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thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To
wretches
such as I!
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Robert Forst |
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"
So saw I fluctuate in
successive
change
Th' unsteady ballast of the seventh hold:
And here if aught my tongue have swerv'd, events
So strange may be its warrant.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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In thy company,
With tumult or
contentment
still
Of thy delights I drank my fill,
Enough!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Line after line the
troopers
came
To the edge of the wood that was ring'd with flame;
Rode in and sabred and shot--and fell;
Nor came one back his wounds to tell.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Aeneas stood still, and
gathered
himself behind his armour, sinking on
bended knee; yet the rushing spear bore off his helmet-spike, and dashed
the helmet-plume from the crest.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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16 of
Scot's
_Discovery
of Witchcraft_, 1584, is entitled: 'To make a
spirit appear in a christall', and Ch.
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I am not certain whether this
expressive
name
is used in England also.
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Whitman |
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Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows,
Wherein you
threatened
oft to sink away,
As you, oblivious, lead me through the shadows
Of time--my solace now--but erst in play.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
Yeere
repeated
the incident to Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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How am I honoured so,
If I no honour have for the world, but rather
Hold it an odious and traitorous thing,
That means no honour but to those whose spirits
Have yielded to its ancient
lechery?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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While he
has been
speaking
the GIRLS have shrunk back holding
each other's hands.
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Yeats |
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Look
about you
everywhere
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Aristophanes |
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And now, as
conscious
of the destin'd prey,
The faithless race, with smiles and gestures gay,
Their skiffs forsaking, GAMA'S ships ascend,
And deep to strike the treach'rous blow attend.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Why fade these
children
of the spring?
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blake-poems |
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[Sidenote:
Philosophy
seeks to know the malady of Boethius.
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>>
PAUL DE CASSAGNAC _(Le Pays)_
Morts de quatre-vingt-douze et de quatre-vingt-treize
Qui, pales du baiser fort de la liberte,
Calmes, sous vos sabots, brisiez le joug qui pese
Sur l'ame et sur le front de toute humanite;
Hommes extasies et grands dans la tourmente,
Vous dont les coeurs sautaient d'amour sous les haillons,
O soldats que la Mort a semes, noble Amante,
Pour les regenerer, dans tous les vieux sillons;
Vous dont le sang lavait toute grandeur salie,
Morts de Valmy, Morts de Fleurus, Morts d'Italie,
O Million de Christs aux yeux sombres et doux;
Nous vous laissions dormir avec la Republique,
Nous, courbes sous les rois comme sous une trique:
--Messieurs de Cassagnac nous
reparlent
de vous!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Like your own Damien
Who sought that leper's isle
To die a simple man
For men with
tranquil
smile,
So strong in faith you dared
Defy the giant, scorn
Ignobly to be spared,
Though trampled, spoiled, and torn,
And in your faith arose
And smote, and smote again,
Till those astonished foes
Reeled from their mounds of slain,
The faith that the free soul,
Untaught by force to quail,
Through fire and dirge and dole
Prevails and shall prevail.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Go, leave the
hopeless
without hope;
Spare your trouble.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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They may have some edging or
trimming
of a
scholar, a welt or so; but it is no more.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Then again he dips his wing
In the
wrinkles
of the spring,
Then oer the rushes flies again,
And pearls roll off his back like rain.
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John Clare |
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The compressed and punctuated translation is offered as an aid to
grasping
the poem as a whole, in a swift reading.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And last, the
heritage
doth fall
To him, to whom from Pythian cave
The god his deepest counsel gave.
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Aeschylus |
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Ergo, if divers moods
Compel the brutes, though
speechless
evermore,
To send forth divers sounds, O truly then
How much more likely 'twere that mortal men
In those days could with many a different sound
Denote each separate thing.
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Lucretius |
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There sits my mother on a stone,
And her head is
constantly
swaying;
She beckons not, nods not, her head falls o'er,
So long she's been sleeping, she'll wake no more.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The Owls
anxiously
looked after mice, which they caught, and made into
sago-puddings.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
She sought him up, she sought him down,
She sought him braid and narrow;
Syne, in the
cleaving
of a craig,
She found him drown'd in Yarrow!
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Golden Treasury |
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He was
confined
at the hospital at Oboukov,
where he spoke to no one, but kept constantly murmuring in a monotonous
tone: "The tray, seven, ace!
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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what hand can pencil guide, or pen,
To follow half on which the eye dilates
Through views more dazzling unto mortal ken
Than those whereof such things the bard relates,
Who to the awe-struck world
unlocked
Elysium's gates?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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At last she had had her fill of weeping; then
She tore herself away, and rose again,
Walking with
downcast
eyes; yet turned before
She had left the room, and cast her down once more
Kneeling beside the bed.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Olga began to long likewise
For Lenski, sought him with her eyes,
And endless the
cotillon
seemed
As if some troubled dream she dreamed.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Stephen Crane |
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" said he,
Then declared the new Republic, with himself for guiding star,--
This Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown;
And the bold two thousand
citizens
ran off and left the town.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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SONG OF THE STATUE
Who so loveth me that he
Will give his
precious
life for me?
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Rilke - Poems |
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On a Poet's lips I slept
Dreaming
like a love-adept
In the sound his breathing kept;
Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses,
But feeds on the aerial kisses
Of shapes that haunt Thought's wildernesses.
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Golden Treasury |
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His songs are not exactly hymns;
He never learned them in the choir;
And yet they brace his
dragging
limbs
Although they miss the sacred fire;
Although his choice and cherished gems
Do not include "The Watch upon the Thames.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And thy
dwelling
men shall call
Orestes Town.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Did wiser nature draw thee back,
From out the horror of that sack,
Where shame, faith, honour, and regard of right,
Lay
trampled
on?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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--Fold back our arms, take home our fruitless loves,
That must new
fortunes
try, like turtle doves
Dislodged from their haunts.
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Robert Herrick |
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Has not Sir Mammon
gloriously
lighted
His palace for this festive night?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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He gave me them on board my bark, so bound
With silver twine that not a breath escaped, 30
Then order'd gentle
Zephyrus
to fill
Our sails propitious.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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modified
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Will he return when the Winter
Huddles the sheep, and Orion
Goes to his
hunting?
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Sappho |
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20
See _Mystery_ to
_Mathematics_
fly!
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ille licet ferro cautus se condat et aere,
mors tamen inclusum
protrahit
inde caput.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'
[Argument of the 12 Books of Statius' "Thebais"]
Associat profugum Tideo primus Polimitem;
Tidea legatum docet insidiasque secundus;
Tercius Hemoniden canit et vates latitantes;
Quartus habet reges ineuntes prelia septem;
Mox furie Lenne quinto narratur et anguis;
Archimori bustum sexto ludique leguntur;
Dat Graios Thebes et vatem septimus vmbria;
Octauo cecidit Tideus, spes, vita Pelasgia;
Ypomedon nono moritur cum Parthonopeo;
Fulmine percussus, decimo Capaneus superatur;
Vndecimo
sese perimunt per vulnera fratres;
Argiuam flentem narrat duodenus et igneum.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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XXXIX
Then Ocnus of Falerii
Rushed on the Roman Three;
And
Lausulus
of Urgo,
The rover of the sea;
And Aruns of Volsinium,
Who slew the great wild boar,
The great wild boar that had his den
Amidst the reeds of Cosa's fen,
And wasted fields, and slaughtered men,
Along Albinia's shore.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The drum ceased, the
garrison
threw down its arms.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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This would make her an exact or close
contemporary
of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Thou canst not
presently
sustain this corse--
Cry, cry, thou hast not force!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Has the
unprincipled
god, Cupid, seduced you now too?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Oferswam þā
sioleða
bigong sunu Ecgþēowes,
earm ān-haga eft tō lēodum,
2370 þǣr him Hygd gebēad hord and rīce,
bēagas and brego-stōl: bearne ne truwode,
þæt hē wið æl-fylcum ēðel-stōlas
healdan cūðe, þā wæs Hygelāc dēad.
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Beowulf |
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additional
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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It is Triton--the storm to scorn
Who doth wind his
sonorous
horn.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Why cannot the Ear be closed to its own
destruction?
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blake-poems |
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Carjat lui-meme, par trop juge et partie, ni celui des
encore assez nombreux survivants d'une scene assurement peu glorieuse
pour Rimbaud, mais demesurement grossie et
denaturee
jusqu'a la plus
complete calomnie.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
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Villon |
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better far
In Want's most lonely cave till death to pine,
Unseen, unheard, unwatched by any star;
Or in the streets and walks where proud men are,
Better our dying bodies to obtrude,
Than dog-like, wading at the heels of war,
Protract a curst existence, with the brood
That lap (their very
nourishment!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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II
THE IRONY
'Tis the morrow; the fog hangs thicker,
The postman nears and goes:
A letter is brought whose lines disclose
By the
firelight
flicker
His hand, whom the worm now knows:
Fresh--firm--penned in highest feather--
Page-full of his hoped return,
And of home-planned jaunts by brake and burn
In the summer weather,
And of new love that they would learn.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Grendel this monster grim was called,
march-riever {1e} mighty, in
moorland
living,
in fen and fastness; fief of the giants
the hapless wight a while had kept
since the Creator his exile doomed.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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(If 'twas, indeed, that thus they did at all:
But scarcely I'll believe that men could not
With mind
foreknow
and see, as sure to come,
Such foul and general disaster.
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Lucretius |
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Auguration
Silvery
swallows
I saw flying,
Swallows snow and silver white,
In the breezes lullabying,
In the breezes hot and light.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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From the window I look out
To mark thy beautiful parade,
Stately
marching
in cap and coat
To some tune by fairies played;--
A music heard by thee alone
To works as noble led thee on.
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Emerson - Poems |
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E come fu la mia risposta udita,
Sordello
ed elli in dietro si raccolse
come gente di subito smarrita.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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True to yourself and sheets, you'll have me swear;
You shall, if
righteous
dealing I find there.
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Robert Herrick |
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I found him
Sitting at supper by the tavern door,
And, from a pitcher that he held aloft
His whole arm's length,
drinking
the blood-red wine.
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Longfellow |
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each his center
basement
finds; suspended there they stand {According to Erdman, the word "center" was originally deleted by Blake with a strong ink stroke and therefore not easily erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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_They are
republished
here by kind permission of the
Editors.
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Tennyson |
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or whi sholde he
p{re}ien
to god.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Some rich
Philistian
matron she may seem;
And now at nearer view no other certain
Than Dalila, thy wife.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Then Love took wing, and from his pinions shed
On all the
multitude
a nectarous dew.
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Keats |
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I muste, I wylle; tys
honnoure
cals awaie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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'
thoughte
he, `wher hastow woned,
That art so fair and goodly to devyse?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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One feature of your character I shall ever with
grateful
pleasure
remember;--the reception I got when I had the honour of waiting on you
at Stair.
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Robert Burns |
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He cased his limbs in brass; and first around
His manly legs, with silver buckles bound
The clasping greaves; then to his breast applies
The flaming cuirass of a thousand dyes;
Emblazed with studs of gold his
falchion
shone
In the rich belt, as in a starry zone:
Achilles' shield his ample shoulders spread,
Achilles' helmet nodded o'er his head:
Adorn'd in all his terrible array,
He flash'd around intolerable day.
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Iliad - Pope |
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IX
Constrained
at length, his sword Rogero drew
To clear the rabble, who his course delay;
And in the animals' or villain's view
Did now its point, and now its edge display.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Leisurely
flocks and herds,
Cool-eyed cattle that come
Mildly to wonted words,
Swine that in orchards roam,--
A man and his beasts make a man and his home.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are LEAST alone;
A truth, which through our being then doth melt,
And purifies from self: it is a tone,
The soul and source of music, which makes known
Eternal harmony, and sheds a charm,
Like to the fabled Cytherea's zone,
Binding all things with beauty;--'twould disarm
The spectre Death, had he
substantial
power to harm.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft
deceitful
wiles.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Reconnaissez
Satan a son rire vainqueur,
Enorme et laid comme le monde!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Therefore, we usually do NOT keep any
of these books in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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' In the 1812 reprint the editor observes that in Jonson's
time 'fanciful or artful wives would often
persuade
their husbands
to take them up to town for the advantage of _physick_, when the
principal object was dissipation.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Va, si tu veux,
chercher
un fiance stupide;
Cours offrir un coeur vierge a ses cruels baisers;
Et, pleine de remords et d'horreur, et livide,
Tu me rapporteras tes seins stigmatises;
On ne peut ici-bas contenter qu'un seul maitre!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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What central flowing forces, say,
Make up thy splendor,
matchless
day?
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Emerson - Poems |
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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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to Britain's pride
Once so
faithful
and so true,
On the deck of fame that died
With the gallant good Riou:
Soft sigh the winds of heaven o'er their grave!
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Golden Treasury |
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In an old accompt of the
Procurators
of St.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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But ay the oynement wente abrood;
Throughout
my woundes large and wyde
It spredde aboute in every syde; 1900
Through whos vertu and whos might
Myn herte Ioyful was and light.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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When God at first made Man,
Having a glass of blessings standing by;
Let us (said he) pour on him all we can:
Let the world's riches, which
dispersed
lie,
Contract into a span.
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Golden Treasury |
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This he could endure, but
the coldness and even jealousy of such a man as Addison--and here
appears the famous
portrait
of Atticus--was another matter, serious
enough to draw tears from all lovers of mankind.
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Alexander Pope |
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LXXXVI
This vainly to the sea resorts, whom spear
Or hatchet, brandished close at hand, dismay;
For stone or arrow
following
in his rear,
Permit the craven to make little way.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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XV
The day is spent, and commeth drowsie night,
When every creature
shrowded
is in sleepe;
Sad Una downe her laies in wearie plight,
And at her feete the Lyon watch doth keepe: 130
In stead of rest, she does lament, and weepe
For the late losse of her deare loved knight,
And sighes, and grones, and ever more does steepe
Her tender brest in bitter teares all night,
All night she thinks too long, and often lookes for light.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XLI
In my own shire, if I was sad
Homely comforters I had:
The earth, because my heart was sore,
Sorrowed for the son she bore;
And
standing
hills, long to remain,
Shared their short-lived comrade's pain.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Note the feeling of fate in the first
appearance
of
Apollonius.
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Keats |
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Ever, evermore the while in a slow silence she kept smiling,
And approached him slowly, slowly, in a gliding
measured
pace;
With her two white hands extended as if praying one offended,
And a look of supplication gazing earnest in his face.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Then
homeward
slow returning
To slumbers deep I fare,
Filled with an infinite yearning,
With thoughts that rise and fall
To the sound of the sea's hollow call,
Breathed now from white-lit waves that reach
Cold fingers o'er the damp, dark beach,
To scatter a spray on my dreams;
Till the slow and measured rote
Brings a drowsy ease
To my spirit, and seems
To set it soothingly afloat
On broad and buoyant seas
Of endless rest, lulled by the dirge
Of the melancholy surge.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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