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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Portrait of the Love God_
QVICVMQVE
ille fuit, puerum qui pinxit Amorem,
nonne putas miras hunc habuisse manus?
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Footsteps
shuffled on the stair.
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Why had not I in those good times my birth,
Ere coxcomb pies or
coxcombs
were on earth?
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As she leans, so sweet and soft,
Flitting
oft,
O'er the mirror to and fro,
Seems that airy floating bat,
Like a feather
From some sea-gull's wing of snow.
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The stars are quenched _35
In darkness, and the pure and
spangling
snow
Gleams faintly through the gloom that gathers round!
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Shelley |
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(Only certain very bold instructions of mine,
encroachments
etc.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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By God's truth I 've seen The arrowy
sunlight
in her golden snares.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Love passeth not the
threshold
of cold Hate,
And Hate is strange beneath the roof of Love.
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On thy white tablets,
cleansed
of royal stain,
What message to the future mayst thou write!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And I was
overjoyed
at this.
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Stephen Crane |
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"
She replied--"Ulalume--Ulalume--
'T is the vault of thy lost
Ulalume!
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*****
EXTRAORDINARY AND
PARADOXICAL
TELLURIC
PHENOMENA
In chief, men marvel nature renders not
Bigger and bigger the bulk of ocean, since
So vast the down-rush of the waters be,
And every river out of every realm
Cometh thereto; and add the random rains
And flying tempests, which spatter every sea
And every land bedew; add their own springs:
Yet all of these unto the ocean's sum
Shall be but as the increase of a drop.
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Glasses of rose
and crimson and blue, magical glasses, glasses of
Paradise?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Do you see
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Pale the
children
both did look,
But the guest a beaker took:
"Golden wine will make you whole!
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Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small,
That stood along the floor and by the wall;
And some
loquacious
Vessels were; and some
Listen'd perhaps, but never talk'd at all.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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He
stood up, walked about and
gesticulated
violently.
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Kipling - Poems |
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dēop
gedȳgan
for dracan lēge, _could not hold
out in the deep on account of the heat of the drake_, 2550.
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O the darkness of the corners,
the warm air, and the stars
framed in the
casement
of the ships' lights!
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My man, from sky to sky's so far,
We never crossed before;
Such leagues apart the world's ends are,
We're like to meet no more;
What
thoughts
at heart have you and I
We cannot stop to tell;
But dead or living, drunk or dry,
Soldier, I wish you well.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Why strew'st thou sugar on that bottled spider
Whose deadly web
ensnareth
thee about?
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thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To
wretches
such as I!
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Robert Burns |
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His appearance was the signal for
the
cessation
of all occupation, every one being eager to watch the
developments of events.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Moreover, through the dancing poppies stole
A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul;
And shaping visions all about my sight
Of colours, wings, and bursts of spangly light;
The which became more strange, and strange, and dim,
And then were gulph'd in a
tumultuous
swim: 571
And then I fell asleep.
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Keats |
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Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Indeed, against my father and myself,
My love fought long in favour of yourself:
Judge of your power: despite the grave offence,
I
hesitated
whether to yet take vengeance.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
But when it broke its shell
It slipped and
stumbled
and fell about its prison
And tried to climb to the light
For space to dry its wings.
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Imagists |
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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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Yon rising Moon that looks for us again--
How oft
hereafter
will she wax and wane;
How oft hereafter rising look for us
Through this same Garden--and for one in vain!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I trow they did not part in scorn:
Lovers long
betrothed
were they;
They two will wed the morrow morn;
God's blessing on the day!
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Tennyson |
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Who stirs the waves by the women's
seraglio?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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D'you
remember
when you said?
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Kipling - Poems |
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--caught a
wretched
cold washing him in the
Styx--and after all he gave me the cholera morbus.
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Poe - 5 |
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WOODNOTES I
1
When the pine tosses its cones
To the song of its
waterfall
tones,
Who speeds to the woodland walks?
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Emerson - Poems |
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With the great gale we journey
That breathes from gardens thinned,
Borne in the drift of blossoms
Whose petals throng the wind;
Buoyed on the heaven-heard whisper
Of dancing
leaflets
whirled
From all the woods that autumn
Bereaves in all the world.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Let Bourbon exult in his gay gilded lilies,
And England
triumphant
display her proud rose:
A fairer than either adorns the green valleys,
Where Devon, sweet Devon, meandering flows.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_The Old Cottagers_
The little cottage stood alone, the pride
Of solitude
surrounded
every side.
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Richelieu
Rapids, the, 21.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Of all titles Jonson loved best that of 'honest', but
'honest', in a man, meant with Jonson having the courage to tell
people
disagreeable
truths, not to conceal your dislikes.
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John Donne |
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The long existence of the
Christians
of
St.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Now I feel it; naught can give us peace
Mid worldly cares, nothing save only
conscience!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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At length in the year
of the city 378, both parties mustered their whole strength for
their last and most
desperate
conflict.
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Whilst o'er the distant
youthful
States,
Like Amazonian bosom-plates,
Spread Freedom's shielding wings.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Other ones this year no more bestows,
No
petitions
can recall them here,
Other ones with springtide may appear.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Take then to heart and fix fast these
words of mine; which the Lord omnipotent
foretold
to Phoebus, Phoebus
Apollo to me, I eldest born of the Furies reveal to you.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Within this houre, at most,
I will aduise you where to plant your selues,
Acquaint you with the perfect Spy o'th' time,
The moment on't, for't must be done to Night,
And something from the Pallace: alwayes thought,
That I require a clearenesse; and with him,
To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:
Fleans , his Sonne, that keepes him companie,
Whose absence is no lesse
materiall
to me,
Then is his Fathers, must embrace the fate
Of that darke houre: resolue your selues apart,
Ile come to you anon
Murth.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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This layered palace lies against
whirling
gusts, 4 looming at the mouth of a hole in the earth.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Hard by stood its mate, apparently
somewhat
younger.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Only one favor I beg of you, Graces (I ask it in secret--
Fervent my prayer and deep, out of a
passionate
breast):
My little garden, my sweet one, protect it and do not let any
Evil come near it nor me.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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When the censors protested, the Emperor
replied: "The ruin of a single
district
would be a small price to pay,
if it could procure longevity for the Lord of Men.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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[b] Cæsar the dictator was, as the poet
expresses
it, graced with both
Minervas.
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Tacitus |
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With thee a noble name expires,
And
vanishes
from the earth's face
The glorious memory of thy sires!
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Longfellow |
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Would'st thou haue that
Which thou esteem'st the
Ornament
of Life,
And liue a Coward in thine owne Esteeme?
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But that she goes to this old thorn,
The thorn which I've
described
to you,
And there sits in a scarlet cloak,
I will be sworn is true.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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In 1339, he
composed
among other sonnets, those three, the lxii.
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at is al vnknowynge {and}
ignoraunt
may knowe ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Were it not that his art's glory, full of fire
Till the dark
communal
moment all of ash,
Returns as proud evening's glow lights the glass,
To the fires of the pure mortal sun!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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But me mad love of the stern war-god holds
Armed amid weapons and
opposing
foes.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
"Comrades all, that stand and gaze,
Walk
henceforth
in other ways;
See my neck and save your own:
Comrades all, leave ill alone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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But who can tell aright the fiercer thing,
The aweless soul, within man's breast
inhabiting?
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Aeschylus |
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The nightingales, the
nightingales!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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He looks like a hippopotamus,
With his fiery eyes and the terrible white
Of his
grinning
teeth!
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'twas his
In life and death to be the mark where Wrong
Aimed with their
poisoned
arrows--but to miss.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Who Justify these
restless
explorations?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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lest they say a lesser light
distraught
thee.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And sharp the link of life will snap,
And dead on air will stand
Heels that held up as
straight
a chap
As treads upon the land.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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E'er beings gently
emanated
I was Love.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Latin - Catullus |
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" like Christ on the darkening
hilltop!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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SONNET--TO SCIENCE
SCIENCE!
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Poe - 5 |
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It
imitates
the public riot.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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your milky stream pale
strippings
of my life!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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THE Marseillesian husband, rather gay,
With mistress Alice was disposed to play;
(For such was called the maid we just have named;)
To show coquettish airs the latter aimed,
And met his wishes with reproof severe;
But to his plan the lover would adhere,
And
promised
her at length a pretty sum:
A hundred crowns, if to his room she'd come.
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La Fontaine |
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Forsaking me, to her my fond heart bound
--Divorce for aye were welcome as discreet--
Notes where the turf is mark'd by her fair feet,
Or from these eyes for her in sorrow drown'd,
Then inly
whispers
as her steps advance,
"Would for awhile that wreteh were here alone
Who pines already o'er his bitter lot.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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]
_The EMPEROR FREDERICK BARBAROSSA,
believed
to be dead, appearing
as a beggar among the Rhenish nobility at a castle, suddenly reveals
himself.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"In this
roadstead
I have ridden," verse, 414.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Then hear,
Achilles!
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Iliad - Pope |
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I reached him, called:
stretching
out his hand to me
He opened his dying eyes: and closed them suddenly.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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5
Ten
provincia
narrat esse bellam?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Pero
trascorro
a quando mi svegliai,
e dico ch'un splendor mi squarcio 'l velo
del sonno, e un chiamar: <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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