With these physical defects he had
the extreme
sensitiveness
of mind that usually accompanies chronic ill
health, and this sensitiveness was outraged incessantly by the brutal
customs of the age.
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The virginal, living and lovely day
Will it fracture for us with a wild wing-blow
This solid lost lake whose frost's haunted below
By the glacier,
transparent
with flights not made?
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And he is in truth a natural
Who
reprehends
her for her longing,
Or praises to her what is not fitting.
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I LOVED YOU, ONCE--
And did you think my heart
Could keep its love unchanging,
Fresh as the buds that start
In spring, nor know
estranging?
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We play at paste,
Till
qualified
for pearl,
Then drop the paste,
And deem ourself a fool.
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the boy himself
Was worthy to be sung, and many a time
Hath
Stimichon
to me your singing praised.
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II
Tete-a-tete sombre et limpide
Qu'un coeur devenu son miroir
Puits de Verite, clair et noir,
Ou tremble une etoile livide,
Un phare ironique, infernal,
Flambeau des graces sataniques,
Soulagement et gloire uniques,
--La
conscience
dans le Mal!
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'Twas partly love, and partly fear,
And partly 'twas a bashful art,
That I might rather feel, than see,
The
swelling
of her heart.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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How the true thunder bellows after the
lightning!
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A kinde
goodnight
to all.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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"
The
hierodule
called unto the man
and came unto him beholding him.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Why not
windblonda
lāc?
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Beowulf |
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He also collaborated with other authors,
particularly
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Yea, in the town behind her, flaring Shushan,
She heard Man, meaning to adore himself,
Throned on the wealth of earth as God in heaven,
And making music of his glorying thought,
Merely betray the mastery of his blood,
His sexual heart, his main idolatry,--
Woman, and his lust to devour her beauty,
Himself devoured
ceaselessly
by her beauty.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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As for me, I have found my _black tulip_
and my _blue
dahlia_!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The Saints and Sages of old times are all stock and still;
Only the mighty
drinkers
of wine have left a name behind.
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Li Po |
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Three quarters were consum'd of it;
Only
remained
a little bit,
Which will be burnt up by-and-by;
Then, Julia, weep, for I must die.
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Robert Herrick |
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Ah lover and perfect equal,
I meant that you should
discover
me so by faint indirections,
And I when I meet you mean to discover you by the like in you.
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Now he lies dead at Lemberg,
Beside another stream,
In his dark eyes extinguished
The
friendship
of his dream.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It was not frost, for on my flesh
I felt
siroccos
crawl, --
Nor fire, for just my marble feet
Could keep a chancel cool.
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"
Sae wistfully she gaz'd on me,
And
lovelier
was than ever;
Quo' she, "A sodger ance I lo'ed,
Forget him shall I never:
Our humble cot, and hamely fare,
Ye freely shall partake it;
That gallant badge--the dear cockade,
Ye're welcome for the sake o't.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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See in all ages what examples are
Of
monarchs
murdered by the impatient heir.
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Marvell - Poems |
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CCLXXII
"Lords and barons," Charles the King doth speak,
"Of
Guenelun
judge what the right may be!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Will there really be a
morning?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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WOMAN'S SONG
No more upon my bosom rest thee,
Too often have my hands
caressed
thee,
My lips thou knowest well, too well;
Lean to my heart no more thine ear
My spirit's living truth to hear
--It has no more to tell.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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He hirples twa fauld as he dow,
Wi' his
teethless
gab and Ma auld beld pow,
And the rain rains down frae his red bleer'd ee--
That auld man shall never daunton me.
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Robert Burns |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Verstehst
du, was das heisst?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It is a myth which has begotten some exquisite literature,
both in prose and verse, from Ovid's famous epistle to Addison's gracious
fantasy and some impassioned and imperishable
dithyrambs
of Mr.
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Sappho |
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Ah
Censorinus!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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On Cessnock banks a lassie dwells;
Could I
describe
her shape and mien;
Our lasses a' she far excels,
An she has twa sparkling roguish een.
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Robert Forst |
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" Lycius blush'd, and led
The old man through the inner doors broad-spread;
With reconciling words and
courteous
mien
Turning into sweet milk the sophist's spleen.
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Keats - Lamia |
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LII
"No fairer was the dame than chaste and right,
And well deserving every praise; the peer
Derived of generous stock, and bold in fight,
As ever champion, of whose fame we hear;
And 'tis well fitting, that such valiant wight
Should joy a thing so
excellent
and dear,
Olindro he, the lord of Lungavilla,
And she, his lady wife, yclept Drusilla.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second conception during
gestation)
is possible.
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Appoloinaire |
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The Palace that to Heav'n his pillars threw,
And Kings the forehead on his
threshold
drew--
I saw the solitary Ringdove there,
And "Coo, coo, coo," she cried; and "Coo, coo, coo.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Of those I often have contact with 4 I
remember
one, but don?
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Meredith - Poems |
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my dove, my
beautiful
elf,
Was the water clear as heaven,
Did you weave a crown of flowers for yourself,
In the magic of even?
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Tennyson |
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--
The crocus stirs her lids,
Rhodora's cheek is crimson, --
She's
dreaming
of the woods.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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How shall he keep, what,
sleeping
or awake,
A weaker may surprise, a stronger take?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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--in what guise,
Though flashing from the fervour of the Lyre,
Would _words_
describe
thy past and present glow,
While yet Canova[218] can create below?
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Byron |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete and ready for the revels rude,
When
dreadful
guests would come to spoil her solitude.
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Keats - Lamia |
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If the government of the Republic picked him saying,
"You are wanted, your country takes you"--
if the Republic put a stethoscope to his heart
and looked at his teeth and tested his eyes and said,
"You are a citizen of the Republic and a sound
animal in all parts and functions--the Republic takes you"--
then to-day the baskets of flowers are all for the Republic,
the roses, the songs, the steamboat whistles,
the proclamations of the
honorable
orators--
they are all for the Republic.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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leave me, Priest; my soul would be
Alone with the consoler, Death;
Far sadder eyes than thine will see
This
crumbling
clay yield up its breath;
These shrivelled hands have deeper stains
Than holy oil can cleanse away,
Hands that have plucked the world's coarse gains
As erst they plucked the flowers of May.
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James Russell Lowell |
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I was made to repeat it several times over
till they could
pronounce
it; and then 'Stepney Marai no Toote' was
echoed through an hundred mouths at once.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The ancestral temples are still in ashes, 16 ruler and
ministers
all shed tears.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"
But now my master
summoning
me back
I heard, and with more eager haste besought
The spirit to inform me, who with him
Partook his lot.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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With dangling basket all along the grass
As I had come I went the selfsame track:
My
neighbours
mocked me while they saw me pass
So empty-handed back.
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Christina Rossetti |
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And there's the
windflower
chilly
With all the winds at play,
And there's the Lenten lily
That has not long to stay
And dies on Easter day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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" "Be it so," we both
replied, and on those terms we
mutually
pledged our words.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
THE MOTHER MOURNS
WHEN mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time,
And sedges were horny,
And summer's green wonderwork faltered
On leaze and in lane,
I fared Yell'ham-Firs way, where dimly
Came
wheeling
around me
Those phantoms obscure and insistent
That shadows unchain.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Beside the shining scythe and
exhausted
jug.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Disburd'nd Heav'n rejoic'd, and soon repaird
Her mural breach,
returning
whence it rowld.
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Milton |
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The Wedding-Guest heareth the bridal music; but the Mariner
continueth
his
tale.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Caves I long for and cold rocks,
Minnow-peopled country brooks,
Blundering gales of Equinox,
Sunless valley-nooks,
Daily so I might restore
Calcined heart and
shrivelled
skin,
A morning phoenix with proud roar
Kindled new within.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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As this is the first service my arm has done me since
its disaster, I find myself unable to do more than just in general
terms thank you for this additional instance of your
patronage
and
friendship.
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Robert Forst |
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My brethren, as thou call'st them; those Ten Tribes
I must deliver, if I mean to raign
David's true heir, and his full Scepter sway
To just extent over all Israel's Sons;
But whence to thee this zeal, where was it then
For Israel or for David, or his Throne,
When thou stood'st up his Tempter to the pride
Of
numbring
Israel which cost the lives 410
Of threescore and ten thousand Israelites
By three days Pestilence?
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Milton |
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Now shall I live a
ministrant
of gods and slave to Cybebe?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Our little subject is not wanting in sense; it is
well within your
capacity
and at the same time cleverer than many vulgar
Comedies.
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Aristophanes |
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Is it not evident to the blind, that
nowadays
to do nothing that
is right is the best way to get on?
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Aristophanes |
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In ranges as they moved distinct and bright,
On every burganet that met the light,
Some name of long renown, distinctly read,
O'er each
majestic
brow a glory shed.
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Petrarch |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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He was
therefore
unable to say goodbye to her, and sent her
three poems instead.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Already I'm
mildewed
for the grave,
So first myself I must drink my fill:
But all the rest may be yours, to save
Whomever you will.
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Christina Rossetti |
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* * * * *
JOHN DRINKWATER
Then I asked: 'Does a firm
persuasion
that a thing is so, make it so?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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XXV
A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
From year to year until I saw thy face,
And sorrow after sorrow took the place
Of all those natural joys as lightly worn
As the
stringed
pearls, each lifted in its turn
By a beating heart at dance-time.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
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Sara Teasdale |
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Since he sends word, that King Marsiliun,
Homage he'll do, by finger and by thumb;
Throughout all Spain your writ alone shall run
Next he'll receive our rule of Christendom
Who shall advise, this bidding be not done,
Deserves
not death, since all to death must come.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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--
Thus is the banquet ruled by Noise and Light,
Since Light and Noise are
foremost
on the site.
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Hugo - Poems |
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He wept; and we
With tears prayed God to send His love and peace
Upon his
suffering
and stormy soul.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In war under water this work I essayed
with endless effort; and even so
my
strength
had been lost had the Lord not shielded me.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Open your dreams to my love and your heart to my words,
I send you my thoughts-the air between us is laden,
My
thoughts
fly in at your window, a flock of wild birds.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I give thee, sir, the gold-hemmed girdle as a token of thy
adventure
at the Green Chapel.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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How me cast down her lovely eyes,
Deep in my soul
imprinted
lies;
How she spoke up, so curt and tart,
Ah, that went right to my ravished heart!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Something
far away from a puny and pious life!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer throughout next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that
mysterious
maid.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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THE POET TO DEATH
Tarry a while, O Death, I cannot die
While yet my sweet life burgeons with its spring;
Fair is my youth, and rich the echoing boughs
Where
dhadikulas
sing.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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MOPSUS
What if he also strive
To out-sing
Phoebus?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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They chose, and the women and children that are
greeting
you here are
those
Ghosts of the women and children that the rest of the hundred chose.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Golden Treasury |
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However, if you provide access to or
distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the
official
version
posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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In no wise daunted by this rebuff, he found the
opportunity
to send
her another note in a few days.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Il nous
est difficile de savoir pourquoi
Verlaine
a corrige <> en <
voile>>, ou s'agit-il d'un moment d'inattention?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Note: The
Scythians
at the extreme end of the Empire in Roman times were regarded as living barbaric lives (See Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto).
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Ronsard |
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Dear Earth, and House of
sheltering
walls,
And wedded homes of the land where my fathers lie!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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`They wol seyn, in as muche as in me is, 1065
I have hem don dishonour,
weylawey!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Nam regit impeno populum
Christina
ferocem,.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Here is an
insolence!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The
citizens
are up, and Tybalt slain.
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Shakespeare |
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