Rowland Woodward_, _To Sr Henry Wootton_ ('Here's no more newes'), _To
the Countesse of
Bedford_
('Reason is our Soules left hand'), _To
the Countesse of Bedford_ ('Madam, you have refin'd'), _To Sr Edward
Herbert, at Julyers_.
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Then horn for horn they stretch an' strive,
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
'Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
Bethankit
hums.
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_ Tragedie is to seyne a dite of a
p{ro}sp{er}ite
for a tyme
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The other, half a slave to female charms,
Parted his homage to the god of arms
And Love's
seductive
power: but, close and deep,
Like files that climb'd the Capitolian steep
In years of yore, along the sacred way
A martial squadron came in long array.
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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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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And if I were to die, it seemed sweeter
To give my life
fighting
in your honour.
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ey knowe hym nought; 284
That voyce sayde on that ylke a daye,
And tolde hym redyly where he laye;
'In eufamyans hous,' he sayde, 'is he, 287
That hathe my
Serwaunt
long I-be.
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O grant me, Phoebus, calm content,
Strength unimpair'd, a mind entire,
Old age without dishonour spent,
Nor
unbefriended
by the lyre!
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But the public have wit enough to
recognize
him.
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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" At this point a
phaeton entered the compound, and Orde rose with "Confound it, there's
old Rasul Ali Khan come to pay one of his
tiresome
duty calls.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Of wealthy lustre was the banquet-room,
Fill'd with pervading
brilliance
and perfume:
Before each lucid pannel fuming stood
A censer fed with myrrh and spiced wood,
Each by a sacred tripod held aloft,
Whose slender feet wide-swerv'd upon the soft
Wool-woofed carpets: fifty wreaths of smoke
From fifty censers their light voyage took
To the high roof, still mimick'd as they rose
Along the mirror'd walls by twin-clouds odorous.
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Keats - Lamia |
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It is in this wise that God
speaketh
unto me.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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'Tis unmeet, if he hears
Our turmoil or is
burdened
with our tears.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Sir
Christopher
Wren wrote _belcony_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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I thrust through antique blood and riches vast,
And all big claims of the pretentious Past
That
hindered
my Nirvana.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Fairer than Enna's field when Ceres sows
The stars of
hyacinth
and puts off grief,
Fairer than petals on May morning blown Through apple-orchards where the sun hath shed
His brighter petals down to make them fair; Fairer than these the Poppy-crowned One flees, And Joy goes weeping in her scarlet train.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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La: This way the noise was, if mine ear be true, 170
My best guide now, me thought it was the sound
Of Riot, and ill manag'd Merriment,
Such as the jocond Flute, or gamesom Pipe
Stirs up among the loose unleter'd Hinds,
When for their teeming Flocks, and granges full
In wanton dance they praise the
bounteous
Pan,
And thank the gods amiss.
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Thy soul was
generous
and
mild, like the hour of the setting sun.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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A poor torn heart, a tattered heart,
That sat it down to rest,
Nor noticed that the ebbing day
Flowed silver to the west,
Nor noticed night did soft descend
Nor
constellation
burn,
Intent upon the vision
Of latitudes unknown.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And therfor, swete, rewe on my peynes smerte, 130
And of your grace
granteth
me som drope;
For elles may me laste ne blis ne hope,
Ne dwellen in my trouble careful herte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Nor, although Davies' style parodies the style of the
sonneteers
(not
of the anonymous _Zepheria_ only), is it particularly harsh.
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John Donne |
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And after a thousand years I climbed the holy
mountain
and spoke
unto God again, saying, "Father, I am thy son.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I went into the
billiard
room.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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A blast of Gabriel's horn has torn away
The last haze from our eyes, and we can see
Past the three hundred skies and gaze upon
The
Ineffable
Name engraved deep in the sun.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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See how trees on trees, in legions,
Hurrying by us, change their places,
And the bowing crags make faces,
And the rocks, long noses showing,
Hear them snoring, hear them
blowing!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The longer on this earth we live
And weigh the various Qualities of men,
Seeing how most are fugitive,
Or fitful gifts, at best, of now and then,
Wind-wavered corpse-lights, daughters of the fen,
The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty
Of plain
devotedness
to duty, 290
Steadfast and still, nor paid with mortal praise,
But finding amplest recompense
For life's ungarlanded expense
In work done squarely and unwasted days.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Nay, rather it is the quietness of power,
That knows there is no
turbulence
in life
Dare the least questioning hindrance set against
The onward of its going,--therefore quiet,
All gentle.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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140 what he established is
exceedingly
vast and enduring.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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bitwixen
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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But anon, imbued
With a sudden,
bounding
access
Of passion, it relaxes
All timider persuasion.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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How superior it
is in these respects to the pear, whose
blossoms
are neither colored
nor fragrant!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Nor could I rise with you,
Because your face
Would put out Jesus',
That new grace
Glow plain and foreign
On my
homesick
eye,
Except that you, than he
Shone closer by.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Byron |
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535 "Wit þæt gecwǣdon cniht-wesende
"and
gebēotedon
(wǣron bēgen þā gīt
"on geogoð-feore) þæt wit on gār-secg ūt
"aldrum nēðdon; and þæt geæfndon swā.
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Beowulf |
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Tout casses
Qu'ils sont, ils ont des yeux percants comme une vrille,
Luisants
comme ces trous ou l'eau dort dans la nuit;
Ils ont les yeux divins de la petite fille
Qui s'etonne et qui rit a tout ce qui reluit.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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For while he closely scans the
temple that towers above him, while, awaiting the queen, he admires the
fortunate city, the emulous hands and elaborate work of her craftsmen,
he sees ranged in order the [457-491]battles of Ilium, that war whose
fame was already
rumoured
through all the world, the sons of Atreus and
Priam, and Achilles whom both found pitiless.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Like a demigod here sit I in the sky,
And wretched fools' secrets
heedfully
o'er-eye.
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Shakespeare |
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You villeins smile at
knighthood?
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Sidney Lanier |
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How, in thy father's halls, among the maidens
Pure and reproachless of thy princely line,
Could the
dishonored
Lalage abide?
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Poe - 5 |
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6 Undaunted was General Chen Xuanli,7 with spear and axe, he
exercised
loyal ardor.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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THE TIGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain:
The joy their wives, their sons, and servants share,
Ease of their toil, and partners of their care:
The laugh, the jest, attendants on the bowl,
Smoothed every brow, and opened every soul:
With growing years the
pleasing
licence grew,
And taunts alternate innocently flew.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Arm, ere our vessels catch the spreading flame;
Arm, ere the
Grecians
be no more a name;
I haste to bring the troops.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Harmoniae
in cultu se Eriphyle maesta recenset,
infelix nato nec fortunata marito.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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or how
Keep Judith all
untoucht
among their hands,
When his own quietness he could not keep
Unbroken by the god's Assyrian insult?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The
Centennial
Cantata.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Why can you not
continue?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some
strangle
with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
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Wilde - Poems |
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With this bent ruler I draw a line from
top to bottom; from one of its points I
describe
a circle with the
compass.
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Aristophanes |
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They've ta'en him to the gallows knowe,
He looked to the gallows tree,
Yet never colour left his cheek,
Nor ever did he blink his e'e
At length he looked around about,
To see
whatever
he could spy:
And there he saw his auld father,
And he was weeping bitterly.
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Robert Burns |
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the raskall routes appall,
Men into stones
therewith
he could transmew,
And stones to dust, and dust to nought at all;
And when him list the prouder lookes subdew,
He would them gazing blind, or turne to other hew.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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My mother--my own mother, who died early,
Was but the mother of myself; but you
Are mother to the one I loved so dearly,
And thus are dearer than the mother I knew
By that
infinity
with which my wife
Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Keats |
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Nor made, nor marr'd,
By help or
hindrance
of slow Time was she:
O'er this fair growth Time had no mastery:
So quick she bloomed, she seemed to bloom at birth,
As Eve from Adam, or as he from earth.
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Sidney Lanier |
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XXXVIII
"Peaceful as this immeasurable plain
Is now, by beams of dawning light imprest, [36] 335
In the calm sunshine slept the
glittering
main;
The very ocean hath its hour of rest.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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What if I file this mortal off,
See where it hurt me, -- that 's enough, --
And wade in
liberty?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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VI
IN Reading gaol by Reading town
There is a pit of shame,
And in it lies a
wretched
man
Eaten by teeth of flame,
In a burning winding-sheet he lies,
And his grave has got no name.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Quickly, as soon as I've seen,
She interlaces the circles, reducing them all to ornatest
Patterns--but still the sweet IV stood as
engraved
in my eye.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Rilke - Poems |
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The body of my brother's son
Stood by me knee to knee:
The body and I pull'd at one rope,
But he said nought to me--
And I quak'd to think of my own voice
How
frightful
it would be!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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x) attempted to point out the
probable cause of this defect; and it is, moreover, worth while to
remark that Pope's manifold
intrigues
and evasions were mainly of the
defensive order.
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Alexander Pope |
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Our
misanthrope
was full of ire,
At a great feast against desire,
And marking Tania's agitation,
Cast down his eyes in trepidation
And sulked in silent indignation;
Swearing how Lenski he would rile,
Avenge himself in proper style.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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contumacious
and unjust?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Theban mage, druid by the dark menhir,
Flamen by Tiber, Brahmin by the Ganges,
Fitting angelic arrow to godlike bow,
Viewing the haunts of Roland, Achilles,
Powerful mysterious smith, you'd know
How to twine sun-rays to a single flame;
In your soul the sunset met the day;
Yesterday tomorrow in your fertile brain;
You crowned the old art father of the new;
You understood that when an unknown soul
Speaks to a nation, lightning in the clouds,
We must open our hearts, accept, love aloud;
Calm you scorned the vile attempts of those
Who dribbled Shakespeare, drooled Aeschylus;
You knew this age had its own air to breathe,
That art
progresses
by self-transformation,
Beauty's adorned by melding with greatness.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And Tolumnius the
augur cries before them all: 'This it was, this, that my vows often have
sought; I welcome and know a deity; [261-294]follow me, follow, snatch
up the sword, O hapless people whom the greedy alien
frightens
with his
arms like silly birds, and with strong hand ravages your shores.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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is
tokenyng
bifalle, so doo?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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and surely if, once in a
while,
You attain to it,
straightway
you call us no longer too fair, but
too vile.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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He liked the advice and then soon it essayed,
And
presents
crowd headlong to give good
example.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"I have been wondering frequently of late
(But our
beginnings
never know our ends!
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T.S. Eliot |
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de Allio:
_Phthiae_
Ald.
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Latin - Catullus |
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It matters not; for, go at night or noon,
A friend, whene'er he dies, has died too soon, 460
And, once we hear the
hopeless
_He is dead,_
So far as flesh hath knowledge, all is said.
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The Jaguar's Dream
Beneath the dark mahoganies, creepers in flower
Hang in the heavy, motionless, fly-filled air,
Twining among the tree-stumps, falling where,
They cradle the
brilliant
parrot, the quarreller,
The wild monkeys, spiders with yellow hair.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Went up a year this
evening!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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(The Table of
Contents
follows the
1778 title-page.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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That, perhaps, was
fortunate, for it enabled Lucan safely to introduce one of his great and
memorable lines:
Jupiter est quodcunque vides, quodcunque moveris;[12]
which would certainly explode any supernatural
machinery
that could be
invented.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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[46] In the latter he
reveals himself in the second half of the play as Revenge, and although
he incites Horestes to an act of justice, he is plainly opposed to
'Amyte', and he is finally
rejected
and discountenanced.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But Destiny,
untangling
this chaos,
In which all good and evil once were lost,
Has since ensured the heavenly virtues,
Flying skywards, left the vices behind,
Which, till this day, remain here confined,
Concealed within these ruined avenues.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
distribution
of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the
marriage
of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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VI
Calais, in song where word and tone keep tryst Behold my heart, and hear mine
hardihood
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Whence is that
knocking?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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'"
And again--from a very
different
quarter--"I had to refer the other
day to Aristophanes, and came by chance on a curious Speaking-pot
story in the Vespae, which I had quite forgotten.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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{a}t is
dep{ar}tid
{and} fallen from some
roche.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Death -
ridiculous
enemy
- who cannot impose on the child
the notion that you exist!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I thinke withall,
There would be hands vplifted in my right:
And heere from
gracious
England haue I offer
Of goodly thousands.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Out of my dark hours wisdom dawns apace,
Infinite Life unrolls its
boundless
space .
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Rilke - Poems |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Twilight
Dreamily
over the roofs
The cold spring rain is falling;
Out in the lonely tree
A bird is calling, calling.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his
listening
ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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' We have 'a soul within our soul that describes a circle
around its proper
paradise
which pain and sorrow and evil dare not
overleap,' and we labour to see this soul in many mirrors, that we may
possess it the more abundantly.
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Yeats |
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Look--who salutes the coffin--
lays a wreath of remembrance
on the box where a buck private
sleeps a clean dry sleep at last--
look--it is the highest ranking general
of the
officers
of the armies of the Republic.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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