMBLY
CONFESSES
THE ERRORS OF HIS PAST LIFE, AND PRAYS FOR DIVINE
GRACE.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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)
The queen began to think her husband's rage
Had proved a
stimulus
such wars to wage,
And made him wond'rous stout in pleasure's sport,
Though all the while his thoughts were-'bout the court.
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La Fontaine |
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And the dew on the grass and his own cold tears
Were one in brooding mystery,
Though death's loud thunder came upon him,
Though death's loud thunder struck him down--
The boughs and the proud thoughts swept through the thunder,
Till he saw our wide nation, each State a flower,
Each petal a park for holy feet,
With wild fawns merry on every street,
With wild fawns merry on every street,
The vista of ten
thousand
years, flower-lighted and complete.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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:
_implorati_
Heyse:
fort.
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Latin - Catullus |
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HOLY THURSDAY
'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their
innocent
faces clean,
Came children walking two and two, in read, and blue, and green:
Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.
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blake-poems |
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on
heolster
flēon, 756; flēon on fenhopu,
765; flēon under fen-hleoðu, 821; pret.
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Beowulf |
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Drugged rather, with a
medicine
that God
Prepared for him and gave into my hands.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Nor could I rise with you,
Because your face
Would put out Jesus',
That new grace
Glow plain and foreign
On my
homesick
eye,
Except that you, than he
Shone closer by.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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XXXVII
So
frequently
his mind would stray
He well-nigh lost the use of sense,
Almost became a poet say--
Oh!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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an thou wish that
Catullus
should owe thee his eyes
Or aught further if aught dearer can be than his eyes,
Thou wilt not ravish from him what deems he dearer and nearer
E'en than his eyes if aught dearer there be than his eyes.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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TO DICK, ON HIS SIXTH BIRTHDAY
Tho' I am very old and wise,
And you are neither wise nor old,
When I look far into your eyes,
I know things I was never told:
I know how flame must strain and fret
Prisoned
in a mortal net;
How joy with over-eager wings,
Bruises the small heart where he sings;
How too much life, like too much gold,
Is sometimes very hard to hold.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Panthus, eluding the Achaean weapons, Panthus son of Othrys,
priest of Phoebus in the citadel, comes hurrying with the sacred vessels
and
conquered
gods and his little grandchild in his hand, and runs
distractedly towards my gates.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And down this
terrible
aisle,
While heaven's ranges roar aghast,
Pours a vast file of strange and hidden things:
Forbidden monsters, crocodiles with wings
And perfumed flesh that sings and glows
With more fresh colors than the rainbow knows.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Meredith - Poems |
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The
horsepond
where he dips his wings,
The wet day prints it full of rings.
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John Clare |
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les colliers
tinteront
cherront les masques
Va-t'en va-t'en contre le feu l'ombre prevaut
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made,
additional
rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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CXXI
'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,
When not to be
receives
reproach of being;
And the just pleasure lost, which is so deem'd
Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing:
For why should others' false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A light is shining but the distant star
From which it still comes to me has been dead
A
thousand
years .
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Rilke - Poems |
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Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening thy power to lend base
subjects
light?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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At last I saw the ocean, a
pleasing
sight to me:
I stood upon the shore of a mighty glorious sea.
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John Clare |
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whanne hir
blysfulnesse
dure?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Thy
graceful
form instilling soft desire,
Thy curling tresses, and thy silver lyre,
Beauty and youth; in vain to these you trust,
When youth and beauty shall be laid in dust:
Troy yet may wake, and one avenging blow
Crush the dire author of his country's woe.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Baratynski
(Feasts)
A journey to Moscow!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Roar now above my decaying flesh, you winds,
Whirl out your earth-scents over this body, tell me
Of ferns and stagnant pools, wild roses,
hillsides!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide,
And wash my Body whence the life has died,
And in a Windingsheet of
Vineleaf
wrapt,
So bury me by some sweet Gardenside.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly--
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping from out their Condor wings
Invisible
Wo!
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Poe - 5 |
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What a set would his
shoulders
have, and neck,
To bear his goodly-purposed head; what gait
And usage of his limbs!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But thou hast learn'd less creditable arts,
Nor hast a will to work, preferring much
By beggary from others to extort
Wherewith
to feed thy never-sated maw.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Observe that stanza i
contains
the moral of Canto IX.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I would not [delay to set out], unless I might
approach
it on New
Year's morn, for all the lands within England, etc.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And with such
figuring
of Paradise
The sacred strain must leap, like one, that meets
A sudden interruption to his road.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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At a cool and early hour on a pleasant morning in July, my companion
and I passed rapidly through Acton and Stow,
stopping
to rest and
refresh us on the bank of a small stream, a tributary of the Assabet,
in the latter town.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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You
masquerader!
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Imagists |
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"
The poems of Sappho so mysteriously lost to us seem to have consisted of at
least nine books of odes,
together
with _epithalamia_, epigrams,
elegies, and monodies.
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Sappho |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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tene Thetis tenuit pulcerrima
Neptunine?
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Latin - Catullus |
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LII
Ere she had ended all, she gan to faint: 455
But he her
comforted
and faire bespake,
Certes, Madame, ye have great cause of plaint,
The stoutest heart, I weene, could cause to quake.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Above, below, the rose of snow,
Twined with her blushing foe, we spread:
The
bristled
boar in infant gore
Wallows beneath the thorny shade.
| Guess: |
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Golden Treasury |
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The warm breeze wakens;
And we pass on, forgetting,
Toward the solemn horizon of bronzed cumulus
That bounds our brooding sea,
gathering
gloom
That, when night falls, will dissipate in flaws
Of watery lightning, washing the hot sky,
Cleansing all hearts of heat and restlessness,
Until, with day, another blue be born.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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praecipuus color est, quali sunt sidera caeli,
praecoqua
uel qualis Punica grana tegit:
qualis inest foliis, quae fert agreste papauer,
cum pandit uestes Flora rubente solo.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Like armored knight
The granite Castle fights with all its might,
Resisting
through the winter.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old person of Nice,
Whose
associates
were usually Geese.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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While human nature is the same, the fate of Laish will always be the
fate of the weak and defenceless; and thus the most amiable description
of savage life raises in our minds the
strongest
imagery of the misery
and impossible continuance of such a state.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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STANZAS WRITTEN IN
DEJECTION
NEAR NAPLES.
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Golden Treasury |
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' I long to
catch the subtle music of their fairy dances and make a poem with
a rhythm like the quick
irregular
wild flash of their sudden
movements.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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My thoughts on former pleasures ran;
I thought of Kilve's delightful shore,
My
pleasant
home, when spring began,
A long, long year before.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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MATTHEW: Faith, not past a two
shillings
or so.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Oh, that in some lone retreat,
Like
Endymion
I were lain;
And that she, who rules my fate,
There one night to stay would deign;
Never from his billowy bed
More might Phoebus lift his head!
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Petrarch |
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how can the entire household be
together
again?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Scarce had she ceased, when out of heaven a bolt
(For now the storm was close above them) struck,
Furrowing
a giant oak, and javelining
With darted spikes and splinters of the wood
The dark earth round.
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Tennyson |
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Not but we may exceed, some holy time,
Or tired in search of truth, or search of rhyme;
Ill health some just indulgence may engage,
And more the sickness of long life, old age;
For fainting age what cordial drop remains,
If our
intemperate
youth the vessel drains?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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As
knightly
Roland on the coward's flinch:
And, after chloroform and ether-gas,
We find out slowly what the bee and finch
Have ready found, through Nature's lamp in each,
How to our races we may justify
Our individual claims and, as we reach
Our own grapes, bend the top vines to supply
The children's uses,--how to fill a breach
With olive-branches,--how to quench a lie
With truth, and smite a foe upon the cheek
With Christ's most conquering kiss.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Or superbite, e via col viso altero,
figliuoli
d'Eva, e non chinate il volto
si che veggiate il vostro mal sentero!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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So longe of this they speken up and doun,
Til Troilus gan at the laste assente
To ryse, and forth to
Sarpedoun
they wente.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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suffering
souls are fain
To know aright what yet remains to bear.
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Aeschylus |
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Come give me thy
loveliest
lay.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Laughing at their guile,
And crying, "Why tie the
fetters?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Developing
the mountains, leaves, and flowers
And shining in the brawling brook, where-by,
Clear as its current, glide the sauntering hours
With a calm languor, which, though to the eye
Idlesse it seem, hath its morality,
If from society we learn to live,
'Tis solitude should teach us how to die;
It hath no flatterers; vanity can give
No hollow aid; alone--man with his God must strive:
XXXIV.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The second book of poems appeared two years later and like the first
volume _Traumgekront_ is full of the music that is
reminiscent
of the
mild melancholy of the Bohemian folk-songs, in whose gentle rhythms the
barbaric strength of the race seems to be lulled to rest as the waves of
a far-away tumultuous sea gently lap the shore.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The Phoenix was the
mythical
bird that rose again from the ashes of its own immolation.
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Ronsard |
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Oh 1 why did he sing me that song,
I threw him the ring from my hand
Bitter and
treacherous
wrong
That sought me with fetters to brand.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"Literary" epic is as close to its subject as "authentic"; but, as a
general rule, "authentic" epic, in response to its
surrounding
needs,
has a simple and concrete subject, and the closeness of the poet to this
is therefore more obvious than in "literary" epic, which (again in
response to surrounding needs) has been driven to take for subject some
great abstract idea and display this in a concrete but only ostensible
subject.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Old Nestor first perceived the
approaching
sound,
Bespeaking thus the Grecian peers around:
"Methinks the noise of trampling steeds I hear,
Thickening this way, and gathering on my ear;
Perhaps some horses of the Trojan breed
(So may, ye gods!
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Iliad - Pope |
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She won without a single woman's wile,
Illumining
the earth with peerless smile.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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[_He
vanishes
with_ FAUST, _the companions start back from each
other_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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At thy behest I will shake off that nature
Which from my,
forefathers
I did inherit,
Which with my mother's milk I did imbibe,
And be no more Politian, but some other.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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His ardour
straight
the obedient prince suppress'd,
And, artful, thus the suitor-train address'd:
"O lay the cause on youth yet immature!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--to God himself we cannot give
A holier name; and, under such a mask,
To lead a Spirit,
spotless
as the blessed,
To that abhorred den of brutish vice!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Sensible of this disadvantage which
every version of historical poetry must suffer, the translator has not
only in the notes added every
incident
which might elucidate the
subject, but has also, all along, in the episode in the third and fourth
books, in the description of the painted ensigns in the eighth, and in
the allusions in the present book, endeavoured to throw every historical
incident into that universal language, the picturesque of poetry.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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If you received it electronically, such person may
choose to alternatively give you a second
opportunity
to
receive it electronically.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Lancelot
in the meantime rose to his feet in all his
agony and by a sort of miracle as it seemed to those who were on his
side, drove all his opponents back to the barrier.
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Tennyson |
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Why should we go on always restraining and
binding?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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ASTRAEA
Each the herald is who wrote
His rank, and
quartered
his own coat.
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Emerson - Poems |
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But Business forbid that they should give him an
increase of pay at his present
ridiculously
immature age!
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Kipling - Poems |
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