When to thy
greatest
bliss thou saidst farewell,
Thou didst depart alone: it stay'd with her,
Nor cares from those bright eyes, its home, to stir.
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In the dim meadows desolate
Dost thou
remember
Sicily?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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See, Antony, that revels long o' nights,
Is
notwithstanding
up.
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329
IN DUOS MONTES,
AMOSCLIVIUM
ET BIL-
BOREUM.
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Men of England,
wherefore
plough
For the lords who lay ye low?
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Shelley |
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And so, since nature of mind
And even of soul is found to be, as 'twere,
A part of man, give over "harmony"--
Name to musicians brought from Helicon,--
Unless
themselves
they filched it otherwise,
To serve for what was lacking name till then.
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Lucretius |
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If the third stalk
wants the "top-pickle," that is, the grain at the top of the
stalk, the party in
question
will come to the marriage-bed
anything but a maid.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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]
CU{M} PHEBI RADIIS G{RA}UE
CA{N}C{R}I
SID{US} ENESTUAT.
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naught but shame and woe
Nurse the sick heart whose life-blood nurses thine:
Yet not those only; love hath
triumphed
so,
As for thy sake makes sorrow more divine: 380
And yet, though thou be pure, the world is foe
To purity, if born in such a shrine;
And, having trampled it for struggling thence,
Smiles to itself, and calls it Providence.
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"
Lady Hutchinson:--"Sonnets," by the late
Lieutenant
Henry William
Hutchinson.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
* * * * *
But when the morning of a tournament,
By these in earnest those in mockery call'd
The Tournament of the Dead Innocence,
Brake with a wet wind blowing, Lancelot,
Round whose sick head all night, like birds of prey,
The words of Arthur flying shriek'd, arose,
And down a streetway hung with folds of pure
White samite, and by
fountains
running wine,
Where children sat in white with cups of gold,
Moved to the lists, and there, with slow sad steps
Ascending, fill'd his double-dragon'd chair.
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--Loin du monde railleur, loin de la foule impure,
Loin des
magistrats
curieux,
Dors en paix, dors en paix, etrange creature,
Dans ton tombeau mysterieux;
Ton epoux court le monde, et ta forme immortelle
Veille pres de lui quand il dort;
Autant que toi sans doute il te sera fidele,
Et constant jusques a la mort.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Biographical Note:
Sara
Teasdale
(1884-1933):
Teasdale was born in St.
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An
everywhere
of silver,
With ropes of sand
To keep it from effacing
The track called land.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The hour's
advancing!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Spring up--sway forward--
follow the
quickest
one,
aye, though you leave the trail
and drop exhausted at our feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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--First
published
in _Times of India_, Bombay, July, 1874.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Still hangs the hedge without a gust,
Still, still the shadows stay:
My feet upon the moonlit dust
Pursue the
ceaseless
way.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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--Of the Doom of the Suitors_
On the morrow came
Penelope
to the Wooers, bearing the bow of her lord.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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i'th' name of truth
Are ye fantasticall, or that indeed
Which
outwardly
ye shew?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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He
has given me three days; if at the end of that time I do not become his
wife I need expect no more
consideration
at his hands.
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Have you
reckoned
them for a trade, or farm-work?
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Whitman |
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The Voice
Atoms as old as stars,
Mutation on mutation,
Millions
and millions of cells
Dividing yet still the same,
From air and changing earth,
From ancient Eastern rivers,
From turquoise tropic seas,
Unto myself I came.
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Sara Teasdale |
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In this space of time it was
his custom to develop and perfect the
inspirations
of the
remaining portion of the year.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And lastly, it were not amiss that they gave some
account, too, of their
Christianity
; for the world has
hitherto been so uncivil as to expect something of that
from the clergy, in the design and style even of their
lightest and most uncanonical writings.
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Marvell - Poems |
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10
Quin tu animo
offirmas
atque istinc teque reducis
Et dis invitis desinis esse miser?
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'
Then the son of Saturn, compeller of the ocean deep, uttered thus: 'It
is wholly right, O Cytherean, that thy trust should be in my realm,
whence thou drawest birth; and I have
deserved
it: often have I allayed
the rage and full fury of sky and sea.
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is kny3t, & to his cler arme3,
632 For ay
faythful
in fyue & sere fyue sy?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And
wherefore
ride ye in such guise
Before the ranks of Rome?
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FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 298: Another
northern
bard has sketched this eminent
musician--
"The blythe Strathspey springs up, reminding some
Of nights when Gow's old arm, (nor old the tale,)
Unceasing, save when reeking cans went round,
Made heart and heel leap light as bounding roe.
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Robert Forst |
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A PEASANT,
_husband
of Electra_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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'tis a
touching
tale.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I proceed to the pleasure arising from the exercise of eloquence;
a pleasure which does not consist in the mere sensation of the moment,
but is felt through life,
repeated
every day, and almost every hour.
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Tacitus |
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The count Rollanz no way himself secures,
Strikes with his spear, long as the shaft endures,
By fifteen blows it is clean broken through
Then Durendal he bares, his sabre good
Spurs on his horse, is gone to strike Chemuble,
The helmet breaks, where bright
carbuncles
grew,
Slices the cap and shears the locks in two,
Slices also the eyes and the features,
The hauberk white, whose mail was close of woof,
Down to the groin cuts all his body through
To the saddle; with beaten gold 'twas tooled.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Many old rotten-timber'd boats there be
Upon thy
vaporous
bosom, magnified
To goodly vessels; many a sail of pride, 20
And golden keel'd, is left unlaunch'd and dry.
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Keats |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Meanwhile
his brother, press'd with equal woes,
Alike denied the gifts of soft repose,
Laments for Greece, that in his cause before
So much had suffer'd and must suffer more.
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Iliad - Pope |
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But he himself is coming
To his
ancestral
throne with dreadful escort.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
Binkie turned over on his back on the hearth-rug, and Dick stirred him
with a
meditative
foot.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And in one year the work of ages acts ;
While heavy
monarchs
make a wide retprn.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Erdman does not note this
placement
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"
CLXXIV
But Rollant felt that death had made a way
Down from his head till on his heart it lay;
Beneath a pine running in haste he came,
On the green grass he lay there on his face;
His olifant and sword beneath him placed,
Turning his head towards the pagan race,
Now this he did, in truth, that Charles might say
(As he desired) and all the Franks his race;--
'Ah, gentle count;
conquering
he was slain!
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Chanson de Roland |
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My
thoughts
shall wander in the Great Void (_bis_).
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Deep in the tortuous folds of ancient towns,
Where all, even horror, to
enchantment
turns,
I watch, obedient to my fatal mood,
For the decrepit, strange and charming beings,
The dislocated monsters that of old
Were lovely women--Lais or Eponine!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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What
fortitude
the soul contains,
That it can so endure
The accent of a coming foot,
The opening of a door!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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e
comlokest
kyng ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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What agitation languidly
My spirit and my blood doth move,
What sad emotions o'er me steal
When first upon my cheek I feel
The breath of Spring again renewed,
Secure in rural quietude--
Or, strange to me is
happiness?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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As
the prophet who would bring to the world a great
possession
must go
forth into the desert to be alone until the kingdom comes to him from
within, so the poet must leave the world in order to gain the deeper
understanding, to be face to face with God.
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Rilke - Poems |
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But though you yielded him unto the knife
And altar with a royal sacrifice
Of your most
precious
self and dearer life--
Your master gem and pearl above all price--
Content you; for the dawn this night restores
Shall be the dayspring of his soul and yours.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Is Spenser's character
drawing objective or
subjective?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Men
thronged
the inns.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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They are marching, stern and solemn; we can see each massive column
As they near the naked earth-mound with the
slanting
walls
so steep.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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My old
retainer
at last
decided to get up on the top of the stove,[25] while the host lay down
on the floor.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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'
She spoke; but the other sped lightly down the aery sky, girt about with
dark
whirlwind
on her echoing way.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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'709'
The allusion is to the sack of Rome by the
Constable
Bourbon's army in
1527.
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Alexander Pope |
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Still louder the
breakwater
sounds,
And hissing it beats the surf
Up to the sand-dune heights.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Eclogue
The Faun
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Your name from hence immortal life shall have,
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:
The earth can yield me but a common grave,
When you
entombed
in men's eyes shall lie.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"Here was a corn field; reapers in a row,
Each with a sharp-tooth'd sickle in his hand,
Work'd busily, and, as the harvest fell,
Others were ready still to bind the sheaves:
Yoked to a wain that bore the corn away
The steers were moving; sturdy
bullocks
here
The plough were drawing, and the furrow'd glebe
Was black behind them, while with goading wand
The active youths impell'd them.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Since a Norman duke broke your gods of clay,
Eternally, beneath Virgil's laurel spray,
The pale
hydrangea
is wed to the green myrtle.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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XVII
He was, to weete, a stout and sturdy thiefe, 145
Wont to robbe Churches of their ornaments,
And poore mens boxes of their due reliefe,
Which given was to them for good intents;
The holy Saints of their rich vestiments
He did disrobe, when all men
carelesse
slept, 150
And spoild the Priests of their habiliments,
Whiles none the holy things in safety kept;
Then he by conning sleights in at the window crept.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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For either all things must
be reduced to nothing (or have no relation to anything else), and,
destitute
of a head, float about without control or order; or if
there be anything to which all things tend, that must be the
supreme good.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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my pet's delicious joy,
Wherewith in bosom nurst to toy
She loves, and gives her finger-tip
For sharp-nib'd greeding neb to nip,
Were she who my desire withstood 5
To seek some pet of merry mood,
As crumb o' comfort for her grief,
Methinks
her burning lowe's relief:
Could I, as plays she, play with thee,
That mind might win from misery free!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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No, not if the blow
Is as the
lightning
blasting a tree,
I fear you not, puffing braggart.
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Stephen Crane |
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" And
he sums up this one man's greatness: "Sometime it will be
realized
what
has made this great artist so supreme.
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Rilke - Poems |
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That a
passionate
intense
Love be sired,
One by my body well-desired,
Yet I'd rather of you demand
A kiss than any other woman,
So why does my love refuse me
When she knows I need her truly?
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Troubador Verse |
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Now one breathes here the
rankness
of desolation.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Decline not thou
Her love, that she may both release thy friends,
And may with
kindness
entertain thyself.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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I walk face lowered, and I glower,
And neither song nor
hawthorn
flower,
Can please me more than winter's ice.
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Troubador Verse |
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Contact the
Foundation
as set forth in Section 3 below.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I shall not want Pipit in Heaven:
Madame
Blavatsky
will instruct me
In the Seven Sacred Trances;
Piccarda de Donati will conduct me.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Behind them was the wood
Full of black female mastiffs, gaunt and fleet,
As
greyhounds
that have newly slipp'd the leash.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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At last they mount on their swift
coursing
steeds.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Dusky and huge, enlarging on the sight,
Nature's volcanic amphitheatre,
Chimera's alps extend from left to right:
Beneath, a living valley seems to stir;
Flocks play, trees wave, streams flow, the mountain fir
Nodding above; behold black
Acheron!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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What blow has
snatched
him?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Whether the poet conjures from the
depths of myth _The Kings in Legends_, or whether we read from _The
Chronicle of a Monk_ the awe-inspiring description of _The Last Judgment
Day_, or whether in Paris on a Palm Sunday we see _The Maidens at
Confirmation_, the
pictures
presented stand out with the clearness and
finality of the typical.
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Rilke - Poems |
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He advances from the
assembly
to the tomb among a throng
of many thousands that crowd about him; here he pours on the ground in
fit libation two goblets of pure wine, two of new milk, two of
consecrated blood, and flings bright blossoms, saying thus: 'Hail, holy
father, once again; hail, ashes of him I saved in vain, and soul and
shade of my sire!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous
mendiants
morts saouls de biere
Vous les aveugles comme le destin
Et vous petits enfants morts en priere
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Und dem verdammten Zeug, der Tier- und Menschenbrut,
Dem ist nun gar nichts anzuhaben:
Wie viele hab ich schon
begraben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The child wakes again and screams at the yellow
petalled
flower flickering
at the window.
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Imagists |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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He almost
worshipped
Petrarch, and it was his influence that
induced the poet to settle at Milan.
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Petrarch |
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E Sordello anco: <
tra le grandi ombre, e
parleremo
ad esse;
grazioso fia lor vedervi assai>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
"I don't see anything very
striking
in the fact that a woman of eighty
refuses to gamble," objected Naroumov.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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THE permutation could not well be made,
But scandal would such
practices
upbraid;
In country villages each step is seen;
Thus, round the whisper went of what had been,
And placed at length the thorn where all was ease;
The pow'rs divine alone it could displease.
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La Fontaine |
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Thus, when Louis the
Fourteenth instituted a new order of chivalry for the rewarding
of military merit, he commended it to the favor of his own
glorified
ancestor
and patron, and decreed that all the members
of the fraternity should meet at the royal palace on the feast of
St.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Is Heaven a
physician?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For shivered arms and ensigns
Were heaped there in a mound,
And corpses stiff, and dying men
That writhed and gnawed the ground;
And wounded horses kicking,
And
snorting
purple foam:
Right well did such a couch befit
A Consular of Rome.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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