Believing only a portion of my former volume to be
worthy a second edition-that small portion I thought it as well to
include in the present book as to
republish
by itself.
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But if you came
Not from the sunny shallow pool of sleep,
But from the sea of death, the
strangling
sea
Of night and nothingness, and waked to find
Love looking down upon you, glad and still,
Strange and yet known forever, that is peace.
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Dear Earth, and House of
sheltering
walls,
And wedded homes of the land where my fathers lie!
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Fy busy Lord, will it not thee suffice
To use the Rhetorique of her tongue and eyes 10
When I am waking, but that absent so
They invade mee
To
perswade
mee,
When that sleepe
Oft should keepe 15
And lock out every sence of woe.
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John Donne |
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In this entire
passage the details are too
revolting
for modern taste.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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What other can she seek to see
Than thee,
companion
of her bower,
The partner of her infancy?
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Byron |
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")_
Sweet sister, if you knew, like me,
The charms of
guileless
infancy,
No more you'd envy riper years,
Or smiles, more bitter than your tears.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The blond assassin passes on,
The sun
proceeds
unmoved
To measure off another day
For an approving God.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Now in the sea's red vintage melts the sun,
As Egypt's pearl dissolved in rosy wine,
And
Cleopatra
night drinks all.
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e
prophetes
wilned hym forto see; & many kynges also,
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_ I will anatomize the world for
the benefit of those who still, by the
influence
of her virtue, lead a
kind of glimmering life.
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John Donne |
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And now, far off
In the fragrant darkness
The tree is
tremulous
again with bloom,
For June comes back.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Tasting, art thou,
What the Assyrians may have forced on me,
Ere thou hast well
swallowed
thy new freedom?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I fear that I am not like thee:
For I walk through the vales of Har, and smell the sweetest flowers:
But I feed not the little flowers: I hear the warbling birds,
But I feed not the warbling birds, they fly and seek their food:
But Thel
delights
in these no more because I fade away
And all shall say, without a use this shining women liv'd,
Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms.
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blake-poems |
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Either
withdraw
unto some private place
And reason coldly of your grievances,
Or else depart.
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Shakespeare |
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Admire we, then, what earth's low
entrails
hold, }
Arabian shores, or Indian seas infold.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And had I turned the
stranger
from my door,
Who sought my shelter, hadst thou praised me more?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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There are
obviously
two versions of these lines which the
later editions have confounded.
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John Donne |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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It is at
once a consequence and an indication of his
perennial
existence.
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Poe - 5 |
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When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said--
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, 140
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Now Albert's coming back, make
yourself
a bit smart.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the
secretaries
of Cardinal Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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This the bright empress of the heavens survey'd,
And, scoffing, thus to war's
victorious
maid:
"Lo!
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Iliad - Pope |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And since the warfare has not yet ceased, 12 all our lads are on
campaign
in the east.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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A PAUSE OF THOUGHT
I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth:
But years must pass before a hope of youth
Is
resigned
utterly.
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Christina Rossetti |
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De ses yeux amortis les
paresseuses
larmes,
L'air brise, la stupeur, la morne volupte,
Ses bras vaincus, jetes comme de vaines armes,
Tout servait, tout parait sa fragile beaute.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure
nocturnal
cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Then faithful covenants of peace between
Both sides ensued,
ratified
in the sight
Of Pallas progeny of Jove, who seem'd,
In voice and form, the Mentor known to all.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Tacitus |
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of object = _to
present)
= to have power over_, 79, 655, 765, 951,
1088, 1611, 1728.
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Beowulf |
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The
wandering
man went, but did not return.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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" The monarch spake,
And inly
trembled
for his brother's sake.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Though absent long,
These forms of beauty have not been to me,
As is a
landscape
to a blind man's eye:
But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart,
And passing even into my purer mind
With tranquil restoration:--feelings too
Of unremembered pleasure; such, perhaps,
As may have had no trivial influence
On that best portion of a good man's life;
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Him,
gathering
round, the haughty suitors greet
With semblance fair, but inward deep deceit,
Their false addresses, generous, he denied.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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First draw his
Highness
prostrate to the
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Marvell - Poems |
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'Please God, now, night fail us not cruelly,
Nor my friend be parted far from me,
Nor day nor dawn, let the
watchman
see!
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Troubador Verse |
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Vito, a
younger brother of the aged Stefano, and uncle of the
Cardinal
and
Bishop.
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Petrarch |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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fecword =
_banning
words_ (?
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Beowulf |
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and seest thou,
dreaming
in pain,
Thy mother stand in the piazza, searching the List of the slain?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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CXXXIII
Rodomont filled with spite and rage, his foe
Takes by the neck and shoulders, and now bends
Towards him, and now pushes from him; now
Raises from earth, and on his chest suspends;
Whirls here and there and grapples; and to throw
The
stripling
sorely in that strife contends.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Ellis appears at the top of the manuscript page: "(a
separate
sheet: It cannot be placed as its sequel is missing.
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Blake - Zoas |
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] them: _1669_]
[39 pictures, _Ed:_
pictures
_1669_
made _Ed:_ made, _1669_]
[40 lay-men, _Ed:_ lay-men _1669_
array'd; _Ed:_ arrayed _1669_]
[41 Themselves .
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John Donne |
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secret
whispring
in my Ear
In secret of soft wings.
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Blake - Zoas |
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There disembarking on the green sea side,
We land our cattle, and the spoil divide;
Of these due shares to every sailor fall;
The master ram was voted mine by all;
And him (the
guardian
of Ulysses' fate)
With pious mind to heaven I consecrate.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan translation which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in
English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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" In Li
Po and Tu Fu he finds a
deficiency
of "f?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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56; abdication of
Ferdinand
VII.
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Byron |
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Rodrigue
No, that dear object to whom I brought terror,
Cannot in punishing show too fierce an anger;
I'd evade a thousand deaths that
threaten
pain,
If I'd die the sooner by angering her again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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So shall I pass into the feast
Not touched by King,
Merchant
or Priest;
Know the red spirit of the beast,
Be the green grain;
Escape from prison.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Besides, whatever
Exhales from out its body a sharp smell--
The nauseous absinth, or the panacea,
Strong southernwood, or bitter centaury--
If never so lightly with thy [fingers] twain
Perchance [thou touch] a one of them
*****
Then why not rather know that images
Flit hither and thither, many, in many modes,
Bodiless
and invisible?
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Lucretius |
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{39a} The line may mean: till
Hrethelings
stormed on the hedged
shields, -- i.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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made of
metal wire: see Guide to
Scandinavian
Antiquities, p.
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Beowulf |
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Everywhere my spirit shudders,
dismayed
at the very silence.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The man
was totally unknown to her, and as she was not accustomed to coquetting
with the
soldiers
she saw on the street, she hardly knew how to explain
his presence.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Even in the age of Plutarch there were discerning men who
rejected the popular account of the
foundation
of Rome, because
that account appeared to them to have the air, not of a history,
but of a romance or a drama.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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crimine te potui
demeruisse
meo.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Oft when his labor was finished, with eager feet would the dreamer
Follow the pathway that ran through the woods to the house of Priscilla,
Led by illusions romantic and subtile deceptions of fancy,
Pleasure disguised as duty, and love in the
semblance
of friendship.
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Longfellow |
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A clock with
quivering
hands
Leaps to the trajectory-angle of our departure.
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Imagists |
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1030
Theseus
And his passion then began again in
Troezen?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"Lands held by Roman
Catholics
are further subject to the payment to
their curates of one twenty-sixth part of all the grain produced upon
them, and to occasional assessments for building and repairing
churches," etc.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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HOLY THURSDAY
'Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,
The
children
walking two and two, in red, and blue, and green:
Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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(Ah, bear in mind this garden was
enchanted!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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When our two souls stand up erect and strong,
Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,
Until the
lengthening
wings break into fire
At either curved point,--what bitter wrong
Can the earth do to us, that we should not long
Be here contented?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It is simply
this in Homer; and the succeeding poets
developed
this intention but
remained well within it.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I have given the first lines of the poems, the incipits, as Occitan headings (one only is in Latin), so that a quick search on the Web for the line, remembering to enclose it in double quotes, will usually turn up the
original
text for those who need to see it.
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Troubador Verse |
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XLIX
Against that time, if ever that time come,
When I shall see thee frown on my defects,
When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,
Call'd to that audit by advis'd respects;
Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass,
And
scarcely
greet me with that sun, thine eye,
When love, converted from the thing it was,
Shall reasons find of settled gravity;
Against that time do I ensconce me here,
Within the knowledge of mine own desert,
And this my hand, against my self uprear,
To guard the lawful reasons on thy part:
To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws,
Since why to love I can allege no cause.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
Les mains dans les mains restons face a face
Tandis que sous
Le pont de nos bras passe
Des eternels regards l'onde si lasse
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
L'amour s'en va comme cette eau courante
L'amour s'en va
Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l'Esperance est violente
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
Passent les jours et passent les semaines
Ni temps passe
Ni les amours reviennent
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
LA CHANSON DU MAL-AIME
A Paul Leautaud
Et je
chantais
cette romance
En 1903 sans savoir
Que mon amour a la semblance
Du beau Phenix s'il meurt un soir
Le matin voit sa renaissance.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And as a
vanquished
soldier yields his sword
To one who lifts him from the bloody earth,
Even so, Beloved, I at last record,
Here ends my strife.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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At last to be
identified!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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CXXIX
His ready wit a fit excuse supplies
Why he stays not, to see the
recreant
shown.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Nor could this stark and stunted stone display
Vibrance beneath the
shoulders
heavy bar,
Nor shine like fur upon a beast of prey,
Nor break forth from its lines like a great star--
There is no spot that does not bind you fast
And transport you back, back to a far past.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Your hands have no
innocent
blood on them, no stain?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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O banner so broad, with stripes,
sing you only,
Flapping
up there in the wind.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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All these and more came flocking; but with looks
Down cast and damp, yet such wherein appear'd
Obscure som glimps of joy, to have found thir chief
Not in despair, to have found themselves not lost
In loss it self; which on his count'nance cast
Like
doubtful
hue: but he his wonted pride
Soon recollecting, with high words, that bore
Semblance of worth not substance, gently rais'd
Their fainted courage, and dispel'd their fears.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Under
these
circumstances
a wise man will look with great suspicion on
the legend which has come down to us.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Forget not to grunt and to say wee-wee like the little pigs that
are
sacrificed
in the Mysteries.
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Aristophanes |
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So Claudius charged and overthrew
The grim barbarian's mail-clad host,
The foremost and the
hindmost
slew,
And conquer'd all, and nothing lost.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Ronsard |
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1630,' so could have hardly
executed
a portrait of Donne in
1591.
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John Donne |
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--Il s'aidait
De journaux illustres ou, rouge, il regardait
Des
Espagnoles
rire et des Italiennes.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
[Picture: This is harder than
Bezique!
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Lewis Carroll |
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and
supplicating
you to take him out of his
misery.
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Aristophanes |
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And I was
astonished
and said to myself,
"Shall they of this so holy city have but one eye and one hand?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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dismiss that idle dread,
'Tis death with hostile step these shores to tread;
Safe in the love of heaven, an ocean flows
Around our realm, a barrier from the foes;
'Tis ours this son of sorrow to relieve,
Cheer the sad heart, nor let
affliction
grieve.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Ah my
Ulysses!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The gentle gale, that plays my face around,
Murmuring sweet mischief through the verdant grove,
To fond
remembrance
brings the time, when Love
First gave his deep, although delightful wound;
Gave me to view that beauteous face, ne'er found
Veil'd, as disdain or jealousy might move;
To view her locks that shone bright gold above,
Then loose, but now with pearls and jewels bound:
Those locks she sweetly scatter'd to the wind,
And then coil'd up again so gracefully,
That but to think on it still thrills the sense.
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Petrarch |
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Lastly, he is very young, and is swept away by his
sister's
intenser
nature.
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Euripides - Electra |
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thou
droppest
heavily
In a heap earthward, and thy body heaves
Under the golden floodings of thine hair!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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che ti fa cio che quivi si
pispiglia?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;
As the good and gallant stripling shook and trembled;
A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,
O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet
The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward,
The lappets of its front were button'd backward,
And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;
See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,
From his
eyeballs
hot and briny tears distilling;
On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,
Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;
Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd,
Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him:
O my boy, O my treasure, and my darling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Half of my life has
entombed
the other,
I must revenge myself, this fatal blow,
For one no more, on one still here below.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Fecesi voce quivi, e quindi uscissi
per lo suo becco in forma di parole,
quali
aspettava
il core ov' io le scrissi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Under the
overhanging
yews,
The dark owls sit in solemn state.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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