Here is not
merely the plain yellow of the grains, but nearly all the colors that
we know, the
brightest
blue not excepted: the early blushing maple,
the poison sumach blazing its sins as scarlet, the mulberry ash, the
rich chrome yellow of the poplars, the brilliant red huckleberry, with
which the hills' backs are painted, like those of sheep.
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We listen,
Breast against breast, to the storm, pouring down rain in the wind
Morning begins to dawn, we expect from these hours approaching
Blossoms
that will adorn festive the coming new day.
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The effect of
a page of her more recent manuscript is
exceedingly
quaint and
strong.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Quid dicam, Gelli, quare rosea ista labella
Hiberna fiant candidiora nive,
Mane domo cum exis et cum te octava quiete
E molli longo
suscitat
hora die?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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For I have seen the purplest shadows stand Alway with
reverent
chere that looked on her, Silence himself is grown her worshipper
And ever doth attend her in that land
Wherein she reigneth, wherefore let there stir Naught but the softest voices, praising her.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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XV
With smiling face he Lenski hears;
The poet's fervid conversation
And
judgment
which unsteady veers
And eye which gleams with inspiration--
All this was novel to Eugene.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The fine slender shoulder-blades:
The long arms, with tapering hands:
My small breasts: the hips well made
Full and firm, and sweetly planned,
All Love's
tournaments
to withstand:
The broad flanks: the nest of hair,
With plump thighs firmly spanned,
Inside its little garden there?
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Villon |
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Thus, when Louis the
Fourteenth
instituted
a new order of chivalry for the rewarding
of military merit, he commended it to the favor of his own
glorified ancestor and patron, and decreed that all the members
of the fraternity should meet at the royal palace on the feast of
St.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line
And "UP-AND-DOWN" by Logic I define,
Of all that one should care to fathom, I
was never deep in
anything
but--Wine.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Then was the German raven seen, disguised,
Echoing the Roman eagle in the skies,
And once again towards Heaven spread
These brave hills once reduced to dust,
No longer fearing
lightning
overhead,
Borne by that eagle on the stormy gust.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_420
The tempest is his steed, he strides the air;
And the abyss shouts from her depth laid bare,
Heaven, hast thou
secrets?
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Shelley |
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NIGHT LITANY
oDIEU,
purifiez
nos coeurs!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The calm we maintained
deceived
their eyes.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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subject to the trademark license,
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redistribution.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume
enclosed
by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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following
authors and publishers for permission to
reprint copyright pieces: Messrs.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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No, for we are flown far ahead of life:
The feet of our Spirit have
wonderfully
trod
The dangers of the rushing fate of life,
As summer-searching birds tread with their wings
Mountainous surges in the air.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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He sought to shackle and control the
Hellespontine
wave,
That rushes from the Bosphorus, with fetters of a slave!
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Aeschylus |
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But man is
naturally
social.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But, as when bow-beak'd
vultures
crooked-claw'd[106] 350
Stoop from the mountains on the smaller fowl;
Terrified at the toils that spread the plain
The flocks take wing, they, darting from above,
Strike, seize, and slay, resistance or escape
Is none, the fowler's heart leaps with delight,
So they, pursuing through the spacious hall
The suitors, smote them on all sides, their heads
Sounded beneath the sword, with hideous groans
The palace rang, and the floor foamed with blood.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Then of a sudden
You laid your hands on the High King
himself!
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Yeats |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Long, long the road to Lan-t'ien;
You said
yourself
you would not be able to write.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Turning back was vain:
Soon his heavy mane
Bore them to the ground,
Then he stalked around,
Smelling
to his prey;
But their fears allay
When he licks their hands,
And silent by them stands.
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blake-poems |
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XXVI
Contemplativeness, her delight,
E'en from her cradle's
earliest
dream,
Adorned with many a vision bright
Of rural life the sluggish stream;
Ne'er touched her fingers indolent
The needle nor, o'er framework bent,
Would she the canvas tight enrich
With gay design and silken stitch.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The
Princess
of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a gurgling spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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Ronsard |
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"(86)
With words like these the troops Ulysses ruled,
The loudest silenced, and the
fiercest
cool'd.
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Iliad - Pope |
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What cry avails me now, what deed of blood,
Unto this land what dark
despite?
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Aeschylus |
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*
Hypocrite
witches, hence avaunt,
* Who, though in prison, yet enchant !
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Marvell - 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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'"
THE SELF-UNSEEING
HERE is the ancient floor,
Footworn and
hollowed
and thin,
Here was the former door
Where the dead feet walked in.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"Tell her this
"And more,--
"That the king of the seas
"Weeps too, old,
helpless
man.
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Stephen Crane |
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And who
commanded
(and the silence came),
Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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A man's ignorance
sometimes
is not only useful, but beautiful,--while
his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides
being ugly.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The Warders strutted up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their
uniforms
were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the quicklime on their boots.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The star hath ridden high
Thro' many a tempest, but she rode
Beneath thy burning eye;
And here, in thought, to thee--
In thought that can alone
Ascend thy empire and so be
A partner of thy throne--
* The
Humanitarians
held that God was to be understood as
having a really human form.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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With but one thought aflush,
Driving their lords like chaff,
In the guns' mouths they laugh;
Or at the slippery brands
Leaping with open hands,
Down they tear man and horse,
Down in their awful course;
Trampling with bloody heel
Over the
crashing
steel,
All their eyes forward bent,
Rushed the black regiment.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Chanson de Roland |
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One day
remembering
her kernel-stone
She set it by a wall that faced the south;
Dewed it with tears, hoped for a root,
Watched for a waxing shoot,
But there came none;
It never saw the sun,
It never felt the trickling moisture run:
While with sunk eyes and faded mouth
She dreamed of melons, as a traveller sees
False waves in desert drouth
With shade of leaf-crowned trees,
And burns the thirstier in the sandful breeze.
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Christina Rossetti |
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'
And so you will see my death in this duel,
Far from
quenching
glory, will give it fuel;
And this honour will flow from willing death,
Your need for recompense ends with my breath.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Know
therefore
that the sword is a cursed thing
Which the wise man uses only if he must.
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Li Po |
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Oh, proud was our army that morning,
That stood where the pine darkly towers,
When Sherman said, "Boys, you are weary,
But to-day fair
Savannah
is ours!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Robert Herrick |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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_ True, mortals I made cease
foreseeing
fate.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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In the
presence
of justice,
Lo, the walls of the temple
Are visible
Through thy form of sudden shadows.
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Stephen Crane |
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Nous avons
tous eu l'epouvante de sa concession et de la notre: o
jouissance
de
notre sante, elan de nos facultes, affection egoiste et passion pour
lui, lui qui nous aime pour sa vie infinie.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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--then take
yourself
off, away with you; a mountebank is no
companion for a priest.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
The harbour-bay was clear as glass,
So
smoothly
it was strewn!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Whom see I
clenched
in rocky fetters drear
Unto the stormy crag?
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Aeschylus |
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Ye who of him may further seek to know,
Shall find some tidings in a future page,
If he that rhymeth now may
scribble
moe.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
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blake-poems |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
That steer you up and down, and high and low,
Never remaining long, when once they show,
Pulling your chariot
endlessly
there and back:
My desires and yours are never a match,
Because the passions that pierce your soul,
And the ardours that inflame mine so,
Court different desires to ease their lack.
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Ronsard |
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Not the first cock-horse that with cork was
shod
To rescue
Albemarle
from the sea-cod :
Nor the late feather-man, whom Tomkins fierce
Shall with one breath like thistle down disperse.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Ellis appears at the top of the manuscript page: "(a
separate
sheet: It cannot be placed as its sequel is missing.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Dante
Alighieri
put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer-up of strife.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Monstrous
old whale!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The table in fair order spread,
They heap the
glittering
canisters with bread:
Viands of various kinds allure the taste,
Of choicest sort and savour, rich repast!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Vice is undone, if she forgets her birth,
And stoops from angels to the dregs of earth:
But 'tis the Fall
degrades
her to a w***e;
Let greatness own her, and she's mean no more;
Her birth, her beauty, crowds and courts confess;
Chaste matrons praise her, and grave bishops bless;
In golden chains the willing world she draws,
And hers the Gospel is, and hers the laws,
Mounts the tribunal, lifts her scarlet head,
And sees pale Virtue carted in her stead.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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For myself,
I had no hope, nor even a wish (though a successful play would in the
then state of my finances have been a most welcome piece of good
fortune), that he should accept my performance; so that I incurred no
disappointment
when the piece was _judiciously_ returned as not
calculated for the stage.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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But I have,
And I'm off now to
practise
with my notions.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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Being therefore in some measure the
cause of its present appearance, you must allow me the gratification of
inscribing it to you; in acknowledgment of the
pleasure
I have derived
from your Writings, and of the high esteem with which
I am
Very truly yours,
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
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William Wordsworth |
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[Much the
greatest
part of this poem was composed during my walks upon
the banks of the Loire, in the years 1791, 1792.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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There are howling shells below me, and my
bursting
bombs reply.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I lived so tranquil, with my lot content,
No sorrow visited, nor envy pined,
To other loves if fortune were more kind
One pang of mine their
thousand
joys outwent;
But those bright eyes, whence never I repent
The pains I feel, nor wish them less to find,
So dark a cloud and heavy now does blind,
Seems as my sun of life in them were spent.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Jupiter having
assumed the figure of that goddess,
completed
his amorous desires.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Stepping
awfully,
The youth approach'd; oft turning his veil'd eye
Down sidelong aisles, and into niches old.
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Keats |
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The youth
is advised to wait until 'the quaking
prologue
hath (by rubbing) got
culor into his cheekes', and then 'to creepe from behind the Arras,'
and plant himself 'on the very Rushes where the Commedy is to daunce,
yea, and vnder the state of Cambises himselfe.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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, _given, granted_:
Gūðfremmendra
swylcum gifeðe bið þæt.
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Beowulf |
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It is one of the delusions of the poet's critics and biographers, that
the sources of his
inspiration
are to be found in the great classic
poets of the land, with some of whom he had from his youth been
familiar: there is little or no trace of them in any of his
compositions.
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Robert Burns |
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'
It was apparently not in use in England when Coryat published his
_Crudities_, which contains the
following
description (1.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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at made
alwey
assautes
a?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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His war
writings
include _Battle_, etc.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Your husband's coming hither, woman, with all
the
officers
in Windsor, to search for a gentleman that he
says is here now in the house, by your consent, to take an
ill advantage of his absence.
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Shakespeare |
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[325] Albia Terentia was the
daughter
of a knight who had not
risen to office.
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Tacitus |
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Finally, most of us believe that
concentration
is of the very essence
of poetry.
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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Appoloinaire |
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Defunctive
music under sea
Passed seaward with the passing bell
Slowly: the God Hercules
Had left him, that had loved him well.
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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This, in the words of Pirate Smee, was 'a kind of a compliment', but it
was also, to quote the same hero, 'galling'; and I have wished for an
opportunity of disowning the pretension which I found
attributed
to me
of setting up as a pundit, or a pontiff, or a Petronius Arbiter; for I
have neither the sure taste, nor the exhaustive reading, nor the ample
leisure which would be necessary in any such role.
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Some sing the pomps of chivalry
As legends of the ancient time,
Where gold and pearls and mystery
Are shadows painted for sublime;
But passions of sublimity
Belong to plain and simpler things,
And David underneath a tree
Sought when a
shepherd
Salem's springs,
Where moss did into cushions spring,
Forming a seat of velvet hue,
A small unnoticed trifling thing
To all but heaven's hailing dew.
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An island lies
Beyond these tracts, and under other skies,
Ogygia named, in Ocean's watery arms;
Where dwells Calypso,
dreadful
in her charms!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Then he looked down upon his winding-sheet,
For that was the great place, the sacred place,
That was a portion of the light of God,
And from behind that door
Hosannas
rang.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Then there are those the scapular bedights,
Whose long white vestments hide the whip's red stain,
Who mix, in sombre woods on lonely nights,
The foam of
pleasure
with the tears of pain.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The surface of the fountain is black, an
appearance
produced by
its depth, from the darkness of the rocks, and the obscurity of the
cavern; for, on being brought to light, nothing can be clearer than its
water.
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Petrarch |
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Assai la voce lor chiaro l'abbaia,
quando vegnono a' due punti del cerchio
dove colpa
contraria
li dispaia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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in the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
Serving with looks his sacred majesty;
And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill,
Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
Yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
Attending on his golden pilgrimage:
But when from highmost pitch, with weary car,
Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day,
The eyes, 'fore duteous, now
converted
are
From his low tract, and look another way:
So thou, thyself outgoing in thy noon:
Unlook'd, on diest unless thou get a son.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Oh, love in the waking, sweet brother, is true,
As Saint Agnes in
sleeping!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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And I too have
something
to tell him.
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Aristophanes |
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For myself, although I had corresponded
with her for many years, I saw her but twice face to face, and
brought away the impression of
something
as unique and remote as
Undine or Mignon or Thekla.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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for whom 40
Contending, many a Trojan, many a Chief
Of Greece died also, while in eddies whelm'd
Of dust thy
vastness
spread the plain,[112] nor thee
The chariot aught or steed could int'rest more!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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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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