But that Empire, so grand, so
glorious
a prize, 575
Is not the dearest gift of all, to my eyes.
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[55]
Drooping is he, his step is dull; [56]
But the horses stretch and pull; 670
With increasing vigour climb,
Eager to repair lost time;
Whether, by their own desert,
Knowing what cause there is [57] for shame,
They are
labouring
to avert 675
As much as may be of the blame, [58]
Which, they foresee, must soon alight
Upon _his_ head, whom, in despite
Of all his failings, they love best; [59]
Whether for him they are distrest, 680
Or, by length of fasting roused,
Are impatient to be housed:
Up against the hill they strain
Tugging at the iron chain,
Tugging all with might and main, 685
Last and foremost, every horse
To the utmost of his force!
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Come, my soul; and since we must end it,
Let us die without
offending
Chimene.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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After that day
Aegisthus thus decreed: whoso should slay
The old king's
wandering
son, should win rich meed
Of gold; and for Electra, she must wed
With me, not base of blood--in that I stand
True Mycenaean--but in gold and land
Most poor, which maketh highest birth as naught.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"And now," thought he,
"How long must I remain in jeopardy
Of blank
amazements
that amaze no more?
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Keats |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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More than I, if truth were told,
Have stood and sweated hot and cold,
And through their reins in ice and fire
Fear
contended
with desire.
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For stern is the onset of Persia,
and gallant her
children
in fight.
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Aeschylus |
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Denying that which mine own spirit guesses
--Our great and ancient fame is also known--
Can I tear off the scarf which veils my tresses,
And with an early
widowhood
atone?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
--"Deeds of home; that live yet
Fresh as new--deeds of fondness or fret;
Ancient words that were kindly
expressed
or unkindly,
These, these have their heeds.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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His brother leap'd to earth; but, as he lay,
The
trenchant
falchion lopp'd his hands away;
His sever'd head was toss'd among the throng,
And, rolling, drew a bloody train along.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the
publisher
to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Thou know'st her grace in moving, Thou dost her skill in loving,
Thou know'st what truth she proveth, Thou knowest the heart she moveth, O song where grief
assoneth
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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It's on your slopes, visited by Venus
Setting in your lava her heels so artless,
When a sad slumber
thunders
where the flame burns low.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I had sat within that marble circle where the
oldest bard is as the young,
And the pipe is ever
dropping
honey, and the
lyre's strings are ever strung.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Wherefore
did you so?
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Cupid
sagaciously
led past those palazzos so fine.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Nothing, not bogs nor sands nor seas nor Alps,
Separates the world so as the bishops scalps ;
Stretch for the line their
surcingle
alone,
'Twill make a more inhabitable zone.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Or, to say that eyes
Themselves
can see no thing, but through the same
The mind looks forth, as out of opened doors,
Is--a hard saying; since the feel in eyes
Says the reverse.
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Lucretius |
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"Ah, the cities," cried he, "and the faces Like an endless river rolling on —
From what unknown deeps of being risen
All those myriads, to what shadowy coast
"Of huge doom in sullen
grandeur
moving, The vast waters of the human soul!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Lemozis, francha terra cortesa,
Ah,
Limousin!
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Troubador Verse |
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If this be Love, how is the evil wrought,
That all men write against his
darkened
name?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The
copyright
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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References to the
chopine are common in the
literature
of the period (see Nares
and _NED.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Ay, tear her
tattered
ensign down!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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'Tis gain to mock your mother's bones,
And night's still signs, and all the sky,
And gods, that on their
glorious
thrones
Chill Death defy.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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--An orphic song indeed,
A song divine of high and
passionate
thoughts
To their own music chaunted!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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This
suggested
to me
that the poem was indeed an answer to 'Death I recant', but by another
person, another member of Lady Bedford's entourage.
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John Donne |
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Now's the day, and now's the hour;
See the front o' battle lour:
See approach proud Edward's pow'r--
Chains and
slaverie!
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Robert Forst |
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_ Who talks here of a
complement
of grief?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Was it not Fate, that, on this July midnight-
Was it not Fate, (whose name is also Sorrow,)
That bade me pause before that garden-gate,
To breathe the incense of those
slumbering
roses?
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Poe - 5 |
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From these clear coverts high and cool I see
How every time with every time is knit,
And each to all is
mortised
cunningly,
And none is sole or whole, yet all are fit.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The vast park swoons beneath the burning eye of
the sun, as youth beneath the
lordship
of love.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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For
instrument
nor melodye
Was nowher herd yet half so swete, 315
Nor of acorde half so mete;
For ther was noon of hem that feyned
To singe, for ech of hem him peyned
To finde out mery crafty notes;
They ne spared not hir throtes.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
I knew not then what by his words he meant:
But since I find it by the dire event;
And in my memory 'tis fix'd so fast,
That marble
gravings
cannot firmer last.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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10
Have the laden galleons been sighted
Stoutly
labouring
up the sea from Tyre?
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Sappho |
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SCENES FROM "POLITIAN"
AN
UNPUBLISHED
DRAMA.
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Poe - 5 |
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He dressed
expensively
but soberly, in the
English fashion; his linen dazzling, the prevailing hue of his
habiliments black.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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15
Gladlier now crimson morning
Flushes fair-built Mitylene,--
Portico, temple, and column,--
Where the young
garlanded
women
Praise thee with singing.
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Sappho |
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Slender, at first, the subtle fume appears,
And
writhing
round and round its volume rears:
Thick as a mast the vapour swells its size,
A curling whirlwind lifts it to the skies;
The tube now straightens, now in width extends,
And, in a hov'ring cloud, its summit ends:
Still, gulp on gulp in sucks the rising tide,
And now the cloud, with cumbrous weight supplied,
Full-gorg'd, and black'ning, spreads, and moves, more slow,
And waving trembles to the waves below.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Lovelace
says _wropt_ for
_wrapt_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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After some words Charles bounded at the General's throat and
sought to
strangle
him.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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590
But now a secret regret
agitates
my mind.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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It is one to me that they come or go
If I have myself and the drive of my will,
And
strength
to climb on a summer night
And watch the stars swarm over the hill.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The
Chaplain
would not kneel to pray
By his dishonoured grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Wilde - Poems |
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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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Meredith - Poems |
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Beautiful
eagle!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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460
Mie sheelde, lyche sommere morie gronfer droke,
Mie
lethalle
speere, alyche a levyn-mylted oke.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And with tears of blood he
cleansed
the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal:
And the crimson stain that was of Cain
Became Christ's snow-white seal.
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Wilde - Poems |
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--Friends, do you
remember
the happy
life that peace afforded us formerly; can you recall the splendid baskets
of figs, both fresh and dried, the myrtles, the sweet wine, the violets
blooming near the spring, and the olives, for which we have wept so much?
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Aristophanes |
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Therefore
I say-
Wor.
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Shakespeare |
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Wearied of war-horse, gratefully one glides
In gilded barge, or in crowned, velvet car,
From gay
Whitehall
to gloomy Temple Bar--"
(Where--had you slipt, that head were bleaching now!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Each, for his own wife's joy and gift,
A little corpse as safely at rest
As mine in the
mangoes!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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3 This was the title held by Guangwudi, the
restoration
emperor who founded the Eastern Han, before he became emperor.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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A LITTLE GIRL LOST
Children of the future age,
Reading this
indignant
page,
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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A Cooking Egg
En l'an
trentiesme
de mon aage
Que toutes mes hontes j'ay beues.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Dritta salia la via per entro 'l sasso
verso tal parte ch'io
toglieva
i raggi
dinanzi a me del sol ch'era gia basso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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or if those women you note
Reflect your
fabulous
senses' desire!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"
He's drawn Almace, whose steel was brown and rough,
Through the great press a thousand blows he's struck:
As Charles said, quarter he gave to none;
He found him there, four hundred else among,
Wounded the most, speared through the middle some,
Also there were from whom the heads he'd cut:
So tells the tale, he that was there says thus,
The brave Saint Giles, whom God made marvellous,
Who
charters
wrote for th' Minster at Loum;
Nothing he's heard that does not know this much.
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Chanson de Roland |
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These
travellers
were mounted on four dromedaries, and having passed through Spain, they went to Norway and from there to Babylon and the Holy Land.
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Appoloinaire |
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Ghostly mother, keep aloof
One hour longer from my soul,
For I still am
thinking
of
Earth's warm-beating joy and dole!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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And other
ensamples
how many might one find!
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Lucretius |
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Beset with
plainful
gusts, within ye hear
No sound so loud as when on curtain'd bier
The death-watch tick is stifled.
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Keats |
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There is a
tendency
to exaggerate both
their inhumanity and his gentleness, for purposes of contrast, which
weakens where it would give strength.
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Keats |
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Dignum
tantorum
pretium tulit illa laborum.
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Robert Herrick |
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The battling is lavish, but always exciting;
and in, at least, that section which describes how the dying Oliver,
blinded by
weariness
and wounds, mistakes Roland for a pagan and feebly
smites him with his sword, there is real and piercing pathos.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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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Why how now Hecat, you looke
angerly?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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the spirit flown
forever!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And could not all his
troubles
sore
Arrest his vile career, I wonder?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Perhaps, ere dying thus,
She looked up in his face (which never stirred
From its clenched
anguish)
as to make excuse
For leaving him for his, if so she erred.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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To each
unthinking
being, Heaven, a friend,
Gives not the useless knowledge of its end:
To man imparts it; but with such a view
As, while he dreads it, makes him hope it too;
The hour concealed, and so remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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War es ein Gott, der diese Zeichen schrieb,
Die mir das innre Toben stillen,
Das arme Herz mit Freude fullen,
Und mit
geheimnisvollem
Trieb
Die Krafte der Natur rings um mich her enthullen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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6370
But, were my
sleightis
aperceyved,
[Ne shulde I more been receyved]
As I was wont; and wostow why?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting
unsolicited
donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
While thus his
thoughts
an anxious council hold,
The raging god a watery mountain roll'd;
Like a black sheet the whelming billows spread,
Burst o'er the float, and thunder'd on his head.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--Do pens but slily further her
advance?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Thel is like a watry bow, and like a parting cloud,
Like a
reflection
in a glass: like shadows in the water
Like dreams of infants, like a smile upon an infants face.
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blake-poems |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is in Fairbanks, Alaska, with the
mailing address: PO Box 750175, Fairbanks, AK 99775, but its
volunteers and employees are scattered throughout numerous
locations.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
Can you see it still," he cried, "my
brother?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Young Love
I
I cannot heed the words they say,
The lights grow far away and dim,
Amid the laughing men and maids
My eyes
unbidden
seek for him.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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We are no longer
like those Egyptian birds that flew out of Arabia, their claws full
of spices; nor can we, like an ancient or
mediaeval
poet, throw into
our verses the emotions and events of our lives, or even dramatise, as
they could, the life of the minstrel into whose mouth we are to put our
words.
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My mother taught me
underneath
a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointed to the east, began to say:
"Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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blake-poems |
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Through chequered fortunes, through many
perilous
ways, we
steer for Latium, where destiny points us a quiet home.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Both indeed were men of subtle, strong, and
cultivated Intellect, fine Imagination, and Hearts passionate for
Truth and Justice; who justly revolted from their Country's false
Religion, and false, or foolish,
Devotion
to it; but who fell short of
replacing what they subverted by such better Hope as others, with no
better Revelation to guide them, had yet made a Law to themselves.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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of thee, and the white Lily-flower
Which did thee bear, and is a Maid for aye, 10
To tell a story I will use my power;
Not that I may
increase
her honour's dower,
For she herself is honour, and the root
Of goodness, next her Son, our soul's best boot.
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William Wordsworth |
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The moon is distant from the sea,
And yet with amber hands
She leads him, docile as a boy,
Along
appointed
sands.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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some playing, some
slumbering?
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Whitman |
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I had a vision of nursery-maids;
Tens of thousands passed by me--
All leading
children
with wooden spades,
And this was by the Sea.
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Lewis Carroll |
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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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e
corbeles
fee ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Whereupon
Sir Scudamour, the lover of that
Lady, presently tooke on him that adventure.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Our nations melting thy
Colossus
frame.
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Marvell - Poems |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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