The seruice, and the
loyaltie
I owe,
In doing it, payes it selfe.
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115
Cleer was the water, and as cold
As any welle is, sooth to seyne;
And somdel lasse it was than Seine,
But it was
straighter
wel away.
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what graces great I fled, and eke refused
To serve this cruel crafty Sire that
doubtless
trust abused.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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No ruddy fires on the hearth,
No
brimming
tankards flow.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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quid niue
frigidius?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He will kill
Brahmins
there, in Kali's name,
And please the thugs, and blood-drunk of the earth.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Dried is the olive: elsewhere turn'd the stream
Whose source from famed
Parnassus
was derived.
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Petrarch |
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He
conversation
would have led--
But could not.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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O Hymen
Hymenaee
io, 170
O Hymen Hymenaee.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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But whether he have fallen or 'scaped, let him
Rest also, whom
Saturnian
Jove protect!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But then
recollecting
how the harper Aniphion
Made Thebes dance aloft while he fiddled and
sung.
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Marvell - Poems |
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In the first class, and the same is true of some of the _Satyres_,
notably the third, and of the satirical _Progresse of the Soule_,
especially at the
beginning
and the end, the reflective, moralizing
strain predominates.
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John Donne |
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With
covetous
eyes I looked again at the marbles,
The precious agates, the pee-wees, the chinies--
Then I passed on.
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Sara Teasdale |
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It is
Cuchulain
is coming.
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Yeats |
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The
Headsman
of the Pit, above
Earth's floor, to ravish her!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Defer to the you,
she has
certitude
for, me?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Non e fantin che si subito rua
col volto verso il latte, se si svegli
molto tardato da l'usanza sua,
come fec' io, per far migliori spegli
ancor de li occhi,
chinandomi
a l'onda
che si deriva perche vi s'immegli;
e si come di lei bevve la gronda
de le palpebre mie, cosi mi parve
di sua lunghezza divenuta tonda.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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All is one beam,
Reflected from the summit of the first,
That moves, which being hence and vigour takes,
And as some cliff, that from the bottom eyes
Its image mirror'd in the crystal flood,
As if 't admire its brave appareling
Of verdure and of flowers: so, round about,
Eyeing the light, on more than million thrones,
Stood, eminent,
whatever
from our earth
Has to the skies return'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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(the
raptured
swain replies,)
With deeds consummate soon the promised joys!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Whitman |
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if,--I say you look upon this verse,
When I perhaps
compounded
am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;
But let your love even with my life decay;
Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
And mock you with me after I am gone.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The painful warrior famoused for fight,
After a
thousand
victories once foil'd,
Is from the book of honour razed quite,
And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd:
Then happy I, that love and am belov'd,
Where I may not remove nor be remov'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Then a lot of men came into the valley, and
Carnehan
Dravot picks
them off with the rifles before they knew where they was, and runs down
into the valley and up again the other side, and finds another village,
same as the first one, and the people all falls down flat on their
faces, and Dravot says, 'Now what is the trouble between you two
villages?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Had I the pow'r that some say Dian had,
Thy temples should be planted presently
With horns, as was Actaeon's; and the hounds
Should drive upon thy new-transformed limbs,
Unmannerly
intruder
as thou art!
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Shakespeare |
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With scented breeze, with
flowered
flame,
She touched the earth and took her name
Of May, Rose.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A demon wishing to interrupt her prayers extinguished the light she carried, but divine power
rekindled
it.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And what is left to till,
Even that the force of nature would o'errun
With brambles, did not human force oppose,--
Long wont for
livelihood
to groan and sweat
Over the two-pronged mattock and to cleave
The soil in twain by pressing on the plough.
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Lucretius |
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That other, in the gray
surtout and cocked hat, is Napoleon Bonaparte Smith,
assuring
France
that she need apprehend no interference from him in the present alarming
juncture.
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James Russell Lowell |
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625
Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks, }
It still looks home, and short
excursions
makes; }
But rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks, }
And never shock'd, and never turn'd aside,
Bursts out, resistless, with a thund'ring tide.
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Alexander Pope |
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But when the
beautiful
ground
Lights upward all the air,
Noon thaws the frozen eaves,
And makes the rime on post and paling steam
Silvery blue smoke in the golden day.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not
mysterious
at all
We are the evidence ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Death bids us say farewell
To all we love, nor stay
For tears;--and who can tell
How soon misfortune's hand
May smite us where we stand,
Dragging
us down, aloof,
Under the swift world's hoof?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I hold the simple message,
And fierce with grief the
awakened
heart cries out:
'It shall not be to-day;
It is still yesterday; there is time yet!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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te, & made
sorweful
chere,
Teres ouer his whyte lere
Bytere he let falle.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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'
[330] A celebrated Athenian
courtesan
of Aristophanes' day.
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Aristophanes |
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[Illustration]
This event made them all for a time rather melancholy: and perhaps they
might never have become less so, had not Lionel, with a most praiseworthy
devotion and perseverance, continued to stand on one leg, and whistle to
them in a loud and lively manner; which diverted the whole party so
extremely that they gradually recovered their spirits, and agreed that
whenever they should reach home, they would
subscribe
towards a testimonial
to Lionel, entirely made of gingerbread and raspberries, as an earnest
token of their sincere and grateful infection.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And you, O naked spirits of mere dust,
Tarry and see how great my
suffering
is!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Imagists |
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of a
collection
of _Facetiae_,
of which Mennis and Smith's _Musarum Deliciae_ and _Wit Restor'd_ formed
vol.
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Robert Herrick |
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A murmuring rose, 830
Like what was never heard in all the throes
Of wind and waters: 'tis past human wit
To tell; 'tis
dizziness
to think of it.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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'
Slavery, the earth-born Cyclops, fellest of the giant brood,
Sons of brutish Force and Darkness, who have drenched the earth with
blood,
Famished in his self-made desert, blinded by our purer day,
Gropes in yet unblasted regions for his miserable prey;--
Shall we guide his gory fingers where our helpless
children
play?
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Into the seventh
splendour
are we wafted,
That underneath the burning lion's breast
Beams, in this hour, commingled with his might,
Thy mind be with thine eyes: and in them mirror'd
The shape, which in this mirror shall be shown.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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After having vied with returned favours
squandered
treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Howe'er I'll now the diff'rent parts allot,
And thus divide the produce of the plot:--
What shall above the
heritage
arise,
I'll leave to thee; 'twill very well suffice;
But what is in the soil shall be my share;
To this attend, see ev'ry thing is fair.
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La Fontaine |
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_The
authorities
are_: F.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Wit, and grace, and love, and beauty
In ae
constellation
shine;
To adore thee is my duty,
Goddess o' this soul o' mine!
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Robert Burns |
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Condensed mythological
references
abound.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The Goal of Project Gutenberg is to Give Away 1
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Hebrew
Melodies
of Lord Byron.
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Byron |
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And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it
therefore
the less _gone_?
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Poe - 5 |
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+------------------------------------------------------------+
SEA GARDEN
The editors and
publishers
concerned have kindly given me permission to
reprint some of the poems in this book which appeared originally in
"Poetry" (Chicago), "The Egoist" (London), "The Little Review"
(Chicago), "Greenwich Village" (New York), the first Imagist anthology
(New York: A.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Such was
Horace, an author of much civility, and (if any one among the heathen can
be) the best master both of virtue and wisdom; an
excellent
and true
judge upon cause and reason, not because he thought so, but because he
knew so out of use and experience.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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[692]
Apparently
a wealthy corn-factor.
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Aristophanes |
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]
[Sidenote G: Gawayne
declares
that he has nothing to fear.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And yet, while
it will not meddle with others, it will help all, as a
beautiful
thing
helps us, by being what it is.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Its fair women have become the brown earth, still more, their
artifice
of powder and mascara.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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); for wast ever fain
To deem my trifles somewhat boon contain;
E'en when thou single 'mongst Italians found 5
Daredst all periods in three Scripts expound
Learned (by
Jupiter!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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_Nuniz de Leon as
cronicas
dos Reis de Port_, A.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And where our
original
is known, we are
less the confident; among strangers we trust fortune.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Her
innocence in the original story was established by a combat in the
lists, but this the poet proposed to omit as
contrary
to the rules of
Aristotle.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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the exclusion or limitation of
consequential
damages, so the
above disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you, and you
may have other legal rights.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And she was put, that I of talke,
Fer fro these other, up in an halke;
There lurked and there coured she, 465
For povre thing, wher-so it be,
Is shamfast, and
despysed
ay.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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If these my words avail not to allay
Thy thirsting,
Beatrice
thou shalt see,
Who of this want, and of all else thou hast,
Shall rid thee to the full.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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But the tinker he
grumbled
and cried Fiddle-dee!
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Take thou these songs that owe their birth to thee,
And deign around thy temples to let creep
This ivy-chaplet 'twixt the
conquering
bays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I now my leader's track not loth pursued;
And each had shown how light we far'd along
When thus he warn'd me: "Bend thine
eyesight
down:
For thou to ease the way shall find it good
To ruminate the bed beneath thy feet.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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{93}
a slave to his wife, gratifying her in any thing, and esteeming her all
things, in perfect subjection to them* who direct these things, whose
only virtue lies in wearing the habit of mourners; but
especially
to
those of them who also weave coarse garments.
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Tacitus |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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THE measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime as that of Homer in
Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true
Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the
Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off
wretched
matter and lame
Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets,
carried away by Custom, but much to thir own vexation, hindrance, and
constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse
then else they would have exprest them.
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Milton |
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" and then he'll start a-groaning and exclaiming as
in his
monologue
of Medea,[363] "I am dying, I am dying!
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Aristophanes |
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And close beside this aged thorn,
There is a fresh and lovely sight,
A
beauteous
heap, a hill of moss,
Just half a foot in height.
| Guess: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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He
hardly knows whether what stirred him yesterday was that old fiddler,
playing an almost-forgotten music on a fiddle mended with twine, or a
sudden thought of some king that was of the blood of that old man, some
O'Loughlin or O'Byrne,
listening
amid his soldiers, he and they at
the one table, they too, lucky, bright-eyed, while the minstrel sang
of angry Cuchulain, or of him men called 'Golden salmon of the sea,
clean hawk of the air.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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--What splendour from the
smother?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But if we put aside these 'greater gods' of song, with Sidney,--in the
Editor's judgment Herrick's mastery (to use a brief expression), both
over Nature and over Art, clearly assigns to him the first place as
lyrical poet, in the strict and pure sense of the phrase, among all
who
flourished
during the interval between Henry V and a hundred years
since.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall,
God-like erect, with native honour clad
In naked majesty, seemed lords of all,
And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine
The image of their
glorious
Maker shone.
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But the robin might have said,
"To the
farthest
West he has followed the sun,
His life and his empire just begun.
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Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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Now on the moth-time of that evening dim
He would return that way, as well she knew,
To Corinth from the shore; for freshly blew
The eastern soft wind, and his galley now
Grated the
quaystones
with her brazen prow
In port Cenchreas, from Egina isle
Fresh anchor'd; whither he had been awhile
To sacrifice to Jove, whose temple there
Waits with high marble doors for blood and incense rare.
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the sound--he sunk into Despair--
He was on Earth--but what was Earth to him,
Houseless
and homeless--bare both breast and limb?
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Byron |
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_ Nay, gaze not
backward
through the gate!
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And
sometimes
he would hear coming and going in the wood
music that when it stopped went from his memory like a dream; and once
in the stillness of midday he heard a sound like the clashing of many
swords, that went on for a long time without any break.
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Can those eyes,
Beaming with mildest radiance on my heart
To purify its purity, e'er bend
To soothe its vice or
consecrate
its fears?
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Being therefore in some measure the
cause of its present appearance, you must allow me the gratification of
inscribing it to you; in
acknowledgment
of the pleasure I have derived
from your Writings, and of the high esteem with which
I am
Very truly yours,
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
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William Wordsworth |
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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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"
MENALCAS
"I am all hers; she wept to see me go,
And,
lingering
on the word, 'farewell' she said,
'My beautiful Iollas, fare you well.
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But I am occupying myself over matters
about which perhaps people will take no notice, whilst I have reason to
apprehend much more
important
objections.
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What God gives, and what we take,
'Tis a gift for Christ, His sake:
Be the meal of beans and peas,
God be thanked for those and these:
Have we flesh, or have we fish,
All are
fragments
from His dish.
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These
pointing
out to view,
The nymph just show'd him, and with tears withdrew.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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If the Colonel's Wife
had been an ordinary "vessel of wrath
appointed
for destruction," she
would have known that when a man stays away on purpose, his excuse
is always sound and original.
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SCOTT, CANON
FREDERICK
GEORGE.
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Where, fam'd of old, th' Hercynian[184] forest lower'd,
Oft seen in arms the Polish troops are pour'd
Wide
foraging
the downs.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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