All-teeming nature, when her plastic hand
Left framing of these monsters, did display
Past doubt her wisdom, taking from mad War
Such slaves to do his bidding; and if she
Repent her not of th' elephant and whale,
Who ponders well
confesses
her therein
Wiser and more discreet; for when brute force
And evil will are back'd with subtlety,
Resistance none avails.
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To hint his features with a Rembrandt light)
Call Oken back, or Humboldt, or Lamarck,
Or Cuvier's taller shade, and many more
Whom he had seen, or knew from others' sight,
And make them men to me as ne'er before:
Not seldom, as the
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fibre stirred 360
Of noble friendships knit beyond the sea,
German or French thrust by the lagging word,
For a good leash of mother-tongues had he.
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Of vanquished foes, in long triumphal state,
To
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
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Hope humbly, then; with
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Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore.
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Wie innig fuhl ich mich
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But what is dim will become glorious clear:
All in a splendour will the Spirit at last
Stand in the world, for all will be naught else
But Spirit's own perfect
knowledge
of itself;
Yea, this dark mighty seeming of the world
Is but the Spirit's own power unsubdued;
And as the unruled vigours of thought in sleep
Crowd on the brain, and become dream therein;
So the strange outer forces of man's spirit
Are the appearing world.
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would that in old
time the Cecropian poops had not touched at the Gnossian shores, nor that
bearing to the
unquelled
bull the direful ransom had the false mariner
moored his hawser to Crete, nor that yon wretch hiding ruthless designs
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1 To God our strength sing loud, and clear,
Sing loud to God our King,
To Jacobs God, that all may hear
Loud
acclamations
ring.
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Duty is on us
therefore
that we love
And be loved.
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The air stole into the streets of towns,
Refreshed the wise, reformed the clowns,
And betrayed the fund of joy
To the high-school and
medalled
boy:
On from hall to chamber ran,
From youth to maid, from boy to man,
To babes, and to old eyes as well.
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Oft hast thou seen bolts of the thunder hurl'd
As from thy threshold; day by day hast been
A little lower than the chilly sheen
Of icy pinnacles, and dipp'dst thine arms
Into the deadening ether that still charms 210
Their marble being: now, as deep profound
As those are high,
descend!
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Lucan's
determined
stoicism may, philosophically, be more consistent
than the dubious stoicism of Virgil.
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Thou arte all preeste, &
notheynge
of the kynge.
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All the etchings will be
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Again I swooned,
And awoke
From a
blissful
dream
In a cave by a stream.
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And a fair troop of ladies gather'd there,
Still of this earth, with grace and honour crown'd,
To mark if ever Death
remorseful
were.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Great black ravens I saw flutt'ring,
Caddows black and sombre gray,
In the
enchanted
coppice strutting
'Mid the adders on the way.
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Tyndarid
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collected
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opportunity at Court.
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3710
This lady was of good entayle,
Right
wondirful
of apparayle;
By hir atyre so bright and shene,
Men might perceyve wel, and seen,
She was not of religioun.
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume
enclosed
by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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that walkest with me here,
If thou appear untouch'd by solemn thought
Thy nature is not
therefore
less divine:
Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year;
And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine,
God being with thee when we know it not.
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Golden Treasury |
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Stewart, 'tis well; if not, I hope you will forgive this liberty, and
I have at least an
opportunity
of assuring you with what truth and
respect,
I am, Sir,
Your great admirer,
And very humble servant,
R.
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Such were the bitter
thoughts
to which I turned.
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Forth from the forest's distant depth, from bald and barren peaks,
They
congregate
in hungry flocks and rend their gory prey.
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My
memories
freeze
Like birds' cry
In hollow trees.
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Would all
Christians
plain
Could have such joy anew,
As I felt, and feel all through,
For all else but this is vain.
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THE FOUR ZOAS
VALA *
The torments of Love & Jealousy in
The Death and
Judgement
of Albion the Ancient Man
a Dream
of Nine Night
by William Blake 1797
PAGE 2
Rest before Labour
PAGE 3
[Greek text] [For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness
of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places.
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MERCURY:
Yet pause, and plunge
Into Eternity, where recorded time,
Even all that we imagine, age on age,
Seems but a point, and the reluctant mind
Flags wearily in its unending flight, _420
Till it sink, dizzy, blind, lost, shelterless;
Perchance it has not numbered the slow years
Which thou must spend in torture,
unreprieved?
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Shelley |
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Suddenly
God smiles.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Lorsque enfin il mettra le pied sur notre echine,
Nous
pourrons
esperer et crier: En avant!
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Iacchus was an epithet of the god
Dionysus
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Grounded in magic he knew the future and predicted the
Christian
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Liberes, ils sont comme des chiens:
On les
insulte!
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Have you so soon
forgotten
all lessons of love and forgiveness?
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and open my heart;
That my
thoughts
torment me no longer,
But glitter in your hair.
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welcome to these walls;
Thy presence honours them, and
blesseth
those
Who dwell within them.
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resounding
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In the year 97, when the Consul Virginius Rufus died, Tacitus'
was made _Consul Suffectus_; and he delivered the funeral oration of his
predecessor: Pliny says, that "it
completed
the good fortune of Rufus,
to have his panegyric spoken by so eloquent a man.
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Then by the rule that made the horse-tail bear,
I pluck out year by year, as hair by hair,
And melt down
ancients
like a heap of snow:
While you to measure merits, look in Stowe,
And estimating authors by the year
Bestow a garland only on a bier.
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At dingy desks they toil by day; at night
To gloomy
chambers
go uncheered by light,
Where pillars rudely grayed by rusty nail
Of heavy hours reveal the weary tale;
Where spiteful ushers grin, all pleased to make
Long scribbled lines the price of each mistake.
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You, that
decipher
out the fate
Of human offsprings from the skies,
What mean these infants which, of late.
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leave me to myself, nor let me feel
The
officious
touch that makes me droop again.
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Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so,
Not for thy faults, but mine; it is a curse
To understand, not feel, thy lyric flow,
To comprehend, but never love thy verse,
Although no deeper moralist rehearse
Our little life, nor bard prescribe his art,
Nor livelier
satirist
the conscience pierce,
Awakening without wounding the touched heart,
Yet fare thee well--upon Soracte's ridge we part.
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_Upon Master Fletcher's
Incomparable
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e simplicite of [the]
p{re}sence
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[B]
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That
thousands
of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.
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Every wayfarer he meets
What himself
declared
repeats,
What himself confessed records,
Sentences him in his words;
The form is his own corporal form,
And his thought the penal worm.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The armour has been removed from
Goodrich
to the South
Kensington Museum.
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_ I have shown that God is the chief good; God must,
therefore, direct and order all things by _good_, since he governs
them by himself, whom we have proved to be the _supreme good_, and
he is that helm and rudder, by which this machine of the world is
steadily and
securely
conducted.
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Thetis herself to all our peers proclaims
Heroic prizes and
exequial
games;
The gods assented; and around thee lay
Rich spoils and gifts that blazed against the day.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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A double
strength
of valves secured the place,
A high and narrow; but the only pass:
The cautious king, with all-preventing care,
To guard that outlet, placed Eumaeus there;
When Agelaus thus: "Has none the sense
To mount yon window, and alarm from thence
The neighbour-town?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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With gret
bobbaunce
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Mediums
They shall arise in the States,
They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness,
They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos,
They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive,
They shall be
complete
women and men, their pose brawny and supple,
their drink water, their blood clean and clear,
They shall fully enjoy materialism and the sight of products, they
shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of
Chicago the great city.
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But, an it please thee,
padlockt
palate bear,
So in your friendship I have partner-share.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Then listen and be
attentive!
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ut post iurisonae famosa stipendia linguae
barbaricae
ingeniis
anteferantur opes?
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GEORGIAN POETRY
1920-1922
EDITED BY SIR EDWARD MARSH
TO ALICE MEYNELL
The Poetry Bookshop
35
Devonshire
St.
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"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you should hold it in your hands";
(Slowly twisting the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at
situations
which it cannot see.
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Thus far we've gone; the order of my plan
Hath brought me now unto the point where I
Must make report how, too, the universe
Consists of mortal body, born in time,
And in what modes that congregated stuff
Established itself as earth and sky,
Ocean, and stars, and sun, and ball of moon;
And then what living creatures rose from out
The old telluric places, and what ones
Were never born at all; and in what mode
The human race began to name its things
And use the varied speech from man to man;
And in what modes hath bosomed in their breasts
That awe of gods, which
halloweth
in all lands
Fanes, altars, groves, lakes, idols of the gods.
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Appear for him,
Avenger!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And if I should languish, jaded,
That which was erewhile unknown
Now to me this day is clear,
That my final hope hath flown:
That your joys for me have faded
New-born sun, and
youthful
year.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Enclosing
"Auld Lang Syne"
CXLIII.
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Robert Burns |
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Her fault before the
Scottish
king to attest,
Reserve those arms you turn against your breast.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Again, if ev'r all motions are co-linked,
And from the old ever arise the new
In fixed order, and primordial seeds
Produce not by their swerving some new start
Of motion to sunder the
covenants
of fate,
That cause succeed not cause from everlasting,
Whence this free will for creatures o'er the lands,
Whence is it wrested from the fates,--this will
Whereby we step right forward where desire
Leads each man on, whereby the same we swerve
In motions, not as at some fixed time,
Nor at some fixed line of space, but where
The mind itself has urged?
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Lucretius |
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Useless
remedies
abandoned
if nature
wished it not
I would
take myself
for one dead
balms mere
consolations for us
- doubt
then not, their
reality!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Happy old man, who 'mid familiar streams
And
hallowed
springs, will court the cooling shade!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity
them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them; They have made
private terms with the enemy, and sold their
birthright
for very bad
pottage.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And as hollow trees
Are the haunts of bees,
For ever going and coming;
So this crystal hive
Is all alive
With a
swarming
and buzzing and humming.
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Longfellow |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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'Twas once & _only_ once & the wild hour
From my
rememberance
shall not pass--some power
Or spell had bound me--'twas the chilly wind
Came o'er me in the night & left behind
Its image on my spirit, or the moon
Shone on my slumbers in her lofty noon
Too coldly--or the stars--howe'er it was
That dream was as that night wind--let it pass.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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But
standing
outdoors, hungry, in the cold,
Except in towns, at night, is not a sin.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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and thou
proufoundest
hell,
Receive thy new possessor!
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Robert Burns |
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Caedicus slays Alcathous,
Sacrator
Hydaspes, Rapo
Parthenius and the grim strength of Orses, Messapus Clonius and
Erichaetes son of Lycaon, the one when his reinless horse stumbling had
flung him to the ground, the other as they met on foot.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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