2800 "Nū ic on māðma hord mīne bebohte
"frōde feorh-lege,
fremmað
gē nū
"lēoda þearfe; ne mæg ic hēr leng wesan.
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Now in those camps of green--in their tents dotting the world;
In the parents, children, husbands, wives, in them--in the old and young,
Sleeping under the sunlight,
sleeping
under the moonlight, content and
silent there at last;
Behold the mighty bivouac-field and waiting-camp of us and ours and all,
Of our corps and generals all, and the President over the corps and
generals all,
And of each of us, O soldiers, and of each and all in the ranks we fight,
There without hatred we shall all meet.
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Thou seest, O watchman tall,
Our towns and races grow and fall,
And imagest the stable good
For which we all our lifetime grope,
In
shifting
form the formless mind,
And though the substance us elude,
We in thee the shadow find.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Should you have
read the piece before, still this will answer the principal end I have
in view: it will give me another opportunity of
thanking
you for all
your goodness to the rustic bard; and also of showing you, that the
abilities you have been pleased to commend and patronize are still
employed in the way you wish.
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"
FAUST:
Das ist ein
allgemeiner
Brauch,
Ein Jud und Konig kann es auch.
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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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Wearied of war-horse, gratefully one glides
In gilded barge, or in crowned, velvet car,
From gay
Whitehall
to gloomy Temple Bar--"
(Where--had you slipt, that head were bleaching now!
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but with honest zeal,
To rouse the
watchmen
of the public weal;
To virtue's work provoke the tardy hall,
And goad the prelate slumbering in his stall.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Instantly
the foot charged the enemy's
front, and instantly the detached cavalry attacked their flank and rear:
this double assault had a strange event; the two divisions of their
army fled opposite ways; that in the woods ran to the plain; that in the
plain rushed into the woods.
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Tacitus |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days
following
each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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The passion of the sword rages high, the accursed fury of war,
and wrath over all: even as when flaming sticks are heaped roaring loud
under the sides of a seething cauldron, and the boiling water leaps up;
the river of water within smokes furiously and swells high in
overflowing foam, and now the wave
contains
itself no longer; the dark
steam flies aloft.
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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O
senseless
Lycius!
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Keats - Lamia |
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In tender accents, faint and low,
Well-pleased I hear the
whispered
"No!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And that I was a maiden Queen
Guarded by an Angel mild:
Witless woe was ne'er
beguiled!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Diegue
The king, if so,
measures
it by my courage.
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[Footnote C: In a small pocket copy of the 'Orlando Furioso' of
Ariosto--now in the
possession
of the poet's grandson, Mr.
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ilk
griselich
fere,
Whan vche seint schal aferde be; oure lord crist to see ?
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`What wene ye your wyse fader wolde
Han yeven Antenor for yow anoon, 905
If he ne wiste that the citee sholde
Destroyed
been?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Stretching, arching his muscular loins, a breath
From his gaping muzzle heavy with thirst
Issues with a sudden shock, quick and harsh,
And great lizards warm from the noon heat stir,
Then vanish
gleaming
through the tawny grass.
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Touch and waken so, to a far hereafter,
Ebb and flow, the deep, and the dead in their longing:
Till at last, on the
hungering
face of the waters,
There shall be Light.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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It has sufficed me to wish that no
one should be imposed upon in my favour, and to follow a road
contrary
to
that of certain persons, who only make friends in order to gain voices in
their favour by their means; creatures of the Cabal, very different from
that Spaniard who prided himself on being the son of his own works.
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La Fontaine |
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Now rounded, now
stretched
out, now narrowing,
Now tapering, now triangular, now forming
Ranks like flights of Cranes in frost-escaping line.
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Ronsard |
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Auto-da-fe and judgment
Are nothing to the bee;
His
separation
from his rose
To him seems misery.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Either to disinthrone the King of Heav'n
We warr, if warr be best, or to regain 230
Our own right lost: him to unthrone we then
May hope, when everlasting Fate shall yeild
To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife:
The former vain to hope argues as vain
The latter: for what place can be for us
Within Heav'ns bound, unless Heav'ns Lord supream
We
overpower?
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Milton |
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[302] Because they were on the raised
Postumian
road.
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Tacitus |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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My lucky mates for that were made
Grandees of Old Castile,
And maids of honor went to wed,
Somewhere in sweet Seville;
Not they for me were fair enough,
And so his Majesty
Declared
his daughter--'tis no scoff!
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Hugo - Poems |
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One Sunday it
occurred
to him to write to his friends on the matter
of his engagement.
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Yeats |
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The sky is
changed!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The Bellman, who was almost morbidly sensitive about appearances, used to
have the bowsprit
unshipped
once or twice a week to be revarnished; and it
more than once happened, when the time came for replacing it, that no one
on board could remember which end of the ship it belonged to.
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Lewis Carroll |
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[Burns, says Cromek,
acknowledged
that a refined and accomplished
woman was a being all but new to him till he went to Edinburgh, and
received letters from Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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'Tis yours the drooping heart to heal;
Your strength uplifts the poor man's horn;
Inspired
by you, the soldier's steel,
The monarch's crown, he laughs to scorn.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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are
tax-deductible to the maximum extent permitted by law.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Though I of that great honour
worthless
prove
Offer'd by thee--herein Love leads to err
Who often makes the sound eye to see wrong--
My counsel this, instant on Heaven above
Thy soul to elevate, thy heart to spur,
For though the time be short, the way is long.
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Petrarch |
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The fire was got The
progress
of
under.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Meredith - Poems |
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I can't believe in God's goodness;
I can believe
In many
avenging
gods.
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Imagists |
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And my heart was empty of memory and hope and desire
Till, rousing, I looked afresh on your face as you gazed--
Behind you an old gnarled fruit-tree in one still fire
Of innumerable flame in the sun of October blazed,
Scarlet and gold that the first white frost would spill
With eddying flicker and patter of dead leaves falling--
looked on your face, as an outcast from Eden recalling
A vision of Eve as she dallied
bewildered
and still
By the serpent-encircled tree of knowledge that flamed
With gold and scarlet of good and evil, her eyes
Rapt on the river of life: then bright and untamed
By the labour and sorrow and fear of a world that dies
Your ignorant eyes looked up into mine; and I knew
That never our hearts should be one till your young lips had tasted
The core of the bitter-sweet fruit, and wise and toil-wasted
You should stand at my shoulder an outcast from Eden too.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And in the pool's clear idleness,
Moving like dreams through happiness,
Shoals of small bright fishes were;
In and out weed-thickets bent
Perch and carp, and sauntering went
With mounching jaws and eyes a-stare;
Or on a lotus leaf would crawl,
A brinded loach to bask and sprawl,
Tasting the warm sun ere it dipt
Into the water; but quick as fear
Back his shining brown head slipt
To crouch on the gravel of his lair,
Where the cooled
sunbeams
broke in wrack,
Spilt shatter'd gold about his back.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft
deceitful
wiles.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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There came a footstep climbing the stair;
Some one
standing
out on the landing
Shook the door like a puff of air,--
Shook the door, and in he passed.
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Christina Rossetti |
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From out the long shade of a road high-bankt,
I came on shelving fields;
And from my feet cascading,
Streaming down the land,
Flickering lavish of
daffodils
flowed and fell;
Like sunlight on a water thrill'd with haste,
Such clear pale quivering flame,
But a flame even more marvellously yellow.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I am coming, Valkyr, I am coming, where the channel fog-banks lie;
I can see your signals
blinking
through the mist of their changing smoke; When I rush with the speed of a whirlwind I feel you are riding nigh;
I am counting the days, beloved, the days that I live to die.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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in sooth he was a shameless wight,
Sore given to revel and ungodly glee;
Few earthly things found favour in his sight
Save concubines and carnal companie,
And flaunting
wassailers
of high and low degree.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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BETWEEN the lovers all was blithe and gay,
When suddenly the friend, though far from day,
Was forced to rise ['twas plain a pressing case,)
And move the infant's cradle from its place,
To ope the door, and lest he noise might make,
Or any way by chance the child should wake,
He set it
carefully
beside his bed,
And (softly treading) to the garden sped.
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La Fontaine |
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--Bahram of the Wild Ass--a Sassanian Sovereign--had also
his Seven Castles (like the King of
Bohemia!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
EARTH'S ANSWER
Earth raised up her head
From the
darkness
dread and drear,
Her light fled,
Stony, dread,
And her locks covered with grey despair.
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blake-poems |
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keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The greatest
poet does not only dazzle his rays over character and scenes and
passions,--he finally ascends and finishes all: he
exhibits
the pinnacles
that no man can tell what they are for or what is beyond--he glows a moment
on the extremest verge.
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Whitman |
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It seems my lady wept and the troll swore
By Heaven he hated tears: he'd cure her spleen;
Where she had begged one flower, he'd shower four-score,
A
haystack
bunch to amaze a China Queen.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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His enemies' spilt blood drowns out justice,
As a new trophy for his crimes does service;
We swell the pomp, and
scornful
of the law,
Follow his chariot, with two kings before.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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When angry Jove darts lightning through the air
At mortal sins, nor his own plant will spare,
It groans and bruises all below, that stood
So many years the shelter of the wood,
The tree,
erewhile
foreshortened to our view,
When fairn shows taller yet than as it grew ;
So shall his praise to after times increase.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Slim Lacon keeps a goat for thee,
For thee the jocund shepherds wait;
O Singer of
Persephone!
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Wilde - Poems |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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Emperour
whan he was brou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Un soir de demi-brume a Londres
Un voyou qui ressemblait a
Mon amour vint a ma rencontre
Et le regard qu'il me jeta
Me fit baisser les yeux de honte
Je suivis ce mauvais garcon
Qui sifflotait mains dans les poches
Nous semblions entre les maisons
Onde ouverte de la Mer Rouge
Lui les Hebreux moi Pharaon
Que tombent ces vagues de briques
Si tu ne fus pas bien aimee
Je suis le souverain d'Egypte
Sa soeur-epouse son armee
Si tu n'es pas l'amour unique
Au tournant d'une rue brulant
De tous les feux de ses facades
Plaies du brouillard sanguinolent
Ou se lamentaient les facades
Une femme lui ressemblant
C'etait son regard d'inhumaine
La cicatrice a son cou nu
Sortit saoule d'une taverne
Au moment ou je reconnus
La faussete de l'amour meme
Lorsqu'il fut de retour enfin
Dans sa patrie le sage Ulysse
Son vieux chien de lui se souvint
Pres d'un tapis de haute lisse
Sa femme attendait qu'il revint
L'epoux royal de Sacontale
Las de vaincre se rejouit
Quand il la retrouva plus pale
D'attente et d'amour yeux palis
Caressant sa gazelle male
J'ai pense a ces rois heureux
Lorsque le faux amour et celle
Dont je suis encore amoureux
Heurtant leurs ombres infideles
Me rendirent si malheureux
Regrets sur quoi l'enfer se fonde
Qu'un ciel d'oubli s'ouvre a mes voeux
Pour son baiser les rois du monde
Seraient morts les pauvres fameux
Pour elle eussent vendu leur ombre
J'ai hiverne dans mon passe
Revienne le soleil de Paques
Pour chauffer un coeur plus glace
Que les quarante de Sebaste
Moins que ma vie martyrises
Mon beau navire o ma memoire
Avons-nous assez navigue
Dans une onde mauvaise a boire
Avons-nous assez divague
De la belle aube au triste soir
Adieu faux amour confondu
Avec la femme qui s'eloigne
Avec celle que j'ai perdue
L'annee derniere en Allemagne
Et que je ne reverrai plus
Voie lactee o soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons-nous d'ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nebuleuses
Je me souviens d'une autre annee
C'etait l'aube d'un jour d'avril
J'ai chante ma joie bien-aimee
Chante l'amour a voix virile
Au moment d'amour de l'annee
Aubade chantee a Laetare l'an passe
C'est le
printemps
viens-t'en Paquette
Te promener au bois joli
Les poules dans la cour caquetent
L'aube au ciel fait de roses plis
L'amour chemine a ta conquete
Mars et Venus sont revenus
Ils s'embrassent a bouches folles
Devant des sites ingenus
Ou sous les roses qui feuillolent
De beaux dieux roses dansent nus
Viens ma tendresse est la regente
De la floraison qui parait
La nature est belle et touchante
Pan sifflote dans la foret
Les grenouilles humides chantent
Beaucoup de ces dieux.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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King
Sad news, and an
obsessive
sense of duty!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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In order that the reader may judge fairly of these
fragments
of
the lay of Virginia, he must imagine himself a Plebeian who has
just voted for the reelection of Sextius and Licinius.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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From off the gateway's rusting iron asters,
5The birds take flight to far
sequestered
greens,
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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THIS play's chief charm to husbands is unknown;
'Tis with the lover it excels alone;
No lookers-on, as umpires, are required;
No
quarrels
rise, though each appears inspired;
All seem delighted with the pleasing game:--
Conjecture if you can, and tell its name.
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La Fontaine |
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LX
What could be had of armour, rusted o'er
And brown with age, Orlando bids unite;
Meanwhile
with his companions on the shore,
He walks, discoursing on the future fight.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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farewell:
Behold I go,
Where I do know
Infinity
to dwell.
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Robert Herrick |
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Note: Ixion was tormented on a wheel in Hades, Tantalus by water and food just out of reach, Prometheus by having his liver torn by vultures, Sisyphus by being forced
eternally
to roll a boulder to the top of a hill and see it roll back again.
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Ronsard |
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being joined in league
** With father Patrick, Danby, and with Teague,
" Thrown at your sacred feet, I humbly bow,
" I, and the wise associates of my vow,
** A vow, nor fire nor sword shall ever end,
^ Till all this nation to your
footstool
bend.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I had
got up before
breakfast
and gone out to buy a newspaper.
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Yeats |
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Ye too, sad tears,
throughout
each lingering night
Upon me wait, when I alone would stay;
But, needed by my peace, you take your flight:
And, all so prompt anguish and grief t' impart,
Ye sighs, then slow, and broken breathe your way:
My looks alone truly reveal my heart.
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Petrarch |
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Why good wits ne'r weare scarlet gownes, I thought
This cause, These men, mens wits for
speeches
buy,
And women buy all reds which scarlets die.
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John Donne |
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Their passes more alluring to the view
Of an
invader?
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Byron |
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So the memory of that dawn to me
When we ended our hostility,
And a most precious gift she gave,
Her loving
friendship
and her ring:
Let me live long enough, I pray,
Beneath her cloak my hand to bring.
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Troubador Verse |
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e
emperour
al-so
Ne my?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Hearke, who lyes i'th' second
Chamber?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
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blake-poems |
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" And the daughter
answered
gently,
"Yes, dear.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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t
certeyne
welle of alle ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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If thought is life
And
strength
and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Keats - Lamia |
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No long
discourse
together may we have;
Full well I know, Charles waits not our attack,
I take the glove from you, in spite of that.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The morrow dawned with needless glow;
Each snowbird chirped, each fowl must crow;
Each tramper started; but the feet
Of the most
beautiful
and sweet
Of human youth had left the hill
And garden,--they were bound and still.
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Emerson - Poems |
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His friends
rallied, and they were among the most
distinguished
people in Paris, the
elite of souls.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The liberty and even the life of the
insolvent were at the mercy of the
Patrician
money-lenders.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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He gathered all that springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling,
seasoned
sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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UPON THE HILL
A hundred miles of landscape spread before me like a fan;
Hills behind naked hills, bronze light of evening on them shed;
How many
thousand
ages have these summits spied on man?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Like to a forest felled by
mountain
winds;
And such the storm of battle on this day,
And such the frenzy, whose convulsion blinds
To all save carnage, that, beneath the fray,
An earthquake reeled unheededly away!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But that Empire, so grand, so
glorious
a prize, 575
Is not the dearest gift of all, to my eyes.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Why fall the Sparrow & the Robin in the
foodless
winter?
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Blake - Zoas |
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--The
mansions
where the great reside:--
And these?
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La Fontaine |
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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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"
Straight
into the river Kwasind
Plunged as if he were an otter,
Dived as if he were a beaver,
Stood up to his waist in water,
To his arm-pits in the river,
Swam and scouted in the river,
Tugged at sunken logs and branches,
With his hands he scooped the sand-bars,
With his feet the ooze and tangle.
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Longfellow |
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His hat slouched down, and great coat
buttoned
close
Bellied like hooped keg, and chuffy face
Red as the morning sun, he takes his round
And talks of stock: and when his jobs are done
And Dobbin's hay is eaten from the rack,
He drinks success to corn in language hoarse,
And claps old Dobbin's hide, and potters back.
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John Clare |
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Troy felt his arm, and yon proud
ramparts
stand
Raised on the ruins of his vengeful hand:
With six small ships, and but a slender train,
He left the town a wide-deserted plain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Within his garden let him wait alone
Where benches stand expectant in the shade
Within the chamber where the lyre was played
Where he
received
you as the eternal One.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The
thoughtful
Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the WHITE HAND OF MOSES on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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So I lose none,
In seeking to augment it, but still keepe
My Bosome franchis'd, and
Allegeance
cleare,
I shall be counsail'd
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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