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CXXIV
Marvellous
is the battle now and grand,
The Franks there strike, their good brown spears in hand.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I am the Spirit,
The permeating life which courseth through
All th' intricate and labyrinthine veins
Of the great vine of Fable, which, outspread
With growth of shadowing leaf and clusters rare,
Reacheth to every corner under Heaven,
Deep-rooted in the living soil of truth:
So that men's hopes and fears take refuge in
The fragrance of its
complicated
glooms
And cool impleached twilights.
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Tennyson |
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Next morn, as the sun rose over the bay,
Still floated our flag at the
mainmast
head.
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--See them whirl
About, as
salamanders
frisk and in the brazier curl.
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Hugo - Poems |
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What is there more, that I lag and pause, and crouch
extended
with unshut
mouth?
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Whitman |
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What coral, what lilies, and what roses,
In seeming, my open hand discloses,
Now, with twin
caresses
stroking her.
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Ronsard |
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YOU AND YOU
EDITH WHARTON
November, 1918
TO THE
AMERICAN
PRIVATE IN THE GREAT WAR
Every one of you won the war--
You and you and you--
Each one knowing what it was for,
And what was his job to do.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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O
troubled
reflection in the sea!
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Whitman |
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Newton Crosland_
To his Muse--_Fraser's Magazine_
The Cow--_Toru Dutt_
Mothers--_Dublin
University
Magazine_
To some Birds Flown away--_Mrs.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Slow now and frail, the task too sorely tries,
As a great weight upon a sucker small:
"Who leaps," I said, "too high may midway fall:
Man ill
accomplishes
what Heaven denies.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The Cloud
descended
and the Lily bowd her modest head:
And went to mind her numerous charge among the verdant grass.
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blake-poems |
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[Sidenote D: Sir Gawayne
beseeches
the king to let him undertake the blow.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Nothing - not even old gardens
mirrored
by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the abandoned light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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As men talk in a dream, so Corinth all,
Throughout her palaces imperial,
And all her populous streets and temples lewd,
Mutter'd, like tempest in the
distance
brew'd,
To the wide-spreaded night above her towers.
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Keats - Lamia |
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He chose the field; he saved the second day;
And, honoring here his
glorious
name,
Again his phalanx held victorious sway.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Do you see
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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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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) appears;
Embraced
his knees, and bathed his hands in tears;
Those direful hands his kisses press'd, embrued
Even with the best, the dearest of his blood!
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Iliad - Pope |
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The last
reluctant
drop of the storm,
Wrung from the roof, is smitten warm
And turned to gold;
For in its veins doth run
The very blood of the bold, unsullied sun!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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To you the Cyprus temples
Dare not bar or close the doors;
For you the mighty Danube sends
The
choicest
of its stores.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I had sat within that marble circle where the
oldest bard is as the young,
And the pipe is ever
dropping
honey, and the
lyre's strings are ever strung.
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Wilde - Poems |
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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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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout
populace
is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have flourished here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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When on that boy the kevil fell
To stay the
fearsome
noise,
"Gae in," they cried, "whate'er betide,
Thou prince of button-boys!
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Lewis Carroll |
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LXIV
Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground,
Why do you stand,
expectant?
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Stephen Crane |
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Far about,
A hundred slopes in hundred fantasies
Most
ravishingly
run, so smooth of curve
That I but seem to see the fluent plain
Rise toward a rain of clover-blooms, as lakes
Pout gentle mounds of plashment up to meet
Big shower-drops.
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Sidney Lanier |
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`So what for o thing and for other, swete,
I shal him so
enchaunten
with my sawes, 1395
That right in hevene his sowle is, shal he mete!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Madam, be still- with
reverence
may I say;
For every word you speak in his behalf
Is slander to your royal dignity.
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Shakespeare |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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You're dreaming, Phoebe, or the morning light
Mixing and mingling with the dying night
Makes shapes out of the darkness, and you see
Some dream-remembered
phantasy
maybe.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Es ist so elend, in der Fremde schweifen
Und sie werden mich doch
ergreifen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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e
worschip
of god in glorie,
Out of latyn is drawen ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The ageing of his manuscript of the _Vita Burtoni_, to take a further
instance, was
effected
by smearing the middle of it with glue or
varnish.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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120
But no
divinity
may the designs
Elude, or controvert, of Jove supreme.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Come, thou subtle bride of my mellifluous wooing,
Come, thou silver-breasted
moonbeam
of desire!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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This long and shining flank of metal is
Magic that greasy labor cannot spoil;
While this vast engine that could rend the soil
Conceals
its fury with a gentle hiss.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Little
outcasts
from life's fold,
The grave's hope they may be joined in
By Christ's covenant consoled
For our social contract's grinding.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
The Carian
No word return'd: both lovelorn, silent, wan, 770
Into the vallies green
together
went.
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Keats |
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Þā wæs eft hraðe
"gearo gyrn-wræce
Grendeles
mōdor,
2120 "sīðode sorh-full; sunu dēað fornam,
"wīg-hete Wedra.
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Beowulf |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Lower perchance,
With various motion rock'd,
trembles
the soil:
But here, through wind in earth's deep hollow pent,
I know not how, yet never trembled: then
Trembles, when any spirit feels itself
So purified, that it may rise, or move
For rising, and such loud acclaim ensues.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Where we, my Friend, to happy [98] days shall rise,
'Till our small share of hardly-paining sighs
(For sighs will ever trouble human breath) 355
Creep hushed into the
tranquil
breast of death.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The poems of
Apollonius
Rhodius, Virgil, Lucan, Camoens, Tasso and
Milton are "literary" epics.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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She cannot see the flying seasons roll
In dread succession to the final goal,
And sweep the tribes of men so fast away,
To Stygian
darkness
or eternal day,
With unconcern.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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For their task it is
To note in whatsoever place be light,
In what be shadow: whether or no the gleams
Be still the same, and whether the shadow which
Just now was here is that one passing thither,
Or whether the facts be what we said above,
'Tis after all the reasoning of mind
That must decide; nor can our
eyeballs
know
The nature of reality.
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Lucretius |
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Thus fire within, without the cold, cold snow,
Alone, with these my
thoughts
and her bright hair,
Alway and everywhere I bear my ail,
Haply to find some mercy in the eyes
Of unborn nations and far future years,
If so long flourishes our laurel green.
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Petrarch |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Yet his
despondent
ghost couldn't have sought worse revenge.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It was sweet to hear your note,
I'll not deny,
When April set pale clouds afloat
O'er the blue tides of sky,
And 'mid the wind's
triumphant
drums
You, in your white and azure coat,
A herald proud, came forth to cry,
"The royal summer comes!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Then was my error when the old way quite
Of liberty was bann'd and barr'd to me:
He follows ill who pleases but his sight:
To its own harm my soul ran wild and free,
Now doom'd at others' will to wait and wend;
Because that once it
ventured
to offend.
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Petrarch |
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Let not him mourn who best
entitled
was,
Nay, mourn not one: let him exult,
Yea, plant the tree that bears best apples, plant,
And water it with wine, nor watch askance
Whether thy sons or strangers eat the fruit:
Enough that mankind eat and are refreshed.
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Emerson - Poems |
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at here bult of
Bretaygne
kynges
Ay wat3 Arthur ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Lo soul, the
retrospect
brought forward,
The old, most populous, wealthiest of earth's lands,
The streams of the Indus and the Ganges and their many affluents,
(I my shores of America walking to-day behold, resuming all,)
The tale of Alexander on his warlike marches suddenly dying,
On one side China and on the other side Persia and Arabia,
To the south the great seas and the bay of Bengal,
The flowing literatures, tremendous epics, religions, castes,
Old occult Brahma interminably far back, the tender and junior Buddha,
Central and southern empires and all their belongings, possessors,
The wars of Tamerlane,the reign of Aurungzebe,
The traders, rulers, explorers, Moslems, Venetians, Byzantium, the
Arabs, Portuguese,
The first travelers famous yet, Marco Polo, Batouta the Moor,
Doubts to be solv'd, the map incognita, blanks to be fill'd,
The foot of man unstay'd, the hands never at rest,
Thyself O soul that will not brook a challenge.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Instanced in
Architecture and Gardening, where all must be adapted to the Genius and
Use of the Place, and the Beauties not forced into it, but
resulting
from
it, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
The wind has
flattened
the yellow mother-wort:
Above it in the distance they see the walls of a house.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Note: Ronsard plays on the
identification
of Helen with Helen of Troy, born of Leda, and Jupiter disguised as a swan.
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Ronsard |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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What subtle indirection and
significance
in you?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Men's passions fawn upon my feet, as waves
That
fiercely
fawn after the going wind;
But not as the wind, shaking off the foam
Of the pursuing lust of the moaning waves,
And over the clamour of the evil seas'
Monstrous word running lightly, unhurt.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Likewise
I saw
Salmoneus in the cruel payment he gives for mocking Jove's flame and
Olympus' thunders.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Living Rome, the
ornament
of the world,
Now dead, remains the world's monument.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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FIREFLIES IN THE CORN
_A Woman taunts her Lover_
Look at the little
darlings
in the corn!
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Finally, most of us believe that
concentration
is of the very essence
of poetry.
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Imagists |
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His Mother then is mortal, but his Sire,
He who obtains the
Monarchy
of Heav'n,
And what will he not do to advance his Son?
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Milton |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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O, my good lords, and
virtuous
Henry,
Pity the city of London, pity us!
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Shakespeare |
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It would have been easy to swell this little volume to a very
considerable bulk, by appending notes filled with quotations; but
to a learned reader such notes are not necessary; for an
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I went back to my mountain to seek
my old nest, and you, too, went home,
crossing
the Wei Bridge.
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Li Po |
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" 50
Then, in my solitary nook,
Return to scribbling, or a book,
Or take my physic while I'm able
(Two
spoonfuls
hourly, by this label),
Prefer my nightcap to my beaver,
And bless my stars I've got a fever.
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Byron |
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We need your
donations
more than ever!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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mournfully, 10
The solitude of
Binnorie!
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William Wordsworth |
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"Sir," I
addressed
him,
"Let me read.
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Stephen Crane |
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* * *
Is there never a retroscope mirror
In the realms and corners of space
That can give us a glimpse of the battle
And the
soldiers
face to face?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Glancing
at him haughtily, I said to
him--
"I am your master; you are my servant.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
They go to
strikewith
th'swords, are on their belts.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Keats |
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The steeples swam in amethyst,
The news like
squirrels
ran.
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last she fell a heap of Ashes
Beneath the furnaces a woful heap in living death
Then were the furnaces unscald with spades & pickaxes
{Alternate
reading of "unsealed" for "unscaled.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"Let pass the banners and the spears,
The hate, the battle, and the greed;
For greater than all gifts is peace, 15
And
strength
is in the tranquil mind.
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The continued interest which has been shown in the author's
thought and methods and life--for these unfinished pieces contain much
autobiography--has made the present editor feel it
justifiable
to keep
almost all of these and to add a few.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Thine is the mercy that cherished our furrows,
Thine is the mercy that
fostered
our grain.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Epirus' bounds recede, and mountains fail;
Tired of up-gazing still, the wearied eye
Reposes gladly on as smooth a vale
As ever Spring yclad in grassy dye:
E'en on a plain no humble beauties lie,
Where some bold river breaks the long expanse,
And woods along the banks are waving high,
Whose shadows in the glassy waters dance,
Or with the
moonbeam
sleep in Midnight's solemn trance.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Now while I sat in the day and look'd forth,
In the close of the day with its light and the fields of spring, and
the farmers preparing their crops,
In the large unconscious scenery of my land with its lakes and forests,
In the heavenly aerial beauty, (after the perturb'd winds and the storms,)
Under the arching heavens of the afternoon swift passing, and the
voices of
children
and women,
The many-moving sea-tides, and I saw the ships how they sail'd,
And the summer approaching with richness, and the fields all busy
with labor,
And the infinite separate houses, how they all went on, each with
its meals and minutia of daily usages,
And the streets how their throbbings throbb'd, and the cities pent--
lo, then and there,
Falling upon them all and among them all, enveloping me with the rest,
Appear'd the cloud, appear'd the long black trail,
And I knew death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge of death.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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said Satan, never have I seen
Such
stubborn
stuff wherever I have been;
The shades below no demon can produce,
That could divine what here would prove of use:
'Twould puzzle hell to break the curling spring,
And make a line direct of such a thing.
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La Fontaine |
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The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,
What a
beautiful
Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Two blows I aimed at thee, for twice thou kissedst my
fair wife; but I struck thee not, because thou restoredst them to me
according
to agreement.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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To no restoratives our Wight would run;
Though these do little, where much work is done:
So oft the lad was pressed for cheering play,
That with the abbess, when engaged one day,
He said, where'er I go, 'tis common talk,
With only sev'n an able bird should walk,
Yet
constantly
I've got no less than nine:--
The abbess cried,--A miracle divine!
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La Fontaine |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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They're of a noble house, I dare to swear,
They have a proud and
discontented
air.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
Then he
vanished
into the poplar grove where he told Lavaine to draw out
the lance head.
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Tennyson |
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Even to the temple stalk'd the
adulterous
spouse,
With impious thanks, and mockery of the vows,
With images, with garments, and with gold;
And odorous fumes from loaded altars roll'd.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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will thank
her for a reading of it
previous
to her sending it to the library, as
it is a book Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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If to accord this tribute you disdain,
Taken by force and bound in iron chain
You will be brought before his throne at Aix;
Judged and
condemned
you'll be, and shortly slain,
Yes, you will die in misery and shame.
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Chanson de Roland |
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