Distress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
In whom are the sins of the race, nor to stir
In your foul tresses a mournful tempest
Beneath the fatal boredom my kisses pour:
A heavy sleep without those dreams that creep
Under
curtains
alien to remorse, I ask of your bed,
Sleep you can savour after your dark deceits,
You who know more of Nothingness than the dead.
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I say, God made the woman for the man,
And for the good and
increase
of the world.
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But always there comes,
Out from the flame of my being Smoke with its wavering fingers Running athwart my joy;
Always the dark fingers weaving Out of the smoke of my sinning
Curtains
to shut me from God.
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I see the headsman withdraw and become useless;
I see the
scaffold
untrodden and mouldy--I see no longer any axe upon it;
I see the mighty and friendly emblem of the power of my own race--the
newest, largest race.
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Whitman |
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No placard on these rocks warned to the polls,
No door-bell
heralded
a visitor,
No courier waits, no letter came or went,
Nothing was ploughed, or reaped, or bought, or sold;
The frost might glitter, it would blight no crop,
The falling rain will spoil no holiday.
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Emerson - Poems |
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'
`Ye, that to me,' quod she, `ful lever were
Than al the good the sonne aboute gooth';
And therwith-al she swoor him in his ere,
`Y-wis, my dere herte, I am nought wrooth, 1110
Have here my trouthe and many another ooth;
Now speek to me, for it am I,
Cryseyde!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The fresh troops were
swept back along with the wounded, themselves sharing the panic and
sorely embarrassed by the
narrowness
of the road.
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Tacitus |
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It fee nor
bountith
shall us twine
Gin ye can labour lea.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Darts shower'd on darts, now round the carcase ring;
Now flights of arrows bounding from the string:
Stones follow stones; some clatter on the fields,
Some hard, and heavy, shake the
sounding
shields.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them
imprisoned
in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves, sounding out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
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Appoloinaire |
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The ghosts of dead loves everyone
That make the stark winds reek with fear
Lest love return with the foison sun And slay the memories that me cheer (Such as I drink to mine
fashion)
Wincing the ghosts of yester-year.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In a gay coach, above the crowd,
There sat a monk in ample hood,
Who with his right hand held aloft
A red and
ponderous
cross of wood,
To which at times he meekly bowed.
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Longfellow |
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The women thought me proud, the men were kind,
And bowed right
gallantly
to kiss my hand,
And watched me as I passed them calmly by,
Along the halls I shall not tread again.
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Sara Teasdale |
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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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This my long
sufferance
and my day of grace
They who neglect and scorn, shall never taste;
But hard be hard'nd, blind be blinded more, 200
That they may stumble on, and deeper fall;
And none but such from mercy I exclude.
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Ah, but what burden of sorrow
Tinges their slow stately chorus,
Though spring
revisits
the glad earth?
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Sappho |
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And
I heard the command 'Destroy, destroy,
destruction
is the life-giver!
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Yeats |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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or if those women you note
Reflect your
fabulous
senses' desire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Grosart
conjectures
that this was Basil Brooke (1576-1646?
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John Donne |
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in mutinous game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six
thousand
years are done,
The elements freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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What future bliss, He gives not thee to know,
But gives that hope to be thy
blessing
now.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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t[e] to
graunten
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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thy victorious march appalling,
'Tis the red fires from Moscow's tow'rs that wave;
'Tis thine Old Guard
strewing
the Belgian plain;
'Tis the lone island in th' Atlantic main:
To-morrow!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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XXIV
" `Nor hope of pleasure this so much has wrought,
As that to compass my design would please;
And, if not in effect, at least in thought
To thrive, would
interpose
some little ease.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Now, morning
bursting
from the eastern sky,
Spreads o'er the clouds the blushing rose's dye,
The nations wake, and, at the sov'reign's call,
The Lusian nobles crowd the palace hall.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Yet no hall that wealth e'er plann'd
Waits you more surely than the wider room
Traced by Death's yet
greedier
hand.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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gefrūnon
is a variant on the usual epic formulǣ ic gefrægn (l.
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Beowulf |
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Their meeting takes place under an influence, alien I know, that of Music heard in concert; one finds there several
techniques
that seem to me to belong to Literature, I reclaim them.
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Emerson - Poems |
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1026
O son, whi
woldestou
suffren smert,
And dye wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Is the east
Afraid to trust the morn
With her
fastidious
forehead?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And I will cut off your
victuals
at the Prytaneum.
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Aristophanes |
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Be patient to the end, and you shall sleep
Pillowed on
heartsease
and forget to weep.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Man has lost his soul, and vainly seeks
antiseptic
salt.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"Sleep on, I lie at heaven's high oriels Over the stars that mumur as they go
Lighting
your lattice window (ar b low;
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof I know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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SIR THOMAS WYATT |
SIR THOMAS
STAFFORD
| _Insurrectionary Leaders_.
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Tennyson |
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;
_Every Man in_, lvii, lxv;
_Every Man out_, xix, xx, lvii;
_Expostulation with Inigo Jones_, xxxix;
_Fox_, xx, xlix, lxv;
_Gipsies
Metamorphosed_, lxvii ff.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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MOPSUS
"For Daphnis cruelly slain wept all the Nymphs-
Ye hazels, bear them witness, and ye streams-
When she, his mother,
clasping
in her arms
The hapless body of the son she bare,
To gods and stars unpitying, poured her plaint.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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That window where my sun is ever seen,
Dazzling and bright, and Nature's at the none;
And that where still, when Boreas rude has blown
In the short days, the air thrills cold and keen:
The stone where, at high noon, her seat has been,
Pensive and
parleying
with herself alone:
Haunts where her bright form has its shadow thrown,
Or trod her fairy foot the carpet green:
The cruel spot where first Love spoil'd my rest,
And the new season which, from year to year,
Opes, on this day, the old wound in my breast:
The seraph face, the sweet words, chaste and dear,
Which in my suffering heart are deep impress'd,
All melt my fond eyes to the frequent tear.
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Petrarch |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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' too,
And into the grassy ditch's tomb
Fall great and small to their doom,
Seeing the corpses twice run through
By lances on which
pennants
loom.
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Troubador Verse |
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If ye have fallen,
It is but a step's fall,--the whole ground beneath
Strewn woolly soft with
promise!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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" KAU}
For measurd out in orderd spaces the Sons of Urizen
{Lowecase
"sons" mended to "Sons.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Petrarch argued pretty freely
against the political
character
of the ancient orator.
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Petrarch |
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When the airy war doth wane,
And the storm to the east hath flown,
Cloaked close in the
whirling
wind,
There's a voice still left behind
In each heavy-hearted tree,
Charged with tearful memory
Of the vanished rain:
From their leafy lashes wet
Drip the dews of fresh regret
For the lover that's gone!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Arise, and wrest from obloquy thy fame,
Nor bow before a name
Of hollow sound, whose power no laws
enforce!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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At first, the elf-like laughter of a streamlet roaming
Down in the valley, served us still as guide,
Which
hastened
onward, growing softer and more
gloaming,
Till unobserved its sobbing echoes died.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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It is some marvellous thing: for I know surely
Behind it crowd out of their discipline
The coming hours to watch me seized, and stare
With
questioning
brows on me, and lift lean hands
From under gowns of shadow to point me out
One to another, saying: "This is she:
How will she bear it, think ye?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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She then
exultingly
filled the countries with
manifold talk, and blazoned alike what was done and undone: one Aeneas
is come, born of Trojan blood; on him beautiful Dido thinks no shame to
fling herself; now they hold their winter, long-drawn through mutual
caresses, regardless of their realms and enthralled by passionate
dishonour.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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We
wandered
from pine-hills
through oak and scrub-oak tangles,
we broke hyssop and bramble,
we caught flower and new bramble-fruit
in our hair: we laughed
as each branch whipped back,
we tore our feet in half buried rocks
and knotted roots and acorn-cups.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But he was
far from being a correct or judicious editor ; and
is often betrayed by his indiscriminate admiration
into excessive and
preposterous
eulogy.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The blood-red sun bent over me
Your eyes are like the
sea—the
bitter sea!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Here lay Duncan,
His Siluer skinne, lac'd with His Golden Blood,
And his gash'd Stabs, look'd like a Breach in Nature,
For Ruines
wastfull
entrance: there the Murtherers,
Steep'd in the Colours of their Trade; their Daggers
Vnmannerly breech'd with gore: who could refraine,
That had a heart to loue; and in that heart,
Courage, to make's loue knowne?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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precious
relic of that time--
For my old age, it doth remain with thee
To make it what thou wilt.
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William Wordsworth |
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Come quel fiume c'ha proprio cammino
prima dal Monte Viso 'nver' levante,
da la sinistra costa d'Apennino,
che si chiama Acquacheta suso, avante
che si divalli giu nel basso letto,
e a Forli di quel nome e vacante,
rimbomba
la sovra San Benedetto
de l'Alpe per cadere ad una scesa
ove dovea per mille esser recetto;
cosi, giu d'una ripa discoscesa,
trovammo risonar quell' acqua tinta,
si che 'n poc' ora avria l'orecchia offesa.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Quintus Fabius and Publius Decius were elected
Censors at a
momentous
crisis.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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If I had the Odyssey by me, I could
parallel
many
passages where Virgil has evidently copied, but by no means improved,
Homer.
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Robert Burns |
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G
Gage, xi, 41, pledge, the thing
contended
for.
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Tacitus |
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1110
They know the
inflexible
rigour of my sadness.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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on
dastards
dead to fame
I waste no anger, for they feel no shame:
But you, the pride, the flower of all our host,
My heart weeps blood to see your glory lost!
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Iliad - Pope |
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His family: a mass of dense
coloured
globes.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Egeria, while she wept, became a well:
Scylla (a horrid rock by Circe's spell)
Hath made
infamous
the Sicilian strand.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'Tis long disputed whether poems claim
From art or nature their best right to fame;
But art, if un-enriched by nature's vein,
And a rude genius of
uncultured
strain,
Are useless both: they must be fast combined
And mutual succour in each other find.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
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of derivative works, reports, performances and
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Already my spirit, longing for better ways,
Paces through my flesh, rebelliously,
And already brings the victim fuel to feed
His
immolation
in your vision's rays.
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Ronsard |
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It is
however of some slight importance, inasmuch as it seems to have been
followed in some
instances
by succeeding editions (cf.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Bow down thine heart to my relief--
A fugitive, a suppliant, swift with fear,
A creature whom the wild wolves chase
O'er
toppling
crags; in piteous case
Aloud, afar she lows,
Calling the herdsman's trusty arm to save her from her foes!
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Aeschylus |
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That sword
Shrink into a
sceptre!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Themselves the hogs, as all their
subjects
boors I
Let it suffice to give their countiy fame,
That it had one Civilis called by name.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Alas, you have not known that shower
That mars a flower,
Nor felt th' unkind
Breath of a
blasting
wind,
Nor are ye worn with years;
Or warp'd as we,
Who think it strange to see,
Such pretty flowers, like to orphans young,
To speak by tears, before ye have a tongue.
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Robert Herrick |
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" she cries, and, eager as a lover,
Leaps up and holds her husband to her breast;
Her
greeting
kisses all his vesture cover;
"'Tis I, good wife!
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Hugo - Poems |
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adscriptum postea huc migrauit
347 _sub tegmine_ R
349
_gnatorum_
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Latin - Catullus |
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After three thousand years, Caligorant drew
The sacred relict from the palace divine:
Whence with the net the impious thief returned,
Who robbed the temple and the city burned,
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He fixed it here, beneath the sandy plain,
In mode, that all the
travellers
whom he chased
Ran into it, and the engine was with pain
Touched, ere it arms, and feet, and neck embraced.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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She sought the
sumptuous
chamber where, in form 20
And feature perfect as the Gods, the young
Nausicaa, daughter of the King, reposed.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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' It
contained 'ten faire
dwelling
houses, and fourteene shops' beautified
with elaborate ornamentation.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Sweet moan, sweeter smile,
All the
dovelike
moans beguile.
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blake-poems |
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And the warbler's voice
resounds
clear :?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But when ye shall have cross'd
The broad expanse of Ocean, and shall reach
The oozy shore, where grow the poplar groves
And
fruitless
willows wan of Proserpine,
Push thither through the gulphy Deep thy bark, 620
And, landing, haste to Pluto's murky abode.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Jean
Baptiste
is the sobriquet of the
French Canadians.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Having contracted an
intimacy
with some of
the negroes, he obtained leave to penetrate into the country along with
them, to observe their habitations and strength.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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ilke
difficulte
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The word is evidently connected with the verb
"leleyat" to fondle or soothe,
likewise
with our own word
"to lull.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Ages since the vanquished bled
Round my mother's marriage-bed;
There the ravens feasted far
About the open house of war:
When Severn down to
Buildwas
ran
Coloured with the death of man,
Couched upon her brother's grave
The Saxon got me on the slave.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Before the King is come now Pinabel;
Great is he, strong, vassalous and nimble;
Who bears his blow has no more time to dwell:
Says to him: "Sire, on you this cause depends;
Command
therefore
this noise be made an end.
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Chanson de Roland |
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In torment dire to sleep he lay;
Then, as a tempest echoing rolls,
Another genius whirled away,
Another
sovereign
of our souls.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Straightway he seized a sleeping warrior
for the first, and tore him
fiercely
asunder,
the bone-frame bit, drank blood in streams,
swallowed him piecemeal: swiftly thus
the lifeless corse was clear devoured,
e'en feet and hands.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
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Appoloinaire |
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Sickingen's
horsemen
in flight!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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VITA
CUIUSDAM
SANCTI VIRI NOMINE ALEX.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The fresh meadow grass of spring
Tempts me forth thus wandering
To my
brothers
on the mountains,
Who shall share the wine's sweet fountains.
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Shelley |
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