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XIII
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
Nor the cutting edge of conquering blade,
Nor the havoc ruthless soldiers made,
In sacking you, Rome, ever and again,
Nor the tricks that fickle fortune played,
Nor envious centuries
corrosive
rain,
Nor the spite of men, nor gods' disdain,
Nor your own power in civil strife displayed,
Nor the impetuous storms that you withstood,
Nor the river-god's winding course in flood,
That has so often drowned you in its thunder,
Not all combined have so abased your pride,
As that this nothing left you, by Time's tide,
Still makes the world halt here, and gaze in wonder.
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So gayly he paced with the wife and the child to his chosen stand;
But he hurried tall Hamish the
henchman
ahead: "Go turn," --
Cried Maclean -- "if the deer seek to cross to the burn,
Do thou turn them to me: nor fail, lest thy back be red as thy hand.
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Now my crimes have
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Expectance calls thee now another way,
Thou know'st it must be now thy only bent
To keep in compass of thy Predicament:
Then quick about thy purpos'd business come,
That to the next I may resign my Roome
Then Ens is
represented
as Father of the Predicaments his ten
Sons, whereof the Eldest stood for Substance with his Canons,
which Ens thus speaking, explains.
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But
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betrayed
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They were threatening to kill
all those who were leaving, and turned with
especial
violence against
Verginius,[321] whose house was in a state of siege.
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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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7 Seeing Off Case Reviewer Wei (16) to Temporarily Fill the Post of�Defense
Administrative
Assistant in Tonggu In the past, when I had fallen among the rebels, I went roaming with you incognito.
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CLI
So Rollant's friend is dead whom when he sees
Face to the ground, and biting it with's teeth,
Begins to mourn in
language
very sweet:
"Unlucky, friend, your courage was indeed!
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But fashionable hatred's flame
Trembles at
artificial
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'd thy infant thought,
Of all the Nurse and all the Priest have taught; 30
Of airy Elves by
moonlight
shadows seen,
The silver token, and the circled green,
Or virgins visited by Angel-pow'rs,
With golden crowns and wreaths of heav'nly flow'rs;
Hear and believe!
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XLVIII
To the
assembly
her they bear.
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Can't you be
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For in this worlde nis creature 325
Wakinge, in more discomfiture
Then I, ne more sorow endure;
And if I slepe a furlong wey or tweye,
Than
thinketh
me, that your figure
Before me stant, clad in asure, 330
To profren eft a newe assure
For to be trewe, and mercy me to preye.
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Hast any mortal name,
Fit appellation for this
dazzling
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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The mist was white and the dream was grey
And both
contained
a human cry,
The burthen whereof was "Love",
And it filled both mist and dream with pain,
And the hills below and the skies above
Were touched and uttered it back again.
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CXXIII
Amid the pressure of such cruel pain,
It past into the wretched sufferer's head,
That oft the ungrateful lady must have lain,
Together with her leman, on that bed:
Nor less he loathed the couch in his disdain,
Nor from the down
upstarted
with less dread,
Than churl, who, when about to close his eyes,
Springs from the turf, if he a serpent spies.
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--A minute's pause, a moment's thought;
And
happiness?
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Since clearly ev'ry thing to such I grudge,
The
marriage
eve, or morn, or day, or hour,
To you I'll give--the first enchanting flow'r.
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(Note: Written to
Mademoiselle
Roumanille whom Mallarme knew as a child.
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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The wasps flourish greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A
necklace
of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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_Winter Walk_
The holly bush, a sober lump of green,
Shines through the
leafless
shrubs all brown and grey,
And smiles at winter be it eer so keen
With all the leafy luxury of May.
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" At Florence, his friends entertained the same sentiments,
and wrote to him
reproachfully
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From no other book of his, not excepting _The Book of Hours_, can we
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accurate
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we can draw from his comparatively short monograph on Auguste Rodin.
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e toumbe
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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tent this man, as thou wilt,
With lighter probe or deep,
touching
the faith,
By the which thou didst on the billows walk.
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Such happiness,
wherever
it be known,
Is to be pitied; for 'tis surely blind.
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En toi je tomberai, vegetale ambroisie,
Grain
precieux
jete par l'eternel Semeur,
Pour que de notre amour naisse la poesie
Qui jaillira vers Dieu comme une rare fleur!
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Notes: The Calends, Latin Kalendae, corresponded to the first days of each month of the Roman calendar,
signifying
the start of the new moon cycle.
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Or hath that antique mien and robed form
Mov'd in these vales
invisible
till now?
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Wise is the ancient
sacrament
that blends
This weakling cry of children in our churches
With strength of prayer or anthem that ascends
To Him who hearts of men and children searches;
Since we are like the babe, who, soothed again,
Within her mother's cradling arm lay nested,
Bright as a new bud, now, refreshed by rain:
And on her hair, it seemed, heaven's radiance rested.
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Barrett, who
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Phaedra
Each moment's
precious
to me, Theseus, listen.
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The faint damp wind that, ere the even, blows
Piling the west with many a tawny sheaf,
Then when the last glad wavering hours are mown Sigheth and dies because the day is sped;
This wind is like her and the
listless
air Wherewith she goeth by beneath the trees,
The trees that mock her with their scarlet stain.
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Lost causes triumph like the sun; Dreams that deluded are brought true; A
resurrection
morning breaks —
The soul in him is born anew,
Then, to the old and easy path Of dull, sad inanition wanes:
And still this is the man God made, And still the love of God remains!
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& wet thy veil with dewy tears, *
In slumbers of my night-repose, infusing a false
morning?
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Blake - Zoas |
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His black beard was
beginning
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And she answerde, `Of gilt
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As for the She-devil, I should lie if I denied that at first I found in
her a certain strange charm, which to define I can but compare to the
charm of certain
beautiful
women past their first youth, who yet seem to
age no more, whose beauty keeps something of the penetrating magic of
ruins.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The warm pavilion of a
dreadful
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What matter of new wailing do your tongues
Wear in this
shivering
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Why we have not
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The crowd retreated to some distance as I turned toward the miserable
figure, and ordered him to show me some method of
escaping
from the
crate.
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More and more
Fades it slow,
As on shore
Ripples flow,--
As the plaint
Far and faint
Of a saint
Murmured
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III
HIAWATHA'S CHILDHOOD
Downward through the evening twilight,
In the days that are forgotten,
In the unremembered ages,
From the full moon fell Nokomis,
Fell the
beautiful
Nokomis,
She a wife, but not a mother.
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Ulysses is conducted by Eumaeus to the palace, where
his old dog Argus
acknowledges
his master, after an absence of
twenty years, and dies with joy.
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I will not let her know: nine tithes of times
Face-flatterer and
backbiter
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Nor can I conceal, goddesses, in what way
Allius has aided me, or with how many good offices he has assisted me; nor
shall fleeting time with its forgetful
centuries
cover with night's
blindness this care of his.
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Scarce could the straining
shoulders
of his servants Phegeus and Sagaris
carry its heavy folds; yet with it on, Demoleos at [265-302]full speed
would chase the scattered Trojans.
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But when they turned their faces,
And on the farther shore
Saw brave
Horatius
stand alone,
They would have crossed once more.
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vapours!
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The godly cheat-king (would be) did inspire ;
Heaven had him
chieftain
of Great Britain made.
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_ I cannot choose
But trust you, nymphs, and tell you all ye ask,
In clear words--though I sob amid my speech
In
speaking
of the storm-curse sent from Zeus,
And of my beauty, from what height it took
Its swoop on me, poor wretch!
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A
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_Middin-creels_, dung-baskets,
panniers
in which horses carry manure.
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They have enough as 'tis: I see
In many an eye that
measures
me
The mortal sickness of a mind
Too unhappy to be kind.
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"--"If I should stay,"
Said Lamia, "here, upon this floor of clay,
And pain my steps upon these flowers too rough,
What canst thou say or do of charm enough
To dull the nice
remembrance
of my home?
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_Knightes
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Per misericordiam &
metum
perficiens
talium affectuum lustrationem.
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Wrongs in high places, and the private infamy of many who enforced the
doctrines of the Church, had
produced
in earnest men a vigorous
antagonism.
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ffor of
prechyng
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When I speak of her also
You'll quickly judge I care
Seeing my
laughter
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I Failed to be Able to Part Face to Face, But My Feelings Are
Revealed
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Beneath a table,
trembling
with dismay,
Couch'd close to earth, unhappy Medon lay,
Wrapp'd in a new-slain ox's ample hide;
Swift at the word he cast his screen aside,
Sprung to the prince, embraced his knee with tears,
And thus with grateful voice address'd his ears
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Not one word more of the
consumed
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L'ALBATROS
Souvent, pour s'amuser, les hommes d'equipage
Prennent des albatros, vastes oiseaux des mers,
Qui suivent, indolents
compagnons
de voyage,
Le navire glissant sur les gouffres amers.
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Nō hē wiht fram mē
"flōd-ȳðum feor
flēotan
meahte,
"hraðor on holme, nō ic fram him wolde.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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do my spirits play,
With
cheerful
motion.
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William Wordsworth |
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eormen-lāfe æðelan cynnes
(_the
treasures
of the dragon's cave_) 2235.
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Beowulf |
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The woods, the rocks, the fields, the floods, and hills,
All that is made, are conquer'd, changed by time:
And therefore ask I pardon of those leaves,
If after many years, revolving heaven
Sway'd me to flee from those
entangling
boughs,
When I begun to see its better light.
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Petrarch |
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But you are
nothing!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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London: documents at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed
by a weekend at the Metropole.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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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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"
To sum up all, the nuptial sanctity draws its hallowed curtains, and a
masterly
allegory
shuts up the love-scenes of Camoens.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Why, how much younger and
prettier
she looks!
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Aristophanes |
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no
necessite
to ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Let not your eares dispise my tongue for euer,
Which shall
possesse
them with the heauiest sound
that euer yet they heard
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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So having said, a while he stood, expecting
Thir universal shout and high applause
To fill his eare, when contrary he hears
On all sides, from innumerable tongues
A dismal universal hiss, the sound
Of public scorn; he wonderd, but not long
Had leasure, wondring at himself now more; 510
His Visage drawn he felt to sharp and spare,
His Armes clung to his Ribs, his Leggs entwining
Each other, till supplanted down he fell
A monstrous Serpent on his Belly prone,
Reluctant, but in vaine, a greater power
Now rul'd him, punisht in the shape he sin'd,
According to his doom: he would have spoke,
But hiss for hiss returnd with forked tongue
To forked tongue, for now were all transform'd
Alike, to Serpents all as accessories 520
To his bold Riot: dreadful was the din
Of hissing through the Hall, thick swarming now
With complicated monsters, head and taile,
Scorpion and Asp, and Amphisbaena dire,
Cerastes hornd, Hydrus, and Ellops drear,
And Dipsas (Not so thick swarm'd once the Soil
Bedropt with blood of Gorgon, or the Isle
Ophiusa) but still greatest hee the midst,
Now Dragon grown, larger then whom the Sun
Ingenderd in the Pythian Vale on slime, 530
Huge Python, and his Power no less he seem'd
Above the rest still to retain; they all
Him follow'd issuing forth to th' open Field,
Where all yet left of that revolted Rout
Heav'n-fall'n, in station stood or just array,
Sublime with expectation when to see
In Triumph issuing forth thir glorious Chief;
They saw, but other sight instead, a crowd
Of ugly Serpents; horror on them fell,
And horrid sympathie; for what they saw, 540
They felt
themselvs
now changing; down thir arms,
Down fell both Spear and Shield, down they as fast,
And the dire hiss renew'd, and the dire form
Catcht by Contagion, like in punishment,
As in thir crime.
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Milton |
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