The Good God and the Evil God
The Good God and the Evil God met on the
mountain
top.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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--No end, no end,
Wilt thou lay to
lamentations?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Round eastward
slanteth
the mast;
As the sleep-walker waked with pain,
White-clothed in the midnight blast,
Doth stare and quake, and stride again
To houseward all aghast.
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Sidney Lanier |
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I shall abide the first blow just as
I sit, and will stand him a stroke, stiff on this floor,
provided
that
I deal him another in return.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the
thistles
and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and compelled to the chaste.
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blake-poems |
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" Will it respond:
"When
battered
helm is doffed, how soft is purple
On which to lay the head, lulled by the praise
Of thousand fluttering fans of flatterers!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
The clock is on the stroke of twelve,
And Johnny is not yet in sight,
The moon's in heaven, as Betty sees,
But Betty is not quite at ease;
And Susan has a
dreadful
night.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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THE crackling embers on the hearth are dead;
The indoor note of industry is still;
The latch is fast; upon the window-sill
The small birds wait not for their daily bread;
The voiceless flowers--how quietly they shed
Their nightly odours; and the household ill
Murmurs
continuous
dulcet sounds that fill
The vacant expectation, and the dread
Of listening night.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Baudelaire
is more human than Poe.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Such an one as women draw away from For the tobacco ashes scattered on his coat And sith his throat
Show razor's
unfamiliarity
And three days' beard:
Such an one picking a ragged Backless copy from the stall,
Too cheap for cataloguing, Loquitur,
"Ah-eh!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Albeytte hee wythe lowes[119] of fyre ybrente[120],
Yett
Bourtonne
woulde agenste hys val[121] advance.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
and he knew that it was mine, --
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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blake-poems |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The morning fluttered, staggered,
Felt feebly for her crown, --
Her
unanointed
forehead
Henceforth her only one.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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This
murtherous
Shaft that's shot,
Hath not yet lighted: and our safest way,
Is to auoid the ayme.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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<< Comme un tout jeune oiseau qui tremble et qui palpite,
J'arracherai ce coeur tout rouge de son sein,
Et, pour rassasier ma bete favorite,
Je le lui
jetterai
par terre avec dedain!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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LXXXI
Hark, love, to the tambourines
Of the
minstrels
in the street,
And one voice that throbs and soars
Clear above the clashing time!
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Sappho |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Through all these
poems there sounds like a subdued accompaniment a note of
gratitude
for
the ability to thus vision the world, to be sunk in the music of all
things.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And would be all or nothing--nor could wait
For the sure grave to level him; few years
Had fixed him with the Caesars in his fate,
On whom we tread: For THIS the
conqueror
rears
The arch of triumph!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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When his sleep was of the
deepest the beggar knelt down and prayed aloud, and said, "O Thou Who
dwellest beyond the stars, show forth Thy power as at the beginning,
and let
knowledge
sent from Thee awaken in his mind, wherein is nothing
from the world, that the nine orders of angels may glorify Thy name";
and then a light broke out of the air and wrapped Aodh, and I smelt the
breath of roses.
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Yeats |
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"
To him
experienced
Nestor thus rejoin'd:
"O friend!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Der Herr der Ratten und der Mause,
Der Fliegen, Frosche, Wanzen, Lause
Befiehlt dir, dich hervor zu wagen
Und diese
Schwelle
zu benagen,
So wie er sie mit Ol betupft-
Da kommst du schon hervorgehupft!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It is
quite the most
engrossing
one in the world.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Henceforth
in my name
Take courage, O thou woman,--man, take hope!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a fascinating comment on the
Classical
Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Seia a goddess of sowing, and Greek σάω σήθω), as though
_sia_ were the imperative of the verb _sio_ (moisten)[22], and as
though, finally,
_berber_
were to be connected with the Greek βόρβορυς
and meant 'loam'?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'Tis
mountain
wolves', not horses' food!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Ma lievemente al fondo che divora
Lucifero
con Giuda, ci sposo;
ne, si chinato, li fece dimora,
e come albero in nave si levo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Why how now Hecat, you looke
angerly?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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5
I who am not great enough to
Love thee with this mortal body
So impassionate with ardour,
But oh, not too small to worship
While the sun shall shine,-- 10
I would build a
fragrant
temple
To thee, in the dark green forest,
Of red cedar and fine sandal,
And there love thee with sweet service
All my whole life long.
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Sappho |
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"
CII
And Berenger, he strikes Estramariz,
The shield he breaks, the hauberk tears and splits,
Thrusts his stout spear through's middle, and him flings
Down dead among a
thousand
Sarrazins.
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Chanson de Roland |
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5
I who am not great enough to
Love thee with this mortal body
So impassionate with ardour,
But oh, not too small to worship
While the sun shall shine,-- 10
I would build a
fragrant
temple
To thee, in the dark green forest,
Of red cedar and fine sandal,
And there love thee with sweet service
All my whole life long.
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Sappho |
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We have not been
discovering what an epic poem ought to be, but roughly examining what
similarity of quality there is in all those poems which we feel,
strictly attending to the
emotional
experience of reading them, can be
classed together and, for convenience, termed epic.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The other, next to me that beats the sand,
Is Aldobrandi, name
deserving
well,
In the' upper world, of honour; and myself
Who in this torment do partake with them,
Am Rusticucci, whom, past doubt, my wife
Of savage temper, more than aught beside
Hath to this evil brought.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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--Je rentre dans la foule
Dans la grande canaille
effroyable
qui roule,
Sire, tes vieux canons sur les sales paves;
--Oh!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I glide on the surface of seas
I have grown sentimental
I no longer know the guide
I no longer move silk over ice
I am
diseased
flowers and stones
I love the most chinese of nudes
I love the most naked lapses of wings
I am old but here I am beautiful
And the shadow that flows from the deep windows
Each evening spares the dark heart of my stare.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Her public is the noon,
Her
providence
the sun,
Her progress by the bee proclaimed
In sovereign, swerveless tune.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Yours, yes,
Retaining alone of the
vanished
sky, this
Trace of childish triumph as you spread each tress,
Gleaming as you show it against the pillows,
Like the helmet of war of a child-empress
From which, to denote you, would pour down roses.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The wind through the white
garments
softly stirred
And they grew vari-coloured in each fold
And each fold hidden blossoms seemed to hold
And flowers and stars and fluting notes of bird,
And dim, quaint figures shimmering like gold
Seemed to come forth from distant myths of old.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Wir mussen gleich verschwinden
Denn schon entsteht ein
morderlich
Geschrei.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Ah, ah,
Heosphoros!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Whose beauty greater seemed by her
distress
i.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Hold me, my love — I know the answer now, O wayward, ever
wandering
feet of man— Always the journey ends where it began !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Because
Helen was wanton, and her master knew
No curb for her: for that, for that, he slew
My
daughter!
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Euripides - Electra |
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[XXVIII 47]
Fufficius LIV 5 [Sufficius LIV 11: _uide_ carmen LIV]
End of the Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Catulli Carmina, by
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Latin - Catullus |
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--cinders, ashes, dust;
Love in a palace is perhaps at last
More grievous torment than a hermit's fast--
That is a
doubtful
tale from faery land,
Hard for the non-elect to understand.
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Keats - Lamia |
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in
mutinous
game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The elements freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Internal
evidence shows
that No.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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ROME
BUILDING A NEW STREET IN THE ANCIENT QUARTER
(_April_, 1887)
THESE numbered cliffs and gnarls of masonry
Outskeleton
Time's central city, Rome;
Whereof each arch, entablature, and dome
Lies bare in all its gaunt anatomy.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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She hailed him there in his pride,
Home from the
perilous
years,
In the heart of his walled lands,
In the Giants' cloud-capt ring;
Herself, none other, laid
The hone to the axe's blade;
She lifted it in her hands,
The woman, and slew her king.
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Euripides - Electra |
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We
follow thee, holy one of heaven, whoso thou art, and again
joyfully
obey
thy command.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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2279, is
probably
conventional for "a long time," like hund missēra, l.
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Beowulf |
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e cite,
godus
seruaunt
forte be,
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Be it my task to send with ample stores
The
stranger
from our hospitable shores:
Tread you my steps!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Crouching behind my pointed wall of words,
Ramparts I built of moons and loreleys,
Enchanted roses, sphinxes, love-sick birds,
Giants, dead lads who left their graves to dance,
Fairies and
phoenixes
and friendly gods--
A curious frieze, half Renaissance, half Greek,
Behind which, in revulsion of romance,
I lay and laughed--and wept--till I was weak.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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There it shines clear,
And
brighter
here,--
I live--by 'Pollo!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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He exhorts Maternus to relinquish the muses, and devote his whole to eloquence and the
business
of the bar.
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Tacitus |
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ergo perfugium sibi habebant omnia diuis
tradere et illorum nutu facere omnia flecti;
in
caeloque
deum sedis et templa locarunt,
per caelum uolui quia sol et luna uidetur,
luna dies et nox et noctis signa seuera
noctiuagaeque faces caeli flammaeque uolantes,
nubila sol imbres nix uenti fulmina grando
et rapidi fremitus et murmura magna minarum.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Leaving the highlands
of Asia, he
descends
from station to station towards Europe.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Close at his side was Titus
On an Apulian steed,
Titus, the
youngest
Tarquin,
Too good for such a breed.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"I've a notion
that in the end it will be found that the most helpful work done
for India in this generation was wrought by Lady
Dufferin
in drawing
attention--what work that was, by the way, even with her husband's great
name to back it to the needs of women here.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your
thoughts
for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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" said he,
Then declared the new Republic, with himself for guiding star,--
This Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown;
And the bold two thousand citizens ran off and left the town.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Thus, while the Sun sinks down to rest
Far in the regions of the west, 10
Though to the vale no parting beam
Be given, not one
memorial
gleam, [3]
A lingering light he fondly throws [4]
On the dear hills [5] where first he rose.
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William Wordsworth |
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CXVIII
Like as, to make our appetite more keen,
With eager
compounds
we our palate urge;
As, to prevent our maladies unseen,
We sicken to shun sickness when we purge;
Even so, being full of your ne'er-cloying sweetness,
To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding;
And, sick of welfare, found a kind of meetness
To be diseas'd, ere that there was true needing.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And this reviving Herb whose tender Green
Fledges the River-Lip on which we lean--
Ah, lean upon it
lightly!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
But I cried out,--"That is a false prophet; for I shall be a
musician, and naught but a
musician
shall I be.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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13, 1862]
The increasing moonlight drifts across my bed,
And on the
churchyard
by the road, I know
It falls as white and noiselessly as snow.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Say, who can find a night's repose at need,
When a son's wife is bribed to sin for greed,
When brides are frail, and youths turn
paramours?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And can immense
Mortality
but throw
So small a shade, and Heaven's high human scheme
Be hemmed within the coasts yon arc implies?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Ye mind me
marching
through these vales
When golden spur was ringing at my heel?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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183
He bare hym
curteislich
& tsllie,
To fulfille his faders wille,
Glad as he had ybe.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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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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He is the
blending
of the poem's human
plane with its supernatural plane.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Imagists |
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Not higher than a two-years' child,
It stands erect this aged thorn;
No leaves it has, no thorny points;
It is a mass of knotted joints,
A
wretched
thing forlorn.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Quoiqu'il ne pousse ni grands gestes ni grands cris,
Il ferait volontiers de la terre un debris
Et dans un
baillement
avalerait le monde;
C'est l'Ennui!
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[11] 110
And I will have my careless season
Spite of
melancholy
reason, [12]
Will walk through life in such a way
That, when time brings on decay,
Now and then I may possess 115
Hours of perfect gladsomeness.
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Of us, Varyags in blood, there are full many,
But 'tis no easy thing for us to vie
With Godunov; the people are not wont
To recognise in us an ancient branch
Of their old warlike masters; long already
Have we our appanages forfeited,
Long served but as
lieutenants
of the tsars,
And he hath known, by fear, and love, and glory,
How to bewitch the people.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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She falling before
the Queene of Faeries, complayned that her father and mother, an ancient
King and Queene, had bene by an huge dragon many yeers shut up in a brazen
Castle, who thence suffered them not to issew: and therefore
besought
the
Faery Queene to assigne her some one of her knights to take on him that
exployt.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"What's our
baggage?
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Hugo - Poems |
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VII
The light within her eyes, which slays Base thoughts and stilleth
troubled
waters,
Is like the gold where sunlight plays Upon the still overshadowed waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Men and gods are too extense;
Could you slacken and
condense?
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Emerson - Poems |
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XI
On your
midnight
pallet lying
Listen, and undo the door:
Lads that waste the light in sighing
In the dark should sigh no more;
Night should ease a lover's sorrow;
Therefore, since I go to-morrow;
Pity me before.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Solemn Dances
THERE laughs in the
heightening
year, Sweet,
The scent from the garden benign.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Copyright
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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A black night veils the hills, whence rising free
Thou took'st thy
heavenward
flight!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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All the melodies mysterious,
Through the dreary
darkness
chanted;
Thoughts in attitudes imperious,
Voices soft, and deep, and serious,
Words that whispered, songs that haunted!
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Longfellow |
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Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make,
Of all that strong
divineness
which I know
For thine and thee, an image only so
Formed of the sand, and fit to shift and break.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Aufilena, bonae semper laudantur amicae:
Accipiunt
pretium, quae facere instituunt.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The
preterite
of _ederu_,
to be in misery, has not been found.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Crouching behind my pointed wall of words,
Ramparts I built of moons and loreleys,
Enchanted roses, sphinxes, love-sick birds,
Giants, dead lads who left their graves to dance,
Fairies and
phoenixes
and friendly gods--
A curious frieze, half Renaissance, half Greek,
Behind which, in revulsion of romance,
I lay and laughed--and wept--till I was weak.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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II
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their Pyramids tall;
And that same Greek still boasting will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost
labyrinthine
hall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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