1922
VACHEL LINDSAY
Rhymes to be Traded for Bread
Privately
Printed; 1912
Springfield, Ill.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Notice the balmy
softness
which is given to this line by the use
of long vowels and liquid consonants.
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Keats |
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She was the
mother of Charles Baudelaire, and
inquired
rather anxiously of Du Camp:
"My son has talent, has he not?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Sweet smiles, mother's smiles,
All the
livelong
night beguiles.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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As whanne the
mornynge
sonne ydronks the dew,
Syche dothe thie valourous actes drocke[42] eche knyghte's hue.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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To be jealous of a Hebe's fate
Possessed by some demon now a negress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
The sun, on the sand, O
sleeping
wrestler,
Eyes, lakes of my simple passion to be reborn
I bring you the child of an Idumean night!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And every tongue, through utter drought,
Was
withered
at the root;
We could not speak, no more than if
We had been choked with soot.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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there is ane--a
Scottish
callan!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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His passion, cruel grown, took on a hue
Fierce and
sanguineous
as 'twas possible
In one whose brow had no dark veins to swell.
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Keats - Lamia |
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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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bǣdde byre
geonge,
_encouraged
the youths_ (at the banquet), 2019.
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Beowulf |
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Orpheus
invented
all the sciences, all the arts.
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Appoloinaire |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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What power becalms the
innavigable
seas?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The poem is told
with infinite pathos and rare
narrative
power.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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This
was the second _Battle of
Hastings_
as printed in this book.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Iris there with humid bow,
Waters the odorous banks that blow
Flowers of more mingled hew
Then her purfl'd scarf can shew,
And drenches with Elysian dew
(List mortals, if your ears be true)
Beds of Hyacinth, and roses
Where young Adonis oft reposes,
Waxing well of his deep wound 1000
In slumber soft, and on the ground
Sadly sits th'
Assyrian
Queen;
But far above in spangled sheen
Celestial Cupid her fam'd son advanc't,
Holds his dear Psyche sweet intranc't
After her wandring labours long,
Till free consent the gods among
Make her his eternal Bride,
And from her fair unspotted side
Two blissful twins are to be born,
Youth and Joy; so Jove hath sworn.
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Milton |
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--Oh, childish
thought!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"I have loved my land," she said, "but it is not enough:
Love
requires
of me all.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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His
_Daphnaida_ was also
published
about the same time.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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1862]
_This poetic
effusion
of Mr.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Lemozis, francha terra cortesa,
Ah,
Limousin!
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Troubador Verse |
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He reads, but he cannot speak, Spanish,
He cannot abide ginger beer:
Ere the days of his
pilgrimage
vanish,
How pleasant to know Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Over and above these papers there was direct evidence
that Jacopo had written to the
_Imperatore
dei Turchi_, imploring him to
send his galley and take him away from Candia.
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Byron |
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Footsteps
shuffled
on the stair.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The Golden Wedding of
Sterling
and Sarah Lanier, September 27, 1868.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Thus had they wept till rosy-finger'd morn
Had found them weeping, but Minerva check'd
Night's almost finish'd course, and held, meantime,
The golden dawn close pris'ner in the Deep,
Forbidding
her to lead her coursers forth,
Lampus and Phaeton that furnish light 290
To all the earth, and join them to the yoke.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Dramatic Fragments_
_i_
TVM autem
lasciuum
Nerei simum pecus
ludens ad cantum classem lustratur choro.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'391' admire:
not used in our modern sense, but in its
original
meaning, "to wonder
at.
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Alexander Pope |
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In the
Olympic games, which he founded, and to which he
convokes
the whole of
Greece every four years, why does he only crown the victorious athletes
with wild olive?
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Aristophanes |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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se quisque absoluere gestit,
transferat
ut proprias aliena in crimina culpas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Maeonia, or Lydia, was a district in Asia which was said to have
been the
birthplace
of Homer.
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Alexander Pope |
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An omissioner, summoned into court in the evening, a censor,
journeying
and resting at dawn.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Enwritten upon the leaf where now are peering
Eyes scintillating soul, there lie _perdus_
Three
eloquent
words oft uttered in the hearing
Of poets, by poets--as the name is a poet's, too.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Men and women pass in the street
Glad of the shining
sapphire
weather,
But we know more of it than they,
Pain and I together.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Not far aloof,
Slipped from his head, the
garlands
lay, and there
By its worn handle hung a ponderous cup.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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In the throng was this one thirteenth man,
starter of all the strife and ill,
care-laden captive;
cringing
thence
forced and reluctant, he led them on
till he came in ken of that cavern-hall,
the barrow delved near billowy surges,
flood of ocean.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Auld was of the same
opinion, since he offered him a certificate that he was single: but no
opinion of priest or lawyer, including the
disclamation
of Jean
Armour, and the belief of Burns, could have, in my opinion, barred the
claim of the children to full legitimacy, according to the law of
Scotland.
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Robert Forst |
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Their outrage will be
ornament
upon her!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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That you are cut, torn, mangled,
torn by the stress and beat,
no
stronger
than the strips of sand
along your ragged beach.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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In him ne deyned sparen blood royal 435
The fyr of love, wher-fro god me blesse,
Ne him forbar in no degree, for al
His vertu or his
excellent
prowesse;
But held him as his thral lowe in distresse,
And brende him so in sondry wyse ay newe, 440
That sixty tyme a day he loste his hewe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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XVII
"The night before that morning
streaked
the sky,
Fixt for his journey, to his sore dismay,
Her husband deemed that in his arms would die
The wife from whom he was to wend his way.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And he wove him a
wondrous
Nose,--
A Nose as strange as a Nose could be!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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IN former days, just by Cythera town
A monastery was, of some renown,
With nuns the queens of beauty filled the place,
And gay
gallants
you easily might trace.
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La Fontaine |
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The
trumpets
sound, the banners fly,
The glittering spears are ranked ready;
The shouts o' war are heard afar,
The battle closes thick and bloody;
But it's not the roar o' sea or shore
Wad make me langer wish to tarry;
Nor shouts o' war that's heard afar--
It's leaving thee, my bonnie Mary.
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Golden Treasury |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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When thou
ascendest
to thy Heaven I descend to my Hell--even then
thou callest to me across the unbridgeable gulf, "My companion, my
comrade," and I call back to thee, "My comrade, my companion"--for
I would not have thee see my Hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And doune on knes anoon ryght I me sette,
And as I koude, this fresshe flour I grette,
Knelying
alwey, til it unclosed was,
Upon the smale, softe, swote gras.
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William Wordsworth |
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Never in the world has so great a wrong
befallen
the lot of man,--
A Han heart and a Han tongue set in the body of a Turk.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Knobs at left upper and left lower corners to
facilitate
the
holding of the tablet.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The listener
remained
perfectly mute.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The heart of the steed and the heart of the master
Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls,
Impatient
to be where the battle-field calls;
Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play,
With Sheridan only ten miles away.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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In the faint
fragrance
of flowers,
On the sweet draft of the sea-wind,
Linger strange hints now that loosen
Tears for thy gay gentle spirit,
O Lityerses!
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Sappho |
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210:
She is not rigg'd, sir; setting forth some lady
Will cost as much as
furnishing
a fleet.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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And who the forts left
unprepared
?
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Marvell - Poems |
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' The
alteration
of _1635_ is not
necessary, but looks to me like the author's own emendation.
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John Donne |
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Guo Zhiyun had passed away, thus the
soldiers
left over from his command are ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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O, what a
weariness
is our poor life,
What misery!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So though ther nere comfort noon but this,
That men
purposen
pees on every syde, 1350
Ye may the bettre at ese of herte abyde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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at men byseken it {and}
emp{re}nten
it.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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'Grot:'
see
Introduction
[grotto].
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Alexander Pope |
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They that were once lords of a
thousand
hosts
Are now become the dust of the hills and ridges.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Belle ile aux myrtes verts, pleine de fleurs ecloses,
Veneree a jamais par toute nation,
Ou les soupirs des coeurs en adoration
Roulent comme l'encens sur un jardin de roses
Ou le
roucoulement
eternel d'un ramier
--Cythere n'etait plus qu'un terrain des plus maigres,
Un desert rocailleux trouble par des cris aigres.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thou strik'st the dull peasant--he sinks in the dark,
Nor saves e'en the wreck of a name;
Thou strik'st the young hero--a
glorious
mark;
He falls in the blaze of his fame!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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With other
ministrations
thou, O nature!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And then the
lighting
of the lamps.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Horribly
safe; for here,
If there are wives at all, they are salted so
They have no meaning for the blood, bent things
Philosophy allows not to be women.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Truly the only tongue that is
understood
by a savage
Must be the tongue of fire that speaks from the mouth of the cannon!
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Longfellow |
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Currite
ducentes
subtegmina, currite, fusi.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi' joy,
But blate an' laithfu', scarce can weel behave;
The mother, wi' a woman's wiles, can spy
What makes the youth sae bashfu' and sae grave,
Weel-pleas'd to think her bairn's
respected
like the lave.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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org/contact
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Am a poor,
ignorant
child, don't see
What he can possibly find in me.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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" {81a}
"Non rete
accipitri
tenditur, neque milvio.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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thou
greatest
power above,
All-good, all-wise, and all-surveying Jove!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Imagists |
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Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not
satisfied
I see
Until I languish in distress.
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Villon |
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---- made use of to me, had I had no-body's welfare
to care for but my own, we should certainly have come,
according
to
the manners of the world, to the necessity of murdering one another
about the business.
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Robert Burns |
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What could I do, unaided and
unblest?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Kipling - Poems |
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O old pagodas of my soul, how you
glittered
across green trees!
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Imagists |
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Could mortal lip divine
The undeveloped freight
Of a
delivered
syllable,
'T would crumble with the weight.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Condensed
mythological
references abound.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Gib nur erst acht, die Bestialitat
Wird sich gar
herrlich
offenbaren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Perchance
'tis joy,
To see Orestes' comrade, that he feels.
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Euripides - Electra |
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He does not die a death of shame
On a day of dark disgrace,
Nor have a noose about his neck,
Nor a cloth upon his face,
Nor drop feet
foremost
through the floor
Into an empty space.
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Wilde - Poems |
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June Nights
In summer, when day has fled, when covered with flowers
The distant plain sheds sweet intoxication;
Eyes closed, and ears half-open to muted hours,
We lie only half-asleep in
transparent
slumber.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Each is the master of a habitation and
household
of his own.
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Tacitus |
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TMOLUS, a
mountain
of Lydia, commended for its vines, its saffron, its
fragrant shrubs, and the fountain-head of the Pactolus.
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I too; I hate a thing I cannot skill;
And thee and all that lives in thee, O Queen,
I would keep
friendly
to my spirit; yet
I do suspect something amazing in thee.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Calpurnius
(T.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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CCXIV
Now to be off would that
Emperour
Charles,
When pagans, lo!
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Chanson de Roland |
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quippe etenim iam tum diuum mortalia saecla
egregias animo facies uigilante uidebant
et magis in somnis mirando
corporis
auctu.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He hath thee maked vicaire and
maistresse
140
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Et que mal hyer et pis m'est hui,
Tost apres si me ranvite,
Vierge douce, se pren fuite,
Se je fui a la poursuite,
Ou fuiray, qu'a mon refui?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Thus we see that the main
incident
of the story, the murder of Lorenzo,
is passed over in a line--'Thus was Lorenzo slain and buried in,' the
next line, 'There, in that forest, did his great love cease,' bringing
us back at once from the physical reality of the murder to the thought
of his love, which is to Keats the central fact of the story.
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Or unfold to our gaze thy most
wonderful
book,
So feared by hell and Satan;
At its hermits and martyrs in gold let us look,
At the virgins, and bishops with pastoral crook,
And the hymns and the prayers in Latin.
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Hugo - Poems |
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