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Ancora era quel popol di lontano,
i' dico dopo i nostri mille passi,
quanto un buon
gittator
trarria con mano,
quando si strinser tutti ai duri massi
de l'alta ripa, e stetter fermi e stretti
com' a guardar, chi va dubbiando, stassi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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So that if a man love nobly he knows
love through infinite pity, unspeakable trust, unending sympathy; and
if ignobly through vehement jealousy, sudden hatred, and unappeasable
desire; but
unveiled
love he never knows.
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TAMEN ILLA UETUS
INQ{U}IT
HEC EST.
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THE QUEEN: Great
Heavens!
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Upon the
other hand, whenever a community or a powerful section of a community,
or a government of any kind, attempts to dictate to the artist what he
is to do, Art either
entirely
vanishes, or becomes stereotyped, or
degenerates into a low and ignoble form of craft.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'Tis said, she first was changed into a vapour, _65
And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit,
Like splendour-winged moths about a taper,
Round the red west when the sun dies in it:
And then into a meteor, such as caper
On hill-tops when the moon is in a fit: _70
Then, into one of those mysterious stars
Which hide
themselves
between the Earth and Mars.
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Shelley |
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Amasse les
strideurs
au coeur du clairon lourd.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Ninmada,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Since his lofty
exploits
have no equal
In such a matter he will have no rival.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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who will give me back my
terrible
array?
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Hugo - Poems |
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True vigor and
heartiness
of phrase do not pass
from page to page, but from man to man, where the brain is kindled and
the lips suppled by downright living interests and by passion in its
very throe.
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{149b}
Horace, his
judgment
of Choerillus defended against Joseph Scaliger.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Particularly in the cycle _Songs of the
Maidens_
in the book
_Celebration_, the atmosphere is condensed and becomes the psychic
background of the landscape against which the gesture of longing or
expectation is seen and felt.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Or e'er the jealous queens of nations greet,
Doth Tayo
interpose
his mighty tide?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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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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_ He came by stealth, and
unlocked
my
den,
And I have drunk the blood since then
Of thrice three hundred thousand men.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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This is the land of Shadows, of Sleep,
and
slumberous
Night; no living body may the Stygian hull convey.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Above all, lo, the sky, so calm, so transparent after the rain, and with
wondrous clouds;
Below, too, all calm, all vital and beautiful--and the farm
prospers
well.
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Whitman |
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If any, so by love refin'd,
That he soules
language
understood,
And by good love were growen all minde,
Within convenient distance stood,
He (though he knew not which soule spake, 25
Because both meant, both spake the same)
Might thence a new concoction take,
And part farre purer then he came.
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John Donne |
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_Sudden Shower_
Black grows the southern sky, betokening rain,
And humming hive-bees
homeward
hurry bye:
They feel the change; so let us shun the grain,
And take the broad road while our feet are dry.
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John Clare |
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Happiness
"O, Happiness, thou fickle maid, gay
farewell
to thee—"
But Happiness, that fickle maid, Came smiling back to me
Dreamt
dreamt that thou didst come
When was dead and lay pale violets About my head; —
And on my folded hands,
Where once did live
Thy kiss, — felt thy tears
And heard, "Forgive!
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vndirstonde
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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See for what may have given the hint for this
fragment
_Morte D'Arthur_,
bk.
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Tennyson |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Their
vileness
matches, equally applies
To cowardly blades, and disloyal eyes.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Mad, that I see
Thy
brother?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Yet, do not do so: for what then would I be
Other than an empty phantom after death,
Bodiless on that shore where love is surely less
(Pardon me Dis) than our idlest
fantasy?
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Ronsard |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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[73]
Swoln with
incessant
rains from hour to hour, [74] 270
All day the floods a deepening murmur pour:
The sky is veiled, and every cheerful sight:
Dark is the region as with coming night;
But what a sudden burst of overpowering light!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Thus Li is said to have been a
native of the
Province
Shantung, which is certainly untrue.
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Li Po |
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The passion that they show me burns so high;
Their love, in me who have not looked on love,
So
fiercely
flames; so wildly comes the cry
Of stricken women the warrior's call above,
That I would gladly lay me down and die
To wake again where Helen and Hector move.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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" So
remonstrance
was impossible, and no steering could be done
till the next varnishing day.
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Lewis Carroll |
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1505
She gan eek telle him how that either brother,
Ethyocles
and Polimyte also,
At a scarmyche, eche of hem slough other,
And of Argyves wepinge and hir wo;
And how the town was brent she tolde eek tho.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The superiority of the civil and
military arts of the British, notwithstanding the hateful character of
some individuals, is at this day beheld in India with all the
astonishment of admiration; and
admiration
is always followed, though
often with retarded steps, by the strong desire of similar improvement.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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In peaceful times to be sent from the
imperial
presence to a post in the provinces would be a cause for resentment?
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at least because of the
incident
which gave rise to the poem.
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William Wordsworth |
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Now when his chariot last
Its beams against the zodiac-lion cast,
There blossom'd suddenly a magic bed
Of sacred ditamy, and poppies red:
At which I
wondered
greatly, knowing well
That but one night had wrought this flowery spell;
And, sitting down close by, began to muse
What it might mean.
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Keats |
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What Place Is
Besieged?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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wherefore
with infection should he live,
And with his presence grace impiety,
That sin by him advantage should achieve,
And lace itself with his society?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Let's make bally asses of
ourselves!
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Kipling - Poems |
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Then the Teutonic dames, a
dauntless
race,
Who rush'd on death to shun a foe's embrace;--
And Judith chaste and fair, but void of dread,
Who the hot blood of Holofernes shed;--
And that fair Greek who chose a watery grave
Her threaten'd purity unstain'd to save.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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In accordance with his wish his name was not
printed in the
editions
of the poem that came out in Pope's lifetime,
appearing there only as C----or C----l.
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Alexander Pope |
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The nonsense-songs are all good, and "The Story of the Four little Children
who went Round the World" is the most exquisite piece of imaginative
absurdity that the present writer is
acquainted
with.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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--The body hath certain
diseases
that are with less evil tolerated
than removed.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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For the first time the sun
kissed my own naked face and my soul was
inflamed
with love for
the sun, and I wanted my masks no more.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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; speaking without
judgement
or measure.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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_ Act
hurriedly
or rashly.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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In offering this little book--the third of its kind--to the public, I am
glad to take the opportunity of recording the pleasure I have received at
the appreciation its predecessors have met with, as
attested
by their wide
circulation, and by the universally kind notices of them from the Press.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Courteous
Ulysses his long stay doth mourn;
His chaste wife prayeth for his safe return;
While Circe's amorous charms her prayers control,
And rather vex than please his virtuous soul.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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the men have bled,
Their wives and their
children
faint for bread.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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t rage of his
offended
iealou?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five:
Hardly a man is now alive
Who
remembers
that famous day and year.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
I beg pardon if I
misapprehended
the matter, but this appears to me
the only imperfect passage in the poem.
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Robert Burns |
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May is a full light wind of lilac
From Canada to
Narragansett
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Who will say that he saw, as
midnight
struck
Its tremulous golden twelve, a light in the window,
And first heard music, as of an old piano,
Music remote, as if it came from the earth,
Far down; and then, in the quiet, eager voices?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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{3c} One of the
auxiliary
names of the Geats.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Since Plutus
has recovered his sight, there is nothing for us other gods, neither
incense, nor laurels, nor cakes, nor victims, nor
anything
in the world.
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Aristophanes |
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Orpheus
Orpheus
'Orpheus'
Pierre -Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824 - 1898, Yale
University
Art Gallery
His heart was the bait: the heavens were the pond!
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Appoloinaire |
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Was she a matron of Cornelia's mien,
Or the light air of Egypt's graceful queen,
Profuse of joy; or 'gainst it did she war,
Inveterate
in virtue?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Girls in
anticipation
skip!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The chief
objection
to it is that there
never has been and never can be anything in actuality corresponding to
the "folk-spirit" which this notion supposes.
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The laughing ripple
shoreward
flew
To kiss the shining pebbles--
Loud shrieked the crowding Boys in Blue
Defiance to the Rebels.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The towering Babels that we raised
Where scoffing sophists brawl,
The little
Antichrists
we praised--
The night is on them all.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"I taught you of kissing," says she; "that
becomes every
courteous
knight.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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With
comrades
eleven the lord of Geats
swollen in rage went seeking the dragon.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Beneath every spark,
The red,
tyrannous
fire
Mounts up in the dark
Ever redder and higher;
More swiftly than steed
Uncontrolled, see it pass!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Close up the
venturous
youth resolves to keep,
Still edging near, and bears him toward the steep.
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Iliad - Pope |
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So, lifted with
prophetic
pride,
Raised conquering hands to heaven and cried:
"All hail the Stars and Stripes!
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For the
gathered
tears that tarry
Through the day and the dark till now,
Now in the dawn are free,
Father, and flow beneath
The floor of the world, to be
As a song in she house of Death:
From the rising up of the day
They guide my heart alway,
The silent tears unshed,
And my body mourns for the dead;
My cheeks bleed silently,
And these bruised temples keep
Their pain, remembering thee
And thy bloody sleep.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Ils auront vu la Suisse et
traverse
la France.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Returning
from their Feast--my heart beats so--
A noise at midnight does _so_ frighten me.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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spare my
destined
blood!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--Many might
go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture
their
industry
the right way; but "The devil take all!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The
farthest
thunder that I heard
Was nearer than the sky,
And rumbles still, though torrid noons
Have lain their missiles by.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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We
encourage
you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an
electronic path open for the next readers.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A dance divine, that, time after time, resumed,
Broke, and re-formed again,
circling
every way,
Merged and then parted, turned, then turned away,
Mirroring the curves Meander's course assumed.
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Ronsard |
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The heart, to jet the all-alike and
innocent
blood!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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La Fontaine |
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Les Amours de Marie: VI
I'm sending you some flowers, that my hand
Picked just now from all this blossoming,
That, if they'd not been
gathered
this evening,
Tomorrow would be scattered on the ground.
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Ronsard |
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your desire is
to
tyrannize
over us!
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Aristophanes |
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The seaman strikes
His small lost bell again,
watching
the west
As she below him watches.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Of verity, they'll laugh aloud, like men,
Shaken asunder by a spasm of mirth,
Or sprinkle with dewy tear-drops cheeks and chins,
And have the cunning
hardihood
to say
Much on the composition of the world,
And in their turn inquire what elements
They have themselves,--since, thus the same in kind
As a whole mortal creature, even they
Must also be from other elements,
And then those others from others evermore--
So that thou darest nowhere make a stop.
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Lucretius |
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No
fragments
merely
shall burn with the warrior.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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It was
exorcised
by abuse.
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On his return to India he founded
the Nizam College at Hyderabad, and has since
laboured
incessantly,
and at great personal sacrifice, in the cause of education.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Contact the
Foundation
as set forth in Section 3 below.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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For pity do not this sad heart belie--
Even as thou
vanishest
so I shall die.
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Keats |
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JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
DEAR SIR, [B]--However desirous I might have been of giving you proofs
of the high place you hold in my esteem, I should have been cautious
of wounding your delicacy by thus publicly
addressing
you, had not the
circumstance of our having been companions among the Alps, seemed to
give this dedication a propriety sufficient to do away any scruples
which your modesty might otherwise have suggested.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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They tolled the one bell only,
Groom there was none to see,
The mourners
followed
after,
And so to church went she,
And would not wait for me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the
comfortless
cold moon;
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.
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Christina Rossetti |
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[283] 50 Throughout 1641, 1692, 1716, W
Thoroughout
G
[284] 53 an] my 1692, f.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Certe tute iubebas animam tradere, inique, me
Inducens
in amorem, quasi tuta omnia mi forent.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Bedenkt, Ihr habet weiches Holz zu spalten,
Und seht nur hin, fur wen Ihr
schreibt!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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For sothe, y-liche they suffred tho
Oo blisse and eek oo sorwe bothe;
Y-liche they were bothe gladde and wrothe;
Al was us oon,
withoute
were.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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'twould a saint provoke"
(Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke);
"No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace
Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face:
One would not, sure, be
frightful
when one's dead--
And--Betty--give this cheek a little red.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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