'Give me,' I
demanded
of
a scholar some time ago, 'give me a definition of poetry.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I see his messengers
attending
thee.
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Longfellow |
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Say, will the falcon,
stooping
from above,
Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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155
Upon this
dreadfull
Beast with sevenfold head
He sett the false Duessa, for more aw and dread.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Why should he live, now Nature
bankrupt
is,
Beggar'd of blood to blush through lively veins?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Our neighboring gentry reared
The good old-fashioned crops,
And made old-fashioned boasts
Of what John Bull would do
If
Frenchman
Frog appeared,
And drank old-fashioned toasts,
And made old-fashioned bows
To my Lady at the Hall.
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Christina Rossetti |
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FIGHTING
Last year we were
fighting
at the source of the San-kan;
This year we are fighting at the Onion River road.
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Li Po |
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I feel this place was made for her;
To give new
pleasure
like the past,
Continued long as life shall last.
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Golden Treasury |
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It could hardly have cited a more
incontrovertible
line from
any poem than that which it has selected for animadversion, namely,--
"We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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James Russell Lowell |
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We do not
mention these facts as touching the more difficult part of the
question before us, but facts they are; and if we find so much
difficulty
in calculating the extent to which the mere memory may be
cultivated, are we, in these days of multifarious reading, and of
countless distracting affairs, fair judges of the perfection to
which the invention and the memory combined may attain in a simpler
age, and among a more single minded people?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Another Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
O dreamer, that I may dive
In pure
pathless
joy, understand,
How by subtle deceits connive
To keep my wing in your hand.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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_To John Milton_
_"From his
honoured
friend, William Davenant"_
Poet of mighty power, I fain
Would court the muse that honoured thee,
And, like Elisha's spirit, gain
A part of thy intensity;
And share the mantle which she flung
Around thee, when thy lyre was strung.
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John Clare |
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At length along the flowery sward I saw
So sweet and fair a lady pensive move
That her mere thought inspires a tender awe;
Meek in herself, but haughty against Love,
Flow'd from her waist a robe so fair and fine
Seem'd gold and snow
together
there to join:
But, ah!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Or hang on tiptoe at the lifted latch;
The gloomy lantern, and the dim blue match,
The black disguise, the warning whistle shrill,
And ear still busy on its nightly watch,
Were not for me, brought up in nothing ill;
Besides, on griefs so fresh my thoughts were
brooding
still.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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EACH OTHERS EQUALL
PUISSAUNCE
ENVIES, each envies the equal prowess of
the other.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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XIV
The lady prayed that kindly friar, that he
Would
straight
conduct her to some haven near,
For that she from the land of France might flee,
And never more of loathed Rinaldo hear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Lewis Carroll |
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It levelled strong Euphrates in its course;
Supreme yet weightless as an idle mote
It seemed to tame the waters without force
Till not a murmur swelled or billow beat:
Lo, as the purple shadow swept the sands,
The prudent crocodile rose on his feet
And shed
appropriate
tears and wrung his hands.
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Christina Rossetti |
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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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SONG
Two doves upon the selfsame branch,
Two lilies on a single stem,
Two
butterflies
upon one flower:--
Oh happy they who look on them.
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Christina Rossetti |
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if we dream pale flowers,
Slow-moving
pageantry
of hours that languidly Drop as o'er-ripened fruit from sallow trees.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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1202)
Born in Uzerche, in the Limousin, from a family of knights in the service of the Count of Turenne, he
travelled
widely in France, Spain, and Hungary.
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Troubador Verse |
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They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And one whose spear had pierced me, leaned beside
With
quivering
lips and humid eyes;--and all
Seemed like some brothers on a journey wide _1830
Gone forth, whom now strange meeting did befall
In a strange land, round one whom they might call
Their friend, their chief, their father, for assay
Of peril, which had saved them from the thrall
Of death, now suffering.
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Shelley |
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25
But now to purpos as of this matere--
To rede forth hit gan me so delyte,
That al the day me
thoughte
but a lyte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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We cut young trees to make our poles and thwarts,
Barked the white spruce to
weatherfend
the roof,
Then struck a light and kindled the camp-fire.
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Emerson - Poems |
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It was always
supposed
that Christ talked in Aramaic.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Undue
significance
a starving man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of
Repentance
fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly--and Lo!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster, the faster it grows:
But the
rapturous
charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Unbid, ix, 54,
unprayed
for.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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An
instance
of the kind I'll now detail:
The feeling bosom will such lots bewail!
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La Fontaine |
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Theseus
Traitor, do you dare to show
yourself
before me?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Tattiana lone
Beneath the silver of the moon
Long time in
meditation
deep
Her path across the plain doth keep--
Proceeds, until she from a hill
Sees where a noble mansion stood,
A village and beneath, a wood,
A garden by a shining rill.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
The mountain, the scenery, the layout of the landscape,
And the peace of the morning sun as it happened,
The miles of houses
pocketed
in the valley beyond--
It was all worth looking at, worth wondering about,
How long it might last, how young it might be.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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But, when he had refused the proffered gold,
To cruel injuries he became a prey,
Sore traversed in whate'er he bought and sold:
His troubles grew upon him day by day,
Till all his
substance
fell into decay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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He was emotionally and
artistically
unable to forge a finished work from them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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His locked, letter'd, braw brass collar
Shew'd him the
gentleman
an' scholar;
But though he was o' high degree,
The fient a pride, nae pride had he;
But wad hae spent an hour caressin,
Ev'n wi' al tinkler-gipsy's messin:
At kirk or market, mill or smiddie,
Nae tawted tyke, tho' e'er sae duddie,
But he wad stan't, as glad to see him,
An' stroan't on stanes an' hillocks wi' him.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_
_Charis_
5 seems then to have been
written later than _U.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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His
dialectic
forms are taken from the vernacular of
the North Lancashire folk with which he was familiar.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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_Josephine Preston Peabody_
MY SON
Here is his little cambric frock
That I laid by in
lavender
so sweet,
And here his tiny shoe and sock
I made with loving care for his dear feet.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And said: until thy latest minute
Preserve,
preserve
my Talisman;
A secret power it holds within it--
'Twas love, true love the gift did plan.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Five score
thousand
Franks swooned on the earth and fell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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They eat, they drink, and with refection sweet
Are fill'd, before th' all bounteous King, who showrd
With copious hand,
rejoycing
in thir joy.
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Milton |
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For I don't know when I may
See her, the
distance
is so far.
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Troubador Verse |
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Easier I count it to explain
The jargon of the howling main,
"Or, stretched beside some babbling brook,
To con, with
inexpressive
look,
An unintelligible book.
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Lewis Carroll |
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)
Note
Not
meaningless
flurries like
Those that frequent the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans Whistler there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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PETER'S FIELD
[Knows he who tills this lonely field
To reap its scanty corn,
What mystic fruit his acres yield
At
midnight
and at morn?
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Emerson - Poems |
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_Sophocles was first,
Euripides second with the Cretan Women, Alcmaeon in Psophis,
Telephus
and
Alcestis.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Timotheus
placed on high
Amid the tuneful quire
With flying fingers touch'd the lyre:
The trembling notes ascend the sky
And heavenly joys inspire.
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Golden Treasury |
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Then took
Telemachus
a loaf entire 410
Forth from the elegant basket, and of flesh
A portion large as his two hands contained,
And, beck'ning close the swine-herd, charged him thus.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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For when
the ideal is
realised
it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and
becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than
itself.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The
helmsman
steerd, the ship mov'd on;
Yet never a breeze up-blew;
The Marineres all 'gan work the ropes,
Where they were wont to do:
They rais'd their limbs like lifeless tools--
We were a ghastly crew.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The
treasures
of the world flow there, as in the house
of a laborious man who has well merited the entire world.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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You take pleasure then in the
message?
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Shakespeare |
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Still would her touch the strain prolong;
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale
She call'd on Echo still through all the song;
And, where her sweetest theme she chose,
A soft responsive voice was heard at every close:
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair;--
And longer had she sung:--but with a frown Revenge
impatient
rose:
He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down;
And with a withering look
The war-denouncing trumpet took
And blew a blast so loud and dread,
Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe!
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Golden Treasury |
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Hauksbee
raised her head.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Thou that wert wrapt in peace, the haze
Of
loveliness
spread over thee!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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he is sunk down into a deadly sleep
But we immortal in our strength survive by stern debate
Till we have drawn the Lamb of god into a mortal form
And that he must be born is certain for One must be All
And comprehend within himself all things both small & great
We
therefore
for whose sake all things aspire to be be & live
Will so recieve the Divine Image that amongst the Reprobate
He may be devoted to Destruction from his mothers womb {This group of 9 lines, "Refusing.
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Blake - Zoas |
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So many nights
you have
distracted
me from terror.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The sober lav'rock, warbling wild,
Shall to the skies aspire;
The gowdspink, Music's gayest child,
Shall sweetly join the choir;
The
blackbird
strong, the lintwhite clear,
The mavis mild and mellow;
The robin pensive Autumn cheer,
In all her locks of yellow.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The leaves that wave against my cheek caress
Like women's hands; the embracing boughs express
A
subtlety
of mighty tenderness;
The copse-depths into little noises start,
That sound anon like beatings of a heart,
Anon like talk 'twixt lips not far apart.
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Sidney Lanier |
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In gentle parley, and communion sweet--
With looks of love, they seem'd mine eyes to meet;
Yet strange was their attire--their tongue unknown
Spoke them the natives of a distant zone;
But every doubt my kind
assistant
clear'd,
Instant I knew them, when their names were heard.
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Petrarch |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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Appoloinaire |
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_mainly, noting all
variations
of importance.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Soll ich den Augen trauen,
Oberon, den schonen Gott,
Auch heute hier zu
schauen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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XXXV
His malady, whose cause I ween
It now to
investigate
is time,
Was nothing but the British spleen
Transported to our Russian clime.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Some seed the birds devour,
And some the season mars,
But here and there will flower
The solitary stars,
And fields will yearly bear them
As light-leaved spring comes on,
And
luckless
lads will wear them
When I am dead and gone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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One moment, one more word,
While my heart beats still,
While my breath is stirred
By my
fainting
will.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Si comincio lo mio duca a parlarmi;
e accennolle che venisse a proda,
vicino al fin d'i
passeggiati
marmi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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sacred to the fall of day
Queen of propitious stars, appear,
And early rise, and long delay
When
Caroline
herself is here!
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Golden Treasury |
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He did not wring his hands nor weep,
Nor did he peek or pine,
But he drank the air as though it held
Some
healthful
anodyne;
With open mouth he drank the sun
As though it had been wine!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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This Tyrant, whose sole name
blisters
our tongues,
Was once thought honest: you haue lou'd him well,
He hath not touch'd you yet.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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--to tell
The
loveliness
of loving well!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Pagans are come great martyrdom seeking;
Noble and fair reward this day shall bring,
Was never won by any
Frankish
King.
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Chanson de Roland |
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In
metamorphoses
they've many a hero deceived.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Still, the
alacrity
with
which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for
the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat
astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Aeschylus |
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We
worshipped
inland--
we stepped past wood-flowers,
we forgot your tang,
we brushed wood-grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'T was not the Lord that sent you;
As an
incarnate
devil did you come!
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Longfellow |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I might not be so anguisshous,
That I mote glad and Ioly be,
Whan that I
remembre
me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I am
eternally
young, and as teacher I still love the young ones.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And when the sun withdrew his
slanting
ray,
And winter cool'd the fervours of the day,
Then came the genial hours, the frequent feast
And circling times of joy and balmy rest.
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Petrarch |
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Death
only consolation
exists, thoughts - balm
but what is done
is done - we cannot
return to the absolute
contained in death -
- and yet
to show that if,
life once abstracted,
the happiness of being
together, all that - such
consolation in its turn
has its root - its base -
absolute - in what
(if we wish
for example a
dead being to live in
us, thought -
is his being, his
thought in effect)
ever he has of the best
that transpires, through our
love and the care
we take
of being -
(being, being
simply moral and
about thought)
there is in that a
magnificent beyond
that rediscovers its
truth - so much
purer and lovelier than
the absolute rupture
of death - become
little by little as illusory
as absolute ( so we're
allowed to seem
to forget the pain)
- as this illusion
of
survival
in
us, becomes absolutely
illusory - (there is
unreality in both
cases) has been terrible
and true
39.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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If we
insist on asking whether Euripides himself, in real life or in a play of
his own free invention, would have considered Admetus's conduct to
Heracles
entirely
praiseworthy, the answer will certainly be No, but it
will have little bearing on the play.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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Quel traditor che vede pur con l'uno,
e tien la terra che tale qui meco
vorrebbe di vedere esser digiuno,
fara venirli a
parlamento
seco;
poi fara si, ch'al vento di Focara
non sara lor mestier voto ne preco>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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is coldly
nerveless
now
To drive the vulture from his gorge, or scare the carrion crow.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"Only a
conscript
kissing the cook," said Maisie.
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Kipling - Poems |
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" These we know to
have been jewels of a radiance so
imperishable
that the broken gleams of
them still dazzle men's eyes, whether shining from the two small brilliants
and the handful of star-dust which alone remain to us, or reflected merely
from the adoration of those poets of old time who were so fortunate as to
witness their full glory.
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Sappho |
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Even so, gentle, strong and wise and happy, 5
Through the soul and
substance
of my being,
Comes the breath of thy great love to me-ward,
O thou dear mortal.
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Sappho |
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He joined the British Army in September, 1914, declined
a
commission
and served in Egypt, Malta, Gallipoli (where he was
wounded), and Prance.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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