The
frighted
women take the boys away,
The blackguard laughs and hurries on the fray.
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But
gratitude
in thee is lost
Long since.
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A FOREWORD
When the first
Miscellany
of American Poetry appeared in 1920,
innumerable were the questions asked by both readers and reviewers of
publishers and contributors alike.
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Those who practice poetry search for and love only the
perfection
that is God Himself.
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Appoloinaire |
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Ye signs and wonders of the
element!
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Who here
Dares to compare in beauty with my
mistress?
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You fear the
sovereign
power so little.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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CITIES
Can we believe--by an effort
comfort our hearts:
it is not waste all this,
not placed here in disgust,
street after street,
each
patterned
alike,
no grace to lighten
a single house of the hundred
crowded into one garden-space.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Who falls unslain will only make
A
mouthful
to the wolves who slake
Their month-whet thirst.
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For pain and
pleasure
flow
Like tides upon us of the self-same sea.
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Thy stern commands are then:
"Form your battalions, men,
The flag
display!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Individualism
exercises
no
compulsion over man.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I have
unlocked
the golden melodies
Of his deep soul, as with a master-key,
And loosened them and bathed myself therein-- _10
Even as an eagle in a thunder-mist
Clothing his wings with lightning.
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arranged
at the end of the list.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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My worthy sir, you see the matter
As people generally see;
But we must learn to take things better,
Before life
pleasures
wholly flee.
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Geofroie makes vearse, as
handycraftes
theyr ware;
Wordes wythoute sense fulle grossyngelye[29] he twynes,
Cotteynge hys storie off as wythe a sheere;
Waytes monthes on nothynge, & hys storie donne, 35
Ne moe you from ytte kenn, than gyf[30] you neere begonne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And when she saw the wounded Serpent make _280
His path between the waves, her lips grew pale,
Parted, and quivered; the tears ceased to break
From her
immovable
eyes; no voice of wail
Escaped her; but she rose, and on the gale
Loosening her star-bright robe and shadowy hair _285
Poured forth her voice; the caverns of the vale
That opened to the ocean, caught it there,
And filled with silver sounds the overflowing air.
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Shelley |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I confess, Nature in
children
is more
patient of labour in study than in age; for the sense of the pain, the
judgment of the labour is absent; they do not measure what they have
done.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I will depart, re-tune the songs I framed
In verse
Chalcidian
to the oaten reed
Of the Sicilian swain.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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your deathless souls roam
In the joy breathing isles of the blest;
Where the mighty of old have their home
Where
Achilles
and Diomed rest
III
In fresh myrtle my blade I'll entwine,
Like Harmodius, the gallant and good,
When he made at the tutelar shrine
A libation of Tyranny's blood.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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>>
PAUL DE
CASSAGNAC
_(Le Pays)_
Morts de quatre-vingt-douze et de quatre-vingt-treize
Qui, pales du baiser fort de la liberte,
Calmes, sous vos sabots, brisiez le joug qui pese
Sur l'ame et sur le front de toute humanite;
Hommes extasies et grands dans la tourmente,
Vous dont les coeurs sautaient d'amour sous les haillons,
O soldats que la Mort a semes, noble Amante,
Pour les regenerer, dans tous les vieux sillons;
Vous dont le sang lavait toute grandeur salie,
Morts de Valmy, Morts de Fleurus, Morts d'Italie,
O Million de Christs aux yeux sombres et doux;
Nous vous laissions dormir avec la Republique,
Nous, courbes sous les rois comme sous une trique:
--Messieurs de Cassagnac nous reparlent de vous!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Then first my eyes, by
watchful
toils oppress'd,
Complied to take the balmy gifts of rest:
Then first my hands did from the rudder part
(So much the love of home possess'd my heart):
When lo!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows;
One should our
interests
and our passions be;
My friend must hate the man that injures me.
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Iliad - Pope |
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He
procured for young Ben an admission into his school, and there laid firm
foundations for that scholarship which the poet extended
afterwards
by
private study until his learning grew to be sworn-brother to his wit.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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THE new
domestick
much the lady pleased;
He watched and eagerly the moment seized,
His ardent passion boldly to declare,
In which he showed a novice had no share.
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La Fontaine |
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And yit moreover, wurst of alle,
Ther is set to kepe, foule hir
bifalle!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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How from my father should I
vengeance
dread!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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at
resou{n}
4916
wolde answeren a?
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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In the fulness of time that dinner came to an end; and with genuine
regret I tore myself away from Kitty--as certain as I was of my
own
existence
that It would be waiting for me outside the door.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Alors, o ma beaute, dites a la vermine
Qui vous mangera de baisers,
Que j'ai garde la forme et l'essence divine
De mes amours
decomposes!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Yes, and what is more,
The Dark and Primal Master of Sages in his five thousand words[68]
Never spoke of herbs,
Never spoke of "hsien,"
Nor spoke of soaring in broad
daylight
up to the blue heaven.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Woman, beloved, why art thou fixt so long
Kneeling and
downward
crookt, and in thy hair
Darkened?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"]
[Sidenote F: All the renowned
assembly
he thanks full oft.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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According
to his legendary vida, he was the lover of Seremonda, or Soremonda, wife of Raimon of Castel Rossillon.
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Troubador Verse |
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'
The soul of Ambrose burned with zeal
And holy wrath for the young man's weal:
'Believest thou then, most wretched youth,'
Cried he, 'a
dividual
essence in Truth?
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James Russell Lowell |
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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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"
Zim pierced to the very quick by these
repeated
stabs,
Sprang to his feet, while from him pealed a fearful shout,
And, furious, flung down upon the marble slabs
The richly carved and golden Lamp, whose light went out--
Then glided in a form strange-shaped,
In likeness of a woman, moulded in dense smoke,
Veiled in thick, ebon fog, in utter darkness draped,
A glimpse of which, in short, one's inmost fears awoke.
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Hugo - Poems |
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s own
position
at court.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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19,268) contain copies of this
important
poem.
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Robert Herrick |
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Money, root of ill,
Doubt it not, still grows apace:
Yet the scant heap has
somewhat
lacking still.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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For this was on seynt
Valentynes
day,
Whan every foul cometh ther to chese his make, 310
Of every kinde, that men thenke may;
And that so huge a noyse gan they make,
That erthe and see, and tree, and every lake
So ful was, that unnethe was ther space
For me to stonde, so ful was al the place.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And Death, from my eyes,
stealing
the clarity,
Gives back to the day, defiled, all his purity.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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THE
BOHEMIAN
HYMN
In many forms we try
To utter God's infinity,
But the boundless hath no form,
And the Universal Friend
Doth as far transcend
An angel as a worm.
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Emerson - Poems |
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What nobler land shall e'er be yours,
If once ye give to hostile powers
The deep rich soil, and Dirce's wave,
The nursing stream, Poseidon gave
And Tethys'
children?
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Aeschylus |
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It first appears in Europe around 1160 in 'aristocratic' French, and was popular well into the
fourteenth
century.
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Troubador Verse |
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The
merchants
are pleased because through superstition they imagine that
such mad fellows bring good fortune.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
A slant of sun on dull brown walls,
A
forgotten
sky of bashful blue.
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Stephen Crane |
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When the last stroke fell, then he moved him a pace down the height,
And he held forth the child in the
heartaching
sight
Of the mother, and looked all pitiful grave, as repenting a wrong.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Passing away, saith the World, passing away:
Chances, beauty and youth sapped day by day:
Thy life never
continueth
in one stay.
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Christina Rossetti |
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She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue,
Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue;
Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard,
Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd;
And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed,
Dissolv'd, or brighter shone, or interwreathed
Their lustres with the gloomier tapestries--
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,
She seem'd, at once, some
penanced
lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
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Keats - Lamia |
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[286] This speech in the original has been much admired by foreign
critics, as a model of
military
eloquence.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Years have inclined me to stern prose,
Years to light rhyme themselves oppose,
And now, I
mournfully
confess,
In rhyming I show laziness.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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210
Among the fields she breathed again:
The master-current of her brain
Ran
permanent
and free;
And, coming to the Banks of Tone, [I]
There did she rest; and dwell alone [29] 215
Under the greenwood tree.
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William Wordsworth |
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che pur dietro guardi 240
Chiare, fresche e dolci acque 116
Chi e fermato di menar sua vita 82
Chi vuol veder
quantunque
puo Natura 216
Come 'l candido pie per l' erba fresca 157
Come talora al caldo tempo suole 139
Come va 'l mondo!
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Petrarch |
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They speak of him
As of one who entered madly into life,
Drinking
the cup of pleasure to the dregs.
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Poe - 5 |
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Sweet and joyous lady, know
Without your loving, there,
I die, my heart it breaks so
The pulse is
scarcely
there.
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Troubador Verse |
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This woful wight, this Troilus, that felte 365
His freend Pandare y-comen him to see,
Gan as the snow ayein the sonne melte,
For which this sorwful Pandare, of pitee,
Gan for to wepe as
tendreliche
as he;
And specheles thus been thise ilke tweye, 370
That neyther mighte o word for sorwe seye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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and that
Is, to eternity compar'd, a space,
Briefer than is the
twinkling
of an eye
To the heaven's slowest orb.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Cry over ridges and down tapering coombs,
Carry the flying dapple of the clouds
Over the grass, over the soft-grained plough,
Stroke with
ungentle
hand the hill's rough hair
Against its usual set.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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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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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Milton |
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_145
'Yet, human Spirit, bravely hold thy course,
Let virtue teach thee firmly to pursue
The gradual paths of an
aspiring
change:
For birth and life and death, and that strange state
Before the naked soul has found its home, _150
All tend to perfect happiness, and urge
The restless wheels of being on their way,
Whose flashing spokes, instinct with infinite life,
Bicker and burn to gain their destined goal:
For birth but wakes the spirit to the sense _155
Of outward shows, whose unexperienced shape
New modes of passion to its frame may lend;
Life is its state of action, and the store
Of all events is aggregated there
That variegate the eternal universe; _160
Death is a gate of dreariness and gloom,
That leads to azure isles and beaming skies
And happy regions of eternal hope.
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Shelley |
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I know not that: but certainly I know
A mind, that has been feeling for long time
The greatness of some hovering event
Poised over life, will rejoice marvellously
When the event falls, suddenly seizing life:
Like faintness when a thunderstorm comes down,
That turns to
exulting
when the lightning flares,
Shattering houses, making men afraid.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The story of the poem, like most of my
poems, is
connected
with my own story, and to give you the one, I must
give you something of the other.
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Robert Forst |
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tam procul ignotis igitur moriemur in oris,
et fient ipso tristia fata loco;
nec mea consueto languescent corpora lecto,
depositum nec me qui fleat, ullus erit;
nec dominae
lacrimis
in nostra cadentibus ora
accedent animae tempora parua meae;
nec mandata dabo, nec cum clamore supremo
labentis oculos condet amica manus,
sed sine funeribus caput hoc, sine honore sepulcri
indeploratum barbara terra teget!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And now the sonne with the blacke cloudes did stryve,
And shettynge on the grounde his glairie raie,
The Abbatte spurrde his steede, and
eftsoones
roadde awaie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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With horses, then, and chariots forth he drove
Full-fraught with mischief, and conducting home
The
unsuspicious
King, amid the feast
Slew him, as at his crib men slay an ox.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'My
boldnesse
is turned to shame,
For fals Fortune hath pleyd a game
Atte ches with me, allas!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Your powers
Are sovereign, Mother, but past
histories
live
In hearts as young as ours.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Simplicity fled from his
counterfeit
presence
As gold the pyrites would shun.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Manningham refers probably to real
property
in which for many
centuries the Judges have ruled there can be no inalienable rights,
i.
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John Donne |
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render up thy dead
Till, like a standard from a watch-tower's staff,
His soul may stream over the tyrant's head;
Thy victory shall be his epitaph,
Wild
Bacchanal
of truth's mysterious wine, _200
King-deluded Germany,
His dead spirit lives in thee.
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at went;
1144 A
hundreth
of hunteres, as I haf herde telle,
of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Some friends of ours were
residing
in the neighbourhood of Leghorn,
and we took a small house, Villa Valsovano, about half-way between the
town and Monte Nero, where we remained during the summer.
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_dupsakku_,
trencher
basket, 216, 17.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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His
conversation
seldom,
His laughter like the breeze
That dies away in dimples
Among the pensive trees.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"To-day be wise and great,
And put off hesitation and go forth 5
With
cheerful
courage for the diurnal need.
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Sappho |
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"
And a third seed spoke also, "I see in us nothing that
promises
so
great a future.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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XLVI
Bring, in this timeless grave to throw,
No cypress, sombre on the snow;
Snap not from the bitter yew
His leaves that live December through;
Break no rosemary, bright with rime
And sparkling to the cruel clime;
Nor plod the winter land to look
For willows in the icy brook
To cast them
leafless
round him: bring
No spray that ever buds in spring.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The forests in mysterious gloom
Were
stripped
with melancholy sound,
Upon the earth a mist did lie
And many a caravan on high
Of clamorous geese flew southward bound.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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von (Robert), p39 1887, Internet Book Archive Images
Medusas,
miserable
heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
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Appoloinaire |
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Not content with
accusations
against the
first men in Rome, he chose to vent his malevolence in lampoons and
defamatory libels, against the most distinguished of both sexes.
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Tacitus |
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If the Bard was weather-wise, who made
The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence,
This night, so
tranquil
now, will not go hence
Unroused by winds, that ply a busier trade
Than those which mould yon cloud in lazy flakes,
Or the dull sobbing drafty that moans and rakes
Upon the strings of this AEolian lute,
Which better far were mute.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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n," and "On
the Death of his Father") already
skilfully
rhymed by Professor Giles in
"Chinese Poetry in English Verse.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_Drum Taps_
are, of course, songs of the Civil War, and their
_Sequel_
is mainly on the
same theme: the chief poem in this last section being the one on the death
of Lincoln.
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Whitman |
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'Do you see him, she cried, the old lecher dies;
Through his mouth the frosts of earth take flight;
Bind his lame feet, destroy his
squinting
sight,
He's the god of craters, king of the winter's ice!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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Dwell in some idle brain,
And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess
As thick and numberless
As the gay motes that people the sunbeams,
Or likest hovering dreams
The fickle
pensioners
of Morpheus' train.
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Golden Treasury |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_ Of earth--the God-created and God-curst,
Where man is, and the thorn:
Where sun and moon have borne
No light to souls forlorn:
Where Eden's tree of life no more uprears
Its spiral leaves and fruitage, but instead
The yew-tree bows its
melancholy
head
And all the undergrasses kills and seres.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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So could I gaze, the while
Love, at his sweet will, governs them and guides,
--E'en though the sun were nigh,
Resting above us on his onward wheel--
On her, intensely with
undazzled
eye,
Nor of myself nor others think or feel.
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Petrarch |
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Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire
Sprinkled
with stars, like Ariadne's tiar:
Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet!
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Keats |
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Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
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Ronsard |
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