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She came towards the bed, and the
knight laid himself down quickly,
pretending
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The Thane of Cawdor liues:
Why doe you dresse me in
borrowed
Robes?
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important
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"
THYRSIS
"Here is a hearth, and
resinous
logs, here fire
Unstinted, and doors black with ceaseless smoke.
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In valleys of springs of rivers,
By Ony and Teme and Clun,
The country for easy livers,
The
quietest
under the sun,
We still had sorrows to lighten,
One could not be always glad,
And lads knew trouble at Knighton
When I was a Knighton lad.
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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I will take them away with me,
I
insistently
rob them of their essence,
I must have it all before night,
To sing amid my green.
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But soon to gall my seeming
transport
turn'd,
And my illustrious partner's fate I mourn'd;
And often seem'd, with sympathising woe,
To melt in solvent tears like vernal snow.
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Who
whispers
him so pantingly and close?
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Keats |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more
seductive
than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Refresh'd, they wait them to the bower of state,
Where, circled with his pears, Atrides sate;
Throned next the king, a fair
attendant
brings
The purest product of the crystal springs;
High on a massy vase of silver mould,
The burnish'd laver flames with solid gold,
In solid gold the purple vintage flows,
And on the board a second banquet rose.
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Wilde - Poems |
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THE PIER-GLASS
Lost manor where I walk continually
A ghost, while yet in woman's flesh and blood;
Up your broad stairs mounting with
outspread
fingers
And gliding steadfast down your corridors
I come by nightly custom to this room,
And even on sultry afternoons I come
Drawn by a thread of time-sunk memory.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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311 The sinking sun lights up your carriage awning, a strong wind ripples the streamers and flags.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Difficult
is it, alas, to conceal the shame of a monarch;
Hide it can neither his crown, nor a tight Phrygian cap:
Midas has asses ears!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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An ear to my
confession
lend;
To thy decree my will I bend.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Was it not
On
yesterday
we were speaking of the Earl?
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Poe - 5 |
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He digs for her in the earth,
Where lie all her claims of birth,
With his foul paws rooting o'er
Some long-buried ancestor,
Who perhaps a statue won
By the ill deeds he had done,
By the
innocent
blood he shed,
By the desolation spread 80
Over happy villages,
Blotting out the smile of peace.
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James Russell Lowell |
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LIII
THE TRUE LOVER
The lad came to the door at night,
When lovers crown their vows,
And
whistled
soft and out of sight
In shadow of the boughs.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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O proper stuffe:
This is the very
painting
of your feare:
This is the Ayre-drawne-Dagger which you said
Led you to Duncan.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
countless
blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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then swift be heart and brain, to see
God's
chances!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Above the mountains
the sun is about to wake,
_and to-day white violets
shine beside white lilies
adrift on the mountain side;
to-day the
narcissus
opens
that loves the rain_.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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) of the Gods begotten, and
excellent
issue
Bred by your mothers, all hail!
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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MAHMUD:
Proud words, when deeds come short, are seasonable:
Look, Hassan, on yon crescent moon, emblazoned
Upon that shattered flag of fiery cloud
Which leads the rear of the
departing
day;
Wan emblem of an empire fading now!
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Shelley |
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I have a man here, one who makes with words,
And he shall be my
messenger
to your hearts.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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interea prope iam occidente sole inhorrescit mare,
tenebrae conduplicantur noctisque et nimbum
obcaecat
nigror,
flamma inter nubes coruscat, caelum tonitru contremit,
grando mixta imbri largifico subita praecipitans cadit,
undique omnes uenti erumpunt, saeui existunt turbines,
feruit aestu pelagus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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In the Highlands of
Scotland
may
still be gleaned some relics of the old songs about Cuthullin and
Fingal.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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All things worth praise
That unto Khadeeth's mart have
From far been brought through perils over-passed, All santal, myrrh, and spikenard that disarms The pard's swift anger; these would weigh but light 'Gainst thy delights, my
Khadeeth!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Thou rich-man's
lawgiver!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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* * * * *
FRANK PREWETT
TO MY MOTHER IN CANADA, FROM SICK-BED IN ITALY
Dear mother, from the sure sun and warm seas
Of Italy, I, sick, remember now
What sometimes is forgot in times of ease,
Our love, the always felt but
unspoken
vow.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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As they could
not be arrested
anywhere
on Sunday, Pope represents them as taking that
day to inflict their visits on him.
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Immortality
was close about her; and while never morbid or
melancholy, she lived in its presence.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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25
But now to purpos as of this matere--
To rede forth hit gan me so delyte,
That al the day me
thoughte
but a lyte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Down rush'd the toils,
inwrapping
as they lay
The careless lovers in their wanton play:
In vain they strive; the entangling snares deny
(Inextricably firm) the power to fly.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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_ What sweeter music can we bring,
Than a carol for to sing
The birth of this our
heavenly
King?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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What man would watch life's oozy element
Creep
Letheward
forever, when he might
Down some great river drift beyond men's sight,
To where the undethroned forest's royal tent
Broods with its hush o'er half a continent?
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James Russell Lowell |
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[48]
Now, when chaste
Proserpine
had wide dispers'd
Those female shades, the spirit sore distress'd
Of Agamemnon, Atreus' son, appear'd; 470
Encircled by a throng, he came; by all
Who with himself beneath AEgisthus' roof
Their fate fulfill'd, perishing by the sword.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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do I not see my love fluttering out among the
breakers?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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XXVI
But the loud wind which, sweeping ocean, bears
The
faithless
stripling's sail across the deep,
Bears off as well the shriek, and moan, and prayers
Of sad Olympia, sorrowing on the steep.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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There, too, I saw, in universal jar,
The tribes that spend their time in wordy war;
And o'er the vast
interminable
deep
Of knowledge, like conflicting tempests, sweep.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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4 A poem from the Classic of Poetry
expressing
appreciation of the efforts of soldiers who had been on campaign.
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Title:
American
Poetry, 1922
A Miscellany
Author: Edna St.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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A low wing the messenger
This fan if it is the one
The same by which behind you there
Some mirror has shone
Limpidly (where will fall
pursued grain by grain
a little
invisible
dust, all
that can give me pain)
So may it always bless
Your hands free of idleness.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Greeks were the ones who began it, and only to Greeks they
proclaimed
it
Even within Roman walls: "Come to the sanctified night.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Gabriel, his last trump, its
pressing
nature.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Are you
persecuting
her, my lord, indeed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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She leaps: they shake and pale; she glows--
And who but knows
How the rejoiced heart aches
When Venus all his starry vision shakes;
When through his mind
Tossing with random airs of an unearthly wind,
Rose-bosom'd, rose-limb'd,
The mistress of his starry vision arises,
And the boughs glittering sway
And the stars pale away,
And the
enlarging
heaven glows
As Venus light-foot mid the twined branches goes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Now, hovering bee-like, she would stop
Entranced before some
tempting
shop,
Getting in people's way and prying
At things she never thought of buying:
Now wafted on without an aim,
Until in course of time she came
To Watson's bootshop.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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In place of tatters far too short
Let the proud
garments
worn at Court
Fall down with rustling fold and pleat
About your feet;
In place of stockings, worn and old,
Let a keen dagger all of gold
Gleam in your garter for the eyes
Of roues wise;
Let ribbons carelessly untied
Reveal to us the radiant pride
Of your white bosom purer far
Than any star;
Let your white arms uncovered shine.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Let Earth, with grain and cattle rife,
Crown Ceres' brow with
wreathen
corn;
Soft winds, sweet waters, nurse to life
The newly born!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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`This ilke boor bitokneth Diomede,
Tydeus sone, that doun
descended
is
Fro Meleagre, that made the boor to blede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Observe, I know not Ranken's shop, nor Ranken's monthly bills;
I take no heed to
trousers
or the coats that you call dress;
Nor am I plagued with little cards for little drinks at Mess.
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Kipling - Poems |
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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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Yet, haply lest I check the mounting fire,
O friends, that in your revelry
appears!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Other ones this year no more bestows,
No petitions can recall them here,
Other ones with
springtide
may appear.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Burroughs (to whom I have recourse for most biographical
facts
concerning
Whitman) is careful to note, in order that no
misapprehension may arise on the subject, that, up to the time of his
publishing the _Leaves of Grass_, the author had not read either the essays
or the poems of Emerson.
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Whitman |
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YESTERDAY
This Day's Madness did prepare;
TO-MORROW's Silence, Triumph, or Despair:
Drink!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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To SEND
DONATIONS or
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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But their wild
exultation
was suddenly checked
When the jailer informed them, with tears,
Such a sentence would have not the slightest effect,
As the pig had been dead for some years.
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Lewis Carroll |
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I know
your military
arrangement
very well.
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Kipling - Poems |
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With him
Sauterne
was to Medoc what Catullus was to
Homer.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Vanish in glowing
Flame,
Salamander!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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XX
Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as
beautiful
again
That in the water are;
The pools and rivers wash so clean
The trees and clouds and air,
The like on earth was never seen,
And oh that I were there.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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When the living leave us, moved, I gaze,
For to enter death, is
entering
the temple;
And when a man dies, and goes his way,
I see my own ascent, clear, like crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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What profits
loathing
ere ye know?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Shall I
subscribe
with pencil, pen or graver?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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We lay the dead out, folding up the hands,
Closing the eyes, and stretching out the feet,
And push a pillow
underneath
the head,
Till all's in order; and all this I'll do
For Naisi, son of Usna.
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Yeats |
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The Italian
influence
is from the North of Italy--the
period might, indeed, be called the Transpadane period of Roman poetry.
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PRINCESS
OF FRANCE.
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Shakespeare |
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_Spear Thistle_
Where the broad
sheepwalk
bare and brown
[Yields] scant grass pining after showers,
And winds go fanning up and down
The little strawy bents and nodding flowers,
There the huge thistle, spurred with many thorns,
The suncrackt upland's russet swells adorns.
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Now,
Come tell me, son of hell, I pray thee,
If that spell-binds thee, then how
enteredst
thou?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Reeds and some discarded
garments
all hastily cobbled together--
I helped to make it myself: diligent in my own grief.
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I haue giuen Sucke, and know
How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me,
I would, while it was smyling in my Face,
Haue pluckt my Nipple from his
Bonelesse
Gummes,
And dasht the Braines out, had I so sworne
As you haue done to this
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I sent him into thieves'
company!
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Yeats |
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And yet I quickly might arrive
Where my
extended
soul is fixed ;
But fate does iron wedges drive,
And always crowds itself betwixt
IV.
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Marvell - Poems |
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SUNRISE
Would you know what joy is hid
In our green Musketaquid,
And for
travelled
eyes what charms
Draw us to these meadow farms,
Come and I will show you all
Makes each day a festival.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Hang out our Banners on the outward walls,
The Cry is still, they come: our Castles strength
Will laugh a Siedge to scorne: Heere let them lye,
Till Famine and the Ague eate them vp:
Were they not forc'd with those that should be ours,
We might haue met them darefull, beard to beard,
And beate them
backward
home.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Hath he not sworn his love a
thousand
times,
In this green valley, under this green hill,
Ev'n on this hand, and sitting on this stone?
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Tennyson |
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A bloody twain made these things be;
One was thy
bitterest
enemy,
And one the wife that lay by thee.
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Euripides - Electra |
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But I heard,
After the hour of sunset yester-even,
Sitting within doors between light and dark, 20
A choir of redbreasts gathered somewhere near
My threshold,--minstrels from the distant woods
Sent in on Winter's service, to announce,
With preparation artful and benign,
That the rough lord had left the surly North 25
On his
accustomed
journey.
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William Wordsworth |
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Unlucky, as Fungoso in the play, }
These sparks with awkward vanity display }
What the fine
gentleman
wore yesterday; } 330
And but so mimic ancient wits at best,
As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest.
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Alexander Pope |
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) I
Pierced him with
stiffest
staff and did him die.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Can my misery meal on an ordered walking
Of
surpliced
numskulls?
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Stephen Crane |
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ey wollde for no need
Com to gedur in
Flesschely
ded.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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our shots like hail
Made
shortish
work of galley long
And chubby sailing craft--
Our making ready first to close
Sent them a-spinning aft.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Morning at the Window
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the
trampled
edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
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T.S. Eliot |
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