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
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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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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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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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e ladi,
loflyest
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Encressen
eek the causes of my care;
So wel-a-wey, why nil myn herte breste?
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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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"
_Dublin
University
Magazine_.
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But thou,
exulting
and abounding river!
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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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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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'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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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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ein Hund, und kein
Gespenst
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restituis
cupido atque insperanti, ipsa refers te 5
nobis.
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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
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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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All
Summarised
The Soul.
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64
_Thou_ lay thy branch of
_laurel_
down (_Jeux d'Esprit, etc.
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Byron |
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"
At the soft-murmured words that were fulfilled
In the
seraphic
glancing of thine eyes--
Of all who owe thee most--whose gratitude
Nearest resembles worship--oh, remember
The truest--the most fervently devoted,
And think that these weak lines are written by him--
By him who, as he pens them, thrills to think
His spirit is communing with an angel's.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Unto thy
judgment
my soul have I given!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The sun was
glemeing
in the midde of daie,
Deadde still the aire, and eke the welken[9] blue,
When from the sea arist[10] in drear arraie 10
A hepe of cloudes of sable sullen hue,
The which full fast unto the woodlande drewe,
Hiltring[11] attenes[12] the sunnis fetive[13] face,
And the blacke tempeste swolne and gatherd up apace.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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'On the other hand, our
resources
are rich and reliable.
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Tacitus |
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Now was that people distant far in space
A
thousand
paces behind ours, as much
As at a throw the nervous arm could fling,
When all drew backward on the messy crags
Of the steep bank, and firmly stood unmov'd
As one who walks in doubt might stand to look.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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According to the moral and
poetical
sense, it is a
sacerdotal emblem in the hand of the priests or priestesses celebrating
the divinity of whom they are the interpreters and servants.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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VII
'Tis a
woodland
enchanted!
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James Russell Lowell |
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So Hermes thought, and a
celestial
heat
Burnt from his winged heels to either ear,
That from a whiteness, as the lily clear,
Blush'd into roses 'mid his golden hair,
Fallen in jealous curls about his shoulders bare.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Oh, sacrament of summer days,
Oh, last communion in the haze,
Permit a child to join,
Thy sacred emblems to partake,
Thy
consecrated
bread to break,
Taste thine immortal wine!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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My soul is like the oar that momently
Dies in a desperate stress beneath the wave,
Then
glitters
out again and sweeps the sea:
Each second I'm new-born from some new grave.
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Sidney Lanier |
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'Tis even said that Cupid lent supplies;
From
superstition
many things arise.
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La Fontaine |
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Party spirit ran high; and the republic seemed to be in danger of
falling under the dominion either of a narrow oligarchy or of an
ignorant and
headstrong
rabble.
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
That steer you up and down, and high and low,
Never remaining long, when once they show,
Pulling your chariot
endlessly
there and back:
My desires and yours are never a match,
Because the passions that pierce your soul,
And the ardours that inflame mine so,
Court different desires to ease their lack.
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Ronsard |
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XXII
Whom when the Prince, to battell new addrest, 190
And
threatning
high his dreadfull stroke did see,
His sparkling blade about his head he blest,
And smote off quite his right leg by the knee,
That downe he tombled; as an aged tree,
High growing on the top of rocky clift, 195
Whose hartstrings with keene steele nigh hewen be,
The mightie trunck halfe rent, with ragged rift
Doth roll adowne the rocks, and fall with fearefull drift.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XLII
Tho when he saw no power might prevaile, 370
His trustie sword he cald to his last aid,
Wherewith he fiercely did his foe assaile,
And double blowes about him stoutly laid,
That
glauncing
fire out of the yron plaid;
As sparckles from the Andvile use to fly, 375
When heavy hammers on the wedge are swaid;
Therewith at last he forst him to unty
One of his grasping feete, him to defend thereby.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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No, no;
But to our own work, to the blaze we
kindled!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Say of a
shameful
noose, insolent wretch!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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ultima quis tacuit iuuenum
certamina
Colchos?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Latona's
glorious
Son began:--'I pray
Tell, ancient hedger of Onchestus green,
Whether a drove of kine has passed this way,
All heifers with crooked horns?
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Shelley |
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More I know not: my roots lie hidden deep
My
branches
only are swayed by the wind.
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Rilke - Poems |
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
THE MOTHER MOURNS
WHEN mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time,
And sedges were horny,
And summer's green wonderwork faltered
On leaze and in lane,
I fared Yell'ham-Firs way, where dimly
Came
wheeling
around me
Those phantoms obscure and insistent
That shadows unchain.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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For if the virgin proved not theirs,
The
cloister
yet remained hers ;
Though many a Nun there made her voWy
'Twas no religious house till now.
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Marvell - Poems |
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e herbes 3484
had[de]
chau{n}ged
hir gestes i{n} to dyuerse maneres.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"I have been
thinking
all day," said gently the Puritan maiden,
"Dreaming all night, and thinking all day, of the hedge-rows of England,--
They are in blossom now, and the country is all like a garden;
Thinking of lanes and fields, and the song of the lark and the linnet,
Seeing the village street, and familiar faces of neighbors
Going about as of old, and stopping to gossip together,
And, at the end of the street, the village church, with the ivy
Climbing the old gray tower, and the quiet graves in the churchyard.
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Longfellow |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I not the
fondness
of your soul reprove
For such a lord!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--nothing else is heard;
At Rome a
different
conduct is preferred;
The cuckold there, who takes the thing to heart,
Is thought a fool, and acts a blockhead's part;
While he, who laughs, is always well received
And honest fellow through the town believed.
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La Fontaine |
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Respect the cypress on my mournful brow,
Lost
Happiness
hath left regret--but _thou_
Leavest remorse, alone.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But weary to the hearts of all
The burning glare, the barren reach
Of Santa Rosa's
withered
beach,
And Pensacola's ruined wall.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Clarinda,
Mistress
Of My Soul
Clarinda, mistres of my soul,
The measur'd time is run!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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His praise of
Augustus
and of Trajan was
never written.
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Tacitus |
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I to my leader's side adher'd, mine eyes
With fixt and motionless observance bent
On their
unkindly
visage.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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O may no wintry season, bare and hoary,
See it half finished: but let Autumn bold,
With
universal
tinge of sober gold,
Be all about me when I make an end.
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Keats |
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All men make faults, and even I in this,
Authorizing thy trespass with compare,
Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,
Excusing
thy sins more than thy sins are;
For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense,--
Thy adverse party is thy advocate,--
And 'gainst myself a lawful plea commence:
Such civil war is in my love and hate,
That I an accessary needs must be,
To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The son of Lethus, brave Pelasgus' heir,
Hippothous, dragg'd the carcase through the war;
The sinewy ankles bored, the feet he bound
With thongs inserted through the double wound:
Inevitable fate o'ertakes the deed;
Doom'd by great Ajax' vengeful lance to bleed:
It cleft the helmet's brazen cheeks in twain;
The shatter'd crest and horse-hair strow the plain:
With nerves relax'd he tumbles to the ground:
The brain comes gushing through the ghastly wound:
He drops Patroclus' foot, and o'er him spread,
Now lies a sad
companion
of the dead:
Far from Larissa lies, his native air,
And ill requites his parents' tender care.
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Iliad - Pope |
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as wisely wouldst thou strive
To warn a swelling wave: imagine not
That ever I before thy lord's resolve
Will shrink in womanish terror, and entreat,
As with soft suppliance of female hands,
The Power I scorn unto the utterance,
To loose me from the chains that bind me here--
A world's
division
'twixt that thought and me!
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Aeschylus |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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No things of air these antics were,
That
frolicked
with such glee:
To men whose lives were held in gyves,
And whose feet might not go free,
Ah!
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Wilde - Poems |
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His sensibility was both catholic and morbid, though he could
be frigid in the face of the most
disconcerting
misfortunes.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Soon after, being warned by the
boom of the gun to look up again, there was only the cannon in the
sky, the smoke just blowing away from it, as if the soldier, having
touched it off, had
concealed
himself for effect, leaving the sound to
echo grandly from shore to shore, and far up and down the river.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thou hast her: may no god
begrudge
your joy.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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A Negress
Possessed by some demon now a negress
Would taste a girl-child
saddened
by strange fruits
Forbidden ones too under the ragged dress,
This glutton's ready to try a trick or two:
To her belly she twins two fortunate tits
And, so high that no hand knows how to seize her,
Thrusts the dark shock of her booted legs
Just like a tongue unskilled in pleasure.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Is it worth while, dear, now,
To stir desire for old fond purposings,
By feints that Time still serves for dallyings,
Though
quittance
nears?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Just so may love, although 'tis understood
The mere
commingling
of passionate breath,
Produce more than our searching witnesseth:
What I know not: but who, of men, can tell
That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell
To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail,
The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale,
The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones, 840
The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones,
Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet,
If human souls did never kiss and greet?
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Keats |
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Stephen Crane |
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By this the stars were almost gone,
The moon was setting on the hill,
So pale you
scarcely
looked at her:
The little birds began to stir, 405
Though yet their tongues were still.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Some of the
distinctions
then made are no longer audible
to-day; the sub-divisions therefore seem arbitrary.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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To his Book_
SI tineas
cariemque
pati te, charta, necesse est,
incipe uersiculis ante perire meis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Yea, she hath passed hereby and blessed the sheaves And the great garths and stacks and quiet farms, And all the tawny and the crimson leaves,
Yea, she hath passed with poppies in her arms Under the star of dusk through
stealing
mist
_ And blest the earth and gone while no man wist.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Thou shalt hear the "Never, never," whisper'd by the phantom years,
And a song from out the distance in the ringing of thine ears;
And an eye shall vex thee, looking ancient
kindness
on thy pain.
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Tennyson |
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Not far aloof,
Slipped from his head, the
garlands
lay, and there
By its worn handle hung a ponderous cup.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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XII
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Pile peak on peak to scale the starry sky,
And fight against the very gods on high,
While Jove to his lightning-bolts gave birth:
Then all in thunder, suddenly reversed,
The furious squadrons
earthbound
lie,
Heaven glorying, while Earth must sigh,
Jove gaining all the honour and the worth:
So were once seen, in this mortal space,
Rome's Seven Hills raising a haughty face,
Against the very countenance of Heaven:
While now we see the fields, shorn of honour,
Lament their ruin, and the gods secure,
Dreading no more, on high, that fearful leaven.
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But still within my bosom's core
Shall live my
Highland
Mary.
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art yet could prevent these
seditious
meetings of let-
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ye Danes, now kenne,
I amme yatte Celmonde, seconde yn the fyghte,
Who dydd, atte Watchette, so
forslege
youre menne;
I fele myne eyne to swymme yn aeterne nyghte;--
To her be kynde.
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give me the streets of
Manhattan!
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34
Seek not to know which song or saying yields 37
As long as tinted haze the
mountain
covered 38
Ye speak of raptures that are void and friendless 39
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Fierce Love it was once steeled a mother's heart
With her own offspring's blood her hands to imbrue:
Mother, thou too wert cruel; say wert thou
More cruel, mother, or more
ruthless
he?
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_ Thy face
upturned
toward the throne is dark;
Thou hast no answer, Zerah.
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I scarce can think him such a
worthless
thing,
Unless he praise some monster of a king;
Or virtue, or religion turn to sport,
To please a lewd or unbelieving court.
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Among the Catholic
families of Queen Anne's day, who formed a little society of their own,
Miss
Arabella
Fermor was a reigning belle.
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While ghastly faces through the gloom appear, [146]
Abortive joy, and hope that works in fear; [147]
While prayer contends with silenced agony, [148]
Surely in other thoughts
contempt
may die.
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" Thereat the light,
That yet was new to me, from the recess,
Where it before was singing, thus began,
As one who joys in kindness: "In that part
Of the deprav'd Italian land, which lies
Between Rialto, and the fountain-springs
Of Brenta and of Piava, there doth rise,
But to no lofty eminence, a hill,
From whence
erewhile
a firebrand did descend,
That sorely sheet the region.
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(Bronzing under the tan and
bringing
down his hand very
quickly.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Jealously
she seeks me out, sweet secret love to expose.
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Remains the gleam
Of their late motion on the salt sea-meadow,
As
loveliest
hues linger when the sun's gone
And float in the heavens and die in reedy pools--
So slowly, who shall say when light is gone?
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HASSAN:
Even as that moon
Renews itself--
MAHMUD:
Shall we be not
renewed!
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