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[In these serious stanzas, where the comic, as in the lines to the
Scottish bard, are not
permitted
to mingle, Burns bids farewell to all
on whom his heart had any claim.
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Robert Burns |
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The
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of this passage are erroneous.
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Form and face
Of
womanhood
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Li Po |
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Though you may know, you, out in the world, we have not heard,
We are not sure that the great
battalions
have stirred--
Except for something, something in the air,
Except for the weeping of the wild old women of Finistere.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thus
incorporeal
Spirits to smallest forms
Reduc'd thir shapes immense, and were at large, 790
Though without number still amidst the Hall
Of that infernal Court.
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While, like broad waves of golden grain,
Or sunlit hues on
cloistered
pane,
His colour came and went again.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Now even the cattle court the cooling shade
And the green lizard hides him in the thorn:
Now for tired mowers, with the fierce heat spent,
Pounds
Thestilis
her mess of savoury herbs,
Wild thyme and garlic.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Ventre affame n'a pas d'oreilles
Et les
convives
mastiquaient a qui mieux mieux
Ah!
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'Twas she inspired the tender thought of love,
Which points to heaven, and teaches to despise
The earthly
vanities
that others prize:
She gave the soul's light grace, which to the skies
Bids thee straight onward in the right path move;
Whence buoy'd by hope e'en, now I soar to worlds above.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The dusk drew earlier in,
The morning foreign shone, --
A courteous, yet
harrowing
grace,
As guest who would be gone.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Yours, yes,
Retaining alone of the
vanished
sky, this
Trace of childish triumph as you spread each tress,
Gleaming as you show it against the pillows,
Like the helmet of war of a child-empress
From which, to denote you, would pour down roses.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I
condemned
him because you were his accuser.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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See they
encounter
thee with their harts thanks
Both sides are euen: heere Ile sit i'th' mid'st,
Be large in mirth, anon wee'l drinke a Measure
The Table round.
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--
Darkness, I know,
attendeth
bright,
And light comes not but shadow comes:
And heart must know, if it know thy light,
Thy wild hound Fear, the shadow of love's delight.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Woe for those accents, that each savage mind
To softness tuned, to noblest
thoughts
the base!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Then I saw the morning sky:
Heigho, the tale was all a lie;
The world, it was the old world yet,
I was I, my things were wet,
And nothing now
remained
to do
But begin the game anew.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Finally for further works on Chatterton the reader is referred to
Bohn's Edition of Lowndes' _Bibliographer's Manual_--but the most
important have been
enumerated
above.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Defeat, my Defeat, my shining sword and shield,
In your eyes I have read
That to be
enthroned
is to be enslaved,
And to be understood is to be leveled down,
And to be grasped is but to reach one's fullness
And like a ripe fruit to fall and be consumed.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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My uncle
Megacles
will not leave me without horses; I shall
go to him and laugh at your anger.
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Aristophanes |
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IV
Lastly I ask--now old and chill--
If aught of him remain
unperished
still;
And find, in me alone, a feeble spark,
Dying amid the dark.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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No, those are not the words, the
substantial
words are in the ground
and sea,
They are in the air, they are in you.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The frank address, the soft caress,
Are worse than
poisoned
darts of steel;
The frank address, and politesse,
Are all finesse in Rob Mossgiel.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Winters that
withered
all the green
Have froze the beating heart.
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John Clare |
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' He spoke,
and far beneath the flood maiden Panopea heard him, with all Phorcus'
choir of Nereids, and lord
Portunus
with his own mighty hand pushed him
on his way.
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It
must be, however, in the
miraculous
fusing of the two.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Did not this dread create
Some
mitigation
of my bosom's heat,
Death would be bliss: for greater joy 'twould give
With them to suffer death, without them than to live.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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For, right within, the sword of Sin
Pierced to its
poisoned
hilt,
And as molten lead were the tears we shed
For the blood we had not spilt.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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e greue3 grene ar her wede3,
[F] Brydde3 busken to bylde, &
bremlych
syngen,
[G] For solace of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Imagists |
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"I fear thee, ancient
Mariner!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Yet aft a ragged cowt's been known,
To mak a noble aiver;
So, ye may doucely fill the throne,
For a'their clish-ma-claver:
There, him^2 at
Agincourt
wha shone,
Few better were or braver:
And yet, wi' funny, queer Sir John,^3
He was an unco shaver
For mony a day.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Lazily I lounge through labyrinthine corridors,
And with eyes
suddenly
altered,
I peer into an office I do not know,
And wonder at a startled face that penetrates my own.
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Imagists |
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And in the blast there smote along the hall
A beam of light seven times more clear than day:
And down the long beam stole the Holy Grail
All over covered with a
luminous
cloud.
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edition;
unreprieved
1834, 1839, 1st edition.
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Shelley |
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He is
indebted
at
every step to the labors of earlier editors, particularly to Elwin,
Courthope, Pattison, and Hales.
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Alexander Pope |
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With light
And
quickened
footsteps thitherward I tend,
Remembering thee, O green and silent dell!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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June Night
Oh Earth, you are too dear to-night,
How can I sleep while all around
Floats rainy
fragrance
and the far
Deep voice of the ocean that talks to the ground?
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Sara Teasdale |
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50 a year
Address: 622 South
Washington
Square, Philadelphia
"The contents are of very good
quality indeed.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Probably the boldest attempt to make epic of
well-known,
documented
history is Lucan's _Pharsalia_.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Across the glittering pastures
And empty upland still
And solitude of shepherds
High in the folded hill,
By hanging woods and hamlets
That gaze through orchards down
On many a windmill turning
And far-discovered town,
With gay regards of promise
And sure
unslackened
stride
And smiles and nothing spoken
Led on my merry guide.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A giant
shepherd
here his flock maintains
Far from the rest, and solitary reigns,
In shelter thick of horrid shade reclined;
And gloomy mischiefs labour in his mind.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The Elephant
Two Elephants
'Two Elephants'
Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594, The Rijksmuseun
I carry
treasure
in my mouth,
As an elephant his ivory.
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Appoloinaire |
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The keepers of fat lambkins chant their loves
To silvan reeds, all in the grassy lea,
And
pleasure
Him who tends the flocks and groves
Of dark-leaved Arcady.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And yet I blame thee not; a wife
deprived
330
Of her first mate to whom she had produced
Fair fruit of mutual love, would mourn his loss,
Although he were inferior far to thine,
Whom fame affirms the semblance of the Gods.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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For they both invent, feign and devise many things, and
accommodate
all
they invent to the use and service of Nature.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I ask'd my Lucia but a kiss,
And she with scorn denied me this;
Say then, how ill should I have sped,
Had I then ask'd her
maidenhead?
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Robert Herrick |
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Life is but Thought: so think I will
That Youth and I are
housemates
still.
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Golden Treasury |
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The use of gloves at
weddings
forms
the subject of another section in Brand (ii.
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Robert Herrick |
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Fences, roofs, and every single storey
Of the
Cathedral
bell tower, the church-domes,
The very crosses are studded thick with people.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
"When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of
thoughts
be laid at last,
The man of flesh and soul be slain
And the man of bone remain?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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To him, his love for his wife and
children
is a beautiful thing, a
subject to speak and sing about as well as an emotion to feel.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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50
Prince of the Powers
invisible!
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Byron |
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are the acts
suitable
to them
closed?
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Whitman |
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XXVII
A coquette loves by calculation,
Tattiana's love was quite sincere,
A love which knew no limitation,
Even as the love of
children
dear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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ee, good wedlocke,
How I
directed
him.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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"
"Make some day a decent end,
Shrewder
fellows than your friend.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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So great in any sort of herb thou wilt,
So great again in any river of earth
Are the
distinct
diversities of matter.
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Lucretius |
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There are howling shells below me, and my
bursting
bombs reply.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He was a gay gallant;
Lucretia young with
features
to enchant.
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La Fontaine |
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And thus this air
All glides
athrough
our eyeballs, and, as 'twere,
Brushes athrough our pupils and thuswise
Passes across.
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Lucretius |
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And Theseus is to be
implored!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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It's true I've been
accustomed
now to home,
And joints get rusty, and one's limbs may grow
More fit to rest than roam.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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" _
And that was all the
farewell
when I parted from my dear.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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[4] I borrow from it the
following
few details.
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Whitman |
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_--The tenor of this first conversation
between the zamorim and GAMA, is
according
to the truth of history.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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Villon |
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MAGNIFICENT
(for her he now replied,)
This flame you'll soon no reason have to hide
Through dread or fear of my old jealous fool,
Who wisely fancies he can woman rule.
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La Fontaine |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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OTHO'S PLANS
Otho had held a
purification
of the city[185] and meditated his 87
plans for the war.
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Tacitus |
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She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's
Beautiful
Wife
'She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife'
Auguste Rodin (France, 1840 - 1917)
LACMA Collections
That's how the bon temps we regret
Among us, poor old idiots,
Squatting on our haunches, set
All in a heap like woollen lots
Round a hemp fire men forgot,
Soon kindled, and soon dust,
Once so lovely, that cocotte.
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Villon |
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--In this passage the poet is
warning his fellow-citizens not to alienate the
goodwill
of the allies by
their disdain, but to know how to honour those among them who had
distinguished themselves by their talents.
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Aristophanes |
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And thus, when first
The image of the glass
projects
itself,
As to our gaze it comes, it shoves ahead
And drives along the air that's in the space
Betwixt it and our eyes, and brings to pass
That we perceive the air ere yet the glass.
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Lucretius |
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E-meteg,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The
spreading
clamour to their city flies,
And horse and foot in mingled tumult rise.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Because of the beautiful white shoulders and the rounded breasts
1 can in no wise forget my beloved of the peach-
trees,
And the little winds that speak when the dawn is
unfurled
And the rose-colour in the grey oak-leaf's fold
When it first comes, and the glamour that rests On the little streams in the evening; all of these Call me to her, and all the
loveliness
in the world Binds me to my beloved with strong chains of gold.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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We need
No
purifying
here.
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Euripides - Electra |
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For AEgypt teems with drugs,
yielding
no few
Which, mingled with the drink, are good, and many
Of baneful juice, and enemies to life.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
"Surely," replied this other;
"His
grandfathers
beat them many times.
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Stephen Crane |
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"
These tears will come--I dandled her
When 'twas the merest fairy--
Good
creature!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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His sister may have helped him, and he may possibly have gone mad
afterwards; but these painful issues are kept
determinedly
in the shade.
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Euripides - Electra |
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They bundle up the rushes for a boat
And try across the deepest place to float:
Beneath the willow trees they ride and stoop--
The awkward load will
scarcely
bear them up.
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John Clare |
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The self-same moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The
Albatross
fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
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Milton |
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There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning
striding
behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Child:
O father it is alive--it is full of people--it has children,
O now it seems to me it is talking to its children,
I hear it--it talks to me--O it is
wonderful!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Robert Herrick |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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with muchel honour
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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You wrung your hands; while I like lead
Crushed
downwards
through the sodden earth:
You smote your hands but not in mirth,
And reeled but were not drunk with wine.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Number
eighteen
this is.
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Robert Forst |
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They sell, and sell so dear
That half each tax Danby
distributes
there.
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Marvell - Poems |
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