It is no matter if the tied were lost; for it is the
unkindest
tied that ever any man tied.
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_Hansel-throne_, throne when first
occupied
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My heart replied: It's never enough
We'll never have had enough of sadness:
And don't you see that changeableness
Makes past pain dearer to us, and
sweeter?
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Whoever wanders
somewhere
in the world
Wanders in vain in the world
Wanders to me.
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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"thou
shouldst
hear" no change made.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Baptized before without the choice,
But this time consciously, of grace
Unto supremest name,
Called to my full, the
crescent
dropped,
Existence's whole arc filled up
With one small diadem.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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" The north of China was in the hands of
the Tungusie Tartars, who founded the Northern Wei dynasty--a name
particularly familiar, since it is the habit of
European
collectors to
attribute to this dynasty any sculpture which they believe to be earlier
than T'ang.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The myrtle groves are those of the Underworld in
Classical
mythology.
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Montrant leurs seins pendants et leurs robes ouvertes,
Des femmes se tordaient sous le noir firmament,
Et, comme un grand
troupeau
de victimes offertes,
Derriere lui trainaient un long mugissement.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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In the Gates of Death
rejoice!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The good must merit God's
peculiar
care:
But who, but God, can tell us who they are?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The
croupier
raked in the money while he looked on in stupid terror.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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e
prophete
blissed salt; & in ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I know not if they watch with me: I know
They count this eve of
resurrection
slow,
And cry, "How long?
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I have the talents fathom'd and the minds
Of num'rous Heroes, and have travell'd far
Yet never saw I with these eyes in man
Such firmness as the calm Ulysses own'd;
None such as in the wooden horse he proved,
Where all our bravest sat,
designing
woe
And bloody havoc for the sons of Troy.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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of this edition, I would willingly have left out
(especially the sonnet addressed to Miss Maria Williams); but, since
they have
appeared
elsewhere, I feel justified in now reprinting even
that trivial youthful effusion, signed "Axiologus.
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William Wordsworth |
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"
VIII
"Farewell to barn and stack and tree,
Farewell
to Severn shore.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Silently we went round and round,
And through each hollow mind
The memory of
dreadful
things
Rushed like a dreadful wind,
An Horror stalked before each man,
And terror crept behind.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Canzon That my heart is half afraid
For the
fragrance
on him laid; Even so love's might amazes !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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It ruffles wrists of posts,
As ankles of a queen, --
Then stills its
artisans
like ghosts,
Denying they have been.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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E l'Aretin che rimase, tremando
mi disse: <
folletto
e Gianni Schicchi,
e va rabbioso altrui cosi conciando>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Since with my lady there's no use
In prayers, her pity, or
pleading
law,
Nor is she pleased at the news
I love her: then I'll say no more,
And so depart and swear it's done!
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Troubador Verse |
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ENDYMION
(FOR MUSIC)
THE apple trees are hung with gold,
And birds are loud in Arcady,
The sheep lie
bleating
in the fold,
The wild goat runs across the wold,
But yesterday his love he told,
I know he will come back to me.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Not
otherwise
he sacks
Those many-chambered palaces of wax.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Doch lass uns dieser Stunde schones Gut
Durch solchen
Trubsinn
nicht verkummern!
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The World-soul knows his own affair,
Forelooking, when he would prepare
For the next ages, men of mould
Well embodied, well ensouled,
He cools the present's fiery glow,
Sets the life-pulse strong but slow:
Bitter winds and fasts austere
His quarantines and grottoes, where
He slowly cures decrepit flesh,
And brings it
infantile
and fresh.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The prince walked on,
wise in his thought, to the wall of rock;
then sat, and stared at the
structure
of giants,
where arch of stone and steadfast column
upheld forever that hall in earth.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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er kny3t ful comly
comended
his dede3,
& praysed hit as gret prys, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
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Ronsard |
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Hier hab ich eine Flasche,
Aus der ich selbst
zuweilen
nasche,
Die auch nicht mehr im mindsten stinkt;
Ich will euch gern ein Glaschen geben.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Sound of vernal showers
On the
twinkling
grass,
Rain-awaken'd flowers,
All that ever was
Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass.
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Golden Treasury |
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And lest in these affairs thou deemest me
To have seized upon this point by sleight to serve
My own caprice--because I have assumed
That earth and fire are mortal things indeed,
And have not doubted water and the air
Both perish too and have
affirmed
the same
To be again begotten and wax big--
Mark well the argument: in first place, lo,
Some certain parts of earth, grievously parched
By unremitting suns, and trampled on
By a vast throng of feet, exhale abroad
A powdery haze and flying clouds of dust,
Which the stout winds disperse in the whole air.
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Lucretius |
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Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Unheard
Midnight
counts out his empty number,
Wakefulness urges you never to close an eye,
Before in the ancient armchair's embrace my
Shade is illuminated by the dying embers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends
Or other
testimony
of summer nights.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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After dinner, in reply to
numerous
questions, he tells his host that he
is Gawayne, one of the Knights of the Round Table.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But here you are at last, and the sight is good for our eyes,
Glad to welcome you up and out of the caves of the sea,
And ready for sale or barter,
whatever
your will may be.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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EJC}
Farewell the God calls me away I depart in my sweet bliss
She fled
vanishing
on the wind And left a dead cold corse
In Los's arms howlings began over the body of death {Line written over erased text.
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Blake - Zoas |
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A spasm
throbbing
through the pedestals
Of Alp and Andes, isle and continent,
Urging astonished Chaos with a thrill
To be a brain, or serve the brain of man.
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Emerson - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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or think you any Grecian gift is free of
treachery?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I know it by my heart so
strangely
sick
With looking out for the first drowsy stir
In that huge flaming quiet of the camp.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Ariodantes
weened, this while, the knight
Would him to seek that hidden place dispose,
As one well suited to his fell despite,
And, bent to take his life, this ambush chose,
Under the false pretence to make him see
What seemed a sheer impossibility.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"--
The captain started--who mourns not a dear,
The
dearest!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Golden Treasury |
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To Charles the old, with his great
blossoming
beard,
Day shall not dawn but brings him rage and grief,
Ere a year pass, all France we shall have seized,
Till we can lie in th' burgh of Saint Denise.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Oh burst, ye lightnings, round my destin'd head,
Oh pour your flashes----" Madd'ning as he said,[586]
Amid the windings of the bow'ry wood
His
trembling
footsteps still the nymph pursued.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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When, moulding of the watery spheres,
Slow drops untie
themselves
away,
As if she with those precious tears.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The principal difference
between them is at the end, where the latter has
fourteen
lines from
ver.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Yea, thou and I who speak, are but the joy
Of our for ever mated spirits; but now
The wisdom of my
gladness
even through Spirit
Looks, divinely elate.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Thou
Tyndarid
woman!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Samson takes care to please
His fancy; and appears more strong than wise,
Who in a traitress' bosom
sleeping
lies.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Sire, your
highness
does me grace.
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Hugo - Poems |
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variants of that poem, printed as footnotes, from Lord
Coleridge's copy of the Poems:
'Down to the vale with eager speed
Behold this streamlet run,
From
subterranean
bondage freed,
And glittering in the sun.
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William Wordsworth |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Banner:
Demons and death then I sing,
Put in all, aye all will I, sword-shaped pennant for war,
And a pleasure new and ecstatic, and the prattled yearning of children,
Blent with the sounds of the peaceful land and the liquid wash of the sea,
And the black ships fighting on the sea envelop'd in smoke,
And the icy cool of the far, far north, with rustling cedars and pines,
And the whirr of drums and the sound of soldiers marching, and the
hot sun shining south,
And the beach-waves combing over the beach on my Eastern shore,
and my Western shore the same,
And all between those shores, and my ever running Mississippi with
bends and chutes,
And my Illinois fields, and my Kansas fields, and my fields of Missouri,
The Continent, devoting the whole identity without
reserving
an atom,
Pour in!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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For all thy many
courtesies
to me, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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For she knew that 'neath the lining of the coat he wore that day,
Were long letters from the
husbands
and the fathers far away,
Who were fighting for the freedom that they meant to gain or die;
And a tear like silver glistened in the corner of her eye.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Lemozis, francha terra cortesa,
Ah,
Limousin!
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Troubador Verse |
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Whenever
you shall come again,
Be you as dull as e'er you could
(And by the bye 'tis understood,
You're not so pleasant as you're good),
Yet, knowing well your worth and place,
I'll welcome you with cheerful face;
And though you stay'd a week or more,
Were ten times duller than before;
Yet with kind heart, and right good will,
I'll sit and listen to you still;
Nor should you go away, dear Rain!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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When they make silly question of my love,
And speak to me of danger and disdain,
And look by fond old argument to move
My wisdom to docility again;
When to my prouder heart they set the pride
Of custom and the gossip of the street,
And show me figures of myself beside
A self diminished at their judgment seat;
Then do I sit as in a drowsy pew
To hear a priest expounding th'
heavenly
will,
Defiling wonder that he never knew
With stolen words of measured good and ill;
For to the love that knows their counselling,
Out of my love contempt alone I bring.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Müllenhoff
rejected wind-blond gelæg because a great fire raises
rather than "lays" the wind; hence B.
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Beowulf |
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It seems to me that the imagination has had no very
different history during the last two hundred years, but has been laid
in a great tomb of criticism, and had set over it inextinguishable
magical lamps of wisdom and romance, and has been altogether so nobly
housed and apparelled that we have forgotten that its wizard lips
are closed, or but opened for the
complaining
of some melancholy and
ghostly voice.
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Yeats |
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The kingly lion stood,
And the virgin viewed:
Then he gambolled round
O'er the
hallowed
ground.
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blake-poems |
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above all,
For the
resurrection
of deep-buried faith
In Truth--in Virtue--in Humanity--
Of all who, on Despair's unhallowed bed
Lying down to die, have suddenly arisen
At thy soft-murmured words, "Let there be light!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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s sound speeds its morning marker, colors of spring in the ninefold palace make
immortal
peaches drunk.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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" Allusions may in this connection be made to Yu Liang, who rode to
heaven on the
crescent
moon; to the hermit T'ang, who controlled the
genius of the New Moon, and kept him in his house as a candle--or to any
other of some thirty stories which are given.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Pere adoptif de ceux qu'en sa noire colere
Du Paradis
terrestre
a chasses Dieu le Pere,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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You see my hurried life, Madam: I can only command starts of time;
however, I am glad of one thing; since I finished the other sheet, the
political blast that
threatened
my welfare is overblown.
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Robert Burns |
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Dost remember
The triumph of Dimitry, dost remember
His peaceful conquests, when, without a blow
The docile towns surrendered, and the mob
Bound the recalcitrant
leaders?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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'Tis plain that for prowess, not plunged into exile,
for high-hearted valor,
Hrothgar
ye seek!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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When Rhea Silvia,
princess
and virgin, came down to the Tiber
Just to fetch water, a god seized her and that is the way
Mars begat himself sons, a pair of twins whom a she wolf
Suckled.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Behind rises shouting of men and
whistling
of cordage.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But not to me returns the
cheerful
spring!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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[OSWALD
conducts
him to the dungeon.
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William Wordsworth |
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The Aeneid_
_a_
_To Venus, to prosper his Aeneid_
SI mihi susceptum fuerit decurrere munus,
O Paphon, o sedes quae colis Idalias,
Troius Aeneas Romana per oppida digno
iam tandem ut tecum carmine uectus eat:
non ego ture modo aut picta tua templa tabella
ornabo et puris serta feram manibus--
corniger
hos aries humilis et maxima taurus
uictima sacrato sparget honore focos:
marmoreusque tibi, tibi mille coloribus ales
in morem picta stabit Amor pharetra.
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This turned cloke with a false
beard (of which the cut and colour varied) and a black or yellow
peruke, furnished a ready and
effectual
mode of concealment,
which is now lost to the stage.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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His
imagination
needed little opium to produce the
famous Confessions.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"There," says he, "you may drink,
but it must be
purchased
with blood.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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old hermits sought for solitude
In caves and desert places of the earth, 200
Where their own heart-beat was the only stir
Of living thing that comforted the year;
But the bald pillar-top of Simeon,
In midnight's blankest waste, were populous,
Matched with the
isolation
drear and deep
Of him who pines among the swarm of men,
At once a new thought's king and prisoner,
Feeling the truer life within his life,
The fountain of his spirit's prophecy,
Sinking away and wasting, drop by drop, 210
In the ungrateful sands of sceptic ears.
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It makes an even face
Of mountain and of plain, --
Unbroken
forehead
from the east
Unto the east again.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Thrice he assayd, and thrice in spite of scorn,
Tears such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last 620
Words
interwove
with sighs found out their way.
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Milton |
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We are no other than a moving row
Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go
Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held
In
Midnight
by the Master of the Show;
LXIX.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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This has made me sometimes imagine that perhaps it might be
possible for a Scotch poet, with a nice judicious ear, to set
compositions to many of our most favourite airs, particularly that
class of them mentioned above,
independent
of rhyme altogether.
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Robert Forst |
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_Hall of the COUNTESS
CATHLEEN
as before.
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Yeats |
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--Great
and
glorious
spirit, thou that deignedst to appear to me, who knowest my
heart and soul, why yoke me to this shame-fellow, who feeds on mischief
and feasts on ruin?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Now these same films I name are borne about
And tossed and
scattered
into regions all.
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Lucretius |
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The Conquest of Summer
THE blue-toned campions and the blood-red poppies
Escape the
murmuring
and fleeting grain!
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Tarry a while, O Death, I cannot die
With all my
blossoming
hopes unharvested,
My joys ungarnered, all my songs unsung,
And all my tears unshed.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Madam, your Highness is our sun, the King
And you
together
our two suns in one;
And so the beams of both may shine upon us,
The faith that seem'd to droop will feel your light,
Lift head, and flourish; yet not light alone,
There must be heat--there must be heat enough
To scorch and wither heresy to the root.
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I know not if I could have borne
To see thy
beauties
fade;
The night that follow'd such a morn
Had worn a deeper shade:
Thy day without a cloud hath past,
And thou wert lovely to the last,
Extinguish'd, not decay'd;
As stars that shoot along the sky
Shine brightest as they fall from high.
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Golden Treasury |
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