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"No; is he a
soldier?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Of tydings strange, and of
adventures
rare: 250
So creeping close, as Snake in hidden weedes,
Inquireth of our states, and of our knightly deedes.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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WHO lib'rally with presents smoothes the road,
Will meet no
obstacles
to LOVE'S abode.
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La Fontaine |
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Though I lack the
qualities
for offering criticism, 12 I feared lest my ruler overlook some matter.
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_Tawie_, that allows itself
peaceably
to be handled (spoken of a cow,
horse, &c.
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He
questioned
softly why I failed?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Imagists |
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let not the
offended
muse
Toil's hard hap with scorn accuse.
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Emerson - Poems |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My
messengers
were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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So thou be good, slander doth but approve
Thy worth the greater being woo'd of time;
For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,
And thou present'st a pure
unstained
prime.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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--In great affairs it is a work of
difficulty
to please all.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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OUR couple mutual
compensation
made,
Then bade adieu to hill, and dale, and glade.
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La Fontaine |
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"
A hundred thousand fighting men
They climbed the
frowning
ridges,
With their flaming swords drawn free
And their pennants at their knee.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
countless
blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Give the signals, course, orders: then, returning,
Free me swiftly from this
unfortunate
meeting.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Though few thy troops who
Conanour
sustain,
The foe, though num'rous, shall assault in vain.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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SONGS OF PARTING
As the Time Draws Nigh
As the time draws nigh
glooming
a cloud,
A dread beyond of I know not what darkens me.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Circa^am insulam,
scopulos
Sirenum,
Praeternavigavit ;
Et in hoc naufragio morum et soBCuli
• Solus perdiderat nihil, auxit plurimum ;
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Hinc erga Deum pietatt*,
Erga nod amore et obsequio,
Comitate erga omnes, et intra se modestia
Insignis ; et qunntaevis fortunae capax.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Justinian favoured the _blues_, who became so elate
with pride, that they
trampled
on the laws.
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Tacitus |
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I never saw sad men who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
We
prisoners
called the sky,
And at every careless cloud that passed
In happy freedom by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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8•
Of
stinking
stories; a tale, a dream.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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aut facere ingenuae est, aut non
promisse
pudicae, 5
Aufilena, fuit: sed data corripere
fraudando effectis, plus quam meretricis auarae,
quae sese toto corpore prostituit.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Where stones will turn to flooding streams,
Where plains will rise like ocean's waves,
Where life will fade like visioned dreams
And
darkness
darken into caves,
Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me
Through this sad non-identity
Where parents live and are forgot,
And sisters live and know us not?
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John Clare |
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Then, if a widow,
staggering
with the blow
Of her distress, was known to have turned her steps 385
To the cold grave in which her husband slept,
One night, or haply more than one, through pain
Or half-insensate impotence of mind,
The fact was caught at greedily, and there
She must be visitant the whole year through, 390
Wetting the turf with never-ending tears.
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William Wordsworth |
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in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Now, d' you b'lieve me, that there likely lad,
For all they used him so, went to the bad:
Leastways left the red men, that he knew,
'N' come to look for folks like me an' you;--
Goldarned
white folks that he never saw.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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James Russell Lowell |
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How odd the girl's life looks
Behind this soft
eclipse!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The successful man has thrust himself
Through the water of the years,
Reeking wet with mistakes,--
Bloody mistakes;
Slimed with victories over the lesser,
A figure
thankful
on the shore of money.
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Stephen Crane |
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'
With that she gan ful
sorwfully
to syke;
`A!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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For some wood-daemon
has
lightened
your steps.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For him no tree of
knowledge
is forbid,
Or sweeter if forbid.
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James Russell Lowell |
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"Sleep on, 1 lie at heaven's high oriels Over the start that mumur as thye go
Lighting
your lattice window far below:
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof 1 know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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One is the understanding of the persons to whom you are
to write; the other is the
coherence
of your sentence; for men's capacity
to weigh what will be apprehended with greatest attention or leisure;
what next regarded and longed for especially, and what last will leave
satisfaction, and (as it were) the sweetest memorial and belief of all
that is passed in his understanding whom you write to.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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in
paragraph
1.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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What strange words, how
grievous
to hear!
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Troubador Verse |
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Have you marked but the fall o' the snow
Before the soil hath
smutched
it?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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After these years
Doth my low plight still stir thy
memories?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The estate of Nicholas Herrick could the better afford the fine
inasmuch as it
realized
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Robert Herrick |
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The points hewn off by
sweeping
strokes!
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Hugo - Poems |
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And then to dwell in
sovereign
barns,
And dream the days away, --
The grass so little has to do,
I wish I were the hay!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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You know the rest:
How the rebels, beaten and
backward
pressed,
Broke at the final charge, and ran.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
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Stephen Crane |
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Mournful is thine
approach
to me,
O Spring, thou chosen time of love
He usually left St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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There you'll lie
In noon's delight, with bees to flash above you,
Drown amid buttercups that blaze in the wind,
Forgetting
all save beauty.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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what a
splendid
city!
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Aristophanes |
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tunc et lingua suas accepit barbara leges,
et fera diuersis exercita frugibus arua,
et uagus in caecum
penetrauit
nauita pontum,
fecit et ignotis linter commercia terris.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And, sir, for that charitee,
As we be wont,
herberwe
we crave, 7495
Your lyf to amende; Crist it save!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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What is called good is perfect, and what is called bad is just as perfect,
The vegetables and
minerals
are all perfect, and the imponderable
fluids perfect;
Slowly and surely they have pass'd on to this, and slowly and surely
they yet pass on.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I Love My Love In Secret
My Sandy gied to me a ring,
Was a' beset wi'
diamonds
fine;
But I gied him a far better thing,
I gied my heart in pledge o' his ring.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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or did I see all
The glory as I dreamed, and fainted when
Too
vehement
light dilated my ideal,
For my soul's eyes?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Stephen Crane |
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Quant li arbres furent creu,
Le mur que vous avez veu, 600
Fist lors Deduit tout entor faire,
Et si fist au dehors portraire
Les ymages qui i sunt paintes,
Que ne sunt
mignotes
ne cointes;
Ains sunt dolereuses et tristes,
Si cum vous orendroit veistes.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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A ful gret savour and a swote 1025
Me
thinketh
in myn herte rote,
As helpe me god, whan I remembre
Of the fasoun of every membre!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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To skies that knit their heartstrings right,
To fields that bred them brave,
The saviours come not home to-night:
Themselves
they could not save.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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THOUGH
eloquence
was not the soldier's art,
He both convinced 'twas wrong with life to part:
The dame was great attention led to pay,
To what the son of Mars inclined to say,
Which seemed to soften her severe distress:
With time each poignant smart is rendered less.
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La Fontaine |
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A paradise, the host,
And cherubim and seraphim
The most
familiar
guest.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Biron was a friend of Henri IV,
Lusignan
a famous family, both associated with the Valois.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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from
beneath the mound is heard a
pitiable
moan, and a voice is uttered to my
ears: "Woe's me, why rendest thou me, Aeneas?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The very metropolis of this lyric
realm was
Mitylene
of Lesbos, where, amid the myrtle groves and temples,
the sunlit silver of the fountains, the hyacinth gardens by a soft blue
sea, Beauty and Love in their young warmth could fuse the most rigid forms
to fluency.
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Sappho |
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III
More than ever I dreamed, I have found it: my happy good
fortune!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Keats - Lamia |
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They are
delighted
at how the capital is stirred, they take pity on the cries of those boys and girls.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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_Foreign
Quarterly
Review.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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If anybody's friend be dead,
It 's sharpest of the theme
The
thinking
how they walked alive,
At such and such a time.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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DICHTER:
Ihr fuhlet nicht, wie schlecht ein solches
Handwerk
sei!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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However many books
Wise men have said are wearisom; who reads
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not
A spirit and judgment equal or superior,
(And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek)
Uncertain and unsettl'd still remains
Deep verst in books and shallow in himself;
Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys,
And trifles for choice matters, worth a spunge;
As
Children
gathering pibles on the shore.
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Milton |
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Why how now Hecat, you looke
angerly?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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There's one hope, still--
Those
batteries
parked on the hill!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Who knows where
repentance
might have led?
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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George
Herbert_
(1670), Gosse's _Life and Letters of John Donne_, i.
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John Donne |
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I lived on dread; to those who know
The
stimulus
there is
In danger, other impetus
Is numb and vital-less.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Distress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
In whom are the sins of the race, nor to stir
In your foul tresses a mournful tempest
Beneath the fatal boredom my kisses pour:
A heavy sleep without those dreams that creep
Under curtains alien to remorse, I ask of your bed,
Sleep you can savour after your dark deceits,
You who know more of
Nothingness
than the dead.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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For there hath been
An
interposed
pause of life, and wide
Have all the motions wandered everywhere
From these our senses.
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Lucretius |
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the storm of wings
Bears far the fiery fear,
Till scarce the breeze now brings
Dim
murmurings
to the ear;
Like locusts' humming hail,
Or thrash of tiny flail
Plied by the fitful gale
On some old roof-tree sere.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Oenone
Well die: and so protect that inhuman silence:
But seek another hand to close your eyes, and
Though
scarcely
a feeble ray of light is left you,
My spirit will descend to the dead before you.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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NURSE'S SONG
When voices of
children
are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The dusk
exaggerates
their giant size,
The shade is awed--the pillars coldly rise.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thy
specious
prologue means no good, I trow.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And sleep'st thou
careless
of the bridal day!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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We have been
sorrowful
and sad;
Much have we suffered, much have prayed
That He would lead us as is best,
And show us what his will required.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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And the wrath of Achilles against Agamemnon was
assuaged; and they two were
reconciled
at a gathering of the chiefs.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Pagans are wrong:
Christians
are right indeed.
| Guess: |
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Some
gennlemen
think it would cure all our cankers
In the way o' finance, ef we jes' hanged the bankers;
An' I own the proposle 'ud square with my views,
Ef their lives wuzn't all thet we'd left 'em to lose.
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Awa ye selfish, war'ly race,
Wha think that havins, sense, an' grace,
Ev'n love an'
friendship
should give place
To catch--the--plack!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But fynally my spirit, at the laste,
For-wery of my labour al the day,
Took rest, that made me to slepe faste,
And in my slepe I mette, as I lay, 95
How African, right in that selfe aray
That
Scipioun
him saw before that tyde,
Was comen, and stood right at my beddes syde.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Tchaplitzky,
who died in poverty after having
squandered
millions, lost at one time,
at play, nearly three hundred thousand rubles.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And o'er two elements
triumphs
at once.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in
paragraph
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Mysterious
God,
If she had never lived I had not done it!
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William Wordsworth |
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None that, with kindred
consciousness
endued,
If we were not, would seem to smile the less
Of all that flattered, followed, sought, and sued:
This is to be alone; this, this is solitude!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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A wilful murder, jury made the crime;
Nor parson 'lowed to pray, nor bell to chime;
On the cross roads, far from her friends and kin,
The usual law for their ungodly sin
Who violent hands upon themselves have laid,
Poor Jane's last bed unchristian-like was made;
And there, like all whose last
thoughts
turn to heaven,
She sleeps, and doubtless hoped to be forgiven.
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