Father
self corporal and a self aetherial
a dweller by streams and in
The Legend thus :
" A treatise wherein is shown that there are in existence on earth
rational
creatures besides man, endowed like him with a body and soul, that are born and die like him, redeemed by our Lord Jesus Christ, and capable of receiving salvation or damnation.
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Good master,
faithful
friend, in his estate
Frugal yet generous, beyond the youth
He won regard of woman, for in sooth
The young man may be fair--the old man's great.
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Yet, with a becoming deference to the popular
belief that distinctions of this sort are enhanced in value by every
additional mile they travel, I have
intermixed
the names of some
tolerably distant literary and other associations with the rest.
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They had bought it in less
prosperous
days, and having altered
it according to their taste and the need of their growing welfare could
not decide to leave it.
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The
following
lay belongs to the latest age of Latin
ballad-poetry.
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following
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Angel of beauty, do you
wrinkles
know?
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Nor, Leofwynus, dydst thou still estande;
Full soon thie pheon glytted in the aire;
The force of none but thyne and Harolds hande
Could hurle a javlyn with such lethal geer;
Itte whyzzd a
ghastlie
dynne in Normannes ear, 275
Then thundryng dyd upon hys greave alyghte,
Peirce to his hearte, and dyd hys bowels tear,
He closd hys eyne in everlastynge nyghte;
Ah!
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There is a little bay not far from here,
The shingle of it a thronging city of flies,
Feeding on the dead weed that mounds the beach;
And the sea hoards there its vain avarice,--
Old flotsam, and
decaying
trash of ships.
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Where lambs have nibbled, silent move
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each
sleeping
bosom.
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blake-poems |
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"
Much I marvelled this
ungainly
fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning--little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door--
Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as "Nevermore.
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"
THE COMPLAINT OF A FORSAKEN INDIAN WOMAN
[_When a
Northern
Indian, from sickness, is unable to continue his
journey with his companions; he is left behind, covered over with
Deer-skins, and is supplied with water, food, and fuel if the situation
of the place will afford it.
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CASSIOPEIAS CHAIRE, a circumpolar
constellation
having a fancied
resemblance to a chair.
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Once she
appeared
to me, too: a dark-skinned girl, tumbling
Over her forehead the hair down in waves heavy and dark.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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Soll wie ein boser
Schuldner
sitzen
Bei jedem Zufallswortchen schwitzen!
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"Sleep on, I lie at heaven's high oriels Over the stars that mumur as they go
Lighting
your lattice window (ar b low;
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof I know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Yes--
But Abel's earnest prayer has wrought upon me;
The
offering
is more his than mine--and Adah----
_Lucifer_.
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Byron |
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In the meantime her spirit sinks,
Her weary eyes are filled with tears--
A horse's hoofs she hears--She
shrinks!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Oh soon, and better so than later
After long disgrace and scorn,
You shot dead the
household
traitor,
The soul that should not have been born.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Laertes can relate
Our faith unspotted, and its early date;
Who, press'd with heart-corroding grief and years,
To the gay court a rural shed pretors,
Where, sole of all his train, a matron sage
Supports with homely fond his drooping age,
With feeble steps from
marshalling
his vines
Returning sad, when toilsome day declines.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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In regard to the Iliad, we have, if not positive proof, at least very
good reason for believing it
intended
as a series of lyrics; but,
granting the epic intention, I can say only that the work is based in an
imperfect sense of art.
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Poe - 5 |
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This is the giddy air, and I must spread
Wide pinions to keep here; nor do I dread
Or height, or depth, or width, or any chance
Precipitous: I have beneath my glance 360
Those towering horses and their
mournful
freight.
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Keats |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the
stranger
you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Bond damns the poor, and hates them from his heart:
The grave Sir Gilbert holds it for a rule,
That "every man in want is knave or fool:"
"God cannot love," says Blunt, with
tearless
eyes,
"The wretch He starves"--and piously denies:
But the good bishop, with a meeker air,
Admits, and leaves them--Providence's care.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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(_I know what I must do: I am to abase
My heart utterly, and have nothing in me
That dare take
pleasure
beyond serving love.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I was
thinking
myself it might away he was, riding on white horses with
the riders of the forths.
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Yeats |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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CCLXXV
To th' counsel go those of Bavier and Saxe,
Normans also, with
Poitevins
and Franks;
Enough there are of Tudese and Germans.
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Chanson de Roland |
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But I have,
And I'm off now to
practise
with my notions.
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For in the geting he hath such wo,
And in the keping drede also,
And set
evermore
his bisynesse 5595
For to encrese, and not to lesse,
For to augment and multiply.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Thy care is fixt and
zealously
attends
To fill thy odorous Lamp with deeds of light,
And Hope that reaps not shame.
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Milton |
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She, when I woke,
After my refluent health made tender quest
Unanswer'd, for I spoke not: for the sound
Of that dear voice so musically low,
And now first heard with any sense of pain,
As it had taken life away before,
Choked all the
syllables
that in my throat
Strove to uprise, laden with mournful thanks,
From my full heart: and ever since that hour,
My voice hath somewhat falter'd--and what wonder
That when hope died, part of her eloquence
Died with her?
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Tennyson |
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A being form'd t'amuse his graver friends,
Admir'd and prais'd--and there the homage ends:
A mortal quite unfit for fortune's strife,
Yet oft the sport of all the ills of life;
Prone to enjoy each pleasure riches give,
Yet haply wanting wherewithal to live;
Longing to wipe each tear, to heal each groan,
Yet
frequent
all unheeded in his own.
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Robert Burns |
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Dwarfs were as common at court, in those days,
as fools; and many
monarchs
would have found it difficult to get through
their days (days are rather longer at court than elsewhere) without both
a jester to laugh with, and a dwarf to laugh at.
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Poe - 5 |
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For both
I myselfe, and many other
strangers
(as I haue obserued in Venice)
haue often laughed at them for their vaine Chapineys.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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CXX
Sansonnet
and Astolpho are not slow
In following t'wards the gate the martial maid,
(The mob dividing all to let them go)
And halt when they have reached the barricade.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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companion
of thy care,
Lo, I thy steps attend, thy labours share.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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TO ELLEN
And Ellen, when the graybeard years
Have brought us to life's evening hour,
And all the crowded Past appears
A tiny scene of sun and shower,
Then, if I read the page aright
Where Hope, the soothsayer, reads our lot,
Thyself shalt own the page was bright,
Well that we loved, woe had we not,
When Mirth is dumb and Flattery's fled,
And mute thy music's dearest tone,
When all but Love itself is dead
And all but
deathless
Reason gone.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Far from these haunts of vices,
In my dear countree, we
With
sweethearts
in the even
May chat and wander free.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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This poem of fin'amor, perfect or true love, is one of the more comprehensive statements of the
troubadour
ideal.
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Troubador Verse |
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Well, as much
As star
transcends
a sequin, and just such
As temple is to rubbish-heap, I say,
You do eclipse their beauty every way.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And across these seas
We who cry Peace and
treasure
life and cling
To cities, happiness, or daily toil
For daily bread, or trail the long routine
Of seventy years, taste not the terrible wine
Whereof you drink, who drain and toss the cup
Empty and ringing by the finished feast;
Or have it shaken from your hand by sight
Of God against the olive woods.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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They who have but saluted her on the by, and now and then
tendered their visits, she hath done much for, and
advanced
in the way of
their own professions (both the law and the gospel) beyond all they could
have hoped or done for themselves without her favour.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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It was as if a chirping brook
Upon a
toilsome
way
Set bleeding feet to minuets
Without the knowing why.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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On hevene yet the sterres were sene,
Al-though ful pale y-waxen was the mone; 275
And whyten gan the
orisonte
shene
Al estward, as it woned is for to done.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Some labourer, thought he, may perchance be near;
And so he sent a feeble shout--in vain;
No voice made answer, he could only hear
Winds rustling over plots of unripe grain, 35
Or
whistling
thro' thin grass along the unfurrowed plain.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Aufilena, to be content to live with single mate, in married dame is praise
of praises most excelling: but 'tis
preferable
to lie beneath any lover
thou mayest choose, rather than to make thyself mother to thy cousins out
of thy uncle.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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marginalia
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Meredith - Poems |
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[230]
By the way, I have met with a musical Highlander in Breadalbane's
Fencibles, which are
quartered
here, who assures me that he well
remembers his mother singing Gaelic songs to both "Robin Adair," and
"Grammachree.
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Robert Forst |
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Such thou must be to me, who must
Like the other foot obliquely run;
Thy
firmness
makes my circle just,
And me to end where I begun.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And he swore a fearful oath, by the name of the Almighty,
He would hunt this ravening evil that had scathed and torn
him so;
He would seize it by the vitals; he would crush it day and
night; he
Would so pursue its footsteps, so return it blow for blow,
That Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
Should be a name to swear by, in backwoods or in town!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Þā wæs eft swā ǣr inne on healle
þrȳð-word sprecen, þēod on sǣlum,
645 sige-folca swēg, oð þæt semninga
sunu
Healfdenes
sēcean wolde
ǣfen-ræste; wiste æt þǣm āhlǣcan
tō þǣm hēah-sele hilde geþinged,
siððan hīe sunnan lēoht gesēon ne meahton,
650 oððe nīpende niht ofer ealle,
scadu-helma gesceapu scrīðan cwōman,
wan under wolcnum.
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Beowulf |
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Meredith - Poems |
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The seasons prayed around his knees,
Like
children
round a sire:
Grandfather of the days is he,
Of dawn the ancestor.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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THE
YOUNG
HIGHLAND
ROVER.
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Robert Burns |
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Our pace took sudden awe,
Our feet
reluctant
led.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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All summarised, the soul,
When slowly we breathe it out
In several rings of smoke
By other rings wiped out
Bears witness to some cigar
Burning
skilfully
while
The ash is separated far
From its bright kiss of fire
Should the choir of romantic art
Fly so towards your lips
Exclude from it if you start
The real because it's cheap
Meaning too precise is sure
To void your dreamy literature.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And now the
blossoms
by the night be stirred
Around you surge, and may their purple fall
To veil from sight your shame.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Nicolas
considers
it "un signe de liberalite, et en meme temps
un avertissement que le buveur doit vider sa coupe jusqu'a la derniere
goutte.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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`A Ballad of Trees and the Master' was
conceived
as an interlude
of the latest `Hymn of the Marshes', `Sunrise', although written earlier.
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Sidney Lanier |
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or old needs of
pleasure
overlaid
by modern science and forms?
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Whitman |
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'
At her
question
he, sighing and drawing speech deep from his breast,
thus replied:
'Ah goddess, should I go on retracing from the fountain head, were time
free to hear the history of our woes, sooner would the evening star lay
day asleep in the closed gates of heaven.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Dost
comprehend
things mortal, how they grow?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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She leads her
to the walls of Troy, where Priam sat with his
counsellers
observing the
Grecian leaders on the plain below, to whom Helen gives an account of the
chief of them.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Let me count the ways
XLIV Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers
I
I thought once how Theocritus had sung
Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,
Who each one in a
gracious
hand appears
To bear a gift for mortals, old or young:
And, as I mused it in his antique tongue,
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung
A shadow across me.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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was marching to Honan with three
thousand
soldiers
from Kiangsu.
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Li Po |
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Chief
Executive
and Director
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Stephen Crane |
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I hear the drums beat and the trumpets blowing,
I myself move abroad swift-rising flying then,
I use the wings of the land-bird and use the wings of the sea-bird,
and look down as from a height,
I do not deny the precious results of peace, I see populous cities
with wealth incalculable,
I see numberless farms, I see the farmers working in their fields or barns,
I see mechanics working, I see buildings everywhere founded, going
up, or finish'd,
I see trains of cars swiftly speeding along railroad tracks drawn by
the locomotives,
I see the stores, depots, of Boston, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans,
I see far in the West the immense area of grain, I dwell awhile hovering,
I pass to the lumber forests of the North, and again to the Southern
plantation, and again to California;
Sweeping the whole I see the
countless
profit, the busy gatherings,
earn'd wages,
See the Identity formed out of thirty-eight spacious and haughty
States, (and many more to come,)
See forts on the shores of harbors, see ships sailing in and out;
Then over all, (aye!
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þurfe
wyrsan
wīgfrecan
weorðe gecȳpan, _had need to buy with treasures no
inferior warrior_, 2497.
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We were as men who through a fen
Of filthy darkness grope:
We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or to give our anguish scope:
Something
was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Ronsard's Cassandra, was Cassandra Salviati, the
daughter
of an Italian banker.
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In Macedonian fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more
disastrous
fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Nay, under
the wintry star thou
labourest
on thy fleet, and hastenest to launch
into the deep amid northern gales; ah, cruel!
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Broken oars and floating thwarts
entangle
them,
and the ebbing wave sucks their feet away.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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" The lady's cheek
Trembled; she nothing said, but, pale and meek,
Arose and knelt before him, wept a rain
Of sorrows at his words; at last with pain
Beseeching
him, the while his hand she wrung,
To change his purpose.
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Keats |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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How can you shame to act this part
Of unswerving
indifference
to me?
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Imagists |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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He was everywhere a learner, expecting light from
the youngest and least
educated
visitor.
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Emerson - Poems |
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_has_ sorov, _which are
absurd; the reading is obviously_ song, _the_ ng _being altered to_ rowe
_by
influence
of_ l.
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She has seen that the tears are not dry on
These cheeks, where the worm never dies,
And has come past the stars of the Lion,
To point us the path to the skies--
To the Lethean peace of the skies--
Come up, in despite of the Lion,
To shine on us with her bright eyes--
Come up, through the lair of the Lion,
With love in her
luminous
eyes.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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It can't be summer, -- that got through;
It 's early yet for spring;
There 's that long town of white to cross
Before the
blackbirds
sing.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Would I had--oh, my dove of light,
After whose flight came
ceaseless
night,
One plume to clasp so purely white.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Therefore, when iron (which lies between the two)
Hath taken in some atoms of the brass,
Then do the streams of that
Magnesian
rock
Move iron by their smitings.
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Lucretius |
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If ears are porches, mouth, nose, and eyes had better be doors and windows; yet the concept of micromacrocosm is better expressed in "infinite orb immoveable," with its matching of the
oxymoron
in "primum mobile.
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Blake - Zoas |
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You lead me to the
withering
balustrade,
The gardens' sesame has become so strange.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But how can they be
gathered
together?
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Aristophanes |
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Note: There are
references
to a visit to the Temple of Isis at Pompeii with an English girl, Octavia (who tasted a lemon), and to the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli.
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,
Like petals from a rose,
When
suddenly
across the June
A wind with fingers goes.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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