The heart of the steed and the heart of the master
Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls,
Impatient to be where the battle-field calls;
Every nerve of the charger was
strained
to full play,
With Sheridan only ten miles away.
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But by fantastic dreams distraught,
My memory
wandered
wide and sought
The feet of my dear lady friends.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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On the Central Plain they are
fighting
now, 40 what means will we have to meet again?
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Judith, our fates are closer to one another's
Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:
The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,
And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;
We are both
neighbours
of the silent skies.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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If by chance ye ever be readers of my
triflings
and ye will not quake to
lay your hands upon us,
* * * *
XV.
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There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull
catalogue
of common things.
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Keats - Lamia |
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PRINCESS
OF FRANCE.
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Shakespeare |
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From murderous
Epigrams
flee,
Cruel Wit and Laughter impure
That brings tears to the high Azure,
And all that base garlic cuisine!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I've
gathered
flowers all as I came along,
At every step a flower
Fed by your last bright shower,--
[She divides an armful of all sorts of flowers with April, who
strolls away through the garden.
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This peace, then, and
happiness
thronged me around.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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It
reconciles
me to thee.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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(Jacinta seats herself in a side-long manner upon the chair, resting her
elbows upon the back, and regarding her
mistress
with a contemptuous look.
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O God of the night,
What great sorrow
Cometh unto us,
That thou thus
repayest
us
Before the time of its coming?
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Canto VI
<
Costantin
l'aquila volse
contr' al corso del ciel, ch'ella seguio
dietro a l'antico che Lavina tolse,
cento e cent' anni e piu l'uccel di Dio
ne lo stremo d'Europa si ritenne,
vicino a' monti de' quai prima uscio;
e sotto l'ombra de le sacre penne
governo 'l mondo li di mano in mano,
e, si cangiando, in su la mia pervenne.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Coloured jackdaws I saw hiding,
Paroquets and kolibri,
Through the magic
branches
gliding
In the woods of Tusfery.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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2 This is a figure for
imperial
authority, which failed to prevent the rebellion of An Lushan.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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There was no one to rob, save a party of
students
from
Segovia, who looked as if they would rob us; and a jolly little
friar, who had nothing in his pockets but a missal and a loaf of
bread.
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Longfellow |
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To be painstakingly precise, each
contributor
has
been his own editor.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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God
In the ancient days, when the first quiver of speech came to my lips,
I
ascended
the holy mountain and spoke unto God, saying, "Master,
I am thy slave.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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{41} ["Ficta omnia celeriter tanquam
flosculi
decidunt, nec simulatum
potest quidquam esse diuturnum.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But the dead branch spoke from the sod,
And the eggs answered me again:
Because we failed dost thou
complain?
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Christina Rossetti |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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O lovely Polly
Stewart!
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Robert Burns |
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forming the counterpoint to this prosody, a work which lacks precedent, have been left in a primitive state: not because I agree with being timid in my attempts; but because it is not for me, save by a special pagination or volume of my own, in a Periodical so courageous,
gracious
and accommodating as it shows itself to be to real freedom, to act too contrary to custom.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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TO STEFANO COLONNA,
COUNSELLING
HIM TO FOLLOW UP HIS VICTORY OVER THE
ORSINI.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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92 how could I bring myself to discuss our
livelihood?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"
I take my hat: how can I make a
cowardly
amends
For what she has said to me?
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T.S. Eliot |
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clause: nǣnig þæt dorste
genēðan
þæt (_none durst undertake
to_ .
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Beowulf |
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Enough, my dear brother,
although
we speak
reason.
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Marvell - Poems |
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We are given over to prefects and centurions; and
when these subordinates have had their fill of
extortion
and of
bloodshed, they promptly find some one to replace them, and then there
are new pockets to fill and new pretexts for plunder.
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Tacitus |
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"
Do we want laurels for
ourselves
most,
Or most that no one else shall have any?
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Soon fortune will turn round and
overwhelm
you.
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Aristophanes |
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of
matchless
mind,
Thou knowest now the whole; and that, which else
No other can, is nought to thy great power:
Deign then my grief to end,
Thus honour shall be thine, and safe my peace at last!
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Petrarch |
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But there is One who holds this falling
Infinitely
softly in His hands.
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Rilke - Poems |
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All have not
appeared
in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
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Appoloinaire |
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Know that if I live, I will come back again,
And if I die, we will go on
thinking
of each other.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Cosins, I hope the dayes are neere at hand
That
Chambers
will be safe
Ment.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
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blake-poems |
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The last
ingredient
was supplied
(Unless the dead man mistook or lied).
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Christina Rossetti |
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Slowly it wanders, pauses, creeps,--
Anon it sparkles, flashes, and leaps;
And ever as onward it
gleaming
goes
A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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CONTENTS
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
Page
Introduction 1
The
Shepherd
3
The Echoing Green 4
The Lamb 6
The Little Black Boy 7
The Blossom 9
The Chimney-Sweeper 10
The Little Boy Lost 12
The Little Boy Pound 13
Laughing Song 14
A Cradle Song 15
The Divine Image 17
Holy Thursday 19
Night 20
Spring 23
Nurse's Song 25
Infant Joy 26
A Dream 27
On Another's Sorrow 29
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
Introduction 33
Earth's Answer 35
The Clod and the Pebble 37
Holy Thursday 38
The Little Girl Lost 39
The Little Girl Found 42
The Chimney-Sweeper 45
Nurse's Song 46
The Sick Rose 47
The Fly 48
The Angel 50
The Tiger 51
My Pretty Rose-Tree 53
Ah, Sunflower 54
The Lily 55
The Garden of Love 56
The Little Vagabond 57
London 58
The Human Abstract 59
Infant Sorrow 61
A Poison Tree 62
A Little Boy Lost 63
A Little Girl Lost 65
A Divine Image 67
A Cradle Song 68
The Schoolboy 69
To Tirzah 71
The Voice of the Ancient Bard 72
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
INTRODUCTION
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
'Pipe a song about a Lamb!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And thou
Ascend beside me, veiled in the light
Of the desire which makes thee one with me, _35
Thetis, bright image of
eternity!
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Shelley |
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Yea, what can Israel offer against her,
Whom the rich earth out of her mines hath shod,
And crowned with emeralds grown in secret rocks,
Who on her shoulders wears the gleam of the sea's
Purple and pearls, and the flax of Indian ground
Is linen on her limbs cool as moonlight,
And fells of golden beasts cover her throne;
Whose passion moves in her thought as in the air
Melody moves of flutes and silver horns:
What can
Jerusalem
the hill-city
Offer to keep God's love from Babylon?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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XXV
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
To wake from Hades, and their idle pose,
Those old Caesars, and the shades of those,
Who once raised this ancient city higher:
Or that I had Amphion's to inspire,
And with sweet harmony these stones enclose
To quicken them again, where they once rose,
Ausonian glory conjuring from its pyre:
Or that with skilful pencil I might draw
The portrait of these palaces once more,
With the spirit of some high Virgil filled;
I would attempt,
inflamed
by my ardour,
To recreate with the pen's slight power,
That which our own hands could never build.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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ostro sic niueus puniceo color
perfusus rubuit, sic nitidum iubar
pastor luce noua
roscidus
aspicit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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What are these,
So wither'd, and so wilde in their attyre,
That looke not like th'
Inhabitants
o'th' Earth,
And yet are on't?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
CORYDON
"The junipers and prickly
chestnuts
stand,
And 'neath each tree lie strewn their several fruits,
Now the whole world is smiling, but if fair
Alexis from these hill-slopes should away,
Even the rivers you would ; see run dry.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I pull in Resolution, and begin
To doubt th'
Equiuocation
of the Fiend,
That lies like truth.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Lest you be
the
martyred
slaves of Time, intoxicate yourselves, be drunken without
cease!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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please me," said
Coleridge
in "Table-Talk," "a poem must be either music or
sense.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I sawe the myndbruch of hys nobille soule 145
Whan Edwarde meniced a seconde wyfe;
I saw what
Pheryons
yn hys mynde dyd rolle;
Nowe fyx'd fromm seconde dames a preeste for lyfe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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Was jeder Handwerksbursch im Grund des Sackels spart,
Zum
Angedenken
aufbewahrt,
Und lieber hungert, lieber bettelt!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He lay as one who lies and dreams
In a
pleasant
meadow-land,
The watchers watched him as he slept,
And could not understand
How one could sleep so sweet a sleep
With a hangman close at hand.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Your
formidable
voice echoed in my ear.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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'Tis a known
principle
in war, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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For now, O morning chosen of all days, on thee
A
wondrous
duty lies:
There was an evening that did loveliness foretell;
Thence upon thee, O chosen morn, it fell
To fashion into perfect destiny
The radiant prophecy.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
'She ended, and plunged in the dense
blackness
of the night.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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{a}t is
engendred
nys stedfast no stable.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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to the
ramparts
of Cadmus they crowd,
And, clenched in the teeth of the steeds,
the bits clink horror aloud!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Instantly away we wandered
In the shadowy
twilight
tide,
She, the silent, scornful maiden,
Walking calmly at my side,
With a step serene and stately,
All in beauty, all in pride.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Afflict his queen, and with a
murderous
hand
Destroy his heir!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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[Steps aside]
Enter LONGAVILLE, with a paper
What, Longaville, and
reading!
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Shakespeare |
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After having vied with returned favours
squandered
treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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[_The
procession
moves forward, past him_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But dreams--of those who dream as I,
Aspiringly, are damned, and die:
Yet should I swear I mean alone,
By notes so very shrilly blown,
To break upon Time's monotone,
While yet my vapid joy and grief
Are tintless of the yellow leaf--
Why not an imp the graybeard hath,
Will shake his shadow in my path--
And e'en the graybeard will o'erlook
Connivingly
my dreaming-book.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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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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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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copyright
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so the
Foundation
(and you!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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If ever a man was happy to leave Boston,
That man is Simon Kempthorn of the
Swallow!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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INDIAN DANCERS
Eyes ravished with rapture,
celestially
panting,
what passionate bosoms aflaming with fire
Drink deep of the hush of the hyacinth
heavens that glimmer around them in
fountains of light;
O wild and entrancing the strain of keen music
that cleaveth the stars like a wail of desire,
And beautiful dancers with houri-like faces
bewitch the voluptuous watches of night.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
Unlike most
creative
critics, or most critics who were creative artists in
another medium, Coleridge, when he was writing criticism, wrote it wholly
for its own sake, almost as if it were a science.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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if thou art a goddess, and hast heard
A Goddess' voice, rehearse to me the lot
Of that unhappy one, if yet he live 1010
Spectator of the
cheerful
beams of day,
Or if, already dead, he dwell below.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Were you the earth, dear Love, and I the skies,
My love should shine on you like to the sun,
And look upon you with ten
thousand
eyes
Till heaven wax'd blind, and till the world were done.
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In his first 'Imitation of Horace',
published
in
February, 1733, he referred in the most unpardonable manner to a certain
Sappho, and the dangers attendant upon any acquaintance with her.
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The kingly lion stood,
And the virgin viewed:
Then he gambolled round
O'er the
hallowed
ground.
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blake-poems |
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, nisi quod
_mumine_
habet R:
_culmine_ Peiper
60 _adrianeis_ ?
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And my lord he loves me well;
But, when first he
breathed
his vow,
I felt my bosom swell--
For the words rang as a knell,
And the voice seemed _his_ who fell
In the battle down the dell,
And who is happy now.
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Bononiensis
(Bologna) 2744 saec.
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He
procured for young Ben an admission into his school, and there laid firm
foundations for that scholarship which the poet extended afterwards by
private study until his
learning
grew to be sworn-brother to his wit.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The
Commandant
of
Fort Nijneosern, a gentle and quiet young man, was known to me.
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In which couldst thou have understood their prayers,
The
vengeance
were already known to thee,
Which thou must witness ere thy mortal hour,
The sword of heav'n is not in haste to smite,
Nor yet doth linger, save unto his seeming,
Who in desire or fear doth look for it.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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When he eats, he is liver and
bowels and the whole digestive
apparatus
to the company, and so all
admit the thing is done.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Whether, apart
from the way the poet uses it, the subject ought to be an important one,
would not start a very
profitable
discussion.
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We have been together
Four Aprils now
Watching
for the green
On the swaying willow bough;
Yet whenever I turn
To your gray eyes over me,
It is as though I looked
For the first time at the sea.
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Sara Teasdale |
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It whirred like the water at a mill, and rushed and re-echoed,
terrible
to hear.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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After mentioning an
accident
to the Earl of Bedford he
continues: 'His lady who should have gone to the Spa but for lack of
money, shows herself again in court, though in her sickness she in a
manner vowed never to come there; but she verifies the proverb, _Nemo
ex morbo melior_.
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John Donne |
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ey wollde for no need
Com to gedur in
Flesschely
ded.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Their
artistic
methods of expression were totally
dissimilar.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The early lilacs became part of this child,
And grass, and white and red morning-glories,[1] and white and red clover,
and the song of the phoebe-bird,[2]
And the Third-month lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's
foal, and the cow's calf,
And the noisy brood of the barn-yard, or by the mire of the pond-side,
And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there--and the
beautiful, curious liquid,
And the water-plants with their
graceful
fiat heads--all became part of
him.
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Whitman |
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