Awaie, awaie, ye Danes, to yonder penne;
Wee now wylle make
forloyne
yn tyme to fyghte agenne.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent,
Watching the future come and the present go--
And the little shifting
pictures
of people rushing
In tiny self-importance to and fro.
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I was
hurrying
down the street when I heard myself
called by someone.
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He seems, however, to have been rather an improviser like
Vennor, or a
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Hugo - Poems |
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The fantastic
is a playing with the imagination, and Coleridge
respects
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Sometimes too
It happens--and through no divinity
Nor arrows of Venus--that a sorry chit
Of scanty grace will be beloved by man;
For sometimes she herself by very deeds,
By her complying ways, and tidy habits,
Will easily accustom thee to pass
With her thy life-time--and, moreover, lo,
Long habitude can gender human love,
Even as an object smitten o'er and o'er
By blows, however lightly, yet at last
Is
overcome
and wavers.
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though all were o'er,
For us repeopled were the
solitary
shore.
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Very whitely still
The lilies of our lives may reassure
Their
blossoms
from their roots, accessible
Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer;
Growing straight, out of man's reach, on the hill.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Its
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office is located at
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business@pglaf.
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Golden Treasury |
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They
seem to be
deficient
in the quality of imagination.
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Li Po |
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Then, with the bones of fools
He buys silken banners
Limned with his
triumphant
face;
With the skins of wise men
He buys the trivial bows of all.
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Stephen Crane |
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**"What tho' in worlds which
sightless
cycles run,
Link'd to a little system, and one sun--
Where all my love is folly and the crowd
Still think my terrors but the thunder cloud,
The storm, the earthquake, and the ocean-wrath--
(Ah!
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MUST plant less ground,
And MUSTN'T eat what's
boughten!
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Sidney Lanier |
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--what was it thou saidst of prayer
And
penitence?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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E non er' anco del mio petto essausto
l'ardor del sacrificio, ch'io conobbi
esso litare stato accetto e fausto;
che con tanto lucore e tanto robbi
m'apparvero
splendor
dentro a due raggi,
ch'io dissi: <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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While Hope, that
ceaseless
leans on Pleasure's urn, 1820.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Notice the
extraordinary vividness of the picture here--the quiet rural scene and
the intrusion of human passion with the reflection in the clear water of
the pale murderers, sick with suspense, and the
unsuspecting
victim,
full of glowing life.
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Keats |
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A Saylors Wife had
Chestnuts
in her Lappe,
And mouncht, & mouncht, and mouncht:
Giue me, quoth I.
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A single
correspondence
of lesser importance may be added.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But at this age my
life
underwent
a great change.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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O
wandering
graves!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Prickles
is waspish, and puts forth his sting, 404.
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Robert Herrick |
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As to trees the vine
Is crown of glory, as to vines the grape,
Bulls to the herd, to
fruitful
fields the corn,
So the one glory of thine own art thou.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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But this is the way in which
everyone
should live.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Ahi quanto mi parea pien di
disdegno!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Why should the
mistress
of the vales of Har, utter a sigh.
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blake-poems |
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LXII
Play up, play up thy silver flute;
The crickets all are brave;
Glad is the red
autumnal
earth
And the blue sea.
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Sappho |
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"For instance, take a Haunted Tower,
With skull, cross-bones, and sheet;
Blue lights to burn (say) two an hour,
Condensing
lens of extra power,
And set of chains complete:
"What with the things you have to hire--
The fitting on the robe--
And testing all the coloured fire--
The outfit of itself would tire
The patience of a Job!
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Lewis Carroll |
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And now I go--as others already
crucified
have gone.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Gaita be, gaiteta del chastel
Keep a watch,
watchman
there, on the wall,
While the best, loveliest of them all
I have with me until the dawn.
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Troubador Verse |
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ROME: ON THE PALATINE
(_April_, 1887)
WE walked where Victor Jove was shrined awhile,
And passed to Livia's rich red mural show,
Whence,
thridding
cave and Criptoportico,
We gained Caligula's dissolving pile.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Terrible
Holofernes
slain by a woman
Was something wonderful, to be noised aloud;
But this is a wonder past applauding thought,
This grief darkening Judith, in the midst
Of the new shining glory she herself
Has brought to conquer in our skies the storm.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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hem alle to-gidre
p{re}sent?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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XXXII
He hated all good workes and vertuous deeds, 280
And him no lesse, that any like did use,
And who with
gracious
bread the hungry feeds,
His almes for want of faith he doth accuse;
So every good to bad he doth abuse:
And eke the verse of famous Poets witt 285
He does backebite, and spightfull poison spues
From leprous mouth on all that ever writt:
Such one vile Envie was, that fifte in row did sitt.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I
trembled
at
the storied cliffs.
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Li Po |
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Qual si lamenta perche qui si moia
per viver cola su, non vide quive
lo
refrigerio
de l'etterna ploia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Cependant
des demons malsains dans l'atmosphere
S'eveillent lourdement, comme des gens d'affaire,
Et cognent en volant les volets et l'auvent.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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All's changed since the day
That, to our shores, the gods
despatched
the daughter, 35
Of Minos King of Crete: Pasiphae her mother.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Nor bid me sigh for mine own cost,
Nor count its loss, for mine annoy,
Nor say my stubbornness hath lost
A paradise of dainty joy:
I'll not believe thee, till I know
That sober reason turns an ape,
And acts the harlequin, to show
That cares in every shape,
Heart-achings, sighs, and grief-wrung tears,
Shame-blushes at
betrayed
distress,
Dissembled smiles, and jealous fears,
Are nought but real happiness:
Then will I mourn what now I brave,
And suffer Celia's quirks to be
(Like a poor fate-bewilder'd slave,)
The rulers of my destiny.
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John Clare |
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Hither to work us weal;
Without a breeze, without a tide,
She
steadies
with upright keel!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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<>, diss' io, <
malvagio
traditor; ch'a la tua onta
io portero di te vere novelle>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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in this wan and
heartless
mood,
To other thoughts by yonder throstle woo'd,
All this long eve, so balmy and serene,
Have I been gazing on the western sky,
And its peculiar tint of yellow green:
And still I gaze--and with how blank an eye
And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars,
That give away their motion to the stars;
Those stars, that glide behind them or between,
Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen
Yon crescent Moon, as fixed as if it grew
In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue;
I see them all so excellently fair,
I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Let's in ; for the dark
hemisphere
Does now like one of them appear.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
Were this the charter of our state,
"On pain' o' hell be rich an' great,"
Damnation
then would be our fate,
Beyond remead;
But, thanks to Heav'n, that's no the gate
We learn our creed.
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Robert Forst |
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XXIX
The
watchful
mariners, in wary sort,
Haul down the mainsail, and attempt to wear;
And would put back in panic to the port,
Whence, in ill hour, they loosed with little care.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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How much awaits him
of lief and of loath, who long time here,
through days of warfare this world
endures!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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We
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Meredith - Poems |
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Besides, Jonson's words
seem
sufficiently
harmless.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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They know undying things, for they
Wander where earth withers away,
Though nothing
troubles
the great streams
But light from the pale stars, and gleams
From the holy orchards, where there is none
But fruit that is of precious stone,
Or apples of the sun and moon.
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Yeats |
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the very prison walls
Suddenly seemed to reel,
And the sky above my head became
Like a casque of
scorching
steel;
And, though I was a soul in pain,
My pain I could not feel.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
The harbour-bay was clear as glass,
So
smoothly
it was strewn!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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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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Then he looked down upon his winding-sheet,
For that was the great place, the sacred place,
That was a portion of the light of God,
And from behind that door
Hosannas
rang.
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Hugo - Poems |
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* * * * *
This
introduction
is intended for the general reader.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Andeus, a Syrian of
Mesopotamia, was
condemned
for the opinion, as heretical.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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'Tis not wise until the latest hour
To enjoy delight's ephemeral dower:
Birds to
southern
seas have taken flight,
Fading flow'rs wait till the snows alight.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Destiny, how
relentlessly
you pursue me!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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has poet yet, or peer,
Lost the arched eyebrow, or
Parnassian
sneer?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Meredith - Poems |
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at
crystenmas
whyle;
"& i schal fonde, bi my fayth, to fylter wyth ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
A harrier fair ran out of his palace,
Among them all the
greatest
bear assailed
On the green grass, beyond his friends some way.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And can immense Mortality but throw
So small a shade, and Heaven's high human scheme
Be hemmed within the coasts yon arc
implies?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The obsession of
impermanence
has often been sublimated into great
mystic poetry.
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Li Po |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Who, like the God before whom pales the star,
Has temples, with a prophet for a priest,
Who serves up daily
sacrilegious
feast.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But we propose a person like our Dove,
Graced with a Phoenix' love;
A beauty of that clear and sparkling light,
Would make a day of night,
And turn the
blackest
sorrows to bright joys:
Whose odorous breath destroys
All taste of bitterness, and makes the air
As sweet as she is fair.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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A soul
trembling
to sit by a hearth so bright,
To exist again, it's enough if I borrow from
Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Such the arcane chose for confidant,
The great twin reed we play under the azure ceiling,
That turning towards itself the cheek's quivering,
Dreams, in a long solo, so we might amuse
The beauties round about by false notes that confuse
Between itself and our
credulous
singing;
And create as far as love can, modulating,
The vanishing, from the common dream of pure flank
Or back followed by my shuttered glances,
Of a sonorous, empty and monotonous line.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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He suffered from rheumatic fever
complicated
by an enlarged heart, and died in October 1879, aged eight.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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er we
schullen
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Thou know'st my words
sincere!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Mine eye perus'd
With tearful vacancy the _dampy_ grass
Which wept and glitter'd in the paly ray;
And I did pause me on my lonely way,
And mused me on those
wretched
ones who pass
O'er the black heath of Sorrow.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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that the
illustrious
dead were
buried .
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Beowulf |
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And by the time of night
O'ertaken, they would throw, like bristly boars,
Their wildman's limbs naked upon the earth,
Rolling
themselves
in leaves and fronded boughs.
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Lucretius |
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No brigadier
throughout
the year
So civic as the jay.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Vt vidua in nudo vitis quae nascitur arvo
Numquam se extollit, numquam mitem educat uvam, 50
Sed tenerum prono deflectens pondere corpus
Iam iam contingit summum radice flagellum;
Hanc nulli agricolae, nulli coluere bubulci:
At si forte eademst ulmo coniuncta marito,
Multi illam agricolae, multi coluere bubulci: 55
Sic virgo dum intacta manet, dum inculta senescit;
Cum par
conubium
maturo tempore adeptast,
Cara viro magis et minus est invisa parenti.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And whistle: All's for the best
In this best of
Carnivals!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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My brother's hair
Is as a prince's and a rover's, strong
With
sunlight
and with strife: not like the long
Locks that a woman combs.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Yet it's too harsh, and my reason's stunned
By my scorn for such a lover:
Though birth
reserves
me for kings alone,
Rodrigue I'll bow to your law with honour.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her
loveliness
I never knew
Until she smiled on me.
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Golden Treasury |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the
ploughman
in darkness plough?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Ah, name thou false, or tame thou wrong,
At heart let no man fear for thee:
Thy Past sings ever Freedom's Song,
Thy Future's voice sounds
wondrous
free;
And Freedom is more large than Crime,
And Error is more small than Time.
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He does not stare upon the air
Through a little roof of glass:
He does not pray with lips of clay
For his agony to pass;
Nor feel upon his
shuddering
cheek
The kiss of Caiaphas.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Diminished creature, I no more
Find Fairyland beside my door,
But for each moment's
pleasure
pay
With the _quart d'heure_ of Rabelais!
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James Russell Lowell |
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" He then seems
to have
abandoned
Miss Hsu, who was impatient at his lack of promotion.
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Li Po |
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Their
shivered
swords are red with rust,
Their plumed heads are bowed;
Their haughty banner, trailed in dust,
Is now their martial shroud.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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_the star Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken_:
apparently, Whose stellar influence is uncalculated, although his
angular altitude from the plane of the
astrolabe
or artificial horizon
used by astrologers has been determined.
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Golden Treasury |
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I am charged to tell his Highness that the court
Has passed its resolution, and that, soon 10
As the due forms of judgment are gone through,
The sentence will be sent up to the Doge;
In the mean time the Forty doth salute
The Prince of the Republic, and entreat
His
acceptation
of their duty.
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Byron |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Keats - Lamia |
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See how it totters- the world's orbed might,
Earth, and wide ocean, and the vault profound,
All, see,
enraptured
of the coming time!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On
familiar
things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Grandson
of Atlas, wise of tongue,
O Mercury, whose wit could tame
Man's savage youth by power of song
And plastic game!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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