And did the
Ninevite
demon treat with them?
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All, all; their cause
Is fallen flat; but go you on and see
How
wonderly
their proud heads are elate.
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His
laughter
was submarine and profound
Like the old man of the seats
Hidden under coral islands
Where worried bodies of drowned men drift down in the green silence,
Dropping from fingers of surf.
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Thus arm'd, he sought his wonted couch beneath
A hollow rock where the herd slept, secure
From the sharp current of the
Northern
blast.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"Tell him night finished before we finished,
And the old clock kept
neighing
'day!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I am the pool of gold
When sunset burns and dies,--
You are my
deepening
skies,
Give me your stars to hold.
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Sara Teasdale |
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To mask my
departure
I'll stay here a moment.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Yet see you not how this that Spirit hath done
Is also
dangerous?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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So I turned to scornful cries,
Hot iron songs to save the rest of me;
Plunging
the brand in my own misery.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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LXVIII
At last whenas
himselfe
he gan to find,
To Una back he cast him to retire; 605
Who him awaited still with pensive mind.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Neither here, nor on the dew
Of the lawny uplands
feeding?
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Shelley |
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Now, therefore,
Being bold, let him sit trusting to lofty
Sounds, and brandishing with both hands his fire-breathing weapon,
For naught will these avail him, not
To fall disgracefully intolerable falls;
Such wrestler does he now prepare,
Himself against himself, a prodigy most hard to be withstood;
Who, indeed, will invent a better flame than lightning,
And a loud sound
surpassing
thunder;
And shiver the trident, Neptune's weapon,
The marine earth-shaking ail.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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that is for ay
Through famous Poets verse each where renownd,
On which the thrise three learned Ladies play 485
Their
heavenly
notes, and make full many a lovely lay.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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From the yawning abyss see the cloud scud away,
And the glacier appears, with its
multiform
ray,
The giant mountain's crown!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Nor did
Plancina restrain herself to a conduct seemly in her sex, but frequented
the exercises of the cavalry, and attended the decursions of the
cohorts; everywhere inveighing against Agrippina, everywhere against
Germanicus; and some even of the most
deserving
soldiers became prompt
to base obedience, from a rumour whispered abroad, "that all this was
not unacceptable to Tiberius.
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Tacitus |
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Heavenly beauties still will rouse
Strife and savagery in men:
Shall the lucid heavens, then,
Lose their high serenity,
Sorrowing
over what must be?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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We talked
together
in the Yung-shou Temple;
We parted to the north of the Hsin-ch'ang dyke.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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[584] _Wide o'er the
beauteous
isle the lovely fair.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Where are those bloody banners which of yore
Waved o'er thy sons, victorious to the gale,
And drove at last the
spoilers
to their shore?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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In
neighbor
Martha's grounds we are to meet tonight.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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When thou dost play and sweetly sing--
Whether it be the voice or string
Or both of them that do agree
Thus to
entrance
and ravish me--
This, this I know, I'm oft struck mute,
And die away upon thy lute.
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Robert Herrick |
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The things Heaven made
Man was meant to use;
A
thousand
guilders scattered to the wind may come back again.
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Li Po |
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To the
Napoleon
Column--_Author of "Critical Essays"_
Charity--_Dublin University Magazine_
Sweet Sister--_Mrs.
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Hugo - Poems |
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ye must be ruled with scythes, not sceptres,
And mowed down like the grass, else all we reap
Is rank abundance, and a rotten harvest
Of discontents
infecting
the fair soil,
Making a desert of fertility.
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Byron |
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Time and chance are but a tide,
Slighted
love is sair to bide;
Shall I, like a fool, quoth he,
For a haughty hizzie dee?
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Golden Treasury |
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]
This poem illustrates the way in which Wordsworth's imagination worked
upon a minimum of fact,
idealizing
a simple story, and adding
'the gleam,
The light that never was, on sea or land,
The consecration, and the Poet's dream.
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William Wordsworth |
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Sleeping
alone in the depth of the long night
In a dream I thought I saw the light of his face.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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For shouldst thou gaze
Backwards across all yesterdays of time
The immeasurable, thinking how manifold
The motions of matter are, then couldst thou well
Credit this too: often these very seeds
(From which we are to-day) of old were set
In the same order as they are to-day--
Yet this we can't to
consciousness
recall
Through the remembering mind.
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Lucretius |
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Versified
Note To Dr.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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--
The
mountain
repeats
The echoing sound of the knell;
And the dark Monk now
Wraps the cowl round his brow, _5
As he sits in his lonely cell.
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Shelley |
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Do not think me unaware,
I who have snatched at you
as the street-child clutched
at the seed-pearls you spilt
that hot day
when your
necklace
snapped.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For this, great Bacchus, tigers drew
Thy glorious car, untaught to slave
In harness: thus
Quirinus
flew
On Mars' wing'd steeds from Acheron's wave,
When Juno spoke with Heaven's assent:
"O Ilium, Ilium, wretched town!
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Then he bethought him
To take from us our
privilege
of hiring
Our serfs at will; we are no longer masters
Of our own lands.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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If this
interpretation
be correct
the preterite _edir_ is established.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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II
Dryads
haunting the groves,
nereids
who dwell in wet caves,
for all the white leaves of olive-branch,
and early roses,
and ivy wreaths, woven gold berries,
which she once brought to your altars,
bear now ripe fruits from Arcadia,
and
Assyrian
wine
to shatter her fever.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face,
The mirror where the stars and mountains view
The
stillness
of their aspect in each trace
Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue:
There is too much of man here, to look through
With a fit mind the might which I behold;
But soon in me shall Loneliness renew
Thoughts hid, but not less cherished than of old,
Ere mingling with the herd had penned me in their fold.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Hyde with
his cursing Hanrahan, his old saint at his prayers, is a poet again;
and the Leaguers go to his plays in thousands--and applaud in the right
places, too--and the League puts many
sixpences
into its pocket.
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Yeats |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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In the time of Dionysius the
cavalcade
sometimes
consisted of five thousand horsemen, all
persons of fair repute and easy fortune.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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There as he lay, the Heaven with its stars
Look'd down on him with pity, and the voice
Of Coelus, from the
universal
space,
Thus whisper'd low and solemn in his ear.
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Keats |
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_Twelfth
Night: or King and Queen.
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Robert Herrick |
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And be the Spartan's epitaph on me--
'Sparta hath many a
worthier
son than he.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I visit the
orchards
of spheres and look at the product,
And look at quintillions ripen'd and look at quintillions green.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And when the King our lord spendeth on us
This
festival
out of his rich heart, to shoot
Thy looks upon us as thou wouldst rebuke us?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Descend O Urizen descend with horse & chariot
Threaten not me O visionary thine the
punishment!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Chimene
complains
he has killed her father,
Yet I'd have done so, if I'd been younger.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Depressed, depressed the scholar in the narrow street:
Clasping
a shadow, he dwells in an empty house.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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CXIX
What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distill'd from
limbecks
foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears,
Still losing when I saw myself to win!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Turmoil grown visible beneath our peace,
And we that are grown formless rise above, Fluids intangible that have been men,
We seem as statues round whose high risen base Some
overflowing
river is run mad;
In us alone the element of calm !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Now, Flora, deck thyself in fairest guise:
If that ye winds would hear
A voice
surpassing
far Amphion's lyre,
Your furious chiding stay;
Let Zephyr only breathe
And with her tresses play.
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Golden Treasury |
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--In this, or any other sphere, 285
Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear:
Safe in the hand of one
disposing
Pow'r,
Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
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Alexander Pope |
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Rilke - Poems |
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And the
crucifixion
appeased
me.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' 'twere ten
thousand
mile!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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So here I'll watch the night and wait
To see the morning shine,
When he will hear the stroke of eight
And not the stroke of nine;
And wish my friend as sound a sleep
As lads' I did not know,
That
shepherded
the moonlit sheep
A hundred years ago.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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" The lady's cheek
Trembled; she nothing said, but, pale and meek,
Arose and knelt before him, wept a rain
Of sorrows at his words; at last with pain
Beseeching
him, the while his hand she wrung,
To change his purpose.
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Keats - Lamia |
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130
They sought the forum;
countless
swarm'd the throng
Behind them as they went, and many a youth
Strong and courageous to the strife arose.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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He united with this kind of work the more
unpleasant occupation of drawing the curiosities of disease or
deformity
in
hospitals.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Along the lichened pathway of the leaf-crowned alley,
With faltering
footsteps
tardily we passed,
And then through ever lighter-glimmering twigs, the
valley
With distant dome re-opened forth at last.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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So meet
extremes
in this mysterious world,
And opposites thus melt into each other.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I sometimes have a sentimental lapse
And long for
saviours
and a physical God.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Robinson
he
Sez they didn't know everythin' down in Judee.
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James Russell Lowell |
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We
wandered
from pine-hills
through oak and scrub-oak tangles,
we broke hyssop and bramble,
we caught flower and new bramble-fruit
in our hair: we laughed
as each branch whipped back,
we tore our feet in half buried rocks
and knotted roots and acorn-cups.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Dear and cruel hope of a
generous
mind
In love, at the same time
Worthy foe of my greatest pleasure,
Blade that creates my pain,
Were you given me to retain my honour?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Said the Table to the Chair,
"You can hardly be aware
How I suffer from the heat
And from
chilblains
on my feet.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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e lat vs
nou{m}bre
hem amonges ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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It
is vile, and a poor thing to place our
happiness
on these desires.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Of
resurrection?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The laughing ripple shoreward flew
To kiss the shining pebbles--
Loud shrieked the crowding Boys in Blue
Defiance
to the Rebels.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I have a crucifix myself,--
I have a crucifix Methinks 'twere fitting
The deed--the vow--the symbol of the deed--
And the deed's
register
should tally, father!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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cunctae exprobrantes
tolerati
insignia leti
expediunt: haec arma putant, haec ultio dulcis,
ut quo quaeque perit studeat punire dolore.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He
honoureth
not the hand that gave the bride.
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Euripides - Electra |
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And over the wide field friend and foe
Spoke of small things,
remembering
not old woe
Of war and hunger, hatred and fierce words.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_ Resident
minister
to the bawds (a mock
title coined by Jonson).
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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She'll speak to no one now, and every day,
Morning and evening, she's at the gate
Gazing like a fey
creature
on that head
She was so stricken to behold--you mind it?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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----
From an
anthology
of verse by Jessie B.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Whose fault has foiled her fond
endeavor?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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When the seventh self thus spake the other six selves looked with
pity upon him but said nothing more; and as the night grew deeper
one after the other went to sleep
enfolded
with a new and happy
submission.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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_The Old Cottagers_
The little cottage stood alone, the pride
Of
solitude
surrounded every side.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Now hail the duke, with radiant brow,
Girt with his cavaliers;
Round his
triumphant
banner bow
Those of his foe.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And when I
descended
to the valleys and the plains God was there
also.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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After a year I came again to the place--
The hunted
hurrying
people were still the same.
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Sara Teasdale |
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This, they may say, is
anticipating
complaint; but, in the worst that
can happen, it is the only complaint this writer will ever make, and
the only answer they will ever receive from his pen.
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Tacitus |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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So he not only
accepts the lace, but promises to keep the
possession
of it a secret
(ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But flattery is a fine pick-lock of tender ears; especially of those whom
fortune hath borne high upon their wings, that submit their dignity and
authority to it, by a
soothing
of themselves.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The village maid, with hand on brow
The level ray to shade,
Upon the
footpath
watches now
For Colin's darkening plaid.
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Golden Treasury |
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"--think some:
Others--"How blest the
Paradise
to come!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Oh, you, whose
unbounded
happiness I cannot express in
words, thrice happy race of airy birds, receive your king in your
fortunate dwellings.
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Aristophanes |
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