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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Villon |
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Crazy parrots and
canaries
flew west,
Drunk on May-time revelations,
Crossed the Appalachians,
And turned to delirious, flower-dressed fairies
Of the lazy forest.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The causes that were heard
before that jurisdiction are
enumerated
by Cicero, _De Orat.
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Tacitus |
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of majesty," which
Bēowulf
throws off at
l.
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Beowulf |
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notescatque
magis mortuus atque magis,
nec tenuem texens sublimis aranea telam
in deserto Alli nomine opus faciat.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Here's what the
hypocrite
said: "Trust me just once more, this time.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And now moves many a
pleasant
tongue
Upon his wasted hands,
For leading aged hounds and young
The huntsman near him stands.
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Yeats |
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He hath to-day assailed Shame, 4050
And chased awey, with gret manace,
Bialacoil
out of this place,
And swereth shortly that he shal
Enclose him in a sturdy wal;
And al is for thy wikkednesse, 4055
For that thee faileth straungenesse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Glidden stroked his
whiskers
and drew
up the collar of his shirt.
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Poe - 5 |
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LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
1.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And the sons of
Aegyptus
willed
to take the daughters of Danaus in marriage.
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Aeschylus |
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O angle-builders,
Vainly have you
prolonged
your effort,
For I descend amid you,
Past rungs and slopes of curving slippery steel.
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Imagists |
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When he had prayed, upon his feet he stepped,
With the strong mark of virtue signed his head;
Upon his swift charger the King mounted
While
Jozerans
and Neimes his stirrup held;
He took his shield, his trenchant spear he kept;
Fine limbs he had, both gallant and well set;
Clear was his face and filled with good intent.
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Chanson de Roland |
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VI chp 12 v (King James version)]*
VALA
Night the First
The Song of the Aged Mother which shook the heavens with wrath* {This page is a very thicket of revisions, erasures, and inconsistent
directions
for rearranging the order of the lines.
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Blake - Zoas |
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So
wretched
the lot, an exile roaming--And
then on my heels they are ever coming!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But, if
perchance
be any that believe
The heavier bodies, as more swiftly borne
Plumb down the void, are able from above
To strike the lighter, thus engendering blows
Able to cause those procreant motions, far
From highways of true reason they retire.
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Lucretius |
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He sees that
Euripides
may have had his own
reasons for not making Admetus an ideal husband.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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His mules was goin'
powerful
slow,
Fur he had tied the lines onto
The staple of the scraper.
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Sidney Lanier |
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_Henry Newbolt_
THOMAS OF THE LIGHT HEART
Facing the guns, he jokes as well
As any Judge upon the Bench;
Between the crash of shell and shell
His
laughter
rings along the trench;
He seems immensely tickled by a
Projectile which he calls a "Black Maria.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Lamachus wants to keep the Feast of Cups,[253] and I come by his
order to bid you one drachma for some
thrushes
and three more for a
Copaic eel.
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Aristophanes |
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For
frequent
tears have run
The colours from my life, and left so dead
And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done
To give the same as pillow to thy head.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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To Da and Bao were
attributed
the fall of the Shang ( Yin) and Western Zhou respectively.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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From this pale world, so full of bitterness
Love flies, his deceits must be taken lightly,
Nothing is his indeed but pains us swiftly;
And less than
yesterday
is each day's light.
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Troubador Verse |
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Daughter
Pholoe may succeed,
But mother Chloris what she touches mars.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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' The old man took his pipe out of his mouth,
and said, 'Nobody ever marries the woman he loves,' and then, with
a chuckle, 'there were fifteen of them I liked better than the
woman I married,' and he
repeated
many women's names.
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Yeats |
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In the manuscript account of Cartier's
second voyage,
attributed
by some to that navigator himself, it is
called "the greatest river, without comparison, that is known to have
ever been seen.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'
The first row of the pious chanson will show you more; for look
where my
abridgment
comes.
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Shakespeare |
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_ From the first moment that the
outside world makes its claim felt there is no
happiness
for the man
who, like Lycius, is living a life of selfish pleasure.
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Keats |
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The
PRETENDER
and
MARINA advance as the first couple.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And so to-day--they lay him away--
and an understanding goes--his long sleep shall be
under arms and arches near the Capitol Dome--
there is an authorization--he shall have tomb companions--
the
martyred
presidents of the Republic--
the buck private--the unknown soldier--that's him.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It must speak for itself, and the reader will
find that in not a few instances it does so with sensitive sympathy and
with living power; sometimes, too, with that quietly intimate
companionableness which we find in Gray's _Elegy_, and which John
Masefield, while
lecturing
in America in 1916, so often indicated as a
prime quality in English poetry.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Lass diesen Blick,
Lass diesen
Handedruck
dir sagen
Was unaussprechlich ist:
Sich hinzugeben ganz und eine Wonne
Zu fuhlen, die ewig sein muss!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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Count
Living
examples
offer greater powers;
A prince learns badly from bookish hours.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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He had on a
gunnysack
shirt over his bones,
And he lifted an elbow socket over his head,
And he lifted a skinny signal finger.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Ask me not now
If there were women in the ways of Atlantis:
There was no woman in all her mountains
Wonderful
as thou!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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While yet he spake they had arrived before
A pillar'd porch, with lofty portal door,
Where hung a silver lamp, whose phosphor glow
Reflected
in the slabbed steps below,
Mild as a star in water; for so new,
And so unsullied was the marble hue,
So through the crystal polish, liquid fine,
Ran the dark veins, that none but feet divine
Could e'er have touch'd there.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The
captains
which were chosen to go out
And treat with Holofernes have come back.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Now, as it is my good fortune
to be of the blood of the Scarabaeus, I was
embalmed
alive, as you see
me at present.
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Poe - 5 |
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_--This just and strongly
picturesque
description of
Africa is finely contrasted with the character of Europe.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Producing
one, in size
And in magnificence the chief, a star
For splendour, and the lowest placed of all,
Loveliest of her sex, she bore it thence.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The bloom of a fine summer's day;
While worth in the mind o' my Phillis,
Will
flourish
without a decay.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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So small their number, that if wars were ceased,
And Greece
triumphant
held a general feast,
All rank'd by tens, whole decades when they dine
Must want a Trojan slave to pour the wine.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I have not told my garden yet,
Lest that should conquer me;
I have not quite the
strength
now
To break it to the bee.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Emily Dickinson scrutinized
everything
with clear-eyed frankness.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The number here of heirs shall from the state
Of His great
birthright
nothing derogate.
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Robert Herrick |
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you,
abandoned
quite
Within the rosy sheen.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The
mushroom
is the elf of plants,
At evening it is not;
At morning in a truffled hut
It stops upon a spot
As if it tarried always;
And yet its whole career
Is shorter than a snake's delay,
And fleeter than a tare.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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--The Temptation and the Fall_
While Raphael was in Paradise, for seven nights, Satan hid himself by
circling
round in the shadow of the Earth, then, rising as a mist, he
crept into Eden undetected, and entered the serpent as the "fittest
imp of fraud," but not until once more lamenting that the enjoyment of
the earth was not for him.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Of all the wicked Ten still the names are held accursed,
And of all the wicked Ten Appius
Claudius
was the worst.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I am a free companion, I bivouac by
invading
watchfires,
I turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
I tighten her all night to my thighs and lips.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But that afar from us
Veriest reason may drive such life away,
Much yet remains to be
embellished
yet
In polished verses, albeit hath issued forth
So much from me already; lo, there is
The law and aspect of the sky to be
By reason grasped; there are the tempest times
And the bright lightnings to be hymned now--
Even what they do and from what cause soe'er
They're borne along--that thou mayst tremble not,
Marking off regions of prophetic skies
For auguries, O foolishly distraught
Even as to whence the flying flame hath come,
Or to which half of heaven it turns, or how
Through walled places it hath wound its way,
Or, after proving its dominion there,
How it hath speeded forth from thence amain--
Whereof nowise the causes do men know,
And think divinities are working there.
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Lucretius |
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I'll sing the zeal
Drumlanrig
bears,
Who left the all-important cares
Of princes and their darlings;
And, bent on winning borough towns,
Came shaking hands wi' wabster lowns,
And kissing barefit carlins.
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Robert Burns |
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Nor was all love shut from him, though his days
Of passion had consumed
themselves
to dust.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Knowst thou but how the stone doth enter in
The
bladders
cave, and never breake the skinne?
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John Donne |
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The maker of Bonnets ferociously planned
A novel arrangement of bows:
While the Billiard-marker with
quivering
hand
Was chalking the tip of his nose.
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Lewis Carroll |
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--Not gone to burial
secretly!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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We
have taken it into our heads that to write a poem simply for the poem's
sake, and to acknowledge such to have been our design, would be to
confess ourselves radically wanting in the true poetic dignity and
force:--but the simple fact is that would we but permit ourselves to
look into our own souls we should
immediately
there discover that under
the sun there neither exists nor _can _exist any work more thoroughly
dignified, more supremely noble, than this very poem, this poem _per se,
_this poem which is a poem and nothing more, this poem written solely
for the poem's sake.
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Poe - 5 |
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ei hym 1968
honorable
{and} reuerent.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And
murdered
in her bed.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot,
Salisbury
and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
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Shakespeare |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but O my soul is white!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Satan has
darkened
all the Inn!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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My woes began, that
wretched
day.
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Sidney Lanier |
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UNDER THE ALLEGORY OF A LAUREL HE AGAIN
DEPLORES
HER DEATH.
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Petrarch |
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HERALD OF AEGYPTUS
Methinks
we stand on some new edge of war:
Be strength and triumph on the young men's side!
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Aeschylus |
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Grand go the years in the crescent above them;
Worlds scoop their arcs, and
firmaments
row,
Diadems drop and Doges surrender,
Soundless as dots on a disk of snow.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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VINCENT MILLAY
Renascence Mitchell Kennerley 1917
A Few Figs from Thistles Frank Shay 1920
The Lamp and the Bell Frank Shay 1921
Aria Da Capo Mitchell Kennerley 1921
Second April Mitchell Kennerley 1921
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of
American
Poetry, 1922, by
Edna St.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I'VE lately certain information had,
Your spouse (I scarcely thought the man so bad,)
Has with the lady an
appointment
made;
At Jack's nice bagnio he will meet the jade.
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La Fontaine |
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A careless
shepherd
once would keep
The flocks by moonlight there, (1)
And high amongst the glimmering sheep
The dead man stood on air.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Of
tribulation
these are they
Denoted by the white;
The spangled gowns, a lesser rank
Of victors designate.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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SHELLEY By Samuel Roth
Our poet, says a simple tale of him,
Held with a
stubborn
reverence the faith
That babes are born in heaven, and, so saith
This tale, perhaps spurred by a sudden whim,
With one new born held converse lengthy.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The "lads" of Ludlow are so human to him, the hawthorn and
broom on the Severn shores are so fragrant with associations, he cannot
help but compose under a kind of
imaginative
wizardry of exultation,
even when the immediate subject is grim or grotesque.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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15:
_insipiens_ a, Muretus || _atque_ GVen
XLIV
O funde noster seu Sabine seu Tiburs,
(nam te esse Tiburtem autumant, quibus non est
cordi Catullum laedere: at quibus cordi est,
quouis Sabinum pignore esse contendunt)
sed seu Sabine siue uerius Tiburs, 5
fui libenter in tua suburbana
uilla, malamque pectore exspui tussim,
non inmerenti quam mihi meus uenter,
dum
sumptuosas
appeto, dedit, cenas.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Ah why refuse the
blameless
bliss?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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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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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Before 560
I quitted Hamburg, Giulio, his late steward,
Informed
me, that he had obtained an order
From Brandenburg's elector, for the arrest
Of Kruitzner (such the name I then bore) when
I came upon the frontier; the free city
Alone preserved my freedom--till I left
Its walls--fool that I was to quit them!
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Thou art the mystic
homeless
One;
Into the world Thou never came,
Too mighty Thou, too great to name;
Voice of the storm, Song that the wild wind sings,
Thou Harp that shatters those who play Thy strings!
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Ah,
masquerader!
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Imagists |
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But suddenly rode a form
Calmly in front of the human storm,
With a stern,
commanding
shout:
"Align those guns!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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, where Perdita
gives to each guest
suitable
flowers.
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In thronging crowds they issue to the plains;
Nor man nor woman in the walls remains;
In every face the self-same grief is shown;
And Troy sends forth one
universal
groan.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Mery,
Without dawn too grossly now inflaming
The rose, that splendid, natural and weary
Sheds even her heavy veil of
perfumes
to hear
Beneath the flesh the diamond weeping,
Yes, without those dewy crises!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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one by one, by sword
And
ravenous
plague, all perished: every tear
Dried up, despairing, desolate, on board
A British ship I waked, as from a trance restored.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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These he
reserves
entirely for friendship.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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" Poe is without
passion, except a passion for the macabre; what Huysmans calls "The
October of the sensations"; whereas, there is a gulf of despair and
terror and
humanity
in Baudelaire, which shakes your nerves, yet
stimulates the imagination.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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O I see now that life cannot exhibit all to me-as the day cannot,
I see that I am to wait for what will be
exhibited
by death.
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Whitman |
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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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Broom and Miss Shovel together they sang,
"What
nonsense
you're singing to-day!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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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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LIX
THE ISLE OF PORTLAND
The star-filled seas are smooth to-night
From France to England strown;
Black towers above the
Portland
light
The felon-quarried stone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Buoy'd by her
heavenly
force, he seems to swim,
And feels a pinion lifting every limb.
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Iliad - Pope |
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