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Today, we know,
The Cossacks are unjustly persecuted,
Oppressed; but if God grant us to ascend
The throne of our forefathers, then as of yore
We'll gratify the free and
faithful
Don.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
Young Jamie, pride of a' the plain,
Sae gallant and sae gay a swain,
Thro' a' our lasses he did rove,
And reign'd
resistless
King of Love.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Narcissus
fell in love with his own reflection.
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Ronsard |
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Court officers, as used, the next place took,
And followed F x, but with disdainful
look:
His birth, his youth, his brokage all
dispraise
In vain ; for always he commands that pays.
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Marvell - Poems |
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All these things, O God, are conceived with forethought, born with
determination, nursed with exactness,
governed
by rules, directed
by reason, and then slain and buried after a prescribed method.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Bernard, "you will
find more in the woods than in books; the forests and rocks will teach
you more than you can learn from the
greatest
Masters.
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William Wordsworth |
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The really great poet challenges
it, like Homer, with some tremendous, irresistible opening; and in this
respect the
magnificent
prelude to _Beowulf_ may almost be put beside
Homer.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I'm
wondering
about Love.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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JEUNE MENAGE
La chambre est ouverte au ciel bleu turquin;
Pas de place: des
coffrets
et des huches!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Translated
from the Swedish by
STORK, author of "Sea and Bay," etc.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Now
Cytherea
leads the dance, the bright moon overhead;
The Graces and the Nymphs, together knit,
With rhythmic feet the meadow beat, while Vulcan, fiery red,
Heats the Cyclopian forge in Aetna's pit.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Who thus disturbs the tide near the
seraglio?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I use the word "style," of course, in its largest
sense--manner of
conception
as well as manner of composition.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Do not think me unaware,
I who have
snatched
at you
as the street-child clutched
at the seed-pearls you spilt
that hot day
when your necklace snapped.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I
was a bit of a girl at the time, playing about and
sporting
myself, but
I mind her as well as if I saw her there now!
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Yeats |
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--This is truly leaping from the stage to the tumbril again,
reducing all wit to the
original
dung-cart.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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'Tis plain that for prowess, not plunged into exile,
for high-hearted valor,
Hrothgar
ye seek!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"He tried the Brocken
business
first,
But caught a sort of chill;
So came to England to be nursed,
And here it took the form of _thirst_,
Which he complains of still.
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_ And did those
watchers
bid you take me captive?
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Yeats |
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at nolde
chau{n}ge{n}
his estat whan he ha?
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"
That
remarkable
Man with a nose.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Such views the youthful Bard allure;
But, heedless of the
following
gloom, 10
He deems their colours shall endure
Till peace go with him to the tomb.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The Fly
The Fable of the Ant and the Fly
'The Fable of the Ant and the Fly'
Aegidius Sadeler, Marcus
Gheeraerts
(I), Marcus Gheeraerts (I), 1608, The Rijksmuseun
The songs that our flies know
Were taught to them in Norway
By flies who are they say
Divinities of snow.
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Appoloinaire |
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I DARE engage, two
fortresses
besiege
Leave one to Mars, and t'other to this liege.
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La Fontaine |
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Their master
exhausted
himself in useless struggle,
While in the blood-wet foam they stained their bridles.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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_All_
counseyl; _I
propose_
reed.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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There was once a day, but old Time
wasythen
young,
That brave Caledonia, the chief of her line,
From some of your northern deities sprung,
(Who knows not that brave Caledonia's divine?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Except the heaven had come so near,
So seemed to choose my door,
The
distance
would not haunt me so;
I had not hoped before.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Here on your heart my heart now understands; Home have I come at last from alien
lands—
A pilgrim through the darkness to your eyes!
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I
entrusted
him to you at a tender age.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Fix the water-colour,
Too fragile tints that run,
Painter
In enameller's oven;
Make Sirens blue
Tails
writhing
free
For you,
Monsters of heraldry;
And with triple halo
The Virgin and her Jesus
the globe
With the Cross above.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Chimene
Elvire, this suffering is enough for me,
Don't
multiply
it with dread augury.
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Great is Language--it is the
mightiest
of the sciences,
It is the fulness, colour, form, diversity of the earth, and of men and
women, and of all qualities and processes;
It is greater than wealth, it is greater than buildings, ships, religions,
paintings, music.
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that
changeth
sides,
Or ever summer yields to winter's frost.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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[The gentleman to whom this
imperfect
note is addressed was Dr.
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Robert Forst |
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"
"Oh weep or laugh, but let me be,
And live or die, for all's in vain;
For life's in vain since we must part,
And parting must not meet again
"Till windflowers blossom on the sea,
And fishes skim along the plain;
Pale rose of roses let me be,
Your
breaking
heart breaks mine again.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
A son of God was the Goodly Fere That bade us his
brothers
be.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Then my Joy grew pale and weary because no other heart but mine
held its
loveliness
and no other lips kissed its lips.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Yet in herself she
dwelleth
not.
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James Russell Lowell |
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And about the temple dauncid alwaie
Women inow, of which some there ywere
Faire of 'hemself, and some of 'hem were gaie,
In kirtils all
disheveled
went thei there,
That was ther office or from yere to yere,
And on the temple sawe I white and faire
Of dovis sittyng many a thousande paire.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Man
redeemed from
barbarism
is the major theme of Book II.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Who thy last
reckoning
did so largely pay,
And with the public, gravity would come.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,--
A
creature
might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In his letters to the wits at home he
sends greetings to, among others,
Christopher
Brooke, John Hoskins
(as 'Mr.
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John Donne |
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Yet
stranger
that the high sweet fire,
In hearts nigh foreign to desire,
Could burn, sigh, weep, and burn again
As oh, it never has since then!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The newly
recovered
section of the epic contains two legends which
supplied the glyptic artists of Sumer and Accad with subjects for
seals.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I had the right, few days ago,
Thy steps to watch, thy place to know:
How have I
forfeited
the right?
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Emerson - Poems |
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The army craves today a skilful leader;
Basmanov
send, and firmly bear the murmurs
Of the boyars.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The warriors thus Orlando flung parforce,
As farrier throws the
struggling
ox or horse.
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Sara Teasdale |
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" And William heard,
And answered
something
madly; bit his lips,
And broke away.
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Tennyson |
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3 _dulcis musarum_ D:
_dulcissimus
har_(_u_ O)_um_ ?
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e people of epicuriens
{and}
stoyciens
{and} many o?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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There, sir, stop;
Let us not burden our remembrances with
A
heaviness
that's gone.
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Shakespeare |
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Keats |
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Is all that
desperate
Valour acts in vain?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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if this promised bliss by thundering Jove
(The prince
replied)
stand fix'd in fate above;
To thee, as to some god, I'll temples raise.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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'
This said, the
pleasing
feather'd omen ceased.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And who could reproduce the sun,
At period of going down --
The lingering and the stain, I mean --
When Orient has been outgrown,
And
Occident
becomes unknown,
His name remain.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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father-in-law descending from
the Alpine
barriers
and the fortress of the Dweller Alone, son-in-law
facing him with the embattled East.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Tis but a trial all must undergo;
To teach
unthankful
mortals how to prize
That happiness vain man's denied to know,
Until he's called to claim it in the skies.
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John Clare |
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Sweeping
terrible
down
the tide of battle he wakens fierce indiscriminate carnage, and flings
loose all the reins of wrath.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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How
differently
works on me this sign!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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XXI
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
Found no way to tame, this proud city,
That with a courage forged in adversity,
Sustained the shock of endless wars,
Though her ship, plagued at the source
By great waves, felt the world's enmity,
None ever saw the reefs of adversity
Wreak havoc on her
fortunate
course:
But, the object of her virtue failing,
Her power opposed its own flailing,
Like the voyager whom a cruel gale
Has long since separated from the shore,
Driven now by the storm's wild roar,
And shipwrecked there, when all efforts fail.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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My little son
pretended
he knew what to do, he kept seeking bitter plums to eat.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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) This poem was known familiarly
in the
household
as "The Rainbow," although not printed under that
title.
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William Wordsworth |
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I should
not have dared to take this liberty with you, but that I am told, by
those who have the honour of your personal acquaintance, that to be a
poor honest
Scotchman
is a letter of recommendation to you, and that
to have it in your power to serve such a character, gives you much
pleasure.
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Robert Forst |
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Embroidered stuffs, and dainty tunics, and flowing
gowns, and golden ornaments,
everything
I have, I offer them you with all
my heart; take them all for your children, for your girls, against they
are chosen "basket-bearers" to the goddess.
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Aristophanes |
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I came at last to the ocean
And found it wild and black,
And I cried to the
windless
valleys,
"Be kind and take me back!
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Sara Teasdale |
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I, the old man, was feeling bad and lay several days with
vomiting
and diarrhea.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Now, Muse, recount
Pelasgic
Argos' powers,
From Alos, Alope, and Trechin's towers:
From Phthia's spacious vales; and Hella, bless'd
With female beauty far beyond the rest.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Hear ye in whose abode
My son
resides?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man on whose nose
Most birds of the air could repose;
But they all flew away at the closing of day,
Which
relieved
that Old Man and his nose.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The snow-flakes alone make thee hoary,
Nestling
close to thy branches in slumber,
And thee mantling with silence.
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James Russell Lowell |
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[Burns had a happy knack in
acknowledging
civilities.
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Robert Forst |
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With fleecy clouds the sky is blanched,
And o'er the bay,
Slowly, in all his
splendors
dight,
The great sun rises to behold the sight.
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Longfellow |
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the
loiterers
call,
And thrones be tumbled in the mire.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Wherefore
did he come to me?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Such fate to
suffering
worth is giv'n,
Who long with wants and woes has striv'n,
By human pride or cunning driv'n
To mis'ry's brink,
'Till wrenched of every stay but Heav'n,
He, ruin'd, sink!
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"These given, what more need I desire
To stir, to soothe, or
elevate?
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William Wordsworth |
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Stephen Crane |
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And when the King our lord
spendeth
on us
This festival out of his rich heart, to shoot
Thy looks upon us as thou wouldst rebuke us?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But who demands this profuse, wanton glee,
These shouts
prolonged
and wild festivity--
Not sure our city--web, more woe than bliss,
In any hour, requiring aught but this!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Or should the King himself
Of Ithaca, returning, undertake
T' expell the jovial suitors from his house,
Much as Penelope his absence mourns,
His presence should afford her little joy;
For fighting sole with many, he should meet 330
A
dreadful
death.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Waldo Abigail Fithian Halsey Louis
Ginsberg
Marjorie Allen Seiffert J.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Mighty
Empress!
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Shelley |
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