12 shows 'How to enclose
a spirit in a
christall
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--The next property of
epistolary
style is perspicuity,
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Bad news from George on the English throne:
"You are thriving well," said he;
"Now by these
presents
be it known,
You shall pay us a tax on tea;
'T is very small,--no load at all,--
Honor enough that we send the call.
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copyright
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so the
Foundation
(and you!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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He lends his sword,
Hrunting, to
Bēowulf
for his battle with Grendel's mother, 1456 f.
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Beowulf |
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Gordon Craig's purple back cloth that
made Dido and AEneas seem
wandering
on the edge of eternity, he would
have found nothing absurd in pitching the tents of Richard and Richmond
side by side.
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Yet has each soul an inborn feeling
Impelling it to mount and soar away,
When, lost in heaven's blue depths, the lark is pealing
High overhead her airy lay;
When o'er the mountain pine's black shadow,
With outspread wing the eagle sweeps,
And, steering on o'er lake and meadow,
The crane his
homeward
journey keeps.
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_Scudding
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Wilde - Poems |
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Must you needs be so cruel, you
beautiful
Broom,
Because you are covered with paint?
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When the earth falters and the waters swoon
With the
implacable
radiance of noon,
And in dim shelters koils hush their notes,
And the faint, thirsting blood in languid throats
Craves liquid succour from the cruel heat,
BUY FRUIT, BUY FRUIT, steals down the panting street.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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From you 'twas hoped among the first to dare
The shock of armies, and commence the war;
For this your names are call'd before the rest,
To share the
pleasures
of the genial feast:
And can you, chiefs!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Wherefore I love them not whose hands profane
Plant the red flag upon the piled-up street
For no right cause, beneath whose
ignorant
reign
Arts, Culture, Reverence, Honour, all things fade,
Save Treason and the dagger of her trade,
Or Murder with his silent bloody feet.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I think thy spirit hath passed away
From these white cliffs and high-embattled towers;
This gorgeous fiery-coloured world of ours
Seems fallen into ashes dull and grey,
And the age changed unto a mimic play
Wherein we waste our else too-crowded hours:
For all our pomp and
pageantry
and powers
We are but fit to delve the common clay,
Seeing this little isle on which we stand,
This England, this sea-lion of the sea,
By ignorant demagogues is held in fee,
Who love her not: Dear God!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Search ye around the
bubbling
tar.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And know the painted kings who sleep beneath the wedge-shaped
Pyramid?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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After these years
Doth my low plight still stir thy
memories?
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Euripides - Electra |
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MENALCAS
"In dazzling sheen with
unaccustomed
eyes
Daphnis stands rapt before Olympus' gate,
And sees beneath his feet the clouds and stars.
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but Fate to Cinara gave
A life of little space;
And now she cheats the grave
Of Lyce, spared to raven's length of days,
That youth may see, with laughter and disgust,
A fire-brand, once ablaze,
Now
smouldering
in grey dust.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The hum of
multitudes
was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.
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There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before
combating
one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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Thus it shall befall
Him who to worth in Women overtrusting
Lets her Will rule;
restraint
she will not brook,
And left to her self, if evil thence ensue,
Shee first his weak indulgence will accuse.
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The Franks have lost the
foremost
of their band,
They'll see no more their fathers nor their clans,
Nor Charlemagne, where in the pass he stands.
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Chanson de Roland |
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But if
perchance
thou thinkest
That souls from outward into worms can wind,
And each into a separate body come,
And reckonest not why many thousand souls
Collect where only one has gone away,
Here is a point, in sooth, that seems to need
Inquiry and a putting to the test:
Whether the souls go on a hunt for seeds
Of worms wherewith to build their dwelling places,
Or enter bodies ready-made, as 'twere.
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Lucretius |
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LINES WRITTEN DURING THE
CASTLEREAGH
ADMINISTRATION.
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Shelley |
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feorum gumena, 73;
frēonda
fēorum,
1307.
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Beowulf |
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Flying
through the depth of air on winged oarage, the fleet
messenger
alights
on the Libyan coasts.
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Murmuring out of its myriad leaves,
Down from its lofty top rising two hundred feet high,
Out of its
stalwart
trunk and limbs, out of its foot-thick bark,
That chant of the seasons and time, chant not of the past only but
the future.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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'
The thridde tercel egle
answerde
tho,
Now, sirs, ye seen the litel leyser here;
For every foul cryeth out to been a-go 465
Forth with his make, or with his lady dere;
And eek Nature hir-self ne wol nought here,
For tarying here, noght half that I wolde seye;
And but I speke, I mot for sorwe deye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
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charitable
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Biglow, but
merely take to myself the credit of having fulfilled toward them the
office of taster (_experto crede_), who, having first tried, could
afterward bear witness (_credenzen_ it was aptly named by the Germans),
an office always arduous, and sometimes even dangerous, as in the case
of those devoted persons who venture their lives in the deglutition of
patent medicines (_dolus latet in generalibus_, there is deceit in the
most of them) and
thereafter
are wonderfully preserved long enough to
append their signatures to testimonials in the diurnal and hebdomadal
prints.
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James Russell Lowell |
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or
unornamented
pillar square
Of fire far shining.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Kann das
naturlich
geschehen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;
How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver,
Streaking the darkness
radiantly!
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Shelley |
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`By god, I woot hir mening now,
Pandare!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little
patience
330
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water 350
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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at is cleped
inperfit
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Harmoniae in cultu se
Eriphyle
maesta recenset,
infelix nato nec fortunata marito.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Seek thou straight Athena's land,
And round her awful image clasp thine hand,
Praying: and she will fence them back, though hot
With
flickering
serpents, that they touch thee not,
Holding above thy brow her gorgon shield.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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disclaimer
or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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My worthy sir, you see the matter
As people
generally
see;
But we must learn to take things better,
Before life pleasures wholly flee.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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DRINKING
TOGETHER
IN THE MOUNTAINS[51]
[51] _Cf.
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Li Po |
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why, sad lover, thus before your time
In grief and sadness should your life decay,
And, like a
blighted
flower, your manly prime
In vain and hopeless sorrow fade away?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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These are of us, they are with us,
All for primal needed work, while the
followers
there in embryo wait
behind,
We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing,
Pioneers!
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Whitman |
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nor succour call,
His bleeding hart is in the vengers hand,
Who streight him rent in
thousand
peeces small,
And quite dismembred hath: the thirsty land 175
Drunke up his life; his corse left on the strand.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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You dropped a purple
ravelling
in,
You dropped an amber thread;
And now you 've littered all the East
With duds of emerald!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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She, in her face who doth my gone heart wear,
As lone I sate 'mid love-thoughts dear and true,
Appear'd before me: to show honour due,
I rose, with pallid brow and
reverent
air.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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XVIII
At home arriving he addressed
His care unto his pistols' plight,
Replaced them in their box, undressed
And
Schiller
read by candlelight.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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Imagists |
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Facing the
timorous
nakedness of the gazelle
That trembles, on her back like an elephant gone wild,
Waiting upside down, she keenly admires herself,
Laughing with her bared teeth at the child:
And, between her legs where the victim's couched,
Raising the black flesh split beneath its mane,
Advances the palate of that alien mouth
Pale, rosy as a shell from the Spanish Main.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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O Liebe, leihe mir den
schnellsten
deiner Flugel,
Und fuhre mich in ihr Gefild!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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This
confession
that I so shamefully,
Make to you, do you think it voluntary?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Here every tree is strange to me,
All foreign things where eer I go,
There's none where boyhood made a swee
Or
clambered
up to rob a crow.
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John Clare |
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no, let us rather choose 60
Arm'd with Hell flames and fury all at once
O're Heav'ns high Towrs to force
resistless
way,
Turning our Tortures into horrid Arms
Against the Torturer; when to meet the noise
Of his Almighty Engin he shall hear
Infernal Thunder, and for Lightning see
Black fire and horror shot with equal rage
Among his Angels; and his Throne it self
Mixt with Tartarean Sulphur, and strange fire,
His own invented Torments.
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Milton |
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Mark well the mantle that he'll wear,
Embroidered
by his bride!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
—The
Rochester
Herald, Rochester, New York
— The Literary Digest, New York Rates, $1.
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Et vous les ecoutez cognant leurs tetes chauves
Aux murs sombres,
plaquant
et plaquant leurs pieds tors
Et leurs boutons d'habit sont des prunelles fauves
Qui vous accrochent l'oeil du fond des corridors.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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If you are redistributing or
providing
access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The father & the mother with
The Maidens father & her mother fainting over the body
And the Young Man the Murderer fleeing over the mountains
Reuben slept on Penmaenmawr & Levi slept on Snowdon
Their eyes their ears nostrils & tongues roll outward they behold
What is within now seen without they are raw to the hungry wind
They become Nations far remote in a little & dark Land
The Daughters of Albion girded around their garments of Needlework
Stripping Jerusalems curtains from mild demons of the hills
Across Europe & Asia to China & Japan like lightenings
They go forth & return to Albion on his rocky couch
Gwendolen Ragan Sabrina Gonorill Mehetabel
Cordella
Boadicea Conwenna Estrild Gwinefrid Ignoge Cambel
Binding Jerusalems Children in the dungeons of Babylon
They play before the Armies before the hounds of Nimrod
While The Prince of Light on Salisbury plain among the druid stone {Erdman's edition splices these stanzas back into the main body of the text at this point, though he notes that Blake does not have a good marker to this effect.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Or friends or kinsfolk on the citied earth,
To share our
marriage
feast and nuptial mirth?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Your breath falls around me like dew--your pulse lulls the tympans of my
ears,
I feel
immerged
from head to foot,
Delicious--enough.
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Whitman |
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To introduce myself to your story
It's as the frightened hero
If he touched with naked toe
A blade of territory
Prejudicial to glaciers I
Know of no sin's naivety
Whose loud laugh of victory
You won't have then denied
Say if I'm not filled with joyousness
Thunder and rubies to the hubs no less
To see in the air this fire is piercing
With royal
kingdoms
far scattering,
The wheel, crimson, as if in dying,
Of my chariot's single evening.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Yea, man's stubborn lust
To feed his heart upon your beauty, is all
The
strength
your lives have, all that holdeth you
Safe in the world,--propt like a rotten house.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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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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l fuelh
Like to him who bends the leaves
And picks the loveliest flower of all
I from the highest branch have seized,
Of them, the one most beautiful,
One God has made, without a stain,
Made her out of His own beauty,
And He
commanded
that humility
Should her great worth grace again.
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Troubador Verse |
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To satin races he is nought;
But children on the Don
Beneath his
tabernacles
play,
And Dnieper wrestlers run.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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His father, Julius Graecinus, 11 of the senatorian order, was famous for the study of eloquence and philosophy; and by these accomplishments he drew on himself the displeasure of Caius Caesar; 12 for, being commanded to undertake the
accusation
of Marcus Silanus, 13—on his refusal, he was put to death.
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Tacitus |
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--
Since she herself begat the human race,
And at one well-nigh fixed time brought forth
Each breast that ranges raving round about
Upon the mighty
mountains
and all birds
Aerial with many a varied shape.
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Lucretius |
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The
reminiscence
comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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, was an old figure for the way the feudal lords were
attached
to the ruler.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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After the death of
Genseric
the Vandal power declined.
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Tacitus |
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Such was the dire confusion of eche wite,
That rose from sleep and walsome power of wine;
Theie thoughte the foe by trechit yn the nyghte
Had broke theyr camp and gotten paste the line;
Now here now there the burnysht
sheeldes
and byll-spear shine; 95
Throwote the campe a wild confusionne spredde;
Eche bracd hys armlace siker ne desygne,
The crested helmet nodded on the hedde;
Some caught a flughorne, and an onsett wounde;
Kynge Harolde hearde the charge, and wondred at the sounde.
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HOPE ALONE
SUPPORTS
HIM IN HIS MISERY.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Lands where the north-west
Columbia
winds, and where the south-west
Colorado winds!
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Whitman |
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The
spearsman
who brings this
will ask for the gold clasp
you wear under your coat.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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O Beauty, out of many a cup
You have made me drunk and wild
Ever since I was a child,
But when have I been sure as now
That no
bitterness
can bend
And no sorrow wholly bow
One who loves you to the end?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Perhaps,
convinced
of your profound aversion, 355
He'll make himself the leader of this sedition.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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What is the strange thing
happiness?
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Tennyson |
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(Returns
Antinous
with retorted eye)
Objects uncouth, to check the genial joy.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The
Cathedral
is a burning stain on the white, wet night.
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Imagists |
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Many lay more dead than alive on the towers and
ramparts
of the
walls and there expired.
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Tacitus |
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The Chinese
themselves
are apt to forget that T'ang poets seldom obeyed
the laws designed in later school-books as essential to classical
poetry; or, if they notice that a verse by Li Po does not conform, they
stigmatize it as "irregular and not to be imitated.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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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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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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They speak in
scientific
tones,
Professional and low--
One argues for a speedy cure,
The other, sure and slow.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The king himself the vases ranged with care;
Then bade his
followers
to the feast prepare.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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" she asked in a
frightened
whisper.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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nulla tamen subeunt mihi tempora densius illis,
quae uellem uitae summa fuisse meae,
cum domus ingenti subito mea lapsa ruina
concidit
in domini procubuitque caput.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'And hast thou
overthrown
him?
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Tennyson |
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Ripples of impulse run through them,
Flattering
resistance.
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Imagists |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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