calath_(_t_
Aa)_isti_
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We were glad at last to come to a place of rest,
With wine enough to drink
together
to our fill,
Long I sang to the tune of the Pine-tree Wind;
When the song was over, the River-stars[46] were few.
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Li Po |
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I think, however, that the
antithesis to 'gorgeous' is 'ruin'd, ragged and decay'd', describing
the condition of France after the
pistolets
of Spain had done their
work.
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John Donne |
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By the turning, once again,
The moon
thniwfeh
up your visage wan,
And yet too late to call you back.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Than the goat making whores of our wives and
our daughters :
The
debauched
and cruel since they equally
gall us,
I had rather bear Nero than Sardanapalus.
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Marvell - Poems |
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What can be then less in me then desire
To see thee and
approach
thee, whom I know
Declar'd the Son of God, to hear attent
Thy wisdom, and behold thy God-like deeds?
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Milton |
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Your orange hair in the void of the world
The
sentiments
apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Not any voice denotes it here,
Or
intimates
it there;
A spirit, how doth it accost?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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INTRODUCTION TO
ISABELLA
AND THE EVE OF ST.
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Keats |
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Folly often goes beyond her
bounds; but
Impudence
knows none.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And there the lion's ruddy eyes
Shall flow with tears of gold:
And pitying the tender cries,
And walking round the fold:
Saying: 'Wrath by His meekness,
And, by His health, sickness,
Is driven away
From our
immortal
day.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Methought
I heard talking close to me.
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Aristophanes |
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As a furious torrent you have overthrown our city; your
outcries have deafened Athens and, posted upon a high rock, you have lain
in wait for the tribute moneys as the
fisherman
does for the tunny-fish.
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Aristophanes |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Then, kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King,
The saint, the father, and the husband prays:
Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing,"^1
That thus they all shall meet in future days,
There, ever bask in uncreated rays,
No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear,
Together hymning their Creator's praise,
In such society, yet still more dear;
While
circling
Time moves round in an eternal sphere
Compar'd with this, how poor Religion's pride,
In all the pomp of method, and of art;
When men display to congregations wide
[Footnote 1: Pope's "Windsor Forest.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The Tortoise
Feeling
'Feeling'
Raphael Sadeler (I), 1581, The Rijksmuseun
From magic Thrace, O
delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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Google requests that the images and OCR not be re-hosted,
redistributed
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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copyright law (does not
contain a notice indicating that it is posted with permission of the
copyright holder), the work can be copied and
distributed
to anyone in
the United States without paying any fees or charges.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Her hair had fallen by its weight
On each side of her smile and lay
Very blackly on the arm
Where the baby nestled warm,
Pale as baby carved in stone
Seen by
glimpses
of the moon
Up a dark cathedral aisle:
But, through the storm, no moonbeam fell
Upon the child of Isobel--
Perhaps you saw it by the ray
Alone of her still smile.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The compressed and punctuated translation is offered as an aid to
grasping
the poem as a whole, in a swift reading.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Ne I sey not this al-only for these men,
But most for wommen that
bitraysed
be 1780
Through false folk; god yeve hem sorwe, amen!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Yonder,
lightening
other loads,
The seasons range the country roads,
But here in London streets I ken
No such helpmates, only men;
And these are not in plight to bear,
If they would, another's care.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The King of
Melinda asks from GAMA an
historical
account of his nation.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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* * * * *
The battery grides and jingles,
Mile succeeds to mile;
Suddenly
battering
the silence
The guns burst out awhile.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And
therefore
shall not Moses, though of God
Highly belov'd, being but the Minister
Of Law, his people into Canaan lead;
But Joshua whom the Gentiles Jesus call,
His Name and Office bearing, who shall quell 310
The adversarie Serpent, and bring back
Through the worlds wilderness long wanderd man
Safe to eternal Paradise of rest.
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Milton |
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Oft Scyld the Scefing from
squadroned
foes,
from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
awing the earls.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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What
beauties
doth Lisboa first unfold!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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t digne of
reuerences
abouen alle
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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When thy little heart doth wake,
Then the
dreadful
light shall break.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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SUTTEE
Lamp of my life, the lips of Death
Hath blown thee out with their sudden breath;
Naught shall revive thy
vanished
spark .
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He was an
undutiful
son, an unnatural brother, and
a cruel father, a great and fortunate warrior, diligent in the execution
of the laws, and a Macchiavellian politician.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Without your Gold mere
Knowledge
fails
To sate the swinish appetite!
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Lewis Carroll |
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' However, Blake seems to indicate a re-sequencing of the
material
to the order shown here, indicating the insertion of these 3 lines with a letter X at their head and a corresponding X at the end of the preceding section [ending '.
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Blake - Zoas |
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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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Adorn his temples with a coronet
And yet, in substance and authority,
Retain but
privilege
of a private man?
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Shakespeare |
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And on the wall, by the seat,
Break the
entangled
ivy,
Scatter buds for a carpet,
Let all be balmy and sweet.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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_
TO THE SUN, WHOSE SETTING HID LAURA'S
DWELLING
FROM HIS VIEW.
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Petrarch |
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Or else he sat with those who watched
His anguish night and day;
Who watched him when he rose to weep,
And when he
crouched
to pray;
Who watched him lest himself should rob
Their scaffold of its prey.
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Wilde - Poems |
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In the sixth, the jongleur is getting desperate:
Seigneurs, pour l'amour de Dieu, faites silence, ecoutez-moi,
Pour qu'en partant de ce monde vous entriez dans un meilleur;
but after this
exclamation
he has his way, though the story proper is
still a good way off.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Thou wrinklest--after thou hast had the sum
Of the guerdons of life; yet, since thou cravest ever
What's not at hand,
contemning
present good,
That life has slipped away, unperfected
And unavailing unto thee.
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Lucretius |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast, quenching my fire,
A deity at the gods'
ambrosial
feast.
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Ronsard |
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But all the fear I keep
obedient
by me
Now to the gather'd world I openly shew.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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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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In consideration of certain circumstances, it
was covenanted that the former should enjoy a stipulated alleviation
in her share of the public burdens,
particularly
in that branch of
the revenue called the Excise.
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Robert Forst |
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I have been manufacturing some verses lately; but when I have got the
most hurried season of excise
business
over, I hope to have more
leisure to transcribe anything that may show how much I have the
honour to be, Madam,
Yours, &c.
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Robert Forst |
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There came a
companion
to her,
But, alas, he was no help,
For his name was Heart's Pain.
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Stephen Crane |
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Aloft the mountain lawn was dewydark,
And
dewydark
aloft the mountain pine;
Beautiful Paris, evil-hearted Paris,
Leading a jetblack goat whitehorned, whitehooved,
Came up from reedy Simois all alone.
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Tennyson |
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UNITY
Space is ample, east and west,
But two cannot go abreast,
Cannot travel in it two:
Yonder
masterful
cuckoo
Crowds every egg out of the nest,
Quick or dead, except its own;
A spell is laid on sod and stone,
Night and Day were tampered with,
Every quality and pith
Surcharged and sultry with a power
That works its will on age and hour.
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Emerson - Poems |
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In thieving thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high,
surmounted
by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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LXVI
It stands in the Comitium
Plain for all folk to see;
Horatius in his harness,
Halting upon one knee:
And underneath is written,
In letters all of gold,
How
valiantly
he kept the bridge
In the brave days of old.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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II
SIX weeks our
guardsman
walked the yard,
In the suit of shabby grey:
His cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay,
But I never saw a man who looked
So wistfully at the day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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And as
behemoth
strong.
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Emerson - Poems |
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As man in his primeval dower arrayed
The image of his glorious Sire displayed, 440
Even so, by faithful [115] Nature guarded, here
The traces of primeval Man appear;
The simple [116] dignity no forms debase;
The eye sublime, and surly lion-grace:
The slave of none, of beasts alone the lord, 445
His book he prizes, nor neglects his sword; [117]
--Well taught by that to feel his rights, prepared
With this "the
blessings
he enjoys to guard.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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s
forces�and
forced to accept a post in An Lushan?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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MEANWHILE
the lady having learned the name
Of Reynold D'Ast, his quality and fame,
(Himself it seems particulars detailed,
While all around his suff'rings keen bewailed,)
Her orders gave, the bath for her prepared
Should now receive the man her care had spared.
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La Fontaine |
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Thus may Cyprus' heavenly queen,
Thus Helen's brethren, stars of
brightest
sheen,
Guide thee!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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No, no, you must be off--or I'll tear your hair out, I will; be
off, I say, and don't annoy the
Laconian
Envoys; they're just coming out
from the banquet-hall.
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Aristophanes |
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It is quoted at length, as a republican
and
seditious
poem, in the _Preface_ to an edition of _Wat Tyler_,
published by W.
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Byron |
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And if, with these dainties to drink and eat,
You prefer not a vestige of grass or tree,
And a chronic state of wet in your feet,
Then--I
recommend
the Sea.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Stephen Crane |
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accessible
and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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* You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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)
Note
Not meaningless
flurries
like
Those that frequent the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans Whistler there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"
Again
rejoicing
Nature sees
Her robe assume its vernal hues:
Her leafy locks wave in the breeze,
All freshly steep'd in morning dews.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
How many times these low feet staggered,
Only the
soldered
mouth can tell;
Try!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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As a Dove,
Not alone,
In a world of her own
Full of
fluttering
soft noises
And tender sweet voices
Of love.
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Christina Rossetti |
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For Vice, gnawing this inborn
nobleness
of mine
Marked me, like you, with its sterility,
But shroud-haunted, pale, destroyed, I flee
While that heart no tooth of any crime
Can wound lives in your breast of stone,
Frightened of dying while I sleep alone.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Some rhyme a neibor's name to lash;
Some rhyme (vain
thought!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Chor: Thy hopes are not ill founded nor seem vain
Of his delivery, and thy joy thereon
Conceiv'd,
agreeable
to a Fathers love,
In both which we, as next participate.
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Milton |
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Yet I revolt: I bend, I twist myself
I curl into a million convolutions:
Pink shapes without angle,
Anything
to be soft and woolly,
Anything to escape.
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Imagists |
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In addition to these exegetical commentaries, the Northern reader
probably needs to be informed that the phrase "peerten up" means substantially
`to spur up', and is an active form of the
adjective
"peert"
(probably a corruption of `pert'), which is so common in the South,
and which has much the signification of "smart" in New England, as e.
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Sidney Lanier |
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O for a draught of vintage, that hath been
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country-green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and
sunburnt
mirth!
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Golden Treasury |
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WALLACE Rather let us grieve
That, in the undertaking which has caused
His absence, he hath sought, whate'er his aim,
Companionship
with One of crooked ways,
From whose perverted soul can come no good
To our confiding, open-hearted, Leader.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Fury, and iron, and love, he freed the state
And her from slavery, with a manly blow;
Next were those barbarous women, who could show
They judged it better die than suffer wrong
To their rude chastity; the wise and strong--
The chaste Hebraean Judith follow'd these;
The Greek that saved her honour in the seas;
With these and other famous souls I see
Her triumph over him who used to be
Master of all the world: among the rest
The vestal nun I spied, who was so bless'd
As by a wonder to preserve her fame;
Next came Hersilia, the Roman dame
(Or Sabine rather), with her
valorous
train,
Who prove all slanders on that sex are vain.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'707-708'
Cremona was the
birthplace
of Vida; Mantua, of Virgil.
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Alexander Pope |
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MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1911
* * * * *
RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED
BRUNSWICK
STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.
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Lewis Carroll |
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"
Then he that wrote laid down his pen and sighed;
And straightway came old Scorn and Bitterness,
Like Hunnish kings out of the barbarous land,
And camped upon the
transient
Italy
That he had dreamed to blossom in his soul.
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My heart that sometimes at night tries to know itself,
Or with which last word to name you the most tender
Exults in that which merely
whispered
sister
Were it not, such short tresses so great a treasure,
That you teach me quite another sweetness,
Soft through the kiss murmured only in your hair.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I will strip the life from the bulb
until the ivory layers
lie like
narcissus
petals
on the black earth.
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Imagists |
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'206 oblig'd':
note the old-fashioned
pronunciation
to rhyme with "besieged.
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Between the pines
enormous
boughs descry'd
Serene he towers, in deepest purple dy'd;
Glad Day-light laughs upon his top of snow, 700
Glitter the stars above, and all is black below.
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William Wordsworth |
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But what I said, or what I thought, or what I heard,
occupied
only an
instant.
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Poe - 5 |
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Nor have I
hesitated
to insert from the 'Minor Poems,' now
omitted, whole lines, and even passages, to the end that being placed
in a fairer light, and the trash shaken from them in which they were
imbedded, they may have some chance of being seen by posterity.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Then he
brought his
embroidered
coat and covered me with it, and I slept with
my head on his lap.
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Li Po |
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What an
equivocal
companion is this!
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Shakespeare |
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Rub out those chalked devices, set up new
The Duke's arms, doff your Phrygian caps, and men
The pavement of the piazzas broke into
By barren poles of freedom: smooth the way
For the ducal carriage, lest his
highness
sigh
"Here trees of liberty grew yesterday!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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When guilt goes forth, let lapwings shrill,
And dogs and foxes great with young,
And wolves from far Lanuvian hill,
Give
clamorous
tongue:
Across the roadway dart the snake,
Frightening, like arrow loosed from string,
The horses.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Though only too convinced of her enmity,
You owe her tears some
semblance
of pity.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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'You should have wept her yesterday,
Wasting upon her bed:
But
wherefore
should you weep to-day
That she is dead?
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Christina Rossetti |
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It,
groaning
thing,
Turned black and sank.
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Stephen Crane |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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As a boxer, as a runner, past
compare!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And, what's more, when sorrow's beating
Down on me, through Fate's
incessant
rage,
Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging,
Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away.
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Villon |
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But the skies that angel trod,
Where deep
thoughts
are a duty--
Where Love's a grown up God--
Where the Houri glances are
Imbued with all the beauty
Which we worship in a star.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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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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Yet this
delusion
haunts the human breast,
Who from his soul its roots would sever?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Years later, when, in his
age, his old scholars assembled to greet him, he regretted that no hint
had been brought into the school of what at that very time "I was
writing every night in my chamber, my first thoughts on morals and the
beautiful laws of compensation, and of individual genius, which to
observe and illustrate have given
sweetness
to many years of my life.
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Emerson - Poems |
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