He who died
For soaring too
audacious
in the sun,
Where that same treacherous wax began to run,
Felt not more tongue-tied than Endymion.
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And I noted with joy
Those
sensational
simpers:
And I said "This is scrumptious!
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Nor sage Ulysses,[384] nor the Trojan[385] pride
Such raging gulfs, such whirling storms defied;
Nor one poor tenth of my dread course explor'd,
Though by the muse as
demigods
ador'd.
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No
mangling
torture, no, nor sleight of power
There is, by which he shall compel my speech,
Until these shaming bonds be loosed from me.
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He gives
Wisdom to youth, to
weakness
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[Sidenote G:
Meanwhile
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Again a riddle which the
published
letters hardly solve.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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FAUST:
Mir
widersteht
das tolle Zauberwesen!
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--Me voila libre et
solitaire!
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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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Au temps de Baudelaire, c'est-a-dire vers le milieu du dix-neuvieme
siecle, l'ile Saint-Louis ressemblait par la paix
silencieuse
qui
regnait a travers ses rues et ses quais a certaines villes de province
ou l'on va nu-tete chez le voisin, ou l'on s'attarde a bavarder au
seuil des maisons et a y prendre le frais par les beaux soirs d'ete a
l'heure ou la nuit tombe.
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"
--Chaucer,
_Knightes
Tale_, l.
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Thus far sped the sacred
contests
to their holy lord.
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in
sportive
frolic beat the time,
And stubborn oaks their branchy summits bow.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The granaries
I made them free of,
scattered
gold among them,
Found labour for them; furious for my pains
They cursed me!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Let all depart--alone
Leave the
tsarevich
with me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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At once she pitch'd headlong into the bilge
Like a sea-coot, whence heaving her again, 580
The seamen gave her to be fishes' food,
And I
survived
to mourn her.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The banks of Clutha heard his fall, a thousand spears
glittered
around.
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As I have been all along a miserable dupe to love, and have
been led into a thousand weaknesses and follies by it, for that reason
I put the more
confidence
in my critical skill, in distinguishing
foppery and conceit from real passion and nature.
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With leaping fish the blue pond is full;
With singing
thrushes
the green boughs droop.
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Li Po |
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His
experiment failed ten times running, on the eleventh it
succeeded
only
too well.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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What not put vpon
His spungie
Officers?
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The troubled plumes of
midnight
were
The plumes upon a hearse:
And bitter wine upon a sponge
Was the savour of Remorse.
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"Man your
starboard
battery!
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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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And strange it was to see him pass
With a step so light and gay,
And strange it was to see him look
So
wistfully
at the day,
And strange it was to think that he
Had such a debt to pay.
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Lest the world should
separate
;
Sudden parting closer glues.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
And many a maydes sorwes for to newe; 305
And, for the more part, al is untrewe
That men of yelpe, and it were brought to preve;
Of kinde non
avauntour
is to leve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But let us shake
off the rainy fogs, which hide our
immortal
beauty and sweep the earth
from afar with our gaze.
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NONE FORGOES
THE LEAP,
ATTAINING
THE REPOSE.
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Sappho |
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You
answered
questions as smoothly as a rolling ball, 12 you explained, giving the gist of the texts.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I skoal to the eyes as grey-blown mere (Who knows whose was that
paragon?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Fitzdottrel, another type of the gull,
is more closely related to
_Tribulation
Wholesome_ in _The Alchemist_,
and even in some respects to Corvino and Voltore in _The Fox_.
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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_100
A man who thus twice
crucifies
his God
May well .
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s dust, how soon will we stop the
training
of troops?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It
trembles
in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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Appoloinaire |
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The
smallest
housewife in the grass,
Yet take her from the lawn,
And somebody has lost the face
That made existence home!
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I have spoken of the
philosopher
in his capacity of _restaurateur_.
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Poe - 5 |
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Oh, this
horrible
dream!
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The analogy, which this fable bore to the sedition of the Roman
people, was
understood
and felt.
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Forgetful in their towers of our tuneing
Once for Wind-runeing They dream us-toward and
"
Sighing, say,
Passionate Cino, of the wrinkling eyes,
Gay Cino, of quick laughter,
Cino, of the dare, the jibe,
Frail Cino,
strongest
of his tribe
That tramp old ways beneath the sun-light, Would Cino of the Luth were here!
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LXXII
As
sometimes
after thunder sudden wind
Turns the sea upside down; and far and nigh
Dim clouds of dust the cheerful daylight blind,
Raised in a thought from earth, and whirled heaven-high;
Scud beasts and herd together with the hind;
And into hail and rain dissolves the sky;
So she upon the signal bared her brand,
And fell on her Rogero, sword in hand.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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ye have already learn'd
That hist'ry, thou and thy
illustrious
spouse;
I told it yesterday, and hate a tale 530
Once amply told, then, needless, traced again.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'
Scarce had he spoken when the encircling cloud
suddenly
parts and melts
into clear air.
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Li Po |
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And rarely thither came ;
For, with one spark of these, he
straight
All nature could inflame.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Lurcanio's heart with vengeful hatred glows
Against Geneura; while that other knight
As well
maintains
the quarrel for her right.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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VII Spatium unius uersus in O titulo carens: _AD
LESBIAM_
cett.
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And first,
One oft may see that objects which are light
And made of tiny bodies are the swift;
In which class is the sun's light and his heat,
Since made from small primordial elements
Which, as it were, are forward knocked along
And through the
interspaces
of the air
To pass delay not, urged by blows behind;
For light by light is instantly supplied
And gleam by following gleam is spurred and driven.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Turn to my arms, to my
embraces
turn!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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The
brackish
water that we drink
Creeps with a loathsome slime,
And the bitter bread they weigh in scales
Is full of chalk and lime,
And Sleep will not lie down, but walks
Wild-eyed, and cries to Time.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Wild as this vision was, he
had seen Rienzo attempt its realization; and, if the Tribune had been
more prudent, there is no saying how nearly he might have approached to
the achievement of so
marvellous
an issue.
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Petrarch |
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A thousand times, sweet warrior, to obtain
Peace with those beauteous eyes I've vainly tried,
Proffering my heart; but with that lofty pride
To bend your looks so lowly you refrain:
Expects a stranger fair that heart to gain,
In frail,
fallacious
hopes will she confide:
It never more to me can be allied;
Since what you scorn, dear lady, I disdain.
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Petrarch |
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You daughter or son of
England!
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Sick is the land to th' heart; and doth endure
More
dangerous
faintings by her desperate cure.
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Robert Herrick |
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The farther it
runs from reason or
possibility
with them the better it is.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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they love thee least who owe thee most--
Their birth, their blood, and that sublime record
Of hero sires, who shame thy now
degenerate
horde!
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To match thy wish to please;
Leaving these rocks and trees,
Thou boldly might'st go forth, and dare th'
assembled
throng.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Indi spiro: <
da te, la voglia tua discerno meglio
che tu
qualunque
cosa t'e piu certa;
perch' io la veggio nel verace speglio
che fa di se pareglio a l'altre cose,
e nulla face lui di se pareglio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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What
historical
Authority has Mons.
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Her port is all divine; her radiant smile,
And e'en her scorn, the captive heart beguile;
Her accents breathe of heaven; her auburn hair
(Whether it wanton with the sportive air,
Or bound in shining wreaths adorns her face,)
Secures her conquests with resistless grace;
Her eyes, that sparkle with
celestial
fire,
Have render'd me the slave of fond desire.
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Petrarch |
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The third most
glorious
of these majesties
Give aid, O sapphires of th' eternal see, And by your light illume pure verity.
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"
"Well hast thou spoke (rejoin'd the
attentive
swain):
Thy lips let fall no idle word or vain!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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1570
They wolden seye, and swere it, out of doute,
That love ne droof yow nought to doon this dede,
But lust
voluptuous
and coward drede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
The oldest title I ever heard to this air, was, "The
Highland
Watch's
Farewell to Ireland.
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Robert Forst |
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This quatrain may be taken as evidence that he did
not throw off his
religion
with his cassock.
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Robert Herrick |
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My friend, thou art good and
cautious
and wise; nay, thou art
perfect--and I, too, speak with thee wisely and cautiously.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Balefire
devoured,
greediest spirit, those spared not by war
out of either folk: their flower was gone.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Sleep is
supposed
to be,
By souls of sanity,
The shutting of the eye.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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`But Troilus, I pray thee tel me now, 330
If that thou trowe, er this, that any wight
Hath loved
paramours
as wel as thou?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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how concise and
convincing
is his style!
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Aristophanes |
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les grands pres,
La grande
campagne
amoureuse!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Thus the
relation between lender and
borrower
was mixed up with the
relation between sovereign and subject.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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CXV
Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
Even those that said I could not love you dearer:
Yet then my judgment knew no reason why
My most full flame should
afterwards
burn clearer.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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--
I think it's
fiendish
to have killed so many.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Good
hope was then
entertained
of a peaceful settlement, and Herrick's ode,
enthusiastic as it is, expresses little more than this.
| Guess: |
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Robert Herrick |
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(thus his heart he vents)
Once spread the
inviting
banquet in our tents:
Thy sweet society, thy winning care,
Once stay'd Achilles, rushing to the war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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one constant state
Of lasting rancour and eternal hate:
No thought but rage, and never-ceasing strife,
Till death
extinguish
rage, and thought, and life.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I bring an
unaccustomed
wine
To lips long parching, next to mine,
And summon them to drink.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO
REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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We, heroes all, our wounds disdain;
Dismounted
now, our horses slain,
Yet we advance--more courage show,
Though stricken, seek to overthrow
The victor-knights who tread in mud
The writhing slaves who bite the heel,
While on caparisons of steel
The maces thunder--cudgels thud!
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On such a tranquil night as this,
She woke
Endymion
with a kiss,
When, sleeping in the grove,
He dreamed not of her love.
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say I love thee not,
When I against myself with thee
partake?
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Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive
Foundation
are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
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We feel so grateful, when to soft discourses
Of tree-tops,
slanting
rays towards us travel,
And only look, and listen when in pauses,
The ripened fruit resounds upon the gravel.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I will reveal a great, a terrible
conspiracy
against the gods
to you.
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It should be added that this is not a haphazard
anthology
of picked-over
poetry.
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what crueler light is borne aloft in the
heavens?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The meadows in the sun are twice as green
For all the scatter of fresh red mounded earth,
The mischief of the moles:
No dullish red,
Glostershire
earth new-delved
In April!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Down rushed the night: east, west, together roar;
And south and north roll
mountains
to the shore.
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