wherefore
did you blind
Yourself from his quick eyes?
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Then
bethought
him the hardy Hygelac-thane
of his boast at evening: up he bounded,
grasped firm his foe, whose fingers cracked.
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XVII
"And is it,"
meditates
Eugene.
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A man's ideals,
if genuinely held and
honestly
followed, are perhaps even more valuable
contributions to our final estimate of the man himself than all he did
or left undone.
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International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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in my head
Many
thoughts
of trouble come,
Like to flies upon a plum.
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this
feminine
land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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True, a new mistress now I chase,
The first foe in the field;
And with a
stronger
faith embrace
A sword, a horse, a shield.
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Golden Treasury |
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The sonnets of Les
Antiquites
provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
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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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Sometimes the peer
Stopt in his search and heard a voice complain,
Which seemed to be Angelica's: if here
The
restless
warrior stand, it sounds from there,
And calls for help he knows not whence nor where,
XVII
Returning to Rogero, left, I said,
When through a gloomy path, upon his steed,
Following the giant and the dame who fled,
He from the wood had issued on the mead;
I say that he arrived where Roland dread
Arrived before him, if I rightly read.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And heard this voice of sorrow
breathed
from the hollow pit.
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blake-poems |
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Dost thou
remember
Sicily?
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Wilde - Poems |
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Difficult
is it, alas, to conceal the shame of a monarch;
Hide it can neither his crown, nor a tight Phrygian cap:
Midas has asses ears!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Tho' stars in skies may disappear,
And angry tempests gather;
The happy hour may soon be near
That brings us
pleasant
weather:
The weary night o' care and grief
May hae a joyfu' morrow;
so dawning day has brought relief,
Fareweel our night o' sorrow.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The approach of evening or nightfall,
the coming of dawn, the change of the seasons, the slow changes of light
into darkness and of darkness into light, in short, the most silent yet
greatest
metamorphoses
in the external aspects of nature form the
contents of many of these first poems.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Belzebuth
enrage racle ses violons!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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--tell me--tell me, I
implore!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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an subit et tecta
callidus
arte nocet?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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To follow Time's dying melodies through,
And never to lose the old in the new,
And ever to solve the
discords
true --
Love alone can do.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The Caterpillar
Plants, Caterpillars and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II),
Johannes
Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
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Appoloinaire |
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The heart alone can
tranquilize
the mind;
In mutual passion ev'ry bliss we find.
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La Fontaine |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The sails were filled, and fair the light winds blew
As glad to waft him from his native home;
And fast the white rocks faded from his view,
And soon were lost in circumambient foam;
And then, it may be, of his wish to roam
Repented he, but in his bosom slept
The silent thought, nor from his lips did come
One word of wail, whilst others sate and wept,
And to the
reckless
gales unmanly moaning kept.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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in
readiness
is laid
The dark emprise, the rending blade;
Blood-dropping daggers shall achieve
The dateless doom of Atreus' name,
Or?
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Aeschylus |
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Meredith - Poems |
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If
accusation
only can draw blood, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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In wavy gold thy summer vales are dress'd;
Thy autumns bind with copious fruit oppress'd:
With flocks and herds each grassy plain is stored;
And fish of every fin thy seas afford:
Their
affluent
joys the grateful realms confess;
And bless the power that still delights to bless,
Gracious permit this prayer, imperial dame!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Milton |
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60
"A cunning artist will I have to frame
A basin for that
fountain
in the dell!
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William Wordsworth |
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With purple
clusters
blushing through the green.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Sufficient
'tis for me, that what is here,
I got from those who ev'ry-where appear
The friends of truth:--let others say the same;
What more would they expect should be my aim?
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La Fontaine |
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Belinda
declares
spades trumps and so becomes the "ombre.
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Alexander Pope |
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Ah, quietly the shingle waits the tides
Whose waves are
stinging
kisses, but to me
Love brought no peace, nor darkness any rest.
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Sara Teasdale |
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shall reviving thraldom again be
The patched-up idol of
enlightened
days?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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HE TELLS OF A VALLEY FULL OF LOVERS
I DREAMED that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs,
For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;
And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood
With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes:
I cried in my dream, _O women, bid the young men lay
Their heads on your knees, and drown their eyes with your hair,
Or
remembering
hers they will find no other face fair
Till all the valleys of the world have been withered away_.
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Yeats |
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There's smoke in you, I know,
And
splutter
too.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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_ For, O ye heavens, ye are my witnesses,
That _I_, struck out from nature in a blot,
The outcast and the mildew of things good,
The leper of angels, the
excepted
dust
Under the common rain of daily gifts,--
I the snake, I the tempter, I the cursed,--
To whom the highest and the lowest alike
Say, Go from us--we have no need of thee,--
Was made by God like others.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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so long as it is
possible
for his desires
to point towards objects thus infinite and unmeasured, he is joyous,
and tranquil, and self-possessed.
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Shelley |
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He was born at Old
Aberdeen
on May 19, 1895.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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It was only later on that I
understood
that they were talking
about the army of the Yaik, which had only just been reduced to
submission after the revolt of 1772.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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In the contemplation
of Beauty we alone find it possible to attain that pleasurable
elevation, or
excitement
_of the soul, _which we recognize as the Poetic
Sentiment, and which is so easily distinguished from Truth, which is the
satisfaction of the Reason, or from Passion, which is the excitement of
the heart.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Descend once more,
propitious
to my aid.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Here a little child I stand
Heaving up my either hand;
Cold as
paddocks
though they be,
Here I lift them up to Thee,
For a benison to fall
On our meat and on us all.
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Robert Herrick |
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ECLOGUE II
ALEXIS
The
shepherd
Corydon with love was fired
For fair Alexis, his own master's joy:
No room for hope had he, yet, none the less,
The thick-leaved shadowy-soaring beech-tree grove
Still would he haunt, and there alone, as thus,
To woods and hills pour forth his artless strains.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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He returns enrich'd 340
With many precious stores from those obtain'd
Whom he hath visited; but he hath lost,
Departing from Thrinacia's isle, his bark
And all his lov'd
companions
in the Deep,
For Jove was adverse to him, and the Sun,
Whose beeves his followers slew.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The same at last and at last when peace is declared,
He stands in the room of the old tavern, the well-belov'd soldiers
all pass through,
The
officers
speechless and slow draw near in their turns,
The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,
He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another, he shakes hands
and bids good-by to the army.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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O
resistless
restless race!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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XXXVI
When I pass thy door at night
I a
benediction
breathe:
"Ye who have the sleeping world
In your care,
"Guard the linen sweet and cool, 5
Where a lovely golden head
With its dreams of mortal bliss
Slumbers now!
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Sappho |
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He won't get free of her again; she'll lead
His
wildness
home and keep him tame for ever.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Shall ne'er prevail the woman's plea,
`We maids would far, far whiter be
If that our eyes might
sometimes
see
Men maids in purity,'
Fair Lady?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Vincent Millay and Robert Frost
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK
AMERICAN
POETRY, 1922 ***
***** This file should be named 25880-8.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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But if she found us like our sea,
Of aspect
colourless
and chill,
Rock-girt; like it she found us still
Deep at our deepest, strong and free.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Les
voyageurs n'ont pas a rendre leur
commission
de sitot!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Her face is rounder than the moon,
And ruddier than the gown
Of orchis in the pasture,
Or
rhododendron
worn.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The many heard, and the loud revelry
Grew hush; the stately music no more breathes;
The myrtle sicken'd in a
thousand
wreaths.
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Keats - Lamia |
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By Jove the
stranger
and the poor are sent;
And what to those we give to Jove is lent.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I've read through and through, sir,
With little
admiring
or blaming;
The Papers are barren
Of home-news or foreign,
No murders or rapes worth the naming.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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What mortal man
Achilles
can sustain?
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Iliad - Pope |
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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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--from my house hath outcast me;
She hath borne
children
to our enemy;
She hath made me naught, she hath made Orestes naught.
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Euripides - Electra |
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In one corner the car of summer's greenery
gloriously
motionless
forever.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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Qu'on
patiente
et qu'on s'ennuie,
C'est si simple!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Chimene
Sire, my father is dead; and as he died
I saw the blood pour from his noble side;
That blood which often
preserved
your walls,
That blood which often won your royal wars,
That blood, which shed still smokes in anger,
At being lost, not for you but another.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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My new wife is clever at
embroidering
silk;
My old wife was good at plain sewing.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Paul so describes
the work of the Spirit: 'Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our
infirmities, for we know not what we should pray for as we ought:
but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with
groanings
which
cannot be uttered.
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John Donne |
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Strike us they will with lances and with spears:
Battle with them we'll have,
prolonged
and keen;
Never has man beheld such armies meet.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
To such
entreaty
answer thus was made:
"Entreat Matilda, that she teach thee this.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Why should not Moses and the
enchanters
of Pharaoh have
made their staffs as the medicine men of many primitive peoples make
their pieces of old rope seem like devouring serpents?
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Yeats |
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Being, by those arts, raised above
himself, he became the
declared
enemy of all good men, and acted a
distinguished part among the vilest instruments of that pernicious
court.
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Tacitus |
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Must I go starved because some
stranger
dies?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And ye, that been of beautee crop and rote,
If therwith-al in you ther be no routhe,
Than is it harm ye liven, by my
trouthe!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Maiest thou fele al the peynes of age whylst yynge, 515
Unmanned, uneyned, exclooded aie the lyghte,
Thie senses, lyche thieselfe,
enwrapped
yn nyghte,
A scoff to foemen & to beastes a pheere;
Maie furched levynne onne thie head alyghte,
Maie on thee falle the fhuyr of the unweere; 520
Fen vaipoures blaste thie everiche manlie powere,
Maie thie bante boddie quycke the wolfome peenes devoure.
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But fools the good alone unhappy call,
For ills or
accidents
that chance to all.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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-- Their ocean-keel boarding,
they drove through the deep, and
Daneland
left.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Chanson de Roland |
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While my Waler was cautiously feeling his way over the loose shale, and
Kitty was laughing and
chattering
at my side--while all Simla, that is
to say as much of it as had then come from the Plains, was grouped round
the Reading-room and Peliti's veranda,--I was aware that some one,
apparently at a vast distance, was calling me by my Christian name.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The world heaved--
we are next to the sky:
over us, sea-hawks shout,
gulls sweep past--
the terrible
breakers
are silent
from this place.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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To one of the members has been
delegated
the merely
mechanical labors of assembling, proof-reading, and seeing the volume
through the press.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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he has at
last
remembered
it all," etc.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_ unde
_muteis_
scribebat Schwabe: _et_ om.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Many a treasure
fetched from far was
freighted
with him.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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IV
Mute Seminary there,
Filled once with resonant hymn and prayer,
How your meek walls and windows
shuddered
then!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Evening falls and in the garden
Women tell their histories
to Night that not without disdain
spills their dark hair's mysteries
Little
children
little children
Your wings have flown away
But you rose that defend yourself
Throw your unrivalled scents away
For now's the hour of petty theft
Of plumes of flowers and of tresses
Gather the fountain jets so free
Of whom the roses are mistresses
?
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Appoloinaire |
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that covered was,
Did loose his vele by chaunce, and open flew:
The light whereof, that heavens light did pas, 165
Such blazing
brightnesse
through the aier threw,
That eye mote not the same endure to vew.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Robert Burns |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Ever hath
Maenalus
his murmuring groves
And whispering pines, and ever hears the songs
Of love-lorn shepherds, and of Pan, who first
Brooked not the tuneful reed should idle lie.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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XXX
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up
remembrance
of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Speak now, Love, you have no more to fear:
Cease to hide, this
satisfies
my father;
A single blow brings honour now to me,
My soul to despair, my love to liberty.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Byron |
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Stranger, their humble graves adorn;
You too may fall, and ask a tear;
'Tis not the beauty of the morn
That proves the evening shall be clear,--
They saw their injur'd country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rush'd to meet the
insulting
foe;
They took the spear--but left the shield.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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91:
Her voice was like a hidden Bird that sang,
The thought of her was like a flash of light,
Or an
_unseen_
companionship.
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William Wordsworth |
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[81] _Works_, 1641,
reprinted
by the Spenser Society.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Not
until later was he to reach the height of an
impersonal
objectivity in
his art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Grant, if thou wilt, thou art belov'd of many,
But that thou none lov'st is most evident:
For thou art so possess'd with murderous hate,
That 'gainst thy self thou stick'st not to conspire,
Seeking that
beauteous
roof to ruinate
Which to repair should be thy chief desire.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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