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American Poetry - 1922 |
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($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
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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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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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"Þā hīe getruwedon on twā healfa
"fæste frioðu-wǣre; Fin Hengeste
"elne
unflitme
āðum benemde,
"þæt hē þā wēa-lāfe weotena dōme
1100 "ārum heolde, þæt þǣr ǣnig mon
"wordum nē worcum wǣre ne brǣce,
"nē þurh inwit-searo ǣfre gemǣnden,
"þēah hīe hira bēag-gyfan banan folgedon
"þēoden-lēase, þā him swā geþearfod wæs:
1105 "gyf þonne Frȳsna hwylc frēcnan sprǣce
"þæs morðor-hetes myndgiend wǣre,
"þonne hit sweordes ecg syððan scolde.
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Beowulf |
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Not until after many a testing and trial did they discover
What, within sacred ring,
secretive
image concealed.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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They will not catch the old devil; as if
there were no other road into Lithuania than the
highway!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Johns, who known to reader* Contemporary Verse as the
author "The Dance," "The Mad woman" and "The Interpreter", a poet who sees life clearly and
whose lyric gift has grown
stronger
from year to year, with his philos ophy life.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Don't that make you suspicious
That there's
something
the dead are keeping back?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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_ Of a
Hounsditch
man, sir, one of the devil's
near kinsmen, a broker.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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oo dedes: 117
A son
conceyued
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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What doe you meane to
counterfait
thus?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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e A-byde,
Page 73
Fore thowe hast soughte
pylgermages
wyde.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Then, further, also winds,
Sweeping the level waters, can bear off
A mighty part of wet, since we behold
Oft in a single night the
highways
dried
By winds, and soft mud crusted o'er at dawn.
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Lucretius |
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Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
F alse beauty that costs me so dear,
R ough indeed, a
hypocrite
sweetness,
A mor, like iron on the teeth and harder,
N amed only to achieve my sure distress,
C harm that's murderous, poor heart's death,
O covert pride that sends men to ruin,
I mplacable eyes, won't true redress
S uccour a poor man, without crushing?
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Villon |
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One science only will one genius fit; 60
So vast is art, so narrow human wit:
Not only bounded to
peculiar
arts,
But oft in those confin'd to single parts.
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Alexander Pope |
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thy dirges
Are
pleasant
songs to me.
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Emerson - Poems |
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" From the hour
When I before had cast my view beneath,
All the first region overpast I saw,
Which from the midmost to the bound'ry winds;
That onward thence from Gades I beheld
The unwise passage of Laertes' son,
And
hitherward
the shore, where thou, Europa!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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466)
Now late
I follow Time's Necessity:[35]
Mounting a
barricade
I pacify remote tribes.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thence, from three paly
loopholes
mild and small,
Slow lights upon the lake's still bosom fall, 1793.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad
thoughts
to the mind.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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To take our extant specimens of Satyr-plays,
for instance: in the _Cyclops_ we have Odysseus, the heroic
trickster; in the fragmentary _Ichneutae_ of Sophocles we have the
Nymph Cyllene, hiding the baby Hermes from the chorus by the most
barefaced and pleasant lying; later no doubt there was an
entrance
of the
infant thief himself.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And she, whom once the
semblance
of a scar
Appalled, an owlet's larum chilled with dread,
Now views the column-scattering bayonet jar,
The falchion flash, and o'er the yet warm dead
Stalks with Minerva's step where Mars might quake to tread.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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THIS ETEXT IS
OTHERWISE
PROVIDED TO YOU "AS-IS".
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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MARMADUKE And he found no
deliverance!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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He began his career at the court of Raymond VI of Toulouse and subsequently
travelled
widely, visiting the court of James I of Aragon.
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Troubador Verse |
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The sweet spring-flowers not always keep
Their bloom, nor
moonlight
shines the same
Each evening.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Thus Aeacus has 'scaped the Stygian wave,
By grace of poets and their silver tongue,
Henceforth
to live the happy isles among.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The Chaplain would not kneel to pray
By his
dishonoured
grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Love's sun went down without a frown,
For very joy it used to grieve us;
I often think the West is gone,
Ah, cruel Time, to
undeceive
us.
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John Clare |
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All Russia hath submitted
Unto Dimitry; with heartfelt repentance
Basmanov hath himself led forth his troops
To swear
allegiance
to him.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In this wretched state, the
recollection
of which makes me yet
shudder, I hung my harp on the willow-trees, except in some lucid
intervals, in one of which I composed the following.
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Robert Forst |
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The
description
of the swans, that follows, was taken
from the daily opportunities I had of observing their habits, not as
confined to the gentleman's park, but in a state of nature.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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His gilded shrine lies open to the air;
And cunning sculptor's hands have carven there
The calm white brow, as calm as
earliest
morn,
The eyes that flashed with passionate love and scorn,
The lips that sang of Heaven and of Hell,
The almond-face which Giotto drew so well,
The weary face of Dante;--to this day,
Here in his place of resting, far away
From Arno's yellow waters, rushing down
Through the wide bridges of that fairy town,
Where the tall tower of Giotto seems to rise
A marble lily under sapphire skies!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I show as a blot
Blood hath
cleansed
not,
As a barren spot
In Thy fruitful lot.
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Christina Rossetti |
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To whom thus Eve,
recovering
heart, repli'd.
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Milton |
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What change grew in our hearts, seeing one night
That moth-winged ship
drifting
across the bay,
Her broad sail dimly white
On cloudy waters and hills as vague as they?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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He
sent a rather formal answer,
promising
to call soon.
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Yeats |
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And how and why we know not, nor can trace
Home to its cloud this lightning of the mind,
But feel the shock renewed, nor can efface
The blight and
blackening
which it leaves behind,
Which out of things familiar, undesigned,
When least we deem of such, calls up to view
The spectres whom no exorcism can bind,--
The cold--the changed--perchance the dead--anew,
The mourned, the loved, the lost--too many!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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[3]--
"'It is written in the chronicles of the
ancients
that this King of
the Wise, Omar Khayyam, died at Naishapur in the year of the Hegira,
517 (A.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The
penitent
shower fell, as down he knelt 290
Before that care-worn sage, who trembling felt
About his large dark locks, and faultering spake:
"Arise, good youth, for sacred Phoebus' sake!
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Keats |
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' --
`Hold
straight
into the West,' I said again.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Not anything you do can make you mine,
For enterprise with equal charity
In duty as in love elect will shine,
The
constant
slave of mutability.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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sounding tymbrels sung,
In well attuned notes, a joyous lay,
And made delightfull musicke all the way,
Untill they came, where that faire virgin stood; 60
As faire Diana in fresh sommers day,
Beholds her Nymphes enraung'd in shadie wood,
Some wrestle, some do run, some bathe in christall flood:
VIII
So she beheld those maydens meriment
With chearefull vew; who when to her they came, 65
Themselves to ground with
gracious
humblesse bent,
And her ador'd by honorable name,
Lifting to heaven her everlasting fame:
Then on her head they set a girland greene,
And crowned her twixt earnest and twixt game; 70
Who in her self-resemblance well beseene,?
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For some are by the Delhi walls,
And many in the Afghan land,
And many where the Ganges falls
Through seven mouths of
shifting
sand.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I'll teach my boy the
sweetest
things;
I'll teach him how the owlet sings.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Of late days it had been her aim
To meet me in the hall;
Now at my
footsteps
no one came;
And no one to my call.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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Perhaps the most perilous and the most
alluring
venture in the whole field
of poetry is that which Mr.
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Sappho |
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Kaiser, face a
question
new--
This--does God approve of you?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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It
was not in any way
according
to Ritual, but it served our turn.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Waldo Abigail Fithian Halsey Louis
Ginsberg
Marjorie Allen Seiffert J.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In those affairs, O
awfullest
of all,
O pitiable most was this, was this:
Whoso once saw himself in that disease
Entangled, ay, as damned unto death,
Would lie in wanhope, with a sullen heart,
Would, in fore-vision of his funeral,
Give up the ghost, O then and there.
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Lucretius |
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That's why
Faustina
as my companion in bed makes me happy:
Loving she always remains faithful, as I am to her.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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but their
friendship
sure,
When Gratitude or Valour bids them bleed,
Unshaken rushing on where'er their chief may lead.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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defectum_
RVen
2 _seuocat_ Dap: _sed uacat_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Such fate to
suffering
worth is giv'n,
Who long with wants and woes has striv'n,
By human pride or cunning driv'n
To mis'ry's brink;
Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heav'n,
He, ruin'd, sink!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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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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she is speaking; a fog has fallen,
Drifting
in from the outer sea.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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THE TOMB OF A YOUNG GIRL
We still
remember!
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Rilke - Poems |
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Allor
chiusero
un poco il gran disdegno
e disser: <
che si ardito intro per questo regno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Why, untamed do you scare
At any
approach
you see?
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Ronsard |
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Orlando I pursue,
That bore Cymosco's thunder-bolt away;
And this had in the deepest bottom drowned,
That never more the
mischief
might be found.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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II
De sa
fourrure
blonde et brune
Sort un parfum si doux, qu'un soir
J'en fus embaume, pour l'avoir
Caressee une fois, rien qu'une.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Were you a native of Greece, where to exhibit in the public games [e]
is an honourable employment; and if the gods had bestowed upon you the
force and sinew of the athletic
Nicostratus
[f]; do you imagine that I
could look tamely on, and see that amazing vigour waste itself away in
nothing better than the frivolous art of darting the javelin, or
throwing the coit?
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Tacitus |
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XXX
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a thousand sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till barbarous power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the
leavings
find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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The wealth I had
contented
me;
If 't was a meaner size,
Then I had counted it until
It pleased my narrow eyes
Better than larger values,
However true their show;
This timid life of evidence
Keeps pleading, "I don't know.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Whilst yet a schoolboy he wrote many lyrical
compositions and
commenced
_Ruslan and Liudmila_, his first poem
of any magnitude, and, it is asserted, the first readable one ever
produced in the Russian language.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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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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And how can I respond when you're
accused?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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V
I lift my heavy heart up solemnly,
As once Electra her
sepulchral
urn,
And, looking in thine eyes, I over-turn
The ashes at thy feet.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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--my friend
Baldazzar
here
Will hand them to Your Grace.
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He lives in his eyes;
There doth digest, and work, and spin,
And buy, and sell, and lose, and win;
He rolls them with
delighted
motion,
Joy-tides swell their mimic ocean.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The Dove
Angels and Holy Spirit (Annunciation)
'Angels and Holy Spirit (Annunciation)'
Nicolas Pitau (I), Philippe de Champaigne, 1642 - 1671, The Rijksmuseun
Dove, both love and spirit
Who
engendered
Jesus Christ,
Like you I love a Mary.
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Appoloinaire |
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Project
Gutenberg
volunteers and employees expend considerable
effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread
public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm
collection.
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Lewis Carroll |
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So Man, who here seems
principal
alone,
Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown,
Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal;
'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
Still from each fact, with skill uncouth
And savage rapture, like a tooth
She
wrenched
some slow reluctant truth.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the
innocents
who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Twelve times the crowd made at him; five times they seized his
gown;
Small chance was his to rise again, if once they got him down:
And sharper came the pelting; and
evermore
the yell,--
"Tribunes!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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50
Beside a lake their cottage stood,
Not small like ours, a peaceful flood;
But one of mighty size, and strange;
That, rough or smooth, is full of change,
And
stirring
in its bed.
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William Wordsworth |
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before the fatal arrows fly
That send you
headlong
to the nether sky
When down the gulf the sons of folly go
In sad procession to the seat of woe!
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Petrarch |
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Speedily all pour
glad
libation
on the board, and supplicate the gods.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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