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I, with none beside,
Save hoarse cicalas shrilling through the brake,
Still track your
footprints
'neath the broiling sun.
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At last the hour when I must leave her came:
But, as I turned, a fear I could not name
Possessed
me that the long sweet evening might
Prelude some sudden storm, whereby delight
Should perish.
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And to me it is a joy to remember that if he is 'of
imagination
all
compact,' the world itself is of the same substance.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Tnou'st heard the knave, abusing those in power,
Bawl freedom loud and then oppress the free;
Thou'st
sheltered
hypocrites in many a shower,
That when in power would never shelter thee.
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John Clare |
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If we take to giving
gratuities
to everybody we
shall end by dying of hunger.
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Your
shoulders
are level--
they have melted rare silver
for their breadth.
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E'en I can
scarcely
hear my amorous moan,
So much my voice by passion is confined;
So faint, so timid are my accents grown!
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you will fall off behind,
You
propitious
Old Man with a beard!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Pliny the younger
professed
that Cicero was the orator with whom he
aspired to enter into competition.
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When the flesh that
nourished
us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God absolves us all.
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Villon |
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[12] This scene not improbably
illustrates
the
effort of Enkidu to rescue his friend from the goddess.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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THE NUN'S ASPIRATION
The yesterday doth never smile,
The day goes drudging through the while,
Yet, in the name of Godhead, I
The morrow front, and can defy;
Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,
Cannot withhold his
conquering
aid.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I sat there mutely and biting my
passionate
lips almost bloody
Half from delight at the ruse, partly from stifled desire:
Such a long time until dark, then another four hours of waiting.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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evil spirits perhaps may presume
To haunt thy holy dwelling;
Pale ghosts are, perhaps,
stealing
into the room--
Oh, would that the lamp were relit!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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LIII
What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That
millions
of strange shadows on you tend?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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There Barem's isle;[642] her rocks with
diamonds
blaze,
And emulate Aurora's glitt'ring rays.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The Queen who conquers all must yield to thee--
The Pleasures fled, but sought as warm a clime;
And Venus, constant to her native sea,
To nought else constant, hither deigned to flee,
And fixed her shrine within these walls of white;
Though not to one dome circumscribeth she
Her worship, but, devoted to her rite,
A
thousand
altars rise, for ever blazing bright.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The soldiers surrounded us, and we
followed Iwan Ignatiitch who brought us along in triumph, walking with
a military step, with
majestic
gravity.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Then a cry well nigh of despair
Shrieked
to heaven, a clamor of desperate prayer.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"By him who died on cross,
"With his cruel bow he lay'd full low
"The
harmless
Albatross.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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The son is an exile, bred in the desperate hopes and wild schemes of
exile; he is a prince without a kingdom, always
dreaming
of his wrongs and
his restoration; and driven by the old savage doctrine, which an oracle
has confirmed, of the duty and manliness of revenge.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The room
shakes, the
servitor
quakes.
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Imagists |
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But human vices have
provoked
the rod 1815.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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DAMOETAS
"Prithee, Iollas, for my
birthday
guest
Send me your Phyllis; when for the young crops
I slay my heifer, you yourself shall come.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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At
fourteen
I became your wife;
I was shame-faced and never dared smile.
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Li Po |
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The search, sir, was profitable; and much fool may you find
in you, even to the world's pleasure and the
increase
of
laughter.
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Shakespeare |
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Will he welcome strangers who have been tried on the billows of
the sea by storm and
shipwreck?
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Aristophanes |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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If you have the practical it does not
necessarily
follow that you are
lacking in the spiritual.
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Li Po |
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Green paddocks have but little charms
With gain the merchandise of farms;
And, muse and marvel where we may,
Gain mars the landscape every day--
The meadow grass turned up and copt,
The trees to stumpy
dotterels
lopt,
The hearth with fuel to supply
For rest to smoke and chatter bye;
Giving the joy of home delights,
The warmest mirth on coldest nights.
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John Clare |
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salute from me the laurell'd band,
Guitton and Cino, Dante, and the rest:
And tell my Laura, friend, that here I stand,
Wasting in tears, scarce of myself possess'd,
While her blest beauties all my
thoughts
command.
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Petrarch |
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THE SPHINX
TO
MARCEL SCHWOB
IN FRIENDSHIP
AND
IN ADMIRATION
THE SPHINX
IN a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy thinks
A
beautiful
and silent Sphinx has watched me through the shifting
gloom.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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O
Tiburnian
groves,
And orchards saturate with shifting streams!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But the
development
of human society does not go straight
forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the
series a recurring series--though not in exact repetition.
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But if grief, self-consumed, in oblivion would doze,
And
conscience
her tortures appease,
'Mid tumult and uproar this man must repose;
In the comfortless vault of disease.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"This last, sprung from the noblest and the best,
Betrayed
his plighted troth, and sold his guest!
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Hugo - Poems |
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While thus the Spirits of strongest wing
enlighten
the dark deep
The threads are spun & the cords twisted & drawn out; then the weak
Begin their work; & many a net is netted; many a net
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Spread & many a Spirit caught, innumerable the nets
Innumerable the gins & traps; & many a soothing flute
Is form'd & many a corded lyre, outspread over the immense
In cruel delight they trap the listeners, & in cruel delight
Bind them, [together] condensing the strong energies into little compass
Some became seed of every plant that shall be planted; some
The bulbous roots, thrown up together into barns & garners
Then rose the Builders: First the Architect divine his plan
Unfolds, The wondrous scaffold reard all round the infinite
Quadrangular the building rose the heavens squared by a line.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I will not insult your
understanding
by bidding you make a
choice.
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For us the travail and the heat,
The broken secrets of our pride,
The
strenuous
lessons of defeat,
The flower deferred, the fruit denied;
But not the peace, supremely won,
Lord Buddha, of thy Lotus-throne.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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_Mankind
shall cease_.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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3 Disaster turns to the Year for
Destroying
the Hu; the situation produces the Month for Seizing the Hu.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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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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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The Romany
Has crossed such
delicate
palms with lead or gold,
Wheedling in sun and rain, through perilous years,
All coins now look alike.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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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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[34] The Hebrew cognate of _masu_, to forget, is _nasa_, Arabic
_nasijia_, and occurs here in
Babylonian
for the first time.
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Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee,
Which, used, lives th'
executor
to be.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The same year the Tiber, being swelled with continual rains, overflowed
the level parts of the city; and the common
destruction
of men and
houses followed the returning flood.
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Tacitus |
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For my heart was sick and sore within me, — The poor fellow, every word he spoke
Shamed me, there was
something
in his gesture Almost comic that I could not bear.
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they were living things,
Most
terrible
to see.
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Wilde - Poems |
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'signa ego Punicis
adfixa delubris et arma
militibus sine caede,' dixit,
'derepta uidi, uidi ego ciuium
retorta tergo bracchia libero
portasque
non clausas et arua
Marte coli populata nostro.
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But whenever he reached to clamber up for it some one who
loved him
restrained
him saying, 'If you love me do not climb, lest
you break your neck.
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Tennyson |
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THE ROMANY GIRL
The sun goes down, and with him takes
The
coarseness
of my poor attire;
The fair moon mounts, and aye the flame
Of Gypsy beauty blazes higher.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And their friends, the
loitering
heirs of city directors; 180
Departed, have left no addresses.
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" A Manichean in his worship of
evil, he
nevertheless
abased his soul: "Oh!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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ECLOGUE VII
MELIBOEUS CORYDON THYRSIS
Daphnis beneath a
rustling
ilex-tree
Had sat him down; Thyrsis and Corydon
Had gathered in the flock, Thyrsis the sheep,
And Corydon the she-goats swollen with milk-
Both in the flower of age, Arcadians both,
Ready to sing, and in like strain reply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Now- for a breath I tarry
Nor yet
disperse
apart-
Take my hand quick and tell me,
What have you in your heart.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Nay,
My
children
live.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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" He was at first victorious; for his own talents
were
superior
to those of the captains who were opposed to him;
and the Romans were not prepared for the onset of the elephants
of the East, which were then for the first time seen in
Italy--moving mountains, with long snakes for hands.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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XXVIII
THE WELSH MARCHES
High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam
Islanded
in Severn stream;
The bridges from the steepled crest
Cross the water east and west.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The Dutch
translation
runs:
Het Hemel-rond zijn sy,
Wy haren _Hemel-geest_.
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John Donne |
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'He hears the judgment of the King of kings,'
Cried the wan Prince; 'and lo, the powers of Doorm
Are scattered,' and he pointed to the field,
Where, huddled here and there on mound and knoll,
Were men and women staring and aghast,
While some yet fled; and then he
plainlier
told
How the huge Earl lay slain within his hall.
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Tennyson |
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Consult we first the all-seeing powers above,
And the sure oracles of
righteous
Jove.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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ai
graunted
hym his wille,
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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CHORUS
And nevermore these walls within
Shall echo fierce sedition's din
Unslaked with blood and crime;
The thirsty dust shall nevermore
Suck up the darkly
streaming
gore
Of civic broils, shed out in wrath
And vengeance, crying death for death!
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Aeschylus |
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Press close bare-bosom'd night--press close
magnetic
nourishing night!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Therefore, I sit here
among the people,
dreaming,
and my heart aches
with all the
hawthorn
blossom,
the bees humming,
the light wind upon the poplars,
and your warmth and your love
and your eyes .
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Imagists |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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FOLEY
[Sidenote: 1917-1918]
O'Leary, from Chicago, and a first-class fightin' man,
For his father was from Kerry, where the gentle art began:
Sergeant
Dennis P.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A kingly nature, an angelic mind,
A spotless soul, prompt aspect and keen eye,
Quick penetration, contemplation high
And truly worthy of the breast which shrined:
In bright assembly lovely ladies join'd
To grace that festival with
gratulant
joy,
Amid so many and fair faces nigh
Soon his good judgment did the fairest find.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Her these eyes have seen, and not another
Shall behold, till time takes all things goodly, 10
So
surpassing
fair and fond and wondrous,--
Such a slave as, worth a great king's ransom,
No man yet of all the sons of mortals
But would lose his soul for and regret not;
So hath Beauty compassed all her children 15
With the cords of longing and desire.
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Sappho |
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it hewd out of the rest,
And
glauncing
down his shield from blame him fairly blest.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Within a hut of stone
To bask the
centuries
away
Nor once look up for noon?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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s
abilities
and how crucial the post is?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"
And I
answered
them all, and said:
"Remember only that I smiled.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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If reproved by God or you,
'T was to better her, she knew;
And if crossed, she gathered still
'T was to cross out
something
ill.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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To Manlius: written in affliction_
QVOD mihi fortuna casuque
oppressus
acerbo
conscriptum hoc lacrimis mittis epistolium,
naufragum ut eiectum spumantibus aequoris undis
subleuem et a mortis limine restituam,
quem neque sancta Venus molli requiescere somno
desertum in lecto caelibe perpetitur,
nec ueterum dulci scriptorum carmine Musae
oblectant, cum mens anxia peruigilat:
id gratum est mihi, me quoniam tibi dicis amicum,
muneraque et Musarum hinc petis et Veneris:
sed tibi ne mea sint ignota incommoda, Manli,
neu me odisse putes hospitis officium,
accipe, quis merser fortunae fluctibus ipse,
ne amplius a misero dona beata petas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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None but I, thy child, could so
Watch thee in Hellas: none but I could know
Thy face of
gladness
when our enemies
Were strong, and the swift cloud upon thine eyes
If Troy seemed falling, all thy soul keen-set
Praying that he might come no more!
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See, patient waiting in the clear keen air,
The hunter,
thoughtless
of his delicate bride,
Whether the trusty hounds a stag have eyed,
Or the fierce Marsian boar has burst the snare.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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My pleasaunce was an
undulating
green,
Stately with trees whose shadows slept below,
With glimpses of smooth garden-beds between
Like flame or sky or snow.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Born in the city, Emerson's young mind first found delight in poems and
classic prose, to which his
instincts
led him as naturally as another
boy's would to go fishing, but his vacations in the country supplemented
these by giving him great and increasing love of nature.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And aim they did: with arrows long and short,
Lances and spears and feathered javelots;
Count Rollant's shield they've broken through and bored,
The woven mail have from his hauberk torn,
But not himself, they've never touched his corse;
Veillantif
is in thirty places gored,
Beneath the count he's fallen dead, that horse.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Writing to his friend and fellow-poet Hooft, in
1630, he says:[13]
'I think I have often
entertained
you with reminiscences of
Dr.
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John Donne |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone
With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;
As the good and gallant
stripling
shook and trembled;
A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,
O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet
The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward,
The lappets of its front were button'd backward,
And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;
See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,
From his eyeballs hot and briny tears distilling;
On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,
Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;
Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd,
Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him:
O my boy, O my treasure, and my darling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the
secretaries
of Cardinal Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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121 by his
seuerall
languages.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Lucretius |
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Most generous, most gentle, most discreet,
Who left us ignorant to spare us pain:
We went our ways with too forgetful feet
And missed the chance that would not come again,
Leaving with thoughts on pleasure bent, or gain,
Fidelity
unattested
And services unrendered:
The ears are closed, the heart has ceased to beat,
And now all proof is vain.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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--the
favouring
power attends,
And from Olympus' lofty tops descends.
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Iliad - Pope |
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But when we turn to William of Malmesbury, we
find that Hume, in his eagerness to relate these
pleasant
fables,
has overlooked one very important circumstance.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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