I will wake her from her sleep,
And mix with all her
thoughts
a thought to serve.
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Yet it grows clearer with the growing day;
And in the cold dawn light her hair is grey:
Her lifted arms are naught but bone: her hands
White
withered
claws that fumble as she stands
Trying to pin that wisp into its place.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And though thine in the centre sit,
Yet when my other far does roam,
Thine leans and
hearkens
after it,
And rows erect as mine comes home.
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For this cause is Xenophon
preferred before Plato, for that the one, in the exquisite depth of his
judgement, formed a Commune-wealth, such as it should be; but the other, in
the person of Cyrus and the Persians, fashioned a government, such as might
best be: So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by
ensample
then
by rule.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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syððan
niht becōm,
_after the night had come_, 115; þē on þā lēode becōm, _that had come over
the people_, 192; þā hē tō hām becōm, 2993.
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Beowulf |
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Then took thy mother's lord
The ritual grains, and o'er the altar poured
Its due, and prayed: "O Nymphs of Rock and Mere,
With many a
sacrifice
for many a year,
May I and she who waits at home for me,
My Tyndarid Queen, adore you.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Whence may the water-springs, beneath the sea,
Or inland rivers, far and wide away,
Keep the
unfathomable
ocean full?
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Lucretius |
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Last eve, as I was leading the king's children From the pasture where they played,
A fairy bugle sounded from an oak-tree Where tired elves had strayed;
And as it thrilled across the purple uplands And dropped to one soft note,
A golden birdie darted from the
branches
With white and silver throat.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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--
Said one, console thyself:--past moments scan;
When thou hast rested here a
thousand
years,
Thou'lt then ascend amid the Heav'nly spheres;
But first in holy purgatory learn,
To cleanse thyself from sins that we discern;
One day thy soul shall leave this loathsome place,
And, pure as ice, repair to realms of grace.
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La Fontaine |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or
sharpened
claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Yet fairer when with wisdom as your shield
The sober-suited lawyer's gown you donned,
And would not let the laws of Venice yield
Antonio's heart to that
accursed
Jew--
O Portia!
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Wilde - Poems |
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A form more fresh than are the Eden bowers,
And lasting as her flowers;
Richer than Time and, as Times's virtue, rare;
Sober as saddest care;
A fixed thought, an eye
untaught
to glance;
Who, blest with such high chance,
Would, at suggestion of a steep desire,
Cast himself from the spire
Of all his happiness?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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WARRANTIES OF
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OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And hurrying, stumbling through the street
Came the
hurrying
stumbling feet.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Meredith - Poems |
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will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Imagists |
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My long thread
trembles
almost at the knife;
The breeze, that takes you, lifts me up alive,
And I'll follow those I loved, I the exile.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The English nation, following the
Reformed church, overthrows the Catholic faith, but is
deceived
by the
machinations of Spanish diplomacy.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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{34e} Gering would
translate
"kinsman of the nail," as both are made
of iron.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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To yonder spheres I dare no more aspire,
Whence the sweet tidings downward float;
And yet, from
childhood
heard, the old, familiar note
Calls back e'en now to life my warm desire.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Can Ninus be forgot, whose ancient name
Begins the long roll of
imperial
fame?
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Petrarch |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Here, where the dames of Rome their gilded hair
Waved to the wind, now wave the reed and
thistle!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Fair Florence found, in sooth with some amaze,
One who, 'twas said, still sighed to all he saw,
Withstand, unmoved, the lustre of her gaze,
Which others hailed with real or mimic awe,
Their hope, their doom, their punishment, their law:
All that gay Beauty from her bondsmen claims:
And much she
marvelled
that a youth so raw
Nor felt, nor feigned at least, the oft-told flames,
Which, though sometimes they frown, yet rarely anger dames.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Oh, swift as light they speed, The first light into
darkness
hurled, Each to his work, above, below,
The sons of God that make the world.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Kings began
Cities to found and citadels to set,
As strongholds and asylums for themselves,
And flocks and fields to portion for each man
After the beauty, strength, and sense of each--
For beauty then
imported
much, and strength
Had its own rights supreme.
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Lucretius |
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_I' vo
piangendo
i miei passati tempi.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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X Yet, love, mere love, is
beautiful
indeed
XI And therefore if to love can be desert
XII Indeed this very love which is my boast
XIII And wilt thou have me fashion into speech
XIV If thou must love me, let it be for nought
XV Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
XVI And yet, because thou overcomest so
XVII My poet thou canst touch on all the notes
XVIII I never gave a lock of hair away
XIX The soul's Rialto hath its merchandize
XX Beloved, my beloved, when I think
XXI Say over again, and yet once over again
XXII When our two souls stand up erect and strong
XXIII Is it indeed so?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"THE
SUNSHINE
OF THINE EYES"
The sunshine of thine eyes,
(O still, celestial beam!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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All at once, as we are gazing, lo the roofs of Charlestown
blazing!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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e
p{er}ilous
auenture ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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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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When
flattery
glares, all hate it in a queen,
While one there is who charms us with his spleen.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Some spirit hath turned our way,
Victory visible,
Walking at thy right hand,
Beloved; O lift this day
Thine arms, thy voice, as a spell;
And pray for thy brother, pray,
Threading the
perilous
land,
That all be well!
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Euripides - Electra |
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The
Florentines
besought, "that the bed of the Clanis [Footnote:
Chiana.
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Tacitus |
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"Thou
drinkest
deep.
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Christina Rossetti |
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[222] All
Persians
wore the tiara, but always on one side; the Great King
alone wore it straight on his head.
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Aristophanes |
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Latin - Catullus |
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I cannot publish in my rhyme
What pranks the greenwood played;
It was the
Carnival
of time,
And Ages went or stayed.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Now mine eyes are raised to see,
And all the
doorways
of my soul flung free.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Moreover, all
experience shows that
posterity
takes a great and a growing interest in
exact topographical illustrations of the works of great authors.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;
As the good and gallant
stripling
shook and trembled;
A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,
O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet
The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward,
The lappets of its front were button'd backward,
And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;
See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,
From his eyeballs hot and briny tears distilling;
On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,
Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;
Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd,
Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him:
O my boy, O my treasure, and my darling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Bring Him along, most pious priest,
And tell us then, whenas thou seest
His gently-gliding, dove-like eyes,
And hear'st His whimpering and His cries;
How can'st thou this Babe
circumcise?
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Robert Herrick |
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Come in and boldly follow where I lead;
None round can see: you've nothing here to heed;
They're all at prayers; the porter's at my will;
The very walls, of
prudence
have their fill.
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La Fontaine |
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I lie abstracted, and hear
beautiful
tales of things, and the reasons of
things;
They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen.
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Whitman |
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I stood in the porch and heard how the deacon
cried out:--Grishka
Otrepiev
is anathema!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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of
infinite
ill;
And mine is worse because immortal still,
Since from the heart the spirit may not tear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Then how, unharm'd, he pass'd the Syren-coasts,
The justling rocks where fierce
Charybdis
raves,
And howling Scylla whirls her thunderous waves,
The cave of death!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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1270
Considered
al, ther nis no-more amis.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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34 If his hornes be forth, the Diuells
companion!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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—
He and had known such days
together
And loved him better than myself.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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67
_clausum_
O et Paris.
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Latin - Catullus |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these
floating
animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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And you,
Libertad
of the world!
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Whitman |
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A foolish
damnable
advised bird,
Yon heron!
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Sidney Lanier |
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My lord, what
misfortune
could equal mine?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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May Kennedy's far-honour'd name
Lang beet his
hymeneal
flame,
Till Hamiltons, at least a dizzen,
Are frae their nuptial labours risen:
Five bonie lasses round their table,
And sev'n braw fellows, stout an' able,
To serve their king an' country weel,
By word, or pen, or pointed steel!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I am the pool of gold
When sunset burns and dies,--
You are my
deepening
skies,
Give me your stars to hold.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Once more, if thus, that every living thing
May have sensation, needful 'tis to assign
Sense also to its elements, what then
Of those fixed
elements
from which mankind
Hath been, by their peculiar virtue, formed?
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Lucretius |
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]
So Enid was put into the fine
flowered
robe.
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Tennyson |
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Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet,
Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest
welcome?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Why, nothing, only,
Your inference
therefrom!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
MENALCAS
"As
moisture
to the corn, to ewes with young
Lithe willow, as arbute to the yeanling kids,
So sweet Amyntas, and none else, to me.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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From
chrysanthemums
hung this autumn?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Surprised at trembling, though it was with cold,
Who ne'er had trembled out of fear, the veterans bold
Marched stern; to grizzled moustache
hoarfrost
clung
'Neath banners that in leaden masses hung.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"
In the Museum copy of this edition the imprint to the
engraved
title has
been cropped away.
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Robert Herrick |
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And I will kiss her in the waterfalls,
And at the rainbow's end, and in the incense
That curls about the feet of
sleeping
gods,
And sing with her in canebrakes and in rice fields,
In Romany, eternal Romany.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I had hoped to see
A scene of wondrous glory, as was told
Of some great God who in a rain of gold
Broke open bars and fell on Danae:
Or a dread vision as when Semele
Sickening for love and unappeased desire
Prayed to see God's clear body, and the fire
Caught her brown limbs and slew her utterly:
With such glad dreams I sought this holy place,
And now with wondering eyes and heart I stand
Before this supreme mystery of Love:
Some
kneeling
girl with passionless pale face,
An angel with a lily in his hand,
And over both the white wings of a Dove.
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Wilde - Poems |
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'Tis sure no
pleasure
to be shot.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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But my mind was weary Almost as the twilight of the day,
And my soul was sullen, and a little Tired of his
everlasting
talk.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The man's rank, the magnitude of the offence,
Demand your concession and submission,
Beyond the
customary
reparation.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Cease, dreams, the images of day-desires,
To model forth the passions of the morrow;
Never let rising Sun approve you liars
To add more grief to aggravate my sorrow:
Still let me sleep,
embracing
clouds in vain,
And never wake to feel the day's disdain.
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Golden Treasury |
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The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face,
They, round the ingle, form a circle wide;
The sire turns o'er, with patriarchal grace,
The big ha'bible, ance his father's pride:
His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside,
His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare;
Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide,
He wales a portion with
judicious
care;
And "Let us worship God!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
" O king of
nations!
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Iliad - Pope |
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"
And her own feet were caught in nets of gold,
And her own soul
profaned
by sects that squirm,
And little men climbed her high seats and sold
Her honour to the vulture and the worm.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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the small
discredit
of a bribe
Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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He is entering with his bride at
his side[379] whose beauty no human tongue can express; in his hand he
brandishes the lightning, the winged shaft of Zeus;
perfumes
of
unspeakable sweetness pervade the ethereal realms.
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Aristophanes |
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)
Note
Not meaningless
flurries
like
Those that frequent the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans Whistler there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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But from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,
And fire and ice within me fight
Beneath the
suffocating
night.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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ON A BOX
CONTAINING
HIS OWN WORKS
I break up cypress and make a book-box;
The box well-made,--and the cypress-wood tough.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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specie; 170
The voice of the driver'd be heerd in our land,
An' the univarse scringe, ef we lifted our hand:
Wouldn't _thet_ be some like a fulfillin' the prophecies,
With all the fus' fem'lies in all the fust
offices?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Neither the wife nor
daughter of the
Commandant
was in the room.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Fine was the mitigated fury, like
Apollo's presence when in act to strike
The serpent--Ha, the
serpent!
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Keats - Lamia |
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Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine
Must drown the memory of that
insolence!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Usage guidelines
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libraries
to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Nor lacking thy rites may our land be
protected
e'en to its boundaries; but
it may, with thy sanction.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"To-day my soul clasps Form; but where is my troth
Of
yesternight
with Tune: can one cleave to both?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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After driving the Moors from our coast,
Marring their plans,
answering
their boast,
Go, wage war on them in their own country,
Command my army, ravage the enemy.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Ainslie's, with whom I dined to-day, sold his sheep, ewe
and lamb together, at two guineas a piece--wash their sheep before
shearing--seven or eight pounds of washen wool in a fleece--low
markets, consequently low rents--fine lands not above sixteen
shillings a Scotch acre--magnificence of farmers and farm-houses--come
up Teviot and up Jed to
Jedburgh
to lie, and so wish myself a good
night.
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Robert Forst |
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Therefore
to Horse,
And let vs not be daintie of leaue-taking,
But shift away: there's warrant in that Theft,
Which steales it selfe, when there's no mercie left.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Why, untamed do you scare
At any
approach
you see?
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Ronsard |
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what a
glorious
lot shall then be mine
If Heaven to me these nameless joys assign!
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Petrarch |
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Nor am I
So ill to look on: lately on the beach
I saw myself, when winds had stilled the sea,
And, if that mirror lie not, would not fear
Daphnis to challenge, though
yourself
were judge.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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[100]
He ended, and, returning to the hall,
Resumed his seat; nor stay'd his
servants
long
Without, but follow'd their illustrious Lord.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Daring all, their goal to win,
Men tread forbidden ground, and rush on sin:
Daring all,
Prometheus
play'd
His wily game, and fire to man convey'd;
Soon as fire was stolen away,
Pale Fever's stranger host and wan Decay
Swept o'er earth's polluted face,
And slow Fate quicken'd Death's once halting pace.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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