It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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VIII
On the left side goes Remus,
With wrists and fingers red,
And in his hand a boar-spear,
And on the point a head--
A
wrinkled
head and aged,
With silver beard and hair,
And holy fillets round it,
Such as the pontiffs wear--
The head of ancient Camers,
Who spake the words of doom:
"The children to the Tiber;
The mother to the tomb.
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LA CLOCHE FELEE
Il est amer et doux, pendant les nuits d'hiver,
D'ecouter pres du feu qui palpite et qui fume
Les souvenirs lointains lentement s'elever
Au bruit des carillons qui
chantent
dans la brume.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The parted bosom clings to wonted home,
If aught that's kindred cheer the welcome hearth;
He that is lonely--hither let him roam,
And gaze complacent on
congenial
earth.
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Byron |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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only vows,
Happiness, and all our care,
And the flower that sweetly shows
Nestling
lightly in your hair.
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Hugo - Poems |
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No approaching--hush, no
breathing!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The Greater,
according
to Ptolemy, inhabited the country between the Weser and the Elbe; the Lesser, that between the Weser and Ems; but Tacitus (Annals xi.
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Tacitus |
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_Love and
Madness_
by Sir Herbert Croft.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Whatever would put God
in a poem or system of
philosophy
as contending against some being or
influence is also of no account.
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Whitman |
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And slow, as in a dream of bliss,
The speechless
sufferer
turns to kiss
Her shadow, as it falls
Upon the darkening walls.
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Longfellow |
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e
emperour
seyde ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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specific
permission.
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Rilke - Poems |
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One of their reforms was the remodelling of the equestrian order;
and, having
effected
this reform, they determined to give to
their work a sanction derived from religion.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
"The Third was written to protect
The interests of the Victim,
And tells us, as I recollect,
_To treat him with a grave respect,
And not to
contradict
him_.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Through all our
literature
your way you took
With modest ease; yet would you soonest pore,
Smiling, with most affection in your look,
On the ripe ancient and the curious nook.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And in two
Rubaiyat
of
Mons.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The _reem_, those great beasts with
eighteen
horns,
Who mate but once in seventy years and die
In their own tears which flow ten stadia high.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But, after the fires and the wrath,
But, after
searching
and pain,
His Mercy opens us a path
To live with ourselves again.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He added I know not what, to the effect that the
sweet-water would only be the more
disfigured
by having its leaves
starched and ironed out, and that Pegasus (so he called him) hardly
looked right with his mane and tail in curl-papers.
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James Russell Lowell |
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But this is the way in which
everyone
should live.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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She'd a gun at her bow that was Newcastle's best,
And a gun at her stern that was fresh from the Clyde,
And a secret her skipper had never confessed,
Not even at dawn, to his newly wed bride;
And a
wireless
that whispered above like a gnome,
The laughter of London, the boasts of Berlin.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Undue significance a
starving
man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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You are but noise; but he is the lust of the world,
The
infinite
wrong the spirit, the virgin spirit,
Must fasten against, or be for ever vile.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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XXV
Would that I might possess the
Thracian
lyre,
To wake from Hades, and their idle pose,
Those old Caesars, and the shades of those,
Who once raised this ancient city higher:
Or that I had Amphion's to inspire,
And with sweet harmony these stones enclose
To quicken them again, where they once rose,
Ausonian glory conjuring from its pyre:
Or that with skilful pencil I might draw
The portrait of these palaces once more,
With the spirit of some high Virgil filled;
I would attempt, inflamed by my ardour,
To recreate with the pen's slight power,
That which our own hands could never build.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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And after a thousand years I
ascended
the holy mountain and again
spoke unto God, saying, "Creator, I am thy creation.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Keats - Lamia |
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and derives his witty illustrations from such re-
mote and obscure sources, that Parker did not
hesitate to avow his belief that he had sometimes
drawn on his
invention
for them.
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Marvell - Poems |
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As I took to these studies with much
interest
my Italian
master was proud of the progress I made.
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William Wordsworth |
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He serves me
somewhat
darkly, now, I grant,
Yet will he soon attain the light of reason.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A grave, on which to rest from
singing?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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But the world's better off, I'm
convinced
of it now,
Than if heroes, like buns, could be bought for a penny
To regard all mankind as their haltered milch-cow,
And just care for themselves.
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James Russell Lowell |
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It also tells you how
you may
distribute
copies of this eBook if you want to.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
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blake-poems |
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in wedlock's chains agree;
While
presently
the other, which contained
Th' unhappy--not a leaf in blank remained.
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La Fontaine |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Keats |
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15
Piso's Company, a starveling band, with lightweight knapsacks, scantly
packed, most dear Veranius thou, and my Fabullus eke, how
fortunes
it with
you?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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[_She leaves the settle, and stooping takes up a mass
of
primroses
and kisses them.
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Yeats |
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For books they follow
fashions
new
And throw all old esteems away,
In crowded streets flowers never grew,
But many there hath died away.
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John Clare |
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and John Gould
Fletcher
and F.
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Imagists |
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' That is QUITE true,"
explained
Tods, gravely.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The
kingfisher
flies like an arrow, and wounds the air.
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Wilde - Poems |
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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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Sara Teasdale |
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His countenance a billow,
His fingers, if he pass,
Let go a music, as of tunes
Blown
tremulous
in glass.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sweet is the shade of the
cocoanut
glade, and
the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o' the
moon with the sound of the voices we love.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He, by my
submission
moved,
Deliver'd me, and to his chariot-seat
Raising, convey'd me weeping to his home.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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My stiffen'd frame
Laid at his mouth the fell Archiano found,
And dash'd it into Arno, from my breast
Loos'ning the cross, that of myself I made
When
overcome
with pain.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Into a
labyrinth
now my soul would fly,
But with thy beauty will I deaden it.
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Keats |
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--
The sea crept moaning, moaning nigher:
She should have
hastened
to be gone,--
The sea swept higher, breaking by her:
She should have hastened to her home
While yet the west was flushed with fire,
But now her feet are in the foam,
The sea-foam, sweeping higher.
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Christina Rossetti |
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How many thoughts of what
entombed
hopes!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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At last I saw the
shadowed
bars,
Like a lattice wrought in lead,
Move right across the whitewashed wall
That faced my three-plank bed,
And I knew that somewhere in the world
God's dreadful dawn was red.
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Wilde - Poems |
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who inherit,
Instead of vital powers,
Impulsions God-supplied;
Instead of influent spirit,
A clear informing beauty;
Instead of creature-duty,
Submission
calm as rest.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Yes, Time reigns; Time has
regained
his brutal mastery.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I'm wife; I've
finished
that,
That other state;
I'm Czar, I'm woman now:
It's safer so.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Wee Jenny to her graunie says,
"Will ye go wi' me,
graunie?
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Robert Forst |
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Rather, instantly
Renew thy presence; as a strong tree should,
Rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare,
And let these bands of greenery which insphere thee,
Drop heavily down,--burst,
shattered
everywhere!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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How in an hour the power which gave annuls
Its gifts,
transferring
fame as fleeting too!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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THE CONTEST
I
Your stature is modelled
with straight tool-edge:
you are
chiselled
like rocks
that are eaten into by the sea.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Growin' up a man, he
scarcely
met
Other white folks; an' his heart was set
On this red girl.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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II
Six weeks the
guardsman
walked the yard,
In the suit of shabby gray:
His cricket cap was on his head,
And his step was light and gay,
But I never saw a man who looked
So wistfully at the day.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Some were red like
cinnabar
pebbles, 40 others, black like spots of lacquer.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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It is a
commendation
of
the monastic life.
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Petrarch |
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Barclay Squire:
[Illustration: Musical
notation
with lyrics:
Wilt thou for-give the sinnes where I be-gunne,
w^{c}h is my sinne though it weare done be-fore,
wilt thou for-give those sinnes through w^{c}h I
runne, & doe them still, though still I doe de-plore
when thou hast done, thou hast not done,
for I have more.
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John Donne |
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ou In my sones man,
ffor
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Would thou hadst heark'nd to my words, & stai'd
With me, as I besought thee, when that strange
Desire of wandring this
unhappie
Morn,
I know not whence possessd thee; we had then
Remaind still happie, not as now, despoild
Of all our good, sham'd, naked, miserable.
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Milton |
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Our honours and our
commendations
be, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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Yet his
copious memory was well stored with many a sonnet of Petrarch, which he
could repeat by heart; and with all his Danteism, he infused the deepest
tones of admiration into his recitation of the
Petrarchan
sonnets.
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Petrarch |
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Being appointed general, he
defeated
Vetilius the praetor, who
commanded in Lusitania, or farther Spain.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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ALTMAYER
(leise):
Da hast du's!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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280
Wee see in Authors, too stiffe to recant,
A hundred controversies of an Ant;
And yet one watches, starves, freeses, and sweats,
To know but Catechismes and Alphabets
Of unconcerning things, matters of fact; 285
How others on our stage their parts did Act;
What _Caesar_ did, yea, and what
_Cicero_
said.
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John Donne |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Dit a l'autre: Vie et
splendeur!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And here, long, amid the
momently
increasing confusion, did I persist
in my pursuit of the stranger.
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Poe - 5 |
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And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the
strengthless
dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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HIS noble entertainments raised surprise;
Magnificence alone would not suffice;
Delightful
pleasures
he dispensed around,
And flattery abundantly was found,
An art in which a demon should excel:
No devil surely e'er was liked so well.
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La Fontaine |
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And thus upon our journey linked
together
let us go.
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Whitman |
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--
Big
perilous
theorem, hard for king and priest:
`Pursue the West but long enough, 'tis East!
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Sidney Lanier |
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498:
hē beworhte þā
bigelsas
mid gyldenum lǣfrum, _he covered the arches with
gold-leaf_,--a Roman custom derived from Carthage.
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Beowulf |
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Yet dreams of
conquering
greater prize for her
Roused his wild spirit with a glittering spur.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And indeed the dullest prose translation might obscure, but
could not
possibly
throw a total eclipse over, so admirable an original.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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This man is
quickened
so with grief,
He wanders god-like or like thief
Inside and out, below, above,
Without relief seeking lost love.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Allas, I never wolde han wend, er this,
That ye, Criseyde, coude han
chaunged
so;
Ne, but I hadde a-gilt and doon amis,
So cruel wende I not your herte, y-wis, 1685
To slee me thus; allas, your name of trouthe
Is now for-doon, and that is al my routhe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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at he was
honoured
soo,
And made grete doloure; 513
For swiche honoure & swiche glorie,
As it is writen in his storye,
He ne loued in toun ne toure.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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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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He praised Deveria, Chasseriau--who
waited years before he came into his own; his preferred landscapists
were Corot,
Rousseau
and Troyon.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Then leapt her palfrey o'er the fallen oak,
And
bounding
forward 'Leave them to the wolves.
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Tennyson |
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On this altar God hath built
I lay my vanity and guilt;
Nor me can Hope or Passion urge
Hearing as now the lofty dirge
Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,
Nature's funeral high and dim,--
Sable
pageantry
of clouds,
Mourning summer laid in shrouds.
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Emerson - Poems |
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In the
beginning
was the Word.
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T.S. Eliot |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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And strange it was to see him pass
With a step so light and gay,
And strange it was to see him look
So
wistfully
at the day,
And strange it was to think that he
Had such a debt to pay.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Royalties are
payable to "Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation"
the 60 days following each date you prepare (or were
legally required to prepare) your annual (or equivalent
periodic)
tax return.
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The ghosts of dead loves everyone
That make the stark winds reek with fear
Lest love return with the foison sun And slay the
memories
that me cheer (Such as I drink to mine fashion) Wincing the ghosts of yester-year.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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