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Wilde - Poems |
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Nor had I time to love; but since
Some
industry
must be,
The little toil of love, I thought,
Was large enough for me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A pillar by, two aunts betwixt,
Tania, observed by nobody,
Looks upon all with absent gaze
And hates the world's
discordant
ways.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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TO A BUDDHA SEATED ON A LOTUS
Lord Buddha, on thy Lotus-throne,
With praying eyes and hands elate,
What mystic rapture dost thou own,
Immutable
and ultimate?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Thou hast her: may no god
begrudge
your joy.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
"After fifteen years of such religious, almost superstitious
idolatry
and
self-sacrifice!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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"But you--
"You don green
spectacles
before you look at roses.
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Stephen Crane |
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-- A greater ne'er saw I
of
warriors
in world than is one of you, --
yon hero in harness!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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O, if it be only for one short hour,
Forget the cares and
troubles
of my fate!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Per altro
sopranome
io nol conosco,
s'io nol togliessi da sua figlia Gaia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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nec_ RVen: _ne_ OABCLa1:
_ni_ Dh ||
_ualetis
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Latin - Catullus |
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In my capacity of surveyor, I have often talked with some of you, my
employers, at your dinner-tables, after having gone round and round
and behind your farming, and
ascertained
exactly what its limits were.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"Envious night-birds open wide
Their round eyes to gaze awhile,
Nymphs that lean their urns beside
From their grottoes softly smile,
"And exclaim, by fancy stirred,
'Hero and Leander they;
We in
listening
for a word
Let our water fall away.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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She looks out from her quaker cap, her face is clearer and more
beautiful
than the sky.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The precise sense to be attached to them may be open
to some
difference
of opinion.
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Whitman |
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the king of gods appears
Impartial
in ferocious deeds?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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uenit et ingenti
uiolenta
Tragoedia passu
(fronte comae torua, palla iacebat humi;
laeua manus sceptrum late regale mouebat,
Lydius alta pedum uincla cothurnus erat)
et prior 'ecquis erit' dixit 'tibi finis amandi,
o argumenti lente poeta tui?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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They seem not to know
It is their homes, their happiness,
vanishing
so.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The plan no doubt was well
conceived
and bold;
The lady to her friends appeared not cold;
Within her husband's house she seemed polite;
But ne'er familiarly was seen invite,
No further could a lover dare proceed;
Not one had hope the belle his flame would heed.
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La Fontaine |
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I was just coming to myself enough
To wonder where the cold was coming from,
When I heard Toffile upstairs in the bedroom
And thought I heard him
downstairs
in the cellar.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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A most unworthy and
unnatural
lord
Can do no more.
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Shakespeare |
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It stops a moment on
the carved head of Saint John, then slides on again,
slipping
and
trickling over his stone cloak.
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Imagists |
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That will neuer bee:
Who can
impresse
the Forrest, bid the Tree
Vnfixe his earth-bound Root?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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LARGESSE, that sette al hir entente 1150
For to be honourable and free;
Of
Alexandres
kin was she;
Hir moste Ioye was, y-wis,
Whan that she yaf, and seide, 'have this.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Ah, with the Grape my fading life provide,
And wash the Body whence the Life has died,
And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf,
By some not
unfrequented
Garden-side.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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LVII
Others shall behold the sun
Through the long
uncounted
years,--
Not a maid in after time
Wise as thou!
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Sappho |
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I found, ten years ago, that there were a
number of writers doing work which appeared to me extremely good, but
which was narrowly known; and I thought that anyone, however
unprofessional and meagrely gifted, who
presented
a conspectus of it in
a challenging and manageable form might be doing a good turn both to the
poets and to the reading public.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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She wepeth, waileth, swowneth pitously,
To grounde deed she falleth as a stoon; 170
Al
crampissheth
hir limes crokedly,
She speketh as hir wit were al agoon;
Other colour then asshen hath she noon,
Noon other word she speketh moche or lyte,
But 'mercy, cruel herte myn, Arcite!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The song began from Jove
Who left his
blissful
seats above--
Such is the power of mighty love!
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Golden Treasury |
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How near dark Pluto's court I stood,
And AEacus' judicial throne,
The blest seclusion of the good,
And Sappho, with sweet lyric moan
Bewailing her ungentle sex,
And thee, Alcaeus, louder far
Chanting
thy tale of woful wrecks,
Of woful exile, woful war!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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]
[Sidenote D: But yet thou
sinnedst
a little,]
[Sidenote E: for love of thy life.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In 1080 Sung Min-ch'iu
published
the works in thirty _chuan_, the form
in which they still exist.
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Li Po |
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Chisel, file, and ream
That you may lock
Vague dream
In the
resistant
block!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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These two pieces, written during the suspense of a great nation's agony,
aim at
expressing
human sympathy, not political bias.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
--Such
thunders
from the lyre of love!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Then, 'twas before my time, the Roman
At yonder heaving hill would stare:
The blood that warms an English yeoman,
The
thoughts
that hurt him, they were there.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I found, ten years ago, that there were a
number of writers doing work which appeared to me
extremely
good, but
which was narrowly known; and I thought that anyone, however
unprofessional and meagrely gifted, who presented a conspectus of it in
a challenging and manageable form might be doing a good turn both to the
poets and to the reading public.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Now as two
instruments
to the same key
Being tuned by art, if the one touched be.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And the
latecomer
gets more from her,
Than I who have waited longest.
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Troubador Verse |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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Millions
of tongues record thee, and anew
Their children's lips shall echo them, and say,
'Here, where the sword united nations drew,
Our countrymen were warring on that day!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Hitherward
they came,
Meeting our faces from the middle point,
With us beyond but with a larger stride.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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But prepare me, nurse,
A bed, for
solitary
I must sleep,
Since she is iron, and feels not for me.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Ah me, my mountain shepherd, that my arms
Were wound about thee, and my hot lips prest
Close-close to thine in that quickfalling dew
Of fruitful kisses, thick as Autumn rains
Flash in the pools of
whirling
Simois.
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Tennyson |
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Southey's "Wat Tyler" (a poem written, I believe, at
the same age, and with the same
unreflecting
enthusiasm), with little
hope of success.
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Shelley |
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That you are cut, torn, mangled,
torn by the stress and beat,
no
stronger
than the strips of sand
along your ragged beach.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Oure mowynge swerdes shalle plonge hem downe to helle;
Theyre throngynge corses shall onlyghte the starres;
The barrowes
brastynge
wythe the sleene schall swelle,
Brynnynge[92] to commynge tymes our famous warres; 680
Inne everie eyne I kenne the lowe of myghte,
Sheenynge abrode, alyche a hylle-fyre ynne the nyghte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"Give voice to us, we pray, O Lord,
"That we may sing Thy
goodness
to the sun.
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Stephen Crane |
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'The thridde good of greet comfort
That yeveth to lovers most disport,
Comith of sight and biholding, 2895
That clepid is Swete-Loking,
The whiche may noon ese do,
Whan thou art fer thy lady fro;
Wherfore
thou prese alwey to be
In place, where thou mayst hir se.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Through his young woods how pleased Sabinus strayed,
Or sat
delighted
in the thickening shade,
With annual joy the reddening shoots to greet,
Or see the stretching branches long to meet!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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10 For one day in thy Courts to be
Is better, and mere blest
Then in the joyes of Vanity,
A
thousand
daies at best.
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Milton |
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That phantom now
Slides with slack canvas and
unwhispering
prow
Through the dark sea that this dark room has made.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Now, the pears;
So shall your children's
children
pluck their fruit.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Clear with the clear beams of the morrow's sun,
The future
presseth
on.
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Aeschylus |
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I taste a liquor never brewed,
From tankards scooped in pearl;
Not all the vats upon the Rhine
Yield such an
alcohol!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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There is a suspicious similarity between this passage and the
lines
attributed
by Bede to Cǣdmon:
Nū wē sculan herian heofonrices Weard, etc.
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Beowulf |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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ou art holden good & hende,
Alesed of gret
Almesse!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Four large and
gorgeous
Sevres vases, in which bloom a
profusion of sweet and vivid flowers, occupy the slightly rounded angles
of the room.
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Poe - 5 |
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She has a baby on her arm, 5
Or else she were alone:
And
underneath
the hay-stack warm,
And on the greenwood stone,
She talked and sung the woods among,
And it was in the English tongue.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In Donne all
three of the strains
referred
to are present, but only in the third
does he achieve what can be truly called poetry.
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John Donne |
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--his friends came round
Supported
him--no pulse, or breath they found,
And, in its marriage robe, the heavy body wound.
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Keats |
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And he that
herkeneth
it gladly, 7515
He is no good man, sikerly.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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LVII
Others shall behold the sun
Through the long
uncounted
years,--
Not a maid in after time
Wise as thou!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Purgatorio
?
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates the law of the state applicable to this agreement, the
agreement shall be interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or
limitation
permitted
by the applicable state law.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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For in
other things they will more easily suffer themselves to be taught or
reprehended: they will not willingly contend, but hear, with Alexander,
the answer the
musician
gave him: _Absit_, _o rex_, _ut tu melius haec
scias_, _quam ego_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Forget not then thine own approved
The which so long hath thee so loved,
Whose
steadfast
faith yet never moved--
Forget not this!
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Golden Treasury |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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shal quyte yow yowr{e} bysynesse
At my
requeste
as thre of yow or tweyne 76
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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There through the dews beside me
Behold a youth that trod,
With
feathered
cap on forehead,
And poised a golden rod.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of suspicion and disdain
The landscape's formed of canvasses
A false stream of blood flows down
And under the tree the stars glow fresh
The only passer by's a clown
The glass in the frame has cracked
An air defined uncertainly
Hovers between sound and thought
Between 'to be' and memory
O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of suspicion and disdain
The Bestiary: or Orpheus's Procession
(Le Bestiaire ou Cortege d'Orphee)
Orpheus
Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals
'Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals'
Adriaen Collaert, 1570 - 1618, The Rijksmuseun
Admire the vital power
And
nobility
of line:
It's the voice that the light made us understand here
That Hermes Trismegistus writes of in Pimander.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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He gaz'd into her eyes, and not a jot
Own'd they the lovelorn piteous appeal:
More, more he gaz'd: his human senses reel:
Some hungry spell that
loveliness
absorbs;
There was no recognition in those orbs.
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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XXXI
The morn arises foggy, cold,
The silent fields no peasant nears,
The wolf upon the highways bold
With his
ferocious
mate appears.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I kept on hearing a voice calling:
Out of Nowhere, Nothing
answered
"yes.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
He spoke; a
rustling
urges thro' the trees,
Instant new vigour strings his active knees,
Wildly he glares around, and raging cries,
"And must another snatch my lovely prize!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But our poet must beware that his study be not only to learn
of himself; for he that shall affect to do that
confesseth
his ever
having a fool to his master.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Here, where the mimic eagle glared in gold,
A
midnight
vigil holds the swarthy bat!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The forks are
fastened
into the meadow
ground and over them is placed a silver wand, above that a golden
sparrow-hawk, the prize of beauty for the fairest woman there.
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Tennyson |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Seeking myself in myself, an
unsatisfied
spirit, I brooded,
Spying out pathways dark, lost in dreary reflection.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's citizens be spoiled by leisure,
That
Carthage
should be spared destruction!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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This well-known Canadian poet has lately published
_Sagas of Vaster Britain, War Lyrics_, and _Canada's
Responsibility
to
the Empire_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Never, never,
gracious
Bacchus, may I move thee 'gainst thy will,
Or uncover what is hidden in the verdure of thy shade!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Give me that wit whom praise
excites, glory puts on, or
disgrace
grieves; he is to be nourished with
ambition, pricked forward with honour, checked with reprehension, and
never to be suspected of sloth.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But suddenly some kindling shock
Struck
flashing
through the wire: a bird,
Poised on it, screamed and flew; the flock
Rose with him; wheeled and whirred.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I almost hear thy Mitylenean love-song
In the spring night,
When the still air was odorous with blossoms,
And in the hour
Thy first wild girl's-love
trembled
into being, 15
Glad, glad and fond.
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Sappho |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone
With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Whate'er of life all-quickening ether keeps,
Or
breathes
through air, or shoots beneath the deeps,
Or pours profuse on earth, one nature feeds
The vital flame, and swells the genial seeds.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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