All with
obedient
haste forsake the shores,
And, placed in order, spread their equal oars.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Of all
the qualities we assign to the author and
director
of nature, by far
the most enviable is--to be able "to wipe away all tears from all
eyes.
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But the other name of
_Desperati_ they rejected as a calumny, retorting it back upon their
adversaries, who more justly
deserved
it.
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For his Aunt Jobiska said, "No harm
Can come to his toes if his nose is warm;
And it's
perfectly
known that a Pobble's toes
Are safe--provided he minds his nose.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Canzon : Nor doth God's light match light shed over me The
rltfflftwjgga
thy caught sunlight is about me thrown,
Oh, for the very ruth thine eyes have told, Answer the rune this love of thee hath taught me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Every other would have taken like offence,
And I'd have
suffered
insults the more intense.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The Emperor was so pleased with Po's talent that
whenever
he was
feasting or drinking he always had this poet to wait upon him.
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Li Po |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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From what book, moral or even
pious, will the susceptible young mind receive impressions more
congenial to humanity and kindness, generosity and benevolence; in
short, more of all that ennobles the soul to herself, or endears her
to others--than from the simple
affecting
tale of poor Harley?
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Robert Burns |
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I
wondered
if he really thought it fair
For him to have the say when we were done.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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In the 'Gardener's Daughter' we have the first of that delightful series
of poems dealing with scenes and characters from ordinary English life,
and named
appropriately
'English Idylls'.
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Tennyson |
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1505
`Thow
thinkest
now, "How sholde I doon al this?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Mihi
pergamena
deest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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er be a
blisfulnesse
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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er, myn
honoured
ladye3.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Fond of rambling, I hunted the shark 'long the beach,
And no osprey in ether soared out of my reach;
And the bear that I pinched 'twixt my finger and thumb,
Like the lynx and the wolf, perished
harmless
and dumb.
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Hugo - Poems |
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But, I am guilty of your sad decay;
May your few
fellowes
longer with me stay.
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John Donne |
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or sprung of the
needs of the less
developed
society of special ranks?
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Whitman |
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But when loud-thund'ring Jove that voyage dire
Ordain'd, which loos'd the knees of many a Greek,
Then, to
Idomeneus
and me they gave
The charge of all their fleet, which how to avoid
We found not, so importunate the cry 290
Of the whole host impell'd us to the task.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But now in the dusk the tide is turning,
Lower the sea gulls soar,
And the waves that rose in
resistless
yearning
Are broken forevermore.
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Sara Teasdale |
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She little dreams, her lover is so near,
The
clanking
chains, the rustling straw can hear;
[_He enters_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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e toumbe
richeliche
I-grey|?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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This rendered him dearer to woman's
heart than all the lyric effusions of his fancy; and when we add to
such allurements, a warm, flowing, and persuasive eloquence, we need
not wonder that woman
listened
and was won; that one of the most
charming damsels of the West said, an hour with him in the dark was
worth a lifetime of light with any other body; or that the
accomplished and beautiful Duchess of Gordon declared, in a latter
day, that no man ever carried her so completely off her feet as Robert
Burns.
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Robert Forst |
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or engaged in
business?
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Whitman |
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If I were young as thou, if these grey hairs
Had not already
streaked
my beard--Dost take me?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Has the cock's-feather, too, escaped
attention?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And he had learned to love,--I know not why,
For this in such as him seems strange of mood,--
The helpless looks of blooming infancy,
Even in its
earliest
nurture; what subdued,
To change like this, a mind so far imbued
With scorn of man, it little boots to know;
But thus it was; and though in solitude
Small power the nipped affections have to grow,
In him this glowed when all beside had ceased to glow.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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COUNTING SHEEP
Half-awake I walked
A dimly-seen sweet
hawthorn
lane
Until sleep came;
I lingered at a gate and talked
A little with a lonely lamb.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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_"
[The command which the Comyns held on the Nith was lost to the
Douglasses: the Nithsdale power, on the downfall of that proud name,
was divided; part went to the Charteris's and the better portion to
the Maxwells: the
Johnstones
afterwards came in for a share, and now
the Scots prevail.
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Robert Forst |
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Perhaps Keats had some recollection of Wordsworth's sonnet 'Upon the
sight of a
beautiful
picture,' beginning 'Praised be the art.
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Keats |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure
nocturnal
cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Water dashed on the coals
suddenly
smothers their glow.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Silly rich peasants stamp the carpets of men,
Dead men who dreamed fragrance and light
Into their woof, their lives;
The rug of an honest bear
Under the feet of a cryptic slave
Who speaks always of baubles,
Forgetting state, multitude, work, and state,
Champing
and mouthing of hats,
Making ratful squeak of hats,
Hats.
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Stephen Crane |
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The house
trembles
and creaks.
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Imagists |
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Our
household
is but small, I own,
And yet needs care, if truth were known.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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This day a solemn Feast the people hold
To Dagon thir Sea-Idol, and forbid
Laborious
works, unwillingly this rest
Thir Superstition yields me; hence with leave
Retiring from the popular noise, I seek
This unfrequented place to find some ease,
Ease to the body some, none to the mind
From restless thoughts, that like a deadly swarm
Of Hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, 20
But rush upon me thronging, and present
Times past, what once I was, and what am now.
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Milton |
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_The Hue and Cry_ was
played
February
9, 1608.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Gleams like a pool the ballroom floor--
A
burnished
solitude.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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" we cry, and lo, apace
Pleasure
appears!
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Hugo - Poems |
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The Phoenix was the
mythical
bird that rose again from the ashes of its own immolation.
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Ronsard |
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et le chant clair des
malheurs
nouveaux!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Now when, declining from the noon of day,
The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray;
When hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 85
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine;
When merchants from th' Exchange return in peace,
And the long labours of the toilet cease,
The board's with cups and spoons, alternate, crowned,
The berries crackle, and the mill turns round; 90
On shining altars of Japan they raise
The silver lamp, and fiery spirits blaze:
From silver spouts the
grateful
liquors glide,
While China's earth receives the smoking tide.
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Alexander Pope |
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632
625 _The Arbiter of
pleasure
and of play_.
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Byron |
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As ouphant faieries, whan the moone sheenes bryghte, 475
In littel circles daunce upon the greene,
All living creatures flie far from their syghte,
Ne by the race of destinie be seen;
For what he be that ouphant
faieries
stryke,
Their soules will wander to Kyng Offa's dyke.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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Keats - Lamia |
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What man is there so much unreasonable,
If you had pleas'd to have
defended
it
With any terms of zeal, wanted the modesty
To urge the thing held as a ceremony?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It is a pity to doubt
this green hair legend;
presently
a man of genius will not be able to
enjoy an epileptic fit in peace--as does a banker or a beggar.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And who avers the
contrary?
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Aristophanes |
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And don't you see that changeableness,
Is to lose time's joy in heart's
yearning?
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Li Po |
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I dried my tears, and armed my fears
With ten
thousand
shields and spears.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And
cigarettes
in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Eftsoones
the Gard, which on his state did wait, 310
Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait:
Who seeming sorely chauffed at his band,
As chained Beare, whom cruell dogs do bait,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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With dredful vois the formel hir answerde,
My rightful lady, goddesse of Nature,
Soth is that I am ever under your yerde, 640
Lyk as is
everiche
other creature,
And moot be youres whyl my lyf may dure;
And therfor graunteth me my firste bone,
And myn entente I wol yow sey right sone.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The nephew does things very
shabbily, and I think the
Memsahib
must help him.
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Kipling - Poems |
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This
bird, the Great Northern Diver, well deserves its name; for when
pursued with a boat, it will dive, and swim like a fish under water,
for sixty rods or more, as fast as a boat can be paddled, and its
pursuer, if he would
discover
his game again, must put his ear to the
surface to hear where it comes up.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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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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Though they be broken they have
piercing
eyes,
That shine like pools where water sleeps at night;
The astonished and divine eyes of a child
Who laughs at all that glitters in the world.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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She was
purely an Indian deity--an Anglo-Indian deity, that is to say--and
we called her THE Venus Annodomini, to
distinguish
her from other
Annodominis of the same everlasting order.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Li Po |
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A LETTER FROM A CANDIDATE IN THE
PRESIDENCY
IN ANSWER
TO SUTTIN QUESTIONS PROPOSED BY Mr.
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Holy Satyr _151_
Lais _153_
Heliodora _156_
Toward the Piraeus _161_
_Slay with your eyes, Greek_
_You would have broken my wings_
_I loved you_
_What had you done_
_If I had been a boy_
_It was not chastity that made me cold_
CONRAD AIKEN
Seven Twilights _171_
_The ragged pilgrim on the road to nowhere_
_Now by the wall of the ancient town_
_When the tree bares, the music of it changes_
_"This is the hour," she says, "of transmutation"_
_Now the great wheel of
darkness
and low clouds_
_Heaven, you say, will be a field in April_
_In the long silence of the sea_
Tetelestai _184_
EDNA ST.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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If the question were put to me I should
probably
evade it by
pointing out that Mr.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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The Spanish and Portuguese
historians
differ widely in their
accounts of the parentage of this gallant stranger.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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As if confusing
darkness
came 1819.
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William Wordsworth |
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If she wants me not, I'd rather
I'd died the day my service
commenced!
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Troubador Verse |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: XCIV
Whether her golden hair curls languidly,
Or whether it swims by, in two flowing waves
That over her breasts wander there, and stray,
And across her neck float playfully:
Whether a knot, ornamented richly,
With many a ruby, many a rounded pearl,
Ties the stream of her
rippling
curls,
My heart delights itself, contentedly.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Has not the god of the green world, 5
In his large
tolerant
wisdom,
Filled with the ardours of earth
Her twenty summers?
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Sappho |
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On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty flitches decorate the walls,
Moore's
Almanack
where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
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John Clare |
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One band ye cannot break,--the force that clips
And grasps your circles to the central light;
Yours is the
prodigal
comet's long ellipse,
Self-exiled to the farthest verge of night;
Yet strives with you no less that inward might
No sin hath e'er imbruted;
The god in you the creed-dimmed eye eludes;
The Law brooks not to have its solitudes
By bigot feet polluted;
Yet they who watch your God-compelled return
May see your happy perihelion burn
Where the calm sun his unfledged planets broods.
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I haue put it in
scripture
{and} remembraunce.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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e
p{ro}pre
fortunes of poure feble
folke.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Woe and alack for the sound,
for the rattle of cars to the wall,
And the creak of the
grinding
axles!
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Aeschylus |
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"Then
carelessly
remark 'Old coon!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Lewis Carroll |
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572
The
Assyrian
came down like the wolf on the fold (_Hebrew Melodies_),
iii.
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Byron |
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LXXV
So are you to my
thoughts
as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'Tis possible, besides,
That a big bulk of piled sand may bar
His mouths against his onward waves, when sea,
Wild in the winds, tumbles the sand to inland;
Whereby the river's outlet were less free,
Likewise less headlong his
descending
floods.
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Lucretius |
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each his center basement finds; suspended there they stand
{According
to Erdman, the word "center" was originally deleted by Blake with a strong ink stroke and therefore not easily erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The chill air comes around me oceanly,
From bank to bank the waterstrife is spread;
Strange birds like
snowspots
oer the whizzing sea
Hang where the wild duck hurried past and fled.
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John Clare |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"_
[A long and wearisome ditty, called "The Highland Lad and Lowland
Lassie," which Burns
compressed
into these stanzas, for Johnson's
Museum.
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Robert Burns |
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Before that dire
disgrace
shall blast my fame,
O'erwhelm me, earth; and hide a warrior's shame!
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Iliad - Pope |
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She was busy winding thread,
which a little, old, one-eyed man in an officer's uniform was holding on
his
outstretched
hands.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_ O
Strength
and Force, for you, our Zeus's will
Presents a deed for doing, no more!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Et, faisant la victime et la petite epouse,
Son etoile la vit, une chandelle aux doigts,
Descendre
dans la cour ou sechait une blouse,
Spectre blanc, et lever les spectres noirs des toits.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Footsteps
shuffled
on the stair.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Les Odes: O
Fontaine
Bellerie
O Fount of Bellerie,
Fountain sweet to see,
Dear to our Nymphs when, lo,
Waves hide them at your source
Fleeing the Satyr so,
Who follows them, in his course,
To the borders of your flow.
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Ronsard |
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