They hear what
is
commanded
to others as well as themselves; much approved, much
corrected; all which they bring to their own store and use, and learn as
much as they hear.
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Decidedly the pen had superseded the sword, for Victor and Eugene were
scribbling away in ephemeral
political
sheets as apprenticeship to
founding a periodical of their own.
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Found on the sand there, stretched at rest,
their
lifeless
lord, who had lavished rings
of old upon them.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Blinded soul--I said to thee--I'm full of fire;
My
yearning
is mine only grief that burns.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Thus, sir, I
would select nineteen more
gentlemen
of good spirit;
and I would teach the special rules, your punto, your reverso,
your staccato, till they could all play very near
as well as myself.
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Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la
coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Oh, the shining holinesses
Of the thousand,
thousand
faces
God-sunned by the throned ONE,
And made intense with such a love
That, though I saw them turned above,
Each loving seemed for also me!
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A distant
floating
voice .
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Euripides - Electra |
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Exeunt
ROSALIND
and CELIA
ORLANDO.
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Shakespeare |
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Outside the day was one of green and blue,
With touches of a
luminous
glowing red,
Across the quiet pond the small waves sped.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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thought kills me that I am not thought,
To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
But that so much of earth and water wrought,
I must attend time's leisure with my moan;
Receiving nought by
elements
so slow
But heavy tears, badges of either's woe.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast brilliant light
Beneath hideous
centuries
that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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So
slumbered
the stout-heart.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
Thankless too for peace,
(Peace long preserved by fleets and
perilous
seas)
Secure from actual warfare, we have loved
To swell the war-whoop, passionate for war!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And plainly if thou viewest
This cosmic fact, placing it square in front,
And plainly understandest, thou wilt leave
Wondering
at many things.
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In no wise daunted by this rebuff, he found the
opportunity
to send
her another note in a few days.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The woodlouse or the maggot's weak
Clamour rings in his sad ear;
And noise so slight it would surpass
Credence:--drinking sound of grass,
Worm-talk,
clashing
jaws of moth
Chumbling holes in cloth:
The groan of ants who undertake
Gigantic loads for honour's sake--
Their sinews creak, their breath comes thin:
Whir of spiders when they spin,
And minute whispering, mumbling, sighs
Of idle grubs and flies.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The coxcomb bird, so talkative and grave,
That from his cage cries c**d, w**e, and knave,
Though many a passenger he rightly call,
You hold him no
philosopher
at all.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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At last she had had her fill of weeping; then
She tore herself away, and rose again,
Walking with
downcast
eyes; yet turned before
She had left the room, and cast her down once more
Kneeling beside the bed.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The Loir is a
tributary
of the larger Loire, in the Vendomois.
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Ronsard |
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Poor, sad Humanity
Through all the dust and heat
Turns back with bleeding feet,
By the weary road it came,
Unto the simple thought
By the great Master taught,
And that remaineth still:
Not he that
repeateth
the name,
But he that doeth the will!
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Longfellow |
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more
horrible
than that
Is the curse in a dead man's eye!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But to win
A
princess!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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'
The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
As if by some instinct the wretch did know
His rider lov'd not speed, being made from thee:
The bloody spur cannot provoke him on,
That
sometimes
anger thrusts into his hide,
Which heavily he answers with a groan,
More sharp to me than spurring to his side;
For that same groan doth put this in my mind,
My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I saw young Harry with his beaver on
His cushes on his thighs,
gallantly
arm'd,
Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury,
And vaulted with such ease into his seat
As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds
To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus
And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
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Shakespeare |
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149):
'If the Beadelles of Bridewell be
carefull
this Summer, it may
be hoped that Peticote lane may be lesse pestered with ill aires
than it was woont: and the houses there so cleere clensed, that
honest women may dwell there without any dread of the whip and
the carte.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Nay if thou will'st, back to the beating brine,
Back to the
boisterous
billow let us go,
And walk all day beneath the hyaline
Huge vault of Neptune's watery portico,
And watch the purple monsters of the deep
Sport in ungainly play, and from his lair keen Xiphias leap.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I savoured it slowly and did not throw a coin through the window for fear of troubling my spirit and discovering that not only the
instrument
was playing.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Trying to hold the line,
Fainting
and spent and done,
Always the thud and the whine,
Always the yell of the Hun!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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III
Unlike are we, unlike, O
princely
Heart!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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important
information in this header.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Love is not love
Which alters when it
alteration
finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:--
O no!
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Golden Treasury |
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Its feathers float
Between the ends of his blue dress-coat;
With pea-green trowsers all so neat,
And a
delicate
frill to hide his feet
(For though no one speaks of it, every one knows
He has got no webs between his toes).
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"As I am
speaking
of poetry, it will not be amiss to touch slightly upon
the most singular heresy in its modern history-the heresy of what is
called, very foolishly, the Lake School.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The words of Tomsky made a deep impression upon her, and
she
realized
how imprudently she had acted.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In the succeeding years, the Cimbri and Teutonia ravaged Gaul, and brought great calamities on that country; but at length,
deterred
by the unshaken bravery of the Gauls, they turned another way; as appears from Caesar, Bell.
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Tacitus |
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Wherefore, moon,
Since she
presents
bright look and clear-cut form,
May there on high by us on earth be seen
Just as she is with extreme bounds defined,
And just of the size.
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Lucretius |
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' Paul
and Braune's Beiträge contain a varied miscellany of hints, corrections,
and
suggestions
principally embodying the views of Kluge, Cosijn, Sievers,
and Bugge, some of the more important of which are found in the appendices
to the present and the preceding edition.
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Beowulf |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
The joyful
springtime
pleases me
Ai!
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Troubador Verse |
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And alle the walles with colours fyne
Were peynted, bothe text and glose,
[Of] al the
Romaunce
of the Rose.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I know you will make it a point never
at one time to drink more than a pint of wine (I mean an English
pint), and that you will never be witness to more than one bowl of
punch at a time, and that cold drams you will never more taste; and,
above all things, I am convinced, that after
drinking
perhaps boiling
punch, you will never mount your horse and gallop home in a chill late
hour.
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Robert Burns |
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The blond assassin passes on,
The sun proceeds unmoved
To measure off another day
For an
approving
God.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Hastings
has planned to elope with Miss Neville; she wishes first to
get into her own hands her jewelry, which is in Mrs.
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and how the giant element
From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound,
Crushing the cliffs, which,
downward
worn and rent
With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent
LXXI.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Note: There are
references
to a visit to the Temple of Isis at Pompeii with an English girl, Octavia (who tasted a lemon), and to the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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Appoloinaire |
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He broke my will from day to day,
He read my
yearnings
unexpressed
And said them nay.
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Christina Rossetti |
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These Time has in more sober braids confined;
And bound my heart with such a
powerful
tie,
That death alone can disengage it thence.
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Petrarch |
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= Whalley believed this to be an allusion to the
'boy of Bilson,' but, as Gifford points out, this case did not occur
until 1620, four years after the
production
of the present play.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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CHANDLER ROBBINS
We love the venerable house
Our fathers built to God;--
In heaven are kept their
grateful
vows,
Their dust endears the sod.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I almost gave my life long ago for a thing
That has gone to dust now,
stinging
my eyes--
It is strange how often a heart must be broken
Before the years can make it wise.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Ynne Norman tymes,
Turgotus
and
Goode Chaucer dydd excelle,
Thenn Stowe, the Bryghtstowe Carmelyte, 15
Dydd bare awaie the belle.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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These are of us, they are with us,
All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,
We to-day's
procession
heading, we the route for travel clearing,
Pioneers!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I, with none beside,
Save hoarse cicalas shrilling through the brake,
Still track your footprints 'neath the
broiling
sun.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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He
told the ladies they might change their
husbands
and marry into the
official classes, but they refused, saying that they were pledged to
isolation and poverty and could not marry again.
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Li Po |
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);
I saw him out of the door,
I thought:
there will never be a poet,
in all the
centuries
after this,
who will dare write,
after my friend's verse,
"a girl's mouth
is a lily kissed.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Lucretius |
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Lest as a pilgrim, again,
In such
twilight
shadows,
HE should alight, peradventure
Onto our earth, and then
Over the way he should glide,
--Parting the leaves with his radiance-
Through the copse to thy threshold,
There awhile to abide.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Lord Angelo
dukes it well in his absence; he puts
transgression
to't.
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Shakespeare |
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"
In substance the 'Essay on Man' is a
discussion
of the moral order of
the world.
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Alexander Pope |
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born in happier days;
Immortal
heirs of universal praise!
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Alexander Pope |
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Had Policletus seen her, or the rest
Who, in past time, won honour in this art,
A
thousand
years had but the meaner part
Shown of the beauty which o'ercame my breast.
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Petrarch |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Hitherward turn thy feet,
Turn their golden
journeying
towards this night,--
This night of cavernous earth; and now let shine
These walls of stone, against thy nearing love,
Like pure glass smitten by the power of the sun;
And let them be, in thy descending love,
Like glass in a furnace, falling molten down,
Back from thy burning feet streaming and flowing,
Leaving me naked to thy bright desire.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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5550
For
Infortune
makith anoon
To knowe thy freendis fro thy foon,
By experience, right as it is;
The which is more to preyse, y-wis,
Than [is] miche richesse and tresour; 5555
For more [doth] profit and valour
Poverte, and such adversitee,
Bifore than doth prosperitee;
For the toon yeveth conisaunce,
And the tother ignoraunce.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Elvire
Through his efforts those two kings were won;
His hand
conquered
them, he was the one.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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1390
Men shal
reioysen
of a greet empryse
Acheved wel, and stant with-outen doute,
Al han men been the lenger ther-aboute.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Coleridge apologised for
reprinting
the verses, "with the hope that they
will be taken, as assuredly they were composed, in mere sport.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Inscription To Miss Graham Of Fintry
Here, where the Scottish Muse
immortal
lives,
In sacred strains and tuneful numbers joined,
Accept the gift; though humble he who gives,
Rich is the tribute of the grateful mind.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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]
[Thomson acknowledged the charm which this martial and national ode
had for him, but he
disliked
the air, and proposed to substitute that
of Lewis Gordon in its place.
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Robert Forst |
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Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus
Advenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias,
Vt te postremo donarem munere mortis
Et mutam nequiquam adloquerer cinerem,
Quandoquidem
fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum, 5
Heu miser indigne frater adempte mihi.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
The Countess looked at him in silence,
seemingly
without comprehending
him.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And
wherefore
ride ye in such guise
Before the ranks of Rome?
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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III
So mounting up in ycie-pearled carr,
Through middle empire of the
freezing
aire
He wanderd long, till thee he spy'd from farr,
There ended was his quest, there ceast his care
Down he descended from his Snow-soft chaire,
But all unwares with his cold-kind embrace 20
Unhous'd thy Virgin Soul from her fair hiding place.
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Milton |
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she,
You plainly in her face may read it,
Could lend out of that moment's store
Five years of
happiness
or more,
To any that might need it.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"Of Brownyis and of
Bogillis
full is this Buke.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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[_The _Women_ have
gathered
about her.
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Yeats |
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Goddess, take
vengeance!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Rack nature, till new pleasures you shall find,
Strong as your reign, and
beauteous
as
mind.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"Even so glittering and so round," said I,
"I not a whit
misdoubt
of its assay.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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He
represents
natural heroism and
instinctive love of truth.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Where men come trampling and crying with bright lanterns,
Plucking their weak,
entangled
claws from the meshes of net,
Clutching the soft brown bodies mottled with olive,
Crushing the warm, fluttering flesh, in hands stained with blood,
Till their quivering hearts are stilled, and the bright eyes,
That are like a polished agate, glaze in death.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But women dwell in man; our temple is
The honour of man's sensual ecstasy,
Our safety the
imagined
sacredness
Fashion'd about us, fashion'd of his pleasure.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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O we live, O we live--
And this life we would retrieve,
Is a
faithful
thing apart
Which we love in, heart to heart,
Until one heart fitteth twain.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Then, again,
Why a new moon might not forevermore
Created be with fixed successions there
Of shapes and with configurations fixed,
And why each day that bright created moon
Might not miscarry and another be,
In its stead and place, engendered anew,
'Tis hard to show by reason, or by words
To prove absurd--since, lo, so many things
Can be create with fixed successions:
Spring-time and Venus come, and Venus' boy,
The winged harbinger, steps on before,
And hard on Zephyr's foot-prints Mother Flora,
Sprinkling the ways before them, filleth all
With colours and with odours excellent;
Whereafter follows arid Heat, and he
Companioned
is by Ceres, dusty one,
And by the Etesian Breezes of the north;
Then cometh Autumn on, and with him steps
Lord Bacchus, and then other Seasons too
And other Winds do follow--the high roar
Of great Volturnus, and the Southwind strong
With thunder-bolts.
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Lucretius |
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Some ne'er advance a Judgment of their own,
But catch the spreading notion of the Town;
They reason and
conclude
by precedent, 410
And own stale nonsense which they ne'er invent.
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Alexander Pope |
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Or with despotic hand the nightmare dread
Deep plunged thee in some fabulous
Minturne?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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byreð, 296, 448; þone
māððum byreð, _carries the
treasure_
(upon his person), 2056; pres.
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Beowulf |
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Do not forget these asters that remain,
The scarlet leafage round the
tendrils
twining,
And all the rests of verdant life combining,
Resolve them in the soft autumnal vein.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And now the Irish are ashamed
To see
themselves
in one year tamed:
So much one man can do
That does both act and know.
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Golden Treasury |
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So again in
the Pelican chorus there are some
charming
lines:--
"By day we fish, and at eve we stand
On long bare islands of yellow sand.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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We are now trying to release all our books one month in advance
of the
official
release dates, leaving time for better editing.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower,
The lily of Florence blossoming in stone,--
A vision, a delight, and a desire,--
The builder's perfect and
centennial
flower,
That in the night of ages bloomed alone,
But wanting still the glory of the spire.
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Longfellow |
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Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair
To be death's
conquest
and make worms thine heir.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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