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Seated in her room, still in her ball-dress,
Lisaveta
gave herself up to
her reflections.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I bid the
strangers
hail!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Who are you, lying in his place on the bed
And rigid and
indifferent
to me?
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Diseases
like snakes
crawling
over the earth, leaving trails of slime.
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XXV
Her
scattred
brood,?
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FIRST GLANCE
A budding mouth and warm blue eyes;
A laughing face; and laughing hair,--
So ruddy was its rise
From off that forehead fair;
Frank fervor in whate'er she said,
And a shy grace when she was still;
A bright, elastic tread;
Enthusiastic will;
These wrought the magic of a maid
As sweet and sad as the sun in spring;--
Joyous, yet half-afraid
Her
joyousness
to sing.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Ole Mahster's blowed de mornin' horn,
He's blowed a powerful blas';
O Baptis' come, come hoe de corn,
You's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
You's mightily in de grass.
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Sidney Lanier |
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I am not quite sure that I quite know what
pessimism
really means.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Yet the sibyl with
Latinate
face still sleeps
Under the arch of Constantine
- And the austere portico nothing disturbs.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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You haggard, uncouth, untutor'd
Bedowee!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
Gawayne rises, dresses himself in noble array, and
conceals
the "love
lace" where he might find it again.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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A fragment of the South Babylonian version of the tenth book was
published in 1902, a text from the period of Hammurapi, which showed
that the Babylonian epic
differed
very much from the Assyrian in
diction, but not in content.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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suus cuique attributus est error: 20
Sed non videmus,
manticae
quod in tergost.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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(Leonor and Page leave)
Just Heaven, whose help I need,
Put an end to the evil that
possesses
me,
Protect my tranquillity and my honour.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The feling of his sorwe, or of his fere, 1090
Or of ought elles, fled was out of towne;
And doun he fel al
sodeynly
a-swowne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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dumu-anna,
daughter
of heaven, title of Bau, 179, 5; 181, 28; 184, 28.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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In return for your glad words
Be sure all
greeting
that mine house affords
Is yours.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Can you not let them rest, those sacred ghosts
Of our dead selves—yes, yours and mine and theirs Who knew not life, yet wept its utmost cares And laughed more joys than all
creation
boasts?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Fear holds dominion over mortality
Only because, seeing in land and sky
So much the cause whereof no wise they know,
Men think
Divinities
are working there.
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Lucretius |
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Highbury
bore me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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My mother taught me
underneath
a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointing to the East, began to say:
'Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life
composed
so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it.
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T.S. Eliot |
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This victim, hell, to thee was
necessary!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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It is somewhat as though the main plot of a gross and jolly farce were
pondered over and made more true to human character till it emerged as a
refined and rather
pathetic
comedy.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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A straw for alle
swevenes
signifiaunce!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough
the Fog it came;
And an it were a Christian Soul,
We hail'd it in God's name.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Pendant une anne' toute entiere
Le
regiment
n'a pas r'paru.
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Kipling - Poems |
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my cares beguiling:
Mother sits beside thee smiling;
Sleep, my darling,
tenderly!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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--
we saw you hover close,
caress her,
open her pore-cups,
make a cross of her,
quickly
penetrate
her--
she opening to you,
engulfing you,
every limb of her,
bud of her, pore of her?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The Secretary continued--
"One chintz rug, another of wadded silk, four roubles; one pelisse fox
skin lined with red ratteen, forty roubles; and lastly, a small hareskin
'_touloup_,' which was left in the hands of your
lordship
in the wayside
house on the steppe, fifteen roubles.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
But Bishen Singh, who approached with a respectful salaam, had never
heard of it, and he listened with a puzzled face and obviously feigned
interest to Orde's account of its aims and objects, finally shaking his
vast white turban with great significance when he learned that it was
promoted by certain
pleaders
named by Orde, and by educated natives.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
And when we reached the voice it was a man whose back was turned
to the sea, and at his ear he held a shell,
listening
to its murmur.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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'
And he gan at him-self to iape faste,
And seyde, `Nece, I have so greet a pyne 1165
For love, that every other day I faste' --
And gan his beste Iapes forth to caste;
And made hir so to laughe at his folye,
That she for
laughter
wende for to dye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Written at Racedown and
Alfoxden
in my twenty-third year.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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My wife joins me in
compliments
to Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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The revelling of Heracles is touched in with the
lightest
of
hands; it is little more than symbolic.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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In a word, Tu Fu's poetry
expresses
what we ordinary men and
women wish to express and cannot.
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Li Po |
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Be it so;
And let the weary sweat their life-blood out
All to no end,
battling
in hate along
The narrow path of man's ambition;
Since all their wisdom is from others' lips,
And all they seek is known from what they've heard
And less from what they've thought.
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Lucretius |
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quid non perficeret scribentis uoce Serenae
uel genius regni uel
pietatis
amor?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Lady Jingly answered sadly,
And her tears began to flow,--
"Your
proposal
comes too late,
Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Chanson de Roland |
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I talk not of mercy, I talk not of fear;
He neither must know who would serve the Vizier;
Since the days of our prophet, the
crescent
ne'er saw
A chief ever glorious like Ali Pasha.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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LFS}
Spreading them out before the Sun like Stalks of flax to dry
The infant joy is beautiful but its anatomy
Horrible Ghast & Deadly nought shalt thou find in it
But Death Despair & Everlasting brooding Melancholy
Thou wilt go mad with horror if thou dost Examine thus * {added on center right margin, 90 degrees rotated LFS}
Every moment of my secret hours Yea I know
That I have sinnd & that my Emanations are become harlots
I am already distracted at their deeds & if I look
Upon them more Despair will bring self murder on my soul
O Enion thou art thyself a root growing in hell
Tho thus heavenly beautiful to draw me to
destruction
Sometimes I think thou art a flower expanding *{This and the following four lines are added evidently in light pencil in the top margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The moistened eye, the
trembling
lip,
Are not the signs of doubt or fear.
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Longfellow |
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_
THE MERE SIGHT OF
VAUCLUSE
MAKES HIM FORGET ALL THE PERILS OF HIS
JOURNEY.
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Petrarch |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Astride on the crossbeam, sat the
disfigured
Bashkir who had
been cross-examined on the preceding evening; he held a rope in his
hand, and I saw the next moment poor Ivan Kouzmitch swinging in the air.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"Leave me with mine own,
"And take you yours away;
"I can't buy of your
patterns
of God,
"The little Gods you may rightly prefer.
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Stephen Crane |
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`And thenk what wo ther hath bitid er this,
For makinge of avantes, as men rede;
And what
mischaunce
in this world yet ther is, 290
Fro day to day, right for that wikked dede;
For which these wyse clerkes that ben dede
Han ever yet proverbed to us yonge,
That "Firste vertu is to kepe tonge.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Her lips began to borrow
Their former wondrous smile;
Her fair eyes, faint with sorrow,
Grew
sparkling
as erstwhile.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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primal
scorpion
rod--
The one permitted opposite of God!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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To speak--to walk--to seize
something
by the hand!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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how
heedless
were the eyes
On whom the summer shone!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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My quivering lips pour forth the words
That cluster in his name of glory--
The star
gigantic
with its rays of swords
Whose gleams irradiate all modern story.
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Hugo - Poems |
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To them
succeeds
a despicable rout,
But knew the word, and well could face about ;
Expectants pale, with hopes of spoil allured.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Atheists
are as dull,
Who cannot guess God's presence out of sight.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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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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T.S. Eliot |
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"
(Thus)
Gilgamish
solves (his) dream.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
The Nightingale was not yet heard, for the Rose was not yet blown: but
an almost identical Blackbird and
Woodpecker
helped to make up
something of a North-country Spring.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Da questa parte onde 'l fiore e maturo
di tutte le sue foglie, sono assisi
quei che
credettero
in Cristo venturo;
da l'altra parte onde sono intercisi
di voti i semicirculi, si stanno
quei ch'a Cristo venuto ebber li visi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Away with you and all your
withered
flowers,
I have a flower in my soul no one can take!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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On, in the whirling shade
Of the cannon's
sulphury
breath,
We drew to the Line of Death
That our devilish Foe had laid--
Meshed in a horrible net,
And baited villainous well,
Right in our path were set
Three hundred traps of hell!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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(And I Tiresias have
foresuffered
all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Unity is not
merely an
external
affair.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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He gathered all that springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling,
seasoned
sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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All is now secure and fast;
Not the gods can shake the Past;
Flies-to the
adamantine
door
Bolted down forevermore.
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Emerson - Poems |
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" I inserted a chisel, and
giving it a few slight taps with a hammer, the top of the box flew
suddenly off, and at the same instant, there sprang up into a sitting
position,
directly
facing the host, the bruised, bloody, and nearly
putrid corpse of the murdered Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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For active sports, for
pleasing
rest,
This is the time to be possessed;
The best is but in season best.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"
His speech thus ended short, he frowning rose,
And twenty chiefs renowned for valour chose;
Down to the strand he speeds with haughty strides,
Where anchor'd in the bay the vessel rides,
Replete with mail and
military
store,
In all her tackle trim to quit the shore.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Do you see
nothing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Below, 'twas still all a-roar,
As the ships went by the shore,
But the fire of the fort had slacked,
(So fierce their volleys had been)--
And now, with a mighty din,
The whole fleet came grandly in,
Though sorely
battered
and wracked.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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That the English-
speaking public may gain at any rate some faint idea
of his genius, it has been my joyous task to translate
the following small
selection
of his works.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
Marya rose, and
respectfully
saluted her.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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If, as has been
said with a degree of verity, Nietzsche was primarily a musician whose
philosophy had for its basis and took its ultimate aspects from the
musical quality of his artistic endowment, it may be maintained with an
equal amount of truth that Rilke is primarily a painter and sculptor
whose poetry rests upon the fundaments of the
pictorial
and plastic
arts.
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Rilke - Poems |
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For ease, in wide Aegean caught,
The sailor prays, when clouds are hiding
The moon, nor shines of
starlight
aught
For seaman's guiding:
For ease the Mede, with quiver gay:
For ease rude Thrace, in battle cruel:
Can purple buy it, Grosphus?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The Peacock
Juno and the Peacock
'Juno and the Peacock'
Magdalena van de Passe, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 1634, The Rijksmuseun
In
spreading
out his fan, this bird,
Whose plumage drags on earth, I fear,
Appears more lovely than before,
But makes his derriere appear.
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Appoloinaire |
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--A prince should exercise his cruelty not by
himself but by his ministers; so he may save himself and his dignity with
his people by
sacrificing
those when he list, saith the great doctor of
state, Machiavell.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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For three long years they will not sow
Or root or
seedling
there:
For three long years the unblessed spot
Will sterile be and bare,
And look upon the wondering sky
With unreproachful stare.
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Wilde - Poems |
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You scorn me, Alexis, who or what I am
Care not to ask- how rich in flocks, or how
In snow-white milk abounding: yet for me
Roam on Sicilian hills a
thousand
lambs;
Summer or winter, still my milk-pails brim.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Valley birds droned here and there, 8 we saw no
travelers
going back the way we came.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Nobis o lucem
candidiore
nota!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And my thoughts
Are like the many forests of a vale
Through which the might of
whirlwind
and of rain
Had passed--they rest rest through the evening light
As mine do now in thy beloved smile.
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Shelley |
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But since the terms be such--
No wage, or labour stained with the disgrace
Of
wrecking
what our age cannot replace
To save its tasteless soul--
I'll do without your dole.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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LIBERTATIS SACRA FAMES
ALBEIT nurtured in democracy,
And liking best that state republican
Where every man is Kinglike and no man
Is crowned above his fellows, yet I see,
Spite of this modern fret for Liberty,
Better the rule of One, whom all obey,
Than to let clamorous
demagogues
betray
Our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Saveliitch greeted me with his usual remonstrances--
"What
pleasure
can you find, sir, in fighting with these drunken
robbers?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Blest distillation rare
Of o'er-rank brightness filtered waterwise
Through all the earths in heaven -- thou always fair,
Still virgin bride of e'er-creating thought --
Dream-worker, in whose dream the Future's wrought --
Healer of hurts, free balm for bitter wrongs --
Most silent mother of all
sounding
songs --
Thou that dissolvest hells to make thy heaven --
Thou tempest's heir, that keep'st no tempest leaven --
But after winds' and thunders' wide mischance
Dost brood, and better thine inheritance --
Thou privacy of space, where each grave Star
As in his own still chamber sits afar
To meditate, yet, by thy walls unpent,
Shines to his fellows o'er the firmament --
Oh!
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Sidney Lanier |
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"
Rodin became to Rilke the manifestation of the divine
principle
of the
creative impulse in man.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Both Tasso and Camoens clearly join on
to the main epic tradition: Tasso derives chiefly from the
_Aeneid_
and
the _Iliad_, Camoens from the _Aeneid_ and the _Odyssey_.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable
effort to identify, do copyright
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on, transcribe and proofread
public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm
collection.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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From the
wildness
of my wasted passion I had
struck a better, clearer song,
Lit some lighter light of freer freedom, battled
with some Hydra-headed wrong.
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Wilde - Poems |
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LXXXIV
They would not wait to seek the dungeon-key,
But breaking-down the gate, their
entrance
made;
Bireno to the count with courtesy
And grateful thanks the service done repaid.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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He quarreled with General
Aupick, and
disdained
his mother.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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