The
original
Rubaiyat (as,
missing an Arabic Guttural, these Tetrastichs are more musically
called) are independent Stanzas, consisting each of four Lines of
equal, though varied, Prosody; sometimes all rhyming, but oftener (as
here imitated) the third line a blank.
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Then they followed
Where the vision led,
And saw their
sleeping
child
Among tigers wild.
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Methinks I see him there,
Now looking from the window, and now watching
Each sound of wheels or
footfall
in the street,
And saying, "Hark!
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They hanged him as a beast is hanged:
They did not even toll
A requiem that might have brought
Rest to his startled soul,
But
hurriedly
they took him out,
And hid him in a hole.
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or a fine
Sad memory, with thy songs to
interfuse?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Neither must we draw out our
allegory
too long,
lest either we make ourselves obscure, or fall into affectation, which is
childish.
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Him all wait for--him all yield up to--his word is decisive and final,
Him they accept, in him lave, in him
perceive
themselves, as amid light,
Him they immerse, and he immerses them.
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D, sed habet
adscriptos
in marg.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground,
Ye must not slumber there,
Where
stranger
steps and tongues resound
Along the heedless air;
Your own proud land's heroic soil
Shall be your fitter grave;
She claims from war his richest spoil--
The ashes of her brave.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I hate an ungenerous sarcasm a great deal worse than I do the
devil; at least as Milton described him; and though I may be rascally
enough to be
sometimes
guilty of it myself, I cannot endure it in
others.
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_b_
Huc est mens deducta tua, mea Lesbia, culpa,
atque ita se officio
perdidit
ipsa suo,
ut iam nec bene uelle queat tibi, si optima fias,
nec desistere amare, omnia si facias.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The Commonwealth then first
together
came.
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Marvell - Poems |
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zip *******
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Wilde - Poems |
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A
delicate
odour is borne on the wings of the morning breeze,
The odour of deep wet grass, and of brown new-furrowed earth,
The birds are singing for joy of the Spring's glad birth,
Hopping from branch to branch on the rocking trees.
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Wilde - Poems |
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This long and sure-set liking,
This
boundless
will to please,
-Oh, you should live for ever
If there were help in these.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The themes of
_Traumgekront_ are extended somewhat beyond the immediate environment
of Prague and some of the most beautiful poems are luminous pictures of
villages hidden in the snowy
blossoming
of May and June, out of which
rises here and there the solitary soft voice of a boy or girl singing.
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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additional
contact information:
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Golden Treasury |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Ils vont prendre le train de huit heures
Prolonger leurs miseres de Padoue a Milan
Ou se
trouvent
le Cene, et un restaurant pas cher.
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T.S. Eliot |
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That merry day the year begins,
They bar the door on frosty win's;
The nappy reeks wi' mantling ream,
An' sheds a heart-inspiring steam;
The luntin pipe, an'
sneeshin
mill,
Are handed round wi' right guid will;
The cantie auld folks crackin crouse,
The young anes rantin thro' the house--
My heart has been sae fain to see them,
That I for joy hae barkit wi' them.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_Abishag_
presents the contrast between the dawning and
the fading life; _David Singing Before Saul_ shows the impatience of
awakening ambition, and _Joshua_ is the man who forces even God to do
his will.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Yet, though now of Muse bereft,
I have still the manners left
For to thank you, noble sir,
For those gifts you do confer
Upon him who only can
Be in prose a
grateful
man.
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Robert Herrick |
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iamque uale: feror ingenti circumdata nocte
inualidasque
tibi tendens, heu non tua, palmas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
Look to it, O sweet
Spirits!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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There is indeed in mind that heat it gets
When seething in rage, and flashes from the eyes
More swiftly fire; there is, again, that wind,
Much, and so cold, companion of all dread,
Which rouses the shudder in the shaken frame;
There is no less that state of air composed,
Making the
tranquil
breast, the serene face.
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Lucretius |
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Now (the last compass fetch'd around the goal)
At the near prize each gathers all his soul,
Each burns with double hope, with double pain,
Tears up the shore, and
thunders
toward the main.
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Iliad - Pope |
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"Not as a flame that by some force is spent,
But one that of itself consumeth quite,
Departed
hence in peace the soul content,
In fashion of a soft and lucent light
Whose nutriment by slow gradation goes,
Keeping until the end its lustre bright.
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Longfellow |
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain
From that same love this
vindicating
grace
To live on still in love, and yet in vain,--
To bless thee, yet renounce thee to thy face.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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'Tis but by parts we follow good or ill;
For, vice or virtue, self directs it still;
Each
individual
seeks a several goal;
But Heaven's great view is one, and that the whole.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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so may the wish,
That takes thee o'er the mountain, be fulfill'd,
As thou shalt
graciously
give aid to mine.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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When I think on the
lightsome
days
I spent wi' thee my dearie;
And now what seas between us roar--
How can I be but eerie?
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Robert Forst |
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The Cat
The Large Cat
'The Large Cat'
Cornelis
Visscher
(II), 1657, The Rijksmuseun
I wish there to be in my house:
A woman possessing reason,
A cat among books passing by,
Friends for every season
Lacking whom I'm barely alive.
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Appoloinaire |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But
thoughts
the slave, of life, and life time's fool,
And time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop.
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Shakespeare |
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specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Fewer still could call up in the minds
of
intimate
friends a deeper and more enduring feeling of sorrow for
personal loss, mingled with the pleasantest of memories; for it was
impossible to know him thoroughly and not to love him.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The time has come for me to hold in scorn
The murmur of distinguished nobodies,
And quash
pernicious
custom.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Within a cave
Young Chromis and
Mnasyllos
chanced to see
Silenus sleeping, flushed, as was his wont,
With wine of yesterday.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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12, et Santeniano _Fletus Egei_
247
_Minoidi_
corr.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Perhaps he will die, and the sacrilegious vow 1315
Of a
maddened
father may yet be carried out.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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It's you I'm mainly
thinking
of.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Whether the tide so hemmed them round
With its pitiless flow,
That when they would have gone they found
No way to go; 100
Whether she scorned him to the last
With words flung to and fro,
Or clung to him when hope was past,
None will ever know:
Whether he helped or hindered her,
Threw up his life or lost it well,
The
troubled
sea, for all its stir
Finds no voice to tell.
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Christina Rossetti |
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First march the bold Epirotes,
Wedged close with shield and spear
And the ranks of false Tarentum
Are
glittering
in the rear.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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Appoloinaire |
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When the servant had gone, Sherman looked round the
somewhat
gloomy
room.
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Yeats |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on friendly pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From
mournful
climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I got his
manuscript
before he died, and this is his version of the
affair, dated 1885:
My doctor tells me that I need rest and change of air.
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Kipling - Poems |
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SEVERAL OF THE BAND (confusedly) But
patience!
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William Wordsworth |
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Je sais que ton coeur, qui regorge
De vieux amours deracines,
Flamboie encor comme une forge,
Et que tu couves sous ta gorge
Un peu de l'orgueil des damnes;
Mais tant, ma chere, que tes reves
N'auront pas reflete l'Enfer,
Et qu'en un cauchemar sans treves,
Songeant
de poisons et de glaives,
Eprise de poudre et de fer,
N'ouvrant a chacun qu'avec crainte,
Dechiffrant le malheur partout,
Te convulsant quand l'heure tinte,
Tu n'auras pas senti l'etreinte
De l'irresistible Degout,
Tu ne pourras, esclave reine
Qui ne m'aimes qu'avec effroi,
Dans l'horreur de la nuit malsaine
Me dire, l'ame de cris pleine:
<< Je suis ton egale, o mon Roi!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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quantos illa tulit
languenti
corde timores!
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Latin - Catullus |
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At last he
finished
his letter, put it with my commission into
the same cover, took off his spectacles, called me, and said--
"This letter is addressed to Andrej Karlovitch R.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The time was scarce
profaned
by speech;
The symbol of a word
Was needless, as at sacrament
The wardrobe of our Lord.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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They chose, and the women and
children
that are greeting you here are
those
Ghosts of the women and children that the rest of the hundred chose.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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ou hast
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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saepe in letifero belli
certamine
Mauors
aut rapidi Tritonis hera aut Ramnusia uirgo 395
armatas hominum est praesens hortata cateruas.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Can I cease to languish,
While my darling Fair
Is on the couch of
anguish?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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lili
more
apparent
errors have been corrected, and
some advance made toward a pure text.
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Marvell - Poems |
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At length, Manius Curius
Dentatus, who had in his first
Consulship
won two triumphs, was
again placed at the head of the Roman Commonwealth, and sent to
conquer the invaders.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Great prince, illustrious
offspring
of a king!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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The sun was set, or setting, when I left
Our cottage door, and evening soon brought on
A sober hour, not winning or serene,
For cold and raw the air was, and untuned; 145
But as a face we love is
sweetest
then
When sorrow damps it, or, whatever look
It chance to wear, is sweetest if the heart
Have fulness in herself; even so with me
It fared that evening.
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
I well knew it was not
possible
to contradict Saveliitch, and I allowed
him to make ready for our departure.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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All our lone journey laughs for joy, the hours
Like honey-bees go home in new-found light
Past the cow pond amazed with
twinkling
flowers
And antique chalk-pit newly delved to white,
Or idle snow-plough nearly hid from sight.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I am afraid for the
many folk whom the
machinery
will deprive of a livelihood.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Can you not let them rest, those sacred ghosts
Of our dead selves—yes, yours and mine and theirs Who knew not life, yet wept its utmost cares And laughed more joys than all
creation
boasts?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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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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IV
Alone amid
possessions
great,
Eugene at first began to dream,
If but to lighten Time's dull rate,
Of many an economic scheme;
This anchorite amid his waste
The ancient _barshtchina_ replaced
By an _obrok's_ indulgent rate:(23)
The peasant blessed his happy fate.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He
evidently
takes horlote3 to be another (and a very uncommon) form
of harlote3 earlots.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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--And yes, thank God, it still is possible
The healing days shall close the darkness up
Wherein I
breathed
you like a smoke or dew.
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Imagists |
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From the circle of your cropped hair
there is light,
and about your male torse
and the foot-arch and the
straight
ankle.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Stephen Crane |
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"Maisie, darling, doesn't it make any
difference?
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Kipling - Poems |
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At five in the morning
breakfast
was served
to the weary players.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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[55]
With lowered hands and
levelled
voices they sobbed a muffled song.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The song is to the singer, and comes back most to him,
The
teaching
is to the teacher, and comes back most to him,
The murder is to the murderer, and comes back most to him,
The theft is to the thief, and comes back most to him,
The love is to the lover, and comes back most to him,
The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him--it cannot fail,
The oration is to the orator, the acting is to the actor and actress
not to the audience,
And no man understands any greatness or goodness but his own, or
the indication of his own.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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7
(Nor for you, for one alone,
Blossoms and
branches
green to coffins all I bring,
For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane
and sacred death.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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For you, on Latmos,
fondling
your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As restraint for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the daylight that your night forgot.
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Ronsard |
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Know then, I came
From sacred Crete, and from a sire of fame:
Castor
Hylacides
(that name he bore),
Beloved and honour'd in his native shore;
Bless'd in his riches, in his children more.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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Tennyson |
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The two
Principles
of Man, Self-love and
Reason, both necessary, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Oh, well they know how the
cyclones
blow that they loose
from their cloud of death,
And they know is heard the thunder-word their fierce ten-incher
saith!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Ful fetis
damiselles
two,
Right yonge, and fulle of semlihede,
In kirtles, and non other wede,
And faire tressed every tresse,
Hadde Mirthe doon, for his noblesse, 780
Amidde the carole for to daunce;
But her-of lyth no remembraunce,
How that they daunced queyntely.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Ever after their tunes
ran in his head, and made him the great
musician
he was.
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Yeats |
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There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull
catalogue
of common things.
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Keats |
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"
Then answers Guenes: "Not so, the Lord be
pleased!
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Chanson de Roland |
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How many times have I cursed those
frivolous
pages that broadcast
Out among all mankind passions I felt in my youth!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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_, in 1872; and
_Laughable
Lyrics: A Fresh Book of Nonsense,
etc.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in diseased flesh,
Ambition is
engendered
readily.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child
Born in peculiar
circumstances
of family distress.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Shall men
For women's sake
incarnadine
the ground?
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Aeschylus |
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In lieu of Pastrengo, Petrarch found a
respectable
old abbot, and
several others who were capable of being agreeable, and from their
experience, useful companions to him on the road.
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Petrarch |
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THE ADIRONDACS
A JOURNAL
DEDICATED TO MY FELLOW
TRAVELLERS
IN AUGUST, 1858
Wise and polite,--and if I drew
Their several portraits, you would own
Chaucer had no such worthy crew,
Nor Boccace in Decameron.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Oh, if there may departing be
Any forgot by victory
In her imperial round,
Show them this meek apparelled thing,
That could not stop to be a king,
Doubtful if it be
crowned!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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