" It first
appeared
in
1678.
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Golden Treasury |
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Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside,
And naked on the Air of Heaven ride,
Were't not a Shame--were't not a Shame for him
In this clay carcass
crippled
to abide?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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We have been boys together--schoolfellows--
And now are friends--yet shall not be so long--
For in the eternal city thou shalt do me
A kind and gentle office, and a Power--
A Power august,
benignant
and supreme--
Shall then absolve thee of all further duties
Unto thy friend.
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Poe - 5 |
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Your song was poured from cannon throats:
It rang in deep-tongued bugle-notes:
Your triumph came; you won your crown,
The
grandeur
of a world's renown.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The earliest reported example of the musical form is this song Kalenda Maya,
supposedly
written to the melody of an estampida played by French jongleurs.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
And Hegel mocked, "A very
pleasant
whim.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Incapable
of more, replete with you,
My most true mind thus maketh mine untrue.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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O old pagodas of my soul, how you
glittered
across green trees!
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Imagists |
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What matter of new wailing do your tongues
Wear in this
shivering
misery of sound?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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He said, 'High Queen of
Cruachan
and Magh Ai,
A king of the Great Plain would speak with you.
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Yeats |
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Forth through the
vestibule
they drove, and through
The sounding portico, when Nestor's son
Plied brisk the scourge, and willing flew the steeds.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But Fortune, ever my sore enemy,
Compels my steps, where I with sorrow see
Cast my fair
treasure
in a worthless soil:
Yet less a foe she justly deigns to prove,
For once, to me, to Laura, and to love;
Favouring my song, my passion, with her smile.
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Petrarch |
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Is this debating club where boys dispute,
And wrangle o'er their stolen fruit,
The Senate, erewhile
cloister
of the few,
Where Clay once flashed and Webster's cloudy brow
Brooded those bolts of thought that all the horizon knew?
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James Russell Lowell |
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" I said,
"Be the year-bloom that
breathed
thee ever red,
Nor wither, yellow, down among the dead.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Gave it to me : nay, and I know
What he said then, I'm sure I do ;
Said he, ' Look how your
huntsman
here
' Hath taught a fawn to hunt his deer.
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Marvell - Poems |
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If only
centuries
delayed,
I'd count them on my hand,
Subtracting till my fingers dropped
Into Van Diemen's land.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Here is no sap for seed,
No ferment for your need--
Ungrateful
ground!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
Les mains dans les mains restons face a face
Tandis que sous
Le pont de nos bras passe
Des eternels regards l'onde si lasse
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
L'amour s'en va comme cette eau courante
L'amour s'en va
Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l'Esperance est violente
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
Passent les jours et passent les semaines
Ni temps passe
Ni les amours reviennent
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
LA CHANSON DU MAL-AIME
A Paul Leautaud
Et je
chantais
cette romance
En 1903 sans savoir
Que mon amour a la semblance
Du beau Phenix s'il meurt un soir
Le matin voit sa renaissance.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And,
although
the mere composition occupied no more than
six months, the thoughts thus arranged were slowly gathered in as many
years.
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Shelley |
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XX
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
Lifting earthly vapours through the air,
Forming a bow, and then
drinking
there
By plunging deep in Tethys' hoary sheen,
Next, climbing again where it has been,
With bellying shadow darkening everywhere,
Till finally it bursts in lightning glare,
And rain, or snow, or hail shrouds the scene:
This city, that was once a shepherd's field,
Rising by degrees, such power did wield,
She made herself the queen of sea and land,
Till helpless to sustain that huge excess,
Her power dispersed, so we might understand
That all, one day, must come to nothingness.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the
livelong
day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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FANTAISIES DECORATIVES
I
LE PANNEAU
UNDER the rose-tree's dancing shade
There stands a little ivory girl,
Pulling the leaves of pink and pearl
With pale green nails of
polished
jade.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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[*The Russian text has here a play on the words which cannot
be satisfactorily
rendered
into English.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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have ye been
Victors of
countless
kings, or puppets of a scene?
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Byron |
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After
he hath touched the deep flood and come to the sea, he washes in it the
blood that oozes from his eye-socket, grinding his teeth with groans;
and now he strides through the sea up to his middle, nor yet does the
wave wet his
towering
sides.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Profitless
usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
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Spring up--sway forward--
follow the
quickest
one,
aye, though you leave the trail
and drop exhausted at our feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A different matter troubles and
consumes
me!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Do you mean the heads upon the
Scottish
Gate?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Thine is the stillest night,
Thine the
securest
fold;
Too near thou art for seeking thee,
Too tender to be told.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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(A Russian
prisoner
enters.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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[*The Russian text has here a play on the words which cannot
be satisfactorily
rendered
into English.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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An epic is not made by piecing
together
a set of heroic lays, adjusting
their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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How could the poem have been
suggested
in front of Alfoxden?
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William Wordsworth |
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11 Truth from the earth like to a flowr
Shall bud and blossom then,
And Justice from her
heavenly
bowr
Look down on mortal men.
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Milton |
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According
to the
hackneyed metaphor, I value the several actors in the great drama of
life, simply as they act their parts.
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Robert Burns |
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lh folha par
When fresh leaves and shoots appear,
Lo tems vai e ven e vire
Time comes, and goes, and runs away,
La douza votz ai auzida
The
sweetest
voice I have heard,
Chantars no pot gaire valer
Singing proves merely valueless
Peire d'Auvergne (fl.
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Troubador Verse |
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'Tis sung, when Midas' Ears began to spring,
(Midas, a sacred person and a king) 70
His very
Minister
who spy'd them first,
(Some say his Queen) was forc'd to speak, or burst.
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Alexander Pope |
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It waits upon the lawn;
It shows the
furthest
tree
Upon the furthest slope we know;
It almost speaks to me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Adown the pale-green, glacier-river floats
A dark boat through the gloom--and
whither?
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Imagists |
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But
gratitude
in thee is lost
Long since.
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Milton |
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But care draws forth the power within,
And
cultured
minds are strong for good:
Let manners fail, the plague of sin
Taints e'en the course of gentle blood.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Come, though a thankless
Favor, friend, say where is any strength,
From
ephemerals
any help?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But sudden, in seeming triumph, the enemy host
Was
stricken
with death; and still the city stayed.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The sight of the works of art
was full
enjoyment
and wonder.
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Shelley |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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To print our poems, the
propulsive
cause, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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To him thy
presents
show, thy words repeat:
How will each speech his grateful wonder raise!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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[_He goes forth, just as he is, in the
direction
of the grave.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Before you accuse my
judgement
further
Consult your heart: Rodrigue is its master.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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)
The Greeks with slain
Tlepolemus
retired;
Whose fall Ulysses view'd, with fury fired;
Doubtful if Jove's great son he should pursue,
Or pour his vengeance on the Lycian crew.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I saw poor Ellen
kneeling
still,
So pale!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Therein I
treasure
the spice and scent
Of rich and passionate memories blent
Like odours of cinnamon, sandal and clove,
Of song and sorrow and life and love.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Peace to the ante-reign
Of Mary Morning,
blissful
mother mild,
Minded of nought but peace, and of a child.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Day after day, night after night,
Laura kept watch in vain,
In sullen silence of
exceeding
pain.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The
Macmillan
Company, New York, 1914.
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Imagists |
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De l'antique douleur eternel
alambic!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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For the crimson flower of our life is eaten by
the
cankerworm
of truth,
And no hand can gather up the fallen withered
petals of the rose of youth.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Revenue Service.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Where'er thou movest
Its dim shapes are clad with brightness,
And the souls of whom thou lovest
Walk upon the winds with lightness
Till they fail, as I am failing,
Dizzy, lost, yet
unbewailing!
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Golden Treasury |
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Thou art come
To
Purgatory
now.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Even as now
God is
mistaken
by your doubting hearts.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer throughout next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that
mysterious
maid.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"Old Charleys"
favorite
beverage was Chateau-Margaux, and
it appeared to do Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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Mesmer- ism
FAMAM
LIBROSQUE
CANO songs?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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It is only
yourself
I have spoken of.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what
impossibly
flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of darkened crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
The New Pleasure
Last night I
invented
a new pleasure, and as I was giving it the
first trial an angel and a devil came rushing toward my house.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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WHOis she coming, that the roses bend
Their
shameless
heads to do her honour ?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Imagists |
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Not hardest Fortune's most
unbounded
stress
Can blind my soul nor hurl it from on high,
Possessing thee, the self of loftiness,
And very light that Light discovers by.
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Sidney Lanier |
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He said:
"I will make her a wreath;"
he said:
"I will write it thus:
_'I will bring you the lily that laughs,
I will twine
with soft narcissus, the myrtle,
sweet crocus, white violet,
the purple
hyacinth
and, last,
the rose, loved of love,
that these may drip on your hair
the less soft flowers,
may mingle sweet with the sweet
of Heliodora's locks,
myrrh-curled.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Though death may lurk in any tree or hill,
His brave young spirit is their stay,
Trusting
in that they'll follow where he will.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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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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I grant that his works show
unparalleled talent and originality, but not one in ten contains any
moral
reflection
or deeper meaning.
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Li Po |
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your rage restrain
From the
protected
guest, and menial train:
And, prince!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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What more's
required?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The Warders with their shoes of felt
Crept by each padlocked door,
And peeped and saw, with eyes of awe,
Grey figures on the floor,
And
wondered
why men knelt to pray
Who never prayed before.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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"
I did, in fact,
perceive
on the horizon a little white cloud which I
had at first taken for a distant hill.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of implied warranties or
the exclusion or limitation of consequential damages, so the
above disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you, and you
may have other legal rights.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Se mala
cupidigia
altro vi grida,
uomini siate, e non pecore matte,
si che 'l Giudeo di voi tra voi non rida!
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Spoilt child of fortune, everything fits
together
to ensure
your greatness.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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"
From his neck he unclasped the collar of gold,
valorous king, to his vassal gave it
with bright-gold helmet, breastplate, and ring,
to the
youthful
thane: bade him use them in joy.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The winds that make Icarian billows dark
The
merchant
fears, and hugs the rural ease
Of his own village home; but soon, ashamed
Of penury, he refits his batter'd craft.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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From murderous
Epigrams
flee,
Cruel Wit and Laughter impure
That brings tears to the high Azure,
And all that base garlic cuisine!
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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TEMPLAR: Saladin,
Thy captive, sire, who's life is at thy
service!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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A song, as we learn from Horace, was part of
the
established
ritual at the great Secular Jubilee.
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XXX
For unto life the dead it could restore,
And guilt of sinfull crimes cleane wash away,
Those that with sicknesse were
infected
sore
It could recure, and aged long decay 265
Renew, as one were borne that very day.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Grasping the creepers, I clung to
dangerous
rocks;
My hands and feet--weary with groping for hold.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But just think how much trouble and expense--for camel hire is not
cheap, and those
Bikaneer
brutes had to be fed like humans--might have
been saved by a properly conducted Matrimonial Department, under the
control of the Director General of Education, but corresponding direct
with the Viceroy.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"Captain, the bow-gun melts apace,
The deck-beams break below,
'Twere well to rest for an hour or twain,
And patch the
shattered
plates again.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Her comely nose, with
uniformal
grace,
Like purest white, stands in the middle place,
Parting the pair, as we may well suppose.
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While you, great patron of
mankind!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And in the first place, since primordials be
So far beneath our senses, and much less
E'en than those objects which begin to grow
Too small for eyes to note, learn now in few
How nice are the beginnings of all things--
That this, too, I may yet confirm in proof:
First, living creatures are
sometimes
so small
That even their third part can nowise be seen;
Judge, then, the size of any inward organ--
What of their sphered heart, their eyes, their limbs,
The skeleton?
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Lucretius |
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