The wasps flourish greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A
necklace
of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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I to hexameters tell, in
pentameters
I will confide it:
During the day she was joy, happiness all the night long.
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That after a short space works less and less,
Till, every effort, every motion gone,
The scene before him stands in perfect view 575
Exposed, and
lifeless
as a written book!
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We
worshipped
inland--
we stepped past wood-flowers,
we forgot your tang,
we brushed wood-grass.
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I
am here only opening the fountains, and
clearing
the passage.
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That truth, from which, through fear, thou twice didst start,
Fear haply told thee, was a learned strife,
Or not so vital as to claim thy life:
And myriads had reached Heaven, who never knew
Where lay the
difference
'twixt the false and true!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Why behold we
Marks of his lightnings most on
mountain
tops?
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Him, whom it pleased for our great bitterness To come to earth to draw us from misventure, Who drank of death for our salvacioun,
Him do we pray as to a Lord most righteous And humble eke, that the young English King He please to pardon, as true pardon is,
And bid go in with
honoured
companions
There where there is no grief, nor shall be sadness.
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We, o'er the shades thrown prostrate by the brunt
Of the heavy tempest passing, set our feet
Upon their emptiness, that
substance
seem'd.
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Nusch
The sentiments apparent
The
lightness
of approach
The tresses of caresses.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Indeed, the situation of poets is
generally such, to a proverb, as may, in some measure,
palliate
that
prostitution of heart and talents, they have at times been guilty of.
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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'
It was apparently not in use in England when Coryat published his
_Crudities_, which contains the following
description
(1.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The water
fell at least ten yards from us, and we stood directly behind it, the
excavation not so deep in the rock as to impress any feeling of
darkness, but lofty and magnificent; but in connection with the
adjoining banks
excluding
as much of the sky as could well be spared
from a scene so exquisitely beautiful.
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how brief indeed the space ere this "immortal star"
Shall be
consumed
in its own glow, and vanished--oh, how far!
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(The doors are opened; a crowd of
Russians
and Poles enters.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Qu'elle pleure a present sous les remparts: l'haleine
Des
peupliers
d'en haut est pour la seule brise.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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who trembles at the sword
The fierce
Iberians
wield?
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The stars seem purer the shade is more delightful;
A hazy half-light colours the dome on high;
And dawn, pale and tender,
awaiting
her moment,
Seems to wander about all night in the deeps of the sky.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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He does not wake at dawn to see
Dread figures throng his room,
The shivering
Chaplain
robed in white,
The Sheriff stern with gloom,
And the Governor all in shiny black,
With the yellow face of Doom.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Addressed
to a Young Lady, from the Lakes of
the North of England.
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A thousand Franks he bids seek through the streets,
The
synagogues
and the mahumeries;
With iron malls and axes which they wield
They break the idols and all the imageries;
So there remain no fraud nor falsity.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Gives the King reason for this
judgment?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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How are the mighty fallen, Master
Cranmer!
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Tennyson |
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XXIII
However comely be strength, or free and undaunted comportment,
Secrecy is for a man most
important
of all.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Could the
passionate
past that is fled
Call back its dead,
Could we live it all over again,
Were it worth the pain!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Forthwith brighter far
Than erst, it wax'd: and, as himself the sun
Hides through excess of light, when his warm gaze
Hath on the mantle of thick vapours prey'd;
Within its proper ray the saintly shape
Was, through increase of gladness, thus conceal'd;
And, shrouded so in
splendour
answer'd me,
E'en as the tenour of my song declares.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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uiis,
Digitized by VjOOQIC
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While dismal blacks hung round the universe,
And stars, like tapers, burned upon his hearse ;
And owls and ravens with their
screeching
noise^
Did make their funerals sadder by their joys.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Tell him that the ghosts of our foes are many; but
renowned
are
they who have feasted in my halls!
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That's a most
inconsiderate
plan.
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Lewis Carroll |
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_The
Monopoly
System_
Jonson's severest satire in _The Devil is an Ass_ is directed against
the projector.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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work written in these veins has any value as literature; but the skill
with which this mere lad not eighteen years old gauged the taste
of the town and imitated all
branches
of popular literature would
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"
To every
household
altar then she went
And made for each his garland of the green
Boughs of the wind-blown myrtle, and was seen
Praying, without a sob, without a tear.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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There is peace
In
homeward
waters, where at last the weary
Shall find rebirth, and their long struggle cease.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Anon her herte gan to erme; 80
And for that hir
thoughte
evermo
Hit was not wel [he dwelte] so,
She longed so after the king
That certes, hit were a pitous thing
To telle hir hertely sorwful lyf 85
That hadde, alas!
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Is not he bound to thee, as thou to him,
By vows,
unwhispered
here, yet heard above?
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Lewis Carroll |
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(2)
We are almost come to Hsun-yang: how my
thoughts
are stirred
As we pass to the south of Yu Liang's[74] tower and the east of
P'?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The
variation
in printed characters between the dominant motif, a secondary one and those adjacent, marks its importance for oral utterance and the scale, mid-way, at top or bottom of the page will show how the intonation rises or falls.
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Is it you that thought the
President
greater than you?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Many other letters of great
interest
have recently
reached me.
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William Wordsworth |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"No nation upon the face of the
earth has ever
acknowledged
more than one god.
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Poe - 5 |
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Thus nature of mind is triple; yet those all
Suffice not for
creating
sense--since mind
Accepteth not that aught of these can cause
Sense-bearing motions, and much less the thoughts
A man revolves in mind.
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Lucretius |
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Promised
is she,
gold-decked maid, to the glad son of Froda.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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'
My Freend hath seid to me so wel,
That he me esid hath somdel, 3390
And eek
allegged
of my torment;
For through him had I hardement
Agayn to Daunger for to go,
To preve if I might meke him so.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I wiped my face, took a fresh grip of the piteously
mangled hands, and said, "What
happened
after that?
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Kipling - Poems |
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I shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent,
Watching
the future come and the present go--
And the little shifting pictures of people rushing
In tiny self-importance to and fro.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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So, at last, third hand
possessed
it--
Julietta, and at Paris
It reposes in her chamber,
Serving as a bed-side carpet.
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Happy old man, who 'mid familiar streams
And
hallowed
springs, will court the cooling shade!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Keats |
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(He
unbridles
and unsaddles the horse.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Who can endure that vast
redundance?
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Tacitus |
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Hewn down and foully torn,
He to the tomb was borne;
Yea, by her hand, the deed who wrought,
With like dishonour to the grave was brought,
And by her hand she strove, with strong desire,
Thy life to crush, O child, by murder of thy sire:
Bethink thee, hearing, of the shame, the pain
Wherewith
that sire was slain!
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Aeschylus |
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[Sidenote: I
defended
Albinus against Cyprian.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Mine by the sign in the scarlet prison
Bars cannot
conceal!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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'BUS-TOP
Black shapes bending,
Taxicabs
crush in the crowd.
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Imagists |
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Catharine Howard,
daughter
of Thomas, first Earl of Suffolk, married
in 1608 William Cecil, second Earl of Salisbury, son of the greater
earl and grandson of Burghley, 'whose wisdom and virtues died with
them, and their children only inherited their titles'.
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John Donne |
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LFS}
Hearing the march of long
resounding
strong heroic Verse
Marshalld in order for the day of Intellectual Battle
The heavens shall quake, the earth was moved & shuddered & the mountains
With all their woods, the streams & valleys: waild in dismal fear
Four Mighty Ones are in every Man; a Perfect Unity John XVII c.
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Blake - Zoas |
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But the sound grew into word
As the
speakers
drew more near--
Sweet, forgive me that I heard
What you wished me not to hear.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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'
"But in going down an alley
To a castle in a valley,
They
completely
lost their way,
And wandered all the day,
Till, to see them safely back,
They paid a Ducky-Quack,
And a Beetle and a Mouse,
Who took them to their house.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Nay,
My
children
live.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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the proper veil over them, if his grave but somewhat indiscreet
worshipper will suffer it; but certainly these
teachers
of "great moral
lessons" are apt to be found in strange company.
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Byron |
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In vain the laughing girl will lean
To greet her love with love-lit eyes:
Down in some
treacherous
black ravine,
Clutching his flag, the dead boy lies.
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20
And they a blissful course may hold
Even now, who, not
unwisely
bold, [4]
Live in the spirit of this creed;
Yet seek thy firm support, [5] according to their need.
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William Wordsworth |
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This is the Serieant,
Who like a good and hardie Souldier fought
'Gainst my Captiuitie: Haile braue friend;
Say to the King, the
knowledge
of the Broyle,
As thou didst leaue it
Cap.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The harmony is far too great,
That governs all her body fair,
For
impotence
to analyse
And say which note is sweetest there.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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the end's not pleasant--puts one out;
To have been kings and dukes--made mighty rout--
Colossal heroes filling tombs with slain,
And, Madame, this to only now remain;
A peaceful
nibbling
rat to calmly pierce
A prince's noble armor proud and fierce.
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All eyes were
instantly
turned upon the speaker.
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Sē þæs lēod-hryres lēan gemunde
uferan dōgrum,
Ēadgilse
wearð
fēa-sceaftum fēond.
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Beowulf |
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Add cleanness that aye
cleanlier
shows
A bum than salt-pot cleanlier,
Nor ten times cack'st in total year, 20
And harder 'tis than pebble or bean
Which rubbed in hand or crumbled, e'en
On finger ne'er shall make unclean.
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That is the
manufacturing
spot,
And will at home and well.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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340
Thou thither cam'st, impell'd, as it should seem,
By some
divinity
inclin'd to give
Victory to our foes, and with thee came
Godlike Deiphobus.
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His little range of water was denied;[2]
All but the bed where his old body lay,
All, all was seized, and weeping, side by side,
We sought a home where we
uninjured
might abide.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Elizabeth
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In parts
superior
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His own broad shield he hangs upon his neck,
(Round its gold boss a band of crystal went,
The strap of it was a good silken web;)
He grasps his spear, the which he calls Maltet;--
So great its shaft as is a stout cudgel,
Beneath its steel alone, a mule had bent;
On his charger is
Baligant
mounted,
Marcules, from over seas, his stirrup held.
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Chanson de Roland |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Dead is the
sparrow of my girl, sparrow,
sweetling
of my girl.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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She
listened
with a feeling of terror
and disgust.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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forbears
not so;
He breaks the Vial whence the sorrows flow.
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Alexander Pope |
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If the Bow does not point at the Wolf,
rebellion
will follow.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And was he confident until
Ill fluttered out in
everlasting
well?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The Foundation's principal office is in Fairbanks, Alaska, with the
mailing address: PO Box 750175, Fairbanks, AK 99775, but its
volunteers and
employees
are scattered throughout numerous
locations.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Sanguinoso
esce de la trista selva;
lasciala tal, che di qui a mille anni
ne lo stato primaio non si rinselva>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Two
kerosene
lamps were blazing in
the office, and the perspiration poured down my face and splashed on the
blotter as I leaned forward.
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Kipling - Poems |
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From Fiffe, great King,
Where the
Norweyan
Banners flowt the Skie,
And fanne our people cold.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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that well-worn name, and all his own,
Pale he
surrenders
at the tyrant's throne!
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Robert Burns |
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_The Firetail's Nest_
"Tweet" pipes the robin as the cat creeps by
Her nestling young that in the elderns lie,
And then the bluecap tootles in its glee,
Picking the flies from orchard apple tree,
And "pink" the
chaffinch
cries its well-known strain,
Urging its kind to utter "pink" again,
While in a quiet mood hedgesparrows try
An inward stir of shadowed melody.
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John Clare |
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