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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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committed
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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.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Prosperity
and decay each have their season.
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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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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?
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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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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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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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Ilk ghaist that haunts auld ha' or chaumer,
Ye gipsey-gang that deal in glamour,
And you deep read in hell's black grammar,
Warlocks
and witches;
Ye'll quake at his conjuring hammer,
Ye midnight b----s!
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Robert Forst |
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"Between Tupino, and the wave, that falls
From blest Ubaldo's chosen hill, there hangs
Rich slope of
mountain
high, whence heat and cold
Are wafted through Perugia's eastern gate:
And Norcera with Gualdo, in its rear
Mourn for their heavy yoke.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_Dublin
University
Magazine_
BOAZ ASLEEP.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
To this observation I was not immediately
prepared
to reply.
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Poe - 5 |
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Stellt's hier nur immer in den Schrein,
Ich schwor Euch, ihr vergehn die Sinnen;
Ich tat Euch
Sachelchen
hinein,
Um eine andre zu gewinnen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Lycius then press'd her hand, with devout touch,
As pale it lay upon the rosy couch: 250
'Twas icy, and the cold ran through his veins;
Then sudden it grew hot, and all the pains
Of an
unnatural
heat shot to his heart.
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Keats |
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The Palace that to Heav'n his pillars threw,
And Kings the forehead on his threshold drew--
I saw the solitary
Ringdove
there,
And "Coo, coo, coo," she cried; and "Coo, coo, coo.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Victorinus 174 Gaisford ||
_Nonius_
Plin.
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Latin - Catullus |
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No forest surely in its glooms
Nurtures
a savage so unkind
As she who bids these sorrows flow:
Me, nor the dawn nor sleep o'ercomes;
For, though of mortal mould, my mind
Feels more than passion's mortal glow.
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Petrarch |
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_Real natura,
angelico
intelletto.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Wear thou in look
And gesture seemly grace of
reverent
awe,
That gladly he may forward us aloft.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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How deadly like this sky, these fields, these treen,
To
trappings
of the tomb!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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My arm shall destroy you, you
infamous
beings!
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Aristophanes |
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O most
exceeding
grace divine!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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from thy
searching
eyes
So saying--From her bosom weaving soft in Sinewy threads
A tabernacleof Delight for Jerusalem.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Whilst Hermes drove the herd _535
Out of the stony cavern, Phoebus spied
The hides of those the little babe had slain,
Stretched on the
precipice
above the plain.
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Shelley |
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"
What wind on a windless night is this,
That
breathes
as light as a lover's kiss,
That blows through the night with bugle notes,
That streams like a pennant from a lance,
That rustles, that floats?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Tut nicht ein braver Mann genug,
Die Kunst, die man ihm ubertrug,
Gewissenhaft und punktlich
auszuuben?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Chimene
But is he
wounded?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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She thought, if the empty noise
Of a sweet
harmonious
voice
Like a murmuring stream, untaught,
Could make one believe in thought.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But this alchemy is, you
know, only the
material
counterpart of a poet's craving for
Beauty, the eternal Beauty.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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You may use this eBook
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Tacitus |
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Then he hid himself in the
refining
fire.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
Light flew his earnest words, among the
blossoms
blown.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Festivals no longer celebrate Ceres, the
nourishing
goddess
Who replaced acorns of old, giving man golden wheat.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Li Po |
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One stirs my wrath, the other one
restrains
me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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How can tragedy be
weighed?
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Aristophanes |
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Nor only did the love
Of sitting thus in
judgment
interrupt
My deeper feelings, but another cause,
More subtle and less easily explained,
That almost seems inherent in the creature, 125
A twofold frame of body and of mind.
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William Wordsworth |
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Going home--I shed a few tears,
Grieving
about things,--not sorry for you.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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How should he guess that the
children
of Tz?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Is there
anything
worse than to have such a character?
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Aristophanes |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Sansonnet leaves another, in his stead,
The city of Jerusalem to sway,
And now these five, in chosen
squadron
speed,
Who have few peers in prowess, on their way.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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APPENDIX
A DIVINE IMAGE
Cruelty has a human heart,
And
Jealousy
a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secresy the human dress.
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blake-poems |
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C
Yet in the field
remained
Seleucia's knight,
The best of all the other seven at need;
And one who well accompanied his might
With perfect armour and a gallant steed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Song at Sunset
Splendor
of ended day floating and filling me,
Hour prophetic, hour resuming the past,
Inflating my throat, you divine average,
You earth and life till the last ray gleams I sing.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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For
somewhere
in that sacred island dwelt
A nymph, to whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt;
At whose white feet the languid Tritons poured
Pearls, while on land they wither'd and adored.
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Keats - Lamia |
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O form of grace,
For human passion madly
yearning!
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Lewis Carroll |
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the men have bled,
Their wives and their
children
faint for bread.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Keats is again obviously
thinking
of
Titian's picture (Cf.
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Keats |
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uestis
odoratae
studium; laus maxima risum
per uanos mouisse sales minimeque uiriles
munditiae; compti uultus; onerique uel ipsa
serica.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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A father
mother surviving him
in sad existence
like two
extremes
-
ill fused in him
that are parted
-hence his death -
cancelling this small
child's 'self'
2.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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lest the world should task you to recite
What merit lived in me, that you should love
After my death,--dear love, forget me quite,
For you in me can nothing worthy prove;
Unless you would devise some
virtuous
lie,
To do more for me than mine own desert,
And hang more praise upon deceased I
Than niggard truth would willingly impart:
O!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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So I say,
neighbor!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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For touch--by sacred
majesties
of Gods!
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Lucretius |
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What widens within you, Walt
Whitman?
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Whitman |
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So to the bull Europa gave
Her
beauteous
form, and when she saw
The monstrous deep, the yawning grave,
Grew pale with awe.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
And when the dog heard this he laughed in his heart and turned from
them saying, "O blind and foolish cats, has it not been written and
have I not known and my fathers before me, that that which raineth
for prayer and faith and
supplication
is not mice but bones.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And I felt the night between us deepen,
Heard the clock that ticked upon the shelf,
The great silence closing in around us,
And his hand that he
withdrew
from mine.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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As lights at
midnight
seen in any port,
Sometimes from the main sea by passing bark,
Save when their ray is lost 'mid storms or rocks;
So I too from above the swollen sail
Saw the sure colours of that other life,
And could not help but sigh to reach my end.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that
engenders
wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The pasture cows that herded on the moor
Printed their
footsteps
to the very door,
Where little summer flowers with seasons blow
And scarcely gave the eldern leave to grow.
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John Clare |
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For fine repute you are
expected
to become minister, by special grace you were ranked as one of the high lords.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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VIII
Now with what eager interest
She the
delicious
novel reads,
With what avidity and zest
She drinks in those seductive deeds!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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*****
Is rendered back; and since, beyond a doubt,
Earth, the all-mother, is beheld to be
Likewise the common
sepulchre
of things,
Therefore thou seest her minished of her plenty,
And then again augmented with new growth.
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Lucretius |
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That perhaps
He is a deacon run away from Moscow,
In his own district a
notorious
rogue.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Pennifeather
was, accordingly, arrested upon the spot, and the
crowd, after some further search, proceeded homeward, having him in
custody.
| Guess: |
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Poe - 5 |
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Bailly establish the existence of a people who
inhabited
a tract
in Tartary 49 degrees north latitude, of greater antiquity than either
the Indians, the Chinese, or the Chaldeans, from whom these nations
derived their sciences and theology.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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With your air
indifferent
and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute--"
And--"Are we then so serious?
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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A few days after writing this letter, as the Cardinal of Boulogne had
not kept his word about
returning
to Avignon, and as he heard no news of
him, Petrarch determined to set out for Italy.
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Petrarch |
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Here shall you quaff beneath the shade
Sweet Lesbian draughts that injure none,
Nor fear lest Mars the realm invade
Of Semele's
Thyonian
son,
Lest Cyrus on a foe too weak
Lay the rude hand of wild excess,
His passion on your chaplet wreak,
Or spoil your undeserving dress.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Sara Teasdale |
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CXCIX
Both
messengers
did on their horses mount;
From that city nimbly they issued out.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Madden reads gracons for gracios, and
suggests
Greek as the meaning of it.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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) Didst mark how pale
Our
sovereign
turned, how from his face there poured
A mighty sweat?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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There a fald-stool stood in a pine-tree's shade,
Enveloped all in Alexandrin veils;
There was the King that held the whole of Espain,
Twenty thousand of
Sarrazins
his train;
Nor was there one but did his speech contain,
Eager for news, till they might hear the tale.
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Chanson de Roland |
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" and instantly
assaulted
him with stones.
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Tacitus |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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