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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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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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I kept on hearing a voice calling:
Out of Nowhere, Nothing
answered
"yes.
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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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10
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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_ 266, 268)
Petronius
Arbiter, 250-254 (_A.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Raised in the forests, he has their
wildness
too.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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_a_) R ||
_nullo]_
D Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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III Power and beauty and knowledge
IV O Pan of the evergreen forest
V O Aphrodite
VI Peer of the gods he seems
VII The Cyprian came to thy cradle
VIII Aphrodite of the foam
IX Nay, but always and forever
X Let there be garlands, Dica
XI When the Cretan maidens
XII In a dream I spoke with the Cyprus-born
XIII Sleep thou in the bosom
XIV Hesperus,
bringing
together
XV In the grey olive-grove a small brown bird
XVI In the apple-boughs the coolness
XVII Pale rose-leaves have fallen
XVIII The courtyard of her house is wide
XIX There is a medlar-tree
XX I behold Arcturus going westward
XXI Softly the first step of twilight
XXII Once you lay upon my bosom
XXIII I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago
XXIV I shall be ever maiden
XXV It was summer when I found you
XXVI I recall thy white gown, cinctured
XXVII Lover, art thou of a surety
XXVIII With your head thrown backward
XXIX Ah, what am I but a torrent
XXX Love shakes my soul, like a mountain wind
XXXI Love, let the wind cry
XXXII Heart of mine, if all the altars
XXXIII Never yet, love, in earth's lifetime
XXXIV "Who was Atthis?
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Sappho |
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Their vessel made that island on the right;
The field
appointed
for so fell a fight.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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XIV
Can't you hear voices, beloved, out on the Via
Flamina?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Hence, loathed Melancholy,
Of Cerberus and blackest
Midnight
born
In Stygian cave forlorn
'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy!
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Golden Treasury |
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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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"
But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag--
It's so elegant
So
intelligent
130
"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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They were
formidable
from the territories and castles
which they possessed, and by their alliance and friendship with Charles,
King of Naples.
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Petrarch |
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He sits down with holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then
Humility
takes its root
Underneath his foot.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Then, as Sigismund
Snatched
up his sword, and left him still unarmed,
Eviradnus stooped, and, seizing the dead king,
He whirled him by the feet, like a huge club.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I have been there with my father; I have seen
them in their own land; have marked the
haughtiness
of their nobles;
the cruelty of their priests.
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Tennyson |
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'Twas well enough when summer came,
The long, warm,
lightsome
summer-day,
Then at her door the _canty_ dame
Would sit, as any linnet gay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--who in sleep
Wastest thy life--time's major part, and snorest
Even when awake, and ceasest not to see
The stuff of dreams, and bearest a mind beset
By baseless terror, nor
discoverest
oft
What's wrong with thee, when, like a sotted wretch,
Thou'rt jostled along by many crowding cares,
And wanderest reeling round, with mind aswim.
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Lucretius |
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The
Cathedral
is a burning stain on the white, wet night.
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Imagists |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And then he shut his little eyes,
And flowers would notice not;
Birds' nests and eggs caused no surprise,
He now no
blossoms
got:
They met with plaintive sighs.
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John Clare |
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Now,
dwellers
afar,
ocean-travellers, take from me
simple advice: the sooner the better
I hear of the country whence ye came.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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--DOROTHY
WORDSWORTH
AT CAMBRIDGE IN 1808.
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William Wordsworth |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And aye so fond they of their singing seem
That in their holes abed at close of day
They still keep piping in their honey dreams,
And larger ones that thrum on ruder pipe
Round the sweet smelling closen and rich woods
Where tawny white and red flush clover buds
Shine bonnily and bean fields blossom ripe,
Shed dainty perfumes and give honey food
To these sweet poets of the summer fields;
Me much delighting as I stroll along
The narrow path that hay laid meadow yields,
Catching the
windings
of their wandering song.
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John Clare |
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_His Age:
dedicated
to .
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Robert Herrick |
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Grey dusk behind the tamarisks--the parrots fly together--
As the sun is sinking slowly over Home;
And his last ray seems to mock us
shackled
in a lifelong tether.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Once again
the faithful woman
instructs
her heroic lover in the conventions
of society, this time teaching him the importance of the family
in Babylonian life, and obedience to the ruler.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Where is the Giant of the Sun, which stood
In the midnoon the glory of old Rhodes,
A perfect Idol, with profulgent brows
Far sheening down the purple seas to those
Who sailed from Mizraim
underneath
the star
Named of the Dragon--and between whose limbs
Of brassy vastness broad-blown Argosies
Drave into haven?
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Tennyson |
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LYCIDAS
But surely I had heard
That where the hills first draw from off the plain,
And the high ridge with gentle slope descends,
Down to the brook-side and the broken crests
Of yonder veteran beeches, all the land
Was by the songs of your
Menalcas
saved.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
To whom the Father of the immortal powers,
Who swells the clouds, and
gladdens
earth with showers,
"Can mighty Neptune thus of man complain?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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GD}
He could controll the times & seasons, & the days & years
She could controll the spaces, regions, desart, flood & forest
But had no power to weave a Veil of
covering
for her Sins
She drave the Females all away from Los
And Los drave all the Males from her away
They wanderd long, till they sat down upon the margind sea.
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Blake - Zoas |
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(nunc habet _nil_) BLa1ACah:
_nichil_
ORh2:
_nil al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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I ween indeed
if ever it hap that Hrethel's heir
by spear be seized, by sword-grim battle,
by illness or iron, thine elder and lord,
people's leader, -- and life be thine, --
no seemlier man will the Sea-Geats find
at all to choose for their chief and king,
for hoard-guard of heroes, if hold thou wilt
thy kinsman's
kingdom!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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CXLVII
Oliver feels that death is drawing nigh;
To avenge himself he hath no longer time;
Through the great press most gallantly he strikes,
He breaks their spears, their buckled shields doth slice,
Their feet, their fists, their shoulders and their sides,
Dismembers
them: whoso had seen that sigh,
Dead in the field one on another piled,
Remember well a vassal brave he might.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
Now we are of late years beginning to
understand
much better what a
Satyr-play was.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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e stif kyng his-seluen,
108
Talkkande
bifore ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The Attic warbler pours her throat
Responsive to the cuckoo's note,
The untaught harmony of Spring:
While,
whispering
pleasure as they fly,
Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky
Their gather'd fragrance fling.
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Golden Treasury |
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'Tis his maine hope:
For where there is aduantage to be giuen,
Both more and lesse haue giuen him the Reuolt,
And none serue with him, but
constrained
things,
Whose hearts are absent too
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Grand are the forms of this body and nobly
positioned
each member.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Now may your soul no pain nor sorrow ken,
Finding the gates of
Paradise
open!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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This poem was written
on the morning after the
bombardment
of Fort McHenry, while the
author was a prisoner on the British fleet.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The lady, ever watchful, penetrant,
Saw this with pain, so arguing a want
Of
something
more, more than her empery
Of joys; and she began to moan and sigh
Because he mused beyond her, knowing well
That but a moment's thought is passion's passing bell.
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Keats |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Besides, I have
complimented
you chiefly,
almost solely, on your mental charms.
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Robert Burns |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Youthful he was and tall, and his cheeks aglow with the night air;
And as he entered, Elizabeth rose, and, going to meet him,
As if an unseen power had
announced
and preceded his presence,
And he had come as one whose coming had long been expected,
Quietly gave him her hand, and said, "Thou art welcome, John Estaugh.
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Longfellow |
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Tritt hervor und mache den
Schluss!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Love of the Woodland
Shooting
Stars
L'ANNEE TERRIBLE.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Haste, and Patroclus' loved remains defend:
The body to
Achilles
to restore
Demands our care; alas, we can no more!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Sadly, but not with upbraiding,
The generous deed was done;
In the storm of the years that are fading,
No braver battle was won;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the
judgment
day;
Under the blossoms, the Blue;
Under the garlands, the Gray.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
"They called me the
hyacinth
girl.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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--
Old Nicodemus' phantom
Confronting
us again!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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What
signifies
his barren shine,
Of moral pow'rs and reason?
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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And on we walked and on we walked,
At the door at last we said good-bye;
I knew by his smile he had not heard
My heart's
unuttered
cry.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Euery
sonenday
houseled he was,
And shryuen also of vche trespas
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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XLI
THEN fashioned for him the folk of Geats
firm on the earth a funeral-pile,
and hung it with helmets and harness of war
and breastplates bright, as the boon he asked;
and they laid amid it the mighty chieftain,
heroes
mourning
their master dear.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Folly often goes beyond her
bounds; but
Impudence
knows none.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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They are tireless folk, but slow and sad,
Though two, close-keeping, are lass and lad,--
With none among them that ever sings,
And yet, in view of how many things,
As sweet
companions
as might be had.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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J'ai vu le soleil bas tache d'horreurs mystiques
Illuminant de longs figements violets,
Pareils a des acteurs de drames tres antiques,
Les flots roulant au loin leurs frissons de volets;
J'ai reve la nuit verte aux neiges eblouies,
Baisers montant aux yeux des mers avec lenteur,
La circulation des seves inouies
Et l'eveil jaune et bleu des
phosphores
chanteurs.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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) LFS}
They said The Spectre is in every man insane & most
Deformd Thro the three heavens descending in fury & fire
We meet it with our Songs & loving blandishments & give
To it a form of vegetation But this Spectre of Tharmas
Is Eternal Death What shall we do O God help pity & help
So spoke they & closd the Gate of
Auricular
power nerves the Tongue in trembling fear*
{Passage written down the right margin LFS}
What have I done!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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A skilful leech the deadly symptoms guess'd;
His throbbing veins the secret soon confess'd
Of Love with honour match'd, in dire debate,
Whenever he beheld my lovely mate;
Else gentle Love, subdued by filial dread,
Had sent him down among th'
untimely
dead.
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Petrarch |
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I felt my lover look at her
And then turn
suddenly
to me,--
His eyes were magic to defy
The woman I shall never be.
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Sara Teasdale |
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In hours exempt
From the soul's exercise, do thou record,
Not subtly reasoning, all things whereto
Thou shalt in life be witness; war and peace,
The sway of kings, the holy miracles
Of saints, all prophecies and
heavenly
signs;--
For me 'tis time to rest and quench my lamp.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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We come, thy friends and
neighbours
not unknown,
From Eshtaol and Zora's fruitful vale,
To visit or bewail thee.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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So many a duke of royal name,
Marquis and count of
spotless
fame,
And baron brave,
That might the sword of empire wield,
All these, O Death, hast thou concealed
In the dark grave!
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Longfellow |
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The fine slender shoulder-blades:
The long arms, with tapering hands:
My small breasts: the hips well made
Full and firm, and sweetly planned,
All Love's
tournaments
to withstand:
The broad flanks: the nest of hair,
With plump thighs firmly spanned,
Inside its little garden there?
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Villon |
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; eald gewin, _old_ (lasting years), _distress_, 1782; eald enta
geweorc (_the
precious
things in the drake's cave_), 2775; acc.
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Beowulf |
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III
IN Debtors' Yard the stones are hard,
And the
dripping
wall is high,
So it was there he took the air
Beneath the leaden sky,
And by each side a Warder walked,
For fear the man might die.
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Wilde - Poems |
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IV
Unkindnesse past, they gan of solace treat,
And bathe in pleasaunce of the joyous shade,
Which
shielded
them against the boyling heat, 30
And with greene boughes decking a gloomy glade,
About the fountaine like a girlond made;
Whose bubbling wave did ever freshly well,
Ne ever would through fervent sommer fade:
The sacred Nymph, which therein wont to dwell, 35
Was out of Dianes favour, as it then befell.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And all preparation is for it--and identity is for it--and life and
materials are
altogether
for it!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Little Air
I
Any solitude
Without a swan or quai
Mirrors its disuse
In the gaze I abdicate
Far from that pride's excess
Too high to enfold
In which many a sky paints itself
With the twilight's gold
But
languorously
flows beside
Like white linen laid aside
Such fleeting birds as dive
Exultantly at my side
Into the wave made you
Your exultation nude.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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This
reasoning
will tell thee why.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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It happens too at times that roused force
Of the fierce hurricane to-rends the cloud,
Breaking
right through it by a front assault;
For what a blast of wind may do up there
Is manifest from facts when here on earth
A blast more gentle yet uptwists tall trees
And sucks them madly from their deepest roots.
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Lucretius |
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Sheer from the threshold to the inner house
Fixt thrones the walls, through all their length, adorn'd,
With mantles
overspread
of subtlest warp
Transparent, work of many a female hand.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'But now, on the poet's dis-privacied moods
With _do this_ and _do that_ the pert critic intrudes;
While he thinks he's been barely fulfilling his duty 1770
To
interpret
'twixt men and their own sense of beauty.
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James Russell Lowell |
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'Let the great world bustle on
With war and trade, with camp and town;
A thousand men shall dig and eat;
At forge and furnace
thousands
sweat;
And thousands sail the purple sea,
And give or take the stroke of war,
Or crowd the market and bazaar;
Oft shall war end, and peace return,
And cities rise where cities burn,
Ere one man my hill shall climb,
Who can turn the golden rhyme.
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Emerson - Poems |
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What though she milk no cow with
crumpled
horn,
Yet _aye_ she haunts the dale where erst she stray'd;
And _aye_ beside her stalks her amorous knight!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Far as the east from even,
Dim as the border star, --
Courtiers quaint, in kingdoms,
Our
departed
are.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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" Thereupon I turn'd,
And saw before and
underneath
my feet
A lake, whose frozen surface liker seem'd
To glass than water.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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s snow 4 I
joyously
meet the heavens over Wugong.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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" is as if, at any
moment of the earth's
revolution
round the sun, or of the system round
its centre, one were to raise himself up and inquire of one of the
deck hands, "Where are we now?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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