Off he started, his anxiety
to kill the swan
overcoming
all scruples.
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Cold be the fierce winds,
Treacherous
round him.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Here too wit, often tortured wit, fancy, and the heat which Donne's
wit was always able to generate, would have been all his verse had to
show but for the great sorrow which struck him down in 1617 and gave
to his
subsequent
sonnets and hymns a sincerer and profounder note,
his imagery a more magnificent quality, his rhythms a more sonorous
music.
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John Donne |
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You know that elegy is a subject so much
exhausted, that any new idea on the
business
is not to be expected:
'tis well if we can place an old idea in a new light.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Raise
yourself
above yourself; look into,
examine everything with attention.
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Petrarch |
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"I've often spent ten pounds on stuff,
In
dressing
as a Double;
But, though it answers as a puff,
It never has effect enough
To make it worth the trouble.
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Lewis Carroll |
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TAEDIUM VITAE
TO stab my youth with
desperate
knives, to wear
This paltry age's gaudy livery,
To let each base hand filch my treasury,
To mesh my soul within a woman's hair,
And be mere Fortune's lackeyed groom,--I swear
I love it not!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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" In 1836 and
afterwards, it was
replaced
among the "Poems founded on the
Affections.
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For you, on Latmos, fondling your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As
restraint
for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the daylight that your night forgot.
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Ronsard |
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No
ordinance
is seen,
So gradual the grace,
A pensive custom it becomes,
Enlarging loneliness.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Enough for me: with joy I see
The different doom our fates assign:
Be thine Despair and
sceptred
Care;
To triumph and to die are mine.
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Golden Treasury |
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used on or associated in any way with an
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Here are a
thousand
books!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And Boucher says in 1664, "from there
[Tadoussac] to
Montreal
is found a great quantity of _Marsouins
blancs_.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And look, where the narrow white streets of the town
Leap up from the blue water's edge to the wood, 15
Scant room for man's range between
mountain
and sea,
And the market where woodsmen from over the hill
May traffic, and sailors from far foreign ports
With treasure brought in from the ends of the earth.
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Sappho |
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NIGHT of grief and gloom 1
Black velvet
covering
veils
Footsteps in the room
Wherein thy love travails.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days
following
each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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Rilke - Poems |
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, _siminellus_, fine flour) are still made in the
North, where the current
derivation
of the word is from _Sim_ and
_Nell_!
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Robert Herrick |
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/ London: John Murray,
Albemarle
Street.
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Byron |
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At last they mount on their swift
coursing
steeds.
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Chanson de Roland |
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]
[Sidenote J: The
shoulders
are cut out, and the breast divided into
halves.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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_ 'Sophist and sage'
suggests
the philosophers
of ancient Greece.
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Keats |
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rapid as the light
The
flashing
mass foams shaking the abyss;
The hell of waters!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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XXXII
But now, what
wretched
roads one sees,
Our bridges long neglected rot,
And at the stages bugs and fleas
One moment's slumber suffer not.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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vi]
O Eighteenth
Century!
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Hugo - Poems |
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the lean bare tree is widowed again For Michault le Borgne that would confess In "faith and troth" to a traitoress,
"Which of his
brothers
had he slain?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Another said--"Why, ne'er a peevish Boy
Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy;
Shall He that made the Vessel in pure Love
And Fansy, in an after Rage
destroy!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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La ruche qui se joue au bord des clavicules,
Comme un ruisseau lascif qui se frotte au rocher,
Defend
pudiquement
des lazzi ridicules
Les funebres appas qu'elle tient a cacher.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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We know of no scripture which records the pure
benignity
of the
gods on a New England winter night.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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His ruddy face
shone with genial humor; his eyes sparkled and a
constant
smile hovered
around his lips.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Sara Teasdale |
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sweetest
of all minions!
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Keats |
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Mark's great bell shall wake all Venice,
Except her slaughtered Senate: ere the Sun
Be broad upon the
Adriatic
there
Shall be a voice of weeping, which shall drown
The roar of waters in the cry of blood!
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Byron |
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' My friend asked how the
woman was dressed, and the old woman said, 'It was a gray cloak she
had on, with a green cashmere skirt and a black silk
handkercher
tied
round her head, like the country women did use to wear in them times.
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Yeats |
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"Don't you see, your lordship," said the old man, "that it was not in
vain that I
presented
my petition to the robber?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
At the sight of the weapon the
Countess
gave a second sign of life.
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Whitman |
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Biron was a friend of Henri IV, Lusignan a famous family, both
associated
with the Valois.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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There is none but he,
Whose being I doe feare: and vnder him,
My Genius is rebuk'd, as it is said
Mark
Anthonies
was by Caesar.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Then, how the fire ebbs like billows,
Touching all the grass
With a departing,
sapphire
feature,
As if a duchess pass!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
ra
On barren days,
At hours when I, apart, have
Bent low in thought of the great charm thou hast, Behold with music's many
stringed
charms
The silence groweth thou.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Stephen Crane |
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Who oft towards the park for quiet wandered
When far a bird allured him o'er the lea,
Who sat beside the tranquil pool and pondered,
And
listened
to the silent secrecy?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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reads on
nacan, but inserts
irrelevant
matter (_Beit.
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Beowulf |
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Like strange
mechanical
grotesques,
Making fantastic arabesques,
The shadows raced across the blind.
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Wilde - Poems |
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But save when an old man was
admitted to the scene, his designs may be
regarded
as failures: his
maidens were coarse and his old wives rigwiddie carlins.
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Robert Burns |
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Pythagoras
Free-thinker, Man, do you think you alone
Think, while life
explodes
everywhere?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And now I go--as others already
crucified
have gone.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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This which we have seen is eternally ours,
No others shall tread in the glade which now we see;
Their hands shall not touch the frail
tranquil
flowers,
Nor their hearts faint in wonder at the wild white tree.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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They sought and found undying fame:
They toiled not for reward nor thanks:
Their cheeks are hot with honest shame
For you, the modern
mountebanks!
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
e
emperour
al-so,
Ac hy ne dorste hem tryne.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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/
New-York:/ Printed and
Published
by Van Winkle & Wiley,/ No.
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Byron |
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But Acme backwards gently bending head, 10
And the love-drunken eyes of her sweet boy
Kissing with yonder rosy mouth, "My joy,"
She murmured, "my life-love
Septumillus
mine!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Meredith - Poems |
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So down the long
staircase
they hopped in a minute;
The Sugar-tongs snapped, and the Crackers said "Crack!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Far I have wandered throughout the Nine Lands;
Wherever
I went such manners had disappeared.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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What may he do who nills his uncle ever be
husband?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Of
sorryest
Fancies your Companions making,
Vsing those Thoughts, which should indeed haue dy'd
With them they thinke on: things without all remedie
Should be without regard: what's done, is done
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Remembering who was
scourged
for me, I shrink not
Nor shudder at the forty stripes save one.
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Longfellow |
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"
"The
contrary
of what I covet most,"
Said he, "thou tender'st: hence; nor vex me more.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Hence 'tis, whene'er my lips would silence break,
Scarce can I hear the accents which I vent,
By passion render'd
spiritless
and weak.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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(3) Fitzdottrel is a light-headed man of fashion, who spends his
time in
frequenting
theatres and public places, and in conjuring evil
spirits.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The noble
craftsmen
we promote,
Disown the knave and fool;
Each honest man shall have his vote,
Each child shall have his school.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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1510
The blood froze in our hearts
profoundest
depths
The manes of the startled horses stood erect.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Kynge Haroldes knyghts desir'de for hendie stroke, 95
And marched furious o'er the bloudie pleyne,
In bodie close, and made the pleyne to smoke;
Theire sheelds
rebounded
arrowes back agayne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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With stern-resolv'd,
despairing
eye,
I see each aimed dart;
For one has cut my dearest tie,
And quivers in my heart.
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Robert Burns |
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Of the men one might have told
Some thirty years, the other younger seemed,
Was tall and fair, and from his
shoulder
gleamed
A gay guitar with ivy leaves enlaced.
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Hugo - Poems |
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It has borne me here as fleet
As Desire's
lightning
feet:
I must ride it back ere morrow, _735
Or the sage will wake in sorrow.
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Shelley |
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I glide out unobservant
In the midst of the traffic
Blown like a leaf
Hither and thither,
Till the city resolves itself into a clamour of voices,
Crying hollowly, like the wind
rustling
through the forest,
Against the frozen housefronts:
Lost in the glitter of a million movements.
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Imagists |
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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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The sea is not surer of the shore, or the shore of the sea,
than he is of the
fruition
of his love, and of all perfection and beauty.
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Whitman |
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But if we wish to
estimate
the poet simply in
Donne, we must examine his love-poetry and his religious poetry.
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John Donne |
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It is the treasury supplies the
expenses
of the War.
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Aristophanes |
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The several passions and
aspirations
of mankind, successively
examined in the light of legend and history, prove how hollow, if not
pernicious, are the principal objects of pursuit.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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III
Yes, there we sat: she cooed content,
And bats ringed round, and
daylight
went;
The gnarl, our seat, is wrenched and sunk,
Prone that queer pocket in the trunk
Where lay the key
To her pale mystery.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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She met me, and but barely took
My
proffered
warm embrace;
Preoccupation weighed her look,
And hardened her sweet face.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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GASSE: But have you heard
Of the incredible,
mysterious
flight
Of Marion de Lorme?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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By the valor of twelve English martyrs, the Hell-Gate of
Soissons
is
won!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But her goodman
answered
her:
'Love would be a thing of naught
Had not all his limbs a stir
Born out of immoderate thought;
Were he anything by half,
Were his measure running dry.
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Yeats |
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_See note_]
[107 Equally I hate;]
Equallie
hate, _Q_
hate; _Ed:_ hate, _1633:_ hate.
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John Donne |
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And
blossoms
fall upon an open sea.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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[365]
"Some few, the sad
companions
of their fate,
Shall yet survive, protected by my hate,
On Tagus' banks the dismal tale to tell,
How, blasted by my frown, your heroes fell.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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915
I no longer deserve this
gracious
tenderness.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The green-swathed grasshopper, on treble pipe,
Sings there, and dances, in mad-hearted pranks;
There bees go courting every flower that's ripe,
On baulks and sunny banks;
And droning dragon-fly, on rude bassoon,
Attempts to give God thanks
In no
discordant
tune.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Then, poring with her glass, she re-adjusts ;
Her locks, and oft-tried beauty now
distrusts
;
Feai*s lest he scorned a woman once assayed,
And now fii-st wished she e'er had been a maid.
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The
heroes of Ariosto meet beautiful women in the palace of Alcina:--
"Before the threshold wanton damsels wait,
Or, sport between the pillars of the gate:
But, beauty more had brighten'd in their face
Had modesty attemper'd ev'ry grace;
In vestures green each damsel swept the ground,
Their temples fair, with leafy
garlands
crown'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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_ 'Ye, sir, from hennes forewardis;
Hadde never your fader herebiforn 7305
Servaunt
so trewe, sith he was born.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Lie on the warm rock-ledges, and there learn
A little hut
suffices
like a town.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Baal made him
terrible
to all alike,
The greatest cow'ring when he rose to strike.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And from their house-door by that track
The bride and bridegroom went;
Sweet Mary, though she was not gay,
Seemed
cheerful
and content.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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You that give such force to my resentments,
Veil, crepe, dress, you sorrowful ornaments,
Things that his first deed has forced on me,
Against my love now, sustain my glory,
And when that love
exhibits
all its power,
Speak then of my sad duty by the hour,
Fear nothing, be this conqueror's attacker.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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NOTE:
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wrathful
edition 1821; wrathful editions 1819, 1839.
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Shelley |
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And faith, 'tis pleasant till 'tis past:
The
mischief
is that 'twill not last.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I often drank when not adry
To pledge her health in
draughts
divine;
Smiles made it nectar from the sky,
Love turned een water into wine.
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John Clare |
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Thus pains and
pleasures
turn by turn succeed:
He smarts at last who does not first take heed.
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Robert Herrick |
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Yea, this man's brow, like to a title-leaf,
Foretells
the nature of a tragic volume.
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