It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The
slaughter
thus caused would have been
enormous, had not two of the Flavian soldiers performed a memorable
exploit.
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Vincent Millay and Robert Frost
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And now, when angry heaven would
Behold a
spectacle
of blood.
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Marvell - Poems |
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O
Rehoboam!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And if there dwell hard by
One skilled to read from bird-notes augury,
That man, when through his ears shall thrill our
tearful wail,
Shall deem he hears the voice, the plaintive tale
Of her, the piteous spouse of Tereus, lord of guile--
Whom the hawk harries yet, the
mourning
nightingale.
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Aeschylus |
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They sat and listened to the brooks and birds,
And watched the
starlight
perish in pale flame,
Wondering what God would look like when He came.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: XIX
So often forging peace, so often fighting,
So often breaking up, and then re-forming,
So often blaming Love, so often praising,
So often
searching
out, so often fleeing,
So often hiding ourselves, so often revealing,
So often under the yoke, so often freeing,
Making our promises and then retracting,
Are signs that Love strikes at our very being.
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Ronsard |
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Sacres gueux,
maudite
canaille!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In sighs when I outbreathe your cherish'd name,
That name which love has writ upon my heart,
LAUd
instantly
upon my doting tongue,
At the first thought of its sweet sound, is heard;
Your REgal state, which I encounter next,
Doubles my valour in that high emprize:
But TAcit ends the word; your praise to tell
Is fitting load for better backs than mine.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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This was a hall (and gate) in the Han palace; Han palace names were
liberally
transferred to places in the Tang palace.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Dream--Darkness
LANDSCAPE I
THE wild
resplendence
of the year resolves,
The sombre mood of evening fades away
Within a wood, where from a late array
Of saffron, bronze and crimson--dole dissolves.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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A thousand Franks he bids seek through the streets,
The
synagogues
and the mahumeries;
With iron malls and axes which they wield
They break the idols and all the imageries;
So there remain no fraud nor falsity.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
And
Guenelun
answered, contrarious:
"That were a lie, in any other mouth.
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Chanson de Roland |
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COUNCILLOR: You had best dissuade your brother-in-law from his
rebellious
intention.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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CHORUS
Speak thou; my breast doth
palpitate
with fear.
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Aeschylus |
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He is about it, the Doores are open:
And the
surfeted
Groomes doe mock their charge
With Snores.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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To him, his love for his wife and
children
is a beautiful thing, a
subject to speak and sing about as well as an emotion to feel.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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He knows of nothing but the
football
match,
And where hens lay, and when the duck will hatch.
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"
XI
She cowers, and he takes his track
Afar for many a mile,
For
evermore
to be apart
From her who could beguile
His senses by her burning heart,
And win his love awhile.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
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Villon |
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How can you stay, nor vanish quite
From this bleak spot of thorn,
And birch, and fir, and frozen white
Expanse of the
forlorn?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Cities of mortals woe-begone
Fantastic care derides,
But in the serious
landscape
lone
Stern benefit abides.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Come, Mercury, by whose
minstrel
spell
Amphion raised the Theban stones,
Come, with thy seven sweet strings, my shell,
Thy "diverse tones,"
Nor vocal once nor pleasant, now
To rich man's board and temple dear:
Put forth thy power, till Lyde bow
Her stubborn ear.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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A steer of five years' age, large limb'd, and fed,(92)
To Jove's high altars Agamemnon led:
There bade the noblest of the Grecian peers;
And Nestor first, as most
advanced
in years.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Next valiant
Mnestheus
took his stand with bow bent, aiming
high with levelled eye and arrow; yet could not, unfortunate!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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This is o word for al: this Troilus 1660
Was never ful to speke of this matere,
And for to preysen un-to Pandarus
The bountee of his righte lady dere,
And
Pandarus
to thanke and maken chere.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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[23]
_Hierarchie
of the Blessed Angels_ 9.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"Come, listen, my men, while I tell you again
The five unmistakable marks
By which you may know, wheresoever you go,
The
warranted
genuine Snarks.
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Lewis Carroll |
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"
"When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of
thoughts
be laid at last,
The man of flesh and soul be slain
And the man of bone remain?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum,
A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum;
That frae November till October,
Ae market-day thou was na sober;
That ilka melder wi' the Miller,
Thou sat as lang as thou had siller;
That ev'ry naig was ca'd a shoe on
The Smith and thee gat roarin' fou on;
That at the Lord's house, ev'n on Sunday,
Thou drank wi' Kirkton Jean till Monday,
She prophesied that late or soon,
Thou wad be found, deep drown'd in Doon,
Or catch'd wi'
warlocks
in the mirk,
By Alloway's auld, haunted kirk.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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too gentle to be human,
Veiling beneath that radiant form of Woman
All that is
insupportable
in thee
Of light, and love, and immortality!
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Shelley |
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I merely hinted to her: "Now, be
careful!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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There, take the
darkling
gold, the gentle gray
From birches and from box--the zephyrs sway,
Few lingering roses yet their perfumes breathe,
Select them, kiss them and a crown enwreathe.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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In a state of
polished
society, where a single ruler sways
the sceptre, the powers of the mind take a softer tone, and language
grows more refined.
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Tacitus |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Such is the origin of ballad-poetry, a
species of
composition
which scarcely ever fails to spring up and
flourish in every society, at a certain point in the progress
towards refinement.
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Yet since this
bittersweet
ill your virtue
Combats, as it does its charm and power,
Repulsing the assault, rejecting the allure,
It will bring peace to your troubled mind.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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They compare him to Horace who was short like
Pope, though fat, and who seems to have
suffered
from colds; also to
Alexander, one of whose shoulders was higher than the other, and to
Ovid, whose other name, Naso, might indicate that long noses were a
characteristic feature of his family.
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Alexander Pope |
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[719] The passage is written in the
language
of the Bar.
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Aristophanes |
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as borne under the influence of
Luna, and
therefore
as firme .
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John Donne |
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The sojourners in the
Stymphalian
fens
So dreadfully offend us, or the Steeds
Of Thracian Diomedes breathing fire
From out their nostrils off along the zones
Bistonian and Ismarian?
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Lucretius |
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His
guileless
forerunners,
Whose brains I could blandish,
To measure the deeps of my mysteries
Applied them in vain.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Protect your honour from
shameful
reproach, 1335
And ensure your father's vow is revoked.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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uch an
accident
falne out at _Newgate_, Sir:
A great piece of the pri?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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She would have smiled, if the flower
That never bloomed, to please,
Could open to the coolest hour
Of passing and
forgetful
breeze.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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See, my colour comes and goes,
My poor heart flutters, Lydia, and the dew,
Down my cheek soft stealing, shows
What lingering
torments
rack me through and through.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The bliss of man (could pride that
blessing
find)
Is not to act or think beyond mankind;
No powers of body or of soul to share,
But what his nature and his state can bear.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"Nor ended here his toils: his Lycian foes,
At his return, a
treacherous
ambush rose,
With levell'd spears along the winding shore:
There fell they breathless, and return'd no more.
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Iliad - Pope |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The Occident and the Orient,
posterior and posterior,
sitting tight, holding fast
the culture dumped by them
on to primitive America,
Atlantic to Pacific,
were monumental colophons
a
disorderly
country fellow,
vulgar Long Islander.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Or, if to tickle your vanity, someone spoke of
"rich and sleek Athens," in return for that 'sleekness' he would get all,
because he spoke of you as he would have of
anchovies
in oil.
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Aristophanes |
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Besides, I am anxious to
know who will be
President
in 2045.
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Poe - 5 |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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LXV
"Barred every comfort labour could procure,
Suffering what no endurance could assuage,
I was
compelled
to seek my father's door,
Though loth to be a burthen on his age.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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For myself, although I had corresponded
with her for many years, I saw her but twice face to face, and
brought away the impression of
something
as unique and remote as
Undine or Mignon or Thekla.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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We should find no moss
In the
shadiest
places,
Find no waving meadow-grass
Pied with broad-eyed daisies;
But miles of barren sand,
With never a son or daughter,
Not a lily on the land,
Or lily on the water.
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Christina Rossetti |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Nicht dass sie just so sehr sich einzuschranken hat;
Wir konnten uns weit eh'r als andre regen:
Mein Vater
hinterliess
ein hubsch Vermogen,
Ein Hauschen und ein Gartchen vor der Stadt.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The flat brick walls look cold and bleak,
Her bare feet to the
sidewalk
freeze;
Yet dares she not a shelter seek,
Though faint with hunger and disease.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Yet if thy desire be such to
know our calamities, and briefly to hear Troy's last agony, though my
spirit
shudders
at the remembrance and recoils in pain, I will essay.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of
windows?
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T.S. Eliot |
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It was a sound
enough instinct which, despite his religious upbringing and his wide
and serious interest in theological questions, made him
hesitate
to
cross the threshold of the ministry and induced him to seek rather for
some such public service as fell to the lot of his friend Wotton.
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John Donne |
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Peire Raimon de
Toulouse
(fl.
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Troubador Verse |
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(See other
englisht
copies of these '15 Tokens' attributed to St.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Eftsoons
the nymphs, which now had flowers their fill,
Ran all in haste to see that silver brood
As they came floating on the crystal flood;
Whom when they saw, they stood amazed still
Their wondering eyes to fill;
Them seem'd they never saw a sight so fair
Of fowls, so lovely, that they sure did deem
Them heavenly born, or to be that same pair
Which through the sky draw Venus' silver team;
For sure they did not seem
To be begot of any earthly seed,
But rather angels, or of angels' breed;
Yet were they bred of summer's heat, they say,
In sweetest season, when each flower and weed
The earth did fresh array;
So fresh they seem'd as day,
Even as their bridal day, which was not long:
Sweet Thames!
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Golden Treasury |
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Consult the genius of the place in all;
That tells the waters or to rise or fall,
Or helps the ambitious hill the heavens to scale,
Or scoops in
circling
theatres the vale;
Calls in the country, catches opening glades,
Joins willing woods, and varies shades from shades;
Now breaks, or now directs, the intending lines;
Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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He coolly replied that he was
surprised that Lady Mary should feel hurt, since the lines could only
apply to certain women, naming four
notorious
scribblers, whose lives
were as immoral as their works.
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Alexander Pope |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Faith is a fine invention
For
gentlemen
who see;
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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At length in the year
of the city 378, both parties mustered their whole
strength
for
their last and most desperate conflict.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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HYMN
AT morn--at noon--at
twilight
dim--
Maria!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The Marineres gave it biscuit-worms,
And round and round it flew:
The Ice did split with a Thunder-fit;
The
Helmsman
steer'd us thro'.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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La Grand-Ville a le pave chaud
Malgre vos douches de petrole
Et
decidement
il nous faut
Nous secouer dans votre role.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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What is the difference
between
_pastoral_
and _epic_ poetry?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The poet evidently
aims a stroke at the pedantic and narrow-minded criticism to
which original genius,
emancipated
from the strait-waistcoat of
conventionality, is not unfrequently subjected.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Other customs of the Hindoos are
mentioned
by Camoens in this book.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Long springs, mild winters glad that spot
By Jove's good grace, and Aulon, dear
To
fruitful
Bacchus, envies not
Falernian cheer.
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Hyde stamps, and straight upon the ground the
swarms
Of current myrmidons appear in arms :
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And for their pay ho writes as from the king,
With that cursed quill plucked from a vulture's
wing,
Of the whole nation now to ask a loan ;
The
eighteen
hundred thousand pounds are gone.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"No, ('tis replied) the first
Almighty
Cause
Acts not by partial, but by general laws;
The exceptions few; some change since all began;
And what created perfect?
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Then trace thy
footsteps
on with me:
We are wed to one eternity.
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John Clare |
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Suddenly
we heard a voice crying, "This is the
sea.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A fourth hand,
D, seems to be the latest because it is the handwriting in which the
Index was made out, and the poems
inserted
in this hand are inserted
in odd spaces left by the other writers.
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John Donne |
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I'll be under the earth, a
boneless
phantom,
At rest in the myrtle groves of the dark kingdom:
You'll be an old woman hunched over the fire,
Regretting my love for you, your fierce disdain,
So live, believe me: don't wait for another day,
Gather them now the roses of life, and desire.
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Ronsard |
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And thou, O
Trouble?
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John Clare |
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If you
received
it
on a physical medium, you must return it with your note, and
such person may choose to alternatively give you a replacement
copy.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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He
begins: "Rodin was
solitary
before fame came to him, and afterward he
became perhaps still more solitary.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The world is round, so
travellers
tell,
And straight though reach the track,
Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well,
The way will guide one back.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The first course was
announced
with cracking of trumpets, with the
noise of nakers and noble pipes.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
This state of things -- when the delicate young rootlets of the cotton
are
struggling
against the hardier multitudes of the grass-suckers --
is universally described in plantation parlance by the phrase "in the grass";
and Uncle Jim appears to have found in it so much similarity
to the condition of his own ("Baptis'") church, overrun, as it was,
by the cares of this world, that he has embodied it in the refrain
of a revival hymn such as the colored improvisator of the South
not infrequently constructs from his daily surroundings.
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Sidney Lanier |
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There's threesome reels, there's
foursome
reels,
There's hornpipes and strathspeys, man;
But the ae best dance e'er cam to the land
Was--the deil's awa wi' the Exciseman.
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Robert Burns |
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He
dined alone at an out-of-the-way restaurant, and drank a great deal, in
the hope of
stifling
his emotion.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Or superbite, e via col viso altero,
figliuoli
d'Eva, e non chinate il volto
si che veggiate il vostro mal sentero!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY
SOUTH of the Line, inland from far Durban,
A
mouldering
soldier lies--your countryman.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Whose step first trod the
dreadful
pass?
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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or can I here forget
The plain and seemly countenance with which
Ye dealt out your plain
comforts?
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