When my old Leader slipped into the flood
And perished, what a
piercing
outcry you
Sent after him.
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Lo buon maestro ancor de la sua anca
non mi dipuose, si mi giunse al rotto
di quel che si
piangeva
con la zanca.
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The
Superman
has burst his bonds.
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Gilgamish and Enkidu
grappled
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goring like an ox.
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Or ni feriale
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astrale!
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Here is no sap for seed,
No ferment for your need--
Ungrateful
ground!
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When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He
returning
chide,--
Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
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Golden Treasury |
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And as to trees the willows wear
Lopped heads as high as bushes are;
Some taller things the distance shrouds
That may be trees or stacks or clouds
Or may be nothing; still they wear
A
semblance
where there's nought to spare.
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One day, she even
ventured
to smile upon her admirer,
for such he seemed to be.
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The freedom of the Lyceum
platform
pleased Emerson.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And all which, brought together with slight gaps,
In more
condensed
union bound aback,
Linked by their own all inter-tangled shapes,--
These form the irrefragable roots of rocks
And the brute bulks of iron, and what else
Is of their kind.
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The spear flies on; where haply stood
opposite in ninefold brotherhood all the beautiful sons of one faithful
Tyrrhene wife, borne of her to
Gylippus
the Arcadian, one of them,
midway where the sewn belt rubs on the flank and the clasp bites the
fastenings of the side, one of them, excellent in beauty and glittering
in arms, it pierces clean through the ribs and stretches on the yellow
sand.
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And bid Neaera come and trill,
Her bright locks bound with
careless
art:
If her rough porter cross your will,
Why then depart.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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At this the
Ithacan with loud clamour drags Calchas the
soothsayer
forth amidst
them, and demands of him what is this the gods signify.
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]
XXXVIII
=The Lotos-Eaters=
[These forty lines formed the conclusion to the
original
(1833)
version of the poem.
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Sad Souvenaunce 53
ECHOES 58
A SEA DIRGE 59
YE CARPETTE KNYGHTE 64
HIAWATHA'S PHOTOGRAPHING 66
MELANCHOLETTA 78
A
VALENTINE
84
THE THREE VOICES:--
The First Voice 87
The Second Voice 98
The Third Voice 109
TEMA CON VARIAZIONI 118
A GAME OF FIVES 120
POETA FIT, NON NASCITUR 123
SIZE AND TEARS 131
ATALANTA IN CAMDEN-TOWN 136
THE LANG COORTIN' 140
FOUR RIDDLES 152
FAME'S PENNY-TRUMPET 163
PHANTASMAGORIA
CANTO I
The Trystyng
ONE winter night, at half-past nine,
Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,
I had come home, too late to dine,
And supper, with cigars and wine,
Was waiting in the study.
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Lewis Carroll |
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ou hast
concludid
{and}
p{ro}ued.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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LXVI
"An ancient woman, seized with her whilere,
And left, withal, obeyed Drusilla, who
That beldam called and
whispered
in her ear,
So as that none beside could hear the two --
A poison of quick power for me prepare,
Such as, I know, thou knowest how to brew;
And bottle it; for I have found a way
The traitorous son of Marganor to slay;
LXVII
" `And me and thee no less can save,' (she said,)
`And this at better leisure will explain.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The sack of many-peopled towns
Is all their dream:
The way they take
Leaves but a ruin in the brake,
And, in the furrow that the plowmen make,
A
stampless
penny; a tale, a dream.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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[Sidenote:
Therefore
_foreknowledge_ is not so applicable a term
as _providence_--for God looks down upon all things from the
summit of the universe.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Mihi
pergamena
deest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The
scholars
everywhere call this clever,
But none have yet become weavers ever.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The
fortunes
of the
Knight reach their lowest ebb and begin to turn.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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105
(Such as disquiet always what is well,
And by ill
imitating
would excel)
Might hence presume the whole creation's day
To change in scenes, and show it in a play.
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Marvell - Poems |
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' and so left him bruised
And battered, and fled on, and hill and wood
Went ever streaming by him till the gloom,
That follows on the turning of the world,
Darkened
the common path: he twitched the reins,
And made his beast that better knew it, swerve
Now off it and now on; but when he saw
High up in heaven the hall that Merlin built,
Blackening against the dead-green stripes of even,
'Black nest of rats,' he groaned, 'ye build too high.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The heron passes homeward to the mere,
The blue mist creeps among the shivering trees,
Gold world by world the silent stars appear,
And like a blossom blown before the breeze
A white moon drifts across the shimmering sky,
Mute arbitress of all thy sad, thy
rapturous
threnody.
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Wilde - Poems |
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So rise up henceforth with a
cheerful
smile,
And having strewn the violets, reap the corn,
And having reaped and garnered, bring the plough
And draw new furrows 'neath the healthy morn,
And plant the great Hereafter in this Now.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Full many a
stranger
and from many a land
Hath lodged in this old castle, and my hand
Served them; but never has there passed this way
A scurvier ruffian than our guest to-day.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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For
somewhere
in that sacred island dwelt
A nymph, to whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt;
At whose white feet the languid Tritons poured
Pearls, while on land they wither'd and adored.
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Keats - Lamia |
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At this
juncture National Honor and
Consciousness
comes to the relief of
Protestantism.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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_Firmano_
Munro || _saltu_ Palladius,
Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Of heaven above the firmest proof
We fundamental know,
Except for its
marauding
hand,
It had been heaven below.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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As a
descriptive title, "Poems of
Sentiment
and Reflection" is quite as good
as "Poems akin to the Antique," and "Poems of the Fancy" quite as
appropriate as "Poems of Ballad Form.
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VI
Qui dira ces langueurs et ces pities immondes
Et ce qui lui viendra de haine, o sales fous,
Dont le travail divin deforme encor les mondes
Quand la lepre, a la fin, rongera ce corps doux,
Et quand, ayant rentre tous ces noeuds d'hysteries
Elle verra, sous les tristesses du bonheur,
L'amant rever au blanc million de Maries
Au matin de la nuit d'amour, avec
douleur!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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[The lines on the
Hermitage
were presented by the poet to several of
his friends, and Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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what had we done
To have such a
seneschal?
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Wilde - Poems |
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Sent he to
Macduffe?
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POEMS,
SUPPOSED
TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN AT BRISTOL, BY THOMAS ROWLEY,
AND OTHERS, IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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During the night he awoke with a start; the moon shone into his chamber,
making
everything
plainly visible.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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shall{e}
1739 _wil_--wole
_felde_--feeld]
[Headnote:
AWAY WITH FALSE
FELICITY!
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Fan
(Of Mery Laurent)
Frigid roses to last
Identically will interrupt
With a calyx, white, abrupt,
Your breath become frost
But freed by my fluttering
By shock profound, the sheaf
Of
frigidity
melts to relief
Of laughter's rapturous flowering.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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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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I give my rafters to his boat,
My billets to his boiler's throat,
And I will swim the ancient sea
To float my child to victory,
And grant to
dwellers
with the pine
Dominion o'er the palm and vine.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Help me against Boris, against my
murderer!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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You dropped a purple
ravelling
in,
You dropped an amber thread;
And now you 've littered all the East
With duds of emerald!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The winds were
piercing
cold, and so boisterous
that the pilot's voice could seldom be heard, and a dismal darkness,
which at that tempestuous season involves these seas, added all its
horrors.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Ye
mountains
that see us descend to the shore,
Shall view us as victors, or view us no more!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The points hewn off by
sweeping
strokes!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Es ist doch
wunderbar!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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40
When I hear your set speeches that start with a pop,
Then wander and maunder, too feeble to stop,
With a vague apprehension from popular rumor
There used to be something by mortals called humor,
Beginning again when you thought they were done,
Respectable, sensible, weighing a ton,
And as near to the present
occasions
of men
As a Fast Day discourse of the year eighteen ten,
I--well, I sit still, and my sentiments smother,
For am I not also a bore and a brother?
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James Russell Lowell |
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August Moonrise
The sun was gone, and the moon was coming
Over the blue Connecticut hills;
The west was rosy, the east was flushed,
And over my head the swallows rushed
This way and that, with
changeful
wills.
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Sara Teasdale |
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It fanned their temples, filled their lungs,
Scattered
their forelocks free;
My friends made words of it with tongues
That talk no more to me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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No gift she bears, no feast proclaims,
But lights
incendiary
flames
For the impatient chief instead.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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18, having lived all his life in obscurity,
obtained
promotion
in his old age by a poem of this title.
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Li Po |
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We greet
The first bright
wreathing
storm of snow
Which falls in starry flakes below.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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YOU AGREE
THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED
IN PARAGRAPH 1.
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Stephen Crane |
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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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org
[Picture: Book cover]
SONNETS FROM THE
PORTUGUESE
* * * * *
BY
ELIZABETH
BARRETT BROWNING
* * * * *
[Picture: Decorative graphic]
THE CARADOC PRESS BEDFORD PARK
CHISWICK
LONDON MDCCCCVI
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
I I thought once how Theocritus had sung
II But only three in all God's universe
III Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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For about two
thousand
five hundred years Sappho has held her place as not
only the supreme poet of her sex, but the chief lyrist of all lyrists.
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Sappho |
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XXX
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a
thousand
sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till barbarous power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the leavings find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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{149c} And of
Laberius
against Julius.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He gives
Wisdom to youth, to
weakness
strength.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Byron |
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Wottest thou how much he
ventures
of sacrilege-sin?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Ah the homeliest of them is
beautiful
to her.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Over-seas if thou had'st died,
Heavily had stood thy tomb,
Heaped on high; but,
quenched
in pride,
Grief were light unto thy home.
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Aeschylus |
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The
Handmaid
is outspoken about him.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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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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Me thought I heard a voyce cry, Sleep no more:
Macbeth does murther Sleepe, the innocent Sleepe,
Sleepe that knits vp the rauel'd Sleeue of Care,
The death of each dayes Life, sore Labors Bath,
Balme of hurt Mindes, great Natures second Course,
Chiefe
nourisher
in Life's Feast
Lady.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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O father and mother if buds are nipped,
And blossoms blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the
springing
day,
By sorrow and care's dismay,--
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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What is his
reputation
with the Duke?
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Shakespeare |
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And he had nothing to say, nothing easy--
He
mentioned
ten million men, mentioned them as having gone west,
mentioned them as shoving up the daisies.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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No
sculptured
marble here, nor pompous lay,
"No storied urn nor animated bust;"
This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way
To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
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Robert Forst |
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From amber platters, the smells ascend
Of
overripe
peaches mingled with dust and heated oils.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Questi pareva a me maestro e donno,
cacciando
il lupo e ' lupicini al monte
per che i Pisan veder Lucca non ponno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Or e'er the jealous queens of nations greet,
Doth Tayo
interpose
his mighty tide?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Where are thy
thoughts?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Di bere e di mangiar n'accende cura
l'odor ch'esce del pomo e de lo sprazzo
che si
distende
su per sua verdura.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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All at once I thought I distinguished
something
black.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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622 in the
Bodleian
library by F.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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To the sailor, wrecked,
The sea was dead grey walls
Superlative in vacancy,
Upon which
nevertheless
at fateful time
Was written
The grim hatred of nature.
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Stephen Crane |
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These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I have a
pleasant
hill
Which I sit upon for hours,
Where she cropt some sprigs of thyme
And other little flowers;
And she muttered as she did it
As does beauty in a dream,
And I loved her when she hid it
On her breast, so like to cream,
Near the brown mole on her neck that to me a diamond shone
Then my eye was like to fire, and my heart was like to stone.
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John Clare |
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Quiet as a grave beneath a spire
I lie and watch the pointed
climbing
fire,
I lie and watch the smoky weather-cock
That climbs too high, and bends to the breeze's shock,
And breaks, and dances off across the skies
Gay as a flurry of blue butterflies.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Thus sad and briefly must my days take flight,
For life with woe not long on earth will stay;
But more I blame that mirror's
flattering
sway,
Which thou hast wearied with thy self-delight.
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Petrarch |
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The dice betwixt them must the fate divide,
As chance does still in
multitudes
decide.
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Marvell - Poems |
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This Castle hath a pleasant seat,
The ayre nimbly and sweetly
recommends
it selfe
Vnto our gentle sences
Banq.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The boatman smiles,
Princess Volupine extends
A meagre, blue-nailed,
phthisic
hand
To climb the waterstair.
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T.S. Eliot |
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When landlords turn the drunken bee
Out of the foxglove's door,
When
butterflies
renounce their drams,
I shall but drink the more!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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It is the
earliest
dated play of
Euripides which has come down to us.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And yet we must
Beware, and mark the natural kiths and kins
Of circumstance and office, and distrust
The rich man reasoning in a poor man's hut,
The poet who neglects pure truth to prove
Statistic fact, the child who leaves a rut
For a smoother road, the priest who vows his glove
Exhales no grace, the prince who walks afoot,
The woman who has sworn she will not love,
And this Ninth Pius in Seventh Gregory's chair,
With Andrea Doria's
forehead!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Sir Galahad was at last successful in finding it,
as may be read in the
seventeenth
book of the Romance of King Arthur.
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James Russell Lowell |
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