George
Herbert_
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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And sleep'st thou
careless
of the bridal day!
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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.
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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.
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Chanson de Roland |
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70
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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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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John Clare |
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Page 34
112
In that cyte was an Image,
That was lyke goddes wysage, 114
Many a
pylgryme
had hit sought,
For hit was neuer with honde wrought.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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[314] [Claudian's famous old man of Verona, "_qui
suburbium
numquam
egressus est_.
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Byron |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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But since there's room for countless wishes
In these old-fashioned posset dishes,
I'll wish her from my plenteous store
Of those
commodities
two more,
Her father's wit, veined through and through
With tenderness that Watts (but whew!
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James Russell Lowell |
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, wīgend mine (_awake, my
warriors!
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Beowulf |
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And death
pursuing!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I from a nete of hopelen am adawed,
Awhaped[67] atte the
fetyveness
of daie; 400
AElla, bie nete moe thann hys myndbruche awed,
Is gone, and I moste followe, toe the fraie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Discobbolos answered,
"At first it gave me pain,
And I felt my ears turn
perfectly
pink
When your exclamation made me think
We might never get down again!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Her spirits' fervor would have melted in
The hundred cities with her; made a twin
Vesuvius
and the Capitol; and blended
Strong Juvenal's with the soul, tender and splendid,
Of Dante--smelted old with new alloy--
Stormed at the Titans' road full of bold joy
Whereby men storm Olympus.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Feacie, some say, doth wash her clothes i' th' lie
That sharply
trickles
from her either eye.
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Robert Herrick |
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My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,
The driver thinking of me does not mind the jolt of his wagon,
The young mother and old mother
comprehend
me,
The girl and the wife rest the needle a moment and forget where they are,
They and all would resume what I have told them.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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produced from images
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made available by The
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But through them all she passes on,
Strangely
martial, fair and wan;
Nor waits to listen to their cheers
That sound so faintly in her ears.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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LXXIX
Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,
My verse alone had all thy gentle grace;
But now my
gracious
numbers are decay'd,
And my sick Muse doth give an other place.
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"Give
smoother
answers, lying page,
Or perish in the lying!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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charge them with the
bayonet!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Go then, sad youth, and shine;
Go,
sacrifice
to Fame;
Put youth, joy, health upon the shrine,
And life to fan the flame;
Being for Seeming bravely barter
And die to Fame a happy martyr.
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Emerson - Poems |
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>>
--La
premiere
audace permise,
Le rire feignait de punir!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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You shall abide by what you have
appealed
to.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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My poor heart op'ning with his
puissant
hand,
Love planted there, as in its home, to dwell
A Laurel, green and bright, whose hues might well
In rivalry with proudest emeralds stand:
Plough'd by my pen and by my heart-sighs fann'd,
Cool'd by the soft rain from mine eyes that fell,
It grew in grace, upbreathing a sweet smell,
Unparallel'd in any age or land.
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Petrarch |
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John Donne |
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xiv--papers which furnish a
more thorough and penetrating
treatment
of the whole subject than is to
be found anywhere else.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"Unable to proceed with this work, [B] I turned my
thoughts
again to
the 'Poem on my own Life', and you will be glad to hear that I have
added 300 lines to it in the course of last week.
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William Wordsworth |
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But by no weeping is he stirred,
inflexible
to all the words
he hears.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Soon, however, I descended to details, and regarded
with minute interest the innumerable varieties of figure, dress, air,
gait, visage, and
expression
of countenance.
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Poe - 5 |
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Thus, by these subtle trains,
Do several passions invade the mind,
And strike our reason blind:
Of which usurping rank, some have thought love
The first: as prone to move
Most
frequent
tumults, horrors, and unrests,
In our inflamed breasts:
But this doth from the cloud of error grow,
Which thus we over-blow.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And after hours of
contention
they
parted.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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As Alric hoistes hys arme for dedlie blowe, 305
Which, han it came, had been Du Roees laste,
The swyfte-wyngd
messenger
from Willyams bowe
Quite throwe his arme into his syde ypaste;
His eyne shotte fyre, lyke blazyng starre at nyghte,
He grypd his swerde, and felle upon the place of fyghte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Had you not slyly come to guard me now,
I should have died of fright
outright
I know.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Then I went out and walked to the square
And saw a few dazed people
standing
there.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Hier sass ich oft
gedankenvoll
allein
Und qualte mich mit Beten und mit Fasten.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the
beginning
of his four and a half year residence in Italy.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The Warders with their shoes of felt
Crept by each
padlocked
door,
And peeped and saw, with eyes of awe,
Grey figures on the floor,
And wondered why men knelt to pray
Who never prayed before.
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Wilde - Poems |
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_ Call it
straightway
back!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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It will hardly, at this day, seem
credible that, in the capital of so flourishing a kingdom, and the
residence of a
brilliant
court, such savage licentiousness could have
prevailed.
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Petrarch |
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The Acroceraunian
mountains
of old name;
And on Parnassus seen the eagles fly
Like spirits of the spot, as 'twere for fame,
For still they soared unutterably high:
I've looked on Ida with a Trojan's eye;
Athos, Olympus, AEtna, Atlas, made
These hills seem things of lesser dignity,
All, save the lone Soracte's height displayed,
Not NOW in snow, which asks the lyric Roman's aid
LXXV.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Dear friend, forgive a wild lament
Insanely
following
thy flight.
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Sidney Lanier |
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" Ulysses' sire, you see,
Had been at
Appomattox
near the famous apple-tree;
And "Patrick Michael Casey!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Wilt thou not wake to their summons,
O
Lityerses?
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Sappho |
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deep gash'd the
enormous
blade,
And for the soul an ample passage made.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The
selfsame
day
When, port and palace open thrown,
Low at thy footstool Egypt lay,
That selfsame day, three lustres gone,
Another victory to thine hand
Was given; another field was won
By grace of Caesar's high command.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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During the summer of 1867 I had the opportunity (which I had often wished
for) of
expressing
in print my estimate and admiration of the works of the
American poet Walt Whitman.
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Whitman |
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So, in the year, my favourite season is the last slow part of summer that just precedes autumn, and, in the day, the hour when I walk is when the sun
hesitates
before vanishing, with rays of yellow bronze over the grey walls, and rays of red copper over the tiles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Shine on this field; and in the eyes of men
Rekindle, if the need shall come again,
That
answering
light that springs
In beaconing splendor from the soul, and brings
Promise of faith well kept and deed sublime!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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'Their victory,' he said,
'has not served to
inspirit
but to enervate them.
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Tacitus |
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Saveliitch
gave, as
it were, a subdued howl when he heard the threads snapping.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Previous to
that there had been some
desultory
discussion, a few essays in the
magazines, and in 1875 a sympathetic paper by Professor James Albert
Harrison of the University of Virginia.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Come, labourers, merchants, workmen, artisans, strangers,
whether you be
domiciled
or not, islanders, come here, Greeks of all
countries, come hurrying here with picks and levers and ropes!
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Aristophanes |
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Luckily
the little dove did not
recognize
him.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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In many
clean
cottages
and genteel houses, they are allowed every liberty to
creep, fly, or do as they like; and seldom or ever do wrong.
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John Clare |
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For we always desire Nuance,
Not Colour, nuance
evermore!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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171-173:--
No atom of this
turbulence
fulfils
A vague and unnecessitated task,
Or acts but as it must and ought to act.
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Shelley |
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For Athens I say forth a
gracious
prophecy,--
The glory of the sunlight and the skies
Shall bid from earth arise
Warm wavelets of new life and glad prosperity.
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Aeschylus |
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Poe - 5 |
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Yong fry of
Treachery?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Round the pond the martins flirt,
Their snowy breasts bedaubed with dirt,
While the mason, neath the slates,
Each mortar-bearing bird awaits:
By art untaught, each
labouring
spouse
Curious daubs his hanging house.
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John Clare |
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It is no matter if I fail: I must
Send the God in me forth, and yield to him
The shaping of
whatever
chance befall.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Shall worms,
inheritors
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Golden Treasury |
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Fishes,
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Nor can the blows from outward still conserve,
On every side,
whatever
sum of a world
Has been united in a whole.
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Lucretius |
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[_The_ KING'S
MESSENGER
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Chanson de Roland |
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It is as
harmless as a dove, as
beautiful
as a rose, and as valuable as flocks
and herds.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Grand are the forms of this body and nobly
positioned
each member.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Still by the water's edge doth silent stand
The Infanta with the rose-flower in her hand,
Caresses it with eyes as blue as heaven;
Sudden a breeze, such breeze as panting even
From her full heart flings out to field and brake,
Ruffles the waters, bids the rushes shake,
And makes through all their green
recesses
swell
The massive myrtle and the asphodel.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Each Knight is robed in purple,
With olive each is crowned;
A gallant war-horse under each
Paws
haughtily
the ground.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Imagists |
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'Tis Teucer leads, 'tis Teucer
breathes
the wind;
No more despair; Apollo's word is true.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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