I shall want your
fist in an
enterprise
I am preparing.
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The four children then entered into conversation with the
Blue-Bottle-Flies, who discoursed in a placid and genteel manner, though
with a slightly buzzing accent, chiefly owing to the fact that they each
held a small clothes-brush between their teeth, which naturally occasioned
a fizzy,
extraneous
utterance.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Lilies will languish; violets look ill;
Sickly the primrose; pale the daffodil;
That gallant tulip will hang down his head,
Like to a virgin newly ravished;
Pansies will weep, and
marigolds
will wither,
And keep a fast and funeral together;
Sappho droop, daisies will open never,
But bid good-night, and close their lids for ever.
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You descend from them, you are my issue;
Your first sword-thrust
equalled
mine too;
And with fine ardour your lively youth
Attains my fame with this single proof.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
So cried I with clenched hands and passionate pain,
Thinking of dear ones by Potomac's side;
Again the loon laughed mocking, and again
The echoes bayed far down the night and died,
While waking I
recalled
my wandering brain.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Far better were I laid in the dark earth,
Not hearing any more his noble voice,
Not to be folded more in these dear arms,
And
darkened
from the high light in his eyes,
Than that my lord through me should suffer shame.
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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blake-poems |
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In she plunged boldly,
No matter how coldly
The rough river ran,--
Over the brink of it,
Picture it,--think of it,
Dissolute
Man!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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There's no Art,
To finde the Mindes
construction
in the Face.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The
Tyrrhene
ranks gather
round him, and all at once in unison shower their darts down on the
hated foe.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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]
* * * * *
DESCRIPTIVE
SKETCHES
TAKEN DURING A PEDESTRIAN TOUR AMONG THE ALPS
Composed 1791-2.
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Could I embody and unbosom now
That which is most within me,--could I wreak
My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw
Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak,
All that I would have sought, and all I seek,
Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe--into one word,
And that one word were lightning, I would speak;
But as it is, I live and die unheard,
With a most
voiceless
thought, sheathing it as a sword.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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24) he gives it, "gather'd flowers by
pecks;" and the Indian Regent is
avaricious
(C.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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To her children the words of the
eloquent
dumb great mother never fail,
The true words do not fail, for motion does not fail and reflection
does not fall,
Also the day and night do not fall, and the voyage we pursue does not fall.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I haue almost forgot the taste of Feares:
The time ha's beene, my sences would haue cool'd
To heare a Night-shrieke, and my Fell of haire
Would at a dismall
Treatise
rowze, and stirre
As life were in't.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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690
Nowe to the warre lette all the slughornes sounde,
The
Dacyanne
troopes appere on yinder rysynge grounde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Make Athens
tributary
to my power.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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There, in the
windless
night-time,
The wanderer, marvelling why,
Halts on the bridge to hearken
How soft the poplars sigh.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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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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Pope - Essay on Man |
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With sudden shock the prison-clock
Smote on the shivering air,
And from all the gaol rose up a wail
Of
impotent
despair,
Like the sound that frightened marshes hear
From a leper in his lair.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Have I said in this
Aught darkly or
incompletely?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I am convinced, for example, that if the
Wordsworth household had not destroyed all the letters which Coleridge
sent to them, in the first decade of this century, the world would now
possess much
important
knowledge which is for ever lost.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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(O
Fergusson!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The gentleman is learn'd and a most rare speaker;
To nature none more bound; his training such
That he may furnish and
instruct
great teachers
And never seek for aid out of himself.
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Shakespeare |
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{40a} Probably the fugitive is meant who
discovered
the hoard.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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] life is blotted out & I alone remain possessd with Fears
I see the [remembrance] Shadow of the dead within my [eyes] Soul wandering*
{bracketed words blotted out, revised as
indicated
by italics LFS} In darkness & solitude forming Seas of [Trouble] Doubt & rocks of [sorrow] Repentance*
{bracketed words blotted LFS} Already are my Eyes reverted.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I had grown
accustomed
to
the greeting, and its omission troubled me.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Mihi
pergamena
deest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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What are the
principal
characteristics of the
giants of romance as seen in Orgoglio?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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ultima, quae mecum seros permansit in annos,
sustinuit
coniunx exsulis esse uiri.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The original is far more musical, as you can gather from the text at the start of this
selection
of his verse.
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Troubador Verse |
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Loosed on the flowers Siroces to my bane,
And the wild boar upon my crystal
springs!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Footsteps
shuffled
on the stair.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The tablet is said to have been found at Senkere, ancient
Larsa near Warka, modern Arabic name for and vulgar descendant
of the ancient name Uruk, the Biblical Erech
mentioned
in Genesis
X.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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e guode man
grantede
his bone,
ffor al his blod gan menge sone
Ope his owene fode.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the
woodlands
I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Where I proposed to go
When time's brief
masquerade
was done,
Is mapped, and charted too!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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A Ballad 286
On Blood's stealing the Crown 292
Nostradmus' Prophecy 298
Royal
Resolutions
296
An Historical Poem 299
Carmina Miscbllamsa.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Thus Hafiz, copying Omar in so many ways: "When thou
drinkest
Wine
pour a draught on the ground.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Mountains mourn & Rivers faint & fail
There is no City nor Corn-field nor
Orchard!
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Blake - Zoas |
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'
NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of
children
are heard on the green,
And whisperings are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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'
With that she gan ful
sorwfully
to syke;
`A!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The priests were singing, and the organ sounded,
And then anon the great
cathedral
bell.
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Longfellow |
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1819-1901 231
WAR POEMS--
EMBARCATION 235
DEPARTURE 237
THE COLONEL'S SOLILOQUY 239
THE GOING OF THE BATTERY 242
AT THE WAR OFFICE 245
A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY 247
THE DEAD DRUMMER 249
A WIFE IN LONDON 251
THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN 253
SONG OF THE SOLDIERS' WIVES 260
THE SICK GOD 263
POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE--
GENOA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN 269
SHELLEY'S SKYLARK 272
IN THE OLD THEATRE, FIESOLE 274
ROME: ON THE PALATINE 276
,, BUILDING A NEW STREET IN THE 278
ANCIENT QUARTER
,, THE VATICAN: SALA DELLE MUSE 280
,, AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS 283
LAUSANNE: IN GIBBON'S OLD GARDEN 286
ZERMATT: TO THE MATTERHORN 288
THE BRIDGE OF LODI 290
ON AN INVITATION TO THE UNITED 295
STATES
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS--
THE MOTHER MOURNS 299
"I SAID TO LOVE" 305
A COMMONPLACE DAY 307
AT A LUNAR ECLIPSE 310
THE LACKING SENSE 312
TO LIFE 316
DOOM AND SHE 318
THE PROBLEM 321
THE SUBALTERNS 323
THE SLEEP-WORKER 325
THE BULLFINCHES 327
GOD-FORGOTTEN 329
THE BEDRIDDEN PEASANT TO AN 333
UNKNOWING GOD
BY THE EARTH'S CORPSE 336
MUTE OPINION 339
TO AN UNBORN PAUPER CHILD 341
TO FLOWERS FROM ITALY IN WINTER 344
ON A FINE MORNING 346
TO LIZBIE BROWNE 348
SONG OF HOPE 352
THE WELL-BELOVED 354
HER REPROACH 358
THE INCONSISTENT 360
A BROKEN APPOINTMENT 362
"BETWEEN US NOW" 364
"HOW GREAT MY GRIEF" 366
"I NEED NOT GO" 367
THE COQUETTE, AND AFTER 369
A SPOT 371
LONG PLIGHTED 373
THE WIDOW 375
AT A HASTY WEDDING 378
THE DREAM-FOLLOWER 379
HIS IMMORTALITY 380
THE TO-BE-FORGOTTEN 382
WIVES IN THE SERE 385
THE SUPERSEDED 387
AN AUGUST MIDNIGHT 389
THE CAGED THRUSH FREED AND HOME 391
AGAIN
BIRDS AT WINTER NIGHTFALL 393
THE PUZZLED GAME-BIRDS 394
WINTER IN DURNOVER FIELD 395
THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM 397
THE
DARKLING
THRUSH 399
THE COMET AT YALBURY OR YELL'HAM 402
MAD JUDY 403
A WASTED ILLNESS 405
A MAN 408
THE DAME OF ATHELHALL 412
THE SEASONS OF HER YEAR 416
THE MILKMAID 418
THE LEVELLED CHURCHYARD 420
THE RUINED MAID 422
THE RESPECTABLE BURGHER ON "THE 425
HIGHER CRITICISM"
ARCHITECTURAL MASKS 428
THE TENANT-FOR-LIFE 430
THE KING'S EXPERIMENT 432
THE TREE: AN OLD MAN'S STORY 435
HER LATE HUSBAND 439
THE SELF-UNSEEING 441
DE PROFUNDIS I.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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So disciplined the Hero his own heart,
Which, tractable, endured the
rigorous
curb,
And patient; yet he turn'd from side to side.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The Loir is a
tributary
of the larger Loire, in the Vendomois.
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Ronsard |
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A COMMONPLACE DAY
THE day is turning ghost,
And scuttles from the
kalendar
in fits and furtively,
To join the anonymous host
Of those that throng oblivion; ceding his place, maybe,
To one of like degree.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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To Marc Chagall
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
On to the skin of a violin
A singing man a single bird
An agile dancer with his wife
A couple
drenched
in their youth
The gold of the grass lead of the sky
Separated by azure flames
Of the health-giving dew
The blood glitters the heart rings
A couple the first reflection
And in a cellar of snow
The opulent vine draws
A face with lunar lips
That never slept at night.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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A Fan
(Of
Mademoiselle
Mallarme's)
With nothing of language but
A beating in the sky
From so precious a place yet
Future verse will rise.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Tho' I to foreign lands must hie,
Pursuing
Fortune's slidd'ry ba',
With melting heart, and brimful eye,
I'll mind you still, tho' far awa'.
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Robert Forst |
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Coin the day-dawn into lines
In which its proper splendor shines;
Coin the moonlight into verse
Which all its marvel shall rehearse,
Chasing with words fast-flowing things; nor try
To plant thy
shrivelled
pedantry
On the shoulders of the sky.
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Emerson - Poems |
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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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As
printed in _1635-69_,
That
sufferance
was my sinne I now repent,
the clause 'That sufferance was' &c.
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John Donne |
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Happily now I've escaped, and my
mistress
knows Werther and Lotte
Not a whit better than who might be this man in her bed:
That he's a foreigner, footloose and lusty, is all she could tell you,
Who beyond mountains and snow, dwelt in a house made of wood.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It's the
silences
that hurt.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Did you not
On one occasion hide your husband's saddle
To hinder him from coming to the
sessions?
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Longfellow |
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Non frustra meditantur, habent
memorabile
quod sit.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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throughout
numerous
locations.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Slowly exhausted by desire,
Yet satiated with success,
In solitude or worldly din,
He heard his soul's complaint within,
With laughter
smothered
weariness:
And thus he spent eight years of time,
Destroyed the blossom of his prime.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I hear the sound of the
different
missiles--the short _t-h-t!
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Whitman |
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notations
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Meredith - Poems |
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_Calpe_: Gibraltar; _Lofoden_: the Maelstrom
whirlpool
off the N.
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Golden Treasury |
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Forslagenn wyth thie floe lette wylde beastes bee,
Feeste thee upponne theire fleshe, doe ne thie
bredrenn
flee.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Phaedra
I, to dare to oppress and blacken
innocence!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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2880
Than shal he forther, ferre and nere,
And namely to thy lady dere,
In siker wyse; ye, every other
Shal helpen as his owne brother,
In trouthe
withoute
doublenesse, 2885
And kepen cloos in sikernesse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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He deemed his friends but longed to make
Great
sacrifices
for his sake!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I rush there: when, at my feet, entwine (bruised
By the languor tasted in their being-two's evil)
Girls sleeping in each other's arms' sole peril:
I seize them without
untangling
them and run
To this bank of roses wasting in the sun
All perfume, hated by the frivolous shade
Where our frolic should be like a vanished day.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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1115
Phaedra alone
bewitched
your lustful senses.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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XIV
His blazing eyes, like two bright shining shields,
Did burne with wrath, and
sparkled
living fyre:
As two broad Beacons,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And seven high
chieftains
of war,
with spear and with panoply bold,
Are set, by the law of the lot,
to storm the seven gates of our hold!
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Aeschylus |
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here, o'er-sorrowing,
Poor Santa Claus burst into tears,
Then calmed again: "my
reindeer
fleet,
I gave them up: on foot, my dears,
I now must plod through snow and sleet.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Now for the rest: copper and gold and iron
Discovered were, and with them silver's weight
And power of lead, when with prodigious heat
The conflagrations burned the forest trees
Among the mighty mountains, by a bolt
Of lightning from the sky, or else because
Men, warring in the woodlands, on their foes
Had hurled fire to
frighten
and dismay,
Or yet because, by goodness of the soil
Invited, men desired to clear rich fields
And turn the countryside to pasture-lands,
Or slay the wild and thrive upon the spoils.
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Lucretius |
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He left
behind friends to whom he was attached; but cares of a thousand kinds,
many
springing
from his lavish generosity, crowded round him in his
native country, and, except the society of one or two friends, he had
no compensation.
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Shelley |
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'Prisoned on watery shore,
Starry
jealousy
does keep my den
Cold and hoar;
Weeping o'er,
I hear the father of the ancient men.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Armour besides hangs
thickly on the sacred doors, captured
chariots
and curved axes,
helmet-crests and massy gateway-bars, lances and shields, and beaks torn
from warships.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Light of my eyes, thou com'st; it is thyself,
Sweetest
Telemachus!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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CHORUS
Lo, I accept it; at her very side
Doth Pallas bid me dwell:
I will not wrong the city of her pride,
Which even Almighty Zeus and Ares hold
Heaven's earthly citadel,
Loved home of Grecian gods, the young, the old,
The
sanctuary
divine,
The shield of every shrine!
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Aeschylus |
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And, what's more, when sorrow's beating
Down on me, through Fate's
incessant
rage,
Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging,
Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away.
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Villon |
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Marcabru
may have travelled to Spain in the entourage of Alfonso Jordan, Count of Toulouse, in the 1130s.
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Troubador Verse |
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Forth from the forest's distant depth, from bald and barren peaks,
They
congregate
in hungry flocks and rend their gory prey.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Up sprung a brisker breeze; with freshening gales
The
friendly
goddess stretch'd the swelling sails;
We drop our oars; at ease the pilot guides;
The vessel light along the level glides.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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NONE FORGOES
THE LEAP,
ATTAINING
THE REPOSE.
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Sappho |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The Princess of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a
gurgling
spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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Ronsard |
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_ The work is done,
And
thoroughly
done.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Have I not all
their letters to meet me in arms by the ninth of the next month,
and are they not some of them set forward
already?
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Shakespeare |
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and there my friends
Behold the dark green file of long lank weeds,
That all at once (a most
fantastic
sight!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Higgses, their natural
aristocracy
of feeling.
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James Russell Lowell |
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A
thousand
horns they sound, more proud to seem;
Great is the noise, the Franks its echo hear.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Thou canst not ask me with thee here to roam
Over these hills and vales, where no joy is,--
Empty of
immortality
and bliss!
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Keats - Lamia |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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As flavors cheer retarded guests
With
banquetings
to be,
So spices stimulate the time
Till my small library.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I was a boy; boyhood slid gayly by
And the
impatient
years that trod on it
Taught me new lessons in the lore of life.
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Emerson - Poems |
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" He sternly spoke:
With guilty fears the pale
assembly
shook.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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