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Puella nam mi, quae meo sinu fugit,
Amata tantum quantum amabitur nulla,
Pro qua mihi sunt magna bella pugnata,
Consedit
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And now his soul wears the
strength
and fury
Of a huge dun-pelted wolf; he's the wolves' king;
And the fiends have learnt from him to laugh at our flints.
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Isabel weeps; by
Rodomont
is made
War on the Tartar king, and truce again,
To succour Agramant and his array;
Who to the lilies are well-nigh a prey.
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Lady, the will's sweet
sovereign!
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'"
DAMOETAS
"Fell as the wolf is to the folded flock,
Rain to ripe corn, Sirocco to the trees,
The wrath of
Amaryllis
is to me.
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The two greatest
metaphysical
poets of Europe are Lucretius and
Dante.
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I am
touching
your face.
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The
ancient lays, unjustly despised by the learned and polite, linger
for a time in the memory of the vulgar, and are at length too
often
irretrievably
lost.
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7 Cross Rivers ( Yarkhoto) was in the
northwestern
frontier region; Wuwei (Liangzhou), where Zhangsun is headed, was north of Fengxiang.
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While yet we talk, or but an instant shun
The fight, our
glorious
work remains undone.
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But to me
My songs are less than sea-sand that the wind
Drives
stinging
over me and bears away.
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Leave me my tearless, sad refrain,
When in the pine-top wakes the gale
That
breathes
of coming rain.
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The song was
composed
on a passion which a Mr.
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XIX
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
All
imperfection
born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the centuries might devise,
Rome in ancestral times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box, enclosed the measure.
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By his unrivalled skill, by great
And veteran service to the state,
By worth adored,
He stood, in his high dignity,
The
proudest
knight of chivalry,
Knight of the Sword.
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From this town the road
followed
along by the rugged banks of the R.
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No, neither he, nor his
compeers
by night
Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old man whose despair
Induced him to purchase a hare:
Whereon one fine day he rode wholly away,
Which partly
assuaged
his despair.
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And why it
scatters
its bright beauty thro the humid air.
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It is also not
consistent
with the reality
of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe more
divine than men and women.
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XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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Se la gente ch'al mondo piu traligna
non fosse stata a Cesare noverca,
ma come madre a suo figlio benigna,
tal fatto e fiorentino e cambia e merca,
che si sarebbe volto a Simifonti,
la dove andava l'avolo a la cerca;
sariesi
Montemurlo
ancor de' Conti;
sarieno i Cerchi nel piovier d'Acone,
e forse in Valdigrieve i Buondelmonti.
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As it fell upon a day
In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a
pleasant
shade
Which a grove of myrtles made,
Beasts did leap and birds did sing,
Trees did grow and plants did spring,
Every thing did banish moan
Save the Nightingale alone.
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Golden Treasury |
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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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LES METAMORPHOSES DU VAMPIRE
La femme cependant de sa bouche de fraise,
En se tordant ainsi qu'un serpent sur la braise,
Et
petrissant
ses seins sur le fer de son busc,
Laissait couler ces mots tout impregnes de musc:
--<< Moi, j'ai la levre humide, et je sais la science
De perdre au fond d'un lit l'antique conscience.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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490
We rustled through the leaves like wind,--
Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind;
By night I heard them on the track,
Their troop came hard upon our back,
With their long gallop, which can tire
The hound's deep hate, and hunter's fire:
Where'er we flew they
followed
on,
Nor left us with the morning sun;
Behind I saw them, scarce a rood,
At day-break winding through the wood, 500
And through the night had heard their feet
Their stealing, rustling step repeat.
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An examination of other passages, where there is no antithesis, goes to
show that the
lengthened
form of the pronoun is most frequent before a
pause (as vii.
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--coil like the serpent, when he fell
From all the emerald
splendour
of his height
And writhed, and could not climb against the curse,
Not a ring's length.
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hic ego dux milesque bonus: uos, signa tubaeque,
ite procul, cupidis uulnera ferte uiris,
ferte et opes: ego composito securus aceruo
dites
despiciam
despiciamque famem.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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[CASTOR _and_
POLYDEUCES
_disappear_.
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e takynge of
knowelechinge
of bodyly
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FROM 'THE BURDEN OF ITYS'
THIS English Thames is holier far than Rome,
Those harebells like a sudden flush of sea
Breaking across the woodland, with the foam
Of meadow-sweet and white anemone
To fleck their blue waves,--God is
likelier
there
Than hidden in that crystal-hearted star the pale monks bear!
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Wilde - Poems |
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"Who, then, am I,
according
to you?
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Hengest still
through the death-dyed winter dwelt with Finn,
holding pact, yet of home he minded,
though
powerless
his ring-decked prow to drive
over the waters, now waves rolled fierce
lashed by the winds, or winter locked them
in icy fetters.
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Its proper power to hurt, each
creature
feels;
Bulls aim their horns, and asses lift their heels;
'Tis a bear's talent not to kick, but hug;
And no man wonders he's not stung by pug.
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--There was nothing very
distinctive
about these two large
classes beyond what I have noted.
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Poe - 5 |
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Then,
loveliest
of her sex, turning away,
She sought her chamber, whom her maidens fair
Attended, charged with those illustrious gifts.
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This way my Lord, the Castles gently rendred:
The Tyrants people, on both sides do fight,
The Noble Thanes do brauely in the Warre,
The day almost it selfe
professes
yours,
And little is to do
Malc.
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'How, to that vast and peopled city led,
Which was a field of holy warfare then, _515
I walked among the dying and the dead,
And shared in
fearless
deeds with evil men,
Calm as an angel in the dragon's den--
How I braved death for liberty and truth,
And spurned at peace, and power, and fame--and when _520
Those hopes had lost the glory of their youth,
How sadly I returned--might move the hearer's ruth:
45.
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Shelley |
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"
It is characterized by the same strong sense and
untiring vivacity as his other writings, and evinces
a creditable
acquaintance
with ecclesiastical his-
tory ; but it is neither copious nor profound
enough for the subject.
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Marvell - Poems |
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But, good my brother,
Do not as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of
dalliance
treads
And recks not his own rede.
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Shakespeare |
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How many scenes of what
departed
bliss!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Yet be most proud of that which I compile,
Whose
influence
is thine, and born of thee:
In others' works thou dost but mend the style,
And arts with thy sweet graces graced be;
But thou art all my art, and dost advance
As high as learning, my rude ignorance.
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[Footnote 61: At that time the nostrils of
convicts
were cut off.
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My name is Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk;
Who hither come engaged by my oath-
Which God defend a knight should
violate!
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"Insurance policies is no criterion, though I don't say----"
"Oh, damn your
longwindedness!
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Kipling - Poems |
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l
rossinhols
fai
To the sweet song of the nightingale,
At night when I am half-asleep,
I wake possessed by joy complete,
Contemplating love and thinking;
For this is my greatest need, to be
Forever filled with joy and sweetly,
And in joy begin my singing.
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inge by his p{re}sentarie knowynge
establisse?
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Carven ivory have I none;
No golden cornice in my dwelling shines;
Pillars choice of Libyan stone
Upbear no
architrave
from Attic mines;
'Twas not mine to enter in
To Attalus' broad realms, an unknown heir,
Nor for me fair clients spin
Laconian purples for their patron's wear.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The Cock was of a larger egg
Than modern poultry drop,
Stept forward on a firmer leg,
And cramm'd a plumper crop;
Upon an ampler
dunghill
trod,
Crow'd lustier late and early,
Sipt wine from silver, praising God,
And raked in golden barley.
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The Sonnes of Duncane
(From whom this Tyrant holds the due of Birth)
Liues in the English Court, and is receyu'd
Of the most Pious Edward, with such grace,
That the
maleuolence
of Fortune, nothing
Takes from his high respect.
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`Yow first biseche I, that your eyen clere
To look on this
defouled
ye not holde;
And over al this, that ye, my lady dere, 1340
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lest
perchance
some other hear--He said,
And leaning on his elbow, spake aloud.
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can I not save
_One_ from the
pitiless
wave?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And see the third house on the left, with that gleam 20
Of red
burnished
copper--the hinge of the door
Whereat I shall enter, expected so oft
(Let love be your sea-star!
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When lo, swift hands, on strings nigh over-head,
Began to melodize a waltz by Strauss:
It stirred me as I stood, in Caesar's house,
Raised the old routs
Imperial
lyres had led,
And blended pulsing life with lives long done,
Till Time seemed fiction, Past and Present one.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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how shall summer's honey breath hold out,
Against the wrackful siege of
battering
days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong but Time decays?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Beneath the splenetic cupola of the
heavens, their feet trudging through the dust of an earth as desolate as
the sky, they
journeyed
onwards with the resigned faces of men condemned
to hope for ever.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A Person complained that
whenever
he began to write, he never could
arrange his ideas in grammatical order.
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`Why trowe ye my fader in this wyse
Coveiteth
so to see me, but for drede
Lest in this toun that folkes me dispyse 1340
By-cause of him, for his unhappy dede?
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Fifty pounds a year for life, and a provision for
widows and orphans, you will allow is no bad
settlement
for a _poet.
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Robert Burns |
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The
sunlight
on the steeple,
The toys we stop to see,
The smiling passing people
Are all for you and me.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Our
legendary
writers this define
A present contract, where they nothing sign;
The thing is common;--marriage made in haste:
LOVE'S perparation: Hymen's bit for taste.
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Yea, let her prove me to the uttermost,
For loyal to the
uttermost
am I.
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Tennyson |
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Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
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"For
everybody
said so, all our friends,
They all were sure our feelings would relate
So closely!
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{32a} "While the
unlearned
is silent he may be accounted wise, for he
has covered by his silence the diseases of his mind.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Yet how sad was the speech thou spakest, thy husband
farewelling!
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[Illustration: Cover]
THE BLACK RIDERS AND
OTHER LINES
BY STEPHEN CRANE
PRIVATELY REPRINTED
BY
COURTESY
OF SMALL,
MAYNARD & COMPANY
Copyright, 1905, by Copeland & Day
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Black Riders came from the sea.
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A rather
confused
couplet.
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He is the most intelligent
sensible
farmer in the county, and
his advice has staggered me a good deal.
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non rapio praeceps alienae foedera taedae,
sed quae sponsa mihi pridem
patrisque
relicta
mandatis uno materni sanguinis ortu
communem partitur auum.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The Disciple
YB speak of
raptures
that are void and friendless,
With me all love ascends towards my Lord,
Ye know alone the luscious, I the endless,
I live but for mine endless Lord.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Be Jove of all in heav'n my witness first,
Then this thy hospitable board, and, last,
The household Gods of the
illustrious
Chief
Ulysses, at whose hearth I have arrived,[74]
That, even now, within his native isle
Ulysses somewhere sits, or creeps obscure,
Witness of these enormities, and seeds 190
Sowing of dire destruction for his foes;
So sure an augury, while on the deck
Reclining of the gallant bark, I saw,
And with loud voice proclaim'd it to thy son.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The prince's eye
Oneguine
seeks:
"Ah!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He loved the winter
for its
leafless
trees, its swelling floods, and its winds which swept
along the gloomy sky, with frost and snow on their wings: but he loved
the autumn more--he has neglected to say why--the muse was then more
liberal of her favours, and he composed with a happy alacrity unfelt
in all other seasons.
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Robert Forst |
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FRIEND
This
riddling
tale, to what does it belong?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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He died in 1173, possibly a victim of the
widespread
epidemic of that year.
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Troubador Verse |
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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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Others echoed from our
anchored
fleet;
Thus the Moors' amazement proved complete,
Terror seized them just as they were landing.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether
equipped
with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance
- P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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'The makers of gold and the makers
of verse,' they are the twin creators that sway the world's
secret desire for mystery; and what in my father is the genius of
curiosity--the very essence of all
scientific
genius--in me is
the desire for beauty.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The bodies made one are the Sphere
in which the two
Intelligences
meet and command.
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John Donne |
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The Seven Selves
In the stillest hour of the night, as I lay half asleep, my seven
selves sat together and thus
conversed
in whisper:
First Self: Here, in this madman, I have dwelt all these years,
with naught to do but renew his pain by day and recreate his sorrow
by night.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A mortal sovereign holds her
dangerous
throne,
And thou mayst find a new Calypso there.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Catullus ait Aut pinguis ubera aut obesus et
prossus_:
_fartus_
Balth.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
Forthwith
this frame of mine was wrench'd
With a woeful agony,
Which forc'd me to begin my tale
And then it left me free.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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For here we see that,
whatever were the Wine that Hafiz drank and sang, the veritable Juice
of the Grape it was which Omar used, not only when
carousing
with his
friends, but (says Mons.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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