It is the
story of a man named Tullis,
narrated
by an Italian, Signer L.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Seest thou that black dog through stalks and stubble
roaming?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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th
fful
richeliche
al a-ry?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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CXLVII
My love is as a fever longing still,
For that which longer nurseth the disease;
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The uncertain sickly
appetite
to please.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Index of First Lines
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've gathered this sprig of heather
The strollers in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not surprised my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You
descended
through the water clear
O my abandoned youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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Let us fare on, dead friend, O
deathless
friend,
Where under his old hat as green as moss
The hedger chops and finds new gaps to mend,
And on his bonfires burns the thorns and dross,
And hums a hymn, the best, thinks he, that ever was.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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|| _tu,
promisisti
mihi quod mentita, inimica es_ Munro
4 _nec fers_ codd.
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Latin - Catullus |
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I am torn, torn with thy beauty,
O Rose of the
sharpest
thorn !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Prince, why wilt thou smite
The
smitten?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Canzon: Spear
Or might my
troubled
heart be fed UpOn the frail clear light there shed>
Then were my pain at last allay'd.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Now, down here, in this unknown angle,
A
glimmering
furrow of melancholy ruby,
A sweetly twinkling sun-spark trembles:
A patriarchal guide leads his family.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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ADMETUS (_in a
comparatively
light tone_).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Lincoln
WHEN THE GREAT GRAY SHIPS COME IN, Guy Wetmore Carryl
AD FINEM FIDELES, Guy Wetmore Carry
GROVER CLEVELAND, Joel Benton
A TOAST TO OUR NATIVE LAND, Robert Bridges
FIFTY YEARS, James Weldon Johnson
THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS, Marie Van Vorst
I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH, Alan Seeger
THE CHOICE, Rudyard Kipling
ANNAPOLIS, Waldron
Kinsolving
Post
YANKS, James W.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Phaedra was
honoured
by Theseus' breath in vain, 445
For myself, I'm prouder, and flee the glory gained
From homage offered to hundreds, and so easily,
From entering a heart thrown open to so many.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Would all
Christians
plain
Could have such joy anew,
As I felt, and feel all through,
For all else but this is vain.
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Troubador Verse |
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COMPOSED AT
NEIDPATH
CASTLE, THE PROPERTY OF LORD QUEENSBERRY,
1803.
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Golden Treasury |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Lewis Carroll |
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I dimly do recall
"Some tiny sphere I built long back
(Mid
millions
of such shapes of mine)
So named .
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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{20a} He surmises
presently
where she is.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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When all the Jews go home to Syria,
When Chinese cooks go back to Canton, China,
When Japanese photographers return
With their black cameras to Tokio,
And Irish patriots to Donegal,
And Scotch
accountants
back to Edinburgh,
You will go back to India, whence you came.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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), and Sophocles'
_Electra_
(date
unknown: but perhaps the latest of the three) are based on the particular
piece of legend or history now before us.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Almighty they knew not,
Doomsman of Deeds and
dreadful
Lord,
nor Heaven's-Helmet heeded they ever,
Wielder-of-Wonder.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I like not
overmuch
that red--good taste says "gild a crime?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--_A large and magnificent Gothic Hall in the
Castle of Siegendorf,
decorated
with Trophies, Banners,
and Arms of that Family_.
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Byron |
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Bloodhounds, not men, glut
yourselves
well with me;
I will not give you that fine piece of nature
To rend and ruin.
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Shelley |
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After so many
funerals
of thy own,
Art thou restored to thy declining town?
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Iliad - Pope |
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The trooping fawns at evening came and laid
Their cool black noses on my lowest boughs,
And on my topmost branch the
blackbird
made
A little nest of grasses for his spouse,
And now and then a twittering wren would light
On a thin twig which hardly bare the weight of such delight.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Are we so made
Of death and darkness, that even thou,
O golden God of the joys of love,
Thy mind to us canst only prove,
The glorious devices of thy mind,
By so revealing how thy journeying here
Through this mortality, doth closely bind
Thy
brightness
to the shadow of dreadful Fear?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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D'you
remember
when you said?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Quam magnus numerus Libyssae arenae
Lasarpiciferis iacet Cyrenis,
Oraclum Iovis inter
aestuosi
5
Et Batti veteris sacrum sepulcrum,
Aut quam sidera multa, cum tacet nox,
Furtivos hominum vident amores,
Tam te basia multa basiare
Vesano satis et super Catullost, 10
Quae nec pernumerare curiosi
Possint nec mala fascinare lingua.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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As I pass down the corridor
past
desperate
faces at each cell,
your eyes and my eyes may meet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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LA MUSE VENALE
O Muse de mon coeur, amante des palais,
Auras-tu, quand Janvier lachera ses Borees,
Durant les noirs ennuis des neigeuses soirees,
Un tison pour
chauffer
tes deux pieds violets?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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{a}t alle thinges tenden {and} hyen /
that thing moste ben the
souereyn
good of alle goodes / P /.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Les _Fleurs du Mal_ se
presentaient
comme un bouquet poetique
compose de fleurs rares et veneneuses d'un parfum encore ignore.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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l'orgueil plus
bienveillant
que les charites perdues.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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To
Theophile
Gautier
Friend, poet spirit, you have fled our night,
You left our noise, to penetrate the light;
Now your name will shine on pure summits.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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This long and shining flank of metal is
Magic that greasy labor cannot spoil;
While this vast engine that could rend the soil
Conceals
its fury with a gentle hiss.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In trembling zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired the
priestly
care.
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blake-poems |
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then mounte, brave
gallants
all,
And don your helmes amaine:
Deathe's couriers.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Twenty days ahead of the Indian, twenty years ahead of the white
man,
At last the Indian
overtook
him, at last the Indian hurried past
him;
At last the white man overtook him, at last the white man hurried
past him;
At last his own trees overtook him, at last his own trees hurried
past him.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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--could she be
excused?
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La Fontaine |
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_Inviting
a Friend_, _Wks.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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LIBERTATIS SACRA FAMES
ALBEIT nurtured in democracy,
And liking best that state republican
Where every man is Kinglike and no man
Is crowned above his fellows, yet I see,
Spite of this modern fret for Liberty,
Better the rule of One, whom all obey,
Than to let clamorous
demagogues
betray
Our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I seem to see them in battle-line--
Heroes with hearts of gold,
But of their victory a sign
The Fates withhold;
And the hours too tardy-footed pass,
The
voiceless
hush grows dense
'Mid the imaginings, alas!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Duckworth
& Co.
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Imagists |
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Dame
Jeannette
had not that gold-brown hair,
Old Jeannette was not a maiden fair.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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31
I know you step within mine house 32
'Tis not wise until the latest hour 32
The hill where o'er we wander lies in shadow 33
Needs must thou be upon the wastelands
yearning
.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of
damages.
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Wilde - Poems |
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" I agree
with De Sade in
conjecturing
that Laura in receiving some of his verses
had touched the hand that presented them, in token of her gratitude.
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Petrarch |
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But he came,
At last,
bringing
that damsel, with the flame
Of God about her, mad and knowing all:
And set her in my room; and in one wall
Would hold two queens!
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Euripides - Electra |
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* A star was discovered by Tycho Brahe which appeared
suddenly
in the heavens--attained, in a few days, a
brilliancy surpassing that of Jupiter--then as suddenly
disappeared, and has never been seen since.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The hour went by, we rose and turned to go,
The somber street
received
us from the glare,
And once more on your shoulders fell the snow.
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Sara Teasdale |
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or
unornamented
pillar square
Of fire far shining.
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Blake - Zoas |
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1909
Songs for the New Age The Century Company 1914
War and
Laughter
The Century Company 1915
The Book of Self Alfred A.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Always there stood before him, night and day,
Of wayward vary colored circumstance,
The imperishable presences serene
Colossal, without form, or sense, or sound,
Dim shadows but unwaning presences
Fourfaced to four corners of the sky;
And yet again, three shadows, fronting one,
One forward, one respectant, three but one;
And yet again, again and evermore,
For the two first were not, but only seemed,
One shadow in the midst of a great light,
One reflex from eternity on time,
One mighty
countenance
of perfect calm,
Awful with most invariable eyes.
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Tennyson |
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We were as men who through a fen
Of filthy
darkness
grope:
We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or to give our anguish scope:
Something was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Why, who but the very same girl who
Hated with all of her heart
stockings
both violet and red.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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To know the
principles
of the highest art is to know the principles of
all the arts.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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--"Why, grandma, how you're
winking!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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XXXI
Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have
supposed
dead;
And there reigns Love, and all Love's loving parts,
And all those friends which I thought buried.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But I shall craue your pardon:
That which you are, my
thoughts
cannot transpose;
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Heorogar
was dead,
my elder brother, had breathed his last,
Healfdene's bairn: he was better than I!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Was not thy mother a
Gentlewoman?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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twelve months old: 'tis quite an age, and brings
Grave moments, though your soul to rapture clings,
You're at that hour of life most like to heaven,
When present joy no cares, no sorrows leaven
When man no shadow feels: if fond caress
Round parent twines,
children
the world possess.
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Hugo - Poems |
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But now, by those whom thou hast left at home,
By thy Penelope, and by thy fire,
The gentle
nourisher
of thy infant growth,
And by thy only son Telemachus
I make my suit to thee.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Tennyson |
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1440
But I trust in sure
irreproachable
witnesses:
I've seen, I've seen true tears flow to excess.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
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Ronsard |
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Perhaps 't is some strange charm to draw him here, 'Thout which he may not leave his new-found crew That ride the two-foot
coursers
of the deep,
And laugh in storms and break the fishers' nets.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But you, you miserable greybeards, you contribute nothing to the
public charges; on the contrary, you have wasted the
treasure
of our
forefathers, as it was called, the treasure amassed in the days of the
Persian Wars.
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Aristophanes |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of
soothing
verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Of
Bialacoil
she took ay hede, 4295
That ever he liveth in wo and drede.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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They fledde; he
followed
close upon their heels, 495
Vowynge vengeance for his deare countrymanne;
And Siere de Sancelotte his vengeance feels;
He peerc'd hys backe, and out the bloude ytt ranne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And the Quangle Wangle said
To himself on the
Crumpetty
Tree,
"When all these creatures move
What a wonderful noise there'll be!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Not like the dew did she return
At the
accustomed
hour!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men
On the hills o' Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between, Wi' his eyes like the grey o' the sea.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Yet envious tongues incited him to ask
A
reckoning
of that just one, who return'd
Twelve fold to him for ten.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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In the meadow ground the frogs
With their
deafening
flutes begin,--
The old madness of the world 15
In their golden throats again.
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Sappho |
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Said the Kangaroo to the Duck,
"This
requires
some little reflection.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
And--"A blind
understanding!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's
lightning
bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Sara Teasdale |
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As long as I live, I will never give up this cloak; 'tis the
one I wore in that battle[129] when Boreas
delivered
us from such fierce
attacks,
BDELYCLEON.
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Aristophanes |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"The day when she was born, the stars that win
Prosperity for man shone bright above;
Their high glad homes within
Each on the other smiled with gratulant love;
Fair Venus, and, with gentle aspect, Jove
The beautiful and lordly mansions held:
Seem'd as each adverse light
Throughout
all heaven was darken'd and dispell'd,
The sun ne'er look'd upon a day so bright;
The air and earth rejoiced; the waves had rest
By lake and river, and o'er ocean green:
'Mid the enchanting scene
One distant cloud alone my thought distress'd,
Lest sometime it might be of tears the source
Unless kind Heaven should elsewhere turn its course.
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Petrarch |
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It is highly
probably
that the memory of the war
of Porsena was preserved by compositions much resembling the two
ballads which stand first in the Relics of Ancient English
Poetry.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Byckerment
34
VI.
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Lewis Carroll |
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A mortal shape to him _215
Was like the vapour dim
Which the orient planet animates with light;
Hell, Sin, and Slavery came,
Like bloodhounds mild and tame,
Nor preyed, until their Lord had taken flight; _220
The moon of Mahomet
Arose, and it shall set:
While blazoned as on Heaven's immortal noon
The cross leads
generations
on.
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Shelley |
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I have told with late and early tears,
My
grievous
injuries in doleful song;
Not that I hope from thee less cruel nights;
And therefore am I urged to pray for death,
Which hence would take me but to crown with joy,
Where lives she whom I sing in this sad rhyme!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And what of
Shuisky?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Amid no bells nor bravos
The
bystanders
will tell!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The flower I gave thee once
Was
incident
to a stride,
A detail of a gesture,
But search those pale petals
And see engraven thereon
A record of my intention.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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