--bring thoughts and words,
Unrusted
by a tear of yesterday's,
Yet awful by its wrong,--and cut these cords,
And mow this green lush falseness to the roots,
And shut the mouth of hell below the swathe!
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Rodrigue
After the Count's death, the Moors defeat,
Is this honour of mine not yet
replete?
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"
But then, continued she, we ought to take
An oath, that we will full discov'ry make,
To one another of the various facts,
Without disguising even
trifling
acts.
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Ill day which made this beauty waste,
Plight broken, this high face
defaced!
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Emerson - Poems |
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"It lost my
interest
from the first,
My aims therefor succeeding ill;
Haply it died of doing as it durst?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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let not my weak tongue faulter
In telling of this goodly company,
Of their old piety, and of their glee: 130
But let a portion of ethereal dew
Fall on my head, and
presently
unmew
My soul; that I may dare, in wayfaring,
To stammer where old Chaucer used to sing.
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Nor courts he saw, no suits would ever try,
Nor dared an oath, nor
hazarded
a lie.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
Thus check'd, replied Ulysses' prudent heir:
"Mentor, no more--the
mournful
thought forbear;
For he no more must draw his country's breath,
Already snatch'd by fate, and the black doom of death!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I went out and looked
for that village, and fired four rounds at it from a
thousand
yards.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_ DONA SOL _makes
an imploring gesture; she is
speechless
with fear.
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_Ein
Fichtenbaum
steht einsam_--you recall?
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The third of the same moon whose former course
Had all but crowned him, on the self-same day
Deposed him gently from his throne of force,
And laid him with the earth's
preceding
clay.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Because they
separate
came, 'tis ordered so:
One lady must remain, one lady go.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I never hear of prisons broad
By
soldiers
battered down,
But I tug childish at my bars, --
Only to fail again!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
Arthur seizes the axe, grasps the handle, and sternly brandishes it
about, while the Green Knight, with a stern cheer and a dry
countenance,
stroking
his beard and drawing down his coat, awaits the
blow (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"Shut, shut those
juggling
eyes, thou ruthless man!
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Keats - Lamia |
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'138 orb in orb':
in
concentric
circles.
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Alexander Pope |
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After verb sittan: site nū
tō symble (_sit now to the meal_), 489;
siððan
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Beowulf |
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This poem was first
published
in Colton's "American Review" for
December, 1847, as "To--Ulalume: a Ballad.
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Poe - 5 |
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Il est l'amour, mesure parfaite et reinventee, raison
merveilleuse
et
imprevue, et l'eternite: machine aimee des qualites fatales.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But many other customs there abound:--
The FAIR with perfect liberty are found:
Can go and come, whene'er the humour fits;
No eunuch (shadow like) that never quits;
But watches ev'ry movement:--always feared;
No men, but who've upon the chin a beard:
Your
daughter
from the first, their manners took:
So easy is her ev'ry act and look,
And truly to her honour I may say,
She's all-accommodating ev'ry way.
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La Fontaine |
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Here we French and your Engineers
stood;
Over there a
detachment
of German sharpshooters lay hid in a wood.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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III
And
pointing
forth, Lo yonder is (said she)?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Till then, let slumber cross thy careful eyes:
The wakeful
mariners
shall watch the skies,
And seize the moment when the breezes rise:
Then gently waft thee to the pleasing shore,
Where thy soul rests, and labour is no more.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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A soul
trembling
to sit by a hearth so bright,
To exist again, it's enough if I borrow from
Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And, according to the best accounts, the annual
sacrifices
of
Mexico required several thousands.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Muffling his face, of greeting friends in fear,
Her fingers he press'd hard, as one came near
With curl'd gray beard, sharp eyes, and smooth bald crown,
Slow-stepp'd, and robed in
philosophic
gown:
Lycius shrank closer, as they met and past,
Into his mantle, adding wings to haste,
While hurried Lamia trembled: "Ah," said he,
"Why do you shudder, love, so ruefully?
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Keats - Lamia |
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SATIRES AND
EPISTLES
OF HORACE IMITATED.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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So that not fainting, but refresht and astonisht
And
strangely
spirited and divinely angry
My body may arise out of its passion,
Out of being enjoyed by this fiend's flesh.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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= The London
Compters or
Counters
were two sheriff's prisons for debtors,
etc.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Still hangs the hedge without a gust,
Still, still the shadows stay:
My feet upon the moonlit dust
Pursue the
ceaseless
way.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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>>;
per ch'un si mosse--e li altri stetter fermi--
e venne a lui dicendo: <
approda?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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quante fiate Amor m' assale 103
L' aura celeste che 'n quel verde Lauro 178
L' aura, che 'l verde Lauro e l' aureo crine 215
L' aura e l' odore e 'l
refrigerio
e l' ombra 284
L' aura gentil che rasserena i poggi 175
L' aura mia sacra al mio stanco riposo 304
L' aura serena che fra verdi fronde 177
L' aura soave ch' al sol spiega e vibra 178
L' avara Babilonia ha colmo 'l sacco 136
La ver l' aurora, che si dolce l' aura 210
La vita fugge, e non s' arresta un' ora 239
Le stelle e 'l cielo e gli elementi a prova 149
Levommi il mio pensier in parte ov' era 261
Liete e pensose, accompagnate e sole 199
Lieti fiori e felici, e ben nate erbe 154
L' oro e le perle, e i fior vermigli, e i bianchi 47
L' ultimo, lasso!
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Petrarch |
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The kingly lion stood,
And the virgin viewed:
Then he gambolled round
O'er the
hallowed
ground.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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With furious speed the goddess rush'd before,
Her
beauteous
form a joyful Triton bore,
Whose eager face with glowing rapture fir'd,
Betray'd the pride which such a task inspir'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Yet not of these I muse
In this
ancestral
place,
But of a kindred face
That never joy or hope shall here diffuse.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Fast by the springs where she to bathe was wont,
And in those meads where
sometime
she might haunt,
Were strewn rich gifts, unknown to any Muse,
Though Fancy's casket were unlock'd to choose.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Ah, in what philtre, wine, or spell,
May we drown this our ancient foe,
Destructive
glutton, gorging well,
Patient as the ants, and slow?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The truth of day
lightens
upon my dream
And I am Mahmud still.
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Shelley |
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CHATIMENT DE L'ORGUEIL
En ces temps merveilleux ou la Theologie
Fleurit avec le plus de seve et d'energie,
On raconte qu'un jour un docteur des plus grands
--Apres avoir force les coeurs indifferents,
Les avoir remues dans leurs profondeurs noires;
Apres avoir franchi vers les celestes gloires
Des chemins singuliers a lui-meme inconnus,
Ou les purs Esprits seuls peut-etre etaient venus,
--Comme un homme monte trop haut, pris de panique,
S'ecria,
transporte
d'un orgueil satanique:
<< Jesus, petit Jesus!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Keats |
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Sir,' seiden they, 'we been at oon,
By even accord of everichoon,
Out-take Richesse al-only,
That sworen hath ful hauteynly, 5820
That she the castel nil assaile,
Ne smyte a stroke in this bataile,
With dart, ne mace, spere, ne knyf,
For man that speketh or bereth the lyf,
And blameth your empryse, y-wis, 5825
And from our hoost
departed
is,
(At leeste wey, as in this plyte,)
So hath she this man in dispyte;
For she seith he ne loved hir never,
And therfor she wol hate him ever.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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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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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Donne, _the delight of Phoebus, and each Muse_, 5
Eternall
God, (for whom who ever dare 348
Even as lame things thirst their perfection, so 208
Faire eies do not think scorne to read of Love 447
Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see 224
Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee, 271
*Farewel ye guilded follies, pleasing troubles, 465
Father of Heaven, and him, by whom 338
Father, part of his double interest 329
Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die, 79
For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now 13
For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love 14
For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday, 69
*Fye, Fye you sonnes of Pallas what madd rage 435
God grant thee thine own wish, and grant thee mine, 400
Goe, and catche a falling starre, 8
*Goe and Count her better howres 451
Good wee must love, and must hate ill, 32
*Greate and goode if she deryde mee 452
*Greate Lord of love, how busy still thou art 448
Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is, 127
Harke newes, o envy, thou shalt heare descry'd 104
Hast thee harsh verse, as fast as thy lame measure 205
He is starke mad, who ever sayes, 48
He that cannot chuse but love, 73
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John Donne |
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The gardens have been modelled within these
twenty years according to a plan
evidently
not dictated by the taste of
the friend of Pope.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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worne of
forlorne
Paramours, 75
The Eugh?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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(London) 1913
Visions of the Evening Erskine Macdonald (London) 1913
Irradiations
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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690
Or keeping watch among those starry seven,
Old Atlas'
children?
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Keats |
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Digitized by VjOOQIC
154 THE POEMS
" He seems a king by long
succession
born,
" And yet tbe same to be a king doth scorn.
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Marvell - Poems |
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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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Sara Teasdale |
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Our humble
villages
in the plain are their
contribution.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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You know I am not a
champion
of marriage.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Yet this same air lashes their inner parts,
When
creatures
draw a breath or blow it out.
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Lucretius |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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T.S. Eliot |
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'150 Then Nature deviates':
Nature departs from her regular order on such
occasions
as these
catastrophes.
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Alexander Pope |
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cupit ipsa pupula ad te sibi
dirigere
aciem,
rabie fera carens dum breue tempus animus est.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Touch it not; let it stand
Ragged, forlorn, still looking at the land;
The dry blue chaos of
mountains
in the distance,
The slender blades of grass it shelters are
Its own dark thoughts of what is near and far.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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He grips the tankard of brown ale
That spills a generous foam:
Oft-times he drinks, they say, and winks
At drunk men
lurching
home.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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For I don't know when I may
See her, the
distance
is so far.
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Troubador Verse |
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[27]
Infinitive
"to shepherd"; see also Poebel, PBS.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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We bring thee our love and our garlands for tribute,
With gifts of thy opulent giving we come;
O source of our
manifold
gladness, we hail thee,
We praise thee, O Prithvi, with cymbal and drum.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The jew is
underneath
the lot.
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T.S. Eliot |
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His
Highness
doats on milky cheeks,
So do not make us dally"--
We, eighty strong, who send along
The dreaded Pirate Galley.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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you would have a more
_tragic_[269]
appearance
in the eyes of the gods.
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Aristophanes |
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Artists enjoy
ateliers
which are furnished
So as to make for a space Pantheon-like in decor:
Jupiter lowers that godly brow while his Juno looks upward;
Phoebus takes forward strides, shaking his curly head;
While phlegmatic Minerva peers down on us, frivolous Hermes
Seems to be looking askance, roguish, though tender as well.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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A lovely and rare bird within the wood,
Whose crest with gold, whose wings with purple gleam'd,
Alone, but proudly soaring, next I view'd,
Of
heavenly
and immortal birth which seem'd,
Flitting now here, now there, until it stood
Where buried fount and broken laurel lay,
And sadly seeing there
The fallen trunk, the boughs all stripp'd and bare,
The channel dried--for all things to decay
So tend--it turn'd away
As if in angry scorn, and instant fled,
While through me for her loss new love and pity spread.
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Petrarch |
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Mallarme's
spiritual
position is taken to be atheistic, and therefore religious assumptions should not be made in interpreting these fragments.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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ich komme bald zuruck;
Dann magst du nach
Belieben
fragen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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tell thou the silent sky,
And tell the stars, and tell yon rising sun,
Earth, with her
thousand
voices, praises GOD.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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He amused himself at this time by writing a
description of his daily life which would be more
interesting
if it were
not so closely modelled on a famous memoir by T'ao Ch'ien.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Toi qui fais au
proscrit
ce regard calme et haut
Qui damne tout un peuple autour d'un echafaud,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own
entrails
your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Copyright 1865 and 1866 by Ticknor and Fields
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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e mynne, & merci beseche3,
[F] & of
absolucioun
he on ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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= Two
proposed
identifications of the 'noble house',
which pretends to a duke's title, mentioned at 2.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The birds put up the bars to nests,
The cattle fled to barns;
There came one drop of giant rain,
And then, as if the hands
That held the dams had parted hold,
The waters wrecked the sky,
But
overlooked
my father's house,
Just quartering a tree.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The nights are longest now,
And such as time for sleep afford, and time
For
pleasant
conf'rence; neither were it good
That thou should'st to thy couch before thy hour,
Since even sleep is hurtful, in excess.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Elles bercent, tordus dans d'etranges pelisses,
Des especes d'enfants qui pleurent a mourir;
Leurs seins crasseux dehors, ces mangeuses de soupe,
Une priere aux yeux et ne priant jamais,
Regardent
parader mauvaisement un groupe
De gamines avec leurs chapeaux deformes.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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t no
_talent_
[120]
This way, wife.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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So rise up henceforth with a cheerful smile,
And having strewn the violets, reap the corn,
And having reaped and garnered, bring the plough
And draw new furrows 'neath the healthy morn,
And plant the great
Hereafter
in this Now.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Moreover, if after the body hath been built
Our mind's live powers are wont to be put in,
Just at the moment that we come to birth,
And cross the sills of life, 'twould
scarcely
fit
For them to live as if they seemed to grow
Along with limbs and frame, even in the blood,
But rather as in a cavern all alone.
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Lucretius |
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[118] The
pastimes
of love.
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Aristophanes |
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(33)
Byron's
capricious
phantasy
Could in romantic mantle drape
E'en hopeless egoism's dark shape.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Here in a
desolate
cavern Aeolus keeps under royal dominion and
yokes in [54-85]dungeon fetters the struggling winds and loud storms.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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or you yet may sleep too well:
Fly--from the father of your bride,
Her sisters fell:
They, as she-lions
bullocks
rend,
Tear each her victim: I, less hard
Than these, will slay you not, poor friend,
Nor hold in ward:
Me let my sire in fetters lay
For mercy to my husband shown:
Me let him ship far hence away,
To climes unknown.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Outside the day was one of green and blue,
With touches of a
luminous
glowing red,
Across the quiet pond the small waves sped.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Note:
Dedication
to Vicount Bracly: Omitted in 1673.
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Milton |
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And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed,
The mustering squadron, and the clattering car,
Went pouring forward with
impetuous
speed,
And swiftly forming in the ranks of war;
And the deep thunder peal on peal afar;
And near, the beat of the alarming drum
Roused up the soldier ere the morning star;
While thronged the citizens with terror dumb,
Or whispering, with white lips--'The foe!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Sur ce teint fauve et brun le fard etait
superbe!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Calais, the wind is come and heaven pales And
trembles
for the love of day to be.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"--
"Lord, it
existeth
still.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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More I know not; he had there
A
wreathed
ox, as for some weighty prayer.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The Children of the Poor--_Dublin
University
Magazine_
The Epic of the Lion--_Edwin Arnold, C.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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In recent years there has arisen a great body of
literature
upon the
subject of Sappho, most of it the abstruse work of scholars writing for
scholars.
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Sappho |
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