O Queens, in vain old Fate decreed
Your flower-like bodies to the tomb;
Death is in truth the vital seed
Of your
imperishable
bloom
Each new-born year the bulbuls sing
Their songs of your renascent loves;
Your beauty wakens with the spring
To kindle these pomegranate groves.
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With not even one blow
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XIV
"The Cretans, who had banished in that day
Idomeneus the tyrant of their land,
And their new state to strengthen and upstay,
Were
gathering
arms and levying martial band,
Phalantus' service by their goodly pay
Purchased (so hight the youth who sought that strand),
And all those others that his fortune run,
Who the Dictaean city garrison.
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There, there it is; there is the Russian
frontier!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"Another Marlborough points to Blenheim's story,"
And George and I will
dramatise
it for ye.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Why does he never sit
On
horseback
in his company, nor with uneven bit
His Gallic courser tame?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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THE company retired,
Camillus
said,
He meant to write before he went to bed,
And told his valet he might go to rest
A lucky circumstance, it is confessed.
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I speak dumb words to thee; but know thou, Gast,
My soul is looking at the time to come,
And seeing it not as a cavern lit
With smoky burning
brandons
of thy fear,
But as a day shining with my new joy.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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" asked the
astounded
General.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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All stood
together
on the deck,
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
All fix'd on me their stony eyes
That in the moon did glitter.
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though all in one[ml]
Condensed
their scattered rays--they would not form a Sun.
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This
contains
but 158 Rubaiyat.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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That you are cut, torn, mangled,
torn by the stress and beat,
no
stronger
than the strips of sand
along your ragged beach.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It
would seem that the first travellers were more impressed with the
novel and striking distribution of colors on the surface than with
the
astonishing
variety of form into which the cliffs themselves
have been worn.
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Longfellow |
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Above the
plunging
surge's play
Dream-like they hovered, day by day.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Then Los smote her upon the Earth twas long eer she revivd {This line
inserted
in pencil.
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Blake - Zoas |
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'And now beside thee,
bleating
lamb,
I can lie down and sleep,
Or think on Him who bore thy name,
Graze after thee, and weep.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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How
mightestow
for reuthe me bigyle?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Why does Pope call him "th'
egregious
wizard"?
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Her lover and the place, at once assured,
That such a secret would be well secured;
A
tempting
bait, which made her, with regret,
Resist the witching charm that her beset.
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La Fontaine |
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The flames of the Dog Days keep
Far from your green steep,
Because your shade around
Is always close and deep,
For the shepherds
changing
ground,
The weary oxen, the sheep,
And the cattle that wander round.
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Ronsard |
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The flower, in youth which virtue's promise bore,
When Love in your pure heart first sought to dwell,
Now beareth fruit that flower which matches well,
And my long hopes are richly come ashore,
Prompting
my spirit some glad verse to pour
Where to due honour your high name may swell,
For what can finest marble truly tell
Of living mortal than the form he wore?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I would
do this last, not from any vanity of thinking that my remarks could be
of much
consequence
to Mrs.
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Robert Burns |
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What mortal hath a prize, that other men
May be confounded and abash'd withal,
But lets it
sometimes
pace abroad majestical,
And triumph, as in thee I should rejoice 60
Amid the hoarse alarm of Corinth's voice.
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Keats |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
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Tennyson |
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"
But the rest: "Fame we prized till to-day;
Yet that hearts keep us green for old
kindness
we prize now
A thousand times more!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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the dull sighs from his chest
Against his will the stifling load revealing,
Though Nature forced; though like some captive guest,
Some royal prisoner at his conqueror's feast,
An alien's restless mood but half concealing,
The sternness on his gentle brow confessed,
Sickness
within and miserable feeling:
Though obscure pangs made curses of his dreams,
And dreaded sleep, each night repelled in vain,
Each night was scattered by its own loud screams:
Yet never could his heart command, though fain,
One deep full wish to be no more in pain.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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We might just see how
horrible
they are.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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After some words Charles bounded at the General's throat and
sought to
strangle
him.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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non illi quisquam bello se conferet heros,
cum Phrygii Teucro manabunt
sanguine
campi,
Troicaque obsidens longinquo moenia bello, 345
periuri Pelopis uastabit tertius heres.
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Latin - Catullus |
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50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is
something
he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Not the smallest
offering
comes!
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Aristophanes |
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cotanto
amante;" Laura, celebrated by a great though an inferior bard,--have
alike paid the exceptional penalty of exceptional honor,
and have come down to us resplendent with charms, but (at
least, to my
apprehension)
scant of attractiveness.
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Christina Rossetti |
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O quick to prize me Love, how
suddenly
From out the tumult truth hath ta'en his own, And in this vision is our past unrolled.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Which more than her eyes
she loved; for sweet as honey was it and its
mistress
knew, as well as
damsel knoweth her own mother nor from her bosom did it rove, but hopping
round first one side then the other, to its mistress alone it evermore did
chirp.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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THE TROLL'S NOSEGAY
A simple
nosegay!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Ye
avengers
of Liberty's wrongs!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Yet do thou regard, with pity 5
For a
nameless
child of passion,
This small unfrequented valley
By the sea, O sea-born mother.
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Sappho |
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In
the sonnet indeed the rhyme is not affected, and accordingly, as I am
not
prepared
to change every 'vile' to 'vilde' in the poems, I have
printed 'vile'.
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John Donne |
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Yestreen, Licinius, in restful day, much
mirthful
verse we flashed upon my
tablets, as became us, men of fancy.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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But when the sun pours down his fiercer fire,
And bids me from the toilsome sport retire,
I haste to bathe, and in a
temperate
mood
Regale my craving appetite with food
(Enough to nourish nature for a day);
Then trifle my domestic hours away.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But on some lucky day (as when they found
A lost bank-bill, or heard their son was drowned)
At such a feast, old vinegar to spare,
Is what two souls so generous cannot bear:
Oil, though it stink, they drop by drop impart,
But souse the cabbage with a
bounteous
heart.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Petrarch says that it is inconceivable how the city of Rome, whose
adjacent fields were untilled, and whose
vineyards
had been frozen the
year before, could for twelve months support such a confluence of
people.
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Petrarch |
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A
coolness
of twilight takes
Its way to you at each beat
Whose imprisoned flutter makes
The horizon gently retreat.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The astounding peculiarity of
the course is that, if you stand at one
particular
place, about half a
mile away, inside the course, and speak at an ordinary pitch, your voice
just hits the funnel of the brick-mounds and makes a curious whining
echo there.
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Kipling - Poems |
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tombe neige
Tombe et que n'ai-je
Ma bien-aimee entre mes bras
POEME LU AU MARIAGE D'ANDRE SALMON
Le 13 juillet 1909
En voyant des drapeaux ce matin je ne me suis pas dit
Voila les riches vetements des pauvres
Ni la pudeur democratique veut me voiler sa douleur
Ni la liberte en honneur fait qu'on imite maintenant
Les feuilles o liberte vegetale o seule liberte terrestre
Ni les maisons flambent parce qu'on partira pour ne plus revenir
Ni ces mains agitees travailleront demain pour nous tous
Ni meme on a pendu ceux qui ne savaient pas profiter de la vie
Ni meme on renouvelle le monde en reprenant la Bastille
Je sais que seuls le renouvellent ceux qui sont fondes en poesie
On a pavoise Paris parce que mon ami Andre Salmon s'y marie
Nous nous sommes rencontres dans un caveau maudit
Au temps de notre jeunesse
Fumant tous deux et mal vetus attendant l'aube
Epris epris des memes paroles dont il faudra changer le sens
Trompes trompes pauvres petits et ne sachant pas encore rire
La table et les deux verres devinrent un mourant qui nous jeta le
dernier regard d'Orphee
Les verres tomberent se briserent
Et nous apprimes a rire
Nous partimes alors pelerins de la perdition
A travers les rues a travers les contrees a travers la raison
Je le revis au bord du fleuve sur lequel flottait Ophelie
Qui blanche flotte encore entre les nenuphars
Il s'en allait au milieu des Hamlets blafards
Sur la flute jouant les airs de la folie
Je le revis pres d'un moujik mourant compter les beatitudes
En admirant la neige semblable aux femmes nues
Je le revis faisant ceci ou cela en l'honneur des memes paroles
Qui changent la face des enfants et je dis toutes ces choses
Souvenir et Avenir parce que mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
Rejouissons-nous non pas parce que notre amitie a ete le fleuve
qui nous a fertilises
Terrains riverains dont l'abondance est la nourriture que tous
esperent
Ni parce que nos verres nous jettent encore une fois le regard
d'Orphee mourant
Ni parce que nous avons tant grandi que beaucoup pourraient
confondre nos yeux et les etoiles
Ni parce que les drapeaux
claquent
aux fenetres des citoyens qui
sont contents depuis cent ans d'avoir la vie et de menues choses a
defendre
Ni parce que fondes en poesie nous avons des droits sur les
paroles qui forment et defont l'Univers
Ni parce que nous pouvons pleurer sans ridicule et que nous savons
rire
Ni parce que nous fumons et buvons comme autrefois
Rejouissons-nous parce que directeur du feu et des poetes
L'amour qui emplit ainsi que la lumiere
Tout le solide espace entre les etoiles et les planetes
L'amour veut qu'aujourd'hui mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
L'ADIEU
J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyere
L'automne est morte souviens-t'en
Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre
Odeur du temps brin de bruyere
Et souviens-toi que je t'attends
SALOME
Pour que sourie encore une fois Jean-Baptiste
Sire je danserais mieux que les seraphins
Ma mere dites-moi pourquoi vous etes triste
En robe de comtesse a cote du Dauphin
Mon coeur battait battait tres fort a sa parole
Quand je dansais dans le fenouil en ecoutant
Et je brodais des lys sur une banderole
Destinee a flotter au bout de son baton
Et pour qui voulez-vous qu'a present je la brode
Son baton refleurit sur les bords du Jourdain
Et tous les lys quand vos soldats o roi Herode
L'emmenerent se sont fletris dans mon jardin
Venez tous avec moi la-bas sous les quinconces
Ne pleure pas o joli fou du roi
Prends cette tete au lieu de ta marotte et danse
N'y touchez pas son front ma mere est deja froid
Sire marchez devant trabants marchez derriere
Nous creuserons un trou et l'y enterrerons
Nous planterons des fleurs et danserons en rond
Jusqu'a l'heure ou j'aurai perdu ma jarretiere
Le roi sa tabatiere
L'infante son rosaire
Le cure son breviaire
LA PORTE
La porte de l'hotel sourit terriblement
Qu'est-ce que cela peut me faire o ma maman
D'etre cet employe pour qui seul rien n'existe
Pi-mus couples allant dans la profonde eau triste
Anges frais debarques a Marseille hier matin
J'entends mourir et remourir un chant lointain
Humble comme je suis qui ne suis rien qui vaille
Enfant je t'ai donne ce que j'avais travaille
MERLIN ET LA VIEILLE FEMME
Le soleil ce jour-la s'etalait comme un ventre
Maternel qui saignait lentement sur le ciel
La lumiere est ma mere o lumiere sanglante
Les nuages coulaient comme un flux menstruel
Au carrefour ou nulle fleur sinon la rose
Des vents mais sans epine n'a fleuri l'hiver
Merlin guettait la vie et l'eternelle cause
Qui fait mourir et puis renaitre l'univers
Une vieille sur une mule a chape verte
S'en vint suivant la berge du fleuve en aval
Et l'antique Merlin dans la plaine deserte
Se frappait la poitrine en s'ecriant Rival
O mon etre glace dont le destin m'accable
Dont ce soleil de chair grelotte veux-tu voir
Ma Memoire venir et m'aimer ma semblable
Et quel fils malheureux et beau je veux avoir
Son geste fit crouler l'orgueil des cataclysmes
Le soleil en dansant remuait son nombril
Et soudain le printemps d'amour et d'heroisme
Amena par la main un jeune jour d'avril
Les voies qui viennent de l'ouest etaient couvertes
D'ossements d'herbes drues de destins et de fleurs
Des monuments tremblants pres des charognes vertes
Quand les vents apportaient des poils et des malheurs
Laissant sa mule a petits pas s'en vint l'amante
A petits coups le vent defripait ses atours
Puis les pales amants joignant leurs mains dementes
L'entrelacs de leurs doigts fut leur seul laps d'amour
Elle balla mimant un rythme d'existence
Criant Depuis cent ans j'esperais ton appel
Les astres de ta vie influaient sur ma danse
Morgane regardait de haut du mont Gibel
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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When the living leave us, moved, I gaze,
For to enter death, is
entering
the temple;
And when a man dies, and goes his way,
I see my own ascent, clear, like crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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An eternal smile is much more
wearisome
than a perpetual frown.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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[Note 19:
A street running
parallel
to the Neva, and leading from
the Winter Palace to the Summer Palace and Garden.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
VIII
Aphrodite of the foam,
Who hast given all good gifts,
And made Sappho at thy will
Love so greatly and so much,
Ah, how comes it my frail heart 5
Is so fond of all things fair,
I can never choose between
Gorgo and
Andromeda?
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Sappho |
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; on
geogoðe
(_in youth_),
409, 466; on geogoð-fēore, 537; so, 1844; on orlege (_in, during, battle_),
1327; hū lomp ēow on lāde (_on the way_), 1988; on gange (_in going, en
route_), 1885; on sweofote (_in sleep_), 1582.
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Beowulf |
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Pity mourns in plaintive tone
The lovely
starling
dead and gone.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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That is what I was
thinking
myself, Father.
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Yeats |
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Who walks in wind-blown dust of streets,
That hath a garden where the roses
breathe?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Agitates
moon-like fan--sheds pearl-like tears--
Realizes she loves him just as much as ever:
That her present pain will never come to an end.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thus came the bow into Ulysses' hands,
Which, never in his gallant barks he bore
To battle with him, (though he used it oft
In times of peace) but left it safely stored
At home, a dear
memorial
of his friend.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
His wife's pure kiss he waved aside,
And
prattling
boys, as one disgraced,
They tell us, and with manly pride
Stern on the ground his visage placed.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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God love thee for the
sweetness
of thy word!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Bad habit, by the
way, makes one very
unpopular
at the club .
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Thus at thir shadie Lodge arriv'd, both stood, 720
Both turnd, and under op'n Skie ador'd
The God that made both Skie, Air, Earth & Heav'n
Which they beheld, the Moons resplendent Globe
And starrie Pole: Thou also mad'st the Night,
Maker Omnipotent, and thou the Day,
Which we in our appointed work imployd
Have finisht happie in our mutual help
And mutual love, the Crown of all our bliss
Ordain'd by thee, and this delicious place
For us too large, where thy
abundance
wants 730
Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground.
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Milton |
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Redresse me, moder, and me chastyse,
For, certeynly, my fadres chastisinge 130
That dar I nought abyden in no wyse:
So hidous is his
rightful
rekeninge.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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then return,
And leave thee
sleeping
in thy urn.
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"Her style was anything but clear,
And most unpleasantly severe;
Her
epithets
were very queer.
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Lewis Carroll |
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2170
The sothfastnesse that now is hid,
Without
coverture
shal be kid,
Whan I undon have this dreming,
Wherin no word is of lesing.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Swift through the foamy flood the Trojans fly,
And close in rocks or winding caverns lie:
So the huge dolphin tempesting the main,
In shoals before him fly the scaly train,
Confusedly heap'd they seek their inmost caves,
Or pant and heave beneath the
floating
waves.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Urizen/ Cxxxg /
xxdxding
/ xxxvns?
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Blake - Zoas |
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"Ah," he thought, "if the old
Countess
would only reveal the secret to
me.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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'Who
chooseth
me shall get as much as he deserves.
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Shakespeare |
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XL
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue
remembered
hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Possessed by
a desire to free his fellow men from the
trammels
of superstition and
the dread of death, he composed his poem, "On the Nature of Things.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Dante - Purgatorio VI:72-75
Planher vuelh En Blacatz en aquest leugier so
I wish to mourn Blacatz, now, in skilful song,
With dark, grieving heart, and mortal reason,
Since I lose in him so noble, fair a companion,
And all his
worthiness
swift to death is gone;
Now I've no hope at all, so mortal the harm,
Of any remedy, no ounce of hope, not one;
Rend his heart: let these barons eat it to a man,
Those without heart since from it heart is won.
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Troubador Verse |
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Ha, ha,
Heosphoros!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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For Ares, lord of strife,
Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold,
War's money-changer, giving dust for gold,
Sends back, to hearts that held them dear,
Scant ash of warriors, wept with many a tear,
Light to the hand, but heavy to the soul;
Yea, fills the light urn full
With what
survived
the flame--
Death's dusty measure of a hero's frame!
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Aeschylus |
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By standing just aside,
By seeing you go on,
Day after day,
In ways I may not tread; By watching your dear feet Stumble in paths
My word could save you from, Yet never
speaking
it;
By knowing past all doubting That the day will come, When, all else gone,
Alone,
Deserted,
You will turn your face To meet my waiting eyes, And there
Behold your own.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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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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Luke Milbourn was a clergyman of the same period,
who abused Dryden's
translation
of Virgil.
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Alexander Pope |
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The well-reeved guns, the netted canopy,
The hoarse command, the busy humming din,
When, at a word, the tops are manned on high:
Hark to the boatswain's call, the cheering cry,
While through the seaman's hand the tackle glides
Or
schoolboy
midshipman that, standing by,
Strains his shrill pipe, as good or ill betides,
And well the docile crew that skilful urchin guides.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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* * * * *
So much for the
traditional
form.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I wish to escape them both if I may;
If not, it's for
Rodrigue
that I will pray:
Not because foolish passion so decides;
But because I'll be Sanche's if he dies.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And I give you
everything
that you want me to.
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Imagists |
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God grant you may dwell there
Ever as
faithful
subjects, a happy and peaceable people!
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Longfellow |
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LXXII
They in the square arrived and stood aside,
Nor of
themselves
awhile would make display;
Better to see the martial gallants ride
By twos and threes, or singly, to the fray.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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Covering the earth, and filling the spread of the heaven,
As that
powerful
psalm in the night, I heard from recesses.
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Whitman |
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Ah, but what burden of sorrow
Tinges their slow stately chorus,
Though spring
revisits
the glad earth?
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Sappho |
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"Let us see," said he, "if you will be able to keep your word; poets
have as much need of an audience as Ivan
Kouzmitch
has need of his
'_petit verre_' before dinner.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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THE LAMB
Little Lamb, who make thee
Dost thou know who made thee,
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing, wolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales
rejoice?
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blake-poems |
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My path seemed
honeycombed
with pits.
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Sidney Lanier |
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