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Annie
On the coast of Texas
Twixt Mobile and Galveston there was a
Great garden full of roses
That also contained a villa
Like a giant rose.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Along the garden-wall the bees
With hairy bellies pass between
The
staminate
and pistilate,
Blest office of the epicene.
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T.S. Eliot |
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de deo Socratis 120 _qui
signorum
ortus
et obitus comperit_: _bitus_ B m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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You have hands to square and hew
Vast marble-blocks, hard on your day of doom,
Ever
building
mansions new,
Nor thinking of the mansion of the tomb.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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II
For who imposture can endure,
A constant harping on one tune,
Serious endeavours to assure
What everybody long has known;
Ever to hear the same replies
And
overcome
antipathies
Which never have existed, e'en
In little maidens of thirteen?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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XXII
And plainly and more plainly,
Above that
glimmering
line,
Now might ye see the banners
Of twelve fair cities shine;
But the banner of proud Clusium
Was highest of them all,
The terror of the Umbrian,
The terror of the Gaul.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I am startled--
a split leaf
crackles
on the paved floor--
I am anguished--defeated.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I would to God my name
were not so
terrible
to the enemy as it is.
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Shakespeare |
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No one
questions
or troubles to know.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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555
Eternal Spirit of the
chainless
Mind (_Sonnet on Chillon_), iv.
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Byron |
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The stunning stroke his stubborn nerves unbound:
Loud o'er the fields his ringing arms resound:
The scornful dame her
conquest
views with smiles,
And, glorying, thus the prostrate god reviles:
"Hast thou not yet, insatiate fury!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Of all the sounds despatched abroad,
There's not a charge to me
Like that old measure in the boughs,
That
phraseless
melody
The wind does, working like a hand
Whose fingers brush the sky,
Then quiver down, with tufts of tune
Permitted gods and me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"Some year or more ago, I s'pose,
I roamed from Maine to Floridy,
And, -- see where them
Palmettos
grows?
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Sidney Lanier |
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The reference may be to a review of
the Fourth Canto of _Childe Harold_, which
appeared
in the _British
Review_, January, 1818, or to a more recent and, naturally, most hostile
notice of _Don Juan_ (No.
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Byron |
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" Then, wandering,
Lordly he
traversed
courts and corridors,
Paced beneath vaults of gold on shining floors,
Glanced at the throne deserted, stalked from hall
To hall--green, yellow, crimson--empty all!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Then
suddenly
the tune went false,
The dancers wearied of the waltz,
The shadows ceased to wheel and whirl.
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Wilde - Poems |
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--happy you could make
The man, whose
constancy
no perils shake,
What would you more?
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La Fontaine |
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This
projected
audience
is one hundred million readers.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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To
Rencesvals
I go, and Rollanz, he
Nor Oliver may scape alive from me;
The dozen peers are doomed to martyry.
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Chanson de Roland |
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let the love of our one Author win,
Some mercy for a
contrite
humble heart:
For, if her poor frail mortal dust I loved
With loyalty so wonderful and long,
Much more my faith and gratitude for thee.
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Petrarch |
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a33e 3our-self be
talenttyf
to take hit to your-seluen,
[C] Whil mony so bolde yow aboute vpon bench sytten,
352 ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Das zischt und quirlt, das zieht und
plappert!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Yon rising Moon that looks for us again--
How oft
hereafter
will she wax and wane;
How oft hereafter rising look for us
Through this same Garden--and for one in vain!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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THE
FORGOTTEN
GRAVE.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Non ho parlato si, che tu non posse
ben veder ch'el fu re, che chiese senno
accio che re sufficiente fosse;
non per sapere il numero in che enno
li motor di qua su, o se necesse
con
contingente
mai necesse fenno;
non si est dare primum motum esse,
o se del mezzo cerchio far si puote
triangol si ch'un retto non avesse.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Gather, while 'tis fine,
Your wood; to-morrow shall be gay
With smoking pig and
streaming
wine,
And lord and slave keep holyday.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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[2] Omar
himself alludes to his name in the following whimsical lines:--
"'Khayyam, who
stitched
the tents of science,
Has fallen in grief's furnace and been suddenly burned;
The shears of Fate have cut the tent ropes of his life,
And the broker of Hope has sold him for nothing!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Men of England,
wherefore
plough
For the lords who lay ye low?
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Shelley |
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And what is that
temperament?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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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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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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To deny
one's own
experiences
is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"For
everybody
said so, all our friends,
They all were sure our feelings would relate
So closely!
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T.S. Eliot |
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Then the priest bent
likewise
to the sod
And thanked the Lord of Love,
And Blessed Mary, Mother of God,
And all the saints above.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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they wander on
In gladness all; but thou, me thinks, most glad,
My gentle-hearted
Charles!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Their deaths were dew-drops on Heaven's
amaranth
bower,
And tolled on flowers as Summer gales went by.
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John Clare |
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Such a
wondrous
thing!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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) And can that earth-artificer
have a freer power over his brother potsherd (both being made of the
same metal), than God hath over him, who, by the strange fecundity of
His
omnipotent
power, first made the clay out of nothing, and then him
out of that?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I am
astonished
at what yon tell me of
Anthony's writing me.
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Robert Forst |
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L'acre amour m'a gonfle de
torpeurs
enivrantes.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Whither, Bacchus, tear'st thou me,
Fill'd with thy
strength?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Hollow-necked and hollow-flanked, lean of rib and hip,
Strained and sick and weary with the wallow of the ship,
Glad to smell the turf again, hear the robin's call,
Tread again the country road they lost at
Montreal!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Before this
period, they were almost the only merchants of the East; they had
colonies in every place
convenient
for trade, and were the sole masters
of the Ethiopian, Arabian, and Indian seas.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the
strength
to force the moment to its crisis?
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T.S. Eliot |
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But from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,
And fire and ice within me fight
Beneath the
suffocating
night.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I am coming, Valkyr, I am coming, where the channel fog-banks lie;
I can see your signals
blinking
through the mist of their changing smoke; When I rush with the speed of a whirlwind I feel you are riding nigh;
I am counting the days, beloved, the days that I live to die.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I thought you were like the man who clung to the bridge:[24]
Not guessing I should climb the Look-for-Husband Terrace,[25]
But next year you went far away,
To Ch'u-t'ang and the
Whirling
Water Rocks.
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Li Po |
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I wondered which would miss me least,
And when Thanksgiving came,
If father'd
multiply
the plates
To make an even sum.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Yet,
standing
on the east side of the Common just
before sundown, when the western light is transmitted through them, I
see that their yellow even, compared with the pale lemon yellow of an
elm close by, amounts to a scarlet, without noticing the bright
scarlet portions.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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what rejoicing and crackling and
roasting!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Why will you plead yourself so sad forlorn,
While I am
striving
how to fill my heart
With deeper crimson, and a double smart?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Of this,
although extremely indecent in his Majesty, the
philosopher
took no
notice:--simply kicking the dog, and requesting him to be quiet.
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Poe - 5 |
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La fin
couronne
les oeuvres.
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Shakespeare |
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palais neufs, echafaudages, blocs,
Vieux faubourgs, tout pour moi devient allegorie,
Et mes chers
souvenirs
sont plus lourds que des rocs.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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But when the weight of years bow down the head,
And man feels all his energies decline,
His projects gone, himself tomb'd with the dead,
Where virtues lie, nor more illusions shine,
When all our lofty thoughts dispersed and o'er,
We count within our hearts so near congealed,
Each grief that's past, each dream,
exhausted
ore!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Le Destin charme suit tes jupons comme un chien;
Tu semes au hasard la joie et les desastres,
Et tu
gouvernes
tout et ne reponds de rien.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Did ye hear a cry
Under the
rafters?
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Euripides - Electra |
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This long and sure-set liking,
This
boundless
will to please,
-Oh, you should live for ever
If there were help in these.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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She later
associated
herself more with New York
City.
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Sara Teasdale |
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O, then, indeed, you are much
wronged!
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Longfellow |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
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Emerson - Poems |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Imagists |
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When laurel spirts i' th' fire, and when the hearth
Smiles to itself, and gilds the roof with mirth;
When up the Thyrse is raised, and when the sound
Of sacred orgies, flies A round, A round;
When the rose reigns, and locks with
ointments
shine,
Let rigid Cato read these lines of mine.
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Robert Herrick |
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Over the
monstrous
shambling sea,
Over the Caliban sea,
Bright Ariel-cloud, thou lingerest:
Oh wait, oh wait, in the warm red West, --
Thy Prospero I'll be.
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Sidney Lanier |
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RESCUE
Wind and wave and the
swinging
rope
Were calling me last night;
None to save and little hope,
No inner light.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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LYCIDAS
But surely I had heard
That where the hills first draw from off the plain,
And the high ridge with gentle slope descends,
Down to the brook-side and the broken crests
Of yonder veteran beeches, all the land
Was by the songs of your
Menalcas
saved.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Wherefore
the more are they at pains to hide
All the-behind-the-scenes of life from those
Whom they desire to keep in bonds of love--
In vain, since ne'ertheless thou canst by thought
Drag all the matter forth into the light
And well search out the cause of all these smiles;
And if of graceful mind she be and kind,
Do thou, in thy turn, overlook the same,
And thus allow for poor mortality.
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Lucretius |
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Whether he had forgotten them
or only
postponed
punishment, his reign was too short to show.
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Tacitus |
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What field, by Latian blood-drops fed,
Proclaims not the unnatural deeds
It buries, and the
earthquake
dread
Whose distant thunder shook the Medes?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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(And I
Tiresias
have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Besides, there, nightly, with
terrific
glare,
Love, jealous grown of so complete a pair,
Hover'd and buzz'd his wings, with fearful roar,
Above the lintel of their chamber door,
And down the passage cast a glow upon the floor.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Long life to
Dimitry!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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There, through the summer day
Cool streams are laving:
There, while the
tempests
sway,
Scarce are boughs waving;
There thy rest shalt thou take,
Parted for ever,
Never again to wake
Never, O never!
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Golden Treasury |
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This brand she
quenched
in a cool well by,
Which from Love's fire took heat perpetual,
Growing a bath and healthful remedy,
For men diseas'd; but I, my mistress' thrall,
Came there for cure and this by that I prove,
Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Some felt the silent stroke of mouldering age,
Some hostile fury, some
religious
rage.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
Not long that music lingers:
Like the breath of
forgotten
singers
It flies,--or like the March-cloud's shadow
That sweeps with its wing the faded meadow
Not long!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Mean while enjoy
Your fill what happiness this happie state
Can comprehend,
incapable
of more.
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Milton |
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To Heav'n thir prayers
Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious windes
Blow'n
vagabond
or frustrate: in they passd
Dimentionless through Heav'nly dores; then clad
With incense, where the Golden Altar fum'd,
By thir great Intercessor, came in sight
Before the Fathers Throne: Them the glad Son 20
Presenting, thus to intercede began.
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Milton |
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IV
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o'clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The
conscience
of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Sitteth the fair ladye
Close to the river side
Which runneth on with a merry tone
Her merry thoughts to guide:
It runneth through the trees,
It runneth by the hill,
Nathless
the lady's thoughts have found
A way more pleasant still
Margret, Margret.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Or are you phantoms white as snow,
Whose lips had life's most
prosperous
glow?
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Yeats |
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" " by
Benjamin
R.
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William Wordsworth |
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Can't you see she's
fainting?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I sat there mutely and biting my
passionate
lips almost bloody
Half from delight at the ruse, partly from stifled desire:
Such a long time until dark, then another four hours of waiting.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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_Moray Dalton_
THE PLAYERS
We
challenged
Death.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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All this quite points to, and partly explains, the charm of the poems in
_ A
Shropshire
Lad _.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Like Dionysus himself, they are
connected in ancient
religion
with the Renewal of the Earth in spring and
the resurrection of the dead, a point which students of the
_Alcestis_ may well remember.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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They
gathered
the flowers
Each to himself.
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gehēold
tela (brāde rīce), 2209.
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Beowulf |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And ofttimes we lose the occasions of
carrying
a business well and
thoroughly by our too much haste.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
Swiftly,
steadily
the day approached us.
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John Donne |
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Behold, the traytor, whom
ourselves
supposed,
Seeks yet again the chamber!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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fair Liberty, thus left by thee,
Well hast thou taught my
discontented
heart
To mourn the peace it felt, ere yet Love's dart
Dealt me the wound which heal'd can never be;
Mine eyes so charm'd with their own weakness grow
That my dull mind of reason spurns the chain;
All worldly occupation they disdain,
Ah!
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Petrarch |
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my heart
For better lore would seldom yearn,
Could I but teach the
hundredth
part
Of what from thee I learn.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Before yon field of trembling gold
Is
garnered
into dusty sheaves,
Or ere the autumn's scarlet leaves
Flutter as birds adown the wold,
I may have run the glorious race,
And caught the torch while yet aflame,
And called upon the holy name
Of Him who now doth hide His face.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Royalty
payments
should be clearly marked as such and sent to the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the address specified in
Section 4, "Information about donations to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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You are near to me, and your naked feet in their sandals,
And through the scent of the balcony's naked timber
I distinguish the scent of your hair; so now the limber
Lightning
falls from heaven.
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Imagists |
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Race of Veterans
Race of veterans--race of
victors!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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