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Love spreads a
thousand
toils, nor one in vain,
Amid the many charms, bright, pure, and new,
That so her high and heavenly part endue,
No style can equal it, no mind attain.
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In safety range the cattle o'er the mead:
Sweet Peace, soft Plenty, swell the golden grain:
O'er unvex'd seas the sailors blithely speed:
Fair Honour shrinks from stain:
No guilty lusts the shrine of home defile:
Cleansed is the hand without, the heart within:
The father's features in his
children
smile:
Swift vengeance follows sin.
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Jove may afford us
thousands
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Snowfalls hiss
Fall and how I miss
My beloved in my arms
The Farewell
(Alcools: L'Adieu)
I've gathered this sprig of heather
Autumn is dead you will remember
On earth we'll see no more of each other
Fragrance of time sprig of heather
Remember I wait for you forever
Acrobats
(Alcools:Saltimbanques)
The strollers in the plain
walk the length of gardens
before the doors of grey inns
through villages without churches
And the children gone before
The others follow dreaming
Each fruit tree resigns itself
When they signal from afar
They have burdens round or square
drums and golden tambourines
Apes and bears wise animals
gather coins as they progress
The Bells
(Alcools: Les Cloches)
My gipsy beau my lover
Hear the bells above us
We loved passionately
Thinking none could see us
But we so badly hidden
All the bells in their song
Saw from heights of heaven
And told it everyone
Tomorrow Cyprien Henry
Marie Ursule Catherine
The baker's wife her husband
and Gertrude that's my cousin
Will smile when I go by them
I won't know where to hide
You far and I'll be crying
Perhaps I shall be dying
The Gypsy
(Alcools: La tzigane)
The gypsy knew in advance
Our two lives star-crossed by night
We said farewell to her and then
from that deep well Hope began
Love heavy a performing bear
Danced upright when we wanted
And the blue bird lost his plumes
And the beggars lost their Ave
We knew quite well that we were damned
But hope of love in the street
Made us think hand in hand
Of what the Gypsy did foresee
The Sign
(Alcools: Signe)
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
Parting I love the fruits I detest the flowers
I regret every one of the kisses that I've given
Such a bitter walnut tells his grief to the showers
My Autumn eternal O my spiritual season
The hands of lost lovers juggle with your sun
A spouse follows me it's my fatal shadow
The doves take flight this evening their last one
One Evening
(Alcools: Un soir)
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
And you sustain me
Let them tremble a long while all these lamps
Pray pray for me
The city's metallic and it's the only star
Drowned in your blue eyes
When the tramways run spurting pale fire
Over the
twittering
birds
And all that trembles in your eyes of my dreams
That a lonely man drinks
Under flames of gas red like a false dawn
O clothed your arm is lifted
See the speaker stick his tongue out at the listeners
A phantom has committed suicide
The apostle of the fig-tree hangs and slowly rots
Let us play this love out then to the end
Bells with clear chimes announce your birth
See
The streets are garlanded and the palms advance
Towards thee
Moonlight
(Alcools: Clair de Lune)
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
The orchards and towns are greedy tonight
The stars appear like the image of bees
Of this luminous honey that offends the vines
For now all sweet in their fall from the sky
Each ray of moonlight's a ray of honey
Now hid I conceive the sweetest adventure
I fear stings of fire from this Polar bee
that sets these deceptive rays in my hands
And takes its moon-honey to the rose of the winds
Autumn Ill
(Alcools: Automne malade)
Autumn ill and adored
You die when the hurricane blows in the roseries
When it has snowed
In the orchard trees
Poor autumn
Dead in whiteness and riches
Of snow and ripe fruits
Deep in the sky
The sparrow hawks cry
Over the sprites with green hair the dwarfs
Who've never been loved
In the far tree-lines
the stags are groaning
And how I love O season how I love your rumbling
The falling fruits that no one gathers
The wind the forest that are tumbling
All their tears in autumn leaf by leaf
The leaves
You press
A crowd
That flows
The life
That goes
Hotels
(Alcools: Hotels)
The room is free
Each for himself
A new arrival
Pays by the month
The boss is doubtful
Whether you'll pay
Like a top
I spin on the way
The traffic noise
My neighbour gross
Who puffs an acrid
English smoke
O La Valliere
Who limps and smiles
In my prayers
The bedside table
And all the company
in this hotel
know the languages
of Babel
Let's shut our doors
With a double lock
And each adore
his lonely love
Hunting Horns
(Alcools: Cors de chasse)
Our story's noble as its tragic
like the grimace of a tyrant
no drama's chance or magic
no detail that's indifferent
makes our great love pathetic
And Thomas de Quincey drinking
Opiate poison sweet and chaste
Of his poor Anne went dreaming
We pass we pass since all must pass
Often I'll be returning
Memories are hunting horns alas
whose note along the wind is dying
Vitam Impendere Amori
(Vitam Impendere Amori: To Threaten Life for Love)
Love is dead within your arms
Do you remember his encounter
He's dead you restore the charms
He returns at your encounter
Another spring of springs gone past
I think of all its tenderness
Farewell season done at last
You'll return as tenderly
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Orlando lops the
branches
with his glaive,
And hangs the thieves, a banquet for the crows:
Nor chain and crook for such a deed did crave:
For ready hooks the tree itself bestows,
To purge the world; where by the chin up-hung,
These, on the branches, bold Orlando strung.
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CYPRIAN:
In the sweet solitude of this calm place,
This intricate wild
wilderness
of trees
And flowers and undergrowth of odorous plants,
Leave me; the books you brought out of the house
To me are ever best society.
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[335]
Contrary
to all expectation, the father has at last managed
to finish a piece, but he owns himself a cat strangled it one fine
evening.
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Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
At nothing,
intricately
drawn nowhere
In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
From dusty bondage into luminous air.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly Landscape with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob
Gerritsz
Cuyp, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Barnes,
Whose garments were covered with darns;
But they said, "Without doubt, you will soon wear them out,
You
luminous
person of Barnes!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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You to your beauteous
blessings
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"[49]
Of Saint and Sage I have long quaffed deep,
What need for me to study spirits and
_hsien_?
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Lewis Carroll |
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380
Thys
Herewald
perceevd, and full of ire
He on the Siere de Broque with furie came;
Quod he; thou'st slaughtred my beloved squier,
But I will be revenged for the same.
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POEMS
AVE IMPERATRIX
SET in this stormy Northern sea,
Queen of these
restless
fields of tide,
England!
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One morn we
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And held such intermitted talk
As we are wont to do.
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For the first time the sun
kissed my own naked face and my soul was
inflamed
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She turns the key wi' cannie thraw,
An' owre the threshold ventures;
But first on Sawnie gies a ca',
Syne bauldly in she enters:
A ratton rattled up the wa',
An' she cried, L--d
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furniture is elongated, low, languishing; one would think it endowed
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vitality
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Tis eight o'clock,--a clear March night,
The moon is up--the sky is blue,
The owlet in the moonlight air,
He shouts from nobody knows where;
He
lengthens
out his lonely shout,
Halloo!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The fowler covers himself with a shield as he draws
his nets; the
fisherman
carries a sword whilst he hooks his fish; and
the native draws water from the well in an old rusty casque, instead of
a pail.
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When ev'ning Phoebus shines serene,
While birds rejoice on every spray;
An' she has twa
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roguish een.
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Ill was I then for toil or service fit:
With tears whose course no effort could confine,
By high-way side
forgetful
would I sit
Whole hours, my idle arms in moping sorrow knit.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But whoso
entereth
within this town,
That, sheening far, celestial seems to be,
Disconsolate will wander up and down,
Mid many things unsightly to strange e'e;
For hut and palace show like filthily;
The dingy denizens are reared in dirt;
No personage of high or mean degree
Doth care for cleanness of surtout or shirt,
Though shent with Egypt's plague, unkempt, unwashed, unhurt.
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What windy joy this day had I conceiv'd
Hopeful of his Delivery, which now proves
Abortive
as the first-born bloom of spring
Nipt with the lagging rear of winters frost.
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_Grand Chorus_:
As from the power of sacred lays
The spheres began to move,
And sung the great Creator's praise
To all the blest above;
So when the last and
dreadful
hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky.
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Golden Treasury |
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I am settled, and bend vp
Each corporall Agent to this
terrible
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Compliance
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The
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But give one thought to Stuart, two for
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Hugo - Poems |
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But the authorities had too lightly lent faith
to the pretended repentance of the rebels, who were silently brooding
over their hatred, and only
awaiting
a favourable opportunity to reopen
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I was
sufficiently
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A fals
traitour
than shulde I be.
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--"O faultless is her dainty form,
And luminous her mind;
She is the God-created norm
Of perfect
womankind!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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My heart replied: It's never enough
We'll never have had enough of sadness:
And don't you see that changeableness
Makes past pain dearer to us, and
sweeter?
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Waldo Abigail Fithian Halsey Louis Ginsberg
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Allen Seiffert J.
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Isis was the
Egyptian
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New feet within my garden go,
New fingers stir the sod;
A
troubadour
upon the elm
Betrays the solitude.
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So in mine own heart's despite
I crossed his threshold and sat drinking--he
And I old
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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When Vulcan gies his bellows breath,
An'
ploughmen
gather wi' their graith,
O rare!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But savage
Cacus, infatuate to leave nothing undared or
unhandled
in craft or
crime, drives four bulls of choice shape away from their pasturage, and
as many heifers of excellent beauty.
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Who was sorry for Li, the Swift of Wing,[16]
When his white head
vanished
from the Three Fronts?
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Li Po |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And
cigarettes
in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Gama,
perceiving
it to be the effect of an earthquake,
with his wonted heroism and prudence, exclaimed, "_Of what are you
afraid?
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
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Keats - Lamia |
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They embraced the theory
that "by
bringing
himself into harmony with Nature" man can escape every
evil.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Does it answer
universal
needs?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging
its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the gashouse 190
Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
Whilst yet the monarch paused, with doubts oppress'd
The
beauteous
queen relieved his labouring breast:
"Hear me (she cried), to whom the gods have given
To read this sign, and mystic sense of heaven,
As thus the plumy sovereign of the air
Left on the mountain's brow his callow care,
And wander'd through the wide ethereal way
To pour his wrath on yon luxurious prey;
So shall thy godlike father, toss'd in vain
Through all the dangers of the boundless main,
Arrive (or if perchance already come)
From slaughter'd gluttons to release the dome.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"For,
although
common Snarks do no manner of harm,
Yet, I feel it my duty to say,
Some are Boojums--" The Bellman broke off in alarm,
For the Baker had fainted away.
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Lewis Carroll |
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in the far sky shone a radiance
Ineffable, divine,--
A vision painted upon a pall;
And
sometimes
it was,
And sometimes it was not.
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Stephen Crane |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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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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refers to giving up a
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Beowulf |
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"The land of Cyclops first, a savage kind,
Nor tamed by manners, nor by laws confined:
Untaught to plant, to turn the glebe, and sow,
They all their products to free nature owe:
The soil, untill'd, a ready harvest yields,
With wheat and barley wave the golden fields;
Spontaneous wines from weighty clusters pour,
And Jove descends in each
prolific
shower,
By these no statues and no rights are known,
No council held, no monarch fills the throne;
But high on hills, or airy cliffs, they dwell,
Or deep in caves whose entrance leads to hell.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Through all that year-scarred agony of height,
Unblest of bough or bloom, to where expands
His wandy circlet with his bladed bands
Dividing every wind, or loud or light,
To termless hymns of love and old despite,
Yon tall palmetto in the twilight stands,
Bare Dante of these
purgatorial
sands
That glimmer marginal to the monstrous night.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Vt flos in saeptis secretus nascitur hortis,
Ignotus pecori, nullo convolsus aratro, 40
Quem mulcent aurae, firmat sol, educat imber
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Multi illum pueri, multae
optavere
puellae:
Idem cum tenui carptus defloruit ungui,
Nulli illum pueri, nullae optavere puellae:
Sic virgo, dum intacta manet, dum cara suis est; 45
Cum castum amisit polluto corpore florem,
Nec pueris iocunda manet, nec cara puellis.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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O the
darkness
of the corners,
the warm air, and the stars
framed in the casement of the ships' lights!
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Imagists |
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The queen began to think her husband's rage
Had proved a stimulus such wars to wage,
And made him wond'rous stout in pleasure's sport,
Though all the while his
thoughts
were-'bout the court.
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La Fontaine |
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XXVIII
HASTENED the hardy one,
henchmen
with him,
sandy strand of the sea to tread
and widespread ways.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And I would turn and answer
Among the
springing
thyme,
"Oh, peal upon our wedding,
And we will hear the chime,
And come to church in time.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Smile on, thou new-come Spring--if on thy breeze
The breath of a great man go
wavering
up
And out of this world's knowledge, it is well.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Ronsard |
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More I know not; he had there
A
wreathed
ox, as for some weighty prayer.
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Euripides - Electra |
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It was not, like their tragedy, their
comedy, their epic and lyric poetry, a
hothouse
plant which, in
return for assiduous and skilful culture, gave only scanty and
sickly fruits.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on
friendly
pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From mournful climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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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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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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But if grief, self-consumed, in oblivion would doze,
And
conscience
her tortures appease,
'Mid tumult and uproar this man must repose;
In the comfortless vault of disease.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon
Doubting
the filching age will steal his treasure;
Now counting best to be with you alone,
Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure:
Sometime all full with feasting on your sight,
And by and by clean starved for a look;
Possessing or pursuing no delight,
Save what is had, or must from you be took.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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FIDENÆ, a small town in the
territory
of the Sabines, about six miles
to the north of Rome.
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Tacitus |
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London: documents at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To
luncheon
at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In succession I occupied four
official
posts;
For doing nothing,--ten years' salary!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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This
riot was occasioned by the severe measures taken by General Traubenberg,
in order to quell the
insubordination
of the army.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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When, turning round, I saw the Power advance
That breaks the gloomy grave's eternal trance,
And bids the disembodied spirit claim
The glorious guerdon of
immortal
Fame.
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Petrarch |
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A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
A wind that follows fast
And fills the white and
rustling
sail
And bends the gallant mast;
And bends the gallant mast, my boys,
While like the eagle free
Away the good ship flies, and leaves
Old England on the lee.
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Golden Treasury |
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_Supply_
This, it, with, It.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Save darkened Jura, whose capt heights appear
Precipitously steep; and drawing near,
There breathes a living
fragrance
from the shore,
Of flowers yet fresh with childhood; on the ear
Drops the light drip of the suspended oar,
Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more;
LXXXVII.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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torn from your hero's arms;
Beneath the hand of Pyrrhus in his pride;
Bent o'er an empty tomb in ecstasy;
Widow of Hector--wife of
Helenus!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Why not
use human
language?
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Aristophanes |
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The
consequence of all, the
absolute
submission due to Providence, both as to
our present and future state, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Lost causes triumph like the sun; Dreams that deluded are brought true; A
resurrection
morning breaks —
The soul in him is born anew,
Then, to the old and easy path Of dull, sad inanition wanes:
And still this is the man God made, And still the love of God remains!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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