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If you
continue
thus so wan and white;
If I, one day, behold
You pass from out our dull air to the light,
You, infant--I, so old:
If I the thread of our two lives must see
Thus blent to human view,
I who would fain know death was near to me,
And far away for you;
If your small hands remain such fragile things;
If, in your cradle stirred,
You have the mien of waiting there for wings,
Like to some new-fledged bird;
Not rooted to our earth you seem to be.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_The
older hand
recommences
in_ F.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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If you are redistributing or
providing
access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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25
The
Macmillan
Co.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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To
sweep a slushy
crossing
for eight hours on a day when the east wind is
blowing is a disgusting occupation.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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within the gloom
Of yonder trees
methought
a figure passed-
A spectral figure, solemn, and slow, and noiseless-
Like the grim shadow Conscience, solemn and noiseless.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Hee ended, or I heard no more, for now
My earthly by his Heav'nly overpowerd,
Which it had long stood under, streind to the highth
In that celestial Colloquie sublime,
As with an object that excels the sense,
Dazl'd and spent, sunk down, and sought repair
Of sleep, which
instantly
fell on me, call'd
By Nature as in aide, and clos'd mine eyes.
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Milton |
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The lady, having
bestowed
two kisses
upon Sir Gawayne, takes her leave of him (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Mon frere, comme je suis
heureuse!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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If he is the 'cutest of Yankees, he is also as
truly an
enthusiast
as any the most typical poet.
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Whitman |
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"
After saying which words Zourine began to whistle so slyly that all the
others began to laugh, and I
remained
confused.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Huebsch 1918
Dreams Out of
Darkness
B.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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swīn ofer helme
andweard
scireð (_hews off the boar-head
on the helm_), 1288.
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Beowulf |
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So thou dost mutually leaven
Strength of earth with grace of heaven;
So thou dost marry new and old
Into a one of higher mould;
So thou dost
reconcile
the hot and cold,
The dark and bright,
And many a heart-perplexing opposite,
And so,
Akin by blood to high and low,
Fitly thou playest out thy poet's part,
Richly expending thy much-bruised heart
In equal care to nourish lord in hall
Or beast in stall:
Thou took'st from all that thou mightst give to all.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Will men not say
That
insolently
we made of sacred things
A worldly instrument?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Inepuisable
puits de sottise et de fautes!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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in this wan and heartless mood,
To other thoughts by yonder throstle woo'd,
All this long eve, so balmy and serene,
Have I been gazing on the western sky,
And its peculiar tint of yellow green:
And still I gaze--and with how blank an eye
And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars,
That give away their motion to the stars;
Those stars, that glide behind them or between,
Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen
Yon crescent Moon, as fixed as if it grew
In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue;
I see them all so
excellently
fair,
I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Part pays, and justly, the
deserving
steer:
The hog, that ploughs not nor obeys thy call,
Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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+ Keep it legal
Whatever
your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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She fain will wait
Until the
gathered
country-folk be gone.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Die without
satisfaction!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this
feminine
land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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ap
201
_fimestet_
G m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
While all things else in Nature's boundless reign
Came good from the Eternal Master's mould,
I look for such desert in me in vain:
Me the light wounds that I around behold;
To the true
splendour
if I turn at last,
My eye would shrink in pain,
Whose own fault o'er it cast
Such film, and not the fatal day long past,
When first her angel beauty met my view,
"In the sweet season when my life was new.
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Petrarch |
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(Note: Written to Mademoiselle
Roumanille
whom Mallarme knew as a child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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We'll have from the rampart walls a glance
Of the air his steed assumes;
His proud neck swells, his glad hoofs prance,
And on his head
unceasing
dance,
In a gorgeous tuft, red plumes!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the
affrighted
steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
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Stephen Crane |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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J'entrevoyais pourtant un objet singulier;
Ce n'etait pas un temple aux ombres bocageres,
Ou la jeune pretresse, amoureuse des fleurs,
Allait, le corps brule de secretes chaleurs,
Entre-baillant sa robe aux brises passageres;
Mais voila qu'en rasant la cote d'assez pres
Pour troubler les oiseaux avec nos voiles blanches
Nous vimes que c'etait un gibet a trois branches,
Du ciel se
detachant
en noir, comme un cypres.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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As for will and testament I leave none,
Save this: "Vers and canzone to the
Countess
of
Beziers
In return for the first kiss she gave me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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He will not swagger nor boast
Of his country's meeds, in a tone
Missuiting a great man most
If such should speak of his own;
Nor will he act, on her side,
From motives baser, indeed,
Than a man of a noble pride
Can avow for himself at need;
Never, for lucre or laurels,
Or custom, though such should be rife,
Adapting
the smaller morals
To measure the larger life.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Mihi
pergamena
deest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And now Iapix son of
Iasus came, beloved beyond others of Phoebus, to whom once of old,
smitten with sharp desire, Apollo gladly offered his own arts and gifts,
augury and the lyre and swift arrows: he, to lengthen out the destiny of
a parent given over to die, chose rather to know the potency of herbs
and the
practice
of healing, and deal in a silent art unrenowned.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Its tresses,
spreading
more as more they rose,
Were such, as 'midst their forest wilds for height
The Indians might have gaz'd at.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Since the lecturer has raised the
question
whether Li T'ai-po or Tu
Fu is the greater poet, I would say that the Chinese of the present
day consider Tu Fu to be the greater.
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Li Po |
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It is but thirty dawns and
twilights
since
He left his playmates back of the eclipse,
It cannot be he has so soon forgot.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Lo, Baligant comes
cantering
afterward,
Great are the hosts he leads from Arab parts;
This day we'll see if thou hast vassalage.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I'd earn more worth than any other,
If such a
nightgown
were given me
As Iseult handed to her lover,
For it was never worn, certainly.
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Troubador Verse |
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surely once some urn of Attic clay
Held thy wan dust, and thou hast come again
Back to this common world so dull and vain,
For thou wert weary of the sunless day,
The heavy fields of scentless asphodel,
The
loveless
lips with which men kiss in Hell.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
* * * * *
Record that gain,
Mazzini!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Would you weave your dim moan with the
chantings
of love at my feast?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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du bist noch jung,
Bist gar noch nicht
gescheit
genung,
Machst deine Sachen schlecht.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Francisco
Albuquerque, with other
commanders, having heard of the fate of Cochin, set sail for its relief;
the garrison of the zamorim fled, and Trimumpara was restored to his
throne.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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In the _Ode on
Melancholy_
Keats, in a more bitter mood, finds the
presence, in a fleeting world, of eternal beauty the source of the
deepest melancholy.
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Keats |
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something
in a trance!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Or the
glistening
Eye to the poison of a smile!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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That man a fly has killed, whose bones are left
Unburied till an
earthquake
digs his grave.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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eotena
cyn, 421;
gīganta
cyn, 1691; dat.
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Beowulf |
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But it is threaded with gold and
powdered
with scarlet beads.
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Imagists |
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net/2/4/6/8/24689
An
alternative
method of locating eBooks:
http://www.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"In this
roadstead
I have ridden," verse, 414.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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IV
But soon, returning duly,
Dawn whitens the wet
hilltops
bluely.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In
addition
this use of the bare thought with its retreats, prolongations, and flights, by reason of its very design, for anyone wishing to read it aloud, results in a score.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Has the night
descended?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Then sang he of the stones by Pyrrha cast,
Of Saturn's reign, and of Prometheus' theft,
And the Caucasian birds, and told withal
Nigh to what
fountain
by his comrades left
The mariners cried on Hylas till the shore
"Then Re-echoed "Hylas, Hylas!
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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But in
return thou may'st receive a perfect love, or
whatever
is sweeter or more
elegant: for I will give thee an unguent which the Loves and Cupids gave
unto my girl, which when thou dost smell it, thou wilt entreat the gods to
make thee, O Fabullus, one total Nose!
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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This mortal ne'er hath seen the
farthest
gloom.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And besides, to the Crumpetty Tree
Came the Stork, the Duck, and the Owl;
The Snail and the Bumble-Bee,
The Frog and the Fimble Fowl
(The Fimble Fowl, with a
Corkscrew
leg);
And all of them said, "We humbly beg
We may build our homes on your lovely Hat,--
Mr.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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INDEMNITY
You will indemnify and hold the Project, its directors,
officers, members and agents
harmless
from all liability, cost
and expense, including legal fees, that arise directly or
indirectly from any of the following that you do or cause:
[1] distribution of this etext, [2] alteration, modification,
or addition to the etext, or [3] any Defect.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"Tell him it was n't a
practised
writer,
You guessed, from the way the sentence toiled;
You could hear the bodice tug, behind you,
As if it held but the might of a child;
You almost pitied it, you, it worked so.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I see the long river-stripes of the earth;
I see where the Mississippi flows--I see where the
Columbia
flows;
I see the Great River, and the Falls of Niagara;
I see the Amazon and the Paraguay;
I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the
Yiang-tse, and the Pearl;
I see where the Seine flows, and where the Loire, the Rhone, and the
Guadalquivir flow;
I see the windings of the Volga, the Dnieper, the Oder;
I see the Tuscan going down the Arno, and the Venetian along the Po;
I see the Greek seaman sailing out of Egina bay.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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ON BEING REMOVED FROM HSUN-YANG AND SENT TO CHUNG-CHOU
A remote place in the mountains of Pa (Ssech'uan)
Before this, when I was stationed at Hsun-yang,
Already I
regretted
the fewness of friends and guests.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Roused by his Ilia's plaintive woes,
He vows revenge for
guiltless
blood,
And, spite of Jove, his banks o'erflows,
Uxorious flood.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Still vibrates in my heart the
thrilling
tone
Of her, who now her beauteous shrine defies:
But she, who here to rival, none could learn,
Hath robb'd her sex, and with its fame hath flown.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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If there's no help for this, and swiftly,
And my fine lady love me, goddamn,
I'll die, by the head of Saint Gregory,
If she'll not kiss me,
wherever
I am!
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Go to him, ask what luck, and you
will learn that he too is a
worshiper
of the unseen.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Prom leaflets that bedeck the ground
Renewed and goodly scents arise,
The
coloured
volume I expound,
While you repeat the words I prize.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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4
In the swamp in secluded recesses,
A shy and hidden bird is
warbling
a song.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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sed lumen omne uel decus nomen uiri,
Agori, superbo qui creatus germine
patriam, senatum
coniugemque
inluminas
probitate mentis, moribus, studiis simul,
uirtutis apicem quis supremum nanctus es.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Knowing I know not how Na
Audiart
Thou wert once she,
For whose
fairness
one forgave, Que be-m vols mal.
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[HEAVEN CLOSES; THE
ARCHANGELS
EXEUNT.
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Shelley |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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Ronsard |
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He wende to have
reproved
be 1135
Of thefte or mordre, if that he
Hadde in his stable an hakeney.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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But from that
gathered
essence they compound
Honey more sweet than nectar of the gods.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Fare ye well,
farewell!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Men shake to see a shadow from beneath
Passing from pane to pane, like vapory wreath,
Pale, black, and still it glides from room to room;
In the same spot, like ghost upon a tomb;
Or glues its dark brown to the
casement
wan,
Dim shade that lengthens as the night draws on.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The following Early English lives do not belong to the great
Collection
of long-line "Saints' Lives" in the Harleian, Vernon, and other MSS, from which I printed a selec|tion*.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The newly
recovered
section of the epic contains two legends which
supplied the glyptic artists of Sumer and Accad with subjects for
seals.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their
delight!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Over the turret, shut in his iron-clad tower,
Craven was conning his ship through smoke and
flame;
Gun to gun he had
battered
the fort for an hour,
Now was the time for a charge to end the game.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Now comes the sax an'
twentieth
simmer,
I've seen the bud upo' the timmer,
Still persecuted by the limmer
Frae year to year;
But yet despite the kittle kimmer,
I, Rob, am here.
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Robert Forst |
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But nothing aggrieved them so
vehemently as thirst, whilst only a single fountain remained amongst a
huge multitude of armed men and families: their horses too and cattle,
penned up with the people, after the
barbarous
manner of the country,
perished for want of provender: amongst the carcasses of beasts lay
those of men; some dead of thirst, some of their wounds; a noisome
mixture of misery and death; all was foul and tainted with putrefaction,
stench, and filthy contamination.
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Tacitus |
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Can such things be,
And ouercome vs like a Summers Clowd,
Without our
speciall
wonder?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I corresponds to the
Assyrian
version Book I,
Col.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Boots it with spear and shield
Against such gentle foes to take the field
Whose
beckoning
hands the mild Caduceus wield?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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'A kind of openwork
embroidery
or lace
worn in the latter part of the 16th and in the 17th c.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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(22)
But now a
question
in this wise
Oft upon friendly lips doth rise:
Whom doth thy plaintive Muse adore?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Difficile[62] ys the pennaunce, yette I'lle strev
To keepe mie woe
behyltren
yn mie breaste.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Adam could not, but wept,
Though not of Woman born; compassion quell'd
His best of Man, and gave him up to tears
A space, till firmer thoughts
restraind
excess,
And scarce recovering words his plaint renew'd.
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Milton |
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This is the time of his deepest dream, and upon this dream
and its
guarding
depends the final realization of his life's work.
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Rilke - Poems |
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I offered Being for it;
The mighty
merchant
smiled.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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