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He look't and saw what numbers numberless 310
The City gates out powr'd, light armed Troops
In coats of Mail and military pride;
In Mail thir horses clad, yet fleet and strong,
Prauncing their riders bore, the flower and choice
Of many Provinces from bound to bound;
From Arachosia, from Candaor East,
And Margiana to the
Hyrcanian
cliffs
Of Caucasus, and dark Iberian dales,
From Atropatia and the neighbouring plains
Of Adiabene, Media, and the South 320
Of Susiana to Balsara's hav'n.
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, you will do me the justice to believe me, when I assure you that
the love I have for you is founded on the sacred principles of virtue
and honour, and by
consequence
so long as you continue possessed of
those amiable qualities which first inspired my passion for you, so
long must I continue to love you.
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Robert Burns |
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Thou art my love,
And thou art a strorm
That breaks black in the sky,
And, sweeping headlong,
Drenches
and cowers each tree,
And at the panting end
There is no sound
Save the melancholy cry of a single owl--
Woe is me!
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Paris, a certain
inhabitant
of Pavia had the address to snatch this copy
of Virgil from the general rapine.
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Petrarch |
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The robin is the one
That speechless from her nest
Submits that home and certainty
And
sanctity
are best.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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e sone his fader mette,
Wel
myldeliche
he him grette,
And bad him of his guode.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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My armies had faded away,
My
reputation
had gone.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Jia Zhi, Dawn Court at Daming Palace, for My Colleagues in the Two Ministries Silver candles scent the heavens, stretching along on purple streets, colors of spring in the
Forbidden
City, lush in the morning.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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It isn't just to make a wind you blow,
But to turn red fire into white
quivering
heat.
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As birds that in the sinking summer sweep
Across the heaven to happier climes to go,
So they are gone; and
sometimes
we must weep,
And sometimes, smiling, murmur, "Be it so!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider Phlebas, who was once
handsome
and tall as you.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Faint not nor fail,
Too soon and timidly within thy breast
Shepherding
thoughts
forlorn of this thy toil;
But unto Pallas' city go, and there
Crouch at her shrine, and in thine arms enfold
Her ancient image: there we well shall find
Meet judges for this cause and suasive pleas,
Skilled to contrive for thee deliverance
From all this woe.
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Aeschylus |
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Isn't it
something
I have seen before?
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Robert Forst |
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{33c} From the barrow's keeper
no
footbreadth
flee I.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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They returned hand-in-hand, and the Bellman, unmanned
(For a moment) with noble emotion,
Said "This amply repays all the
wearisome
days
We have spent on the billowy ocean!
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Lewis Carroll |
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She dried her feet on the
riverside
grass;
She looked at me once again,
And the playful beauty then took thought.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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E io, quando 'l suo braccio a me distese,
ficcai li occhi per lo cotto aspetto,
si che 'l viso abbrusciato non difese
la conoscenza sua al mio 'ntelletto;
e
chinando
la mano a la sua faccia,
rispuosi: <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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So should kinsmen be,
not weave one another the net of wiles,
or with deep-hid treachery death contrive
for
neighbor
and comrade.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
"I saw her in a tomb of tomes,
Where dreams are wont to be;
That she as spectre
haunteth
there
Is only known to me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Thou, who didst subdue
Thy country's foes ere thou wouldst pause to feel
The wrath of thy own wrongs, or reap the due
Of hoarded
vengeance
till thine eagles flew
O'er prostrate Asia;--thou, who with thy frown
Annihilated senates--Roman, too,
With all thy vices, for thou didst lay down
With an atoning smile a more than earthly crown--
LXXXIV.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It must have been
conceived
and coddled first
By some old shopkeeper in Nuremberg,
His slippers warm, his children amply nursed,
Who, with his lighted meerschaum in his hand,
His nightcap on his head, one summer night
Sat drowsing at his door.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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When he revived, with a loud voice cried he,
"O
Heavenly
Father!
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Poi fisamente al sole li occhi porse;
fece del destro lato a muover centro,
e la
sinistra
parte di se torse.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A UNE
MENDIANTE
ROUSSE
Blanche fille aux cheveux roux,
Dont ta robe par ses trous
Laisse voir la pauvrete
Et la beaute,
Pour moi, poete chetif,
Ton jeune corps maladif
Plein de taches de rousseur
A sa douceur.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Should Frisian, moreover, with foeman's taunt,
that
murderous
hatred to mind recall,
then edge of the sword must seal his doom.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Looks I beheld,
Where charity in soft persuasion sat,
Smiles from within and
radiance
from above,
And in each gesture grace and honour high.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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On a Dead Lady
She was beautiful, if Night
Who sleeps in the
darkened
chapel
Where Michelangelo made light,
Unmoving, can be beautiful.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Where flowers are yet in bud while the boughs are green,
I would get quit of earth and get robed for heaven;
Putting on my raiment white within the screen,
Putting on my crown of gold whose gems are seven
Fair is the
fourfold
river that maketh no moan,
Fair are the trees fruit-bearing of the wood,
Fair are the gold and bdellium and the onyx stone,
And I know the gold of that land is good.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Our loving arms towards the mossy bark extended,
We bid
farewell
unto the final tree,
Then down through flowers towards our lovely goal
descended:
And earth and ether swam in a golden sea.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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from whence the flight
Of baffled foes was watched along the plain;
But Peace
destroyed
what War could never blight,
And laid those proud roofs bare to Summer's rain--
On which the iron shower for years had poured in vain.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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My spirit like my flesh
Sprang from a thousand sources,
From cave-man, hunter and shepherd,
From Karnak, Cyprus, Rome;
The living
thoughts
in me
Spring from dead men and women,
Forgotten time out of mind
And many as bubbles of foam.
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_173 their transcript; the
editions
1824, 1839.
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Shelley |
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Ah, better at the elm-tree's
sunbrowned
feet
If he had been content to let life fleet
Its wonted way!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But he whose will is set against the gods,
Who treads beyond the law with foot impure,
Till o'er the wreck of Right confusion broods--
Know that for him, though now he sail secure,
The day of storm shall be; then shall he strive and fail,
Down from the shivered yard to furl the sail,
And call on Powers, that heed him nought, to save
And vainly wrestle with the
whirling
wave,
Hot was his heart with pride--
_I shall not fall_, he cried.
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Aeschylus |
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It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is
delicate
and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!
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Wilde - Poems |
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That graceful soul, in mercy call'd away
Before her time to bid the world farewell,
If
welcomed
as she ought in the realms of day,
In heaven's most blessed regions sure shall dwell.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"Come, the oaks all dark appear,
Twilight now will soon depart,
Railing
sparrows
laugh to hear
Chains thou puttest round my heart.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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adscriptos
putauit, esse tamen Catulli
334 _umquam tales contexit_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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= This may mean
bowing in the deliberate and
measured
fashion of the French, or
perhaps it refers to French musical measure.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But there were those amongst us all
Who walked with
downcast
head,
And knew that, had each got his due,
They should have died instead:
He had but killed a thing that lived,
Whilst they had killed the dead.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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SCENT OF IRISES
A faint, sickening scent of irises
Persists
all morning.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And why it
scatters
its bright beauty thro the humid air.
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blake-poems |
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EARLY POEMS
_Ballad_
A
faithless
shepherd courted me,
He stole away my liberty.
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John Clare |
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High time it surely is that he had sped
The fatal arrow from his
pitiless
bow,
In others' blood so often bathed and red;
And I of Love and Death have pray'd it so--
He listens not, but leaves me here half dead.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Ye cliffs, the haunts of sailing earns,
Where Echo
slumbers!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I went to thank her,
But she slept;
Her bed a funnelled stone,
With
nosegays
at the head and foot,
That travellers had thrown,
Who went to thank her;
But she slept.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Try then,
instrument
of flights, O malign
Syrinx by the lake where you await me, to flower again!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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life-abhorring gloom
Wrote on his faded brow curst Cain's
unresting
doom.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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AND
SLUGGISH
GERMAN, etc.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Magdalen
Herbert, not yet Lady
Danvers, must have been earlier than her second marriage in 1608--the
exact day of that marriage I do not know--probably in 1604, as the
verse, style and tone closely resemble that of the letter to Wotton of
that year.
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John Donne |
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The blossom'd shrubs in smiles are drest,
Now laughs his purple plain;
And shall the nymph a foe profest
To
tenderness
remain?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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er errour of 432
mans witte or ellys
co{n}diciou{n}
of fortune ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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No plumes had they,
But were in texture like a bat, and these
He flapp'd i' th' air, that from him issued still
Three winds,
wherewith
Cocytus to its depth
Was frozen.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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These
ultimate
atoms buffet each other
ceaselessly; they unite or disunite.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I
must learn how to be
cheerful
and happy.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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What
sea
conceived
and spued thee from its foamy crest?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Now, what's the
business?
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Now through his shatter'd ranks the monarch strode,
And now before his rallied
squadrons
rode:
Brave Nunio's danger from afar he spies,
And instant to his aid impetuous flies.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And this I know, full many a time,
When she was on the
mountain
high,
By day, and in the silent night,
When all the stars shone clear and bright,
That I have heard her cry,
"Oh misery!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I stood in the same place, unable to collect
my thoughts, disturbed by so many
terrible
events.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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However, as there is some
traditional
presumption, and certainly the
opinion of some learned men, in favour of Omar's being a Sufi--and
even something of a Saint--those who please may so interpret his Wine
and Cup-bearer.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Here comes one among the well-beloved stone-cutters, and
plans with decision and science, and sees the solid and
beautiful
forms of
the future where there are now no solid forms.
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Whitman |
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I
remember
how you stooped
to gather it--
and it flamed, the leaf and shoot
and the threads, yellow, yellow--
sheer till they burnt
to red-purple in the cup.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Without attending to what is said, and
without sense enough to understand, they are sure to crowd the courts
of justice, whenever a raw young man, stung with the love of fame, but
without talents to deserve it, obtrudes himself in the
character
of an
advocate.
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Tacitus |
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In the consulship of Marcus Silanus and Lucius Norbanus, Germanicus
travelled to Egypt, to view the famous antiquities of the country;
though for the motives of the journey, the care and
inspection
of the
province were publicly alleged: and, indeed, by opening the granaries,
he mitigated the price of corn, and practised many things grateful to
the people; walking without guards, his feet bare, and his habit the
same with that of the Greeks; after the example of Publius Scipio, who,
we are told, was constant in the same practices in Sicily, even during
the rage of the Punic War there.
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Tacitus |
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--What should follow slips from my
reflection
(_Don Juan_, Canto
XV.
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Byron |
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" the people thundered; and in terror
Beneath the axe the
villains
did confess--
And named Boris.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Though since, the vain attempt has oft been mine
That future ages from my song should learn
Her
heavenly
beauties, and like me should burn,
My poor verse fails her sweet face to define.
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Petrarch |
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Dolphins, playing in the sea
Hurling his ink at skies above,
Medusas, miserable heads
In your pools, and in your ponds,
The female of the Halcyon,
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
Dove, both love and spirit
In
spreading
out his fan, this bird,
My poor heart's an owl
Yes, I'll pass fearful shadows
This cherubim sings the praises
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Appoloinaire |
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Man and beast lay hurt and screaming,
(Men must die when Kings are
dreaming!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Agamemnon is
distinguished
in all the parts of a good general; he
reviews the troops, and exhorts the leaders, some by praises and others by
reproof.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Yet foul indignity he had endured
Ev'n there, at his own farm, but that the swain, 40
Following
his dogs in haste, sprang through the porch
To his assistance, letting fall the hide.
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There, in a bribed committee, they
contrive
To give our birthrights to prerogative :
Give, did I say ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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LOVE, is no more; of t'other, laid in earth,
We've here no traces
scarcely
from the birth.
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La Fontaine |
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Then thus again the
brilliance
feminine:
"Too frail of heart!
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Keats - Lamia |
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The
culms of both, not to mention their pretty flowers, reflect a purple
tinge, and help to declare the
ripeness
of the year.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'Twas very true; I've seen it fully proved:
The remedy all obstacles removed;
'Tis from the root of certain tree expressed;
A juice most potent ev'ry where confessed,
And Mandrake called, which taken by a wife;
More pow'r evinces o'er
organick
life,
Than from conventual grace was e'er derived,
Though in the cloister youthful friars hived.
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La Fontaine |
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Only they
set the sign of the cross over their outer doors, and
sacrifice
to their
gut and their groin in their inner closets.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I fear me that I gave
Occasion for this sin, when I, a squire,
Brought you, full
eighteen
years ago, the babe,
The orphan babe of Leonard, Lord of Filnek.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Can he contain the horror he's
displayed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I sing but as
vouchsafed
me; yet even this
If, if but one with ravished eyes should read,
Of thee, O Varus, shall our tamarisks
And all the woodland ring; nor can there be
A page more dear to Phoebus, than the page
Where, foremost writ, the name of Varus stands.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The lake-moon
cast my shadow on the waves and
travelled
with me to the stream of
Shan.
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Li Po |
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line 1;
_Poetical
Works_, 1901, iv.
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Byron |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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I do not know whether the critics
will agree with me, but the
Georgics
are to me by far the best of
Virgil.
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Robert Burns |
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His black matted head on his
shoulder
is bent,
And deep is the sigh of his breath,
And with stedfast dejection his eyes are intent
On the fetters that link him to death.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It now belonged to the
Carthusian
monks of Pavia.
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Petrarch |
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Assemblies
of the citizens, parades,
Banquets, and battles, these and all doth she,
Nature, create and furnish at our word?
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Lucretius |
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Evening falls and in the garden
Women tell their histories
to Night that not without disdain
spills their dark hair's mysteries
Little children little children
Your wings have flown away
But you rose that defend yourself
Throw your
unrivalled
scents away
For now's the hour of petty theft
Of plumes of flowers and of tresses
Gather the fountain jets so free
Of whom the roses are mistresses
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Appoloinaire |
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