Mine by the sign in the scarlet prison
Bars cannot
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HAROLD MONRO
THISTLEDOWN
This might have been a place for sleep,
But, as from that small hollow there
Hosts of bright thistledown begin
Their
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An idle man can only stare.
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I fear, I fear
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That
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What hand holds the reins
Of those sightless forces
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
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_Scandal_
She hastens out and
scarcely
pins her clothes
To hear the news and tell the news she knows;
She talks of sluts, marks each unmended gown,
Her self the dirtiest slut in all the town.
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on that woeful day
A pang of
pitiless
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Into her soul was sent;
A fire was kindled in her breast, 121
Which might not burn itself to rest.
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no moor{e} verray thing / for either alle
thinges ben referred {and} browht to nowht / {and} floteryn w{i}t{h}
owte gou{er}nour
despoiled
of oon / as of hir propre heued / or elles
yif ther be any thinge / to which ?
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When the verdict was called for, the Jury declined,
As the word was so puzzling to spell;
But they
ventured
to hope that the Snark wouldn't mind
Undertaking that duty as well.
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Their prey were the young men of fashion in the city,
and
especially
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were anxious to become sophisticated.
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The world is round, so travellers tell,
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Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well,
The way will guide one back.
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Torpenhow
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The
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With him the sage, that mark'd, with dark disdain,
His wealth
consumed
by rapine's lawless train;
And glad that nothing now remain'd behind,
To foster envy in a rival's mind,
That treasure bought, which nothing can destroy,
"The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy.
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Those who would argue by contraries)
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Ruppe il silenzio ne'
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poscia la luce in che mirabil vita
del poverel di Dio narrata fumi,
e disse: <
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There be more things to greet the heart and eyes
In Arno's dome of Art's most princely shrine,
Where
Sculpture
with her rainbow sister vies;
There be more marvels yet--but not for mine;
For I have been accustomed to entwine
My thoughts with Nature rather in the fields
Than Art in galleries: though a work divine
Calls for my spirit's homage, yet it yields
Less than it feels, because the weapon which it wields
LXII.
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I do love I know not what,
Sometimes
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mountains
mine, --
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As much of noon as I could take
Between my finite eyes.
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That my final hope hath flown:
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New-born sun, and
youthful
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
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A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
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Of
Holofernes
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Michael suspends not the avenging stroke
Till hunted to the Moorish camp she flies,
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vengeance
yet in store,
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Him through the spicie Forrest onward com
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Of his coole Bowre, while now the mounted Sun 300
Shot down direct his fervid Raies, to warme
Earths inmost womb, more warmth then Adam needs;
And Eve within, due at her hour prepar'd
For dinner savourie fruits, of taste to please
True appetite, and not disrelish thirst
Of nectarous
draughts
between, from milkie stream,
Berrie or Grape: to whom thus Adam call'd.
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As whence the Sunne 'gins his reflection,
Shipwracking Stormes, and direfull Thunders:
So from that Spring, whence comfort seem'd to come,
Discomfort swells: Marke King of Scotland, marke,
No sooner Iustice had, with Valour arm'd,
Compell'd these skipping Kernes to trust their heeles,
But the
Norweyan
Lord, surueying vantage,
With furbusht Armes, and new supplyes of men,
Began a fresh assault
King.
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There were twelve great battles against the heathen hordes that had
molested them from across the
terrible
seas, and each of these battles
he won.
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Even such a stock by Nilus' banks might grow;
Yea and the Cyprian stamp, in female forms,
Shows to the life, what males
impressed
the same.
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Ballade: Du Concours De Blois
I'm dying of thirst beside the fountain,
Hot as fire, and with
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teeth:
In my own land, I'm in a far domain:
Near the flame, I shiver beyond belief:
Bare as a worm, dressed in a furry sheathe,
I smile in tears, wait without expectation:
Taking my comfort in sad desperation:
I rejoice, without pleasures, never a one:
Strong I am, without power or persuasion,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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THE QUEEN'S RIVAL
QUEEN Gulnaar sat on her ivory bed,
Around her
countless
treasures were spread;
Her chamber walls were richly inlaid
With agate, porphory, onyx and jade;
The tissues that veiled her delicate breast,
Glowed with the hues of a lapwing's crest;
But still she gazed in her mirror and sighed
"O King, my heart is unsatisfied.
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And naked to the hangman's noose
The morning clocks will ring
A neck God made for other use
Than
strangling
in a string.
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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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Let him who tempts me, dread those dire abodes:
And know, the
Almighty
is the god of gods.
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LXXIX
Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,
My verse alone had all thy gentle grace;
But now my
gracious
numbers are decay'd,
And my sick Muse doth give an other place.
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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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Elvire
Through his efforts those two kings were won;
His hand
conquered
them, he was the one.
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]
[Footnote Bb: This shrine is
resorted
to, from a hope of relief, by
multitudes, from every corner of the Catholick world, labouring under
mental or bodily afflictions.
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ORIGIN OF RHODES
OLYMPIA VII, 100-129
Ancient sayings of men relate,
That when Zeus and the Immortals divided earth,
Rhodes was not yet
apparent
in the deep sea;
But in salt depths the island was hid.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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LXX
That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The
ornament
of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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' the wood-god
murmured
through the leaves,--
'Welcome, though late, unknowing, yet known to me.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Then thus again the
brilliance
feminine:
"Too frail of heart!
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This way my Lord, the Castles gently rendred:
The Tyrants people, on both sides do fight,
The Noble Thanes do brauely in the Warre,
The day almost it selfe
professes
yours,
And little is to do
Malc.
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I have said it twice:
That alone should
encourage
the crew.
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A train went through a burial gate,
A bird broke forth and sang,
And trilled, and quivered, and shook his throat
Till all the
churchyard
rang;
And then adjusted his little notes,
And bowed and sang again.
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They were often
disappointed
that they could not
harness him to their partial and transient scheme.
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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of France, and other princes,
that
volunteers
from their dominions might be allowed to distinguish
themselves, under his banners, against the Saracens.
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e beaute be
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1240
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Ful
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mowe
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an the word was that no one could get through rebel-held
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Du Fu - 5 |
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What dreads she bore in her
swooning
soul!
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They, like a spasm of the Hydra, hearing the angel
Once grant a purer sense to the words of the tribe,
Loudly
proclaimed
it a magic potion, imbibed
From some tidal brew black, and dishonourable.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Iliad - Pope |
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And suddenly I
surrender
the garrison,
Feigning treason!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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hwanon
ferigeað
fǣtte scyldas, 333; pret.
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Beowulf |
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XL Thou
Nightingale!
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William Wordsworth |
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How many
Of your
immediate
retainers shall
Escort you?
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Byron |
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Goddess, take
vengeance!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Endymion feels it, and no more controls
The burning prayer within him; so, bent low,
He had begun a
plaining
of his woe.
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Keats |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The midmorn empties you of men, save me;
Speak to your lover,
meadows!
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Sidney Lanier |
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The
pastures
were covered with herds; and the houses,
built of square stones, were both elegant and magnificent.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Heyne's
Treatise
on the Hall,
Heorot, p.
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Beowulf |
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