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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For we always desire Nuance,
Not Colour, nuance
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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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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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Yong fry of
Treachery?
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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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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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Shall worms,
inheritors
of this excess,
Eat up thy charge?
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Fishes,
described
in Massachusetts Report, 118.
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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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[_The_ KING'S
MESSENGER
_comes in_.
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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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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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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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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Oozed from the bracken's desolate track,
By dark rains havocked and
drenched
black.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I lie so miserably open to the inroads and incursions of a
mischievous, light-armed, well-mounted banditti, under the banners of
imagination, whim, caprice, and passion: and the heavy-armed veteran
regulars of wisdom, prudence, and
forethought
move so very, very slow,
that I am almost in a state of perpetual warfare, and, alas!
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I will
send a
subscription
bill or two, next post; when I intend writing my
first kind patron, Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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For al Appollo, or his clerkes lawes,
Or calculinge
avayleth
nought three hawes;
Desyr of gold shal so his sowle blende,
That, as me lyst, I shal wel make an ende.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Henceforth
she hath all the part
Of mother, yea, and father in my heart.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Of patriot sires ye lineage claim,
Their souls shone in your eye of flame;
Commencing
the great work was theirs;
On you the task to finish laid
Your fruitful mother, France, who bade
Flow in one day a hundred years.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
Then he cried aloud, "Who dwells in this place,
discourse
with me to
hold?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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That such a hideous Trumpet calls to parley
The
sleepers
of the House?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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A vile dependent of the
Claudian
house
laid claim to the damsel as his slave.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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It appears from one of Petrarch's letters, that many people at Milan
doubted his veracity about the story of the robbery, alleging that it
was merely a pretext to excuse his inconstancy in
quitting
his house at
St.
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Petrarch |
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So it is I,
hands accursed -
who
bequeathed
you!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I dare not tell, do anything, or
get
anything
done, because I am in debt to Bhagwan Dass the bunnia for
two gold rings and a heavy anklet.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"It was a
deadly and
mournful
year," they said, "and under boding omens the
Prince had formed the design of his absence.
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Page 59
Goddes
seruaunte
anon was sought,
but who hit was ?
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My hands shall rend what ev'n thy own did spare:
This in two sable ringlets taught to break,
Once gave new beauties to the snowy neck; 85
The sister-lock now sits uncouth, alone,
And in its fellow's fate
foresees
its own;
Uncurled it hangs, the fatal shears demands,
And tempts once more thy sacrilegious hands.
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Alexander Pope |
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[Footnote 1: _Vaccinium Myrtillus_ known by the
different
names of
Whorts, Whortle-berries, Bilberries; and in the North of England,
Blea-berries and Bloom-berries.
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Fierce Love it was once steeled a mother's heart
With her own offspring's blood her hands to imbrue:
Mother, thou too wert cruel; say wert thou
More cruel, mother, or more
ruthless
he?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Thence issuing often with
unwieldly
stalk,
With broad black feet ye crush your flow'ry walk; 1820.
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Around the man who seeks a noble end,
Not angels but
divinities
attend.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Witness the buds of the native poplar
standing
gayly out to the frost
on the sides of its bare switches.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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by great
Telemachus
he falls,
For Pallas seals his doom: all sad he turns
To join the peers; resumes his throne, and mourns.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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qu'on ne sache plus si c'est
bataille
ou danse!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The cross which on my arm I wear,
The flag which o'er my breast I bear,
Is but the sign
Of what you'd
sacrifice
for him
Who suffers on the hellish rim
Of war's red line.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Of course I shall not expect
that this will
instantly
appeal to tastes peppered and salted
by [certain of our contemporary writers]; but one cannot forget Beethoven,
and somehow all my inspiration came in these large and artless forms,
in simple Saxon words, in unpretentious and purely intellectual conceptions,
while nevertheless I felt, all through, the necessity of making
a genuine song -- and not a rhymed set of good adages -- out of it.
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Sidney Lanier |
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I sit beneath thy looks, as children do
In the noon-sun, with souls that tremble through
Their happy eyelids from an unaverred
Yet
prodigal
inward joy.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"Prisoned on watery shore,
Starry
jealousy
does keep my den
Cold and hoar;
Weeping o're,
I hear the father of the ancient men.
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blake-poems |
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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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I have already
appeared
publicly in church, and was indulged in the
liberty of standing in my own seat.
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NOTE:
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Why were you born when the snow was
falling?
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Christina Rossetti |
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William wrote
the
following
poem long after, in remembrance of his feelings and
mine.
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William Wordsworth |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But princes, by
hearkening
to cruel
counsels, become in time obnoxious to the authors, their flatterers, and
ministers; and are brought to that, that when they would, they dare not
change them; they must go on and defend cruelty with cruelty; they cannot
alter the habit.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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_A10_ is the most
significant
witness.
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John Donne |
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"
"Tears may be ours, but proud, for those who win
Death's royal purple in the foeman's lines;
Peace, too, brings tears; and 'mid the battle-din,
The wiser ear some text of God divines,
For the
sheathed
blade may rust with darker sin.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Who could keep a smiling wit,
Roasted so in heart and hide,
Turning on the sun's red spit,
Scorched
by love inside?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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They are no better, I think, and my desire to make them so was, it may
be, one of the illusions Nature holds before one, because she knows
that the gifts she has to give are not worth
troubling
about.
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Yeats |
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During this
ceremony
they rap the trees with their
sticks.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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There are qualities in the
religious
poetry of simpler and purer souls
to which Donne seldom or never attains.
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John Donne |
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O,
Homestead
of ours, whether Sabine or Tiburtine (for that thou'rt
Tiburtine folk concur, in whose heart 'tis not to wound Catullus; but those
in whose heart 'tis, will wager anything thou'rt Sabine) but whether Sabine
or more truly Tiburtine, o'erjoyed was I to be within thy rural
country-home, and to cast off an ill cough from my chest, which--not
unearned--my belly granted me, for grasping after sumptuous feeds.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
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Appoloinaire |
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Indolence is your pleasure, your delight
the luxurious dance; you wear sleeved tunics and
ribboned
turbans.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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O City city, I can sometimes hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The
pleasant
whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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This
Garibaldi
now, the Italian boys
Go mad to hear him--take to dying--take
To passion for "the pure and high";--God's sake!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I
remember
your hair--did I tie it?
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Wilde - Poems |
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Cheetah
I
remember
a slice of lemon and a bitten macaroon.
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T.S. Eliot |
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O
pleasant
country!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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All other things are but
properties
and accidents of
these two.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Yet I mark'd it was a hymn
Of lofty praises; for there came to me
"Arise and conquer," as to one who hears
And
comprehends
not.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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--The next property of
epistolary
style is perspicuity,
and is oftentimes by affectation of some wit ill angled for, or
ostentation of some hidden terms of art.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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[Catalogue of the Boston
Athenaeum
Library.
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Byron |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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For when the soul and frame
together
are sunk
In slumber, no one then demands his self
Or being.
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Lucretius |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Yet, though all his labours
tended to establish that naval superiority on the surest basis, though
even the religion of the age added its authority to the clearest
political principles in favour of Henry, yet were his enterprises and
his expected discoveries derided with all the
insolence
of ignorance,
and the bitterness of popular clamour.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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In this exercise he spent another hour, at the end of which we met with
far less
interruption
from passengers than at first.
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Poe - 5 |
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Foundation
("the Foundation"
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Alexander Pope |
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committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Hear Heaven's commands, and
reverence
what ye hear!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"With fire and sword the country round
Was wasted far and wide,
And many a
childing
mother then
And newborn baby died:
But things like that, you know, must be
At every famous victory.
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Golden Treasury |
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For never shall ye be
From
henceforth
under the same roof with me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Prosperity
and decay each have their season.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"Then may the Fates look up 10
And smile a little in their tolerant way,
Being full of
infinite
regard for men.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue,
Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue;
Striped like a zebra,
freckled
like a pard,
Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd;
And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed,
Dissolv'd, or brighter shone, or interwreathed
Their lustres with the gloomier tapestries--
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,
She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
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Keats - Lamia |
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What evil hath ye
wrought?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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II
Yet are there other gifts more fair than thine,
Nor can I count him happiest who has never
Been forced with his own hand his chains to sever,
And for himself find out the way divine;
He never knew the aspirer's
glorious
pains,
He never earned the struggle's priceless gains.
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James Russell Lowell |
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PRINCESS
OF FRANCE.
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Shakespeare |
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[87]
Even should one
zealously
strive to learn the Way,
That very striving will make one's error more.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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It was
reprinted
by
the Sao Yeh Co.
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Li Po |
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Hart
through the Project
Gutenberg
Association (the "Project").
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the
evidence
ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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1862]
_This poetic
effusion
of Mr.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Li Po, styled T'ai-po, was
descended
in the ninth generation from
the Emperor Hsing-sh?
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Li Po |
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Then, in his wrath for the death of Patroclus, Achilles
bound the dead Hector by his feet to his chariot,
And scourged on his horse that freely flew;
A whirlwind made of
startled
dust drave with them as they drew,
With which were all his black-brown curls knotted in heaps and fill'd.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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