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Now the great wheel of
darkness
and low clouds
Whirs and whirls in the heavens with dipping rim;
Against the ice-white wall of light in the west
Skeleton trees bow down in a stream of air.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Behold, the flakes rush thick and fast;
Or are they years, that come between,--
When, peering back into the past,
I search the
legendary
scene?
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e buske3, & bede hym vp ryse,
& he
vnsoundyly
out so3t segge3 ouer-?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Then trace thy
footsteps
on with me:
We are wed to one eternity.
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Winds blow south, or winds blow north,
Day come white, or night come black,
Home, or rivers and
mountains
from home,
Singing all time, minding no time,
While we two keep together.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I'm wife; I've
finished
that,
That other state;
I'm Czar, I'm woman now:
It's safer so.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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my soul, which has no rest beside,
Speeds back to those angelic lights again;
And I, though but of wax, turn to their flame,
Planting my mind's best aim
Where less the watch o'er what I love is sure:
As birds i' th' wild wood green,
Where less they fear, will sooner take the lure,
So on her lovely mien,
Now one and now another look I turn,
Wherewith
at once I nourish me and burn.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Belinda rose, and midst attending dames,
Launched on the bosom of the silver Thames: 20
A train of well-dressed youths around her shone,
And ev'ry eye was fixed on her alone:
On her white breast a
sparkling
cross she wore
Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Alexander Pope |
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High on his seat an archer youth was seen,
With loaded quiver, and malicious mien
Nor plate, nor mail, his cruel shaft can ward,
Nor polish'd burganet the temples guard;
His burning chariot seem'd by coursers drawn;
While, like the snows that clothe the wintry lawn
His waving wings with rainbow colour gay
On either naked shoulder seem'd to play;
And, filing far behind, a countless train
In sad procession hid the
groaning
plain:
Some, captive, seem'd in long disastrous strife,
Some, in the deadly fray, bereft of life;
And freshly wounded some.
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Petrarch |
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at is
to seyn couetyse of glorie {and}
renou{n}
to han wel
administred ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Peter thinks you mad;
You make men
desperate
if they once are bad:
Else might he take to virtue some years hence--
P.
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Grant me one line and I'm
contented!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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So he waxes in wealth, nowise can harm him
illness or age; no evil cares
shadow his spirit; no sword-hate threatens
from ever an enemy: all the world
wends at his will, no worse he knoweth,
till all within him obstinate pride
waxes and wakes while the warden slumbers,
the spirit's sentry; sleep is too fast
which masters his might, and the
murderer
nears,
stealthily shooting the shafts from his bow!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Meredith - Poems |
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It is severe
and aristocratic in the
application
of its laws and impervious to appeal
to serve other than its own aims.
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Rilke - Poems |
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She lean'd against the armed man,
The statue of the armed knight;
She stood and listen'd to my lay,
Amid the
lingering
light.
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Golden Treasury |
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Your whole empire now lies open to him;
There all's allowed him, beneath your sway;
He
triumphs
over me, as the Moors today.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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How the true thunder bellows after the
lightning!
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Whitman |
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s
instinct
is to leap forward, a serious gentleman?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Farewell
the strand,
The sails expand
Above!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The watercourses were my guide;
I travelled
grateful
by their side,
Or through their channel dry;
They led me through the thicket damp,
Through brake and fern, the beavers' camp,
Through beds of granite cut my road,
And their resistless friendship showed.
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Emerson - Poems |
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<
toujours
la meme vieille histoire!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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'
While he spoke
She neither blushed nor shook, but deathly-pale
Stood
grasping
what was nearest, then replied:
'Of all this will I nothing;' and so fell,
And thus they bore her swooning to her tower.
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Tennyson |
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I am the
credulous
man of qualities, ages, races;
I advance from the people _en masse_ in their own spirit;
Here is what sings unrestricted faith.
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Whitman |
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loudly and
musically
call me by my
nighest name!
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our young
affections
run to waste,
Or water but the desert: whence arise
But weeds of dark luxuriance, tares of haste,
Rank at the core, though tempting to the eyes,
Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies,
And trees whose gums are poison; such the plants
Which spring beneath her steps as Passion flies
O'er the world's wilderness, and vainly pants
For some celestial fruit forbidden to our wants.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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He is writing
apparently
from
the New World, from the Azores.
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John Donne |
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Whatever absence from her must endure,
Sire, it is yet
happiness
to hope for more.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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A number of personal references are best pursued by reading a
biography
of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later relationship with the actress Jenny Colon.
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"And on what
business?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I was abasshed never a del, 805
But it me lykede right wel,
That
Curtesye
me cleped so,
And bad me on the daunce go.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Table of
contents
| Add to bookbag
Page [unnumbered]
Page [unnumbered]
Page [1]
Adam Daby's 5 Dreams about Edward II.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The hatch-cover is tilted; a mummy of sailcloth
Well
ballasted
with iron shoots clear of the poop;
Falls, like a diving gannet.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But
unexpectedly
a sudden fate
Robbed him of life; and I, fly-stung,
By lash divine am driven from land to land.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Many of the greatest poets have delighted to call him master,
and have shown him the same loving
reverence
which he gave to Chaucer.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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* Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Stephen Crane |
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Li Po |
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Imagists |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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" Count Guenes
answered
him;
On mouth and cheek then each the other kissed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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One cannot always, sir, good temper keep;
But then it
sweetens
food and sweetens sleep.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Others aspire to truth so much as they are rather
lovers of
likeness
than beauty.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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example shows,
'Tis
flattery
spends a king, more than his foes.
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Robert Herrick |
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Aye, thus it was one
thousand
years ago.
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Keats |
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Eliot
To Jean
Verdenal
1889-1915
Certain of these poems appeared first in "Poetry" and "Others"
Contents
The Love Song of J.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
For we are growing blind and cannot see,
Beyond the clouds that stand like prison bars,
EN PASSANT By Marx Sabel
Out of the sultry night she came, With tired lips aflame;
Deep in her
mutineering
eyes The nervous anger of emprise
Wakened and fought the black, Ice-cold oppression back;
Fought in the hope of hopelessness, And fought for Artemis;
Fought in the.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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At half-past four, experiment
Had
subjugated
test,
And lo!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Terrific was this noise that rolled before;
It seemed a squadron; nay, 'twas something more--
A whole battalion, sent by that sad king
With force of arms his little prince to bring,
Together with the lion's
bleeding
hide.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Where the hell of steel has torn
Its way through
slumbering
earth
The orphaned urchins kneel forlorn
And wonder at their birth.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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As yet he knew little
more about her than that she wore the most
fascinating
hats, that the
late Lord Lytton was her favourite author, and that she hated frogs.
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Yeats |
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If she wants me not, I'd rather
I'd died the day my service
commenced!
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Troubador Verse |
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THE VALLEY OF UNREST
_Once_ it smiled a silent dell
Where the people did not dwell;
They had gone unto the wars,
Trusting
to the mild-eyed stars,
Nightly, from their azure towers,
To keep watch above the flowers,
In the midst of which all day
The red sun-light lazily lay.
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Poe - 5 |
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--"What
feverous
hectic flame
Burns in thee, child?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He said, and on his Son with Rayes direct
Shon full, he all his Father full exprest 720
Ineffably into his face receiv'd,
And thus the filial Godhead
answering
spake.
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Milton |
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Beside the shining scythe and
exhausted
jug.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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e hym see; 846
A gode
fridayes
morowenyng
he shal wende to heuene kyng,
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I, the old man, was feeling bad and lay several days with
vomiting
and diarrhea.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The descent of Bacchus to the palace of Neptune, in the depths
of the sea, and his address to the watery gods, are noble
imitations
of
Virgil's Juno in the first AEneid.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Already in the east the amorous star
Illumined heaven, while from her northern height
Great Juno's rival through the dusky night
Her beamy
radiance
shot.
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Petrarch |
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Frederick
of Swabia, Emperor of Almain.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Such testimony, even though not a single fragment remained to us from which
to judge her poetry for ourselves, might well convince us that the
supremacy
acknowledged
by those who knew all the triumphs of the genius of
old Greece was beyond the assault of any modern rival.
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Sappho |
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Does not Fortuna, your daughter, when strewing her
glorious
presents,
After the manner of girls, yield to each passing whim?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Maisie wrenched herself free angrily, and Dick stood
abashed and
tingling
from head to toe.
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Kipling - Poems |
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34
Seek not to know which song or saying yields 37
As long as tinted haze the
mountain
covered 38
Ye speak of raptures that are void and friendless 39
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Dodsley lay low and said nothing, and so the
incident
closed.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Why, if thou cause thy folk to crop some villein's ears,
So, evil falls, and a fool
foretells
the truth.
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Sidney Lanier |
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copyright
law (does not
contain a notice indicating that it is posted with permission of the
copyright holder), the work can be copied and distributed to anyone in
the United States without paying any fees or charges.
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Wilde - Poems |
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_Quel ch'
infinita
providenza ed arte.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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At
interview
both stood
A while, but suddenly at head appeerd
Satan: And thus was heard Commanding loud.
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Milton |
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He stood a soldier to the last right end,
A perfect patriot, and a noble friend;
But most, a
virtuous
son.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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XLI
In my own shire, if I was sad
Homely
comforters
I had:
The earth, because my heart was sore,
Sorrowed for the son she bore;
And standing hills, long to remain,
Shared their short-lived comrade's pain.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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þā wīgend hyra wunda
genǣson (_the warriors were
recovering
from their wounds_).
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Beowulf |
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You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second
Marriage
in my house;
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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[3] The name
Gilgamish
was originally written
_d_Gi-bil-aga-mis, and means "The fire god (_Gibil_) is a commander,"
abbreviated to _d_Gi-bil-ga-mis, and _d_Gi(s)-bil-ga-mis, a form
which by full labialization of _b_ to _u_ was finally contracted to
_d_Gi-il-ga-mis.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I
summoned
the land to assemble unto him,
that heroes might kiss his feet.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And now the wind
In frolic mood among the merry hours
Wakens with sudden start and tosses off
Some untied bonnet on its dancing wings;
Away they follow with a scream and laugh,
And aye the
youngest
ever lags behind,
Till on the deep lake's very bank it hings.
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John Clare |
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At first he
completed
the drama in three acts.
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Shelley |
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'
O happy town beside the sea,
Whose roads lead
everywhere
to all;
Than thine no deeper moat can be,
No stouter fence, no steeper wall!
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Emerson - Poems |
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O cities memories of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their thinkers their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the
clusters
of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Altas ondas que venez suz la mar
Deep waves that roll,
travelling
the sea,
That high winds, here and there, set free,
What news of my love do you bring to me?
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Troubador Verse |
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And shouldn't we be able to recognise
The heart of a
treacherous
mortal by sure signs?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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He died at an
advanced
age in Montpellier.
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Troubador Verse |
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They have enough as 'tis: I see
In many an eye that measures me
The mortal
sickness
of a mind
Too unhappy to be kind.
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_detecta_
Dh
82 _quin_ Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Most of the poems had
been
carefully
copied on sheets of note-paper, and tied in little
fascicules, each of six or eight sheets.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Modern
pictures
are, no doubt, delightful to look at.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Had stoutly launched from shore; 130
Launched
from the margin of a bay
Among the Indian isles, where lay
His father's ship, and had sailed far--
To join that gallant ship of war,
In his delightful shell.
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William Wordsworth |
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Who, that is clean, shall see
And hate not the blood-red hand,
His mother's
murderer?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Sir
George
Beaumont
painted a picture from it, which Wilkie thought his
best.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Ninmada,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I entered a rather large
reception
room.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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895
You'd see me sooner die a
thousand
deaths.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
"By MARIE, and alle
Seinctes
ynne Heav'n,
Thys sunne shall be hys laste.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Nor am I
So ill to look on: lately on the beach
I saw myself, when winds had stilled the sea,
And, if that mirror lie not, would not fear
Daphnis to challenge, though
yourself
were judge.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And if my art,
unwearying
and discreet,
Can make no Moon of Silver for thy feet
To have for Footstool, then thy heel shall rest
Upon the snake that gnaws within my breast,
Victorious Queen of whom our hope is born!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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