We have
mistaken
Judith.
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A woman, if her mind
So turn, can light on many a
pleasant
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Dear uplands, Chester's favorable fields,
My large
unjealous
Loves, many yet one --
A grave good-morrow to your Graces, all,
Fair tilth and fruitful seasons!
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Thou didst assume my misery,
And reap the harvest I had sown,
Comforting
me
Thy little one.
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If I should n't be alive
When the robins come,
Give the one in red cravat
A
memorial
crumb.
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) and
Democratic
Vistas, etc.
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Of good and evil much they argu'd then,
Of happiness and final misery,
Passion and Apathie, and glory and shame,
Vain wisdom all, and false Philosophie:
Yet with a pleasing sorcerie could charm
Pain for a while or anguish, and excite
Fallacious hope, or arm th' obdured brest
With stubborn
patience
as with triple steel.
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Milton |
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Mihi
pergamena
deest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume
enclosed
by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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Though all the fierce and drunken
passions
wove
A dance more wild than e'er was maniac's dream!
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Should
we be nothing, because somebody had contrived to be
something
(and that
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Note: Selene, the Moon, loved
Endymion
on Mount Latmos, while he slept.
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Ronsard |
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The yellow leopards, strained and lean,
The treacherous Russian knows so well,
With gaping
blackened
jaws are seen
Leap through the hail of screaming shell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The leading idea of this beautiful
description
of a day's landscape in
Italy is expressed with an obscurity not unfrequent with its author.
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Golden Treasury |
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Wearied he sat
at his sovran's shoulder,
shieldsman
good,
to wake him with water.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Where is thy place of
heavenly
rest?
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polygonic In their amazing fructifying hard subdued course in the vast deep
PAGE 34
And Los &
Enitharmon
were drawn down by their desires
Descending sweet upon the wind among soft harps & voices [Laughing and mocking ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Indeed they say the
senators
tomorrow
Mean to establish Caesar as a king,
And he shall wear his crown by sea and land
In every place save here in Italy.
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"
XXXIX
The livid
lightnings
flashed in the clouds;
The leaden thunders crashed.
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Emily
Dickinson
appears to have written her first poems in the
winter of 1862.
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Never trust a woman who wears mauve,
whatever
her age may be, or a woman
over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
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rascals,
He's a genius or fool whom ye cheat at two-score,
And the man whose boy-promise was likened to Pascal's
Is
thankful
at forty they don't call him bore!
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310
laeua colum molli lana retinebat amictum,
dextera tum leuiter deducens fila supinis
formabat
digitis, tum prono in pollice torquens
libratum tereti uersabat turbine fusum,
atque ita decerpens aequabat semper opus dens, 315
laneaque aridulis haerebant morsa labellis,
quae prius in leui fuerant exstantia filo:
ante pedes autem candentis mollia lanae
uellera uirgati custodibant calathisci.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
Washington
buried in Virginia,
Jackson buried in Tennessee,
Young Lincoln, brooding in Illinois,
And Johnny Appleseed, priestly and free,
Knotted and gnarled, past seventy years,
Still planted on in the woods alone.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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all
interests
weighed,
All Europe saved, yet Britain not betrayed.
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Imagination flowers and vanishes, swiftly, following the flow of the writing, round the fragmentary stations of a capitalised phrase introduced by and
extended
from the title.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The
hawthorn
I will pu'
Wi' its locks o' siller gray,
Where, like an aged man,
It stands at break of day.
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Robert Burns |
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It is the kind which
occurs quite locally and on a petty scale, with causes
obscurer
than
ever.
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see; round quickly came a crowd;
The father, mother, all the
servants
ran;
The neighbours too; the husband then began
To state the circumstance that gave him pain;
And fully all the folly to explain.
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La Fontaine |
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A trifle, a thing of mere weight, I have brought you
From the
Assyrian
camp.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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there is a pause of deepest
silence!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The nodding promontories, and blue isles,
And cloud-like mountains, and dividuous waves
Of Greece, basked glorious in the open smiles
Of
favouring
Heaven: from their enchanted caves
Prophetic echoes flung dim melody.
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With that, me thoghte, that this king
Gan [quikly]
hoomward
for to ryde 1315
Unto a place ther besyde,
Which was from us but a lyte,
A long castel with walles whyte,
By seynt Iohan!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Old-fashioned eyes,
Not easy to
surprise!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Here, mother, there is sunshine every day;
It warms the bones and
breathes
upon the heart;
But you I see out-plod a little way,
Bitten with cold; your cheeks and fingers smart.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Gyff ynn thys battelle locke ne wayte oure gare,
To
Brystowe
dheie wylle tourne yeyre fhuyrie dyre;
Brystowe, & alle her joies, wylle synke toe ayre, 635
Brendeynge perforce wythe unenhantende[91] fyre:
Thenne lette oure safetie doublie moove oure ire,
Lyche wolfyns, rovynge for the evnynge pre,
See[ing] the lambe & shepsterr nere the brire,
Doth th'one forr safetie, th'one for hongre slea; 640
Thanne, whanne the ravenne crokes uponne the playne,
Oh!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Aye, closer; clasp my body well,
And let thy sorrow loose, and shed,
As o'er the grave of one new dead,
Dead evermore, thy last
farewell!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Copyright
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Meredith - Poems |
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But our wives and
families?
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Byron |
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Thou, the
hyacinth
that grows 5
By a quiet-running river;
I, the watery reflection
And the broken gleam.
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Sappho |
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Agnes' Eve--
Yet men will murder upon holy days:
Thou must hold water in a witch's sieve, 120
And be liege-lord of all the Elves and Fays,
To venture so: it fills me with amaze
To see thee,
Porphyro!
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Keats |
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His
strength
he trusted,
hand-gripe of might.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Night,
guardian
of dreams,
Now wanders through the land;
The moon, a lily white,
Blossoms within her hand.
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Rilke - Poems |
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For he hears the lambs' innocent call,
And he hears the ewes' tender reply;
He is
watching
while they are in peace,
For they know when their Shepherd is nigh.
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blake-poems |
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And what if Love, which thou interpret'st hate, 790
The jealousie of Love,
powerful
of sway
In human hearts, nor less in mine towards thee,
Caus'd what I did?
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Milton |
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Let the great world there rave and riot,
We here will house
ourselves
in quiet.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Nor could the
horsemen
calm
Their horses, panic-breasted at the roar,
And rein them round to front the foe.
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'Tis yours the drooping heart to heal;
Your
strength
uplifts the poor man's horn;
Inspired by you, the soldier's steel,
The monarch's crown, he laughs to scorn.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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In all-lack Winter,
Dull of sense and of sound,
We huddle and shiver
Beside our splinter
Of
crackling
pine,
Snow in sky and snow on ground.
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That
Emperour
stood still and listened then:
"My lords," said he, "Right evilly we fare!
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Suddenly
out of the mist, a flaring gas-jet
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Ye two, the while, bind fast Melanthius' hands
And feet behind his back, then cast him bound
Into the chamber, and (the door secured) 200
Pass
underneath
his arms a double chain,
And by a pillar's top weigh him aloft
Till he approach the rafters, there to endure,
Living long time, the mis'ries he hath earned.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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If only I could
recollect
it, such
A day of days!
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Christina Rossetti |
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THE FLY
Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My
thoughtless
hand
Has brushed away.
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blake-poems |
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Each corse lay flat,
lifeless
and flat,
And, by the holy rood!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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We
others, the slaves, we play at odd and even with gold pieces, and carry
luxury so far that we no longer wipe
ourselves
with stones, but use
garlic stalks instead.
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Aristophanes |
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--My pilgrim's shrine is won,
And he and I must part,--so let it be,--
His task and mine alike are nearly done;
Yet once more let us look upon the sea:
The midland ocean breaks on him and me,
And from the Alban mount we now behold
Our friend of youth, that ocean, which when we
Beheld it last by Calpe's rock unfold
Those waves, we
followed
on till the dark Euxine rolled
CLXXVI.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
To Mary In Heaven
Thou ling'ring star, with
lessening
ray,
That lov'st to greet the early morn,
Again thou usher'st in the day
My Mary from my soul was torn.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Because he loves her, he
despiseth
me;
Because I love him, I must pity him.
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Shakespeare |
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]
[but yit ne
myhte nat al his heye power torne the
woodnesse
of 1480
this wykkyd nero /
[Sidenote: It is a grievous thing when power strengthens the arm
of him whose will prompts him to deeds of cruelty.
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O
heavenly
ships without a sail!
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Emerson - Poems |
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We have here restored two lines, marked in the manuscript as 6 and 7 (omitted from Erdman's
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His tragedy is
enthusiastically praised by Schlegel for "the
celestial
purity, the fresh
breath of life and youth, that is diffused over so dreadful a subject.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Fuor de la bocca a ciascun soperchiava
d'un
peccator
li piedi e de le gambe
infino al grosso, e l'altro dentro stava.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Apart from his depth
and beauty, he has created a new form, endowed
verse with new colour and sound, and greatly ex-
tended the
possibilities
of expression in the German
language.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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didst thou not design
Thyself, that brave Ulysses coming home
Should slay those
profligates?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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an honour'd name)
Drove through the thickest of the embattled plains
The
startling
steeds, and shook his eager reins.
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Iliad - Pope |
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[269] On
the same
occasion
Civilis was sent in chains to Nero.
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Tacitus |
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It is
attended
with some pleasure, but it is the pleasure of
a moment, springing from vain applause, and bringing with it no solid
advantage.
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Tacitus |
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Be
priestess
still
Of the great goddess who selected thee.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Note: Ronsard's Helene, was Helene de Surgeres, a lady in waiting to
Catherine
de Medicis.
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Ronsard |
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LVI
It never can be mine
To sit in the door in the sun
And watch the world go by,
A pageant and a dream;
For I was born for love, 5
And
fashioned
for desire,
Beauty, passion, and joy,
And sorrow and unrest;
And with all things of earth
Eternally must go, 10
Daring the perilous bourn
Of joyance and of death,
A strain of song by night,
A shadow on the hill,
A hint of odorous grass, 15
A murmur of the sea.
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Sappho |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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considers
weaxan, = Lat.
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Beowulf |
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VIII
So, I ask the wives of Lodi
For
traditions
of that day;
But alas!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Motionless before
her, it was long ere I
understood
the words of Father Garasim and his
wife, who apparently were trying to comfort me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Ne dim ne red, like God's own head,
The
glorious
Sun uprist:
Then all averr'd, I had kill'd the Bird
That brought the fog and mist.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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our pay is not even a tithe of the State
revenue?
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Aristophanes |
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end you
_Bladders_
and _Bellowes_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Better be Cibber, I'll maintain it still,
Than
ridicule
all taste, blaspheme quadrille,
Abuse the city's best good men in metre,
And laugh at peers that put their trust in Peter.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thy voice is as the hill-wind over me,
And all my
changing
heart gives heed, my lover.
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Sappho |
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I saw the
fourfold
River flow,
And deep it was, with golden sand;
It flowed between a mossy land
With murmured music grave and low.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Then Aegle, fairest of the Naiad-band,
Aegle came up to the half-frightened boys,
Came, and, as now with open eyes he lay,
With juice of blood-red
mulberries
smeared him o'er,
Both brow and temples.
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Quintilius dies;
By none than you, my Virgil, trulier wept:
Devout in vain, you chide the
faithless
skies,
Asking your loan ill-kept.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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= Gifford says that the side note 'could scarcely
come from Jonson; for it
explains
nothing.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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