'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Nay, but when, their duty done, they
shall lie at last in their Ausonian haven, from all that have outgone
the waves and borne their
Dardanian
captain to the fields of Laurentum,
will I take their mortal body, and bid them be goddesses of the mighty
deep, even as Doto the Nereid and Galatea, when they cut the sea that
falls away from their breasts in foam.
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- You provide, in accordance with
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"
X
THEN Hrothgar went with his hero-train,
defence-of-Scyldings, forth from hall;
fain would the war-lord
Wealhtheow
seek,
couch of his queen.
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The Romans adopted the custom from Greece, where leafy honours
were
bestowed
on victors at public games.
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Oh may he glean my lips delights unbidden,
--I gleaned them all since as a dream he rose--
The
oleanders
"mid the fragrance hidden
And others smiling as the jasmin blows.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And the prince
inquired
of him, "What has
befallen you?
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Albion groand on Tyburns brook
Albion gave his loud death groan The Atlantic Mountains
trembled
Aloft the Moon fled with a cry the Sun with streams of blood
From Albions Loins fled all Peoples and Nations of the Earth Fled {Erdman's notes indicate that "Blake first wrote ?
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--not me,
But you yourselves
triumphing
in me and over me.
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You can get up to date
donation
information online at:
http://www.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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On the 6th of January, the festival of Epiphany, Charles
received
at
Milan the iron crown, in the church of St.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In vials of ivory and coloured glass
Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,
Unguent, powdered, or liquid--troubled, confused
And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air
That freshened from the window, these ascended 90
In fattening the
prolonged
candle-flames,
Flung their smoke into the laquearia,
Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Once having found the beloved,
However sorry or woeful,
However
scornful
of loving, 15
Little it matters.
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Sappho |
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Extract from "The
Nonsense
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Lear - Nonsense |
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That I may fumigate my walls; then bid
Penelope with her
attendants
down,
And summon all the women of her train.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And yet more--I, being lord
Of sea and land, to Sigismond award
The earth; to
Ladislaus
all the sea.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--Oui l'Homme est triste et laid, triste sous le ciel vaste,
Il a des vetements, parce qu'il n'est plus chaste,
Parce qu'il a sali son fier buste de Dieu,
Et qu'il a rabougri, comme une idole au feu,
Son corps
olympien
aux servitudes sales!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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In such a case, it is placed in
this edition as if it belonged chronologically to 1803, and retains its
place in the series of Poems which memorialise the Tour in
Scotland
of
that year.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Look 'round thee now on
Samarcand!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Now, that I should be permitted to write about these as so many
others have done and with success I do not believe it can be doubted; and
people cannot condemn me for so doing, without also
condemning
Ariosto
before me and the Ancients before Ariosto.
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La Fontaine |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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Such indeed these; and under ground
Concealed
the helps to men;
Brass, iron, silver, gold, who
Would affirm that he discovered before me?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Toutefois
sa sensibilite etait d'autant plus
profonde
qu'elle semblait moins
apparente.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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When the
excitement
subsided, their fears returned, and they sent 37
letters round by centurions to all the Gallic communities, asking for
reinforcements and money for the soldiers' pay.
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Tacitus |
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Wild wailing o'er their husbands dead,
Persia's pale matrons wrapt in weeds of woe,
And red with gore the gulf of
Salamis!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Mercy's lost, and gone from sight
And now I can
retrieve
it not.
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Troubador Verse |
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Poor earth, poor heart,--too weak, too weak
To miss the July
shining!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Paris from far the moving sight beheld,
With pity soften'd and with fury swell'd:
His honour'd host, a youth of matchless grace,
And loved of all the
Paphlagonian
race!
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Iliad - Pope |
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what
conqueror
hath committed this cruelty upon you?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The
Foundation
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the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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--_
This in
according
to the truth of history.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The Prayer
My
answered
prayer came up to me,
And in the silence thus spake he:
"O you who prayed for me to come,
Your greeting is but cold and dumb.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare,
And those that after a TO-MORROW stare,
A Muezzin from the Tower of
Darkness
cries
"Fools!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Himself of helm or shield one dispossest;
One with spontoon or bill the
champaign
strewed
This one along the road, across it prest
A fourth; this squats in cavern or in wood.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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As when some heifer, seeking for her steer
Through woodland and deep grove, sinks wearied out
On the green sedge beside a stream, love-lorn,
Nor marks the
gathering
night that calls her home-
As pines that heifer, with such love as hers
May Daphnis pine, and I not care to heal.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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quis tibi
tractandos
pro pectine, degener, ensis,
quis solio campum praeponere suasit auito?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The old empty dreams
Where my
thoughts
would throng
Are far too full of happiness
To even hold a song.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I could have
touched!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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BUT if these windows useful were believed;
'Twas inconvenient in the heart perceived,
And women thoroughly
disliked
the scheme:--
They could not find the means to hide a dream.
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La Fontaine |
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Heav'n
descended
Chief!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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THE
PARLEMENT
OF FOULES.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Hardly the
springtime
knows
For which today the cuckoo calls,
And the white blossom blows.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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why has worth so short a date,
While
villains
ripen grey with time?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
Wid that we wint aff to the widdy's, next door, and ye may well say it
was an
illigant
place; so it was.
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Poe - 5 |
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Or be aliue againe,
And dare me to the Desart with thy Sword:
If
trembling
I inhabit then, protest mee
The Baby of a Girle.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And
wherefore
say not I that I am old?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I watched the careless spring too many times
Light her green torches in a hungry wind;
Too many times I watched them flare, and then
Fall to
forsaken
embers in the autumn.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Neither can his mind be thought to be in tune,
whose words do jar; nor his reason in frame, whose sentence is
preposterous; nor his
elocution
clear and perfect, whose utterance breaks
itself into fragments and uncertainties.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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schon fuhl ich, bei dem besten Willen,
Befriedigung
nicht mehr aus dem Busen quillen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Footsteps
shuffled on the stair.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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There is
something finely
feminine
in this speech of Wealhtheow's, apart from
its somewhat irregular and irrelevant sequence of topics.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Lesser
Fragments
of the Annals_
_i_
MVSAE, quae pedibus magnum pulsatis Olympum.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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non me
Chaoniae
uincant in amore columbae
dicere, quos iuuenes quaeque puella domet.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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)
Hippolytus
My plans are made, dear Theramenes, I go:
I'll end my stay in
pleasant
Troezen so.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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You
yourself
can bring the past the mind, too,
It was not enough to avoid you: I exiled you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Mais, si j'avais voulu t'attaquer au defaut
De l'armure, ta honte egalerait ta gloire,
Et tu ne serais plus qu'un foetus
derisoire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The city about me
Resolves itself into sound of many voices,
Rustling
and fluttering,
Leaves shaken by the breeze.
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Imagists |
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A robin flashing in a rowan-tree,
A wanton robin, spills his melody
As if he had such store of golden tones
That they were no more worth to him than stones:
The sunny lizards dream upon the ledges:
Linnets titter in and out the hedges,
Or swoop among the
freckled
butterflies.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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EASTWARD
IN THE "COMMONWEALTH" By Esther Morton Smith
She churns her way down the foaming sound; Her feathering paddles dip and shove
And rise again on their endless round
From the nether plunge to the heights above.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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_The Argive host
prevailed
to conquer Troy,
And in the temples of the gods of Greece
Hung up these spoils, a shining sign to Time.
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Aeschylus |
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Greek sang and
Tcherkass
for his pleasure,
And Kergeesian captive is dancing;
In the eyes of the first heaven's azure,
And in those black of Eblis is glancing.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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others shall come in the bloom of the heart,
To enjoy in this pure and happy retreat,
All that nature to timid love can impart
Of solemn repose and
communion
sweet.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,
B
lackbirds
too shake theirs then as they sing,
R eceiving their mates, mingling their plumage,
O, as the desires it lights in me now rage,
I 'd offer you, joyously, what befits the lover.
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Villon |
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Monna Giovanna, widowed in her prime,
Had come with friends to pass the summer time
In her grand villa, half-way up the hill,
O'erlooking Florence, but retired and still;
With iron gates, that opened through long lines
Of sacred ilex and centennial pines,
And
terraced
gardens, and broad steps of stone,
And sylvan deities, with moss o'ergrown,
And fountains palpitating in the heat,
And all Val d'Arno stretched beneath its feet.
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Longfellow |
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"
A
thousand
voices called to me.
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Stephen Crane |
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the whyte moone sheenes onne hie;
Whyterre ys mie true loves shroude;
Whyterre yanne the mornynge skie,
Whyterre yanne the
evenynge
cloude: 875
Mie love ys dedde,
Gon to hys deathe-bedde,
Al under the wyllowe tree.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Here, a broad, deep, circumvallatory trench,
hewn from the solid rock, was
defended
by a wall of great strength
erected upon its inner edge.
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Poe - 5 |
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and
wretched
ye, mine eyes
(Of her pure light bereft) which aye with tears are drown'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'), 'Why shuld not
pilgrimes
to thy body
come' (marked 'F.
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John Donne |
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11,674 Musei Britannici:
_meminere, at_ Muretus
XXXI
Paene insularum, Sirmio, insularumque
ocelle, quascumque in liquentibus stagnis
marique uasto fert uterque Neptunus;
quam te libenter quamque laetus inuiso,
uix mi ipse credens Thuniam atque
Bithunos
5
liquisse campos et uidere te in tuto.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Here a great rumor of
trumpets
and horses, like the noise of a
king with his army, and the robbers shall take flight.
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Longfellow |
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As I approached the ravine I
heard from afar
confused
shouts, and the voice of my Saveliitch.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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587 ubi tradit
Catullum
_pumicem_
dixisse feminino
5 _tum_ h: _tamen_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Sail fast, sail fast,
Ark of my hopes, Ark of my dreams;
Sweep lordly o'er the drowned Past,
Fly
glittering
through the sun's strange beams;
Sail fast, sail fast.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Modern life would be very
tedious if it were either and modern
literature
a complete
impossibility.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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To SEND
DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any particular
state visit www.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Why, sure there are tales
bordering
on my lot
In misery?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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'707-708'
Cremona was the
birthplace
of Vida; Mantua, of Virgil.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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For the mother watches o'er the infant,
He must rise up in her latter days,
She will need the man that was her baby
To stand by her when her
strength
decays.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Rilke - Poems |
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look how
graciously
yonder
fellow has received her; you would not have been in such a hurry to
introduce her to the Senate, if nothing were coming to you through
it;[353] you would not have failed to plead some holiday as an excuse.
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Aristophanes |
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In the winter
of 839 he was attacked by
paralysis
and lost the use of his left leg.
| Guess: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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TO A PORTRAIT PAINTER WHO DESIRED HIM TO SIT
_You_, so bravely
splashing
reds and blues!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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- I will persever in my course of loyalty,
though the
conflict
be sore between that and my blood.
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"I gaze upon her beauty
Through the tresses that
enwreathe
it;
The light above thy wave, is hers--
My rest, alone beneath it:
Oh, give me back the dying look
My father gave thy water!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The whole of last
year's Oxford Eight and the great
majority
of the cricket and football
teams are serving the King.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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His father's family, English by origin, had already
been settled in this
locality
for five generations.
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Whitman |
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owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
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royalties
under this paragraph to the
Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"I know you--
"All day
stuffing
your belly,
"Burying your heart
"In grass and tender sprouts:
"It will not suffice you.
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Stephen Crane |
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With
midnight
always in one's heart,
And twilight in one's cell,
We turn the crank, or tear the rope,
Each in his separate Hell,
And the silence is more awful far
Than the sound of a brazen bell.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Out into God's sweet air we went,
But not in wonted way,
For this man's face was white with fear,
And that man's face was grey,
And I never saw sad men who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the
gashouse
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Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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