The neatherd boy that used to tend the cows,
While getting whip-sticks from the dangling boughs
Of osiers drooping by the water-side,
Her bonnet
floating
on the top espied;
He knew it well, and hastened fearful down
To take the terror of his fears to town,--
A melancholy story, far too true;
And soon the village to the pasture flew,
Where, from the deepest hole the pond about,
They dragged poor Jenny's lifeless body out,
And took her home, where scarce an hour gone by
She had been living like to you and I.
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Let none of earth inherit
That vision on my spirit;
Those
thoughts
I would control
As a spell upon his soul:
For that bright hope at last
And that light time have past,
And my worldly rest hath gone
With a sigh as it pass'd on
I care not tho' it perish
With a thought I then did cherish.
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He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal-light,
One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every
Middlesex
village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm.
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an
adjoining
room.
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If you call him "the heroic
defender
of the national
honor" one day, and "a brutal and licentious soldiery" the next, you
naturally bewilder him, and he looks upon you with suspicion.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Cried out, "Oh
Charles!
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Marvell - Poems |
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Thanatos
is not a god,
not at all a King of Terrors.
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Batchelor
Mary Morris Duane William Laird
Freshness, strength, beauty and dignity
characterize
the poems in store for subscribers.
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dulcior hic sane cunctis prudensque mouendi
iuris et admoto qui
temperet
omnia fumo,
feruidus, accensam sed qui bene decoquat iram.
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So they kept us close till nigh on noon,
And then they rang the bell,
And the Warders with their jingling keys
Opened each listening cell,
And down the iron stair we tramped,
Each from his
separate
Hell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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I had no
thoughts of publishing it, till it pleased some persons of rank and
fortune (the authors of "Verses to the
Imitator
of Horace," and of an
"Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton Court") to
attack, in a very extraordinary manner, not only my writings (of which,
being public, the public is judge), but my person, morals, and family,
whereof, to those who know me not, a truer information may be requisite.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And I
wondered
as you clasped
your shoulder-strap
at the strength of your wrist
and the turn of your young fingers,
and the lift of your shorn locks,
and the bronze
of your sun-burnt neck.
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My
prospect
in the Excise is something; at least it is, encumbered as
I am with the welfare, the very existence, of near half-a-score of
helpless individuals, what I dare not sport with.
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Robert Forst |
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Yet he is more than huge and strong--
Twelve
brilliant
colors play along
His sides until, compared to him,
The naked, burning sun seems dim.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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n gave a feast in the Palace of P'ing-lo
With twenty
thousand
gallons of wine he loosed mirth and play.
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Li Po |
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1802
FROST AT MIDNIGHT
The Frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped
by any wind.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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THE POET'S LOVE-SONG
In noon-tide hours, O Love, secure and strong,
I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind
The world to my desire, and hold the wind
A
voiceless
captive to my conquering song.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'T won't be inconveniencing you,
because I know that there's precious few
pickings
to be got out of these
Central India States--even though you pretend to be correspondent of the
'Backwoodsman.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Was it long brooding on their own surmise,
Which, of the eyes engendered, fools the eyes,
Or have I seen through that
translucent
air
A Presence shaped in its seclusions bare,
My Goddess looking on me from above
As look our russet maidens when they love,
But high-uplifted, o'er our human heat
And passion-paths too rough for her pearl feet?
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James Russell Lowell |
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I was for leaving
something
to the whetter.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I had hoped to see
A scene of
wondrous
glory, as was told
Of some great God who in a rain of gold
Broke open bars and fell on Danae:
Or a dread vision as when Semele
Sickening for love and unappeased desire
Prayed to see God's clear body, and the fire
Caught her brown limbs and slew her utterly:
With such glad dreams I sought this holy place,
And now with wondering eyes and heart I stand
Before this supreme mystery of Love:
Some kneeling girl with passionless pale face,
An angel with a lily in his hand,
And over both the white wings of a Dove.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Golden Treasury |
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We paused before a house that seemed
A
swelling
of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Have you not
enough blood on your
conscience?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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THE POET'S LOVE-SONG
In noon-tide hours, O Love, secure and strong,
I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind
The world to my desire, and hold the wind
A voiceless captive to my
conquering
song.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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ou hast
graunted
it ne shal nat 2880
ben ry?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Throbbing
THIS
throbbing
shows what we abandoned,
Which through the vacant chamber wells,
Wherein our joys, in parting, beckoned,
No longer hour nor pathway tells 1
How oft in sleep we wander, straying!
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The
Boeotians
seized them at Phyle.
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Aristophanes |
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Beeton would take Dick out with him when
he went marketing in the morning to haggle with
tradesmen
over fish,
lamp-wicks, mustard, tapioca, and so forth, while Dick rested his weight
first on one foot and then on the other and played aimlessly with the
tins and string-ball on the counter.
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Kipling - Poems |
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(Copyright, 1917, by John Masefield)
3
THE CHOICE By John Masefield
The Kings go by with
jewelled
crowns;
Their horses gleam, their banners shake, their spears are many.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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THROUGH the casement a noble-child saw
In the spring-time golden and green,
As he harked to the swallow's lore,
And looked so
rejoiced
and keen.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Therefore
will of his
Cannot to thee be dark.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Thence issuing oft,
unwieldly
as ye stalk,
Ye crush with broad black feet your flow'ry walk; 1793.
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William Wordsworth |
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There were blue eyes from turfy Shannon,
There were black orbs from palmy Niger--
But there,
alongside
the cannon,
Each man fought like a tiger!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I sang of the dancing stars, _25
I sang of the daedal Earth,
And of Heaven--and the giant wars,
And Love, and Death, and Birth,--
And then I changed my pipings,--
Singing how down the vale of
Maenalus
_30
I pursued a maiden and clasped a reed.
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Shelley |
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Not from the grand old masters,
Not from the bards sublime,
Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the
corridors
of Time.
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Poe - 5 |
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He was
desperate
and
grandmother took pity on him.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Sed nunc id doleo, quod purae pura puellae
Savia
conminxit
spurca saliva tua.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Look at his
disciples
and look at mine.
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Aristophanes |
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Up, gird thee now to the steep
Isthmian
way,
Seeking Athena's blessed rock; one day,
Thy doom of blood fulfilled and this long stress
Of penance past, thou shalt have happiness.
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Euripides - Electra |
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SEMPER EADEM
<< D'ou vous vient, disiez-vous, cette
tristesse
etrange,
Montant comme la mer sur le roc noir et nu?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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III
IN Debtors' Yard the stones are hard,
And the
dripping
wall is high,
So it was there he took the air
Beneath the leaden sky,
And by each side a Warder walked,
For fear the man might die.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Polygnotus and
Aglaophon
were
ancienter.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I see they lay
helpless
& naked: weeping
And none to answer, none to cherish thee with mothers smiles.
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blake-poems |
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BRAVE infant of Saguntum, clear
Thy coming forth in that great year,
When the
prodigious
Hannibal did crown
His cage, with razing your immortal town.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
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Lewis Carroll |
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uncontrolled,
Unbidden, hast thou, prophet-god, imbrued
The pure
prophetic
shrine with wrongful blood!
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Aeschylus |
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at good
{and}
blisfulnesse
is al oone {and} ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Paradiso
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Imagination flowers and vanishes, swiftly,
following
the flow of the writing, round the fragmentary stations of a capitalised phrase introduced by and extended from the title.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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For One at least there is,--He bears his name
From Dante and the seraph Gabriel,--{136}
Whose double laurels burn with deathless flame
To light thine altar; He {137} too loves thee well,
Who saw old Merlin lured in Vivien's snare,
And the white feet of angels coming down the golden stair,
Loves thee so well, that all the World for him
A gorgeous-coloured vestiture must wear,
And Sorrow take a purple diadem,
Or else be no more Sorrow, and Despair
Gild its own thorns, and Pain, like Adon, be
Even in anguish beautiful;--such is the empery
Which Painters hold, and such the heritage
This gentle solemn Spirit doth possess,
Being a better mirror of his age
In all his pity, love, and weariness,
Than those who can but copy common things,
And leave the Soul
unpainted
with its mighty questionings.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The songs of Teos are not mute,
And Sappho's love is
breathing
still:
She told her secret to the lute,
And yet its chords with passion thrill.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And with the gipsies there will be a king
And a thousand
desperadoes
just his style,
With all their rags dyed in the blood of roses,
Splashed with the blood of angels, and of demons.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The wagons quickened on the streets,
The thunder hurried slow;
The
lightning
showed a yellow beak,
And then a livid claw.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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XI
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
To his offspring who, with mortal frailty,
Engorged with pride in Rome's bravery,
Looked to
infringe
on Heaven's grandeur,
Cooling again from his initial ardour,
With which Roman hearts he'd filled completely,
Blew new fires, with ardent breath, and fiercely,
Warmed the chilly Goths with his hot valour.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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30
I mourned with thousands, but as one
More deeply grieved, for He was gone
Whose light I hailed when first it shone,
And showed my youth [3]
How Verse may build a
princely
throne 35
On humble truth.
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William Wordsworth |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
PINE
By John Russell McCarthy
You must have dreamed a little every year For fifty years: you must have been a child, Shy and diffident with the violets, School-girlish with the daisies, or perhaps
A
youthful
Indian with the hickory tree;
You must have been a lover with the beech, A wise young father walking with your sons Beneath the maple; then have battled long Grim and defiant with the oak : all these
You must have been for fifty dreaming years Before you may hold converse with the pine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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La pena dunque che la croce porse
s'a la natura assunta si misura,
nulla gia mai si giustamente morse;
e cosi nulla fu di tanta ingiura,
guardando a la persona che sofferse,
in che era
contratta
tal natura.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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beseech thee say
What water this, which from one source deriv'd
Itself removes to
distance
from itself?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Where the night-wind, like a lover, leans above
His jasmine-gardens and sirisha-bowers;
And on ripe boughs of many-coloured fruits
Bright parrots cluster like
vermilion
flowers.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And
helpless
languii^h at the tainted stall.
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Marvell - Poems |
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On these
occasions his
daughter
Emily emerged from her wonted retirement and
did her part as gracious hostess; nor would any one have known from
her manner, I have been told, that this was not a daily occurrence.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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) Then when the grey wolves
everychone
Drink of the winds their chill small-beer And lap o' the snows food's gueredon,
Then maketh my heart his yule-tide cheer (Skoal !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And oft in the hills of Habersham,
And oft in the valleys of Hall,
The white quartz shone, and the smooth brook-stone
Did bar me of passage with
friendly
brawl,
And many a luminous jewel lone
-- Crystals clear or a-cloud with mist,
Ruby, garnet and amethyst --
Made lures with the lights of streaming stone
In the clefts of the hills of Habersham,
In the beds of the valleys of Hall.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Quendam municipem meum de tuo volo ponte
Ire praecipitem in lutum per caputque pedesque,
Verum totius ut lacus
putidaeque
paludis 10
Lividissima maximeque est profunda vorago.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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THE jealous husband of the beauteous fair
Was Aldobrandin, whose suspicious care
Resembled more, what
frequently
is shown
For fav'rites mistresses, than wives alone.
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La Fontaine |
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Chorus--O why should Fate sic pleasure have,
Life's dearest bands
untwining?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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A sorrowful sweet face; a look that pierced me
With meek reproach; a voice of resignation
That had a life of
suffering
in its tone;
And that was all!
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Longfellow |
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Each
monstrous
horse a frontal horn doth bear,
If e'er the Prince of Darkness herdsman were,
These cattle black were his by surest right,
Like things but seen in horrid dreams of night.
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Hugo - Poems |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
(The following lists include poetical works only)
AMY LOWELL
A Dome of Many-Colored Glass
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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_ The 'flash' of later editions
is
probably
a conjectural emendation, for 'flaske' (_1633_ and many
MSS.
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So I am killed by thee; all the loud pain
Of
pleasure
that had lockt my heart in life,
Wherein with blinded and unhearing face
My hope of thee yet stood and strained to look
And listen for thy coming,--all this life
Is killed before thee; yea, like marvellous death,
Spiritual sense invests my heart's desire;
And round the quiet and content thereof,
The striving hunger of my fleshly sense
Fails like a web of hanging cloth in fire.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Yet none could say of wrong he did,
And scorn was ever standing bye;
Accusers by their
conscience
chid,
When proof was sought, made no reply.
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John Clare |
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Whatever
was in her mind
She heaved a sigh at last,
And began to talk to me.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Here is an
insolence!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Quest' inno si
gorgoglian
ne la strozza,
che dir nol posson con parola integra>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The
original
is far more musical, as you can gather from the text at the start of this selection of his verse.
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Troubador Verse |
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Quelquefois dans un beau jardin,
Ou je trainais mon atonie,
J'ai senti comme une ironie
Le soleil
dechirer
mon sein;
Et le printemps et la verdure
Ont tant humilie mon coeur
Que j'ai puni sur une fleur
L'insolence de la nature.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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You burden the trees
with black drops,
you swirl and crash--
you have broken off a
weighted
leaf
in the wind,
it is hurled out,
whirls up and sinks,
a green stone.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The
disguised
papists under Garroway,
Talbot lieutenant, none had better pay.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Have we not giv'n you
demonstration?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this
forehead
these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them imprisoned in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves,
sounding
out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
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Appoloinaire |
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Day had awakened all things that be,
The lark and the thrush and the swallow free,
And the milkmaid's song and the mower's scythe
And the matin-bell and the
mountain
bee: _20
Fireflies were quenched on the dewy corn,
Glow-worms went out on the river's brim,
Like lamps which a student forgets to trim:
The beetle forgot to wind his horn,
The crickets were still in the meadow and hill: _25
Like a flock of rooks at a farmer's gun
Night's dreams and terrors, every one,
Fled from the brains which are their prey
From the lamp's death to the morning ray.
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Shelley |
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I can relish love no more,
Nor
flattering
hopes that tell me hearts are true,
Nor the revel's loud uproar,
Nor fresh-wreathed flowerets, bathed in vernal dew.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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' -- `For that thou
sholdest
never spede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Was hilft's, wenn Ihr ein Ganzes
dargebracht?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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XVII
Three times and four the pale-faced pilot wrought
The tiller with a
vigorous
push to sway;
And for the bark a surer passage sought:
But the waves snapt and bore the helm away.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Some new thing touched our spirits with distant delight,
Half-seen, half-noticed, as we
loitered
down,
Talking in whispers, to the little town,
Down from the narrow hill
--Talking in whispers, for the air so still
Imposed its stillness on our lips, and made
A quiet equal with the equal shade
That filled the slanting walk.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
ejaculated
our hero, starting to his feet, overturning the
table at his side, and staring around him in astonishment.
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Poe - 5 |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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