Wonderful battles have shaken this world,
Since the Dawn-God
overthrew
Dis;
Wonderful struggles of right against wrong,
Sung in the rhymes of the world's great song,
But never a greater than this.
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I haue almost forgot the taste of Feares:
The time ha's beene, my sences would haue cool'd
To heare a Night-shrieke, and my Fell of haire
Would at a dismall
Treatise
rowze, and stirre
As life were in't.
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Where is our English
chivalry?
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A careless shepherd once would keep
The flocks by moonlight there, (1)
And high amongst the
glimmering
sheep
The dead man stood on air.
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He left them, poor and
wretched
as he came;
No cross, pile, money:--e'en his coat the same.
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La Fontaine |
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Though old Ulysses
tortured
from his slumbers
The glutted Cyclops, what care?
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And though
Ill tongues shall wound me, and our common name _150
Be as a mark stamped on thine
innocent
brow
For men to point at as they pass, do thou
Forbear, and never think a thought unkind
Of those, who perhaps love thee in their graves.
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Shelley |
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And I will come again, my Luve
Tho' it were ten
thousand
mile.
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Golden Treasury |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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Pale, silent, stern, what could I say to that long-accrued
retribution?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Drama: _The
Widowing
of Mrs.
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Imagists |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I reason that in heaven
Somehow, it will be even,
Some new
equation
given;
But what of that?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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La: To seek in vally som cool
friendly
Spring.
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Milton |
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ornamented with rings, or marked
with
characters
of ring-form: nom.
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Beowulf |
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long live exact
demonstration!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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]
Thou of an independent mind,
With soul resolv'd, with soul resign'd;
Prepar'd Power's proudest frown to brave,
Who wilt not be, nor have a slave;
Virtue alone who dost revere,
Thy own
reproach
alone dost fear,
Approach this shrine, and worship here.
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Robert Burns |
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or re-use it under the terms of the Project
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Stephen Crane |
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So to the bull Europa gave
Her beauteous form, and when she saw
The
monstrous
deep, the yawning grave,
Grew pale with awe.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
She then: "How you
digress!
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T.S. Eliot |
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to the stranger-soul, when first it peeps
From its new tenement, and looks abroad
For
happiness
and sympathy, how stern
And desolate a tract is this wide world!
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Shelley |
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"Should auld
acquaintance
be forgot!
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Robert Forst |
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Il faut que le gibier paye le vieux chasseur
Qui se morfond
longtemps
a l'affut de la proie.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I think the
notion that no poet can form a correct
estimate
of his own writings is
another.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Cease, cease this brawling,
comrades
mine,
And still upon your elbows lean.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
Then I: "When ended the brief dream and vain
That men call life, by you now safely pass'd,
Is death indeed such
punishment
and pain?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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' Then with a
spear-cast he sends Asbutes to follow him, and Chloreus and Sybaris,
Dares and Thersilochus, and
Thymoetes
fallen flung over his horse's
neck.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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]
The lily's perfume pure, fame's crown of light,
The latest murmur of departing day,
Fond friendship's plaint, that melts at piteous sight,
The mystic farewell of each hour at flight,
The kiss which beauty grants with coy delay,--
The sevenfold scarf that parting storms bestow
As trophy to the proud, triumphant sun;
The thrilling accent of a voice we know,
The love-enthralled maiden's secret vow,
An infant's dream, ere life's first sands be run,--
The chant of distant choirs, the morning's sigh,
Which erst inspired the fabled Memnon's frame,--
The melodies that, hummed, so
trembling
die,--
The sweetest gems that 'mid thought's treasures lie,
Have naught of sweetness that can match HER NAME!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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In me, just now,
Thought was the figure of a god, firm standing,
A dignity like carved Egyptian stone;
Thou like a blow of fire hast splinter'd it;
It is abroad like powder in a wind,
Or like heapt shingle in a furious tide,
Thou having roused the
ungovernable
waters
My mind is built amidst, a dangerous tower.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
Exploring hands encounter no defence; 240
His vanity
requires
no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Doe you not hope your
Children
shall be Kings,
When those that gaue the Thane of Cawdor to me,
Promis'd no lesse to them
Banq.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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As when old ocean's silent surface sleeps,
The waves just heaving on the purple deeps:
While yet the expected tempest hangs on high,
Weighs down the cloud, and
blackens
in the sky,
The mass of waters will no wind obey;
Jove sends one gust, and bids them roll away.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Ils sont blottis, pas un ne bouge,
Au souffle du
soupirail
rouge,
Chaud comme un sein.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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They then
particularly
entreated them not to quarrel; and all the parents
sent off their children with a parting injunction.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
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Ronsard |
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a-na pa-ni- su
it-tam-ha-ru i-na ri-bi-tu ma-ti
iluEn-ki-du ba-ba-am ip-ta-ri-ik
i-na si-pi-su
iluGilgamis
e-ri-ba-am u-ul id-di-in
is-sa-ab-tu-ma ki-ma li-i-im
i- lu- du [50]
zi-ip-pa-am 'i-bu- tu
i-ga-rum ir-tu-tu [51]
iluGilgamis u iluEn-ki- du
is-sa-ab-tu-u- ma
ki-ma li-i-im i-lu-du
zi-ip-pa-am 'i-bu- tu
i-ga-rum ir-tu-tu
ik-mi-is-ma iluGilgamis
i-na ga-ga-ag-ga-ri si-ip-su
ip-si-ih [52] us-sa-su- ma
i-ni-'i i-ra-az-zu
is-tu i-ra-zu i-ni-hu [53]
iluEn-ki-du a-na sa-si-im
iz-za-kar-am a-na iluGilgamis
ki-ma is-te-en-ma um-ma-ka
u- li- id- ka
ri-im-tum sa zu- pu-ri
ilat-Nin- sun- na
ul-lu e-li mu-ti ri-es-su
sar-ru-tam sa ni-si
i-si-im-kum iluEn-lil
duppu 2 kam-ma
su-tu-ur e-li .
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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XXX
"Blest and thrice blest the Roman
Who sees Rome's brightest day,
Who sees that long victorious pomp
Wind down the Sacred Way,
And through the bellowing Forum,
And round the Suppliant's Grove,
Up to the
everlasting
gates
Of Capitolian Jove.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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thus ariseth our sphere
Like heroes we banish both
mountain
and mere,
Young and great beams the spirit, unbound
On the fields, on the floods that surround.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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_All_ sey (say), _after which
ryght is
needlessly
inserted; I omit it_.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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EASTWARD IN THE "COMMONWEALTH" By Esther Morton Smith
She churns her way down the foaming sound; Her
feathering
paddles dip and shove
And rise again on their endless round
From the nether plunge to the heights above.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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So the Club had rest when he returned; and if ever you come across
Aurelian
McGoggin
laying down the law on things Human--he doesn't seem
to know as much as he used to about things Divine--put your forefinger
on your lip for a moment, and see what happens.
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Kipling - Poems |
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But my courtship could be no surprise to them, as neither Marya
nor myself made any secret of our
feelings
before them, and we were sure
beforehand of their consent.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
My girl she's airy, she's buxom and gay;
Her breath is as sweet as the
blossoms
in May;
A touch of her lips it ravishes quite:
She's always good natur'd, good humour'd, and free;
She dances, she glances, she smiles upon me;
I never am happy when out of her sight.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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mi sone, 489
Whi
woldestou
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Wait till in everlasting robes
This
democrat
is dressed,
Then prate about "preferment"
And "station" and the rest!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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G
[861] 145 not you] you not W, G
[862] 148 Coozners 1641 _Cozeners_ 1692, 1716
cozeners
W, G
[863] 166 in it G
[864] 167 () ret.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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When wilt thou cure thyself, spirit of the earth,
When wilt thou cure thyself of thy long fever,
That so
insanely
doth ferment in thee?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The foe, the victim, and the fond ally
That fights for all, but ever fights in vain,
Are met--as if at home they could not die--
To feed the crow on Talavera's plain,
And fertilise the field that each
pretends
to gain.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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FAUST:
Du
ahnungsvoller
Engel du!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Poetry in
Translation
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Villon
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Villon |
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[Sidenote: Can there be any
stability
in human affairs, when the
life of man is exposed to dissolution every hour?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Ile Charme the Ayre to giue a sound,
While you
performe
your Antique round:
That this great King may kindly say,
Our duties, did his welcome pay.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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When lo, swift hands, on strings nigh over-head,
Began to
melodize
a waltz by Strauss:
It stirred me as I stood, in Caesar's house,
Raised the old routs Imperial lyres had led,
And blended pulsing life with lives long done,
Till Time seemed fiction, Past and Present one.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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His neck will shake off this whitest agony
Space
inflicts
on a bird that denies it wholly,
But not earth's horror that entraps his feathers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Leary
BORIS GODUNOV
A Drama in Verse
By Alexander Pushkin
Rendered into English verse by Alfred Hayes
DRAMATIS PERSONAE*
BORIS GODUNOV,
afterwards
Tsar.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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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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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Grand go the years in the
crescent
above them;
Worlds scoop their arcs, and firmaments row,
Diadems drop and Doges surrender,
Soundless as dots on a disk of snow.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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That's a most
inconsiderate
plan.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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For all whose head this grey sword visiteth
To death are
hallowed
and the Lords of death.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up,
nonproprietary
or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The incident in which
Rudhall appears is worth
relating
at length.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The
last is
certainly
wrong, for the statement 'It was a theme', &c.
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John Donne |
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But now and then, truth-speaking things
Shamed the angels' veiling wings;
And,
shrilling
from the solar course,
Or from fruit of chemic force,
Procession of a soul in matter,
Or the speeding change of water,
Or out of the good of evil born,
Came Uriel's voice of cherub scorn,
And a blush tinged the upper sky,
And the gods shook, they knew not why.
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Emerson - Poems |
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(Only certain very bold instructions of mine,
encroachments
etc.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Father, this zeal is
anything
but well!
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Poe - 5 |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Emerson - Poems |
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He goes down
Unerringly, as though he knew the way
Through green, through gloom, to
absolute
watery darkness,
Where no weed sways nor curious fin quivers:
To the sad, sunless deeps where, endlessly,
A downward drift of death spreads its wan mantle
In the wave-moulded valleys that shall enfold him
Till the sea give up its dead.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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EJC}
Travelling in silent majesty along their orderd ways
In right lined paths
outmeasurd
by proportions of weight & measure number weight
And measure.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Should the poor be
flattered?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And while the Mother, at the door,
Stands fixed, her face with joy o'erflows [8]
Proud of herself, and proud of him,
She sees him in his
travelling
trim, 90
How quietly her Johnny goes.
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William Wordsworth |
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She was delighted with the fragmentary epic in which she heard
herself
delicately
complimented in turn as Gloriana, Belphoebe, and
Britomart, conferred upon the poet a pension of ?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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In vain at Court the bankrupt pleads his cause,
His
thankless
country leaves him to her laws.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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fayre
With all her band was
following
the chace,
This Nymph, quite tyr'd with heat of scorching ayre,
Sat downe to rest in middest of the race: 40
The goddesse wroth gan fowly her disgrace,
And bad the waters, which from her did flow,
Be such as she her selfe was then in place.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The following passage in
Shakespeare
he would recite thus:--
'Neow is the winta uv eour discontent
Med glorious summa by this sun o'Yock,
An' all the cleouds thet leowered upun eour heouse
In the deep buzzum o' the oshin buried;
Neow air eour breows beound 'ith victorious wreaths;
Eour breused arms hung up fer monimunce;
Eour starn alarums changed to merry meetins,
Eour dreffle marches to delighfle masures.
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One pile supports another, and a wall
Crested with battlements
surrounds
the court;
Firm, too, the folding doors all force of man
Defy; but num'rous guests, as I perceive,
Now feast within; witness the sav'ry steam
Fast-fuming upward, and the sounding harp,
Divine associate of the festive board.
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Egnatius, quod
candidos
habet dentes,
Renidet usque quaque.
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" repeated he, while his eyes still
Relented
not, nor mov'd; "from every ill
Of life have I preserv'd thee to this day,
And shall I see thee made a serpent's prey?
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What I am about to read is from his last
long poem, "The Princess":--
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn fields,
And
thinking
of the days that are no more.
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First, in front of all,
Palinurus
steered the close column; the rest
under orders ply their course by his.
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Methinks the air
Is balmier now than it was wont to be--
Rich melodies are
floating
in the winds--
A rarer loveliness bedecks the earth--
And with a holier lustre the quiet moon
Sitteth in Heaven.
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He thereat was stung,
Perverse, with stronger fancy to reclaim
Her wild and timid nature to his aim:
Besides, for all his love, in self despite,
Against his better self, he took delight
Luxurious
in her sorrows, soft and new.
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Keats - Lamia |
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So to forsake my
business
and my woman!
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O Hymen
Hymenaeus
io, 165
O Hymen Hymenaeus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Bradamant finds Rogero, who in fight
O'erthrows four barons from the warlike sell,
When on their way to save an errant knight
Doomed to devouring fire: the four who fell
For impious
Pinnabel
maintained the strife,
Whom, after, Bradamant deprives of life.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Then these
gleaming
reins,
How lithe!
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II My late years press hard on a stolen life, coming home, the
pleasures
are few.
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Nor, perchance,
If I were not thus taught, should I the more
Suffer my genial spirits to decay:
For thou art with me, here, upon the banks
Of this fair river; thou, my dearest Friend,
My dear, dear Friend, and in thy voice I catch
The
language
of my former heart, and read
My former pleasures in the shooting lights
Of thy wild eyes.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Ere my steel leap, and
compassed
round with death
Low he shall lie: and thus, full-fed with doom,
The Fury of the house shall drain once more
A deep third draught of rich unmingled blood.
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Aeschylus |
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Is it for me, the
favourite
of my lord?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Six steps behind, the
beauteous
daughter stood,
And waited the decree she thought so good.
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