"
Whoso can deem, how fondly I had fed
My sight upon her
blissful
countenance,
May know, when to new thoughts I chang'd, what joy
To do the bidding of my heav'nly guide:
In equal balance poising either weight.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I'd have been before her with that course,
Love would have swiftly
inspired
the thought.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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gone was every friend of thine:
And kindred of dead husband are at best
Small help, and, after marriage such as mine,
With little
kindness
would to me incline.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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They are
carrying
it towards the Five Gates,
To the West of the Main Road.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Master Matthew in any case, possess no gentlemen
of our
acquaintance
with notice of my lodging.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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So long as I
Stand by the
youthful
tsar, so long he will not
Forsake the throne.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of the Cape,
Who
possessed
a large Barbary Ape;
Till the Ape, one dark night, set the house all alight,
Which burned that Old Man of the Cape.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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In the ancestral home in the village of ---- is still shown the
autograph letter of
Catherine
II.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And doc^ in the
pomegranates
close.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Say what strange motive,
Goddess!
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Alexander Pope |
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Now the mother drops breath; she is dumb, and her heart goes dead for a space,
Till the motherhood, mistress of death, shrieks, shrieks through the glen,
And that place of the lashing is live with men,
And Maclean, and the gillie that told him, dash up in a
desperate
race.
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Sidney Lanier |
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But the traveller, travelling through it,
May not--dare not openly view it;
Never its
mysteries
are exposed
To the weak human eye unclosed;
So wills its King, who hath forbid
The uplifting of the fringed lid;
And thus the sad Soul that here passes
Beholds it but through darkened glasses.
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Poe - 5 |
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And the pine stood quivering
As the awful word went by,
Like a vibrant music-string
Stretched from mountain-peak to sky;
And the platan did expand
Slow and gradual, branch and head;
And the cedar's strong black shade
Fluttered
brokenly and grand:
Grove and wood were swept aslant
In emotion jubilant.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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We are no other than a moving row
Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go
Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held
In
Midnight
by the Master of the Show;
LXIX.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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From the cool shade I hear the silver plash
Of the blown
fountain
at the garden's end.
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Sappho |
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Pretty
friendship
'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping melancholy mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Before he should thus stoop to th' herd, but that
The violent fit o' th' time craves it as physic
For the whole state, I would put mine armour on,
Which I can
scarcely
bear.
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Shakespeare |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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R: _crusantem_
Baehrens:
7 _rigida_ ex _ridida_ G
LVII
Pulcre
conuenit
improbis cinaedis,
Mamurrae pathicoque Caesarique.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"O hush thee, gentle
popinjay!
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Lewis Carroll |
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_Heavens
liberall and earths thrice fairer Sunne.
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John Donne |
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Nor can I conceal, goddesses, in what way
Allius has aided me, or with how many good offices he has
assisted
me; nor
shall fleeting time with its forgetful centuries cover with night's
blindness this care of his.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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But this soul-nest is also a
cemetery
of the seven
sorrows.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Still shine the words that
miniature
his deeds.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Or from a judge turn pleader, to persuade
The choice we make, or justify it made;
Proud of an easy conquest all along,
She but removes weak
passions
for the strong;
So, when small humours gather to a gout,
The doctor fancies he has driven them out.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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It is, nevertheless,
A feeling of sadness and longing
That is not akin to pain,
And
resembles
sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.
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Poe - 5 |
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Nor am I
So ill to look on: lately on the beach
I saw myself, when winds had stilled the sea,
And, if that mirror lie not, would not fear
Daphnis to challenge, though
yourself
were judge.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"A shame it is, our aimless life;
I rather from my heart would feed
From silver dish in gilded stall
With wheat and wine the steed--
"The
faithful
steed that bore my lord
In safety through the hostile land,
The faithful steed that arched his neck
To fondle with my hand.
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Christina Rossetti |
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XX
To Olga frequently he would
Some nice
instructive
novel read,
Whose author nature understood
Better than Chateaubriand did
Yet sometimes pages two or three
(Nonsense and pure absurdity,
For maiden's hearing deemed unfit),
He somewhat blushing would omit:
Far from the rest the pair would creep
And (elbows on the table) they
A game of chess would often play,
Buried in meditation deep,
Till absently Vladimir took
With his own pawn alas!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Hearke, who lyes i'th' second
Chamber?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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_quia_) O
18
_turgidoli_
R m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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[9]
At the end of Book I in the
Assyrian
text and at the end of Col.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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For each
ecstatic
instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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THE COUNTER-TURN
This made you first to know the why
You liked, then after, to apply
That liking; and
approach
so one the t'other,
Till either grew a portion of the other:
Each styled by his end,
The copy of his friend.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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In fact, they are so busy about it, in the
midst of the
chestnut
season, that you cannot stand long in the woods
without hearing one fall.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thorne, 360
" Small House at Allington, 361
" Last
Chronicles
of Barset, 391, 392
Trotter's The Bayard of India, 396
" Hodson, of Hodson's Horse, 401
" Warren Hastings, 452
Turgeniev's Virgin Soil, 528
" Liza, 677
" Fathers and Sons, 742
Tyndall's Glaciers of the Alps, 98
Tytler's Principles of Translation, 168
Vasari's Lives of the Painters, 784-7
Verne's (Jules) Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, 319
" Dropped from the Clouds, 367
" Abandoned, 368
" The Secret of the Island, 369
" Five Weeks in a Balloon and Around the World in Eighty
Days, 779
Virgil's AEneid, 161
" Eclogues and Georgics, 222
Voltaire's Life of Charles XII.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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We feel so grateful, when to soft discourses
Of tree-tops,
slanting
rays towards us travel,
And only look, and listen when in pauses,
The ripened fruit resounds upon the gravel.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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O great Latonian progeny, 5
Of greatest Jove descendancy,
Whom mother bare 'neath olive-tree,
Deep in the Delian dell;
That of the
mountains
reign thou Queen
And forest ranges ever green, 10
And coppices by man unseen,
And rivers resonant.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Chvabrine began to fumble in his pockets, and ended by
declaring
he had
forgotten the key.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Calais, the wind is come and heaven pales And
trembles
for the love of day to be.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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What if that light 140
Sent from her through the wide transpicuous aire,
To the terrestrial Moon be as a Starr
Enlightning
her by Day, as she by Night
This Earth?
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Milton |
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Indi al cantar tornavano; indi donne
gridavano
e mariti che fuor casti
come virtute e matrimonio imponne.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Petrarch |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Keats |
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What confusion would cover the
innocent
Jesus
To meet so enabled a man!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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So Claudius charged and overthrew
The grim barbarian's mail-clad host,
The
foremost
and the hindmost slew,
And conquer'd all, and nothing lost.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Generally
it is the
middle of the night when they come to fetch him.
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Aristophanes |
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Page 59
Goddes
seruaunte
anon was sought,
but who hit was ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Who's there
i'th' name of
Belzebub?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Gorgeous
clouds of the sunset!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Lewis Carroll |
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But ALL subsists by
elemental
strife;
And Passions are the elements of Life.
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Alexander Pope |
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I feel my anger
cooling!
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Aristophanes |
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Burns's
compliments
to Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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Stunn'd by that loud and
dreadful
sound,
Which sky and ocean smote:
Like one that hath been seven days drown'd
My body lay afloat:
But, swift as dreams, myself I found
Within the Pilot's boat.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Will he return when the Winter
Huddles the sheep, and Orion
Goes to his
hunting?
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Sappho |
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Though kingdoms join, yet church will kirk
oppose;
The mitre still divides, the crown does close ;
As in
Hogation
week they whip us round.
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Marvell - Poems |
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But then, my wife is 15
Such an
vntoward
thing!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"I taught you of kissing," says she; "that
becomes every
courteous
knight.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Only five survived, who
afterwards
assisted him to build the city of
Thebes.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But in these weeks of the awakening Spring
Something
within me has been freed--something
That in the past dark years unconscious lay,
Which rises now within me and commands
And gives my poor warm life into your hands
Who know not what I was that Yesterday.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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This wonder
Athenaean
Pallas wrought,
She cloath'd me even with what form she would,
For so she can.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Give me the lyre, I said, and let me sing
My song of battle: Words like flaming stars
Shot down with power to burn the palaces;
Words like bright
javelins
to fly with fierce
Hate of the oily Philistines and glide
Through all the seven heavens till they pierce
The pious hypocrites who dare to creep
Into the Holy Places.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The Cossack eats Poland,
Like stolen fruit;
Her last noble is ruined,
Her last poet mute:
Straight, into double band
The victors divide;
Half for freedom strike and stand;--
The
astonished
Muse finds thousands at her side.
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Emerson - Poems |
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--more like an out-of-tune
Worn viol, a good singer would be wroth
To spoil his song with, and which,
snatched
in haste,
Is laid down at the first ill-sounding note.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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*Unguided
Love hath fallen--'mid "tears of perfect moan.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Sometimes a
clockwork
puppet pressed
A phantom lover to her breast,
Sometimes they seemed to try to sing.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And
microbes
more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
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Appoloinaire |
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hunc tu, diua, tuo recubantem corpore sancto
circumfusa
super, suauis ex ore loquelas
funde petens placidam Romanis, incluta, pacem.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Another said--"Why, ne'er a peevish Boy
Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy;
Shall He that made the Vessel in pure Love
And Fansy, in an after Rage
destroy!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The third of the same moon whose former course
Had all but crowned him, on the self-same day
Deposed him gently from his throne of force,
And laid him with the earth's
preceding
clay.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Thou, whose exterior
semblance
doth belie
Thy soul's immensity;
Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep
Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind,
That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep,
Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,--
Mighty prophet!
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Golden Treasury |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings from broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their
household
fires.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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e ladi,
loflyest
to be-holde,
1188 ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Encressen
eek the causes of my care;
So wel-a-wey, why nil myn herte breste?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The Gyant selfe
dismaied
with that sownd, 40
Where he with his Duessa dalliance fownd,
In hast came rushing forth from inner bowre,
With staring countenance sterne, as one astownd,
And staggering steps, to weet, what suddein stowre,
Had wrought that horror strange, and dar'd his dreaded powre.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
_Dublin
University
Magazine_.
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Hugo - Poems |
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But thou,
exulting
and abounding river!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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(_thought to sever_), 732;
mynte se mǣra, þǣr hē meahte swā, wīdre
gewindan
(_intended to flee_), 763.
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Beowulf |
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To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your
threshold
down,
Townsman of a stiller town.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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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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All
complained
of the famine, which was, indeed, awful.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And did you mark the Cyprian kiss white Adon on his
catafalque?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful
Athenian
courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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ein Hund, und kein
Gespenst
ist da.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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restituis
cupido atque insperanti, ipsa refers te 5
nobis.
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Latin - Catullus |
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I introduce this into the text
from the Museum manuscript as agreeing with the
"Well, I can quaff, I see,
To th' number five
Or nine"
of _A
Bacchanalian
Verse_ (_Hesperides_ 653), on which see Note.
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Robert Herrick |
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'Tis Love's caprice to freeze the bosom now
With bolts of ice, with shafts of flame now burn;
And which his lighter pang, I scarce discern--
Or hope or fear, or
whelming
fire or snow.
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Petrarch |
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My hat
offendeth
not.
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Longfellow |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
'And so that you may carry news of me, know that I am
Bertrand
de Born,
he who gave evil counsel to the Young King.
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