FAUST:
Du
ahnungsvoller
Engel du!
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Et cependant voila des siecles innombrables
Que vous vous combattez sans pitie ni remord,
Tellement vous aimez le carnage et la mort,
O lutteurs eternels, o freres
implacables!
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The
outlines
of the distant streets grow shorter,
A murmuring bids the wanderer to respite;
Is it the music of some hidden water?
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From the proud, pale east the patient morning
Glimmered
sadly on million rooves.
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Such as Crusoe might dip in, although there are few so
Outrageously cornered by fate as poor Crusoe;
And since the
philanthropists
just now are banging
And gibbeting all who're in favor of hanging
(Though Cheever has proved that the Bible and Altar
Were let down from Heaven at the end of a halter.
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one arriv'd
To
multiply
our loves!
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Sweet moans,
dovelike
sighs,
Chase not slumber from thine eyes!
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I could have
touched!
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A Greek was
murdered
at a Polish dance,
Another bank defaulter has confessed.
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Come, wee'l to sleepe: My strange & self-abuse
Is the
initiate
feare, that wants hard vse:
We are yet but yong indeed.
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Turmoil grown visible beneath our peace,
And we that are grown formless rise above, Fluids intangible that have been men,
We seem as statues round whose high risen base Some
overflowing
river is run mad;
In us alone the element of calm !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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' -- `For that thou
sholdest
never spede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,
At her beauty all wonder intensely;
One moment the Pasha survey'd her,
And,
dropping
his tchebouk, without sense lay.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The creatures
chuckled
on the roofs
And whistled in the air,
And shook their fists and gnashed their teeth.
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1886), sed duodecim
fere locos attulit ex eius carminibus siue in
opusculis
post impressos,
siue in Vergili codice quodam enotatos quem itinerum comitem secum
habebat (De Nolhac _Petrarque et l'Humanisme_, p.
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Latin - Catullus |
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[577] {537}[From an
autograph
MS.
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Byron |
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me;
I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed
To its
idolatries
a patient knee,--
Nor coined my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud
In worship of an echo; in the crowd
They could not deem me one of such; I stood
Among them, but not of them; in a shroud
Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could,
Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And Harold stands upon this place of skulls,
The grave of France, the deadly
Waterloo!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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13 Respectfully Seeing Off Guo Yingyi, Vice Censor in Chief and Chief Minister of the Court of the
Imperial
Stud, Going to Fill the Position of Military Commissioner of Longyou: Thirty Couplets An edict sent forth the general of the western mountains to muster Longyou?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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For there no vessel with vermilion prore,
Or bark of traffic, glides from shore to shore;
The rugged race of savages, unskill'd
The seas to traverse, or the ships to build,
Gaze on the coast, nor cultivate the soil,
Unlearn'd in all the industrious art of toil,
Yet here all produces and all plants abound,
Sprung from the fruitful genius of the ground;
Fields waving high with heavy crops are seen,
And vines that flourish in eternal green,
Refreshing meads along the murmuring main,
And fountains
streaming
down the fruitful plain.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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, the whole, perchance, surmounted by a
weathercock; but I could not look at an honest weathercock in this
walk without mistrusting that there was some covert
reference
in it to
St.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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nasiis_
61 _a_ C: _ha_ OB: _ah_ GRVenLa1
62
_figuraest_
Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Where are your
moonlight
halls, your cedarn glooms,
The blossoming abysses of your hills?
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Tennyson |
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Poor
thoughtless
wench!
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John Clare |
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THE ANIMALS
[_who up to this time have been going through all sorts of queer antics
with each other, bring_
MEPHISTOPHELES
_a crown with a loud cry_].
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Imagists |
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The subject of free-verse is too complicated to be
discussed
here.
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Imagists |
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To
gratulate
with mee!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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And how should I
presume?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But I know from the
experience of examining the work of my precursors, and of revising
my own work, that absolute
correctness
is almost unattainable.
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John Donne |
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But just before the snows
There came a purple creature
That
ravished
all the hill;
And summer hid her forehead,
And mockery was still.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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III
One
chuckles
by the brook for me:
One rages under the stone.
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Imagists |
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But the bones didn't try
The door; they halted
helpless
on the landing,
Waiting for things to happen in their favor.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And som tyme
we seeth the contrarye / as thus that the wil of a wight / 2788
destorbeth {and}
constreyneth
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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'"
[which has for its first meaning material, but is also applied peculiarly
to kinds of wood, and to a wood], "from the multiplicity and variety of
the material
contained
in it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Waiting on the golden
carriage
back then, 12 of the former things there are only the stone horses.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I have bought a pocket Milton, which I carry perpetually
about with me, in order to study the sentiments--the dauntless
magnanimity, the intrepid, unyielding independence, the desperate
daring, and noble
defiance
of hardship, in that great personage,
SATAN.
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Robert Burns |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights and live
laborious
days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears
And slits the thin-spun life.
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Golden Treasury |
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Can we think a few old cells
were left--we are left--
grains of honey,
old dust of stray pollen
dull on our torn wings,
we are left to recall the old
streets?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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My Lord, I dare to say here that heaven, 615
In this case, wished to make me an
exception!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Maudit soit a jamais le reveur inutile,
Qui voulut le premier dans sa stupidite,
S'eprenant d'un probleme
insoluble
et sterile,
Aux choses de l'amour meler l'honnetete!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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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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My heart repeats the blast of earth's last day,
Yet for its grief no
recompense
can scan,
Love holds me still beneath its cruel ban,
And still my eyes their usual tribute pay.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And never he mistakes
The wildest signs the doctor makes
Prescribing
drugs.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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PAUL KING: All of you who have been lately in China must be struck
with the extraordinary difference between the China
described
in these
poems and the China which has come into being since the revolution.
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Li Po |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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the Sylphs
contrive
it all.
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Alexander Pope |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
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prepare)
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Go,
loathsome
monster,
Go: leave me to brood on my pitiful future.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Ever hath
Maenalus
his murmuring groves
And whispering pines, and ever hears the songs
Of love-lorn shepherds, and of Pan, who first
Brooked not the tuneful reed should idle lie.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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My liege, from
Lithuania
there have come
Tidings to us--
TSAR.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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We to ourselves have said, that when God took
The fierce
beginning
of the unwrought world
From out his fiery passion, and, breathing cool,
Tamed the wild molten being, with his hands
Fashion'd and workt the hot clay into world,
Then with green mercy quieted the land
And claspt it with the summer of blue seas,
With brooches of white spray along the shores,--
It was to be an equal dwelling-place
For humans that he did it, into sex
Unknowably dividing human kind.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Pope had a curious habit of protesting
that he was forced into publishing his letters, poems, and other
trifles, merely to
forestall
the appearance of unauthorized editions.
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Alexander Pope |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare
superfetation
(second conception during gestation) is possible.
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Appoloinaire |
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It was later made a temple, and was clearly
abandoned
by the time Du Fu saw it.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But, to
conclude
my lang epistle,
As my auld pen's worn to the gristle,
Twa lines frae you wad gar me fissle,
Who am, most fervent,
While I can either sing or whistle,
Your friend and servant.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Thus prepared, he re-entered
the cavern,
unwrapped
the gnatoo, fired it by the flash of the powder,
and lighted the torch.
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Byron |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women
breathed
by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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With the ten demons on our way we went;
Ah fearful
company!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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To Marc Chagall
Donkey or cow,
cockerel
or horse
On to the skin of a violin
A singing man a single bird
An agile dancer with his wife
A couple drenched in their youth
The gold of the grass lead of the sky
Separated by azure flames
Of the health-giving dew
The blood glitters the heart rings
A couple the first reflection
And in a cellar of snow
The opulent vine draws
A face with lunar lips
That never slept at night.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And when the evening comes, 5
We sit there
together
in the dusk,
And watch the stars
Appear in the quiet blue.
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Sappho |
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After all, what is it but
another form of
_straightway_?
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James Russell Lowell |
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TEMPORE SENECTUTIS OR we are old
And the earth passion dieth;
We have watched him die a
thousand
times, When he wanes an old wind crieth,
For we are old
And passion hath died for us a thousand times
But we grew never weary.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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Of the Greek
generals
then
living Pyrrhus was indisputably the first.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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[2]
And once I ask'd him of his early life,
And his first passion; and he answer'd me;
And well his words became him: was he not
A full-cell'd honeycomb of eloquence
Stored from all
flowers?
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Tennyson |
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I was not
conscious
of it.
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Poe - 5 |
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At Gryphon's sight the harlot's spirits fall,
Who fears that he will work her scathe and shame;
And knows her lover has not force and breath
To save her from Sir Gryphon,
threatening
death;
IX
But like most cunning and audacious quean,
Although she quakes from head to foot with fear,
Her voice so strengthens, and so shapes her mien,
That in her face no signs of dread appear,
Having already made her leman ween
The trick devised, she feigns a joyous cheer,
Towards Sir Gryphon goes, and for long space
Hangs on his neck, fast-locked in her embrace.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Ah, but now
We are not swimmers in this
dangerous
life.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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We proved that Austria was dislodged, or would
Or should be, and that Tuscany in arms
Should, would
dislodge
her, ending the old feud;
And yet, to leave our piazzas, shops, and farms,
For the simple sake of fighting, was not good--
We proved that also.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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and is ther nother word ne chere
Ye
vouchesauf
upon myn hevinesse?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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No, lead me to that nook of calm devotion,
Where blooms pure joy upon the Muses' hill;
Where love and
friendship
aye create and cherish,
With hand divine, heart-joys that never perish.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The second book of poems
appeared
two years later and like the first
volume _Traumgekront_ is full of the music that is reminiscent of the
mild melancholy of the Bohemian folk-songs, in whose gentle rhythms the
barbaric strength of the race seems to be lulled to rest as the waves of
a far-away tumultuous sea gently lap the shore.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"I marvel how mine eye, ranging the Night,
From its big
circling
ever absently
Returns, thou large low Star, to fix on thee.
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Sidney Lanier |
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But there is a road from Winchester town,
A good, broad highway leading down;
And there, through the flush of the morning light,
A steed as black as the steeds of night,
Was seen to pass, as with eagle flight,
As if he knew the terrible need;
He stretched away with his utmost speed;
Hills rose and fell; but his heart was gay,
With
Sheridan
fifteen miles away.
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How odd the girl's life looks
Behind this soft
eclipse!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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' He spoke, and
snatching
his sword like lightning from the
sheath, strikes at the hawser with the drawn steel.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The possibilities of his
biography
inspired Goethe (Vol.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Below are the blatant lights in a huddled squalor;
Above are futile fires in
freezing
space.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Meanwhile great Ajax (his broad shield display'd)
Guards the dead hero with the
dreadful
shade;
And now before, and now behind he stood:
Thus in the centre of some gloomy wood,
With many a step, the lioness surrounds
Her tawny young, beset by men and hounds;
Elate her heart, and rousing all her powers,
Dark o'er the fiery balls each hanging eyebrow lours.
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Iliad - Pope |
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And thou shalt hear, all startled,
A flute blown in the twilight, 10
With the soft
pleading
magic
The green wood heard of old.
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Sappho |
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[306] By this jest Aristophanes means to imply that tyranny is dead, and
that no one aspires to despotic power, though this silly accusation was
constantly being raised by the demagogues and always
favourably
received
by the populace.
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Aristophanes |
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With them I take delight in weal
And seek relief in woe;
And while I understand and feel
How much to them I owe,
My cheeks have often been bedew'd
With tears of
thoughtful
gratitude.
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Golden Treasury |
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Cease now, my flute, now cease
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The poor brat gasped an hour or so,
A goodly child, a thoughtful child;
Perceiving nought for us but woe
It
stretched
and sudden died;
But I, when Spring breaks fresh and mild,
To Baldon lane return again,
For there's my home, and women vain
Must hold their homes in pride.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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(And I Tiresias have
foresuffered
all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And whistle: All's for the best
In this best of
Carnivals!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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[Footnote 11: Almost everything that we know of Chatterton in London
was
ascertained
by Sir H.
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But ye whom social pleasure charms
Whose hearts the tide of
kindness
warms,
Who hold your being on the terms,
"Each aid the others,"
Come to my bowl, come to my arms,
My friends, my brothers!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Such songs have power to quiet
The
restless
pulse of care,
And come like the benediction
That follows after prayer.
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Poe - 5 |
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XXXIII
Now Roman is to Roman
More hateful than a foe,
And the
Tribunes
beard the high,
And the Fathers grind the low.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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