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"This," he cried aloud, "this, too, is holy— O dear beauty in what beggar's guise
You may hide your splendor, yet I know you; Though the ears be deaf, the eyes be blind,
"Glorious are all things, and forever
Beautiful
and holy is the real!
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The paper intervenes each time as an image, of itself, ends or begins once more, accepting a succession of others, and, since, as ever, it does nothing, of regular sonorous lines or verse - rather prismatic subdivisions of the Idea, the instant they appear, and as long as they last, in some precise intellectual performance, that is in
variable
positions, nearer to or further from the implicit guiding thread, because of the verisimilitude the text imposes.
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den sollt Ihr noch
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Now I, knowing of this hunting
match, or rather conspiracy, and to
insinuate
with my
young master, have got me before in this disguise, determining
here to lie in ambuscade.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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den sollt Ihr noch
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den sollt Ihr noch
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It was but now that I never more
for woes that weighed on me waited help
long as I lived, when, laved in blood,
stood sword-gore-stained this stateliest house, --
widespread woe for wise men all,
who had no hope to hinder ever
foes infernal and
fiendish
sprites
from havoc in hall.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Ay, canst thou buy a single sigh
Of true love's least, least
ecstasy?
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Sidney Lanier |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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7240
Whom shulden folk
worshipen
so
But us, that stinten never mo
To patren whyl that folk us see,
Though it not so bihinde hem be?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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That bowe semede wel to shete
These arowes fyve, that been unmete, 990
Contrarie
to that other fyve.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Bēowulf
is mīn nama, 343; wæs þǣm hæft-mēce
Hrunting nama, 1458; acc.
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Beowulf |
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XXII
Ah, to uphold one's
respectable
name is not easy.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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We float before the
Presence
Infinite,
We cluster round the Throne in our delight,
Revolving and rejoicing in God's sight.
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Christina Rossetti |
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To You
Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams,
I fear these supposed
realities
are to melt from under your feet and hands,
Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners,
troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
Your true soul and body appear before me.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It has been the custom of late to assign to Donne the
authorship of one
charming
lyric in the _Rhapsody_, 'Absence hear thou
my protestation.
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John Donne |
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The mother said
gently, "Is that you,
darling?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
But when air's rosy birth, the morn, arose,
Telemachus did for the turn dispose
His early steps; went on with
spritely
pace,
And to the Wooers studied little grace .
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I doubt na, lass, that weel ken'd name
May cost a pair o' blushes;
I am nae
stranger
to your fame,
Nor his warm urged wishes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The Chaplain would not kneel to pray
By his
dishonoured
grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Wilde - Poems |
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A strange
choice to our mind, but
apparently
the poem was greatly admired as
a masterpiece of wit.
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John Donne |
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110
Dear were my walks, too, gathering
fragrant
store
Of Mother Nature's simple-minded lore:
I learned all weather-signs of day or night;
No bird but I could name him by his flight,
No distant tree but by his shape was known,
Or, near at hand, by leaf or bark alone.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Now, Muse, recount
Pelasgic
Argos' powers,
From Alos, Alope, and Trechin's towers:
From Phthia's spacious vales; and Hella, bless'd
With female beauty far beyond the rest.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I'm
downright
dizzy wi' the thought,
In troth I'm like to greet!
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Golden Treasury |
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7 or obtain
permission
for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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O'er
Cambridge
set the yeomen's mark:
Climb, patriot, through the April dark.
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Sidney Lanier |
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' --
`Hold
straight
into the West,' I said again.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Bayadere sans nez, irresistible gouge,
Dis donc a ces
danseurs
qui font les offusques:
<< Fiers mignons, malgre l'art des poudres et du rouge,
Vous sentez tous la mort!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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For thee old legends
breathed
historic breath;
Thou sawest Poseidon in the purple sea,
And in the sunset Jason's fleece of gold!
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Longfellow |
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44:
Omnibus
historiis
se meus aptat amor.
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Robert Herrick |
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Yet now, before our sun grow dark at noon,
Before we come to nought beneath Thy rod,
Before we go down quick into the pit, 80
Remember us for good, O God, our God:--
Thy Name will I remember, praising it,
Though Thou forget me, though Thou hide Thy face,
And blot me from the Book which Thou hast writ;
Thy Name will I remember in my praise
And call to mind Thy
faithfulness
of old,
Though as a weaver Thou cut off my days,
And end me as a tale ends that is told.
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Christina Rossetti |
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When he had prayed, upon his feet he stepped,
With the strong mark of virtue signed his head;
Upon his swift charger the King mounted
While Jozerans and Neimes his stirrup held;
He took his shield, his
trenchant
spear he kept;
Fine limbs he had, both gallant and well set;
Clear was his face and filled with good intent.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Theseus
Go and seek out those friends whose fatal respect 1145
Honours adultery, and praises incest:
Traitors, without law, honour, gratitude,
Worthy to shelter
criminals
like you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Revivd her Soul with lives of beasts & birds
Slain on the Altar up ascending into her cloudy bosom
Of terrible
workmanship
the Altar labour of ten thousand Slaves
One thousand Men of wondrous power spent their lives in its formation
It stood on twelve steps namd after the names of her twelve sons
And was Erected at the chief entrance of Urizens hall
When Urizen descended returnd from his immense labours & travels
Descending She reposd beside him folding him around
In her bright skirts.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"
And not one word to answer him he knew;
They spurred in haste, their horses let run loose,
And,
wheresoeer
they met the pagans, strook.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The priests were singing, and the organ sounded,
And then anon the great
cathedral
bell.
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Longfellow |
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Aye, you heap
On
baseness
loss.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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CXXVIII
How oft when thou, my music, music play'st,
Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds
With thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway'st
The wiry concord that mine ear confounds,
Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap,
To kiss the tender inward of thy hand,
Whilst my poor lips which should that harvest reap,
At the wood's
boldness
by thee blushing stand!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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No chapter met, howe'er, when morrow came;
Another day arrived, and still the same;
The sages of the convent thought it best,
In fact, to let the mystick
business
rest.
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La Fontaine |
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And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Chorus--O why should Fate sic pleasure have,
Life's dearest bands
untwining?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_Bardie_,
diminutive
of bard.
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Robert Forst |
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'And if men wolde ther-geyn appose 6555
The naked text, and lete the glose,
It mighte sone
assoiled
be;
For men may wel the sothe see,
That, parde, they mighte axe a thing
Pleynly forth, without begging.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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We supped
together, and
immediately
after supper I went to bed, and slept well,
and at 8 o'clock next morning went to Trinity Chapel.
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William Wordsworth |
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2 The bold man is
saddened
at his tomb mound, the recluse bows at Tripod Lake.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The Franks dismount, and dress themselves for war,
Put
hauberks
on, helmets and golden swords;
Fine shields they have, and spears of length and force
Scarlat and blue and white their ensigns float.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Lorsque mes doigts
caressent
a loisir
Ta tete et ton dos elastique,
Et que ma main s'enivre du plaisir
De palper ton corps electrique,
Je vois ma femme en esprit; son regard,
Comme le tien, aimable bete,
Profond et froid, coupe et fend comme un dard.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Among the fields she breathed again:
The master-current of her brain
Ran
permanent
and free;
And, coming to the banks of Tone,
There did she rest; and dwell alone
Under the greenwood tree.
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Golden Treasury |
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Speaking to clouds and playing with the wind,
With joy he sings the sad Way of the Rood;
His
shadowing
pilgrim spirit weeps behind
To see him gay as birds are in the wood.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And
beautiful
thou art:
This grass is tender grass; these flowers they have no peers;
And that green corn all day is rustling in thy ears!
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William Wordsworth |
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"But the good monk, in
cloistered
cell,
Shall gain it by his book and bell,
His prayers and tears;
And the brave knight, whose arm endures
Fierce battle, and against the Moors
His standard rears.
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Longfellow |
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What do thy noontide walks avail,
To clear the leaf, and pick the snail,
Then
wantonly
to death decree
An insect usefuller than thee?
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Golden Treasury |
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Are so
superfluous
cold,
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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At
last she comes forth amid a great thronging train, girt in a Sidonian
mantle,
broidered
with needlework; her quiver is of gold, her tresses
knotted into gold, a golden buckle clasps up her crimson gown.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Descend O Urizen descend with horse & chariot
Threaten not me O visionary thine the
punishment!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Acursed may wel be that day,
That povre man
conceyved
is;
For god wot, al to selde, y-wis, 470
Is any povre man wel fed,
Or wel arayed or y-cled,
Or wel biloved, in swich wyse
In honour that he may aryse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Then, as the dark drops
gathered
there
And fell in the dirt,
The wounds of my friend
Seemed to me such as no man might bear.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Chanson de Roland |
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Calhoun, sez he;--
'Oh,' sez
Westcott
o' Florida,
'Wut treason is horrider
Then our priv'leges tryin' to proon?
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James Russell Lowell |
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I shall not speak;
The
presence
of great men doth take from me
All power of speech.
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Longfellow |
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Albion groand on Tyburns brook
Albion gave his loud death groan The Atlantic Mountains
trembled
Aloft the Moon fled with a cry the Sun with streams of blood
From Albions Loins fled all Peoples and Nations of the Earth Fled {Erdman's notes indicate that "Blake first wrote ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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When my proud mother hurl'd me from the sky,
(My awkward form, it seems, displeased her eye,)
She, and Eurynome, my griefs redress'd,
And soft
received
me on their silver breast.
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Iliad - Pope |
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[Till they had drawn the Spectre quite away from Enion]
And drawing in the
Spectrous
life in pride and haughty joy
Thus Enion gave them all her spectrous life in dark despair.
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Blake - Zoas |
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You see your glory; but you cannot see
That which your glory conquers; and the peoples
Know nought but that the glooming of their night
Maketh a shining scope for crowns, as he,
Even as he, your king, Ahasuerus,
Maketh your splendour a
darkness
for his light.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Not
ignorant
of ill do I learn to succour the
afflicted.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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(To Don Diegue)
You may speak next, I
sanction
her complaint.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Come, let a proper text be read,
An' touch it aff wi' vigour,
How
graceless
Ham^5 leugh at his dad,
Which made Canaan a nigger;
Or Phineas^6 drove the murdering blade,
Wi' whore-abhorring rigour;
Or Zipporah,^7 the scauldin jad,
Was like a bluidy tiger
I' th' inn that day.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Canst hear me through the water-bass,
Cry: "To the Shore,
Sweetheart?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Index of First Lines
Under the
Mirabeau
flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've gathered this sprig of heather
The strollers in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not surprised my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my abandoned youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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One after one by the horned Moon
(Listen, O
Stranger!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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You enter, in your
Florence
wanderings,
The church of Saint Maria Novella.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online
payments
and credit card
donations.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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For still there lives within my secret heart
The magic image of the magic Child,
Which there he made up-grow by his strong art,
As in that crystal orb--wise Merlin's feat,--
The wondrous "World of Glass," wherein inisled
All long'd for things their beings did repeat;--
And there he left it, like a Sylph beguiled,
To live and yearn and
languish
incomplete!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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HOW I do love thee, Beaumont, and thy muse,
That unto me dost such
religion
use!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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King
Yet Love, far from registering this protest,
If
Rodrigue
wins, true justice will attest.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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We watched the ghostly dancers spin
To sound of horn and violin,
Like black leaves
wheeling
in the wind.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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in the light
Of common day, so
heavenly
bright,
I bless Thee, Vision as thou art,
I bless thee with a human heart;
God shield thee to thy latest years!
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Golden Treasury |
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But had he already declared this guilty love
In Athens, this passion by which he's
devoured?
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The Human Nature shall no more remain nor Human acts
Form the free
rebellious
Spirits of Heaven.
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He wrote histories of the Revolution,
of
Napoleon
and of France.
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"
Answers Rollanz: "Nay, love you I can not,
For on your side is
arrogance
and wrong.
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FAIR
Isabella
now the abbess sent,
Who straight obeyed, and to her tears gave vent,
Which overspread those lily cheeks and eyes,
A roguish youth so lately held his prize.
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les colliers tinteront
cherront
les masques
Va-t'en va-t'en contre le feu l'ombre prevaut
Ah!
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Nor, dim nor red, like God's own head,
The
glorious
Sun uprist:
Then all averred, I had killed the bird
That brought the fog and mist.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
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Golden Treasury |
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Then, Daphnis, to the cooling streams were none
That drove the
pastured
oxen, then no beast
Drank of the river, or would the grass-blade touch.
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He roar'd a horrid murder-shout,
In dreadfu'
desperation!
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The
abomination
of flowers, or
representations of well-known objects of any kind, should not be
endured within the limits of Christendom.
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If thou hear
Henceforth another origin assign'd
Of that my country, I
forewarn
thee now,
That falsehood none beguile thee of the truth.
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And thus one stanza,
perhaps the finest as poetry, becomes the biography of his soul:
"There was a time when, though my path was rough,
This joy within me dallied with distress,
And all
misfortunes
were but as the stuff
Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness:
For hope grew round me, like the twining vine,
And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine
But now afflictions bow me down to earth:
Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth;
But oh!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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That
Emperour
by way of hostage guards it;
Four benches then upon the place he marshals
Where sit them down champions of either party.
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Chanson de Roland |
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fēores
getwǣfde
(_cut him off from life_),
1434; nō þǣr wǣg-flotan wind ofer ȳðum sīðes ge-twǣfde (_the wind hindered
not the wave-floater in her course over the water_), 1909; pret.
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