Our years
retracing
of long, various grief,
Wooing my soul at higher good to reach,
And while she speaks, my bosom finds relief!
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Petrarch |
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Mesmer- ism
FAMAM
LIBROSQUE
CANO songs?
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I know you step within mine house 32
'Tis not wise until the latest hour 32
The hill where o'er we wander lies in shadow 33
Needs must thou be upon the
wastelands
yearning .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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As when at times in summer's
scorching
heats.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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What is't but
Liberality
misplaced?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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CENCI:
Why
miserable?
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Shelley |
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5790
For if these gredy, the sothe to seyn,
Loveden, and were loved ageyn,
And good love regned over-alle,
Such wikkidnesse ne shulde falle;
But he shulde yeve that most good had 5795
To hem that weren in nede bistad,
And live
withoute
fals usure,
For charitee ful clene and pure.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
"My liege, it doth enhance the joy thy words
Infuse into me, mighty as it is,
To think my
gladness
manifest to thee,
As to myself, who own it, when thou lookst
Into the source and limit of all good,
There, where thou markest that which thou dost speak,
Thence priz'd of me the more.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"Wie", rief er, "muss ich mich von Grund aus hassen,
So mein Gewerb, mein Weib so zu
verlassen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The city about me
Resolves
itself into sound of many voices,
Rustling and fluttering,
Leaves shaken by the breeze.
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Imagists |
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Chatterton
would never have had time to write so much.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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My LORD,
This Poem, which receiv'd its first occasion of Birth from your
Self, and others of your Noble Family, and much honour from
your own Person in the performance, now returns again to
make a finall
Dedication
of it self to you.
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Milton |
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Sweet is the swallow twittering on the eaves
At daybreak, when the mower whets his scythe,
And stock-doves murmur, and the
milkmaid
leaves
Her little lonely bed, and carols blithe
To see the heavy-lowing cattle wait
Stretching their huge and dripping mouths across the farmyard gate.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Is that queer _thing_
supposed
to burn?
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Lewis Carroll |
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)
And other Still on from shop to shop she goes
Allurements With sharp bird's-eye,
enquiring
nose,
Prying and peering, entering some,
Oblivious of the thought of home.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Erle Egward points his launce at Chatulet, 545
And
Ethelbert
at Walleris set his;
And Egwald dyd the siere a hard blowe hytt,
But Ethelbert by a myschaunce dyd miss:
Fear laide Walleris flat upon the strande,
He ne deserved a death from erlies hande.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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To him an heir was
afterward
born,
a son in his halls, whom heaven sent
to favor the folk, feeling their woe
that erst they had lacked an earl for leader
so long a while; the Lord endowed him,
the Wielder of Wonder, with world's renown.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,
Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove:
For, thou
betraying
me, I do betray
My nobler part to my gross body's treason;
My soul doth tell my body that he may
Triumph in love; flesh stays no farther reason,
But rising at thy name doth point out thee,
As his triumphant prize.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Opposite
this, on the other raised space, was another
seat of honor.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And when the
settlers
wake they stare
On woods half-buried, white and green,
A smothered world, an empty air:
Never had such deep drifts been seen!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Of silk
embroidery
one can do an inch a day;
Of plain sewing, more than five feet.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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TO STEFANO COLONNA THE ELDER,
INVITING
HIM TO THE COUNTRY.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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at were
enbrawded
& beten wyth ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But Selfishness, Love's cousin, held not long
Its fiery vigil in her single breast;
She fretted for the golden hour, and hung
Upon the time with
feverish
unrest--
Not long--for soon into her heart a throng
Of higher occupants, a richer zest,
Came tragic; passion not to be subdued,
And sorrow for her love in travels rude.
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Keats |
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"In the
bedchamber
of the Countess.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Right great vengeance our
Emperour
will get.
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Chanson de Roland |
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" Gawayne says that he must not take
that which is
forbidden
him.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Were you given me to lose my
Chimene?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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THE
HEAVENLY
HOSTS _afterward_ MEPHISTOPHELES.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"A singular
monument
of poetical, or rather unpoetical perversity;" "the
very worst of all his pieces;" are, for instance, the phrases applied to
it by Schlegel.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Then suddenly Lord Raoul rose up in selle
And thrust his dagger straight upon the breast
Of Gris Grillon, to pin him to the wall;
But ere steel-point met flesh, tall Jacques Grillon
Had leapt straight upward from the earth, and in
The self-same act had whirled his bow by end
With mighty whirr about his head, and struck
The dagger with so featly stroke and full
That blade flew up and hilt flew down, and left
Lord Raoul
unfriended
of his weapon.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I can say then that I have passed long days alone with my cat and alone with one of the last authors of the Roman decadence; for since the white creature is no more I have loved,
uniquely
and strangely, everything summed up in the word: fall.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Lawrence and Amy Lowell
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Imagists |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Jonson's return to this field
in _The Devil is an Ass_ is largely
prophetic
of the future course
of his drama.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Beside the
battered
barricado's restless wreck,
A lad stood splashed with gouts of guilty gore,
But gemmed with purest blood of patriot more.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And it is Spirit,
Spirit
enjoying
woman, that hath sent
A beating poison in the blood of man,
The poison which is lust.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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`Now by my thrift,' quod he, `that shal be sene;
For, sin ye make this
ensample
of me,
If I al night wolde him in sorwe see
For al the tresour in the toun of Troye,
I bidde god, I never mote have Ioye!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Supernal
pleasures, myriads of gay
Discussions, great debates with prophet-kings!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Wow, but your letter made me
vauntie!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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More
commonly
a domain.
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Keats |
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O do be so good,--
With sweat and with blood,
To take it and lime it;
[_They go about
clumsily
with the crown and break it into two pieces,
with which they jump round_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Am a poor, ignorant child, don't see
What he can
possibly
find in me.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Hopes apace
Were changed to long despairs, till God's own grace
Could
scarcely
lift above the world forlorn
My heavy heart.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Nor sit out late at night,
Lest horrid
Cummerbunds
should come,
And swollow you outright.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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--Mais comme il est change, le logis d'autrefois:
Un grand feu petillait, clair, dans la cheminee,
Toute la vieille chambre etait illuminee;
Et les reflets vermeils, sortis du grand foyer,
Sur les meubles vernis
aimaient
a tournoyer.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Responsive
sighing, weeping as I weep:
"Alas," she pitying says, "ere yet the hour,
Why hurry life away with swifter flight?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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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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And the warbler's voice
resounds
clear :?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The saffron morn, with early blushes spread,(219)
Now rose
refulgent
from Tithonus' bed;
With new-born day to gladden mortal sight,
And gild the courts of heaven with sacred light:
When baleful Eris, sent by Jove's command,
The torch of discord blazing in her hand,
Through the red skies her bloody sign extends,
And, wrapt in tempests, o'er the fleet descends.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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No longer delay, let us hasten away in the
track of the sea-gull's call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother,
the waves are our
comrades
all.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A popular exposition of this
theory, and of the
evidence
by which it is supported, may not be
without interest even for readers who are unacquainted with the
ancient languages.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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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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Rilke - Poems |
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Let Earth, with grain and cattle rife,
Crown Ceres' brow with
wreathen
corn;
Soft winds, sweet waters, nurse to life
The newly born!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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She sees them already house-building, already
trusting
in the
land, their ships left empty.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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So, with an equal splendor,
The morning sun-rays fall,
With a touch
impartially
tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Broidered with gold, the Blue;
Mellowed with gold, the Gray.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The clouds follow the dragon, and the wind follows the tiger, referring to
Taizong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Say, do you know the
reprobate?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The myth of heaven indicates the soul,
The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it
comes or it lags behind,
It comes from its embower'd garden and looks pleasantly on itself
and encloses the world,
Perfect and clean the
genitals
previously jetting,and perfect and
clean the womb cohering,
The head well-grown proportion'd and plumb, and the bowels and
joints proportion'd and plumb.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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XXXIX
The third had of their wardrobe custodie,
In which were not rich tyres, nor garments gay,
The plumes of pride, and wings of vanitie, 345
But clothes meet to keepe keene could away,
And naked nature seemely to aray;
With which bare wretched wights he dayly clad,
The images of God in earthly clay;
And if that no spare cloths to give he had, 350
His owne coate he would cut, and it
distribute
glad.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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O happy port that spied the sail
Which wafted
Lafayette!
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Emerson - Poems |
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Guenes beholds: his sword in hand he takes,
Two fingers' width from scabbard bares the blade;
And says to it: "O clear and fair and brave;
Before this King in court we'll so behave,
That the
Emperour
of France shall never say
In a strange land I'd thrown my life away
Before these chiefs thy temper had essayed.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Your dreams, O years, how they
penetrate
through me!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Is there a sky
overhead?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The German composer admired the French poet, and his Kundry, in
the sultry second act of Parsifal, has a Baudelairian hue,
especially
in
the temptation scene.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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] London:/ John Murray,
Albemarle
Street.
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Byron |
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Think you the wrist that fashioned you in clay,
The thumb that set the hollow just that way
In your full throat and lidded the long eye
So roundly from the forehead, will let lie
Broken, forgotten, under foot some day
Your
unimpeachable
body, and so slay
The work he most had been remembered by?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Forth flowed fresh
A gushing river of blacke goarie blood,
That drowned all the land, whereon he stood;
The streame thereof would drive a water-mill: 195
Trebly
augmented
was his furious mood
With bitter sence of his deepe rooted ill,
That flames of fire he threw forth from his large nosethrill.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
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Thou art, sooth, a brave god,
And, for all thou hast borne
From the stroke of the rod,
Nought
relaxest
from scorn.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Will he or nill he, in
conclusion
nought
Is left him but the bitter cup to drain.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In regard to its measure, it may be noted that if all the verses were
like the second, they might properly be placed merely in short lines,
producing a not uncommon form; but the
presence
in all the others of
one line-mostly the second in the verse" (stanza?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Myself, this lighted room,
What are we but a
murmurous
pool of rain?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It is Alsatia's noble Chevalier,
Eviradnus
the brave, that now is here.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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When, in the
edition of 1800, it was divided, the title of the first part was, 'Lines
written when sailing in a Boat at Evening'; that of the second part was
'Lines written near
Richmond
upon the Thames'.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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It
is perhaps well that so few believe in it, for if many did many would
go out of parliaments and
universities
and libraries and run into the
wilderness to so waste the body, and to so hush the unquiet mind that,
still living, they might pass the doors the dead pass daily; for who
among the wise would trouble himself with making laws or in writing
history or in weighing the earth if the things of eternity seemed ready
to hand?
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Note: This poem is a consequence of the two
previous
poems.
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And now for thee barbaric robes, and gleam
Of Meliboean purple, touched with dye
Of the
Thessalian
shell.
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Lucretius |
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Hee synges of
seynctes
who dyed for yer Godde,
Everych wynter nyghte afresche he sheddes theyr blodde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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" The poet who walks by moonlight is
conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be
referred
to lunar
influence.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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what such a man's one brain
Can in itself alone
contain!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
And I
believed
him--for now I too have forgotten the language of
that other world.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The many heard, and the loud revelry
Grew hush; the stately music no more breathes;
The myrtle sicken'd in a
thousand
wreaths.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Yet fairer when with wisdom as your shield
The sober-suited lawyer's gown you donned,
And would not let the laws of Venice yield
Antonio's heart to that
accursed
Jew--
O Portia!
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Wilde - Poems |
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_ Take this line word by word, and see how
many different ideas go to create the
incomparably
ghostly effect.
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Keats |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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_That Man is not to be deemed_ imperfect, _but a Being
suited to his_ place _and_ rank _in the creation,
agreeable to the_ general Order _of things, and
conformable
to_ Ends _and_ Relations _to him unknown_.
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Alexander Pope |
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Among these
tempests
great and manifold, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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Suddenly he struggled upward laughing,
Tears of joy were
streaming
down his face:
In my breast the pang of some departure Seized me, and I wept, I know not why.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It will have nothing, and yet it will have everything,
and
whatever
one takes from it it will still have, so rich it will be.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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By its wall no more
was it glad to bide, but burning flew
folded in flame: a fearful beginning
for sons of the soil; and soon it came,
in the doom of their lord, to a
dreadful
end.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The same
historical
method seems to
me to solve most of the difficulties which have been felt about Admetus's
hospitality.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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