Round about them orchards sweep,
Apple and peach tree fruited deep,
Fair as a garden of the Lord
To the eyes of the famished rebel horde,
On that pleasant morn of the early fall,
When Lee marched over the mountain-wall,--
Over the mountains winding down,
Horse and foot, into
Frederick
town.
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It would be a conspicuous
blunder to print--in the place of honour,--the crude
original
which was
afterwards repudiated by its author.
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Or rather, we should simply say that the production of epic
poetry depends on the occurrence (always an accidental
occurrence)
of
creative genius.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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DIE HEXE:
O Herr,
verzeiht
den rohen Gruss!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He does not stare upon the air
Through a little roof of glass:
He does not pray with lips of clay
For his agony to pass;
Nor feel upon his
shuddering
cheek
The kiss of Caiaphas.
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Wilde - Poems |
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And boyhood is a summer sun
Whose waning is the
dreariest
one--
For all we live to know is known,
And all we seek to keep hath flown--
Let life, then, as the day-flower, fall
With the noon-day beauty--which is all.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Hang out our Banners on the outward walls,
The Cry is still, they come: our Castles strength
Will laugh a Siedge to scorne: Heere let them lye,
Till Famine and the Ague eate them vp:
Were they not forc'd with those that should be ours,
We might haue met them darefull, beard to beard,
And beate them
backward
home.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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For, if you fight, you must
Behold your brothers' dust
Unpityingly ground down
And mixed with blood and powder,
To write the annals of renown
That make a nation
prouder!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It was the
windfall
for which the youth had been waiting to enable him to
gratify his first love.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--pretty tricks thou'st played;
It seems that
cheating
is thy daily trade;
But I'm a noble devil of the court,
Who tricking never knew, save by report.
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La Fontaine |
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preea_) O ||
_intacta_
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Latin - Catullus |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Appoloinaire |
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[Cc]
The tall sun, pausing [149] on an Alpine spire,
Flings o'er the
wilderness
a stream of fire:
Now meet we other pilgrims ere the day [150] 555
Close on the remnant of their weary way;
While they are drawing toward the sacred floor
Where, so they fondly think, the worm shall gnaw no more.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I like not
overmuch
that red--good taste says "gild a crime?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Sophists in vain the contrary defend:
Their arguments are feeble all and base,
And truth alone
triumphant
mounts on high!
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Petrarch |
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If eye of man the gift uncommon could assume,
And pierce the mass, thick, black as hearse's plume,
To where lays on a
horrifying
bed
What was King Ninus, now hedged round with dread,
'Twould see by what is shadow of the light,
A line of feath'ry dust, bones marble-white.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Would it not be
wonderful?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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24
_Ludicrum_
RVenBa: _Ludricum_ GOACh2
25 _umore_ cod.
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Latin - Catullus |
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What a laughing stock he is making of you
with that
wretched
old dress you have on!
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Tennyson |
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All we creatures, nigh and far
(Said they there), the Mother's are:
Yet she never shows endeavour
To protect from
warrings
wild
Bird or beast she calls her child.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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XX
I behold Arcturus going westward
Down the crowded slope of night-dark azure,
While the
Scorpion
with red Antares
Trails along the sea-line to the southward.
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Sappho |
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One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten
million years,
I can
cheerfully
take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The swalwe Proigne, with a sorwful lay,
Whan morwe com, gan make hir waymentinge, 65
Why she forshapen was; and ever lay
Pandare a-bedde, half in a slomeringe,
Til she so neigh him made hir chiteringe
How Tereus gan forth hir suster take,
That with the noyse of hir he gan a-wake; 70
And gan to calle, and dresse him up to ryse,
Remembringe
him his erand was to done
From Troilus, and eek his greet empryse;
And caste and knew in good plyt was the mone
To doon viage, and took his wey ful sone 75
Un-to his neces paleys ther bi-syde;
Now Ianus, god of entree, thou him gyde!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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He came--he pass'd--an heedless gaze
As o'er some
stranger
glancing;
Her welcome, spoke in faltering phrase,
Lost in his courser's prancing--
The castle-arch, whose hollow tone
Returns each whisper spoken,
Could scarcely catch the feeble moan
Which told her heart was broken.
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Golden Treasury |
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Describe the fight between
Archimago
and
Sansloy, and explain the double allegory.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The Hare
River Landscape with Hare
'River Landscape with Hare'
Abraham Genoels, Adam Frans van der Meulen,
Lodewijk
XIV, 1650 - 1690, The Rijksmuseun
Don't be fearful and lascivious
Like the hare and the amorous.
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Appoloinaire |
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45
VI
And be it so--for to the chill night shower
And the sharp wind his head he oft hath bared;
A Sailor he, who many a
wretched
hour
Hath told; for, landing after labour hard,
Full long [1] endured in hope of just reward, 50
He to an armed fleet was forced away
By seamen, who perhaps themselves had shared
Like fate; was hurried off, a helpless prey,
'Gainst all that in _his_ heart, or theirs perhaps, said nay.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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His warlike Amazon her host invades,
Th'
imperial
consort of the crown of Spades.
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Alexander Pope |
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If he be hungry, one huge fin
Drives seven
thousand
fishes in;
And when he drinks what he may need,
The rivers of the earth recede.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Snooks,
But, as men deepest read in books
Are
perfectly
aware, bones,
If buried fifty years or so,
Lose their identity and grow
From human bones to bare bones.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Some mighty gulph of
separation
past,
I seemed transported to another world:--
A thought resigned with pain, when from the mast
The impatient mariner the sail unfurl'd,
And whistling, called the wind that hardly curled
The silent sea.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Hast any mortal name,
Fit
appellation
for this dazzling frame?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Leonor
Madame, pardon me,
If I'm at fault for
censuring
this folly,
A great princess so strangely to forget
Herself, and love a simple knight as yet!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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IV
He speaks to the
moonlight
concerning the Beloved.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Cupid will hold out his hand:
O, and entrusting myself to the rascal, I beg you please may I
Do so in
pleasure
with no danger or worry or fear.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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War hath he waged in Spain too long a time,
To Aix, in France,
homeward
he will him hie.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Would God, I had the power, 'mid all this might
Of arm, to break the
dungeons
of the night,
And free thy wife, and make thee glad again!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Theophile Gautier (1811-1872)
Theophile Gautier
'Theophile Gautier'
Felix Henri Bracquemond, 1833 - 1914, The New York Public Library: Digital Collections
Sonnet
To vein her brow's pallor, delicate,
Japan has granted its clearest blue;
The white porcelain is of white less true
Than her lucent neck, her temples of agate;
In her moist eye gleams a gentle light;
The nightingale's voice is harsher yet,
And, when she rises in our dark night,
We praise the moon in a cloudy dress;
Her silver eyes, burnished, move fluidly;
Caprice has pointed her pert little nose;
Her mouth has the red of raspberry, peach;
Her movements flow with a Chinese flow,
And beside her one
breathes
from her beauty
Something sweet, like the fragrance of tea.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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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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There was a clink of
something
metallic, and then shot up a
pale blue-green flame near the ground.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Emily
Dickinson
appears to have written her first poems in the
winter of 1862.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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We became great friends, and though,
according
to the contract,
he had engaged himself to teach me _French, German, and all the
sciences_, he liked better learning of me to chatter Russian
indifferently.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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As Elynour bie the green lesselle was syttynge,
As from the sones hete she harried,
She sayde, as herr whytte hondes whyte hosen was knyttynge, 210
Whatte pleasure ytt ys to be
married!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The Sung writer Hsieh Chung-yung arranged in
chronological
order all
the information about the poet's life that can be gleaned not only from
the T'ang histories, but also from the poems themselves.
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Li Po |
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Bremmil came out of the cloak-room in a
swansdown
cloak with a
white "cloud" round her head.
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Kipling - Poems |
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It should be added that this is not a
haphazard
anthology of picked-over
poetry.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The haggis of the north is the minced pie of the south; both
are
characteristic
of the people: the ingredients which compose the
former are all of Scottish growth, including the bag which contains
them; the ingredients of the latter are gathered chiefly from the four
quarters of the globe: the haggis is the triumph of poverty, the
minced pie the triumph of wealth.
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Robert Forst |
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Li Po |
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Stood Venus smiling, and her boy
With
unstrung
bow.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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They hanged him as a beast is hanged:
They did not even toll
A requiem that might have brought
Rest to his startled soul,
But
hurriedly
they took him out,
And hid him in a hole.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Aeschylus |
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secret
whispring
in my Ear
In secret of soft wings.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I beg you tell the Great River | whose stream flows to the East
That
thoughts
of you will cling to my heart | when _he_ has ceased
to flow.
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Li Po |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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During our poet's infancy, his family had still to struggle with an
adverse fate; for his proscribed and
wandering
father was obliged to
separate himself from his wife and child, in order to have the means of
supporting them.
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Petrarch |
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Who helps me to
proceed?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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No less alike the politic and wise;
All sly slow things, with circumspective eyes;
Men in their loose
unguarded
hours they take,
Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A song, as we learn from Horace, was part of
the
established
ritual at the great Secular Jubilee.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull
catalogue
of common things.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
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Ronsard |
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In me fyve woundes dide he make,
The sore of whiche shal never slake
But ye the botoun graunte me,
Which is most
passaunt
of beautee, 3110
My lyf, my deth, and my martyre,
And tresour that I most desyre.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But there is one circumstance which deserves
especial
notice.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded,
I see through the
broadcloth
and gingham whether or no,
And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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_The
conclusion
concerning the whole_, _and the parts_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Sing her that streams and silvan foliage loves,
Whate'er on Algidus' chill brow is seen,
In
Erymanthian
groves
Dark-leaved, or Cragus green.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The flowery river-ooze
Upheaves and falls; the milk purrs in the pail;
Few
pilgrims
but would choose
The peace of such a life in such a vale.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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LXXXIV
The truncheons which the valiant champions bear,
Fail in the combat, and few blows resist;
Both rage with
mightier
fury, here and there,
Left without other weapon than the fist;
With this the desperate foes engage, and, where
The hand can grapple, plate and mail untwist.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The Huns have no trade but battle and carnage;
They have no
pastures
or ploughlands,
But only wastes where white bones lie among yellow sands.
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Li Po |
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Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly--
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping from out their Condor wings
Invisible
Wo!
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Poe - 5 |
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Suddenly a voice in the
surrounding
darkness called
him softly by name.
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Yeats |
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]
[Sidenote C: The Green Knight
enquires
the name of his opponent.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Into new hours of
beautiful
delight,
Out of the shadow where she has lain,
Bring the earth awake for glee,
Shining with dews as fresh and clear
As my beloved's voice upon the air.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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e good
prophete
Elye,
ffor ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Enter_
MEERCRAFT
_and_ FITZDOTTREL.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But from their nature will the tannen grow
Loftiest
on loftiest and least sheltered rocks,
Rooted in barrenness, where nought below
Of soil supports them 'gainst the Alpine shocks
Of eddying storms; yet springs the trunk, and mocks
The howling tempest, till its height and frame
Are worthy of the mountains from whose blocks
Of bleak, grey granite, into life it came,
And grew a giant tree;--the mind may grow the same.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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IX
He scarce
impassions
champions now;
They do and dare, but tensely--pale of brow;
And would they fain uplift the arm
Of that faint form they know not how.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the
mountain
demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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[Note 4:
Referring
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Winds blow south, or winds blow north,
Day come white, or night come black,
Home, or rivers and
mountains
from home,
Singing all time, minding no time,
While we two keep together.
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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You ponder on
imperial
schemes,
And o'er the city's danger brood:
Bactrian and Serian haunt your dreams,
And Tanais, toss'd by inward feud.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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sic nimis
insultans
extremo tempore saeua
fors etiam nostris inuidit questibus auris.
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Breezily
go they, breezily come; their dust smokes around their
career,
Till I think I am one horn out of due time, who has no calling here.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Once we marched from the Wild Goose Gate;
Now we are
fighting
in front of the Dragon Pen.
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For this was the great
vengeance
wrought on Tarquin's evil seed?
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If
remembrance
ended
When life and love are gathered,
If the world were not living
Long after one is gone,
Song would not ring, nor sorrow
Stand at the door in evening;
Life would vanish and slacken,
Men would be changed to stone.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But no, go slowly as you will,
I should not bid you hasten so,
For while I wait for love to come,
Some other girl is
standing
dumb,
Fearing her love will go.
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Sara Teasdale |
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1570, The Rijksmuseun
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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Shall we not bind and cast into the sea
This drunken sailor whose
ecstatic
mood
Makes bitterer still the water's weary flood?
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And preyede hir, she wolde hir sorwe apese,
And seyde, `Y-wis, we Grekes con have Ioye
To
honouren
yow, as wel as folk of Troye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The
homoeopathists
did not
give him little enough physic, and what little they did give him he
hesitated to take.
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Poe - 5 |
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The first scene is
in the
infernal
regions; not, however, the Christian hell, as in the
prose history, but the classical Hades.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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