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Straightway, a forgetting wind
Stole over the
celestial
kind,
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If in ashes the fire-seed slept.
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s second year, autumn, first day of the month, an
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XI
Lovely to look on, O South,
No longer stately-scornful
But
beautiful
still in pride,
Our hearts go out to you as toward a bride!
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THE ECHOING GREEN
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells'
cheerful
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While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing Green.
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[_They go out by the left-hand door, and enter again
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friendly
host
That counsel might in dangers show,
But when I needed thee the most
I found thou wert my foe.
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(6) The evident reason for
introducing
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And as a
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Here ends my strife.
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Couvreur
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, _war-honored,
distinguished
in war_, 1784?
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But I, grown shrewder, scan the skies
With a suspicious air, --
As children, swindled for the first,
All
swindlers
be, infer.
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
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oute moeuyng certys it
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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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^9
Where Cessnock pours with
gurgling
sound;^10
And Irwine, marking out the bound,
Enamour'd of the scenes around,
Slow runs his race,
A name I doubly honour'd found,^11
With knightly grace.
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stoles of snowy white
How
numberless!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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How to entangle, trammel up and snare
Your soul in mine, and
labyrinth
you there
Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose?
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20
Vel si vis, licet obseres palatum,
Dum vostri sim
particeps
amoris.
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Some for the Glories of This World; and some
Sigh for the Prophet's
Paradise
to come;
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
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Should you have
read the piece before, still this will answer the
principal
end I have
in view: it will give me another opportunity of thanking you for all
your goodness to the rustic bard; and also of showing you, that the
abilities you have been pleased to commend and patronize are still
employed in the way you wish.
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How doth his patient
strength
the rude March wind
Persuade to seem glad breaths of summer breeze,
And win the soil that fain would be unkind,
To swell his revenues with proud increase!
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hem to a
bitidynge
by necessite.
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Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower:
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare
The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower
Went to the ground: and the repeated air
Of sad Electra's poet had the power
To save the
Athenian
walls from ruin bare.
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Golden Treasury |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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When
Severity
is chiefly to be used by Critics.
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we heed not your blind rage;
A naked race, timid in act, and slow,
Unskill'd the war to wage,
Whose far aim on the wind
contrives
a coward blow.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Oblivion here thy wisdom is,
Thy thrift, the sleep of cares;
For a proud
idleness
like this
Crowns all thy mean affairs.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And the avowed end
and purpose of "merit" is merely to preserve what beauty gains, the
flattering
attentions
of the other sex,--surely the lowest ideal ever
set before womankind.
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She gave him minute
instructions
and a key with which to open the street
door.
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Blessed is he who now
worships
me; but I will cast
all those who do not, into eternal fire, together with the cities and
regions to which they belong.
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Luscinus, then, after two
Consulships and two triumphs, Censor of the Commonwealth, would
doubtless occupy a place of honor at the board.
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Those his goodly eyes,
That o'er the files and musters of the war
Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn,
The office and
devotion
of their view
Upon a tawny front.
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My brain it shall be your occult
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But ere the circle
homeward
hies
Far, far must it remove:
White in the moon the long road lies
That leads me from my love.
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Have you so little knowledge of his heart's
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Gods of one source, of one
ethereal
race,
Alike divine, and heaven their native place;
But Jove the greater; first-born of the skies,
And more than men, or gods, supremely wise.
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Il nous
est difficile de savoir
pourquoi
Verlaine a corrige <> en <
voile>>, ou s'agit-il d'un moment d'inattention?
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But when he came the odious clause to pen,
That summons up the
parliament
agen,
His writing-master many times he banned,
And wished himself the gout to seize his hand.
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"I have got it,"
rejoined
Maximitch, putting his hand into his breast.
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To claim my foiled good-by let him appear,
Large-limbed and human as I saw him near,
Loosed from the
stiffening
uniform of fame:
And let me treat him largely; I should fear,
(If with too prying lens I chanced to err, 90
Mistaking catalogue for character,)
His wise forefinger raised in smiling blame.
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James Russell Lowell |
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In Emily
Dickinson's
exacting
hands, the especial, intrinsic fitness of a
particular order of words might not be sacrificed to anything
virtually extrinsic; and her verses all show a strange cadence of
inner rhythmical music.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Yet was the depth of thy love far deeper than deepest of marish
Which the hard mistress's yoke taught him so tamely to bear;
Never was head so dear to a grandsire wasted by life-tide
Whenas one daughter alone a grandson so tardy had reared, 120
Who being found against hope to inherit riches of forbears
In the well-witnessed Will haply by name did appear,
And 'spite impious hopes of baffled
claimant
to kinship
Startles the Vulturine grip clutching the frost-bitten poll.
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transcription
may be compared with the edited
version in the main text to get a flavor of the changes made
in these early editions.
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Did the harebell loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as
formerly?
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It is the
impatience
to burst into
blossoming, the longing for love which pulsates in these _Songs of the
Maidens_ with the tenseness of suspense.
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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As there is no means of deciding which
of these two has the better authority, my choice of readings has been
guided by
personal
preference.
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Li Po |
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So surely will a fact of truth make head
'Gainst errors'
theories
all, and so shut off
All refuge from the adversary, and rout
Error by two-edged confutation.
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THE RETURN By Scudder Middleton
Hold me, O hold me,
love—your
lips are life!
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That ought to be sufficient for those
American
Intellectuals who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
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And--surely--
This should leave a man
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Sythen affter yt befell soo, 165
Of
messengeres
there com too,
Ryght to the Ryche Cete, [folio 148a]
There alex lywyd In pourte.
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Then Los smote her upon the Earth twas long eer she revivd {This line
inserted
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Blake - Zoas |
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Death's darts e'en flying feet o'ertake,
Nor spare a
recreant
chivalry,
A back that cowers, or loins that quake.
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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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CHORUS
Gods of our city, see me not
enslaved!
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XLI
In my own shire, if I was sad
Homely
comforters
I had:
The earth, because my heart was sore,
Sorrowed for the son she bore;
And standing hills, long to remain,
Shared their short-lived comrade's pain.
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Touching
those letters, sir,
Your son made mention of--your son, is he not?
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3000, and
devising it, as to one-third to his wife, and as to the other two-thirds
to his
children
in equal shares.
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Robert Herrick |
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Why cannot the Ear be closed to its own
destruction?
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blake-poems |
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fȳr unswīðor wēoll (_the fire surged
less
strongly
from the dragon's breast_), 2883.
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Beowulf |
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Lord Raoul drew rein with all his company,
And urged his horse i' the crowd, to gain fair view
Of him that spoke, and stopped at last, and sat
Still, underneath where Gris Grillon was laid,
And heard, somewhile, with languid
scornful
gaze,
The friar putting blame on priest and knight.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Plus leger qu'un bouchon j'ai danse sur les flots
Qu'on appelle
rouleurs
eternels de victimes,
Dix nuits, sans regretter l'oeil niais des falots.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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650:
Vae illis uirgis miseris, quae hodie in tergo
morientur
meo.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The
penultimate
syllable of the name Porsena has been shortened
in spite of the authority of Niebuhr, who pronounces, without
assigning any ground for his opinion, that Martial was guilty of
a decided blunder in the line,
"Hanc spectare manum Porsena non potuit.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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[3] Tammuz is probably a real personage,
although
_Dumu-zi_, his
original name, is certainly later than the title _Ab-u_, probably the
oldest epithet of this deity, see _Tammuz and Ishtar_, p.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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And his
overbearing
sisters
Called him names he disapproved of:
Called him Johnny, 'Daddy's Darling,'
Called him Jacky, 'Scrubby School-boy.
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Lewis Carroll |
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A
boy's "_touloup_," given to a vagabond, saved my neck from the hangman,
and a drunken frequenter of pothouses
besieged
forts and shook the
Empire.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Contact the
Foundation
as set forth in Section 3 below.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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O lordly conqueror, Child of Zeus on high,
Be
blessed!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I see religious dances old and new,
I hear the sound of the Hebrew lyre,
I see the crusaders marching bearing the cross on high, to the
martial clang of cymbals,
I hear dervishes monotonously chanting, interspers'd with frantic
shouts, as they spin around turning always towards Mecca,
I see the rapt religious dances of the Persians and the Arabs,
Again, at Eleusis, home of Ceres, I see the modern Greeks dancing,
I hear them clapping their hands as they bend their bodies,
I hear the metrical
shuffling
of their feet.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The play is
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Have you
forgiven
him?
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Yeats |
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He has a genius for coining absurd names and words, which, even when they
are suggested by the
exigencies
of his metre, have a ludicrous
appropriateness to the matter in hand.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Trust not too much to colour, beauteous boy;
White privets fall, dark
hyacinths
are culled.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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[62] He accuses Cleon of
collusion
with the enemy.
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Aristophanes |
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--The complaint of
Caligula was most wicked of the condition of his times, when he said they
were not famous for any public calamity, as the reign of
Augustus
was, by
the defeat of Varus and the legions; and that of Tiberius, by the falling
of the theatre at Fidenae; whilst his oblivion was eminent through the
prosperity of his affairs.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The people round
Blazon the noble deeds that so abound
From Altorf unto Chaux-de-Fonds, and say,
When he rests musing in a dreamy way,
"Behold, 'tis
Charlemagne!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I wot 'twere shame
on the law of our land if alone the king
out of Geatish
warriors
woe endured
and sank in the struggle!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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LFS}
Los was the fourth immortal starry one, & in the Earth
Of a bright Universe Empery attended day & night
Days & nights of revolving joy, Urthona was his name
PAGE 4
In Eden; in the Auricular Nerves of Human life* {The
centered
text block of this page appears to be written over erased text, with four clusters of added lines in various orientations in the margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Your
oriflamme
shall wave--
While man has power to perish and be free--
A golden flame of holiest Liberty,
Proud as the dawn and as the sunset brave.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Who of mortals hearing
Doth not quake for awe,
Hearing all that Fate thro' hand of God hath given us
For
ordinance
and law?
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Aeschylus |
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