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He and had known such days
together
And loved him better than myself.
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Wisdom and Spirit of the
universe!
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to [the] whiche
sentence
none of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Un diavolo e qua dietro che n'accisma
si crudelmente, al taglio de la spada
rimettendo
ciascun di questa risma,
quand' avem volta la dolente strada;
pero che le ferite son richiuse
prima ch'altri dinanzi li rivada.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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We, heroes all, our wounds disdain;
Dismounted now, our horses slain,
Yet we advance--more courage show,
Though stricken, seek to overthrow
The victor-knights who tread in mud
The writhing slaves who bite the heel,
While on
caparisons
of steel
The maces thunder--cudgels thud!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
CANTO XVI
O slight respect of man's
nobility!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Victory, Maids of Argos,
Victory!
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Euripides - Electra |
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6 The wisp in autumn air was a proverbially tiny thing; this suggests the
precision
of the archers.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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In scarfs of gold the priests admire;
The heralds on white steeds;
Armorial pride decks their attire,
Worn in
remembrance
of some sire
Famed for heroic deeds.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Oh may he glean my lips
delights
unbidden,
--I gleaned them all since as a dream he rose--
The oleanders "mid the fragrance hidden
And others smiling as the jasmin blows.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The literal English is, _As the sun may be beheld at its rising,
but, when
illustriously
kindled, cannot_.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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E come noi lo mal ch'avem sofferto
perdoniamo
a ciascuno, e tu perdona
benigno, e non guardar lo nostro merto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"Well,
Sourine?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And
thereacross
waved fishwives' high-hung smocks,
Chrome kerchiefs, scarlet hose, darned underfrocks;
Since when too oft my dreams of thee, O Queen, that frippery mocks:
Whereat I grieve, Superba!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'Are you not afraid,' I said, 'that these wild fishing people may do
some
desperate
thing against you?
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Yeats |
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Faust: Der Tragodie erster Teil
Johann
Wolfgang
von Goethe
Zueignung.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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universally
accessible and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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III
_Then dawned a mood of musing thoughtfulness;
As if he doubted whether he could bless
Her wayward spirit, through each fickle hour,
With love's serenity of
flawless
power,
Or she remain a vision, as when first
She came to soothe his fancy all athirst.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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modified
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practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Hush, call no echo up in further proof
Of
desolation!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Some flee the memory of their childhood's home;
And others flee their fatherland; and some,
Star-gazers drowned within a woman's eyes,
Flee from the tyrant Circe's witcheries;
And, lest they still be changed to beasts, take flight
For the embrasured heavens, and space, and light,
Till one by one the stains her kisses made
In biting cold and burning
sunlight
fade.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thus, we do not
necessarily keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper
edition.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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D spatio relicto ||
_munere_
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Latin - Catullus |
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His barber, or,
Chaucer says, his queen, discovered the change which Midas had tried to
conceal, and unable to keep the secret whispered it to the reeds in the
river, who
straightway
spread the news abroad.
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Alexander Pope |
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through mist and cloud
That merry peal comes ringing loud;
And Geraldine shakes off her dread,
And rises lightly from the bed;
Puts on her silken vestments white,
And tricks her hair in lovely plight,
And nothing doubting of her spell
Awakens the lady Christabel
"Sleep you, sweet lady
Christabel?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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But long before I ever heard your name,
Always the undertone's unchanging note
In all my singing had prefigured you,
Foretold
you as a spark foretells a flame.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Sleepless the king he found, in dubious thought;
His conscious fraud a thousand terrors brought:
All gloomy as the hour, around him stand,
With haggard looks, the hoary Magi band:[537]
To trace what fates on India's wide domain
Attend the rovers from unheard-of Spain,
Prepar'd, in dark futurity, to prove
The hell-taught rituals of infernal Jove:
Mutt'ring their charms, and spells of dreary sound,
With naked feet they beat the hollow ground;
Blue gleams the altar's flame along the walls,
With dismal, hollow groans the victim falls;
With earnest eyes the
priestly
band explore
The entrails, throbbing in the living gore.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Where
Lusitania
and her Sister meet,
Deem ye what bounds the rival realms divide?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the
secretaries
of Cardinal Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Believe not these
suggestions
which proceed
From anguish of the mind and humours black, 600
That mingle with thy fancy.
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Milton |
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La presente edition de 1895 a ete corrigee de la main de Verlaine, sur
des
epreuves
fournies par l'imprimerie Ch.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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So saying, she embrac'd him, and for joy 990
Tenderly
wept, much won that he his Love
Had so enobl'd, as of choice to incurr
Divine displeasure for her sake, or Death.
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Milton |
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"
XXXV
Upon the table in a trice
Of widow
Clicquot
or Moet
A blessed bottle, placed in ice,
For the young poet they display.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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It would be difficult
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and
Liberation
$1.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Wordsworth, thinking
probably
of the "Venus" and the "Lucrece," said
finely of Shakespeare "Shakespeare _could_ not have written an Epic; he
would have died of plethora of thought.
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Golden Treasury |
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5
Ten
provincia
narrat esse bellam?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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For him the mighty sire of gods assign'd
The tempest's lood, the tyrant of the wind;
His word alone the
listening
storms obey,
To smooth the deep, or swell the foamy sea.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Ses yeux couleur de tabac d'Espagne, son
epaisse chevelure sombre, son elegance, son intelligence,
l'enchantement de sa voix chaude et bien timbree, plus encore que son
eloquence naturelle qui lui faisait developper des paradoxes avec une
magnifique intelligence et on ne saurait dire quel
magnetisme
personnel
qui se degageait de toutes les impressions refoulees au-dedans de lui,
le rendaient extremement seduisant.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Then,
starting
with the very first verse, each character
played his part; all spoke, both woman and slave and master, young girl
and old hag.
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Aristophanes |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Unto thy
judgment
my soul have I given!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I brought him forth in woe,
But thought it joy
To see him to my bosom
clinging
so.
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Byron |
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Most
honourable
in thee: but scarcely wise!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"The
bustling
fates
"Heap his hands with corpses
"Until he stands like a child,
"With surplus of toys.
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Stephen Crane |
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She is even thine aunt, Arthur's half
sister;
wherefore
come to thine aunt, for all my household love thee.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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'
And so you will see my death in this duel,
Far from quenching glory, will give it fuel;
And this honour will flow from willing death,
Your need for
recompense
ends with my breath.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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' I hear a voice repeat,
Shakes the broad basis of thy bloodstained seat; _80
And at the orphan's sigh, the widow's moan,
Totters the fabric of thy guilt-stained throne--
'It is thy work, O Monarch;' now the sound
Fainter and fainter, yet is borne around,
Yet to
enthusiast
ears the murmurs tell _85
That Heaven, indignant at the work of Hell,
Will soon the cause, the hated cause remove,
Which tears from earth peace, innocence, and love.
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Shelley |
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Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
Sacred to
ridicule
his whole life long,
And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Beowulf |
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I will lead thee
into the midst of Erech of the wide places,
even unto the holy house,
dwelling
place of Anu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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At length the summer's
eternity
is ushered in by the cackle of the
flicker among the oaks on the hillside, and a new dynasty begins with
calm security.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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VII
The Sarazin was stout, and
wondrous
strong, 55
And heaped blowes like yron hammers great;
For after bloud and vengeance he did long.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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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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It is
finished!
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Longfellow |
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Lest the world should
separate
;
Sudden parting closer glues.
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Marvell - Poems |
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In the nation that is not
Nothing stands that stood before;
There
revenges
are forgot,
And the hater hates no more;
Lovers lying two and two
Ask not whom they sleep beside,
And the bridegroom all night through
Never turns him to the bride.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Thou art my tropics and mine Italy;
To look at thee unlocks a warmer clime;
The eyes thou givest me
Are in the heart, and heed not space or time:
Not in mid June the golden-cuirassed bee
Feels a more summer-like warm ravishment
In the white lily's breezy tent,
His
fragrant
Sybaris, than I, when first
From the dark green thy yellow circles burst.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Scarce with these few I 'scaped; of all my train,
Whom angry Neptune, whelm'd beneath the main,
The
scattered
wreck the winds blew back again.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Yes; for that love
perfects
my soul.
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Hugo - Poems |
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While recollection's pow'r is giv'n--
If, in the vale of humble life,
The victim sad of fortune's strife,
I, thro' the tender-gushing tear,
Should recognise my master dear;
If friendless, low, we meet together,
Then, sir, your hand--my Friend and
Brother!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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A WOOD, from
earliest
years, his home had been,
And birds the only company he'd seen,
Whose notes harmonious often lulled his care,
Beguiled his hours, and saved him from despair;
Delightful sounds!
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La Fontaine |
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Her treacheries have forced my
guiltless
flight.
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Marvell - Poems |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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He got Orsilochus, Diocleus he,
And these
descended
in the third degree.
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Iliad - Pope |
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7989 et Bononiensis 2744:
_uicier_
GRVenLa1C:
_uities_ O: _uintier_ cod.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Ay, to you
I doubt not I seem
admirable
now,
Worthy of being sung in loudest praise;
But to myself how seem I?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events,
heroes, records of the earth;
I see the places of the sagas;
I see pine-trees and fir-frees torn by northern blasts;
I see granite boulders and cliffs--I see green meadows and lakes;
I see the burial-cairns of
Scandinavian
warriors;
I see them raised high with stones, by the marge of restless oceans, that
the dead men's spirits, when they wearied of their quiet graves,
might rise up through the mounds, and gaze on the tossing billows,
and be refreshed by storms, immensity, liberty, action.
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Whitman |
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"]
[Footnote 8: In Professor Tyndall's reminiscences of Tennyson, inserted
in Tennyson's 'Life', he says he once asked him for some
explanation of this line, and the poet's reply was:
"The power of explaining such concentrated expressions of the
imagination
was very different from that of writing them".
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Tennyson |
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THE SONG OF PRINCESS ZEB-UN-NISSA
IN PRAISE OF HER OWN BEAUTY
(From the Persian)
When from my cheek I lift my veil,
The roses turn with envy pale,
And from their pierced hearts, rich with pain,
Send forth their
fragrance
like a wail.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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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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Stands
Scotland
where it did?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The morning lit, the birds arose;
The monster's faded eyes
Turned slowly to his native coast,
And peace was
Paradise!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Torquains nigh, a sterner spectre stood,
His fasces all besmear'd with filial blood:
He childless to the shades
resolved
to go,
Rather than Rome a moment should forego
That dreadful discipline, whose rigid lore
Had spread their triumphs round from shore to shore.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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[31] Practically a
quotation
from Ch'u Yuan's "Life," by Ss?
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Li Po |
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"
VII
"I've flown there before you," he said then:
"Your
households
are well;
But--your kin linger less
On your glory arid war-mightiness
Than on dearer things.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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[B]
This Dramatic Piece, as noted in its title-page, was
composed
in
1795-6.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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in this sad distemper,
The doctor's self would hardly spare,
Unworthy
things she talked and wild,
Even he, of cattle the most mild,
The pony had his share.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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CHORUS
Not if Fortune guide Orestes safely on his
homeward
way.
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Aeschylus |
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Honor
redeemed
though paid by parlous price,
Though lost be sunlit sports, wild boyhood's spice,
The Gates, the cheers of mates for bright device!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Yea, if thou wilt die of a
parching
mouth.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And, do you know that the scarlet lilies are woven petal by
petal from my heart's blood, these little quivering birds are my
soul made incarnate music, these heavy perfumes are my emotions
dissolved into aerial essence, this flaming blue and gold sky is
the 'very me,' that part of me that
incessantly
and insolently,
yes, and a little deliberately, triumphs over that other part--a
thing of nerves and tissues that suffers and cries out, and that
must die to-morrow perhaps, or twenty years hence.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the
countries
of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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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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Robert Herrick |
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If an
individual
Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
from the public domain (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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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Come give me thy
loveliest
lay.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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--
or fancy I'm
lonesome?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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[660] A sort of cistern dug in the ground, in which the
ancients
kept
their wine.
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Aristophanes |
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I cannot answer this immortal thing
Which stands before me; I cannot abhor him;
I look upon him with a pleasing fear,
And yet I fly not from him: in his eye
There is a
fastening
attraction which 410
Fixes my fluttering eyes on his; my heart
Beats quick; he awes me, and yet draws me near,
Nearer and nearer:--Cain--Cain--save me from him!
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Byron |
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Urizen/ Cxxxg /
xxdxding
/ xxxvns?
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Blake - Zoas |
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North, east, and south there are reefs and breakers
You would never dream of in smooth weather,
That toss and gore the sea for acres,
Bellowing and gnashing and snarling together;
Look northward, where Duck Island lies, 280
And over its crown you will see arise,
Against a background of slaty skies,
A row of pillars still and white,
That glimmer, and then are gone from sight,
As if the moon should suddenly kiss,
While you crossed the gusty desert by night,
The long colonnades of Persepolis;
Look southward for White Island light,
The lantern stands ninety feet o'er the tide;
There is first a half-mile of tumult and fight, 290
Of dash and roar and tumble and fright,
And surging bewilderment wild and wide,
Where the breakers struggle left and right,
Then a mile or more of rushing sea,
And then the lighthouse slim and lone;
And
whenever
the weight of ocean is thrown
Full and fair on White Island head,
A great mist-jotun you will see
Lifting himself up silently
High and huge o'er the lighthouse top, 300
With hands of wavering spray outspread,
Groping after the little tower,
That seems to shrink and shorten and cower,
Till the monster's arms of a sudden drop,
And silently and fruitlessly
He sinks back into the sea.
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James Russell Lowell |
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ie on earde bād
mǣl-gesceafta (_awaited the time
allotted
for me by fate_), 2738.
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Beowulf |
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With what enchantment and power
Does it not come upon mortals,
Learned or
heedless!
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Sappho |
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Yet Jove had fear'd the giant rush,
Their
upraised
arms, their port of pride,
And the twin brethren bent to push
Huge Pelion up Olympus' side.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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(Only certain very bold
instructions
of mine, encroachments etc.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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