[Illustration]
There was a young person of Ayr,
Whose head was
remarkably
square:
On the top, in fine weather, she wore a gold feather;
Which dazzled the people of Ayr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Immediately lamps were lighted and
servants
began moving about.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Though my fathers had not illustrious honours
and vast properties to hazard in the contest, though they left their
humble cottages only to add so many units more to the unnoted crowd
that followed their leaders, yet what they could they did, and what
they had they lost; with
unshaken
firmness and unconcealed political
attachments, they shook hands with ruin for what they esteemed the
cause of their king and their country.
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Robert Forst |
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"
But I, grown shrewder, scan the skies
With a
suspicious
air, --
As children, swindled for the first,
All swindlers be, infer.
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not an hour except you above them and all
stand fast;)
O banner, not money so precious are you, not farm produce you, nor
the
material
good nutriment,
Nor excellent stores, nor landed on wharves from the ships,
Not the superb ships with sail-power or steam-power, fetching and
carrying cargoes,
Nor machinery, vehicles, trade, nor revenues--but you as henceforth
I see you,
Running up out of the night, bringing your cluster of stars,
(ever-enlarging stars,)
Divider of daybreak you, cutting the air, touch'd by the sun,
measuring the sky,
(Passionately seen and yearn'd for by one poor little child,
While others remain busy or smartly talking, forever teaching
thrift, thrift;)
O you up there!
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ADAM and EVE are
seen, in the
distance
flying along the glare.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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From trellised balconies, languid and luminous
Faces gleam, veiled in a
splendour
voluminous.
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therefore leave my works,
And go lull
yourself
with what you can understand, and with piano-tunes,
For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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'For tornado or
whirlwind
it must needs have been.
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William Wordsworth |
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A
newspaper
is a game
Where his error scores the player victory
While another's skill wins death.
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Stephen Crane |
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Altogether an
admirable
work.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Men
generally
think me much a foe
To all mankind: why should I?
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Milton |
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TO MAKE AN
AMBLONGUS
PIE.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Cuopron d'i manti loro i palafreni,
si che due bestie van sott' una pelle:
oh pazienza che tanto
sostieni!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Through the rattling of the trees and
howling of the wind, I did not catch his words at once, but at last
I heard him say: "I've
proposed
to the wrong one!
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Kipling - Poems |
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Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering
fuel in vacant lots.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Rising from unrest,
The
trembling
woman presse
With feet of weary woe;
She could no further go.
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blake-poems |
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The rail along the curving pathway
Was low in a happy place to let us cross,
And down the hill a tree that dripped with bloom
Sheltered
us
While your kisses and the flowers,
Falling, falling,
Tangled my hair.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Now, of my
threescore
years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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_Runt_, the stem of
colewort
or cabbage.
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Robert Forst |
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The grave itself is but a covered bridge,
Leading from light to light, through a brief
darkness!
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Longfellow |
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Were it not sinful then,
striving
to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Essex (and Donne is on Essex's side) urged
that the fleet should sail west and intercept the silver fleet, but
Howard, the Lord Admiral,
insisted
on an immediate return to England.
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John Donne |
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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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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It's the
shortest
I can do with.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly Landscape with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob
Gerritsz
Cuyp, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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Appoloinaire |
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Khalil Gibran - 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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How grateful might this
darksome
wood appear,
Where horror reigns, where scarce a sound is heard;
But, ah!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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There is a Chancery Court; a King;
A
manufacturing
mob; a set
Of thieves who by themselves are sent
Similar thieves to represent; _165
An army; and a public debt.
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Shelley |
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O the
darkness
of the corners,
the warm air, and the stars
framed in the casement of the ships' lights!
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Imagists |
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They were two cousins, almost like to twins,
Except that from the
catalogue
of sins
Nature had rased their love--which could not be
But by dissevering their nativity.
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Shelley |
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LONG have I framed weak
phantasies
of Thee,
O Willer masked and dumb!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Oh, degradation of the sceptre's might
And swords--when Justice has a hand like night,
Foul and polluted; and before this thing,
This hydra, do the Temple's hinges swing--
The throne becomes the haunt of all things base
Oh, age of infamy and foul
disgrace!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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, I said to Muley Ismail,
'Thou art a
bloodhound!
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Shelley |
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, 479
Belt's The
Naturalist
in Nicaragua, 561
Berkeley's (Bishop) Principles of Human Knowledge, New Theory of Vision,
etc.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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They wonder why I do not weep,
They think it strange that I can sing,
They say, "Her love was
scarcely
deep
Since it has left so slight a sting.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I'll not deny you make
A very pretty
squirrel
track;
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put;
If I cannot carry forests on my back,
Neither can you crack a nut.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Thus wears the month along, in checkered moods,
Sunshine and shadows,
tempests
loud, and calms;
One hour dies silent oer the sleepy woods,
The next wakes loud with unexpected storms;
A dreary nakedness the field deforms--
Yet many a rural sound, and rural sight,
Lives in the village still about the farms,
Where toil's rude uproar hums from morn till night
Noises, in which the ears of industry delight.
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John Clare |
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e kyng nerre,
For to
counseyl
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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honoured
sleeps
The immortal exile;--Arqua, too, her store
Of tuneful relics proudly claims and keeps,
While Florence vainly begs her banished dead, and weeps.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Adored with caution, as a brittle heaven,
To reach
Were hopeless as the rainbow's raiment
To touch,
Yet
persevered
toward, surer for the distance;
How high
Unto the saints' slow diligence
The sky!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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To what he himself perceives and knows he has a personal
relation of the
intensest
kind: to anything in the way of prescription, no
relation at all.
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Whitman |
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What curious
questioning
glances--glints of love!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven
Circe with singing changed from human form
The
comrades
of Ulysses, and by song
Is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.
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XXV
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
To wake from Hades, and their idle pose,
Those old Caesars, and the shades of those,
Who once raised this ancient city higher:
Or that I had Amphion's to inspire,
And with sweet harmony these stones enclose
To quicken them again, where they once rose,
Ausonian glory
conjuring
from its pyre:
Or that with skilful pencil I might draw
The portrait of these palaces once more,
With the spirit of some high Virgil filled;
I would attempt, inflamed by my ardour,
To recreate with the pen's slight power,
That which our own hands could never build.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Arias
Allow your
feelings
to respond to reason.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"The war-smiths,
especially
as forgers of the sword, were garmented
with legend, and made into divine personages.
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Beowulf |
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Yet fear her, O thou minion of her
pleasure!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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That counter-works each folly and caprice;
That
disappoints
th' effect of every vice;
That, happy frailties to all ranks applied,
Shame to the virgin, to the matron pride,
Fear to the statesman, rashness to the chief,
To kings presumption, and to crowds belief:
That, virtue's ends from vanity can raise,
Which seeks no interest, no reward but praise;
And build on wants, and on defects of mind,
The joy, the peace, the glory of mankind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Swā sceal man dōn,
þonne hē æt gūðe gegān þenceð
longsumne
lof, nā ymb his līf cearað.
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Beowulf |
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Any alternate format must include the
full Project Gutenberg-tm License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Living Rome, the
ornament
of the world,
Now dead, remains the world's monument.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Why like a
skittish
mare
Do you glance askance at me?
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Ronsard |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Now, as thou art a
gentleman
of blood,
Advise me where I may have such a ladder.
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Shakespeare |
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Is it that lovers
Never will tarry afar parted from person
beloved?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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for radiance such
Th'
interior
mansion of Olympian Jove
I deem.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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No, no, too eagerly my soul deceives
Its
powerless
self: I know this cannot be.
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Keats |
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It
exists because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations
from people in all walks of life.
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Yeats |
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These
wanderers
will show me how to do it,
To clip my hair to baldness, blacken my skin
With walnut juice, and tear my face with briars.
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Yeats |
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"
This said, the spoils, with dropping gore defaced,
High on a
spreading
tamarisk he placed;
Then heap'd with reeds and gathered boughs the plain,
To guide their footsteps to the place again.
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Iliad - Pope |
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So
terrible
a blast
Orlando blew not, when that dismal rout
O'erthrew the host of Charlemagne, and quench'd
His saintly warfare.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I suppose, Pierre Bon-Bon, you
very well know to what divine moral truth I am
alluding?
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Poe - 5 |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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e p{ur}ueaunce is an
vnmoeueable
{and} symple
forme of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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'Twas tumult all, and
violence
of flight;
And sudden joy confused, and mix'd affright.
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Iliad - Pope |
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They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this eBook, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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When the Jews prosper, ye claim kindred with them;
When the Jews suffer, ye are Medes and Persians:
I know that in the days of Alexander
Ye claimed
exemption
from the annual tribute
In the Sabbatic Year, because, ye said,
Your fields had not been planted in that year.
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Longfellow |
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= Gifford points out that the punning
allusion
of
_foul_ to _fowl_ is a play upon the word dottrel.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Indi m'han tratto su li suoi conforti,
salendo e
rigirando
la montagna
che drizza voi che 'l mondo fece torti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning
striding
behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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to leaue his wife, to leaue his Babes,
His Mansion, and his Titles, in a place
From whence
himselfe
do's flye?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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These Time has in more sober braids confined;
And bound my heart with such a
powerful
tie,
That death alone can disengage it thence.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Goe not my Horse the better,
I must become a
borrower
of the Night,
For a darke houre, or twaine
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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at
chargeaunt
chace ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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) Our
lecturer
tells us,
however, that he knows certain Chinese poets.
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Li Po |
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But then strange gleams shot through the grey-deep
eyes
As though he saw beyond and saw not me, And when he moved to speak it
troubled
him.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And in two
Rubaiyat
of
Mons.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Gentlemen
rise, his Highnesse is not well
Lady.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Where wert thou, mighty Mother, when he lay, _10
When thy Son lay, pierced by the shaft which flies
In
darkness?
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Shelley |
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All the bravest of the warriors, committing the care of the house, the family affairs, and the lands, to the women, old men, and weaker part of the domestics, stupefy
themselves
in inaction: so wonderful is the contrast presented by nature, that the same persons love indolence, and hate tranquillity!
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Tacitus |
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The celebrated travel book entitled: 'History of Prince Don Pedro of Portugal, in which is told what happened to him on the way
composed
for Gomez of Santistevan when he had covered the seven regions of the globe, one of the twelve who bore the prince company', reports that the Prince of Portugal, Don Pedro of Alfaroubeira, set out with twelve companions to visit the seven regions of the world.
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Appoloinaire |
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{33c} From the barrow's keeper
no
footbreadth
flee I.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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We talked together
all through the evening, and
rehearsed
the story of the death of The
Boy.
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Kipling - Poems |
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What 70U cannot
constant
hope
Must be taken as you may.
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Marvell - Poems |
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how unlike those late
terrific
sleeps!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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SELECTIONS FROM THE
POEMS OF COLERIDGE
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
IN SEVEN PARTS
Facile credo, plures esse Naturas
invisibiles
quam visibiles in rerum
universitate.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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sat mea sit magno, si tres sint pompa libelli,
quos ego
Persephonae
maxima dona feram.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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10
LXXXIII
In the quiet garden world,
Gold
sunlight
and shadow leaves
Flicker on the wall.
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Sappho |
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Nam sors, caeca licet, tamen est
prsesaga
futuri ;
£t sub fatidico nomine vera premit.
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Marvell - Poems |
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DIE TIERE (welche bisher allerlei wunderliche Bewegungen durcheinander
gemacht haben, bringen dem
Mephistopheles
eine Krone mit grossem Geschrei):
O sei doch so gut,
Mit Schweiss und mit Blut
Die Krone zu leimen!
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It chanced that adverse winds once drove his bark
Full on the coast of Suli's shaggy shore,
When all around was desolate and dark;
To land was perilous, to sojourn more;
Yet for awhile the mariners forbore,
Dubious to trust where treachery might lurk:
At length they
ventured
forth, though doubting sore
That those who loathe alike the Frank and Turk
Might once again renew their ancient butcher-work.
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Let this sad interim like the ocean be
Which parts the shore, where two
contracted
new
Come daily to the banks, that when they see
Return of love, more blest may be the view;
Or call it winter, which being full of care,
Makes summer's welcome, thrice more wished, more rare.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The ploughman hears its humming rage begin,
And hies for shelter from his naked toil;
Buttoning
his doublet closer to his chin,
He bends and scampers oer the elting soil,
While clouds above him in wild fury boil,
And winds drive heavily the beating rain;
He turns his back to catch his breath awhile,
Then ekes his speed and faces it again,
To seek the shepherd's hut beside the rushy plain.
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