Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Myself how
changed!
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LVI
Then comforts him -- that Christ aye heaven allows
To them, that late or early heaven desire;
And all those
labourers
of the Gospel shows,
Paid by the vineyard's lord with equal hire.
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Not the cormorant, cradled there on the sea,
Not stones from the walls, or the
rhythmic
beat
Of a trader's oars thrashing the waves below.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The first edition of the poems was in ten _chuan_, and was
published
by
Li Yang-ping in the year of the poet's death.
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Li Po |
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'
'Ah, sire, for goddis love,' seide I, 2135
Er ye passe hens, ententifly
Your
comaundementis
to me ye say,
And I shal kepe hem, if I may;
For hem to kepen is al my thought.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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One kiss for all others
requites
me,
Although it is never to be,
And sweetens my dreams and invites me:
'Tis the kiss that she dare not give me.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Gentle and rather foolish,
she was devoted to her two
children
Mary and, his sister's junior by
two years, Thomas the Poet.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Then he
followed
his foes, who fled before him
sore beset and stole their way,
bereft of a ruler, to Ravenswood.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Adorable
sorciere, aimes-tu les damnes!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Once when the Emperor was sitting in the Pavilion of Aloes Wood, he had
a sudden stirring of heart, and wanted Po to write a song
expressive
of
his mood.
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Li Po |
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CLIV
The little Love-god lying once asleep,
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep
Came
tripping
by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that fire
Which many legions of true hearts had warm'd;
And so the general of hot desire
Was, sleeping, by a virgin hand disarm'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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My
thoughts
tear me,
I dread their fever.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Black is night's cope;
But death will not appal
One who, past
doubtings
all,
Waits in unhope.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The crowd go now to see him, in a headlong rush,
I went out, at your command, to find Hippolytus,
When a
thousand
cries split the heavens.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Beckford,--in all
the crack novels, I say, from those of Bulwer and Dickens to those of
Bulwer and Dickens to those of Turnapenny and Ainsworth, the two little
Latin words cui bono are
rendered
"to what purpose?
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Poe - 5 |
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Gilgamish
and Enkidu
grappled with each other,
goring like an ox.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Ou fons de la
fontaine
aval
Avoit deux pierres de cristal
Qu'a grande entente remirai,
Et une chose vous dirai,
<<
That ye wol holde a greet mervayle
Whan it is told, withouten fayle.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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He wrote for certain papers, which, as
everybody
knows,
Is worse than serving in a shop or scaring off the crows.
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Kipling - Poems |
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25
The
Macmillan
Co.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Oh, is it not to widen man
Stretches
the sea?
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Sidney Lanier |
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King and friend,
wherefore
are you not here?
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Chanson de Roland |
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Or, it may be, we inly seek,
Wafted upon poetic wing,
Some other long-departed Spring,
Whose
memories
make the heart beat quick
With thoughts of a far distant land,
Of a strange night when the moon and--
IV
'Tis now the season!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Fierce for his son, he
breathes
his threats in air;
Fate bears them not, and Death attends him there.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Was it not at the
hospital?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Yet both the ballads relate to the same event, and
that event which
probably
took place within the memory of persons
who were alive when both the ballads were made.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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86-88;
4 of ELISHA, his
purifying
a well with salt, 214-225 (2 Kings ii.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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dreadful
price of being to resign
All that is dear _in_ being!
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Lewis Carroll |
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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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Stephen Crane |
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Beneath the armour of the Knight
Behind the chain's black links
Death crouches and thinks and thinks:
"When will the sword's blade sharp and bright
Forth from the scabbard spring
And cut the network of the cloak
Enmeshing
me ring on ring--
When will the foe's delivering stroke
Set me free
To dance
And sing?
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Rilke - Poems |
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Although Erdman does not address this issue in his notes, he does make some silent decisions
regarding
the order of the text, the most significant being his placement of this 4-line stanza at the very end of his transcription of p.
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Blake - Zoas |
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On them I
recognise
the dress
Of my own country.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
To every
household
altar then she went
And made for each his garland of the green
Boughs of the wind-blown myrtle, and was seen
Praying, without a sob, without a tear.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In the accidental group of life into which
one is thrown, wherever this gentleman met with a character in a more
than ordinary degree
congenial
to his heart, he used to steal a sketch
of the face, merely, he said, as a _nota bene_, to point out the
agreeable recollection to his memory.
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Robert Burns |
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He led it up our ramparts,
Small glory did he gain--
Our
captives
some, while others fled,
And he himself was slain.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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It is certain that, more than
three hundred and sixty years after the date ordinarily assigned
for the foundation of the city, the public records were, with
scarcely an exception,
destroyed
by the Gauls.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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34, only 19 comprise the standard text block; the rest are marginal additions, with 2 sizeable columns at the foot of the page, a 5-line stanza written up the lower righthand side of the page, and 2 additional larger stanzas appearing in the
lefthand
margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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our extended reign,(226)
Where Xanthus' streams enrich the Lycian plain,
Our numerous herds that range the fruitful field,
And hills where vines their purple harvest yield,
Our foaming bowls with purer nectar crown'd,
Our feasts enhanced with music's
sprightly
sound?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Dost thou
remember
Sicily?
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Wilde - Poems |
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drihtlīce
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Beowulf |
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CANTO III
Close by those meads, for ever crown'd with flow'rs,
Where Thames with pride surveys his rising tow'rs,
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I smile, of course,
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When next upon the page I chance,
Like Poussin's nymphs my pulses dance,
And whirl my fancy where it sees
Pan piping 'neath
Arcadian
trees,
Whose leaves no winter-scenes rehearse,
Still young and glad as Homer's verse.
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Burns, who had talked lightly hitherto of resuming the plough, began
now to think
seriously
about it, for he saw it must come to that at
last.
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
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Ronsard |
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Hearts refreshed
By discharge of
emotion!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Hath fate
apportioned
unto thee
This lot in life with stern decree?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Yea, but it is cruel when
undressed
is all the blossom,
And her shift is lying white upon the floor,
That a grey one, like a shadow, like a rat, a thief, a rain-storm
Creeps upon her then and gathers in his store.
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Imagists |
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DICHTER:
Ihr fuhlet nicht, wie schlecht ein solches
Handwerk
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But this no time our vigour to display;
Nor suit, with them, the games of this sad day:
Lost is
Patroclus
now, that wont to deck
Their flowing manes, and sleek their glossy neck.
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WORLD BUILDERS By Abigail Fithian Halsev
These are the things that make the world, The sun and air, the earth and sky,
The golden
sunlight
everywhere,
The wings of angels drifting by.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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ye old
mesmerizer
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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We can thus
hardly imagine that he was possessed of any considerable private income
when he returned to London, to live practically on his wits, and a study
of his poems
suggests
that, the influence of the careful uncle removed,
whatever capital he possessed was soon likely to vanish.
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Robert Herrick |
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Why an Ear, a whirlpool fierce to draw
creations
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And when in the silent hours
I whisper your sacred name,
Like an altar-fire it showers
My blood with
fragrant
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to
reproduce
her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The first flock of geese is seen beating to
north, in long harrows and waving lines; the jingle of the song
sparrow salutes us from the shrubs and fences; the
plaintive
note of
the lark comes clear and sweet from the meadow; and the bluebird, like
an azure ray, glances past us in our walk.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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2,
_morrow_
for _morning_; l.
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Robert Herrick |
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Miss Thompson feels a
conscious
blush
Suffuse her face, as though her thought
Had ventured further than it ought.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Were not the
pictures
and the volumes fain
To have me with them always as before?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Phials full of
sinister
fluids, alternating with
shining knives and instruments of surgery, hung from this living girdle.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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This noble emperesse, ful of grace,
Bad every foul to take his owne place, 320
As they were wont alwey fro yeer to yere,
Seynt
Valentynes
day, to stonden there.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Wherethe
good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
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Poe - 5 |
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The celebrated travel book entitled: 'History of Prince Don Pedro of Portugal, in which is told what happened to him on the way composed for Gomez of Santistevan when he had covered the seven regions of the globe, one of the twelve who bore the prince company', reports that the Prince of Portugal, Don Pedro of Alfaroubeira, set out with twelve
companions
to visit the seven regions of the world.
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Appoloinaire |
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Let Paphos lift the mirror;
let her look
into the
polished
center of the disk.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The
initials
signify "Aerated Bread Company,
Limited.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Were I from
Dunsinane
away, and cleere,
Profit againe should hardly draw me heere.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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85
And founde his fadre
steppeynge
from the bryne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me
For
bringing
wood in slowly.
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Shakespeare |
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Ample and ruddy, the board's end he fills
As he our fireside were, our light and heat, 230
Centre where minds diverse and various skills
Find their warm nook and stretch
unhampered
feet;
I see the firm benignity of face,
Wide-smiling champaign, without tameness sweet,
The mass Teutonic toned to Gallic grace,
The eyes whose sunshine runs before the lips
While Holmes's rockets, curve their long ellipse,
And burst in seeds of fire that burst again
To drop in scintillating rain.
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James Russell Lowell |
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That poor
retention
could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Therefore to give them from me was I bold,
To trust those tables that receive thee more:
To keep an adjunct to remember thee
Were to import forgetfulness in me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
I
willingly
acceded to his desire.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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XLII
O heart of insatiable longing,
What spell, what
enchantment
allures thee
Over the rim of the world
With the sails of the sea-going ships?
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Sappho |
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Conquered so often now they will no more
Chance
themselves
against the conqueror.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Of good, and glory, and
eternity!
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Byron |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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your milky stream pale
strippings
of my life!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Grishkin is nice: her Russian eye
Is
underlined
for emphasis;
Uncorseted, her friendly bust
Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Methinks
already I your tears survey,
Already hear the horrid things they say,
Already see you a degraded toast,
And all your honour in a whisper lost!
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Alexander Pope |
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They
trampled
loud the soil, straining to draw 100
Herself with all her vesture; nor alone
She went, but follow'd by her virgin train.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The
cherubim
are winged oxen, but in no way monstrous.
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Appoloinaire |
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The rite decrees our hands must quench the torch
Against the iron mass of your tomb's porch:
None at this simple ceremony should forget,
Those chosen to sing the absence of the poet,
That this monument
encloses
him entire.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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As poets should,
Thou hast built up thy hardihood
With universal food,
Drawn in select proportion fair
From honest mould and vagabond air;
From darkness of the dreadful night,
And joyful light;
From antique ashes, whose departed flame
In thee has finer life and longer fame;
From wounds and balms,
From storms and calms,
From
potsherds
and dry bones
And ruin-stones.
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Sidney Lanier |
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"
The
moonbeams
through the open door did fall,
And shine upon the figure next the wall.
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Hugo - Poems |
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