The
marriage
journey full of cares appears,
When couples match in neither souls nor years!
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Fortune to Lewis a fair face shall show,
As late a
troubled
mien, upon that plain,
Which even to where vext Adria pours her tides,
Po, between Alp and Apennine, divides.
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And this new knight, Sir Pelleas of the isles--
But lately come to his inheritance,
And lord of many a barren isle was he--
Riding at noon, a day or twain before,
Across the forest called of Dean, to find
Caerleon and the King, had felt the sun
Beat like a strong knight on his helm, and reeled
Almost to falling from his horse; but saw
Near him a mound of even-sloping side,
Whereon a hundred stately beeches grew,
And here and there great hollies under them;
But for a mile all round was open space,
And fern and heath: and slowly Pelleas drew
To that dim day, then binding his good horse
To a tree, cast himself down; and as he lay
At random looking over the brown earth
Through that green-glooming
twilight
of the grove,
It seemed to Pelleas that the fern without
Burnt as a living fire of emeralds,
So that his eyes were dazzled looking at it.
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FROM HAFIZ
I said to heaven that glowed above,
O hide yon sun-filled zone,
Hide all the stars you boast;
For, in the world of love
And
estimation
true,
The heaped-up harvest of the moon
Is worth one barley-corn at most,
The Pleiads' sheaf but two.
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While he wrought,
His fiery
brothers
from the plain around
Hunted the sons of Enoch and of Seth;
They plucked the eyes out of whoever passed,
And hurled at even arrows to the stars.
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Or Maia's son, if now awhile
In
youthful
guise we see thee here,
Caesar's avenger--such the style
Thou deign'st to bear;
Late be thy journey home, and long
Thy sojourn with Rome's family;
Nor let thy wrath at our great wrong
Lend wings to fly.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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On him, who
squatted
down, they stuck their fangs,
And having rent him piecemeal bore away
The tortur'd limbs.
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God grant, not that, not that, but some plain grace
Of manhood to the man who brings me love:
A father of
straight
children, that shall move
Swift on the wings of War.
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We lately saw [c] Eprius
Marcellus
arraigned
before the fathers: in that moment, when the minds of the whole
assembly were inflamed against him, what had he to oppose to the
vehemence of his enemies, but that nervous eloquence which he
possessed in so eminent a degree?
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You seem
resolved
to starve
Until your bones show through your skin.
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It has just enough meaning to
give it bodily existence;
otherwise
it would be disembodied music.
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I could laugh--
more beautiful, more
intense?
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She was the mother of the Young King Henry, Richard Coeur de Lion, Geoffrey of
Brittany
and John Lackland.
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There he is one maimed and marred; one who is not comely
to look on, because Beauty is a joy; one who is not in fair raiment,
because that may be a joy also: he is a beggar who has a marvellous
soul; he is a leper whose soul is divine; he needs neither
property
nor
health; he is a God realising his perfection through pain.
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Contents
Translator's note:
The Ruins Of Rome
Divine spirits, whose powdery ashes lie
The
Babylonian
praises his high wall,
Newcomer, who looks for Rome in Rome,
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
He who would see the vast power of Nature,
As in her chariot the Phrygian goddess rode,
You sacred ruins, and you holy shores,
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
You cruel stars, inhuman deities,
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
As we pass the summer stream without danger
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
All that the Egyptians once devised,
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
That we see nothing but an empty waste
Do you have hopes that posterity
Translator's note:
The text used is from the 1588 edition of Les Antiquites de Rome.
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Let them scorch and blister out of my chants, when you are gone;
Let them
identify
you to the future in these songs!
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Whitman |
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good or ill betide,
We dance before him
thorough
kingdoms wide:--
Come hither, lady fair, and joined be
To our wild minstrelsy!
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]
224 (return)
[
Inhabitants
of Bohemia.
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Tacitus |
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"The
bustling
fates
"Heap his hands with corpses
"Until he stands like a child,
"With surplus of toys.
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Stephen Crane |
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A sound of waters neither rose nor sank,
And spread a sense of freshness through the air;
It seemed not here or there, but everywhere,
As if the whole earth drank,
Root fathom deep and
strawberry
on its bank.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Dans cette grande plaine ou l'autan froid se joue,
Ou par les longues nuits la girouette s'enroue,
Mon ame mieux qu'au temps du tiede renouveau
Ouvrira
largement
ses ailes de corbeau.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Before him wide, in mix'd
effusion
roll
The untasted viands, and the jovial bowl.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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O Music, from this height of time my Word unfold:
In thy large signals all men's hearts Man's heart behold:
Mid-heaven unroll thy chords as
friendly
flags unfurled,
And wave the world's best lover's welcome to the world.
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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Meredith - Poems |
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SIEBEL:
Ein
pfiffiger
Patron!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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How their
pursuers
camped against them
Upon the Seventh Day, and challenged them?
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Longfellow |
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THE WIDOW
BY Mellstock Lodge and Avenue
Towards her door I went,
And sunset on her window-panes
Reflected
our intent.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
Answers Rollanz: "Utter not such
outrage!
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Chanson de Roland |
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If there be a velvet sward
By
dewdrops
pearly drest,
Where through all seasons fairies guard
Flowers by bees carest,
Where one may gather, day and night,
Roses, honeysuckle, lily white,
I fain would make of it a site
For thy foot to rest.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Why are Eyelids stord with arrows ready drawn,
Where a thousand
fighting
men in ambush lie!
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blake-poems |
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I suspect that it may be merely a borrowing from
classical
usage.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Lost ye for such a name, O
puissant
pair
(Father and Son-in-law), our all-in-all?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Tes grandes visions
etranglaient
ta parole:
--Un Infini terrible effara ton oeil bleu!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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{116a}) We should
therefore
speak
what we can the nearest way, so as we keep our gait, not leap; for too
short may as well be not let into the memory, as too long not kept in.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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we wrong the noble dead
To vex their solemn slumber so;
Though childless, and with thorn-crowned head,
Up the steep road must England go,
Yet when this fiery web is spun,
Her
watchmen
shall descry from far
The young Republic like a sun
Rise from these crimson seas of war.
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Wilde - Poems |
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[Sidenote H: Our agreement
stipulates
only one stroke.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Not to-day, O Lord,
O, not to-day, think not upon the fault
My father made in
compassing
the crown!
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Imagists |
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No poem
contains
more of Shelley's peculiar views with regard to the
errors into which many of the wisest have fallen, and the pernicious
effects of certain opinions on society.
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Shelley |
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These were the
immediate
cause of the war in
which Hrēðel's son, King Hæcyn, fell, 2478 ff.
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Beowulf |
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And after seven moons, one day a soothsayer looked at me, and he
said to my mother, "Your son will be a
statesman
and a great leader
of men.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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) The phantom of the Terrible hath made me
His son; from out the
sepulchre
hath named me
Dimitry, hath stirred up the people round me,
And hath consigned Boris to be my victim.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Am I always to see you renouncing life entire,
Making
funereal
preparations for your death?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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As they emit themselves, facts
are showered over with light--the
daylight
is lit with more volatile
light--also the deep between the setting and rising sun goes deeper many-
fold.
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Whitman |
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The first design of the Essay on Man arranged it into four books, each
consisting of a
distinct
group of Epistles.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose
possession
of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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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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HE BLESSES ALL THE
CIRCUMSTANCES
OF HIS PASSION.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier
liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I think it did not hit him,
But
suddenly
that part of him that was left behind convulsed in
undignified haste,
Writhed like lightning, and was gone
Into the black hole, the earth-lipped fissure in the wall-front,
At which, in the intense still noon, I stared with fascination.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Li Po |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an Old Lady of Chertsey,
Who made a
remarkable
curtsey;
She twirled round and round, till she sank underground,
Which distressed all the people of Chertsey.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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On his head a crown,
On his
shoulders
down
Flowed his golden hair.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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& his hHorse proudly neighd; he smelt the battle
Afar off, Rushing back, reddning with rage the [[Eternal]] Mighty Father
Siezd his bright Sheephook studded with gems & gold, he Swung it round
His head shrill
sounding
in the sky, down rushd the Sun with noise
Of war.
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Blake - Zoas |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Otherwise,
Let all these
questions
sleep and just obey
My counsel.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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All nothing everywhere:
Mists we on
mornings
see
Have more of substance when they're here
And more of form than he.
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John Clare |
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815
Ful
anguisshous
than is, god woot,' quod she,
`Condicioun of veyn prosperitee;
For either Ioyes comen nought y-fere,
Or elles no wight hath hem alwey here.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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>>
Mais l'enfant,
epanchant
une immense douleur,
Cria soudain: << Je sens s'elargir dans mon etre
Un abime beant; cet abime est mon coeur,
Brulant comme un volcan, profond comme le vide;
Rien ne ressasiera ce monstre gemissant
Et ne refraichira la choif de l'Eumenide,
Qui, la torche a la main, le brule jusqu'au sang.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Then, 'twas before my time, the Roman
At yonder heaving hill would stare:
The blood that warms an English yeoman,
The
thoughts
that hurt him, they were there.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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If the Keats of the letters be added to the Keats of the poems,
a
personality
appears that seems more likely than any of his
contemporaries, or than anyone who has come after him, for the work of
carrying Miltonic epic forward without forsaking Miltonic form.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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My lords, with all the humbleness I may,
I greet your honours from Andronicus-
[Aside] And pray the Roman gods
confound
you both!
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Shakespeare |
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It does not appear there was any danger in holding and singing
Sufi Pantheism, so long as the Poet made his Salaam to
Mohammed
at the
beginning and end of his Song.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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" He wrote a comedy, a tragedy, an epic poem, all of which he
afterward destroyed and, as he laughingly
confessed
in later years, he
thought himself "the greatest genius that ever was.
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Alexander Pope |
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Creed, hope,
anticipation
and despair,
Are but a mingling, as of day and night;
The globe, surrounded by deceptive air,
Is all enveloped in the same half-light.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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As that lithe foot's timid tips
Quick she dips,
Passing, in the
rippling
pool,
(Blush, oh!
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Hugo - Poems |
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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant
For peaceful sleep and meditative snores,
To
ceaseless
din and mindless merriment
And waste of shoes and floors.
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Lewis Carroll |
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But
the orator
requires
a different scene.
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Tacitus |
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Through the hole in his coat the river wind blows;
Through his broken hat the
mountain
rain pours.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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" as, mad with fright,
The woman
stumbled
onward.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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TO-DAY we will not cross the garden railing,
For
sometimes
swiftly, yet in ways unclear,
This soft caressing or this sweet exhaling,
With long-forgotten joy again draws near:
And thus it brings us ghosts which goad and harass,
And anguish rendering weary and afraid.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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and show'dst what
different
spirits move
The good men and the evil; those who love
And those who love not.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Go and hang
yourself!
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Aristophanes |
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CHEN: I should like to join in
congratulating
Mr.
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Li Po |
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_L' avara
Babilonia
ha colmo 'l sacco.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Who else
Bribed
Chepchugov
in vain?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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CXXXVIII
When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutor'd youth,
Unlearned
in the world's false subtleties.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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nunc etiam somni pingues et
frigidus
aer,
et liquidum tenui gutture cantat auis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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My father led the remnant of his life
On lands
bestowed
upon him by Batory;
There, in Volhynia, solitary and quiet,
Sought consolation for himself in studies;
But peaceful labour did not comfort him;
He ne'er forgot the home of his young days,
And to the end pined for it.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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THE CHEAT OF CUPID; OR, THE
UNGENTLE
GUEST
One silent night of late,
When every creature rested,
Came one unto my gate,
And knocking, me molested.
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Robert Herrick |
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Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine;
Yet one I would select from that proud throng,
Partly because they blend me with his line,
And partly that I did his sire some wrong,
And partly that bright names will hallow song;
And his was of the bravest, and when showered
The death-bolts
deadliest
the thinned files along,
Even where the thickest of war's tempest lowered,
They reached no nobler breast than thine, young, gallant Howard!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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'Tis well--but,
artists!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Come, take a chaplet, offer a
libation
to
the god of Stupidity[27] and take care to fight vigorously.
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Aristophanes |
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Together
we have spent such days and years;
No harmful thing twixt thee and me has been.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Swart planet in the
universe
of deeds!
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Keats |
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For those high songs, lo, men that moan,
And raiment black where once was white;
Who guide me
homeward
in the night,
On that waste bed to lie alone.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Scottish
scenes
and Scottish story are the themes I could wish to sing.
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Robert Burns |
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