The sailors, hearing the female Halycon sing,
prepared
to die, safe however around mid-December, when these birds make their nests, and one knows that then the sea will be calm.
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Appoloinaire |
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To make me give the lie to my true sight,
And swear that
brightness
doth not grace the day?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'Gentle pilgrim, if thou know
The gamut old of Pan,
And how the hills began,
The frank
blessings
of the hill
Fall on thee, as fall they will.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Waldo Abigail Fithian Halsey Louis Ginsberg Marjorie Allen
Seiffert
J.
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FOREWORD
IN the
opinions
of some of the deepest literary
thinkers of Germany, Stefan George finds a place as
the greatest poet of the day.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Their height in heaven
comforts
not,
Their glory nought to me;
'T was best imperfect, as it was;
I 'm finite, I can't see.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
Then Leif, bold son of Eric the Red,
To the South of the West doth flee --
Past slaty Helluland is sped,
Past Markland's woody lea,
Till round about fair Vinland's head,
Where Taunton helps the sea,
The
Norseman
calls, the anchor falls,
The mariners hurry a-strand:
They wassail with fore-drunken skals
Where prophet wild grapes stand;
They lift the Leifsbooth's hasty walls
They stride about the land --
New England, thee!
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Sidney Lanier |
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El Desdichado (The Disinherited)
I am the
darkness
- the widower - the un-consoled,
The prince of Aquitaine in the ruined tower;
My sole star is dead - and my constellated lute
Bears the black sun of Melancholy.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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what, desert herewith
Our wives and
mothers?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Te campo
quaesivimus
minore,
Te in circo, te in omnibus libellis,
Te in templo summi Iovis sacrato.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Curch, a
kerchief
for the head.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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How many
thousand
times shall I look on them ere this fire in me is
dead?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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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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[_The
procession
moves forward, past him_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The
following
air is found in Egerton MS.
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John Donne |
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Again I knocked; and tardily
An inner step was heard,
And I was shown her presence then
With scarce an
answering
word.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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My
compliments
to Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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What is that sound high in the air
Murmur of maternal lamentation
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth 370
Ringed by the flat horizon only
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem
Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Unreal
A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light 380
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall
And upside down in air were towers
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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As I know that no one--no, not
even Kitty, for whom it is written as some sort of
justification
of
my conduct--will believe me, I will go on.
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Kipling - Poems |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Is that
trembling
cry a song?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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They swelled the number of the army of bold
questioners
upon the ways of
God to Man, but they were an idle rout of camp-followers, not combatants;
they simply ate, and drank, and died.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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'Pore men han maad hir lord of me;
Although
they not so mighty be,
That they may fede me in delyt, 5995
I wol not have hem in despyt.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure
nocturnal
cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The house
trembles
and creaks.
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Imagists |
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Fear not, but be bold:
A decent
boldness
ever meets with friends,
Succeeds, and even a stranger recommends
First to the queen prefer a suppliant's claim,
Alcinous' queen, Arete is her name.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Evidently
Blake tried it as Night the Third and as Night the First at least twice.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The knights are commissioned to champion the
cause of persons in
distress
and redress their wrongs.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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They glided past, the glided fast,
Like
travellers
through a mist:
They mocked the moon in a rigadoon
Of delicate turn and twist,
And with formal pace and loathsome grace
The phantoms kept their tryst.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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They stood
together
on the strand,
They only, each by each;
Home, her home, was close at hand,
Utterly out of reach.
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Christina Rossetti |
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On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf shall roses rear
Their leaves, the earliest of the year,
And the wild cypress wave in tender gloom:
And oft by yon blue gushing stream
Shall Sorrow lean her drooping head,
And feed deep thought with many a dream,
And
lingering
pause and lightly tread;
Fond wretch!
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Golden Treasury |
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Sounded the charge seven
thousand
trumpets,
Great was the noise through all that country went.
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Chanson de Roland |
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For not to think of what I needs must feel,
But to be still and patient all I can,
And haply by
abstruse
research to steal
From my own nature all the natural man--
This was my sole resource, my only plan:
Till that which suits a part infects the whole,
And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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ROMANCE
ROMANCE, who loves to nod and sing,
With drowsy head and folded wing,
Among the green leaves as they shake
Far down within some shadowy lake,
To me a painted paroquet
Hath been--a most
familiar
bird--
Taught me my alphabet to say--
To lisp my very earliest word
While in the wild wood I did lie,
A child--with a most knowing eye.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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From this place, which lies to the northward, upon the
western slope of the same range of hills on which we had spent the
noon before, in the
adjacent
town, the prospect is beautiful, and the
grandeur of the mountain outlines unsurpassed.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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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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[Sidenote: For the love of justice I
forfeited
all favour at
Court.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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So, scorch'd with heat, along the desert score,
The roaming lion meets a bristly boar,
Fast by the spring; they both dispute the flood,
With flaming eyes, and jaws besmear'd with blood;
At length the
sovereign
savage wins the strife;
And the torn boar resigns his thirst and life.
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Iliad - Pope |
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But lord Anchises
joyfully
upraised his eyes; and
stretching his hands to heaven: "Jupiter omnipotent," he cries, "if thou
dost relent at any prayers, look on us this once alone; and if our
goodness deserve it, give thine aid hereafter, O lord, and confirm this
thine omen.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And fine dry logs and roots innumerous
He gathered in a delve upon the ground--
And kindled them--and instantaneous
The
strength
of the fierce flame was breathed around: _145
And whilst the might of glorious Vulcan thus
Wrapped the great pile with glare and roaring sound,
Hermes dragged forth two heifers, lowing loud,
Close to the fire--such might was in the God.
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Shelley |
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Faccian le bestie
fiesolane
strame
di lor medesme, e non tocchin la pianta,
s'alcuna surge ancora in lor letame,
in cui riviva la sementa santa
di que' Roman che vi rimaser quando
fu fatto il nido di malizia tanta>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The corse interred, not one hour he
remained
645
Beneath their roof, but to the open air
A burthen, now with fortitude sustained,
He bore within a breast where dreadful quiet reigned.
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William Wordsworth |
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The steam which
rises from swamps and pools is as dear and
domestic
as that of our own
kettle.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Firstly, the owls of
Laurium,[309] which every judge desires above all things, shall never be
wanting to you; you shall see them homing with you,
building
their nests
in your money-bags and laying coins.
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Aristophanes |
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[A] Thenne wat3
Gryngolet
gray?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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With these came they, who from the
bordring
flood
Of old Euphrates to the Brook that parts 420
Egypt from Syrian ground, had general Names
Of Baalim and Ashtaroth, those male,
These Feminine.
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Milton |
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Reginald
McIntosh Cleveland and the _New York Times_:--"Destroyers
off Jutland.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
A new light rises 'neath the evening star,
A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I took a little black book
To that cold, grey, damp,
smelling
church,
And I had to sit on a hard bench,
Wriggle off it to kneel down when they sang psalms,
And wriggle off it to kneel down when they prayed--
And then there was nothing to do
Except to play trains with the hymn-books.
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Imagists |
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She, poor bird, as all forlorn,
Lean'd her breast against a thorn,
And there sung the
dolefullest
ditty,
That to hear it was great pity.
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Golden Treasury |
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Tell him, if the light,
Wherewith your
substance
blooms, shall stay with you
Eternally, as now: and, if it doth,
How, when ye shall regain your visible forms,
The sight may without harm endure the change,
That also tell.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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What you once
mentioned
of "flaxen locks" is
just: they cannot enter into an elegant description of beauty.
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Robert Forst |
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But
penitent
in calm, thou givest a balm,
To many a man who's felt thy rage,
And many a sea-bird--thanks be heard!
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Hugo - Poems |
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But I have come drawn hither by report,
Which spake thy Sire arrived, though still it seems
The adverse Gods his
homeward
course retard.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And heard this voice of sorrow
breathed
from the hollow pit.
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blake-poems |
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--The evening
darkness
gathers round
By virtue's holiest powers attended.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness
beautiful
face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I daren't send this by another,
I have such fear of her disdain,
Nor go myself, and go in vain,
Nor
forcefully
make love to her;
Yet she must know I am better
Since she heals my wound again.
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Troubador Verse |
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Here, where the mimic eagle glared in gold,
A
midnight
vigil holds the swarthy bat!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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She towards Troyano's
mournful
son did guide,
In form of courser, a familiar sprite,
And with a troubled visage loudly cried,
"My liege, this is too foul an oversight,
A stripling boy in peril yet untried,
Against a Gaul, so stout and famed in fight,
Your champion in so fierce a strife to make;
Where Afric's realm and honour are at stake.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
"After fifteen years of such religious, almost superstitious
idolatry
and
self-sacrifice!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Just gods, who see the grief that overwhelms me, 1165
How could I ever
engender
a child so guilty?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Aricia
Am I to believe a man, prior to his dying breath,
Could
penetrate
to the deep house of the dead?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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Full fifty ships they send, and each conveys
Twice sixty
warriors
through the foaming seas.
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Iliad - Pope |
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While Ulysses lies in the vestibule of the palace, he is witness
to the
disorders
of the women.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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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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Stephen Crane |
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But if
Thou now beguile me, then by my son's head
I swear--an evil fate shall overtake thee,
Requital
such that Tsar Ivan Vasilievich
Shall shudder in his grave with horror of it.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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'Paint me,' said the small boy to the
friendly
potter,
'an Angel with Wings and a Trumpet to trumpet my Name over the World.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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They did so:
To th'
amazement
of mine eyes that look'd vpon't.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Mad Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
With his eighteen other crazy men, went in and took the town.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Where human
weakness
has come short,
Or frailty stept aside,
Do Thou, All-Good--for such Thou art--
In shades of darkness hide.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And help me god so at my moste nede
As
causeles
ye suffren al this drede!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The
latter
examined
it attentively, then laid it on the card chosen.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Their vileness matches, equally applies
To cowardly blades, and
disloyal
eyes.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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--I find no grain:
The cruel frost encrusts the
cornland!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Lycius then press'd her hand, with devout touch,
As pale it lay upon the rosy couch:
'Twas icy, and the cold ran through his veins;
Then sudden it grew hot, and all the pains
Of an
unnatural
heat shot to his heart.
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Keats - Lamia |
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A fire was
kept up to guide them across the ford; and the forms of the men and the
animals showed in dark relief against the red glare of the flame, which
was
reflected
again in the waters that filled the Square.
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Shelley |
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The
realization
of this truth expressed in the medium of poetry is the
significance of Rilke's _Book of Hours_.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Though not yet thy body
Wrinkles
with years, nor yet the frame exhausts
Outworn, still things abide the same, even if
Thou goest on to conquer all of time
With length of days, yea, if thou never diest"--
What were our answer, but that Nature here
Urges just suit and in her words lays down
True cause of action?
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Lucretius |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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ipsa suum Zephyritis eo famulum legarat,
Graia
Canopieis
incola litoribus.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Digestive
cheese, and fruit there sure will be;
But that which most doth take my muse and me,
Is a pure cup of rich canary wine,
Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine:
Of which had Horace, or Anacreon tasted,
Their lives, as do their lines, till now had lasted.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And
now almost in the last space, they began to come up
breathless
to the
goal, when unfortunate Nisus trips on the slippery blood of the slain
steers, where haply it had spilled over the ground and wetted the green
grass.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Witness the care of Julius Caesar, who, in the
heat of the civil war, writ his books of Analogy, and
dedicated
them to
Tully.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Who shall stand godfather at the
christening
of
the wild apples?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thus from one bright and living fountain flows
The bitter and the sweet on which I feed;
One hand alone can harm me or can heal:
And thus my martyrdom no limit knows,
A
thousand
deaths and lives each day I feel,
So distant are the paths to peace which lead.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Theseus
If only the memory 1645
Of so black a crime could die with her
entirely!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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sinews & flesh Exalt thyself attain a voice
Call to thy dark armd hosts, for all the sons of Men muster together
To
desolate
their cities!
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Blake - Zoas |
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The angels,
happening
that way,
This dusty heart espied;
Tenderly took it up from toil
And carried it to God.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Re-enter ARIEL like a water-nymph
Fine
apparition!
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Shakespeare |
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It
wanders among the
osmanthus
and pepper-trees.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still
To give us onely good; and if the night
Have
gathered
aught of evil or conceald,
Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
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Milton |
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Of Eve's first fire he has a cinder;
Auld Tubalcain's fire-shool and fender;
That which
distinguished
the gender
O' Balaam's ass:
A broomstick o' the witch of Endor,
Weel shod wi' brass.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But soon there
breathed
a wind on me,
Nor sound nor motion made:
Its path was not upon the sea,
In ripple or in shade.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Ravenna sta come stata e molt' anni:
l'aguglia da Polenta la si cova,
si che Cervia
ricuopre
co' suoi vanni.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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