"
"How could I not be cold,"
answered
he, "in a little caftan all holes?
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Achilles, rushing in with
dreadful
cries,
Draws his broad blade, and at ?
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Iliad - Pope |
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'
*That stole upon the ear, in Eyraco,
Of many a wild star-gazer long ago--
That
stealeth
ever on the ear of him
Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim.
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Poe - 5 |
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This fool, unselfish,
counsels
thee, his lord,
Go not through yonder square, where, as thou see'st
Yon herd of villeins, crick-necked all with strain
Of gazing upward, stand, and gaze, and take
With open mouth and eye and ear, the quips
And heresies of John de Rochetaillade.
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Sidney Lanier |
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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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T.S. Eliot |
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"
The wind has flattened the yellow mother-wort:
Above it in the
distance
they see the walls of a house.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Eight Middle High German
versions
of this Legend were edited by Mass|mann, Quedlinburg, 1843.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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WORLDS
Through the pale green forest of tall bracken-stalks,
Whose
interwoven
fronds, a jade-green sky,
Above me glimmer, infinitely high,
Towards my giant hand a beetle walks
In glistening emerald mail; and as I lie
Watching his progress through huge grassy blades
And over pebble boulders, my own world fades
And shrinks to the vision of a beetle's eye.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Gilgamish
bowed
to the ground at his feet
and his javelin reposed.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Some seed the birds devour,
And some the season mars,
But here and there will flower
The
solitary
stars,
And fields will yearly bear them
As light-leaved spring comes on,
And luckless lads will wear them
When I am dead and gone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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XXI
So is it not with me as with that Muse,
Stirr'd by a painted beauty to his verse,
Who heaven itself for ornament doth use
And every fair with his fair doth rehearse,
Making a
couplement
of proud compare'
With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems,
With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare,
That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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:
_annulis
etas_ B Phil.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
"Well said," made answer Zeno, "'tis a place
Of wonders--I see serpents, and can trace
Vampires, and
monsters
swarming, that arise
In mist, through chinks, to meet the gazer's eyes.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Doubt me, my dim
companion!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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This Counsellor sweet,
This
Scotchman
complete
(The Devil scotch him for a snake!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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[497] The scholiast explains that water-cress robs all plants that grow
in its vicinity of their moisture and that they
consequently
soon wither
and die.
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Aristophanes |
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Whither all men go,
But they go driven,
straining
back with fear,
And Sappho goes as lightly as a leaf
Blown from brown autumn forests to the sea.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Once he saw a fat, stupid ass
Grinning
at him from a green place.
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Stephen Crane |
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donation
information online at:
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Aristophanes |
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What hast thou to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired,
wandering
singer, singing through
The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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No more,
surveying
with an eye impartial
The long line of the coast,
Shall the gaunt figure of the old Field Marshal
Be seen upon his post!
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Longfellow |
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'Prisoned on watery shore,
Starry
jealousy
does keep my den
Cold and hoar;
Weeping o'er,
I hear the father of the ancient men.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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XXI
Softly the first step of twilight
Falls on the
darkening
dial,
One by one kindle the lights
In Mitylene.
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Sappho |
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Ist es nicht Staub, was diese hohe Wand
Aus hundert Fachern mit
verenget?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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" Alonzo, in the highest
transport of passion,
expressed
his resentment, and hasted out of the
room.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Why make a partnership
with us, if thou canst not carry it
through?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
"And what," said I, "hath
befallen
you, and where are your right
eyes and your right hands?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Let us keep silence about his last moments, for fear of
irritating
those
who never forgive.
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La Fontaine |
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OVERREACH
(_outside_): Ha!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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For be right siker, I durste noght
For al this worlde telle hir my thoght, 1150
Ne I wolde have
wratthed
hir, trewly.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Thitherward
had his days brought him.
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Yeats |
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The seruice, and the
loyaltie
I owe,
In doing it, payes it selfe.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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In thy company,
With tumult or
contentment
still
Of thy delights I drank my fill,
Enough!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Wallace forty-one songs for your fifth
volume; if we cannot finish it in any other way, what would you think
of Scots words to some
beautiful
Irish airs?
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Robert Burns |
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--However, I still hope to have
that
pleasure
before the busy months of harvest begin.
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Robert Burns |
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With other
ministrations
thou, O nature!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Keats - Lamia |
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liability
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Meredith - Poems |
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in whose hand is fate,
A worthy
champion
for the Grecian state:
This task let Ajax or Tydides prove,
Or he, the king of kings, beloved by Jove.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Innocent
one, for what
Art thou a sufferer?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And in their lust he can
entangle
them,
Deceiving them far into Judith's beauty,
Which is his power, and lop them from their gods.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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mortals, mortals,
wretched
mortals,
how your jaws will snap!
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Aristophanes |
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"Man's mountings of mind-sight I checked not,
Till range of his vision
Has topped my intent, and found blemish
Throughout
my domain.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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From this they were
published
in 1822.
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John Donne |
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In sooth that craft of thine
Standeth
assoiled
of all that here is wrought.
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Aeschylus |
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can I believe then,
Those ancient temples,
sculptures
classic, could none of them retain her?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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[447] The
narrative
is resumed from this point in v.
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Tacitus |
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Queerest
thing was--though he loved a squaw,
'T was on her account he planned escape;
Shook the Apaches, an' took up red tape
With the U.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Here are a
thousand
books!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Thus, since within the body itself of man
The mind and soul are by such great diseases
Shaken, so
miserably
in labour distraught,
Why, then, believe that in the open air,
Without a body, they can pass their life,
Immortal, battling with the master winds?
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Lucretius |
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Scarce shall we settle this dispute, I judge,
Till we have tasted each the other's fist;
Thou art
unreasonable
thus to beg
Here always--have the Greeks no feasts beside?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Why stares she with
unsettled
eye?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The towering Ajax, with an ample stride,
Advanced
the first, and thus the chief defied:
"Hector!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Alchemically she is De Nerval's feminine
principle
to be fused with the masculine.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Only the houses are
blocking
the sun there, it's not yet the mountains.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Quiv' era storiata l'alta gloria
del roman principato, il cui valore
mosse Gregorio a la sua gran vittoria;
i' dico di Traiano imperadore;
e una vedovella li era al freno,
di lagrime
atteggiata
e di dolore.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The bason stands the board upon
To take the free-oblation;
A little pin-dust, which they hold
More
precious
than we prize our gold;
Which charity they give to many
Poor of the parish, if there's any.
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Robert Herrick |
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Broke only by the
melancholy
sound 1815.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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At this the Lord omnipotent thrice
thundered
sharp
from high heaven, and with his own hand shook out for a sign in the sky
a cloud ablaze with luminous shafts of gold.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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We spring and swell
meandering
to and fro,
From height to depth, from depth to depth we flow,
We fertilize the world, and praise Him so.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The sun, as common, went abroad,
The flowers, accustomed, blew,
As if no soul the
solstice
passed
That maketh all things new.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Keats |
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Adam was a mighty man, and Noah a captain of the moving waters,
Moses was a stern and
splendid
king, yea, so was Moses.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The subject of the
_Anniversaries_
was the fifteen-year-old Elizabeth
Drury, who died in 1610.
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John Donne |
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Vladimir Lenski was his name,
From Gottingen inspired he came,
A
worshipper
of Kant, a bard,
A young and handsome galliard.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Asking what happened, scrambling to pull my
whiskers
88 who could glare or scold them just then?
| Guess: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Whither fled Lamia, now a lady bright,
A full-born beauty new and
exquisite?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Keep a watch,
watchman
there, on the tower,
For your lord: jealously he holds power,
He's more vexing than the dawn:
While words of love we speak here.
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Troubador Verse |
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Some are
little and dwarfs; so of speech, it is humble and low, the words poor and
flat, the members and periods thin and weak, without
knitting
or number.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Some of his pictures
show a mastery which has rarely been
equalled
over the difficulties of
painting an immense plain as seen from a height, reaching straight away
from the eye of the spectator until it is lost in a dim horizon.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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You will
probably
have another scrawl from me in a stage or two.
| Guess: |
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Robert Forst |
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"
The Eye
Said the Eye one day, "I see beyond these valleys a
mountain
veiled
with blue mist.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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880
Thou therefore also taste, that equal Lot
May joyne us, equal Joy, as equal Love;
Least thou not tasting, different degree
Disjoyne
us, and I then too late renounce
Deitie for thee, when Fate will not permit.
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Milton |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"What's the need for saying
anything?
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
Miss
Charlotte
Holmes Crawford and _Scribner's Magazine_:--"_Vive la
France!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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' Aeneas ended: they stood dumb in
silence, with faces bent
steadfastly
in mutual gaze.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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[345]
The Gambia here his serpent-journey takes,
And, thro' the lawns, a thousand
windings
makes;
A thousand swarthy tribes his current laves
Ere mix his waters with th' Atlantic waves.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Chvabrine
led Pugatchef to Marya
Ivanofna's room.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Burbank crossed a little bridge
Descending
at a small hotel;
Princess Volupine arrived,
They were together, and he fell.
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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I fear that I am not like thee:
For I walk through the vales of Har, and smell the
sweetest
flowers:
But I feed not the little flowers: I hear the warbling birds,
But I feed not the warbling birds, they fly and seek their food:
But Thel delights in these no more because I fade away
And all shall say, without a use this shining women liv'd,
Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms.
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blake-poems |
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"
But in
curiously
passing near her I was able to divine the reason.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The Peacock
Juno and the Peacock
'Juno and the Peacock'
Magdalena van de Passe, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 1634, The Rijksmuseun
In
spreading
out his fan, this bird,
Whose plumage drags on earth, I fear,
Appears more lovely than before,
But makes his derriere appear.
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Appoloinaire |
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During the same year, we find Petrarch complaining often
and
painfully
of his bodily infirmities.
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Petrarch |
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The porter of my father's lodge
As much
abasheth
me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Souldiers
Sir
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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he loved as in our times
Men love no more, as only the
Mad spirit of the man who rhymes
Is still condemned in love to be;
One image occupied his mind,
Constant affection intertwined
And an habitual sense of pain;
And distance interposed in vain,
Nor years of
separation
all
Nor homage which the Muse demands
Nor beauties of far distant lands
Nor study, banquet, rout nor ball
His constant soul could ever tire,
Which glowed with virginal desire.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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HERALD OF AEGYPTUS
Be still, thou vain
demented
soul;
My force thy craving shall control.
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Aeschylus |
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When will you bring back the
standard
and axe,1 40 unite our forces and sweep away the ill-omened comet?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He spoke: and proudly o'er the foaming tide,
Borne on the wind, the full-wing'd vessels ride;
While as they rode before the
bounding
prows
The lovely forms of sea-born nymphs arose.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Captain, or Colonel, or Knight in arms,
Whose chance on these
defenceless
doors may seize,
If deed of honour did thee ever please;
Guard them, and him within protect from harms.
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Golden Treasury |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Golden Treasury |
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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
F3.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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LE VIN DES AMANTS
Aujourd'hui l'espace est
splendide!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
"I'll show the way,"
Blackmouth says; an' leads toward dawn of day,
Till they come straight out beside the brink
Of a
precipice
that seems to sink
Into everlasting gulfs below.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Sara Teasdale |
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