She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's
Beautiful
Wife
'She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife'
Auguste Rodin (France, 1840 - 1917)
LACMA Collections
That's how the bon temps we regret
Among us, poor old idiots,
Squatting on our haunches, set
All in a heap like woollen lots
Round a hemp fire men forgot,
Soon kindled, and soon dust,
Once so lovely, that cocotte.
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Villon |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Still he stood and eyed me hard,
An earnest and a grave regard:
"What, lad,
drooping
with your lot?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Oh, false
reproach!
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Byron |
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His dwelling was just beyond the town,
At what he called his country-seat;
For,
careless
of Fortune's smile or frown,
And weary grown of the world and its ways,
He wished to pass the rest of his days
In a private life and a calm retreat.
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Longfellow |
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But he, who is aware those living seals
Of every beauty work with quicker force,
The higher they are ris'n; and that there
I had not turn'd me to them; he may well
Excuse me that, whereof in my excuse
I do accuse me, and may own my truth;
That holy
pleasure
here not yet reveal'd,
Which grows in transport as we mount aloof.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Spenser
represents
in him the peculiar vices of the Irish clergy and laity.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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On a retrouve dans ses
papiers le brouillon de divers projets de prefaces qu'il
abandonna
lors
de la reimpression a la fois diminuee et augmentee des _Fleurs du
Mal_ en 1861.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Till noon we silently sail'd on
Yet never a breeze did breathe:
Slowly and
smoothly
went the ship
Mov'd onward from beneath.
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Lucretius |
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He wept; and we
With tears prayed God to send His love and peace
Upon his
suffering
and stormy soul.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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For in the east I see a star rise
Day-bringer, star
familiar
to my eyes,
And soon it will be dawn.
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Troubador Verse |
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She fain will wait
Until the
gathered
country-folk be gone.
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Euripides - Electra |
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My long thread
trembles
almost at the knife;
The breeze, that takes you, lifts me up alive,
And I'll follow those I loved, I the exile.
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_All repeat_ of king
_before_
Lamedon; _the words were caught from_ l.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The first was that of the French, at the head of which stood
Cardinal Taillerand, son of the beautiful Brunissende de Foix, whose
charms were supposed to have
detained
Pope Clement V.
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Petrarch |
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ON A BOX
CONTAINING
HIS OWN WORKS
I break up cypress and make a book-box;
The box well-made,--and the cypress-wood tough.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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HE
CELEBRATES
LAURA'S BEAUTY AND VIRTUE.
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Petrarch |
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pentangel
de-paynt of pure golde hwe3;
He brayde3 hit by ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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In A New Night
Woman I've lived with
Woman I live with
Woman I'll live with
Always the same
You need a red cloak
Red gloves a red mask
And dark stockings
The reasons the proofs
Of seeing you quite naked
Nudity pure O ready finery
Breasts O my heart
Fertile Eyes
Fertile Eyes
No one can know me more
More than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
The two of them
Have cast a spell on my male orbs
Greater than worldly nights
Your eyes where I voyage
Have given the road-signs
Directions
detached
from the earth
In your eyes those that show us
Our infinite solitude
Is no more than they think exists
No one can know me more
More than you know me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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'our' of the
majority
of the MSS.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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IN THOSE OLD DAYS
In those old days you were called beautiful,
But I have worn the beauty from your face;
The flowerlike bloom has
withered
on your cheek
With the harsh years, and the fire in your eyes
Burns darker now and deeper, feeding on
Beauty and the remembrance of things gone.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Terrible Holofernes slain by a woman
Was something wonderful, to be noised aloud;
But this is a wonder past applauding thought,
This grief
darkening
Judith, in the midst
Of the new shining glory she herself
Has brought to conquer in our skies the storm.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Angel, a sacque
maker in Brook Street, Holborn; the dead season of August was coming
on and
probably
he wanted to conceal his growing embarrassment from
his aunt, who might have sent word of it to his mother at Bristol.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Most welcome
To Rome and to our palace, Earl
Politian!
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Poe - 5 |
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And gently,
Unbroken when the sky fills with storm,
Jealous to add who knows what spaces
To simple day the day so true in feeling,
Does it not seem, Mery, that each year,
Where
spontaneous
grace relights your brow,
Suffices, given so much wonder and for me,
Like a lone fan with which a room's surprised,
To refresh with as little pain as is needed here
All our inborn and unvarying friendship.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Worshipful
sir,
No ship e'er prospered that has carried Quakers
Against their will!
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Longfellow |
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Was it not enough that the woman was dead and done with,
without her black and white
servitors
reappearing to spoil the day's
happiness?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Quinctilian has taken notice of the following speech of
Priam, the rhetorical artifice of which is so transcendent, that if
genius did not often, especially in oratory, unconsciously fulfil
the most subtle precepts of criticism, we might be induced, on this
account alone, to
consider
the last book of the Iliad as what is
called spurious, in other words, of later date than the rest of the
poem.
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Iliad - Pope |
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--I tell thee, holy man,
Thy
raiments
and thy ebony cross affright me!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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For
whatever
things
Shall hide back yonder in the house, the same,
However far removed in twisting ways,
May still be all brought forth through bending paths
And by these several mirrors seen to be
Within the house, since nature so compels
All things to be borne backward and spring off
At equal angles from all other things.
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Lucretius |
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So I say,
neighbor!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Do we not seem
immortal
good desire,
Mortally wronged by capture in swift being
Made of a world that holds us firm for ever?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I tell you this:
whatever
of dust to dust
Goes down, whatever of ashes may return
To its essential self in its own season,
Loveliness such as yours will not be lost,
But, cast in bronze upon his very urn,
Make known him Master, and for what good reason.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Then read from the
treasured
volume
The poem of thy choice,
And lend to the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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She's gone into the West,
To dazzle when the sun is down,
And rob the world of rest;
She took our
daylight
with her,
The smiles that we love best,
With morning blushes on her cheek,
And pearls upon her breast.
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Poe - 5 |
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"
Then becometh it kin to the faun and the dryad, a woodland- dweller amid the rocks and streams
"
consociisfaunts
dryadisque inter saxa sylvarum" Janus of Basel.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The contents supply the South
Babylonian version of the second book of the epic _sa nagba imuru_,
"He who has seen all things," commonly
referred
to as the Epic of
Gilgamish.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft
deceitful
wiles.
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blake-poems |
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Sudden lurch of clamours,
Two more viaducts
Stretch out red yokes of steel,
Crushing
my rebellion.
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Imagists |
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Oft have I looked round
With joy in Kent's green vales; but never found
Myself so
satisfied
in heart before.
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William Wordsworth |
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"But the pencil was wanting, colors were wanting, honour, reward,
favour, the
nourishers
of the arts.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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With many a fiction specious, as he sat,
He thus her ear amused; she at the sound
Melting, with fluent tears her cheeks bedew'd;
And as the snow by Zephyrus diffused,
Melts on the mountain tops, when Eurus breathes,
And fills the channels of the running streams, 260
So melted she, and down her lovely cheeks
Pour'd fast the tears, him
mourning
as remote
Who sat beside her.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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through
struggles
and wars!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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For wite thou wel,
withouten
were, 2740
In thank that thing is taken more,
For which a man hath suffred sore.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In terror then I turned
My back upon the
infernal
band, and fled
To my own place, and closed my door; distraught
And like a drunkard who sees all things twice,
With feverish troubled spirit, chilly and sick,
Wounded by mystery and absurdity!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Soft went the music the soft air along,
While fluent Greek a vowel'd undersong
Kept up among the guests discoursing low
At first, for scarcely was the wine at flow;
But when the happy vintage touch'd their brains,
Louder they talk, and louder come the strains
Of powerful instruments--the gorgeous dyes,
The space, the splendour of the draperies,
The roof of awful richness,
nectarous
cheer,
Beautiful slaves, and Lamia's self, appear,
Now, when the wine has done its rosy deed,
And every soul from human trammels freed,
No more so strange; for merry wine, sweet wine,
Will make Elysian shades not too fair, too divine.
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
Gently, but firmly, I replied:
"Henry of Hoheneck I
discard!
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Longfellow |
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I am not quite sure that I quite know what
pessimism
really means.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Their faith the everlasting troth;
Their
expectation
fair;
The needle to the north degree
Wades so, through polar air.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
The
Corporal
was lying at full length in the dust of the parade-ground,
a rifle under him.
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Kipling - Poems |
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--
It is
impossible
to say just what I mean!
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T.S. Eliot |
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TO HELEN
HELEN, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a
perfumed
sea,
The weary way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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401,
446_;
_Letters
from Abroad, etc.
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Byron |
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These
travellers
were mounted on four dromedaries, and having passed through Spain, they went to Norway and from there to Babylon and the Holy Land.
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Appoloinaire |
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Various
portents
had occurred at this time, but so sunk in 13
superstition are the Jews and so opposed to all religious practices
that they think it wicked to avert the threatened evil by
sacrifices[516] or vows.
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Tacitus |
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These are a prince's virtues: and they
that give him other
counsels
are but the hangman's factors.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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how
beautiful
it is, and how glad I am
that I am alive to-day!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Heav'n, as thou knowest, I have power to shut
And open: and the keys are
therefore
twain,
The which my predecessor meanly priz'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this
electronic
work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Yea,
Women, I tell you, not far now is man
From hating us, so passionate the joy
Of loving us, so
mightily
drawing down
Into the service of his pleasure here
All forces of his being.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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) "An
unworthy
monk of the Monastery
Of Chudov, Gregory, of the family of Otrepiev, has fallen
into heresy, taught by the devil, and has dared to vex
the holy brotherhood by all kinds of iniquities and acts
of lawlessness.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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And I
followed
her
and looked for her, but I never could see her again from that day to
this, never again.
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Yeats |
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If you will look the way the sunlight slants
Making the grass one great green gem of light,
Bright earth, crimson and even
Scarlet, everywhere tracks
The
rambling
underground affairs of moles:
Though 'tis but kestrel-bay
Looking against the sun.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Gebt Ihr ein Stuck, so gebt es gleich in
Stucken!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
To these native
strictures
very little need be added.
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Li Po |
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And, see, the farm-roof
chimneys
smoke afar,
And from the hills the shadows lengthening fall!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Sur les cranes, la neige applique un blanc chapeau:
Le corbeau fait panache a ces tetes felees,
Un morceau de chair tremble a leur maigre menton:
On dirait,
tournoyant
dans les sombres melees,
Des preux, raides, heurtant armures de carton.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But Knowledge is as food, and needs no less
Her Temperance over Appetite, to know
In measure what the mind may well contain,
Oppresses else with Surfet, and soon turns
Wisdom to Folly, as
Nourishment
to Winde.
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Milton |
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His house affords the
hospitable
rite,
And pleased they sleep (the blessing of the night).
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Odyssey - Pope |
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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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Go, to the nymph be these our orders borne
'Tis Jove's decree, Ulysses shall return:
The patient man shall view his old abodes,
Nor helped by mortal hand, nor guiding gods
In twice ten days shall fertile Scheria find,
Alone, and
floating
to the wave and wind.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Though here no more Apollo haunts his grot,
And thou, the Muses' seat, art now their grave,
Some gentle spirit still pervades the spot,
Sighs in the gale, keeps silence in the cave,
And glides with glassy foot o'er yon
melodious
wave.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Raised from the field the panting youth she led,
And gently laid him on the bridal bed,
With pleasing sweets his fainting sense renews,
And all the dome
perfumes
with heavenly dews.
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Iliad - Pope |
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In Olga's and Tattiana's rooms
Lay all the girls by sleep embraced,
Except one by the window placed
Whom pale Diana's ray illumes--
My poor Tattiana cannot sleep
But stares into the
darkness
deep.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Clouds of dust,
Crash of
collapsing
cubes.
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Imagists |
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Those who practice poetry search for and love only the
perfection
that is God Himself.
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Appoloinaire |
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II
Maidens the poets learn from you to tell
How
solitary
and remote you are,
As night is lighted by one high bright star
They draw light from the distance where you dwell.
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Rilke - Poems |
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These wasted not his heart or limb;
My brother's soul was of that mould 140
Which in a palace had grown cold,
Had his free
breathing
been denied
The range of the steep mountain's side;[14]
But why delay the truth?
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Byron |
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"
She replied--"Ulalume--Ulalume--
'T is the vault of thy lost
Ulalume!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Flushed and decided, he
assaults
at once;
Exploring hands encounter no defence; 240
His vanity requires no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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That ev'n my buried Ashes such a Snare
Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air,
As not a True Believer passing by
But shall be
overtaken
unaware.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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A
thousand
horns they sound, more proud to seem;
Great is the noise, the Franks its echo hear.
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Chanson de Roland |
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In me she
inspires
such reticence,
For of herself so little she gives;
Joy which displays such diffidence,
Hardly puts a man at his ease.
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Troubador Verse |
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Among Milton's poems are these lines:--
Dicite
sacrorum
praesides nemorum Deae, &c.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The love which he offers up at the altar of wit and
beauty, seems assumed and put on, for its rapture is artificial, and
its
brilliancy
that of an icicle: no woman was ever wooed and won in
that Malvolio way; and there is no doubt that Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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though the greenest woods be thy domain,
Alone they can drink up the morning rain:
Though a
descended
Pleiad, will not one
Of thine harmonious sisters keep in tune
Thy spheres, and as thy silver proxy shine?
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Keats - Lamia |
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THE CONTEST
I
Your stature is modelled
with straight tool-edge:
you are
chiselled
like rocks
that are eaten into by the sea.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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1930
Slabs of the
Sunburnt
West Harcourt, Brace and Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The crow he was in love no doubt
And [so were] many things:
The
ploughman
finished many a bout,
And lustily he sings,
"My love she is a milking maid
With red rosy cheek;
Of cotton drab her gown was made,
I loved her many a week.
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John Clare |
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Come this way; come
quickly!
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Yeats |
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To whom does Spenser ascribe
the
invention
of artillery?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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On the black promontory's windless head,
The last awake, the
fireflies
rise and fall
And tangle up their dithering skeins of light.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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