THE LINE-GANG
Here come the line-gang
pioneering
by.
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e freke meled,--
[G] "Corsed worth
cowarddyse
& couetyse bo?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And those who
husbanded
the Golden Grain,
And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain,
Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd
As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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E qual e quei che
volontieri
acquista,
e giugne 'l tempo che perder lo face,
che 'n tutti suoi pensier piange e s'attrista;
tal mi fece la bestia sanza pace,
che, venendomi 'ncontro, a poco a poco
mi ripigneva la dove 'l sol tace.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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One of the most eminent (Bembo) considers it to be
nothing more than an
unconnected
string of proverbs.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Deep the hoofs of their
neighing
roans
sink into the fallen leaves;
The riders see, for a moment pause,
and are gone with a pang at heart.
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Li Po |
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Then
suddenly
I was aware
That his feet had been wounded, too;
And, dimming the white of his side,
A dull stain grew.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I confess I was surprised to find my theory so
perfectly
proved in
this case.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thou, weak god,
Shalt fade and be
forgotten!
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She is God's bribery to man
That he the world endure,
His wage for
carrying
the weight of being.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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: _magnanimi Remi_ Voss:
_magnanimis_
(accus.
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Latin - Catullus |
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nothing earthly save the thrill
Of melody in
woodland
rill--
Or (music of the passion-hearted)
Joy's voice so peacefully departed
That like the murmur in the shell,
Its echo dwelleth and will dwell--
Oh, nothing of the dross of ours--
Yet all the beauty--all the flowers
That list our Love, and deck our bowers--
Adorn yon world afar, afar--
The wandering star.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Often a hidden god
inhabits
obscure being;
And like an eye, born, covered by its eyelids,
Pure spirit grows beneath the surface of stones!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Mother, O Mother,
wherefore
dost thou sleep?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Not a man of them but would have
taken his bare word for a
thousand
at any moment; and as for the women,
there is no saying what they would not have done to oblige him.
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Poe - 5 |
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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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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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No
more wiles and
stratagems!
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Aristophanes |
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He stood before the tumbling main
With joy too tense for sober brain;
He shared the life of the element,
The tie of blood and home was rent:
As if in him the welkin walked,
The winds took flesh, the
mountains
talked,
And he the bard, a crystal soul
Sphered and concentric with the whole.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Goethe was thought
dangerous
to faith and morals for two or
three generations.
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Yeats |
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His poor fingers
aimlessly
and awkward Fumbled with the covers, and a look
On his features, fatuous and fervent, Foolish seemed and laughable enough.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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fill'd all things with himself
And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale
Of his own sorrows) he and such as he
First nam'd these notes a
melancholy
strain;
And many a poet echoes the conceit,
Poet, who hath been building up the rhyme
When he had better far have stretch'd his limbs
Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell
By sun or moonlight, to the influxes
Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements
Surrendering his whole spirit, of his song
And of his fame forgetful!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
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Appoloinaire |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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To charm your lord give voice, thou spark of
paradise!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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By the alertness with which we were served and the eager zeal of the
bearded Cossack whom Pugatchef had appointed Commandant, I saw that,
thanks to the talk of the
postillion
who had driven us, I was taken for
a favourite of the master.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I can say then that I have passed long days alone with my cat and alone with one of the last authors of the Roman decadence; for since the white creature is no more I have loved,
uniquely
and strangely, everything summed up in the word: fall.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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`'Tis here, 'tis here,' and
spurreth
in fear
To the top of the hill that hangeth above
And plucketh the Prince: `Come, come, 'tis here --'
`Where?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Again, there is the
frequent
prayer for good looks.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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They no longer heeded me;
But laughed to hear Hell's burning rafters
Unwillingly re-echo
laughters!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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_While the men are
choosing
arms and preparing_,
LERSE, _who has heard shouting and firing without,
looks through the window_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And yet more--I, being lord
Of sea and land, to Sigismond award
The earth; to
Ladislaus
all the sea.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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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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Then indeed proof is clear, and the
treachery
of the
Grecians opens out.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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(Herself a mortal once, of Cadmus' strain,
But now an azure sister of the main)
Swift as a sea-mew
springing
from the flood,
All radiant on the raft the goddess stood;
Then thus address'd him: "Thou whom heaven decrees
To Neptune's wrath, stern tyrant of the seas!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--Many hearts deplored
The fate of those old trees; and oft with pain
The
traveller
at this day will stop and gaze
On wrongs, which Nature scarcely seems to heed:
For shelter'd places, bosoms, nooks, and bays,
And the pure mountains, and the gentle Tweed,
And the green silent pastures, yet remain.
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Golden Treasury |
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But it is only in
very enlightened
communities
that books are readily accessible.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Till Mirth sat like a jaunty postillon
Upon the back of Time and urged him on
With piquant spur, past chapel and past cross:
How Charles, King of Navarre, in long duress
By mandate of King John within the walls
Of Crevacoeur and then of strong Alleres,
In
faithful
ward of Sir Tristan du Bois,
Was now escaped, had supped with Guy Kyrec,
Had now a pardon of the Regent Duke
By half compulsion of a Paris mob,
Had turned the people's love upon himself
By smooth harangues, and now was bold to claim
That France was not the Kingdom of King John,
But, By our Lady, his, by right and worth,
And so was plotting treason in the State,
And laughing at weak Charles of Normandy.
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Sidney Lanier |
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And how can I respond when you're
accused?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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UPON THE HILL
A hundred miles of
landscape
spread before me like a fan;
Hills behind naked hills, bronze light of evening on them shed;
How many thousand ages have these summits spied on man?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It
is, however, a verb in the
imperative
mood.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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After having vied with
returned
favours squandered treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Silent he Urizeneye'd the Prince * {In the gap after this stanza, several
fragments
of erased lines appear:
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Blake - Zoas |
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Indeed,
neither the truant nor the
studious
is at present taught color in the
schools.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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TO AN UNBORN PAUPER CHILD
I
BREATHE not, hid Heart: cease silently,
And though thy birth-hour beckons thee,
Sleep the long sleep:
The Doomsters heap
Travails and teens around us here,
And Time-wraiths turn our
songsingings
to fear.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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For this last reason,
my dear Madam, I must
entertain
no hopes of the very great pleasure of
meeting with you again.
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Robert Forst |
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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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His launce it hytte Fitz Broque upon the hede;
Upon his hede it made a wounde full slyghte, 405
But peerc'd his shoulder,
ghastlie
wounde inferne,
Before his optics daunced a shade of nyghte,
Whyche soone were closed ynn a sleepe eterne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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`Now blisful Venus, thou me grace sende,' 705
Quod Troilus, `for never yet no nede
Hadde I er now, ne
halvendel
the drede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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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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"
He could not answer yea or nay:
He
faltered
"Gifts may pass away.
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Lewis Carroll |
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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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Wilde - Poems |
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To south the
headstones
cluster,
The sunny mounds lie thick;
The dead are more in muster
At Hughley than the quick.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I am alone,
And made of something which the world has not,
Unless its
substance
can devour my spirit.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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cēol up
geþrang
(_the ship shot up_),
i.
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Beowulf |
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We took our chanst among the Khyber 'ills,
The Boers knocked us silly at a mile,
The Burman give us
Irriwaddy
chills,
An' a Zulu impi dished us up in style:
But all we ever got from such as they
Was pop to what the Fuzzy made us swaller;
We 'eld our bloomin' own, the papers say,
But man for man the Fuzzy knocked us 'oller.
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Kipling - Poems |
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provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Keats - Lamia |
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XXIX
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these
thoughts
my self almost despising,
Haply I think on thee,-- and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie,
O what a panic's in thy
breastie!
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Golden Treasury |
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In these verses,
graceful fancy is so subtly
interwoven
with nonsense as almost to beguile
us into feeling a real interest in Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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There those four shouted forth old Saturn's name;
Hyperion
from the peak loud answered, "Saturn!
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Keats |
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Yes, thou mayst
challenge!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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_Both lines are missing;
supplied
from_ Anelida, 181,
182.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I entertained a truer estimate
of my powers; and above all (though at that time not exactly aware of
the fact) I was far too young to have any chance of succeeding, even
moderately, in a species of composition that
requires
a greater scope
of experience in, and sympathy with, human passion than could then
have fallen to my lot,--or than any perhaps, except Shelley, ever
possessed, even at the age of twenty-six, at which he wrote The Cenci.
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Shelley |
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The
people were largely
shepherds
and goatherds, and Pan was a local
Arcadian god till the Persian wars (c.
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Keats |
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Now the last age by Cumae's Sibyl sung
Has come and gone, and the majestic roll
Of circling
centuries
begins anew:
Justice returns, returns old Saturn's reign,
With a new breed of men sent down from heaven.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I
marvelled
at your height.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Each one salutes me as he goes,
And I my childish plumes
Lift, in bereaved acknowledgment
Of their
unthinking
drums.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Over the manhole, up in the iron-clad tower,
Pilot and Captain met as they turned to fly:
The
hundredth
part of a moment seemed an hour,
For one could pass to be saved, and one must die.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Lesbos, terre des nuits chaudes et langoureuses,
Qui font qu'a leurs miroirs, sterile volupte,
Les filles aux yeux creux, de leurs corps amoureuses,
Caressent
les fruits murs de leur nubilite,
Lesbos, terre des nuits chaudes et langoureuses,
Laisse du vieux Platon se froncer l'oeil austere;
Tu tires ton pardon de l'exces des baisers,
Reine du doux empire, aimable et noble terre,
Et des raffinements toujours inepuises.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Der Stamme machtiges
Drohnen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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who healest all
imperfect
sight,
Thou so content'st me, when thou solv'st my doubt,
That ignorance not less than knowledge charms.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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REVOLT
AGAINST THE CREPUSCULAR SPIRIT IN MODERN POETRY
WOULD shake off the
lethargy
of this our time, I and give
For shadows shapes of power, For dreams men.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And Rosalind, for when the living stem
Is cankered in its heart, the tree must fall,
Died ere her time; and with deep grief and awe
The pale survivors followed her remains _1295
Beyond the region of dissolving rains,
Up the cold mountain she was wont to call
Her tomb; and on Chiavenna's precipice
They raised a pyramid of lasting ice,
Whose
polished
sides, ere day had yet begun, _1300
Caught the first glow of the unrisen sun,
The last, when it had sunk; and thro' the night
The charioteers of Arctos wheeled round
Its glittering point, as seen from Helen's home,
Whose sad inhabitants each year would come, _1305
With willing steps climbing that rugged height,
And hang long locks of hair, and garlands bound
With amaranth flowers, which, in the clime's despite,
Filled the frore air with unaccustomed light:
Such flowers, as in the wintry memory bloom _1310
Of one friend left, adorned that frozen tomb.
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Shelley |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought;
Never from lips of cunning fell
The thrilling Delphic oracle;
Out from the heart of nature rolled
The burdens of the Bible old;
The litanies of nations came,
Like the volcano's tongue of flame,
Up from the burning core below,--
The
canticles
of love and woe:
The hand that rounded Peter's dome
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome
Wrought in a sad sincerity;
Himself from God he could not free;
He builded better than he knew;--
The conscious stone to beauty grew.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Gazing into her eyes, holding hands, giving kisses, exchanging
Syllables
sweet and those words lovers alone understand,
Murmuring our conversations we stutter in sweet oratory.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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--think of my trusting love
And confidence--his vows--my ruin--think--think
Of my
unspeakable
misery!
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Poe - 5 |
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Laurie, who
introduced
him to the Doctor.
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Robert Burns |
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Ne no gest ne no
straunger
[ne] karf
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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There is a place
There underneath, not made by torments sad,
But by dun shades alone; where mourning's voice
Sounds not of anguish sharp, but
breathes
in sighs.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In the
Epitaph on the
Marchioness
of Winchester, it reads--' And som flowers
and some bays.
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Milton |
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We paus'd before the
heritage
of men,
And thy star trembled--as doth Beauty then!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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CYCLOPS:
'Twas Nobody
destroyed
me.
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Shelley |
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vide ut faces
Aureas
quatiunt
comas: 95
Prodeas, nova nupta.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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You know what
qualification
throws
The casting vote and the true man shows.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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All his ideas merged into a single
one: how to turn to
advantage
the secret paid for so dearly.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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x_) G
18 _curam_ O:
_curtam_
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
In this mood of mind Burns was unconsciously
approaching
the land of
poesie.
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Robert Burns |
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"Warm
yourself
here a little space!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--
They say, Lord
Clifford
is a savage man;
But, faith, to see him in his silken tunic,
Fitting his low voice to the minstrel's harp,
There's witchery in't.
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William Wordsworth |
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at here bult of
Bretaygne
kynges
Ay wat3 Arthur ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Redistribution is subject to the
trademark license,
especially
commercial redistribution.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhal'd
From that high mount of God, whence light & shade 640
Spring both, the face of brightest Heav'n had changd
To grateful Twilight (for Night comes not there
In darker veile) and roseat Dews dispos'd
All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,
Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr
Then all this globous Earth in Plain outspred,
(Such are the Courts of God) Th' Angelic throng
Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend
By living Streams among the Trees of Life,
Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard, 650
Celestial
Tabernacles, where they slept
Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course
Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne
Alternate all night long: but not so wak'd
Satan, so call him now, his former name
Is heard no more in Heav'n; he of the first,
If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power,
In favour and praeeminence, yet fraught
With envie against the Son of God, that day
Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd 660
Messiah King anointed, could not beare
Through pride that sight, and thought himself impaird.
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Milton |
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'81 These':
the gnomes who urge the vain
beauties
to disdain all offers of love and
play the part of prudes.
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Alexander Pope |
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And then it was too late,
Because the beauty a child has,
And the
beautiful
things it learns before its birth,
Were shed, like moth-scales, from me.
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Imagists |
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