Dravot was very kind to me, but when he walked up and
down in the pine wood pulling that bloody red beard of his with both
fists I knew he was
thinking
plans I could not advise about, and I just
waited for orders.
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A wee
Torquatus
fain I'd see
Encradled on his mother's breast
Put forth his tender puds while he
Smiles to his sire with sweetest gest 215
And liplets half apart.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Had you not slyly come to guard me now,
I should have died of fright
outright
I know.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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One who
withheld
so long
All that you yearned to take,
Has made a snare too strong
For Beauty's self to break.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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A few score yards from this tree, grew, when we
inhabited
Alfoxden, one of the most remarkable beech-trees ever seen.
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In vain the laughing girl will lean
To greet her love with love-lit eyes:
Down in some treacherous black ravine,
Clutching
his flag, the dead boy lies.
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Wilde - Poems |
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You came amidst the show of flow'ry splendour,
Again I saw you at the aftermath,
And, 'mid the ruddy corn-blades'
rustling
tender,
Unto your cottage always wound my path.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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You fear the
sovereign
power so little.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Where'er the radiance of thy coming fall,
Shall dawn for thee her saffron footcloths spread,
Sunset her purple canopies and red,
In serried splendour, and the night unfold
Her velvet
darkness
wrought with starry gold
For kingly raiment, soft as cygnet-down.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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' He, eager for battle, had already clasped on the
greaves of gold right and left, and scorning delay,
brandishes
his
spear.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And if more were needed to
disprove
Mons.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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But what their care bequeathed us our madness flung away:
All the ripe fruit of threescore years was
blighted
in a day.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain,
Die of a rose in
aromatic
pain?
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Who never knew what he should do;
So he tore off his hair, and behaved like a bear,
That
intrinsic
Old Man of Peru.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Till, as much time is fled,
Once more the vacant airs with
darkness
fill,
Once more the wave doth never good nor ill,
And Blank is king, and Nothing works his will;
And leanly sails the day behind the day
To where the Past's lone Rock o'erglooms the spray,
And down its mortal fissures sinks away,
As when the grim-beaked pelicans level file
Across the sunset to their seaward isle
On solemn wings that wave but seldomwhile.
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Sidney Lanier |
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_, at the
beginning
of the third century A.
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Li Po |
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NOTES:
_58-_61 List, my dear fellow, the breeze blows fair;
How it
scatters
Dominic's long black hair!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
And when we had come out of the temple, I
straightway
left that
Blessed City; for I was not too young, and I could read the scripture.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Poetry in
Translation
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Villon |
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are,
he fond [him] redy
sittinde
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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No more beneath soft Eve's
consenting
star
Fandango twirls his jocund castanet:
Ah, monarchs!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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King
Yet, all who in my service so engage
Do not acquit themselves with such courage;
And valour that is not born of excess
Seldom
achieves
comparable success.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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From here to where the louder passions dwell,
Green leagues of hilly
separation
roll:
Trade ends where yon far clover ridges swell.
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Sidney Lanier |
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At best more
watchful
this, but that more strong.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Ils sont
familiers
du grand turc!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And having determined how
you'll say it,
you had next best
ascertain
whom
it is that you say it to.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Farm hands from the terraces of the blest
Danced on the mists with their ladies fine;
And Johnny
Appleseed
laughed with his dreams,
And swam once more the ice-cold streams.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The strains came o'er mine ear, e'en as the sound
Of choral voices, that in solemn chant
With organ mingle, and, now high and clear,
Come swelling, now float
indistinct
away.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Poets and philosophers and
statesmen thus spring up in the country pastures, and outlast the
hosts of
unoriginal
men.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Well hast thou
counselled
me.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"Nine prosperous days we plied the labouring oar;
The tenth presents our welcome native shore:
The hills display the beacon's friendly light,
And rising
mountains
gain upon our sight.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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'391'
An allusion to Addison's unhappy
marriage
with the Countess of Warwick.
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acrius inuitos
multoque
ferocius urget,
quam qui seruitium ferre fatentur, Amor.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Leave for awhile thy costly country seat,
And--to be great indeed--forget
The
nauseous
pleasures of the great:
Make haste and come,
Come, and forsake thy cloying store,
Thy turret that surveys from high
The smoke and wealth and noise of Rome,
And all the busie pageantry
That wise men scorn and fools adore:
Come, give thy soul a loose, and taste the pleasures of the poor.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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To whom amongst the jealous throng
Of maids dost thou
inscribe
thy song?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The disharmony of brain and body, the
spiritual
bilocation, are only too
easy to diagnose; but the remedy?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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We've danced our
leathers
entirely through,
And have only bare soles to run with.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The Warders
strutted
up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their uniforms were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the quicklime on their boots.
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Wilde - Poems |
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O fleeting gifts which fortune's hand
bestows!
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Petrarch |
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With
sharpened
sight pale antiquaries pore,
The inscription value, but the rust adore.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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To follow it I hasten'd, but with voice
Of
sweetness
it enjoin'd me to desist.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Count
Sir, to defend all that I hold sublime,
Such minor
disobedience
is no crime;
However great it seems, you will allow
My service is such as to efface it now.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But
Fitzdottrel
has just said 'Laught at, sweet bird?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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True, they may lay your proud
despoilers
low,
But not for you will Freedom's altars flame.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Hector also, casting a stone of vast size, forces open one of the gates,
and enters at the head of his troops, who
victoriously
pursue the Grecians
even to their ships.
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Iliad - Pope |
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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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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"Transportation for life" was the
sentence
it gave,
"And _then_ to be fined forty pound.
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Lewis Carroll |
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"
I listened to the branchless pole
That held aloft the singing wire;
I heard its muffled music roll,
And stirred with sweet desire:
"O wire more soft than
seasoned
lute,
Hast thou no sunlit word for me?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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, and the flesh
afterwards
was used for their
meal (_vide_ Plato in the 'Lysias').
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Aristophanes |
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He shunned those parties boisterous;
The conversation tedious
About the crop of hay, the wine,
The kennel or a kindred line,
Was certainly not erudite
Nor
sparkled
with poetic fire,
Nor wit, nor did the same inspire
A sense of social delight,
But still more stupid did appear
The gossip of their ladies fair.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Most of the
generals
had then taken an ambiguous line, intending
to interpret their language in the light of subsequent events.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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{3b} That is, since Beowulf
selected
his ship and led his men to the
harbor.
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Title: Lamia
Author: John Keats
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LAMIA
By John Keats
Part 1
Upon a time, before the faery broods
Drove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous woods,
Before King Oberon's bright diadem,
Sceptre, and mantle, clasp'd with dewy gem,
Frighted away the Dryads and the Fauns
From rushes green, and brakes, and cowslip'd lawns,
The ever-smitten Hermes empty left
His golden throne, bent warm on amorous theft:
From high Olympus had he stolen light,
On this side of Jove's clouds, to escape the sight
Of his great summoner, and made retreat
Into a forest on the shores of Crete.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Grown weary of monastic servitude,
I
pondered
'neath the cowl my bold design,
Made ready for the world a miracle--
And from my cell at last fled to the Cossacks,
To their wild hovels; there I learned to handle
Both steeds and swords; I showed myself to you.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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[Sidenote: It is the
sovereign
good, and comprehends all others.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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AMONG the rustic nymphs our spark perceived
A
charming
girl, for whom his bosom heaved;
Too young, however, to feel the poignant smart,
By Cupid oft inflicted on the heart.
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La Fontaine |
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From an old hag do I advice
require?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Altas ondas que venez suz la mar
Deep waves that roll,
travelling
the sea,
That high winds, here and there, set free,
What news of my love do you bring to me?
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Troubador Verse |
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Ere the daughter of
Brunswick
is cold in her grave,[593]
And her ashes still float to their home o'er the tide,
Lo!
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Byron |
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We,
straightway
journeying on,
Came to Antaeus, who five ells complete
Without the head, forth issued from the cave.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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More vital than the influence of the personalities and the art treasures
of the countries which Rilke visited and more potent in its effect upon
his creations, like a great sun over the most fruitful years of his
life, stands the
towering
personality of Auguste Rodin.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Erewhile 'twas corn
resplendent
and unstained,
Or crystal, that through morning radiance shone,
Now flowing agate, deep and sombre-veined,
Then like a crimson sparkling precious stone.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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O God of the night,
What great sorrow
Cometh unto us,
That thou thus
repayest
us
Before the time of its coming?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The flower I gave thee once
Was incident to a stride,
A detail of a gesture,
But search those pale petals
And see
engraven
thereon
A record of my intention.
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Stephen Crane |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Thou fav'rest Frenchmen, though from England seen,
Oft tearful to that mistress "North Countree";
Returned
the third time safely here to be,
I bless my bold Gibraltar of the Free.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The
Miscellany
is intended to be an American
companion to that publication.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what impossibly flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of
darkened
crystal.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Whate'er of blessed life there be
For high souls to the
darkness
flown,
Be thine for ever, and a throne
Beside the crowned Persephone.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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" -- 665
`Right so fare I,
unhappily
for me;
I love oon best, and that me smerteth sore;
And yet, paraunter, can I rede thee,
And not my-self; repreve me no more.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Fatal for us that beauty's
torturing
view,
Living or dead alike which desolates our peace.
| Guess: |
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Petrarch |
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Khwajah Nizami of Samarcand, who was one of his pupils, relates
the following story: "I often used to hold
conversations
with my
teacher, Omar Khayyam, in a garden; and one day he said to me,
'My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses
over it.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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{116a} Directness enlightens, obliquity and
circumlocution
darken.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The bald-head philosopher
Had fix'd his eye, without a twinkle or stir
Full on the alarmed beauty of the bride,
Brow-beating her fair form, and
troubling
her sweet pride.
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Keats - Lamia |
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'tis the first, 'tis
flattery
in my seeing,
And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:
Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,
And to his palate doth prepare the cup:
If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And, what is a stranjre thinjr, the very spunks,
which one would think should rather deface and blot
out the whole book, and were anciently used for that
purpose, are become now the
instalments
to make
them legible.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And they had fix'd the wedding-day,
The morning that must wed them both;
But Stephen to another maid
Had sworn another oath;
And with this other maid to church
Unthinking
Stephen went--
Poor Martha!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The rest may die--but is there not
Some shining strange escape for me
Who sought in Beauty the bright wine
Of
immortality?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine,
soldiers
of worth,
Nor Germany with other warriors graced.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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They
grappled
with each other
goring like an ox.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Think
of the jokes and
commiserations
of Burgum, Catcott, and the rest!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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For
Roderick
was asked this lofty dame;
The father said Honesta* (such her name)
Had many eligible offers found;
But, 'mong the num'rous band that hovered round,
Perhaps his daughter, Rod'rick's suit might take,
Though he should wish for time the choice to make.
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La Fontaine |
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Thou ferse god of armes, Mars the rede,
That in the frosty country called Trace,
Within thy grisly temple ful of drede
Honoured
art, as patroun of that place!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Hark you, sir; I'll have them very fairly bound-
All books of love, see that at any hand;
And see you read no other
lectures
to her.
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Shakespeare |
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A patch of
flowering
grass,
low, trailing--
you brushed this:
the green stems show yellow-green
where you lifted--turned the earth-side
to the light:
this and a dead leaf-spine,
split across,
show where you passed.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Oppressed
by thee, the venerable
ancient, grown hoary in the practice of every virtue, laden with years
and wretchedness, implores a little--little aid to support his
existence, from a stony-hearted son of Mammon, whose sun of prosperity
never knew a cloud; and is by him denied and insulted.
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Robert Forst |
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XLIX
And
farewell
thou, my gloomy friend,
Thou also, my ideal true,
And thou, persistent to the end,
My little book.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Farewell,
unfalteringly
brave!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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