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As long as tinted haze the
mountain
covered,
Upon my course the track I soon discovered.
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It is
impossible
to say just what I mean!
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the cruel sway,
Tyrannic
man's dominion;
The sportsman's joy, the murd'ring cry,
The flutt'ring, gory pinion.
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"
Whilst yet the monarch paused, with doubts oppress'd
The beauteous queen relieved his labouring breast:
"Hear me (she cried), to whom the gods have given
To read this sign, and mystic sense of heaven,
As thus the plumy sovereign of the air
Left on the mountain's brow his callow care,
And wander'd through the wide ethereal way
To pour his wrath on yon luxurious prey;
So shall thy godlike father, toss'd in vain
Through all the dangers of the boundless main,
Arrive (or if
perchance
already come)
From slaughter'd gluttons to release the dome.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Ile Deuill-Porter it no further:
I had thought to haue let in some of all Professions, that
goe the
Primrose
way to th' euerlasting Bonfire.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Always I have found friendship in thine eyes;
And pleasant words, and silences more pleasant,
Have made us moments wherein all the world
Left our sequester'd minds; so that I dared
Often believe our
friendliness
might be
The brink of love.
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'
NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And
whisperings
are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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What is it, old
greybeard?
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I've made the verse, don't know for who;
I'll send it on to someone new,
Who'll send it on towards Anjou,
Or
somewhere
nigh,
So its counter-key from his casket he'll
Send, by and by.
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Troubador Verse |
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And
sometimes
into cities she would send
Her dream, with feast and rioting to blend;
And once, while among mortals dreaming thus,
She saw the young Corinthian Lycius
Charioting foremost in the envious race,
Like a young Jove with calm uneager face,
And fell into a swooning love of him.
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Keats - Lamia |
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A coolness of twilight takes
Its way to you at each beat
Whose
imprisoned
flutter makes
The horizon gently retreat.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The effect of
a page of her more recent
manuscript
is exceedingly quaint and
strong.
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And if all the world now holds -
All those under heaven's power,
Were
gathered
in some sweet bower,
I'd only wish for one I know.
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Troubador Verse |
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His kindly lord
he first had greeted in
gracious
form,
with manly words.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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A LITTLE GIRL LOST
Children of the future age,
Reading this
indignant
page,
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
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blake-poems |
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"--the
Nightingale
cries to the Rose
That yellow Cheek of hers to'incarnadine.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
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Ronsard |
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If this
be granted, he says, it is plain that man must have a place somewhere in
this system, and the only
question
is whether "God has placed him wrong.
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A little pipkin with a bit
Of mutton or of veal in it,
Set on my table, trouble-free,
More than a feast
contenteth
me.
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Robert Herrick |
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n Tsung created the
category
of the Three
Paragons: Li Po, of poetry; P'ei Min, of swordsmanship; and Chang Hsu,
of cursive calligraphy.
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Li Po |
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211
The
Prisoner
of Chillon p.
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Byron |
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And she answerde, `Of gilt
misericorde!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Compare--
"Nor yet suppress the
generous
sigh.
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Byron |
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The flower and pride of our array;
And all the Eastland, from whose breast
Came forth her bravest and her best,
Craves
longingly
with boding dread--
Parents for sons, and brides new-wed
For absent lords, and, day by day,
Shudder with dread at their delay!
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Aeschylus |
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Yet, in good faith, some say that thee behold,
Thy face hath not the power to make love groan;
To say they err I dare not be so bold,
Although
I swear it to myself alone.
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7989 || _ueluti_ Reeck
64
_lenius_
hap: _leuius_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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If e'er ye rush'd in crowds, with vast delight,
To hail your hero
glorious
from the fight,
Now meet him dead, and let your sorrows flow;
Your common triumph, and your common woe.
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Iliad - Pope |
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"
"If thou," I straight replied, "hadst weigh'd the cause
For which I look'd, thou hadst
perchance
excus'd
The tarrying still.
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" Others suppose that there was a ladder at the inner
end of the hall leading to the upper story, and on through
passages
to
the armoury.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply
resembles
you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the beginning of his four and a half year
residence
in Italy.
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The bookful blockhead,
ignorantly
read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own tongue still edifies his ears,
And always list'ning to himself appears.
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Alexander Pope |
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they play so sweet,
On their hautboys,
Christmas
songs!
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Longfellow |
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TO _drift with every passion till my soul_
_Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play_,
_Is it for this that I have given away_
_Mine ancient wisdom, and austere
control_?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
He entered: drank a glass of beer in
presence
of the tombs; and slowly
smoked a cigar.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Sara Teasdale |
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And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it
therefore
the less _gone_?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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_Donna che lieta col
Principio
nostro.
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Petrarch |
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But one other before, have I seen to remain
By
invincible
pain
Bound and vanquished,--one Titan!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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THE FLY
Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My
thoughtless
hand
Has brushed away.
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Ich hatte mit dem Kind wohl meine liebe Not;
Doch
ubernahm
ich gern noch einmal alle Plage,
So lieb war mir das Kind.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Ronsard's Cassandra, was Cassandra Salviati, the
daughter
of an Italian banker.
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Ronsard |
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--Je connais
Des vieilles qui s'en vont
pleurant
sous leurs bonnets
Parce qu'on leur a pris leur garcon ou leur fille:
C'est la crapule.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that
renowned
Colossus, great in story:
And whatever noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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Take a silver minute from your
treasured
time; Listen to it tinkle a little chime
For the poor lost sheep of the Lord.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Even as a lioness
Breaketh
the woodland boughs
Starving, she wrought her way.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Days may
conclude
in nights, and suns may rest
As dead within the west;
Yet, the next morn, regild the fragrant east.
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Robert Herrick |
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When I see the
blossoming
trees
And hear the nightingale in song,
Then how can a man go wrong,
Who chooses loving and is pleased.
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Troubador Verse |
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Yet for disport we fawn and flatter both,
To pass the time when nothing else can please,
And train them to our lure with subtle oath,
Till, weary of their wiles,
ourselves
we ease;
And then we say when we their fancy try,
To play with fools, O what a fool was I!
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Golden Treasury |
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How all around, it chokes and swells
When we
approach
the things they cherished.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Where is our English
chivalry?
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Wilde - Poems |
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When he had prayed, upon his feet he stepped,
With the strong mark of virtue signed his head;
Upon his swift charger the King mounted
While Jozerans and Neimes his stirrup held;
He took his shield, his
trenchant
spear he kept;
Fine limbs he had, both gallant and well set;
Clear was his face and filled with good intent.
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Chanson de Roland |
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shame they embracd not
{This line
penciled
in above the ink line.
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Blake - Zoas |
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--
or fancy I'm
lonesome?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
The Powers aboon will tent thee,
Misfortune sha' na steer thee;
Thou'rt like
themselves
sae lovely
That ill they'll ne'er let near thee.
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Golden Treasury |
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_Mixtie-maxtie_,
confusedly
mixed, mish-mash.
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Robert Burns |
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And now again, since food
Augments
and nourishes the human frame,
'Tis thine to know our veins and blood and bones
And thews are formed of particles unlike
To them in kind; or if they say all foods
Are of mixed substance having in themselves
Small bodies of thews, and bones, and also veins
And particles of blood, then every food,
Solid or liquid, must itself be thought
As made and mixed of things unlike in kind--
Of bones, of thews, of ichor and of blood.
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Lucretius |
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Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy
of being called an idea at
all.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And art thou
nothing?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The 'Essay
on Man' was built up on the precepts of Bolingbroke's philosophy; the
'Imitations of Horace' were undertaken at Bolingbroke's suggestion; and
the whole tone of Pope's political and social satire during the years
from 1731 to 1738 reflects the spirit of that opposition to the
administration of Walpole and to the growing influence of the commercial
class, which was at once
inspired
and directed by Bolingbroke.
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Alexander Pope |
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The
livelong
time
after that grim fight, Grendel's mother,
monster of women, mourned her woe.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand
My thread-bare
Penitence
a-pieces tore.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And am I myself
entangled
in my turn?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But in the end how many words
Winged on a flight she could not follow,
Farther than skyward lark or swallow,
His lips should free to lands she never knew;
Braver than white sea-faring birds
With a
fearless
melody,
Flying over a shining sea,
A star-white song between the blue and blue.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
V
"Yet," said they, "his frail speech,
Hath accents pitched like thine--
Thy mould and his define
A
likeness
each to each--
But go!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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e,
And my
blessynge
y-wis.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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7989 ||
_ueluti_
Reeck
64 _lenius_ hap: _leuius_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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CHANT DE GUERRE PARISIEN
Le
printemps
est evident, car
Du coeur des Proprietes vertes
Le vol de Thiers et de Picard
Tient ses splendeurs grandes ouvertes.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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(_Taking the_ LITTLE GIRL
_to her_) What good
And gentle care will guide thy
maidenhood?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Diegue
The king, if so,
measures
it by my courage.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Man, but for that, no action could attend,
And but for this, were active to no end:
Fixed like a plant on his
peculiar
spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot;
Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void,
Destroying others, by himself destroyed.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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All Europe, raven and rook,
Screeched
at me armed for your nation.
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Study in detail the fine
description
of Duessa's descent to Erebus.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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So, in the like name of that love of ours,
Take back these thoughts which here
unfolded
too,
And which on warm and cold days I withdrew
From my heart's ground.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Soft
sauntered
through the village,
Sauntered as soft away!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But the Pasha's
attention
is failing,
O'er his visage his fair turban stealeth;
From tchebouk {13a} he sleep is inhaling
Whilst round him sweet vapours he dealeth.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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But if thou believe
That the primordial germs of things can stop,
And in their stopping give new motions birth,
Afar thou
wanderest
from the road of truth.
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Lucretius |
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They will have to take it out of their pittance; and being
thus
punished
through their belly, they will not care to begin again.
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Aristophanes |
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Beyond the city, gardens hidden from view
Sent odors of sweet
blossoms
on the breeze
And singing sounded through the far off trees.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The Ghost
I went back to the clanging city,
I went back where my old loves stayed,
But my heart was full of my new love's glory,
My eyes were
laughing
and unafraid.
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Sara Teasdale |
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On the other hand, the
idealism of seventeenth-century poetry and romances, the Platonism of
the Hotel de Rambouillet that one finds in Habington's _Castara_, in
Kenelm Digby's
_Private
Memoirs_, in the French romances of chivalry
and their imitations in English is the silliest, because the emptiest,
that ever masqueraded as such in any literature, at any period.
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John Donne |
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Again, why is't there goes
Impetuous rage with lion's breed morose,
And cunning with foxes, and to deer why given
The ancestral fear and
tendency
to flee,
And why in short do all the rest of traits
Engender from the very start of life
In the members and mentality, if not
Because one certain power of mind that came
From its own seed and breed waxes the same
Along with all the body?
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Lucretius |
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And according
to Homer, apples were among the fruits which
Tantalus
could not pluck,
the wind ever blowing their boughs away from him.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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A heav'nly image in the glass appears, 125
To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears;
Th'
inferior
Priestess, at her altar's side,
Trembling begins the sacred rites of Pride.
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Alexander Pope |
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Er rief
Gretchen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm
We had crossed each other's way:
But we made no sign, we said no word,
We had no word to say;
For we did not meet in the holy night,
But in the
shameful
day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Henceforth
she hath all the part
Of mother, yea, and father in my heart.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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my heart
For better lore would seldom yearn,
Could I but teach the
hundredth
part
Of what from thee I learn.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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E'er since that day, the Shaker of the shores,
Although
he slay him not, yet devious drives
Ulysses from his native isle afar.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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