The chain of iron, the
Scythian
sword,
It yields and shivers at thy word;
Thy heart is as the rock, and knows
No ruth, nor turning.
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As his last words, that he
received
the maid
As kinswoman and child, the monarch said.
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Where silent zephyrs sported with the dust
Of the Bastille, I sate in the open sun,
And from the rubbish gathered up a stone,
And pocketed the relic, [G] in the guise 70
Of an enthusiast; yet, in honest truth,
I looked for something that I could not find,
Affecting more emotion than I felt;
For 'tis most certain, that these various sights,
However potent their first shock, with me 75
Appeared to recompense the traveller's pains
Less than the painted
Magdalene
of Le Brun, [H]
A beauty exquisitely wrought, with hair
Dishevelled, gleaming eyes, and rueful cheek
Pale and bedropped with everflowing tears.
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"No--not where I shall make my own;
But dig his grave just by
The woman's with the
initialed
stone--
As near as he can lie--
After whose death he seemed to ail,
Though none considered why.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived
the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the expected guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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and what peace can we return,
But to our power hostility and hate,
Untam'd reluctance, and revenge though slow,
Yet ever
plotting
how the Conquerour least
May reap his conquest, and may least rejoyce
In doing what we most in suffering feel?
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paulum seuerae musa tragoediae
desit theatris: mox ubi publicas
res ordinaris, grande munus
Cecropio repetes coturno,
insigne maestis
praesidium
reis
et consulenti, Pollio, curiae,
cui laurus aeternos honores
Delmatico peperit triumpho.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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One of us, pierced in the flank,
dragged himself across the marsh,
he tore at the bay-roots,
lost hold on the
crumbling
bank--
Another crawled--too late--
for shelter under the cliffs.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Keats - Lamia |
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the exclusion or
limitation
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above disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you, and you
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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OSWALD Naked was the spot;
Methinks I see it now--how in the sun
Its stony surface glittered like a shield;
And in that
miserable
place we left him,
Alone but for a swarm of minute creatures
Not one of which could help him while alive,
Or mourn him dead.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Circling
bloom
Crowned the loose-lifted tresses there.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Mollement
balances
sur l'aile
Du tourbillon intelligent,
Dans un delire parallele,
Ma soeur, cote a cote nageant,
Nous fuirons sans repos ni treves
Vers le paradis de mes reves!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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So how should I
presume?
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T.S. Eliot |
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There is a period in the life of every artist when his whole being seems
lost in a contemplation of the surrounding world, when the application
to work is difficult, like the violent forcing of
something
that is
awaiting its time.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Why do I want this,
when even last night
you
startled
me from sleep?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Stephen Crane |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I daren't send this by another,
I have such fear of her disdain,
Nor go myself, and go in vain,
Nor
forcefully
make love to her;
Yet she must know I am better
Since she heals my wound again.
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Troubador Verse |
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Turning back was vain:
Soon his heavy mane
Bore them to the ground,
Then he stalked around,
Smelling
to his prey;
But their fears allay
When he licks their hands,
And silent by them stands.
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blake-poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Seid nicht so
ungezogen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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At all events, time flew; and, as a last resort
they sent for
Trippetta
and Hop-Frog.
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Poe - 5 |
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The Loir is a
tributary
of the larger Loire, in the Vendomois.
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Ronsard |
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"
By this speech, in
appearance
popular, he still retained the spirit
and force of the sovereignty.
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Tacitus |
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Lascivious
grace, in whom all ill well shows,
Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Long have I borne thy service, through the stress
Of rigorous years, sad days and slumberless nights,
Performing thine
inexorable
rites.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Upon that side,
Where it doth break its steepness most, arose
A sun upon the world, as duly this
From Ganges doth:
therefore
let none, who speak
Of that place, say Ascesi; for its name
Were lamely so deliver'd; but the East,
To call things rightly, be it henceforth styl'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I have forged onwards in reverse,
Searching peaks, ravines and hills,
Like one
tortured
by frost and ice,
Whom the cold torments and stings,
So that no more would song or whistle
Rule me than lawless monks the bristle.
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Troubador Verse |
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I see the coming light,
I see the scattered gleams,
Aloft, beneath, on left and right
The stars' own ether beams;
These are but seeds of days,
Not yet a
steadfast
morn,
An intermittent blaze,
An embryo god unborn.
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Emerson - Poems |
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suffraunce
or ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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XII
Two hostile bullets in mid-air
Together
shocked,
And swift were locked
Forever in a firm embrace.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Their voices rouse no echo now, their
footsteps
have no speed;
They sleep, and have forgot at last the sabre and the bit--
Yon vale, with all the corpses heaped, seems one wide charnel-pit.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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This
second element is that which the French sculptor in a
different
medium
has carried to perfection.
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Rilke - Poems |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state
applicable
to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Imagists |
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"
"Make some day a decent end,
Shrewder
fellows than your friend.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I was root
Of that ill plant, whose shade such poison sheds
O'er all the
Christian
land, that seldom thence
Good fruit is gather'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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8 An Account of My
Concerns
Last year Tong Pass was broken, I have long been cut off from wife and children.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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This can unlock the gates of Joy;
Of Horror that, and
thrilling
Fears,
Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
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Golden Treasury |
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The jew is
underneath
the lot.
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T.S. Eliot |
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" 710
Thus ended he, and both
Sat silent: for the maid was very loth
To answer; feeling well that
breathed
words
Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords
Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps
Of grasshoppers against the sun.
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Keats |
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How important is their
evergreen
to the
winter, that portion of the summer which does not fade, the permanent
year, the unwithered grass!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Even now
I see some
bondmaid
there, her death-shorn brow
Bending beneath its freight of well-water.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the
beginning
of his four and a half year residence in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Lord, look upon me from thy bliss above:
Look down on me, who shrink from all the shame
And pangs and desolation of my death,
Wrenched piecemeal or devoured or set on flame,
While all the world around me holds its breath
With eyes glued on me for a gazing-stock,
Pitiless
eyes, while no man pitieth.
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Christina Rossetti |
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We are not merely suppressing an enormous riot, but
contending for the possibility of permanent order coexisting with
democratical fickleness; and while I would not superstitiously venerate
form to the sacrifice of substance, neither would I forget that an
adherence to
precedent
and prescription can alone give that continuity
and coherence under a democratical constitution which are inherent in
the person of a despotick monarch and the selfishness of an
aristocratieal class.
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James Russell Lowell |
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[dv]
"Impar
_Congressus_
Achilli.
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Byron |
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XVII
At length, though hid in clouds, the moon arose; 145
The downs were visible--and now revealed
A
structure
stands, which two bare slopes enclose.
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William Wordsworth |
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The Horse
Pegasus
'Pegasus'
Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509 - 1516, The Rijksmuseun
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy,
My verses, the
patterns
of all poetry.
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Appoloinaire |
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She heard a voice like voice of doves
Cooing all together:
They sounded kind and full of loves
In the
pleasant
weather.
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Christina Rossetti |
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'
To this Turnus, with eyes fixed on the terrible maiden: 'O maiden flower
of Italy, how may I essay to express, how to prove my
gratitude?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Wilde - Poems |
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From his right hand there swung a vase, milk-white,
Of mingled wine, out-sparkling
generous
light;
And in his left he held a basket full
Of all sweet herbs that searching eye could cull:
Wild thyme, and valley-lilies whiter still
Than Leda's love, and cresses from the rill.
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Keats |
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þæt mīne brēost wereð, _which
protects
my breast_, 453; dat.
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Beowulf |
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For he hears the lambs' innocent call,
And he hears the ewes' tender reply;
He is watchful while they are in peace,
For they know when their
shepherd
is nigh.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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* A star was discovered by Tycho Brahe which appeared
suddenly in the heavens--attained, in a few days, a
brilliancy
surpassing that of Jupiter--then as suddenly
disappeared, and has never been seen since.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I grant that his works show
unparalleled talent and originality, but not one in ten contains any
moral
reflection
or deeper meaning.
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Li Po |
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From out the long shade of a road high-bankt,
I came on
shelving
fields;
And from my feet cascading,
Streaming down the land,
Flickering lavish of daffodils flowed and fell;
Like sunlight on a water thrill'd with haste,
Such clear pale quivering flame,
But a flame even more marvellously yellow.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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BOTH husbands madly ran from cross to square,
And with their foolish clamours rent the air;
I'm saddled, hooted one; I'm girth'd, said this;
The latter some perhaps will doubt, and hiss;
Such things however should not be disbelieved
For instance,
recollect
(what's well received),
When Roland learned the pleasures and the charms;
His rival, in the grot, had in his arms,
With fist he gave his horse so hard a blow,
It sunk at once to realms of poignant woe.
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La Fontaine |
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It is one to me that they come or go
If I have myself and the drive of my will,
And
strength
to climb on a summer night
And watch the stars swarm over the hill.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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These creatures,
These frantic gestures and
distorted
features,
And all the crazy, juggling fluff,
I've known and loathed it long enough!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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For Horse and Foot, and
Captains
of those bands,
On either side, could deftly ply their hands.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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He preserves, and even emphasizes, the
stateliness and formality of the Attic stage conventions; but, in the
meantime, he has subjected the story and its characters to a keener study
and a more sensitive
psychological
judgment than the simple things were
originally meant to bear.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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LII
This on the sea remained so passing strong,
And from its sable mouth so fiercely blew,
And bore with it so swift a stream and strong
Of the vext waters, that it hurried through
Their tumbling waves the
shattered
bark along,
Faster than gentle falcon ever flew;
And sore the patron feared, to the world's brink
It would transport his bark, or wreck or sink.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The repetition makes us feel the
monotony
of her days and
nights of grief.
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Keats |
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was
associated
with the Secretariat, thus with the grand councilor.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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To my
mistress
may he sing and whistle,
Clear, so her heart feels the sharp bristle,
Who can sing nobly, with joy and grace,
For it suits no singer vile and base.
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Troubador Verse |
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I say established; for it is with literature as with law
or empire-an
established
name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in
possession.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Peace will descend on us, discord will cease;
And we, now so wretched, will lie stretched out
Free of old doubt, on our
cushions
of ease.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Jules
Claretie
recalls Baudelaire saying to him with
a grimace: "I love Wagner; but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung
up by his tail outside of a window, and trying to stick to the panes of
glass with its claws.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The re-gained their ships, they cut the cables,
Their dreadful cries rose high above the gables,
They
retreated
then, without considering
The action their kings were undertaking.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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128 Xuan and Guang were truly
discerning
and wise.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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--you heard him
breathe?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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(Sie pfluckt eine
Sternblume
und zupft die Blatter ab, eins nach dem
andern.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And their friends, the
loitering
heirs of city directors; 180
Departed, have left no addresses.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the copyright holder found at the
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of this work.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
"After fifteen years of such religious, almost superstitious
idolatry
and
self-sacrifice!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Creatress
of man and
woman, 192.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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SPOKEN,
ON BEING
APPOINTED
TO THE EXCISE.
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Robert Forst |
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generously
made
available by the Internet Archive)
Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions
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Rilke - Poems |
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1849
TO MARIE LOUISE (SHEW)
Of all who hail thy presence as the morning--
Of all to whom thine absence is the night--
The
blotting
utterly from out high heaven
The sacred sun--of all who, weeping, bless thee
Hourly for hope--for life--ah!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
That
mendacious
Old Person of Gretna.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Pronounce who can; for all that Learning reaped
From her
research
hath been, that these are walls--
Behold the Imperial Mount!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Still louder the
breakwater
sounds,
And hissing it beats the surf
Up to the sand-dune heights.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Et vous les ecoutez cognant leurs tetes chauves
Aux murs sombres, plaquant et plaquant leurs pieds tors
Et leurs boutons d'habit sont des
prunelles
fauves
Qui vous accrochent l'oeil du fond des corridors.
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then,
If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief,
Should be thy portion, with what healing thoughts
Of tender joy wilt thou remember me,
And these my
exhortations!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my
companions
was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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According to her vida, she was married to Guillem or Guilhem de Poitiers, Count of Viennois, but was in love with and sang about
Raimbaut
of Orange, 1146-1173.
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Troubador Verse |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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Myself conjectured, Were they pearls,
What
necklaces
could be!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Com, no more,
This is meer moral babble, and direct
Against the canon laws of our foundation;
I must not suffer this, yet 'tis but the lees
And
setlings
of a melancholy blood; 810
But this will cure all streight, one sip of this
Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight
Beyond the bliss of dreams.
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Milton |
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It fanned their temples, filled their lungs,
Scattered
their forelocks free;
My friends made words of it with tongues
That talk no more to me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The mighty
impulse of this New Learning culminated during the reign of the Virgin
Queen in a profound quickening of the
national
consciousness, and in
arousing an intense curiosity to know and to imitate the rich treasures of
the classics and romance.
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Farming in those deserted
mountains?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Sometimes
I wander out of beaten ways
Half looking for the orchid Calypso.
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Robert Forst |
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XIX
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
All
imperfection
born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the centuries might devise,
Rome in ancestral times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box, enclosed the measure.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Most of the pieces translated
previously
and most of those
I am going to read to-day are songs, not poems.
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Li Po |
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