Sur La Mort de Marie: IV
As in May month, on its stem we see the rose
In its sweet youthfulness, in its freshest flower,
Making the heavens jealous with living colour,
Dawn
sprinkles
it with tears in the morning glow:
Grace lies in all its petals, and love, I know,
Scenting the trees and scenting the garden's bower,
But, assaulted by scorching heat or a shower,
Languishing, it dies, and petals on petals flow.
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Ronsard |
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I wished, in
exposing
my remorse to you, 1635
To go down to the dead by a slower route.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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" acclaim
Of
vassalage
might well recall the tale.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The Caterpillar
Plants,
Caterpillars
and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II), Johannes Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
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Appoloinaire |
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Oh, gentle face, radiant with happy smile,
And eager
prattling
tongue that knows no guile,
Quick changing tears and bliss;
Thy soul expands to catch this new world's light,
Thy mazed eyes to drink each wondrous sight,
Thy lips to taste the kiss.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Then was the German raven seen, disguised,
Echoing the Roman eagle in the skies,
And once again towards Heaven spread
These brave hills once reduced to dust,
No longer fearing
lightning
overhead,
Borne by that eagle on the stormy gust.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I marvel that in this false world not one
Generous or
courteous
man should exist,
None now value good words, fine action,
And why should a man aim high or low?
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Troubador Verse |
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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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How elegant your
Frenchmen?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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He wept; and we
With tears prayed God to send His love and peace
Upon his
suffering
and stormy soul.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Cheeks as pale
As these you see, and
trembling
knees that fail
To bear the burden of a heavy heart,--
This weary minstrel-life that once was girt
To climb Aornus, and can scarce avail
To pipe now 'gainst the valley nightingale
A melancholy music,--why advert
To these things?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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One stands by me and blows a blast apace
On his great flashing trumpet and the sound
Shrieks through the vast black
solitude
around
Through which, as through a wild mad dream we race.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The passing
stranger
oft with wonder stops
And thinks he een could walk upon their tops,
And often stoops to see the busy crow,
And stands above and sees the eggs below;
And while the wild horse gives its head a toss,
The squirrel dances up and runs across.
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John Clare |
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It dawns in Asia,
tombstones
show
And Shropshire names are read;
And the Nile spills his overflow
Beside the Severn's dead.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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" An unknown
utterance
answered: "Pass!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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THE ROYAL TOMBS OF GOLCONDA
I muse among these silent fanes
Whose spacious
darkness
guards your dust;
Around me sleep the hoary plains
That hold your ancient wars in trust.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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In his
criticism
alone was he the
sane logical Frenchman.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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No lifetime set on them,
Apparelled as the new
Unborn, except they had beheld,
Born
everlasting
now.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Your lady's rich, and money does not want;
Howe'er, my little dog to her I'll grant
If she'll a night permit me in her bed,
The
treasure
shall at once to her be led.
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La Fontaine |
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Have I not
suffered
things to be forgiven?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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For if
Criseyde
hadde erst compleyned sore, 825
Tho gan she pleyne a thousand tymes more.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Nor may the political philosopher be deemed an
enthusiast who would boldly prophesy, that unless the British be driven
from India the general superiority which they bear will, ere many
generations shall have passed, induce the most intelligent of India to
break the shackles of their absurd superstitions,[28] and lead them to
partake of those
advantages
which arise from the free scope and due
cultivation of the rational powers.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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On Hearing the
Princess
Royal Sing--_Nelson R.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Let's further think of this,
Weigh what
convenience
both of time and means
May fit us to our shape.
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Now, O ye shepherds, strew the ground with leaves,
And o'er the
fountains
draw a shady veil-
So Daphnis to his memory bids be done-
And rear a tomb, and write thereon this verse:
'I, Daphnis in the woods, from hence in fame
Am to the stars exalted, guardian once
Of a fair flock, myself more fair than they.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
LXXXVII
Pride hath Rollanz, wisdom Olivier hath;
And both of them shew
marvellous
courage;
Once they are horsed, once they have donned their arms,
Rather they'd die than from the battle pass.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Enjoying
thus my enemies
Would I see; and thee 'mong them I count.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Sunrise and noon and sunset and strange night
And shadow of large clouds and faint starlight
And
lonesome
Terror stalking round the height,
I minded not, Nirvana.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Du, Holle,
musstest
dieses Opfer haben.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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--Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages
wherein they live and
illustrate
the times.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Again, O why,
When the strong wine has entered into man,
And its diffused fire gone round the veins,
Why follows then a heaviness of limbs,
A tangle of the legs as round he reels,
A
stuttering
tongue, an intellect besoaked,
Eyes all aswim, and hiccups, shouts, and brawls,
And whatso else is of that ilk?
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Lucretius |
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And left--her slender
sweetness
to divine,
Alone a necklace wreathed with silken tresses,
(With which a godly friend arrayed her shrine)
A marble block amid the weeds and cresses.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I would build for thee
An altar deep in the sad soul of me;
And in the darkest corner of my heart,
From mortal hopes and mocking eyes apart,
Carve of
enamelled
blue and gold a shrine
For thee to stand erect in, Image divine!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I fear that I am not like thee:
For I walk through the vales of Har, and smell the sweetest flowers:
But I feed not the little flowers: I hear the warbling birds,
But I feed not the warbling birds, they fly and seek their food:
But Thel
delights
in these no more because I fade away
And all shall say, without a use this shining women liv'd,
Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms.
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blake-poems |
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Jaalam Point,
lighthouse
on, charge of, prospectively offered
to Mr.
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James Russell Lowell |
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XII
When I watch the living meet,
And the moving pageant file
Warm and
breathing
through the street
Where I lodge a little while,
If the heats of hate and lust
In the house of flesh are strong,
Let me mind the house of dust
Where my sojourn shall be long.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
la la
To Carthage then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou
pluckest
me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But natheles, he gladded him in this;
He thoughte he
misacounted
hadde his day, 1185
And seyde, `I understonde have al a-mis.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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[Sings]
The ousel cock, so black of hue,
With orange-tawny bill,
The
throstle
with his note so true,
The wren with little quill.
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Shakespeare |
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He spent two periods of years in
Sicily, where he died in 456, killed, it is said, by a
tortoise
which
an eagle dropped on his head.
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Aeschylus |
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for it is a
beautiful
part of a
beautiful whole.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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O Hymen
Hymenaee
io, 140
O Hymen Hymenaee.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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But apparently it told how
Admetus, King of Pherae in Thessaly, received from Apollo a special
privilege which the God had obtained, in true Satyric style, by making the
Three Fates drunk and
cajoling
them.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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" while serene
I, standing in the glory of the lamps,
Answered
"my Father," innocent of shame
And of the sense of thunder.
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1180
And fer with-in the night, with many a tere,
This Troilus gan
hoomward
for to ryde;
For wel he seeth it helpeth nought tabyde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Thus does the father to his sons relate,
On the lone
mountain
top, their changed estate.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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aut grauibus morbis et lenta corpora tabe
corripit exustis letalis flamma medullis
labentisque rapit populos, totasque per urbis
publica succensis peraguntur iusta sepulcris:
qualis Erechtheos pestis populata colonos
extulit
antiquas
per funera pacis Athenas,
alter in alterius labens cum fata ruebant.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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PAUL DE CASSAGNAC _(Le Pays)_
Morts de quatre-vingt-douze et de quatre-vingt-treize
Qui, pales du baiser fort de la liberte,
Calmes, sous vos sabots, brisiez le joug qui pese
Sur l'ame et sur le front de toute humanite;
Hommes extasies et grands dans la tourmente,
Vous dont les coeurs sautaient d'amour sous les haillons,
O soldats que la Mort a semes, noble Amante,
Pour les regenerer, dans tous les vieux sillons;
Vous dont le sang lavait toute grandeur salie,
Morts de Valmy, Morts de Fleurus, Morts d'Italie,
O Million de Christs aux yeux sombres et doux;
Nous vous laissions dormir avec la Republique,
Nous, courbes sous les rois comme sous une trique:
--Messieurs de
Cassagnac
nous reparlent de vous!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
Of
perilous
seas, in faery lands forlorn.
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Golden Treasury |
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If the Bow does not point at the Wolf,
rebellion
will follow.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the
sentence
set forth in paragraph 1.
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Chanson de Roland |
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_To Anna Three Years Old_
My Anna, summer laughs in mirth,
And we will of the party be,
And leave the
crickets
in the hearth
For green fields' merry minstrelsy.
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John Clare |
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too soon of it we were bereft
When on that riven night and stormy sea
Panthea claimed her singer as her own,
And slew the mouth that praised her; since which time we walk alone,
Save for that fiery heart, that morning star {129}
Of re-arisen England, whose clear eye
Saw from our
tottering
throne and waste of war
The grand Greek limbs of young Democracy
Rise mightily like Hesperus and bring
The great Republic!
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Wilde - Poems |
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what
worrisome
fiend hath possest thee,
Nosing and snuffling so round the door?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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According to Domenico Aretino, who was much attached to
Petrarch, and was at that time at Padua, so that he may be regarded as
good authority, his death was
occasioned
by apoplexy.
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Petrarch |
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The Warders with their shoes of felt
Crept by each padlocked door,
And peeped and saw, with eyes of awe,
Grey figures on the floor,
And
wondered
why men knelt to pray
Who never prayed before.
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Wilde - Poems |
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HIGGINSON
PREFACE
The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's
poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern
artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the
qualities of
directness
and simplicity in approaching the greatest
themes,--life and love and death.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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LIX
But here enough for this one while is shown
Of their
illustrious
doings in the west;
'Tis time I seek Sir Gryphon, and make known
How he, with fury burning in his breast,
That rabble-rout had broke and overthrown,
Struck with more fear than ever men possest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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He gaz'd, and, fear his mind surprising,
Himself no more the hermit knows:
He sees with foam the waters rising,
And then
subsiding
to repose,
And sudden, light as night-ghost wanders,
A female thence her form uprais'd,
Pale as the snow which winter squanders,
And on the bank herself she plac'd.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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IV
He speaks to the moonlight
concerning
the Beloved.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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It is that
something
in the soul which says,--Rage on, whirl
on, I tread master here and everywhere; master of the spasms of the sky and
of the shatter of the sea, master of nature and passion and death, and of
all terror and all pain.
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Whitman |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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In the leaves 'tis palpable: low multitudinous stirring
Upwinds through the woods; the little ones, softly conferring,
Have settled my lord's to be looked for; so; they are still;
But the air and my heart and the earth are a-thrill, --
And look where the wild duck sails round the bend of the river, --
And look where a passionate shiver
Expectant is bending the blades
Of the marsh-grass in serial shimmers and shades, --
And
invisible
wings, fast fleeting, fast fleeting,
Are beating
The dark overhead as my heart beats, -- and steady and free
Is the ebb-tide flowing from marsh to sea --
(Run home, little streams,
With your lapfulls of stars and dreams), --
And a sailor unseen is hoisting a-peak,
For list, down the inshore curve of the creek
How merrily flutters the sail, --
And lo, in the East!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of
damages.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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When the flame
had consumed the thighs of the victim and its inwards had
appeased
our
hunger, we poured out the libations of wine.
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Aristophanes |
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Our veterans slaughtered, our colonies burnt, 17 our armies cut off, 18—we were then contending for safety,
afterwards
for victory.
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Tacitus |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Agnes was a martyr of the
Christian
Church who was beheaded just
outside Rome in 304 because she refused to marry a Pagan, holding
herself to be a bride of Christ.
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Keats |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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{a}t pheb{us} the sonne
w{i}t{h}
his goldene
chariet / bryngeth forth the rosene day / ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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--Ca' the yowes to the knowes,
Ca' them where the heather grows,
Ca' them where the burnie rowes,
My bonie dearie
As I gaed down the water-side,
There I met my
shepherd
lad:
He row'd me sweetly in his plaid,
And he ca'd me his dearie.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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A month and little more by proof I learnt,
With what a weight that robe of sov'reignty
Upon his shoulder rests, who from the mire
Would guard it: that each other fardel seems
But
feathers
in the balance.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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CANTO 40
ARGUMENT
To fly the royal Agramant is fain,
And sees Biserta burning far away;
But landing finds the royal Sericane,
Who of his faith gives goodly warrant; they
Defy Orlando, backed by
champions
twain;
Whom bold Gradasso firmly trusts to slay.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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His cursed head, that he was wont to hold so high with pride,
Now, like a drunken man's, hung down, and swayed from side to
side;
And when his stout
retainers
had brought him to his door,
His face and neck were all one cake of filth and clotted gore.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Ille Stat indomitus turritis undique saxis ;
Huic laetum cingit fraxinus alta caput
Illi petra minax rigidis cervicibus horret ;
Huic
quatiunt
virides lenia coUa jubas.
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She is the Joy of Courage vanquishing
The
unstilled
tremors of the fearful heart;
And it is she that bids the poet sing,
And gives to each the strength to bear his part.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And will your mother pity me,
Who am a maiden most
forlorn?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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He does not know that
sickening
thirst
That sands one's throat, before
The hangman with his gardener's gloves
Slips through the padded door,
And binds one with three leathern thongs,
That the throat may thirst no more.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Wilde - Poems |
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And when the sun sinks slowly down,
And the great rock-walls grow dark and brown,
When the purple river rolls fast and dim,
And the ivory Ibis
starlike
skim,
Wing to wing we dance around," etc.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Has not the god of the green world, 5
In his large tolerant wisdom,
Filled with the ardours of earth
Her twenty
summers?
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Sappho |
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Christ, who did save from realms of woe beneath,
The Hebrew
Prophets
from the second death.
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Longfellow |
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cf.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"Sweep
completed
in the fairway.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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There was
nothing for it but to obey, and Marya
Ivanofna
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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So far as I have been able to
discover
the Puritans
were never called 'Fathers,' their regular appellation being 'the
brethren' (cf.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Wulfgar spake to his winsome lord: --
"Hither have fared to thee far-come men
o'er the paths of ocean, people of Geatland;
and the
stateliest
there by his sturdy band
is Beowulf named.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The youth now panting with the
hopeless
chase,
"Oh turn," he cries, "oh turn thy angel face:
False to themselves, can charms like these conceal
The hateful rigour of relentless steel?
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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For Pope's purpose,
springing naturally from the occasion which set him to writing the
'Rape', was not to burlesque what was naturally lofty by exhibiting it
in a
degraded
light, but to show the true littleness of the trivial by
treating it in a grandiose and mock-heroic fashion, to make the quarrel
over the stolen lock ridiculous by raising it to the plane of the epic
contest before the walls of Troy.
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Alexander Pope |
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His
greatness
only adds to my sorrow,
Seeing his worth I see what I forgo.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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With your old eyes
Do you hope to see
The triumphal march of
Justice?
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Stephen Crane |
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XXXVIII
So having solaced
themselves
a space
With pleasaunce?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And then with a universe-love he was hot in the wings,
And the sun stretched beams to the worlds as the shining strings
Of the large hid harp that sounds when an all-lover sings;
And the sky's blue traction prevailed o'er the earth's in might,
And the passion of flight grew mad with the glory of height
And the uttering of song was like to the giving of light;
And he learned that hearing and seeing wrought nothing alone,
And that music on earth much light upon Heaven had thrown,
And he melted-in silvery sunshine with silvery tone;
And the spirals of music e'er higher and higher he wound
Till the luminous
cinctures
of melody up from the ground
Arose as the shaft of a tapering tower of sound --
Arose for an unstricken full-finished Babel of sound.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Or list'ning to the tide, with closed sight,
Be that blind bard, who on the Chian strand
By those deep sounds possessed with inward light,
Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssee
Rise to the
swelling
of the voiceful sea.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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For pity do not this sad heart belie--
Even as thou
vanishest
so I shall die.
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Keats - Lamia |
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