And I was dying there
Like some poor
stricken
beast, unmissed, alone
In God-forgotten vasts of yellow glare.
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those dear Hellenic hours
Had drowned all memory of Thy bitter pain,
The Cross, the Crown, the
Soldiers
and the Spear.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And was he confident until
Ill
fluttered
out in everlasting well?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I who was wont from life's best fountain far
So long to wander,
searching
land and sea,
Pursuing not my pleasure, but my star,
And alway, as Love knows who strengthen'd me,
Ready in bitter exile to depart,
For hope and memory both then fed my heart;
Alas!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And midst the
fluttering
legion
Of all that ever died
I follow, and before us
Goes the delightful guide,
With lips that brim with laughter
But never once respond,
And feet that fly on feathers,
And serpent-circled wand.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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did the ghosts of the boney battalions
move out and on, up the Potomac, over on the Ohio
and out to the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Red River,
and down to the Rio Grande, and on to the Yazoo,
over to the Chattahoochee and up to the
Rappahannock?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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'
Sols sui qui sai lo
sobrafan
que?
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Troubador Verse |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Ronsard |
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In Argos I had then
Founded a city for him, and had rais'd
A palace for himself; I would have brought
The Hero hither, and his son, with all
His people, and with all his wealth, some town
Evacuating
for his sake, of those
Ruled by myself, and neighb'ring close my own.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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CANTO 31
ARGUMENT
Rinaldo and Dudon fight; then
friendship
make,
And to each other fitting honour pay.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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CANTO IV
But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd,
And secret
passions
labour'd in her breast.
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And princes, shining through their windows, start ;
Who their
suspected
counsellors refuse.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The Lobster
Lobster on the Beach
'Lobster on the Beach'
Albert Flamen, 1664, The Rijksmuseun
Uncertainty, O my delights
You and I we go
As
lobsters
travel onwards, quite
Backwards, Backwards, O.
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Appoloinaire |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Warriors
viewed
the grisly guest.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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A SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER In "Los
Pastores
de Belen.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The eyes are drowned in opium
In universal licence
The
clownish
mouth bewitched
A singular geranium.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The old
romances
make frequent mention
of the enchanted herb bath.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Against the
futilities
of myth-religion he protested with the fervour
of an evangelist.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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For yesterday arrove, newly appointed,
The Assistant
Chancellor
of the Realm,
And was terribly afraid that the wet and mud
Would dirty his horse's hoofs.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The day you march away--this I have sworn,
No matter what comes after, that shall be
Hid
secretly
between my soul and me
As women hide the unborn--
You shall see brows like banners, lips that frame
Smiles, for the pride those lips have in your name.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The Journal
also contains,
especially
in the early part, a number of heretofore
unpublished poems which it seems best to retain in their original
setting.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Out of the forest way
Forth paced it yesterday;
And when I sat by the watercourse,
Watching the
daylight
fade,
It throbbed up from the brook.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Sempre natura, se fortuna trova
discorde
a se, com' ogne altra semente
fuor di sua region, fa mala prova.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Late, late, oh late, beneath the tree stood two;
In trembling joy, and
wondering
"Is it true?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Assez i ot tableterresses
Ilec entor, et tymberresses
Qui moult
savoient
bien joer,
Et ne finoient de ruer 760
Le tymbre en haut, si recuilloient
Sor ung doi, c'onques n'i failloient.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Li Po |
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O' pox on him,
'Twas
excellent
wi?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Tennyson |
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O take my hand, Walt
Whitman!
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Whitman |
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At the harbour mouth a sail 5
Glimmers in the morning sun,
And the ripples at her prow
Whiten into
crumbling
foam,
As she forges outward bound
For the teeming foreign ports.
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Sappho |
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745
And how his blushes
increased
my sense of shame!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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There is no question of
changing the mind, but there is of
changing
the mind's habit, of
adopting a boy's cast of thought and manner: as Rosalind says,
and in my heart
Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will,
We'll have a swashing and a martial outside,
As many other mannish cowards have
That do outface it with their semblances.
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John Donne |
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Thus oft before fair temples of the gods,
Beside the incense-burning altars slain,
Drops down the yearling calf, from out its breast
Breathing warm streams of blood; the orphaned mother,
Ranging meanwhile green woodland pastures round,
Knows well the footprints, pressed by cloven hoofs,
With eyes regarding every spot about,
For sight
somewhere
of youngling gone from her;
And, stopping short, filleth the leafy lanes
With her complaints; and oft she seeks again
Within the stall, pierced by her yearning still.
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Lucretius |
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They grip their withered edge of stalk
In brief excitement for the wind;
They hold a
breathless
final talk,
And when their filmy cables part
One almost hears a little cry.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Society,
as we have
constituted
it, will have no place for me, has none to offer;
but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have
clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence
I may weep undisturbed.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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)
Now in those camps of green--in their tents dotting the world;
In the parents, children, husbands, wives, in them--in the old and young,
Sleeping under the sunlight, sleeping under the moonlight, content and
silent there at last;
Behold the mighty bivouac-field and waiting-camp of us and ours and all,
Of our corps and
generals
all, and the President over the corps and
generals all,
And of each of us, O soldiers, and of each and all in the ranks we fight,
There without hatred we shall all meet.
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Whitman |
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'
Quod
alderfirst
Dame Abstinence, 7505
And thus began she hir sentence:
_Const.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"My ancestors for
thousands
of years," I find written in one of
her letters, "have been lovers of the forest and mountain caves,
great dreamers, great scholars, great ascetics.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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are,
he fond him redi
sittinge
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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CHINESE POET AMONG BARBARIANS
The rain drives, drives endlessly,
Heavy threads of rain;
The wind beats at the shutters,
The surf drums on the shore;
Drunken telegraph poles lean sideways;
Dank summer
cottages
gloom hopelessly;
Bleak factory-chimneys are etched on the filmy distance,
Tepid with rain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Index of First Lines
I'd like to turn the deepest of yellows,
At the sorrow I'm made to feel by Love,
Now fearfulness, and now hopefulness
I'd like to be Ixion or Tantalus,
Whether her golden hair curls languidly,
Sweet beauty,
murderess
of my life,
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
Now, when Jupiter, fired by his lusts,
I'd like to burn all the dross of my human clay,
Now when the sky and when the earth again
It was hot, and sleep, gently flowing,
Those twin pulses of thickly clotted milk
I'm sending you some flowers, that my hand
Marie, the man who'd change the letters of your name
Kiss me then Marie: no then, don't kiss me,
As in May month, on its stem we see the rose
Among love's pounding seas, for me there's no support,
The other day you saw me, as you passed by,
So often forging peace, so often fighting,
Though the human spirit gives itself noble airs
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
When you are truly old, beside the evening candle,
That night Love drew you down into the ballroom
Sweetheart, let's see if the rose
O Fount of Bellerie,
Why like a skittish mare
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Ronsard |
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[80]
Longing for each other we are all grown gray;
Through the
Fleeting
World rolled like a wave in the stream.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I can translate, and have translated
two books of Ariosto, at the rate, nearly, of one hundred lines a day;
but so much meaning has been put by Michael Angelo into so little
room, and that meaning sometimes so excellent in itself, that I found
the
difficulty
of translating him insurmountable.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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So far as
mere authorship goes, then, we cannot make any real
difference
between
"authentic" and "literary" epic.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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CCXLIII
Pure white the horse whereon
Malprimes
sate;
Guided his corse amid the press of Franks,
Hour in, hour out, great blows he struck them back,
And, ever, dead one upon others packed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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CONTENTS
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
Page
Introduction 1
The Shepherd 3
The Echoing Green 4
The Lamb 6
The Little Black Boy 7
The Blossom 9
The Chimney-Sweeper 10
The Little Boy Lost 12
The Little Boy Pound 13
Laughing Song 14
A Cradle Song 15
The Divine Image 17
Holy Thursday 19
Night 20
Spring 23
Nurse's Song 25
Infant Joy 26
A Dream 27
On Another's Sorrow 29
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
Introduction 33
Earth's Answer 35
The Clod and the Pebble 37
Holy Thursday 38
The Little Girl Lost 39
The Little Girl Found 42
The Chimney-Sweeper 45
Nurse's Song 46
The Sick Rose 47
The Fly 48
The Angel 50
The Tiger 51
My Pretty Rose-Tree 53
Ah, Sunflower 54
The Lily 55
The Garden of Love 56
The Little Vagabond 57
London 58
The Human Abstract 59
Infant Sorrow 61
A Poison Tree 62
A Little Boy Lost 63
A Little Girl Lost 65
A Divine Image 67
A Cradle Song 68
The Schoolboy 69
To Tirzah 71
The Voice of the Ancient Bard 72
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
INTRODUCTION
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of
pleasant
glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
'Pipe a song about a Lamb!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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A little child with inward song,
No louder noise to dare,
Stood near the wall to see at play
The lizards green and rare--
Unblessed the while for his
childish
smile
Which cometh unaware.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Thus to the more worthy part he held,
That, what for hope and
Pandarus
biheste,
His grete wo for-yede he at the leste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Old Past let go, and drop i' the sea
Till
fathomless
waters cover thee!
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Sidney Lanier |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Keats - Lamia |
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- Such was that wondrous order and consent,
When Cromwell tuned the ruling
instrument
;
While tedious statesmen nmny years did hack,
Framing a liberty that still went back ;
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Whose nuinerous gorge coul«l swallow in an hour.
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Marvell - Poems |
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V
In every valley heard,
Floating
from tree to tree,
Less beautiful to, me,
The music of the radiant bird,
Than artless accents such as thine
Whose echoes never flee!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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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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Then by her grace, who
unconstrained
allowed,
There sat thereon another child of Earth--
Titanian Phoebe.
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Aeschylus |
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To suckle fools and
chronicle
small beer.
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Shakespeare |
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In four brief cycles round the punctual sun
Has she, old Learning's latest daughter, won
This grace, this stature, and this
fruitful
fame.
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Sidney Lanier |
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tho' thou'rt bereft
Of my
paternal
care.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Cushman believes
therefore
that
Harsnet refers either to some lost morality or to 'Punch and Judy'.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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at
coyntlych
closed
His thik ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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They
perished
in the seamless grass, --
No eye could find the place;
But God on his repealless list
Can summon every face.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Hac ego
pnecipua
credo herbam dote placere,
Hinc tuus has nebulas doctor in astra veliit.
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Marvell - Poems |
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With her milk, an Amazon mother once fed me
On that pride you seem, now, so amazed to see: 70
Then, when I myself
achieved
a riper age,
I knew and approved my thoughts at every stage.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Man habe noch so viel fur sie getan;
Denn bei dem Volk wie bei den Frauen
Steht
immerfort
die Jugend oben an.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Are we then preposterously
hastening
to arrive at Rome with the
ashes of Germanicus, that you may there fall, unheard and undefended, a
victim to the wailings of Agrippina, a prey to the passionate populace
governed by the first impressions of rumour?
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Tacitus |
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Why are Eyelids stord with arrows ready drawn,
Where a
thousand
fighting men in ambush lie!
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blake-poems |
|
XVII
But
meanwhile
in the centre
Great deeds of arms were wrought;
There Aulus the Dictator
And there Valerius fought.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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As when some stately trappings are decreed
To grace a monarch on his bounding steed,
A nymph in Caria or Maeonia bred,
Stains the pure ivory with a lively red;
With equal lustre various colours vie,
The shining whiteness, and the Tyrian dye:
So great
Atrides!
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Iliad - Pope |
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That the Master-word should lie
A mere silence, while his own
Processive
harmony,
The faintest echo of his lightest tone,
Is sweeping in a choral triumph by?
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The
unfeeling
heart can't know a pain so sweet:
Love reigns on earth above, not beneath our feet.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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329, _367_;
_Selections
from the Works of Lord Byron_, vi.
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Byron |
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5
Furius, our villa not 'gainst the
southern
breeze is pitted nor the western
wind nor cruel Boreas nor sunny east, but sesterces fifteen thousand two
hundred oppose it.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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FAUST [_with a bunch of keys and a lamp, before an iron door_]
A long
unwonted
chill comes o'er me,
I feel the whole great load of human woe.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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(And I
Tiresias
have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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with whom my road begun,
When Life rear'd
laughing
up her morning sun;
When Transport kiss'd away my april tear,
"Rocking as in a dream the tedious year";
When link'd with thoughtless Mirth I cours'd the plain, 1793.
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Fitfully, and in flashes, through his soul,
Like sun-lit tempests,
troubled
transports roll;
His bosom heaves, his Spirit towers amain, [120]
Beyond the senses and their little reign.
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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She returned to Hyderabad in
September
1898, and in
the December of that year, to the scandal of all India, broke
through the bonds of caste, and married Dr.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The mother said
gently, "Is that you,
darling?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Verflucht
voraus die hohe Meinung
Womit der Geist sich selbst umfangt!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The
industrious
labour of some editors in disinterring the trivial works
of great men is not a commendable industry.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Why broughtest thou that beast to haunt
The blissful
footsteps
of my golden dream?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Now know'st thou not thine own ill furniture,
To bid these
strangers
in, to whom for sure
Our best were hardship, men of gentle breed?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Awed by what I had heard and read of these
mournful approaches to the dead, I was
contented
to view them at my feet
from the top of a high mountain.
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Petrarch |
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id quale qualest chartis
mandatum
diu.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know
What's roundly smooth or
languishingly
slow;
And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360
Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join.
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Alexander Pope |
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Nay, rather shalt thou die
Only with me; one bolt will do for both:
Or, if the gold of solemn dreams stand proof,
Thou shalt be heard through sounding streets of Heaven In new-taught words, at one with utter joy:
Or otherwhere,
unconquered
still, thy voice
A little shall make faint the din of Hell.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Poetic Art
For Charles Morice
Music above everything,
The
Imbalanced
preferred
Vaguer more soluble in air
Nothing weighty, fixed therein.
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10
LXXXIII
In the quiet garden world,
Gold
sunlight
and shadow leaves
Flicker on the wall.
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Sappho |
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His
dress was royally magnificent, the nobles who
attended
him displayed all
the riches of silk and embroidery, and the music of Melinda resounded
all over the bay.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Wenn Ihr mir die
Erlaubnis
gebt,
Ihn meine Strasse sacht zu fuhren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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There is one
seaboard
district known as
Roughley, where the men are never known to shave or trim their wild red
beards, and where there is a fight ever on foot.
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Yeats |
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_ A
variation
on Horace's theme: "Rem facias,
rem, si possis, recte, si non quocunque modo, rem".
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Robert Herrick |
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In dust, in rain, with might and main,
He nursed his cotton, cursed his grain,
Fretted for news that made him fret again,
Snatched at each telegram of Future Sale,
And thrilled with Bulls' or Bears'
alternate
wail --
In hope or fear alike for ever pale.
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Sidney Lanier |
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