Love's veriest wretch, despairing, I
Fain, fain, my crime would cover;
Th'
unweeting
groan, the bursting sigh,
Betray the guilty lover.
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THIS arch collection, like a prayer-book bound;
Was in the blockhead's pocket always found,
The form
religious
of the work, he thought,
Would prove a charm 'gainst vice whenever sought!
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La Fontaine |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Why not, just thrown at careless ease
'Neath plane or pine, our locks of grey
Perfumed with Syrian essences
And wreathed with roses, while we may,
Lie
drinking?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,
The Catos, the wise
patriots
of Rome,
Shall flock to you and tarry by your side,
And comfort you with their high company.
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Emerson - Poems |
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O
strange!
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Sidney Lanier |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond
mildewed
sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Destruction
hangs o'er yon devoted wall,
And nodding Ilion waits the impending fall.
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Iliad - Pope |
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[ENTER BEATRICE AND
LUCRETIA
BELOW.
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Shelley |
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O had M'Lauchlan,^7 thairm-inspiring sage,
Been there to hear this heavenly band engage,
When thro' his dear strathspeys they bore with
Highland
rage;
Or when they struck old Scotia's melting airs,
The lover's raptured joys or bleeding cares;
How would his Highland lug been nobler fir'd,
And ev'n his matchless hand with finer touch inspir'd!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an Old Man with an Owl,
Who
continued
to bother and howl;
He sat on a rail, and imbibed bitter ale,
Which refreshed that Old Man and his Owl.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Dear South, to-day,
As our country's altar made us
One forever, so we vow
Unto yours our love to render:
Strength
with strength we here endow,
And we make your honor ours.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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FAUST:
Du
kanntest
mich, o kleiner Engel, wieder,
Gleich als ich in den Garten kam?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Some fly, some cower in vain,
Hoping that Time, the grim and eager foe,
Will pass them by; and some run to and fro
Like the Apostles or the
Wandering
Jew;
Go where they will, the Slayer goes there too!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Despair,
despair!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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" Shyly then she said--
"Our
neighbor
died last night; it must have been
When you were gone.
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Hugo - Poems |
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SWALLOW FLIGHT
I LOVE my hour of wind and light,
I love men's faces and their eyes,
I love my spirit's veering flight
Like
swallows
under evening skies,
THOUGHTS
WHEN I can make my thoughts come forth
To walk like ladies up and down,
Each one puts on before the glass
Her most becoming hat and gown.
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Sara Teasdale |
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But all
subsists
by elemental strife;
And passions are the elements of life.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Never a nymph excited by the mysterious
Dionysius
shook her thyrsus over
the heads of her companions with as much energy as your genius trembles
in the hearts of your brothers.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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copyright
law means that no one owns a United States
copyright
in these works,
so the Foundation (and you!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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is still the cause
unfound?
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John Clare |
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75
Oft maie the moone, yn sylverr sheenynge lyghte,
Inne varied chaunges varyed blessynges shedde,
Besprengeynge far abrode
mischaunces
nyghte;
And thou, fayre Birtha!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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LA CHEVELURE
O toison,
moutonnant
jusque sur l'encolure!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Who of reward is worthy, who of shame,
To a
thousand
and to watchful eyes is clear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have
vanished
one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone;
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And in the ages after monsters died,
Perforce there
perished
many a stock, unable
By propagation to forge a progeny.
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Lucretius |
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Why are Eyelids stord with arrows ready drawn,
Where a thousand
fighting
men in ambush lie!
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blake-poems |
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Most blessed among nations and most sad,
For whose dear sake the young
Calabrian
fell
That day at Aspromonte and was glad
That in an age when God was bought and sold
One man could die for Liberty!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_Girn_, to grin, to twist the
features
in rage, agony, &c.
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Robert Burns |
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Je suis le
soufflet
et la joue!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Who was sorry for Li, the Swift of Wing,[16]
When his white head
vanished
from the Three Fronts?
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Li Po |
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He sees that
Euripides
may have had his own
reasons for not making Admetus an ideal husband.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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[_Attendants bring in the body of_
AEGISTHUS
_on a bier_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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--Three crowns rejoined the man;
Then thou'rt a silly ass, said
mistress
Nan;
To-day, by my address, I've gained a crown,
And sold the same for twenty shillings down:
My bargain luckily the first was made;
The buyer, (who of flaws is much afraid)
Examines now if ev'ry part is tight;
He's in the tub to see if all be right.
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La Fontaine |
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Yea, but not this my marvel: not that we
Should master with desire the sundering world,
We who bore in our hearts such destiny,
There was no force knew to be dangerous
Against it, but must turn its malice clean
Into obsequious favour
worshipping
us.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Erewhile 'twas corn resplendent and unstained,
Or crystal, that through morning radiance shone,
Now flowing agate, deep and sombre-veined,
Then like a crimson
sparkling
precious stone.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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To God may force be offer'd, in the heart
Denying and
blaspheming
his high power,
And nature with her kindly law contemning.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
"Ah, here it is," he presently exclaimed--"it is reascending the face
of the hill, and a very remarkable looking
creature
I admit it to be.
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Poe - 5 |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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[Illustration]
The Rural
Runcible
Raven,
who wore a White Wig and flew away
with the Carpet Broom.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Then, glancing narrow at the wall,
And narrow at the floor,
For firm conviction of a mouse
Not exorcised before,
Peruse how
infinite
I am
To -- no one that you know!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Full five-and-thirty years he lived
A running
huntsman
merry;
And still the centre of his cheek
Is red as a ripe cherry.
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Golden Treasury |
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We should never be certain that it was
not some woman
treading
in the wine-press who began that subtle change
in men's minds, that powerful movement of thought and imagination about
which so many Germans have written; or that the passion, because of
which so many countries were given to the sword, did not begin in the
mind of some shepherd boy, lighting up his eyes for a moment before it
ran upon its way.
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Yeats |
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He was of an impetuous yet
affectionate nature and much beloved by a
numerous
circle of
friends.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Justice, the high
vicegerent
of her God,
Her doubtful balance ey'd, and sway'd her rod;
Hearing the tidings of the fatal blow
She sunk, abandon'd to the wildest woe.
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Robert Burns |
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I, whose great labours had
acquired
glory,
I, who was ever pursued by victory,
Find that having lived far too long
I must rest un-avenged for a wrong.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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O shadows vain
Except in outward
semblance!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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'AND FAIR, FIERCE WOMEN'
ONE day a woman that I know came face to face with heroic beauty, that
highest beauty which Blake says changes least from youth to age, a
beauty which has been fading out of the arts, since that
decadence
we
call progress, set voluptuous beauty in its place.
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Yeats |
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CARL SANDBURG
AND SO TO-DAY
And so to-day--they lay him away--
the boy nobody knows the name of--
the buck private--the unknown soldier--
the
doughboy
who dug under and died
when they told him to--that's him.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Children, ye heard his
promise?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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er
charcole
brenned,
876 Wat3 gray?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Pleasure
for the beautiful body, but
pain for the beautiful soul.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But, in our later lays,
Full freighted with your praise,
Fair memory harbors those whose lives, laid down
In gallant faith and
generous
heat,
Gained only sharp defeat.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Faith
is the antiseptic of the soul,--it pervades the common people and preserves
them: they never give up
believing
and expecting and trusting.
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Whitman |
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With
undiminished
rays
Here now on us look down,
Illumining our crown
Of leaves memorial, wet with tender dew
For those who nobly died
In fierce self-sacrifice of service true,
Rapt in pure fire of life-disdaining pride;
Men of this soil, who stood
Firm for their country's good,
From night to night, from sun to sun,
Till o'er the living and the slain
A woful dawn that streamed with rain
Wept for their victory dearly won.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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[MEPHISTOPHELES _bores;
meanwhile
one of them has made
the wax-stoppers and stopped the holes_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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With GAMA sail'd a bold advent'rous band,[117]
Whose headlong rage had urg'd the guilty hand:
Stern Justice for their crimes had ask'd their blood,
And pale, in chains condemn'd to death, they stood;
But, sav'd by GAMA from the shameful death,
The bread of peace had seal'd their plighted faith[117]
The desolate coast, when order'd, to explore,
And dare each danger of the hostile shore:
From this bold band he chose the
subtlest
two,
The port, the city, and its strength to view,
To mark if fraud its secret head betray'd,
Or if the rites of Heaven were there display'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Headlong into the mist we ride, our course Not unattended: all-but-voiceless shades, Wind-swift,
accompany
—wan Memories; Eyes from the black that pity me; pale lips Ill-boding at my ear; and feeble ghosts
Of dead and gone Desires: thou heedest none.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Yet the superiority of the less-popular poem is in either
case beyond all
question
or comparison: in depth and in glow of spirit
and of harmony, in truth and charm of thought and word, undeniable and
indescribable.
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Robert Herrick |
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ng-t'u 26
The Orphan 27
The Sick Wife 29
Cock-Crow Song 30
The Golden Palace 31
"Old Poem" 32
Meeting in the Road 32
Fighting South of the Castle 33
The Eastern Gate 34
Old and New 35
South of the Great Sea 35
The Other Side of the Valley 36
Oaths of
Friendship
37
Burial Songs 38
Seventeen Old Poems 39-48
The Autumn Wind 48
Li Fu-j?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But God its endlessly
devising
brain,
Its braving spirit, its captain Sisera,
Into the hands of another woman brought:
In nets of her persuasion
She that wild spirit caught,
She fasten'd up that uncontrollable thought.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Where now hath Pharandakes gone,
Where Psammis, and where
Pelagon?
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Aeschylus |
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But let us hence; for fair Locarno smiles
Embowered
in walnut slopes and citron isles: 155
Or seek at eve the banks of Tusa's stream,
Where, [45] 'mid dim towers and woods, her [M] waters gleam.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"An unseen tomb-torch flickers on thy path,
Whilst, as from vial full, thy spare-naught wrath
Splashes this trembling race:
These are thy grass as thou their trenchant scythes
Cleaving
their neck as 'twere a willow withe--
Their blood none can efface.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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XIX
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
All imperfection born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the centuries might devise,
Rome in
ancestral
times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box, enclosed the measure.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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--Some say they have heard her sighs
On Alpine height or Polar peak
When the night
tempests
rise.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic
philosopher
(368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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" and at these words the snake,
My secret, seemed to stir within my breast;
And oh, Sirs, could I help it, but my cheek
Began to burn and burn, and her lynx eye
To fix and make me hotter, till she laughed:
"O
marvellously
modest maiden, you!
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--Many men believe not
themselves
what they would persuade
others; and less do the things which they would impose on others; but
least of all know what they themselves most confidently boast.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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" 930
The sweat pours down from Peter's face,
So grievous is his heart's contrition;
With agony his eye-balls ache
While he beholds by the furze-brake
This
miserable
vision!
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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e
corsedest
kyrk, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Princes know the People's a tight boot,
March 'em
sometimes
to be shot and to shoot,
Then they'll wear easier.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And he wove him a
wondrous
Nose,--
A Nose as strange as a Nose could be!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I
don't think I had any special hankering to write poetry as a
little child, though I was of a very
fanciful
and dreamy nature.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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O'er vales that teem with fruits,
romantic
hills,
(Oh that such hills upheld a free-born race!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And there is rued the stratagem, that Troy
Of her
Palladium
spoil'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The slow sweet hours that bring us all things good, [3]
The slow sad hours that bring us all things ill,
And all good things from evil, brought the night
In which we sat
together
and alone,
And to the want, that hollow'd all the heart,
Gave utterance by the yearning of an eye,
That burn'd upon its object thro' such tears
As flow but once a life.
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Tennyson |
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Either as honest to grant, or modest as never to promise, 5
Aufilena!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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This poem, with 236, exemplifies the
peculiar
skill with which Scott
employs proper names: nor is there a surer sign of high poetical genius.
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Golden Treasury |
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Do scribes aver the Comic to be
Reverend
still?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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[50] The verb _la'atu_, to pierce, devour, forms its
preterite
_ilut_;
see VAB.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A GENTLE KNIGHT, the
Redcross
Knight, representing the church
militant, and Reformed England.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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unconscious
of thy doom,
All innocence and opening bloom;
Laugh on!
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Hugo - Poems |
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It's too
maddening!
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Kipling - Poems |
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XIII
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
Nor the cutting edge of conquering blade,
Nor the havoc ruthless
soldiers
made,
In sacking you, Rome, ever and again,
Nor the tricks that fickle fortune played,
Nor envious centuries corrosive rain,
Nor the spite of men, nor gods' disdain,
Nor your own power in civil strife displayed,
Nor the impetuous storms that you withstood,
Nor the river-god's winding course in flood,
That has so often drowned you in its thunder,
Not all combined have so abased your pride,
As that this nothing left you, by Time's tide,
Still makes the world halt here, and gaze in wonder.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The
essential
spirit of the age breathes from
every line.
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Alexander Pope |
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Master Brook,
Falstaff's a knave, a cuckoldly knave; here are his horns,
Master Brook; and, Master Brook, he hath enjoyed nothing of
Ford's but his buck-basket, his cudgel, and twenty pounds
of money, which must be paid to Master Brook; his horses
are
arrested
for it, Master Brook.
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Shakespeare |
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Collis o Heliconii
Cultor, Vraniae genus,
Qui rapis teneram ad virum
Virginem, o Hymenaee Hymen,
O Hymen Hymenaee, 5
Cinge tempora floribus
Suave olentis amaraci,
Flammeum
cape, laetus huc
Huc veni niveo gerens
Luteum pede soccum, 10
Excitusque hilari die
Nuptialia concinens
Voce carmina tinnula
Pelle humum pedibus, manu
Pineam quate taedam.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
For your poor friend, the Bard, afar
He only hears and sees the war,
A cool
spectator
purely!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Tennyson |
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And like a dying lady, lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the insane
And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,
The moon arose up in the murky East, _5
A white and
shapeless
mass--
***
TO THE MOON.
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Shelley |
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