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DAMOETAS
"You, picking flowers and
strawberries
that grow
So near the ground, fly hence, boys, get you gone!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Will Gaul or
Muscovite
redress ye?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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at
philosophi
be now al?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Homing at dawn, I thought to see
One of the
Messengers
standing by.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Sumptuous was the feast Nokomis
Made at Hiawatha's wedding;
All the bowls were made of bass-wood,
White and
polished
very smoothly,
All the spoons of horn of bison,
Black and polished very smoothly.
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Longfellow |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Poems in various moods are also
included
in the book and add variety to its feast.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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for
herdsman
and for herd!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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As soon as he perceived us he came up, said a few
pleasant
words to me,
and went back to the drill.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy
highways
where I went
And cannot come again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing
store with loss, and loss with store.
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Golden Treasury |
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So they kept us close till nigh on noon,
And then they rang the bell,
And the Warders with their
jingling
keys
Opened each listening cell,
And down the iron stair we tramped,
Each from his separate Hell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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excludunt radios siluis demissa uetustis
frigora,
perspicui
uiuunt in marmore fontes.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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When Dunbar and you meet, tell him that I left
Edinburgh
with the idea
of him hanging somewhere about my heart.
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Robert Burns |
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And, do you know that the scarlet lilies are woven petal by
petal from my heart's blood, these little quivering birds are my
soul made incarnate music, these heavy perfumes are my emotions
dissolved into aerial essence, this flaming blue and gold sky is
the 'very me,' that part of me that
incessantly
and insolently,
yes, and a little deliberately, triumphs over that other part--a
thing of nerves and tissues that suffers and cries out, and that
must die to-morrow perhaps, or twenty years hence.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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e accusac{i}ou{n} aiuged
byforn ne scholde not sodeynly henten ne
punischen
wrongfuly Albyn a
counseiller of Rome.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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13 Respectfully Seeing Off Guo Yingyi, Vice Censor in Chief and Chief Minister of the Court of the Imperial Stud, Going to Fill the Position of
Military
Commissioner of Longyou: Thirty Couplets An edict sent forth the general of the western mountains to muster Longyou?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Hannasyde was loafing up the hill,
one September morning between calling hours, when a 'rickshaw came down
in a hurry, and in the 'rickshaw sat the living,
breathing
image of the
girl who had made him so happily unhappy.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Was ever couch
magnificent
as mine?
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Emerson - Poems |
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O
daughter!
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Euripides - Electra |
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A
haunting
music, sole perhaps and lone
Supportress of the faery-roof, made moan
Throughout, as fearful the whole charm might fade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Bethink thee, the young steed, the orphan foal
Of sire beloved by thee, unto the car
Of doom is
harnessed
fast.
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Aeschylus |
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And I was loading you
with
chaplets
and gifts!
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Aristophanes |
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From off the gateway's rusting iron asters,
5The birds take flight to far
sequestered
greens,
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But what
Is this which now
constricts
my breath?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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They take away, as well as eat,
And still the housewife's eye they cheat,
In spite of all the folks that swarm
In cottage small and larger farm;
They through each key-hole pop and pop,
Like wasps into a grocer's shop,
With all the things that they can win
From chance to put their plunder in;--
As shells of walnuts, split in two
By crows, who with the kernels flew;
Or acorn-cups, by stock-doves plucked,
Or egg-shells by a cuckoo sucked;
With broad leaves of the sycamore
They clothe their stolen dainties oer:
And when in cellar they regale,
Bring hazel-nuts to hold their ale;
With bung-holes bored by
squirrels
well,
To get the kernel from the shell;
Or maggots a way out to win,
When all is gone that grew within;
And be the key-holes eer so high,
Rush poles a ladder's help supply.
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John Clare |
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Charon, the proud and sombre beggar, stood
With one strong,
vengeful
hand on either oar.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Our voices vary with the
changing
seasons
Of life's long year, for deep and natural reasons.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The legion
had broken the
Macedonian
phalanx.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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_ to
breaches
of chastity.
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John Donne |
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"
And they
answered
me saying, "No, not one.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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6000
They loven ful bet, so god me spede,
Than doth the riche, chinchy grede,
And been, in good feith, more stable
And trewer, and more serviable;
And therfore it
suffysith
me 6005
Hir goode herte, and hir leautee.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Open innumerable doors
The heaven where
unveiled
Allah pours
The flood of truth, the flood of good,
The Seraph's and the Cherub's food.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Walpole had further some
three years before this time indulged in the very harmless literary
fraud of publishing his _Castle of
Otranto_
as a translation from a
mediaeval Italian MS.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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High afar
The Latmian saw them minish into nought;
And, when all were clear vanish'd, still he caught
A vivid lightning from that
dreadful
bow.
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Keats |
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Muffle the sound of bells,
Mournfully
human, that cries from the darkening valley;
Close, with your leaves, about the sound of water:
Take me among your hearts as you take the mist
Among your boughs!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Then the
henchman
-- he that smote Hamish -- would tremble and lag;
"Strike, hard!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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" The Romans of the age of
Cincinatus
were
probably quite as credulous as the Spanish subjects of Charles
the Fifth.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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1080
Ele vausist a ung prodomme
Miex que
trestous
li ors de Romme.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In 804 on the death of his father, and again in 811 on the death of his
mother, he spent periods of
retirement
on the Wei river near Ch'ang-an.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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She thought, if the empty noise
Of a sweet
harmonious
voice
Like a murmuring stream, untaught,
Could make one believe in thought.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Und steigen
freundlich
blickend
Ewige Sterne nicht herauf?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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My darkest moods will always clear
When I can fancy
children
near,
With rosy lips a-laughing--dear,
Light-dancing band!
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Hugo - Poems |
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But when I look again,
It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine,
Thy habitation from
eternity!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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When
wasteful
war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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In Raetia and the Gallic provinces some
centurions and men carrying letters and edicts from Vespasian were
taken
prisoners
and sent to Vitellius, who had them executed.
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Tacitus |
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Planks on trestles -- the "board" of later English
literature
--
formed the tables just in front of the long rows of seats, and were
taken away after banquets, when the retainers were ready to stretch
themselves out for sleep on the benches.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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When chapman billies leave the street,
And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet;
As market days are wearing late,
And folk begin to tak the gate,
While we sit bousing at the nappy,
An' getting fou and unco happy,
We think na on the lang Scots miles,
The mosses, waters, slaps and stiles,
That lie between us and our hame,
Where sits our sulky, sullen dame,
Gathering her brows like
gathering
storm,
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it
Since what is kept must be
adulterated?
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T.S. Eliot |
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TURNER'S OLD TEMERAIRE
UNDER A FIGURE SYMBOLIZING THE CHURCH
Thou wast the fairest of all man-made things;
The breath of heaven bore up thy cloudy wings,
And, patient in their triple rank,
The thunders
crouched
about thy flank,
Their black lips silent with the doom of kings.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The population of Rome was, from a very early
period, divided into hereditary castes, which, indeed, readily
united to repel foreign enemies, but which
regarded
each other,
during many years, with bitter animosity.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Look for no respite from that agony
Until some other deity be found,
Ready to bear for thee the brunt of doom,
Choosing
to pass into the lampless world
Of Hades and the murky depths of hell.
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Aeschylus |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Much too of music was his thought;
The melodies and measures fraught
With
sunshine
and the open air,
Of vineyards and the singing sea
Of his beloved Sicily;
And much it pleased him to peruse
The songs of the Sicilian muse,--
Bucolic songs by Meli sung
In the familiar peasant tongue,
That made men say, "Behold!
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Longfellow |
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King Olaf had sent her this wedding gift,
But her
thoughts
as arrows were keen and swift.
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Longfellow |
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You are afraid I shall grow intoxicated with my
prosperity
as a poet;
alas!
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Robert Burns |
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Men ruled, but ruled in vain; since wretchedness
Of soul and body, for the mass of men,
Made them like dead leaves in an idle drift
Around the plough of progress as it drove
Sharp through the glebe of modern days, to plant
A
civilized
world.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Yes, that goodness
Of gleaning all the land's wealth into one,
Into your own hands, Cardinal, by extortion;
The goodness of your
intercepted
packets
You writ to th' Pope against the King; your goodness,
Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious.
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Shakespeare |
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5
Blow again
trumpeter!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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XII
"If Fortune's care I was not, who denied
To me upon my birth a wealthy boon,
Nature that went with
graceful
form supplied;
So that in beauty rival had I none.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired
wanderers
weep.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Talk with
prudence
to a beggar
Of 'Potosi' and the mines!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Else
wherefore
sex?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The last
relation
I shall give, though equally true, is not so well
identified as the two former, with regard to the scene; but as the
best authorities give it for Alloway, I shall relate it.
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Robert Forst |
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as 'twere fain
That your
paternal
river's banks,
And Vatican, in sportive strain,
Should echo thanks.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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A proud man was Lars Porsena
Upon the
trysting
day.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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What Eden but noon-light stares it tame,
Shadowless, brazen,
forsaken
of shame?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Or, turning to the Vatican, go see
Laocoon's torture dignifying pain--
A father's love and mortal's agony
With an immortal's
patience
blending:--Vain
The struggle; vain, against the coiling strain
And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp,
The old man's clench; the long envenomed chain
Rivets the living links,--the enormous asp
Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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TO STEFANO COLONNA THE ELDER,
INVITING
HIM TO THE COUNTRY.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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O sacred light
eternal!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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e kny3t totes,
Sir Wawen her
welcumed
wor?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Then grave Clarissa
graceful
wav'd her fan;
Silence ensu'd, and thus the nymph began.
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Alexander Pope |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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MADAM,
Permit me to present you with the
enclosed
song as a small though
grateful tribute for the honour of your acquaintance.
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Robert Forst |
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4 the
traveler
has come back across a thousand leagues.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Among these
tempests
great and manifold, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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It seems the art of one who walked through the world of things endowed
with the senses of a god, and able, with that perfection of effort that
looks as if it were effortless, to fashion his
experience
into
incorruptible song; whether it be the dance of flies round a byre at
milking-time, or a forest-fire on the mountains at night.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Courthope qualifies this statement somewhat on the next
page: 'From this spirit of cynical lawlessness he was
perhaps
reclaimed
by genuine love,' &c.
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John Donne |
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'
HOLY THURSDAY
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and
fruitful
land,--
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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_The old woman comes in
burdened
with her sack_.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Mark how, possess'd, his
lashless
eyelids stretch
Around his demon eyes!
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Keats - Lamia |
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Transports, at once my
punishment
and prize!
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Petrarch |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Act IV Scene VI (Phaedra, Oenone)
Phaedra
Dear Oenone, do you know what I have
learned?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I
threw myself
passionately
back in my chair, and for some moments buried
my face in my hands.
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Poe - 5 |
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en he keuere3 bi a cragge, & come3 of a hole,
Whyrlande
out of a wro, wyth a felle weppen,
[F] A dene3 ax nwe dy3t, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Saveliitch exclaimed, joy painted on his face--
"He is coming to
himself!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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THE
SZECHWAN
ROAD
Eheu!
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Li Po |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And now his soul wears the
strength
and fury
Of a huge dun-pelted wolf; he's the wolves' king;
And the fiends have learnt from him to laugh at our flints.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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This
thoughtful
and
responsible man initiated the journal with an essay of his own,
explaining how forms of entertainment are actually at the same time our
primary modes of education.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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CXXXVIII
"Form, site, and sumptuous work doth he behold,
And royal ornament and fair device;
And oft repeats, not all this wide world's gold
To buy the
egregious
mansion wound suffice.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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