He, without a care
For all the
affliction
of Admetus' halls,
Sang on; and, listening, one could hear the thralls
In the long gallery weeping for the dead.
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"As for his Lordship's vulgar notions about the _mob_" he
adds, "they are very fit for the Poet of the
_Morning
Post_, and for
nobody else.
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'Twas so with our liberal Christians: they bore 751
With sincerest conviction their chairs to the shore;
They brandished their worn theological birches,
Bade natural progress keep out of the Churches,
And
expected
the lines they had drawn to prevail
With the fast-rising tide to keep out of their pale;
They had formerly dammed the Pontifical See,
And the same thing, they thought, would do nicely for P.
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For having traffic with thy self alone,
Thou of thy self thy sweet self dost deceive:
Then how when nature calls thee to be gone,
What
acceptable
audit canst thou leave?
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Your
Seruants
euer,
Haue theirs, themselues, and what is theirs in compt,
To make their Audit at your Highnesse pleasure,
Still to returne your owne
King.
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and John Gould
Fletcher
and F.
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From the cool shade I hear the silver plash
Of the blown
fountain
at the garden's end.
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For, images, and sentiments, and words,
And everything encountered or pursued 580
In that delicious world of poesy,
Kept holiday, a never-ending show,
With music, incense, festival, and
flowers!
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May Saint
Ignatius
aid thee
When other times shall come.
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In the former, Sir Hugh Montgomery is shot through the heart by a
Northumbrian bowman; in the latter he is taken and
exchanged
for
the Percy.
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So fell I in the snare; their slave so won
Her speech
angelical
and winning air,
Pleasure, and fond desire, and sanguine hope.
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Though the
dividing
sea
My leg?
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[35] Probably
phonetic
variant of _edir_.
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ENDYMION
(FOR MUSIC)
THE apple trees are hung with gold,
And birds are loud in Arcady,
The sheep lie
bleating
in the fold,
The wild goat runs across the wold,
But yesterday his love he told,
I know he will come back to me.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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1 This is the
emanation
of Suzong?
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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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Why
withdraw
thyself
in so much pride, O friend?
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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It
is also
uncertain
whether he knew, when he entered the service of Lin,
that this prince was about to take up arms against the Emperor.
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III
The October night comes down; returning as before
Except for a slight
sensation
of being ill at ease
I mount the stairs and turn the handle of the door
And feel as if I had mounted on my hands and knees.
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They raised her up, they bore the trembling girl
On to the altar--hither led not now
With solemn rites and hymeneal choir,
But sinless woman,
sinfully
foredone,
A parent felled her on her bridal day,
Making his child a sacrificial beast
To give the ships auspicious winds for Troy:
Such are the crimes to which Religion leads.
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Since an immutable somewhat still must be,
Lest all things utterly be sped to naught;
For change in
anything
from out its bounds
Means instant death of that which was before.
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" As the chosen three,
On Tabor's mount,
admitted
to behold
The blossoming of that fair tree, whose fruit
Is coveted of angels, and doth make
Perpetual feast in heaven, to themselves
Returning at the word, whence deeper sleeps
Were broken, that they their tribe diminish'd saw,
Both Moses and Elias gone, and chang'd
The stole their master wore: thus to myself
Returning, over me beheld I stand
The piteous one, who cross the stream had brought
My steps.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Thus was I
manacled
for life; while she,
Proud of my bonds, enjoy'd her liberty.
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I am the
youngest
of
that name, for fault of a worse.
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how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vexed with
watching
and with tears?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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His blinding light
He
flingeth
white
On God's and Satan's brood,
And reconciles
By mystic wiles
The evil and the good.
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Emerson - Poems |
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But fynally my spirit, at the laste,
For-wery of my labour al the day,
Took rest, that made me to slepe faste,
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How African, right in that selfe aray
That
Scipioun
him saw before that tyde,
Was comen, and stood right at my beddes syde.
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I'd just dropt asleep when I dreamed Robin spoke,
And the
casement
it gave such a shake,
As if every pane in the window was broke;
Such a patter the gravel did make.
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She had
wandered
long,
Hearing wild birds' song.
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blake-poems |
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They embraced the theory
that "by
bringing
himself into harmony with Nature" man can escape every
evil.
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MISSAIL,
wandering
friar.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A GAME OF CHESS
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of
sevenbranched
candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
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Now o're the one halfe World
Nature seemes dead, and wicked Dreames abuse
The Curtain'd sleepe:
Witchcraft
celebrates
Pale Heccats Offrings: and wither'd Murther,
Alarum'd by his Centinell, the Wolfe,
Whose howle's his Watch, thus with his stealthy pace,
With Tarquins rauishing sides, towards his designe
Moues like a Ghost.
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are gold and silver, the seals of
Zhangsun?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Or, have new sorrows
Come with the
constant
dawn upon thy morrows?
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Keats |
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And turning straight with his
priceless
freight,
He reached the dying one,
Whose passing sprite had been stayed for the rite
Without which bliss hath none.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Ast ego, si vestras unquam temeravero stirpes,
Nulla Nesera, Chloe, Faustina, Corynna, legetur ;
In proprio sed quaeque libro
signabitur
arbos.
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Marvell - Poems |
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who, sunk in beds of down,
Feel not a want but what
yourselves
create,
Think, for a moment, on his wretched fate,
Whom friends and fortune quite disown!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"Those banks and beds whose shape your eye
Has planned in line so true,
New hands will change,
unreasoning
why
Such shape seemed best to you.
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Ronsard |
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The
approach
of evening or nightfall,
the coming of dawn, the change of the seasons, the slow changes of light
into darkness and of darkness into light, in short, the most silent yet
greatest metamorphoses in the external aspects of nature form the
contents of many of these first poems.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Discobbolos
said,--
"Oh!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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To follow Time's dying
melodies
through,
And never to lose the old in the new,
And ever to solve the discords true --
Love alone can do.
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in the year 1638,
and was
admitted
to a scholarship.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
In
careless
mood he looked at me,
While still I held him by the arm,
And said, "At Kilve I'd rather be
"Than here at Liswyn farm.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And on one, that's Earth, a yellow dot, Paris,
Where hangs, a light, a poor ageing fool:
In the frail
universal
order, unique miracle.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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That we can judge only with regard to our own
system, being
ignorant
of the relations of systems and things, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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You diverged from that dread path
Some hours ago, and I some days:
henceforth
540
Our roads must lie asunder, though they tend
All to one home.
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Byron |
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All the sunken armadas pressed to powder
By weight of
incredible
seas!
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Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
For sheep alike and
shepherd
Pan hath care.
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To this
interview the world owes some of our most
impassioned
strains.
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Mother of God,
Thou knowest never woman meant so well,
And fared so ill in this
disastrous
world.
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Il te faut, pour gagner ton pain de chaque soir,
Comme un enfant de choeur, jouer de l'encensoir,
Chantes des _Te Deum_ auxquels tu ne crois guere,
Ou, saltimbanque a jeun, etaler les appas
Et ton rire trempe de pleurs qu'on ne voit pas,
Pour faire
epanouir
la rate du vulgaire.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Perhaps his astonishment
explains
his silence, 785
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Racine - Phaedra |
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" In a terrible letter addressed to Joseph Cottle in
1814 he declares that he was "seduced to the
_accursed_
habit
ignorantly"; and he describes "the direful moment, when my pulse began to
fluctuate, my heart to palpitate, and such a dreadful falling abroad, as it
were, of my whole frame, such intolerable restlessness, and incipient
bewilderment .
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Coleridge - Poems |
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cheeks red
like
foxglove
in flower.
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Yeats |
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Search
narrowly
the lines!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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He stood a soldier to the last right end,
A perfect patriot, and a noble friend;
But most, a
virtuous
son.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I do my part, for I meet him halfway and
proclaim
his adventures
Praising his name in advance, even before he's begun.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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On this decay the sun shone hot from heaven
As though with chemic heat to broil and burn,
And unto Nature all that she had given
A
hundredfold
return.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Yet now, before our sun grow dark at noon,
Before we come to nought beneath Thy rod,
Before we go down quick into the pit,
Remember
us for good, O God, our God:--
Thy Name will I remember, praising it,
Though Thou forget me, though Thou hide Thy face,
And blot me from the Book which Thou hast writ;
Thy Name will I remember in my praise
And call to mind Thy faithfulness of old,
Though as a weaver Thou cut off my days
And end me as a tale ends that is told.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Fuit Edmundus Trottius,
E quatuor masculse stirpis residuus,
Statur^ justa, formS, virili, specie eximi^,
Medio juventutis robore simul et flore,
Aspectu, incessu, sermone, juxtk
amabilis
;
Et, si quid ultra cineri pretium addit,
Honest^, discipline domi imbutus ;
Peregre profectus
Generosis artibus aniraum,
Et exercitiis corpus, firmaverat.
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Marvell - Poems |
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_Then_ on the shore,--building sand-pagodas;
_Now_, at Court, covered with
tinkling
jade.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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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[Sidenote: What say you, then; are all these things, sufficiency,
power, and the rest, to be
considered
as constituent parts of
felicity?
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What
nonsense
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Hast thou no passion nor pity
For thy deserted
companions?
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The rocky nook with hill-tops three
Looked
eastward
from the farms,
And twice each day the flowing sea
Took Boston in its arms;
The men of yore were stout and poor,
And sailed for bread to every shore.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Burbank crossed a little bridge
Descending at a small hotel;
Princess
Volupine arrived,
They were together, and he fell.
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T.S. Eliot |
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O fangeuse grandeur, sublime
ignominie!
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) mais vierge
de toute
platitude
ou decadence--comme il fut un homme mort jeune aussi
[(a trente] sept ans [le] 10 Novembre 1891 a l'hopital de la Conception
de Marseille), mais dans son voeu bien formule d'independance et de haut
dedain de n'importe quelle adhesion a ce qu'il ne lui plaisait pas de
faire ni d'etre.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Lean penury within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so dignifies his story,
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature made so clear,
And such a
counterpart
shall fame his wit,
Making his style admired every where.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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It was the act for which Admetus was
specially and
marvellously
rewarded; therefore, obviously, it was an act
of exceptional merit and piety.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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LA BEAUTE
Je suis belle, o
mortels!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Now green's the sod, and cauld's the clay,
That wraps my
Highland
Mary!
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Golden Treasury |
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Elle se repand dans ma vie
Comme un air
impregne
de sel,
Et dans mon ame inassouvie,
Verse le gout de l'eternel.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Look at the lake--
Do you
remember
how we watched the swans
That night in late October while they slept?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Raleigh, no more, for long in vain I've tried
The Stuart from the tyrant to divide ;
As easily learned
virtuosos
may
With the dog's blood his gentle kind convey
Into the wolf^ and make him guardian turn
To the bleating flock, by him so lately torn :
If this imperial juice once taint )ii$ blood,
*Tis by no potent antidote withstood.
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Marvell - Poems |
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See, the juice is
scarcely
dried
On the fine skin!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I
answered
him at once,
"Old, old man, it is the wisdom of the age.
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Stephen Crane |
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Not in vain
Hath God appointed me for many years
A witness,
teaching
me the art of letters;
A day will come when some laborious monk
Will bring to light my zealous, nameless toil,
Kindle, as I, his lamp, and from the parchment
Shaking the dust of ages will transcribe
My true narrations, that posterity
The bygone fortunes of the orthodox
Of their own land may learn, will mention make
Of their great tsars, their labours, glory, goodness--
And humbly for their sins, their evil deeds,
Implore the Saviour's mercy.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
Then
groaning
up and down, he groping tried
To find the stone, which found, he put aside,
But in the door sat, feeling if he could,
As the sheep issued, on some man lay hold.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Messire Belzebuth tire par la cravate
Ses petits pantins noirs
grimacant
sur le ciel,
Et, leur claquant au front un revers de savate,
Les fait danser, danser aux sons d'un vieux Noel!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Go to thy bed of torture in yon chamber,
Where lie so many sleepers,
heartless
mother!
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Longfellow |
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