From the cool shade I hear the silver plash
Of the blown
fountain
at the garden's end.
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, can be guessed to belong to, or be
the
production
of these countries.
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now, my brother, hide thyself no more,
Thou seest how not I alone but all
Gaze, where thou veil'st the
intercepted
sun.
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are
evidently
transcribed from the
same source, but one is not a copy of the other.
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Then, like to thee, would I in my old age
Have gladly from the noisy world withdrawn,
To vow myself a dedicated monk,
And in the quiet
cloister
end my days.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Vast were the task, I feeble; inborn shame,
And she, who makes the
peaceful
lyre submit,
Forbid me to impair great Caesar's fame
And yours by my weak wit.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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She watches the
creeping
stalk and counts.
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Imagists |
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"Erect as a sunbeam,
Upspringeth the palm;
The elephant browses,
Undaunted
and calm;
In beautiful motion
The thrush plies his wings;
Kind leaves of his covert,
Your silence he sings.
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Emerson - Poems |
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But the woe beneath
Urges my soul with more
exceeding
dread.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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LE REBELLE
Un Ange furieux fond du ciel comme un aigle,
Du mecreant saisit a plein poing les cheveux,
Et dit, le secouant: << Ta
connaitras
la regle!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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What a thin
membrane
of honour
that is!
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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They have broacht
The wine that had pleas'd God to
flocking
thirst
Of flies and wasps, to fears and worldly sorrows.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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" you reply,
"When, throughout civilization,
Every nation's empery
Is
asserted
by starvation?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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te wynne,
What
syknesse
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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No savage mountain climbing to the skies
Should stay the godlike course with wild abysses;
And now the sea, with sheltering, warm recesses
Spreads out before the
astonished
eyes.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Friendship's full of dregs:
Methinks
false hearts should never have sound legs.
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Shakespeare |
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Very well, have
yourself
wheeled out here.
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Aristophanes |
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my good old friend
Bordeaux!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Has it
feathers
like a bird?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Time flies apace: the silent hours and swift
So urge his journey on,
Short span to me is left
Even to think how quick to death I run;
Scarce, in the orient heaven, yon mountain crest
Smiles in the sun's first ray,
When, in the adverse west,
His long round run, we see his light decay
So small of life the space,
So frail and clogg'd with woe,
To mortal man below,
That, when I find me from that
beauteous
face
Thus torn by fate's decree,
Unable at a wish with her to be,
So poor the profit that old comforts give,
I know not how I brook in such a state to live.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Across two
counties
he can hear,
And catch your words before you speak.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Other than errors resulting from
corruption
of the plates over 20 years,
the following differences are the only changes:
1) The 1898 copy was printed by Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company,
New York.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The word is
probably
an adverb; hardly a word
for cup, mug (?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"Yes" I whispered "this, too, holy, Even this holy and divine,
Though to poets known and lovers only
The dear face that looks from meanest things
"And the majesty that moves about us,
The bright
splendor
what common guise.
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"
Answers Duke Neimes: "God grant us his
consent!
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Chanson de Roland |
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The Count was rash;
Rodrigue
replied though:
Played the brave man's part, and still must do so.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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This is ten
thousand
titles each to one hundred million readers,
which is only about 4% of the present number of computer users.
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Whitman |
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In his
Chronological
Table, Mr.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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copyright
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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As thou heard'st,
Two
champions
to the succour of his spouse
He sent, who by their deeds and words might join
Again his scatter'd people.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And only yesterday it was I saw
Veil'd in
streamers
of grey wavering smoke
My shapely Malvern Hills.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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That this poetry should have been suffered to perish will not
appear strange when we consider how
complete
was the triumph of
the Greek genius over the public mind of Italy.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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But his
intellectual
outlook was low and sordid.
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Li Po |
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What a world of
happiness
their harmony foretells!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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'Do you see him, she cried, the old lecher dies;
Through his mouth the frosts of earth take flight;
Bind his lame feet, destroy his
squinting
sight,
He's the god of craters, king of the winter's ice!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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With mine own weakness, being best acquainted,
Upon thy part I can set down a story
Of faults conceal'd, wherein I am attainted;
That thou in losing me shalt win much glory:
And I by this will be a gainer too;
For bending all my loving thoughts on thee,
The
injuries
that to myself I do,
Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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, _riches,
treasure
of a castle_ or _city_: gen.
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Beowulf |
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He fled to
Brussels, there to rehabilitate his
dwindling
fortunes.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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O 't is old Dame
Jeannette
that kept the hall,
I knew she would die at the autumn fall.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Our poet acknowledged that
he owed his life to the
kindness
of those two noblemen.
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Petrarch |
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The stones are crooned to sleep
By the soft sound of rain that slowly dies;
And cradled in the branches, hidden deep
In each bright bud, a
slumbering
silence lies.
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Rilke - Poems |
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But first with narrow search I must walk round
This Garden, and no corner leave unspi'd;
A chance but chance may lead where I may meet 530
Some
wandring
Spirit of Heav'n, by Fountain side,
Or in thick shade retir'd, from him to draw
What further would be learnt.
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Milton |
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We're under more
constraint
than ever,
And pay more tax than ever yet.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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He offered large discount--he offered a cheque
(Drawn "to bearer") for seven-pounds-ten:
But the Bandersnatch merely
extended
its neck
And grabbed at the Banker again.
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Lewis Carroll |
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1849
TO MARIE LOUISE (SHEW)
Of all who hail thy
presence
as the morning--
Of all to whom thine absence is the night--
The blotting utterly from out high heaven
The sacred sun--of all who, weeping, bless thee
Hourly for hope--for life--ah!
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Poe - 5 |
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Though cold it grows,
I will not freeze forever,
In whom love rose
That will my heart deliver
I'll not shiver,
Love hides me from head to toe,
Brings
strength
rather
And tells me which way to go.
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Troubador Verse |
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The first of these is the famous
portrait
of Addison as Atticus.
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Alexander Pope |
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how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you also be
eligible
as I am?
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Whitman |
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The murmuring of bees has ceased;
But murmuring of some
Posterior, prophetic,
Has simultaneous come, --
The lower metres of the year,
When nature's laugh is done, --
The
Revelations
of the book
Whose Genesis is June.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I would fain behold
the gorgeous heirlooms, golden store,
have joy in the jewels and gems, lay down
softlier for sight of this splendid hoard
my life and the
lordship
I long have held.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But if the Christmas field has kept
Awns the last gleaner overstept,
Or shrivelled flax, whose flower is blue
A single season, never two;
Or if one haulm whose year is o'er
Shivers on the upland frore,
-Oh, bring from hill and stream and plain
Whatever
will not flower again,
To give him comfort: he and those
Shall bide eternal bedfellows
Where low upon the couch he lies
Whence he never shall arise.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And he hath baulked your chase, as stag the hounds;
Yea, lightly
bounding
from the circling toils,
Hath wried his face in scorn, and flieth far.
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Aeschylus |
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My son and
grandson
emulous dispute 600
The prize of glory, and my soul exults.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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could renew againe,
Of endlesse life he might him not deprive, 355
But unto hell did thrust him downe alive,
With flashing
thunderbolt
ywounded sore:
Where long remaining, he did alwaies strive
Himselfe with salves to health for to restore,
And slake the heavenly fire, that raged evermore.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XXVIII
Then to her yron wagon she betakes,
And with her beares the fowle welfavourd witch: 245
Through
mirkesome
aire her readie way she makes.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
The transpositions of stanzas, and their omission from certain editions
and their subsequent re-introduction, in altered form, in later ones,
make it
extremely
difficult to give the textual history of 'Ruth' in
footnotes.
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William Wordsworth |
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Cowley has copied him to
a fault; so great a one, in my opinion, that it throws
his Mistress
infinitely
below his Pindarics and his latter
compositions, which are undoubtedly the best of his poems and
the most correct.
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John Donne |
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So unto these
Must added be a somewhat, and a fourth;
That somewhat's
altogether
void of name;
Than which existeth naught more mobile, naught
More an impalpable, of elements
More small and smooth and round.
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Lucretius |
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_ _I_, at last,
Who yesterday was
helpmate
and delight
Unto mine Adam, am to-day the grief
And curse-mete for him.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Defer to the you,
she has
certitude
for, me?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It
splashes
from the lead conduit of a
gargoyle, and falls from it in turmoil on the stones in the Cathedral
square.
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Imagists |
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The
daughter
of beauty wip'd her pitying tears with her white veil,
And said, Alas!
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blake-poems |
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Suspicion
always haunts the guilty mind:
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
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Shakespeare |
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_ As
mentioned
in the brief "Life" of
Herrick prefixed to vol.
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Robert Herrick |
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I drive the chickens up into the trees, 4 and then hear a knock at my
ramshackle
gate.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"_See how he waves his hand, and through his eyes
Shoots forth his jealous soul, for to surprise
And ravish you his Bride, do you
Not now
perceive
the soul of C[lipseby] C[rew],
Your mayden knight,
With kisses to inspire
You with his just and holy ire.
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Robert Herrick |
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De son oeuvre je
reparlerai
peut-etre
encore.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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ur3 her dere
dalyaunce
of her derne worde3,
Wyth clene cortays carp, closed fro fyl?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I was reading then one of those dear poems (whose flakes of rouge have more charm for me than young flesh), and dipping a hand into the pure animal fur, when a street organ sounded
languishingly
and sadly under my window.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Often a hidden god
inhabits
obscure being;
And like an eye, born, covered by its eyelids,
Pure spirit grows beneath the surface of stones!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Lordes myne, I was
Troian, as it is knowen out of drede;
And, if that yow remembre, I am Calkas,
That
alderfirst
yaf comfort to your nede,
And tolde wel how that ye sholden spede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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190
As when the erthe, torne by convulsyons dyre,
In reaulmes of
darkness
hid from human syghte,
The warring force of water, air, and fyre,
Brast from the regions of eternal nyghte,
Thro the darke caverns seeke the reaulmes of lyght; 195
Some loftie mountaine, by its fury torne,
Dreadfully moves, and causes grete affryght;
Now here, now there, majestic nods the bourne,
And awfulle shakes, mov'd by the almighty force,
Whole woods and forests nod, and ryvers change theyr course.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Their powdered cheeks, lit by the sun,
are
mirrored
deep in the pool;
Their scented skirts, caught by the wind,
flap high in the air.
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Li Po |
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Assise sur ma grande chaise,
Mi-nue elle
joignait
les mains.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The
reminiscence
comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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No yachtsman
believed
in them
or thought them at all like the sea, he said.
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Yeats |
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I want to show
you that I have honesty enough to tell you what I take to be truths,
even when they are not quite on the side of approbation; and I do it
in the firm faith that you have equal
greatness
of mind to hear them
with pleasure.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Why seek Italy,
Who cannot circumnavigate the sea
Of
thoughts
and things at home, but still adjourn
The nearest matters for a thousand days?
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Emerson - Poems |
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representations concerning the
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Already it seems these walls, and these ceilings
Will speak aloud, and are ready to accuse me, 855
Await my husband, to
disabuse
him of me.
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But
wherfore
all night long shine these, for whom
This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes?
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Huge stone structures of all kinds, both
in their erection and by their
influence
when erected, rather oppress
than liberate the mind.
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For if
barbarians
rude
Have higher minds subdued,
Ours!
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
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The peril of the ruling house is
something
like banner tassels attached?
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XVII
Fair as an angel, who yet inly wore
A wrinkled heart
foreboding
his near fall; 130
Who saw him alway wished to know him more,
As if he were some fate's defiant thrall
And nursed a dreaded secret at his core;
Little he loved, but power the most of all,
And that he seemed to scorn, as one who knew
By what foul paths men choose to crawl thereto.
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They lied not then, who sware, and through their vows
The King
prevailing
made his realm:--I say,
Swear to me thou wilt love me even when old,
Gray-haired, and past desire, and in despair.
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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