I shall lack that forever though,
So no wonder at my hunger now;
For never did
Christian
lady seem
Fairer - nor would God wish her to -
Nor Jewess nor Saracen below.
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You sing the dawn; they celebrate life done;
Marching
you chaunt my soul's awakening hymn,
Stars that no sun has ever made grow dim!
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The bee will make its bloom a bed,
The humble bee in tawny brown;
And one in jacket fringed with red
Will rest upon its velvet down
When
overtaken
in the rain,
And wait till sunshine comes again.
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Copyright
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"
34
MORIENS
PROFECTUS
By John Orth Cook
The silver bugle blows across the meer,
Rising and falling in the evening air;
And we, who all our lives have walked in fear,
Go through the thickening darkness, following where The music leads us, —be it far or near !
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thy
glorious
parts
Ill suited law's dry, musty arts!
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Bread few, 'twas clear, the hermit would deny,
And rich he might have been you may rely;
When he drew near, the
children
quickly cried
Here's father Philip--haste, the alms provide;
And many pious men his friends were found,
But not one female devotee around:
None would he hear; the FAIR he always fled
Their smiles and wiles the friar kept in dread.
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Now he
importunes
him
To tell it o'er.
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
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Meredith - Poems |
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Actuated by these enlightened views, our hero bade the
gentleman
sit
down, while he himself took occasion to throw some fagots upon the fire,
and place upon the now re-established table some bottles of Mousseux.
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If she I long for grants me her shift,
I'll cease to envy you, fair
brother!
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Troubador Verse |
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THE TIGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could Frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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ilke
goodnesse
or ellys som o?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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This said, she with the friend was quickly laid,
Without
suspecting
what mistake she'd made.
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La Fontaine |
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The tears I would retain, I feel them flow;
The past
torments
me, I fear the future so.
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Who talks of Babylon when God even now
Is
training
her fierce champion, Holofernes,
Into the death a woman holds before him?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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_100
A man who thus twice
crucifies
his God
May well .
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Whose is the love that gleaming through the world,
Wards off the
poisonous
arrow of its scorn?
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Shelley |
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As godlike Hector sees the prince retreat,
He thus
upbraids
him with a generous heat:
"Unhappy Paris!
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Iliad - Pope |
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My poor heart op'ning with his puissant hand,
Love planted there, as in its home, to dwell
A Laurel, green and bright, whose hues might well
In rivalry with proudest emeralds stand:
Plough'd by my pen and by my heart-sighs fann'd,
Cool'd by the soft rain from mine eyes that fell,
It grew in grace,
upbreathing
a sweet smell,
Unparallel'd in any age or land.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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_From_
A
CHALLENGE
AT TILT,
AT A MARRIAGE.
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Together
with Orlando, Olivier
The counsel lauds, and would that union speed:
King Charles and Aymon will, he hopes, approve,
And France will welcome wide their wedded love.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Thou, O father, take the sacred things and the household gods
of our
ancestors
in thine hand.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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At last they issued from the world of wood,
And climbed upon a fair and even ridge,
And showed
themselves
against the sky, and sank.
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Tennyson |
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A
thousand
gallons of red wine
We carry in the ship's hold;
With girls on board at the waves' will
We are glad to drift or stay.
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Li Po |
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The Ox
Lucas and the Ox
'Lucas and the Ox'
Hieronymus Wierix, 1563 - before 1590, The Rijksmuseun
This cherubim sings the praises
Of
Paradise
where, with Angels,
We'll live once more, dear friends,
When the good God intends.
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Appoloinaire |
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1904
THE DRAMATIC MOVEMENT
The National Theatre Society has had great
difficulties
because of
the lack of any suitable playhouse.
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Yeats |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Keats - Lamia |
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2 Confucius was
supposed
to have had three thousand disciples; this refers to scholars living in poverty.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I have no hope, and
everything
to fear;
No prayer escapes to which I can consent;
Of every wish I form I soon repent.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Us, nobody to be
compared
with, and see _World, passim_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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here is proof that you were missed:
We seven stayed at Christmas up to read;
And there we took one tutor as to read:
The hard-grained Muses of the cube and square
Were out of season: never man, I think,
So mouldered in a sinecure as he:
For while our
cloisters
echoed frosty feet,
And our long walks were stript as bare as brooms,
We did but talk you over, pledge you all
In wassail; often, like as many girls--
Sick for the hollies and the yews of home--
As many little trifling Lilias--played
Charades and riddles as at Christmas here,
And _what's my thought_ and _when_ and _where_ and _how_,
As here at Christmas.
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Tennyson |
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Can you not hear it
crooning
clear,
As though it understood?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"Of the
remarkable
man," was the reply.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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ON A
CELEBRATED
RULING ELDER.
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Robert Burns |
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Bronckhorst bore--with a long course of
brutal, hard chaff, making light of her weaknesses, her headaches, her
small fits of gaiety, her dresses, her queer little attempts to make
herself
attractive
to her husband when she knows that she is not
what she has been, and--worst of all--the love that she spends on her
children.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Sure, the
mysterious
work, where none with-
stand.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The sea returning day by day
Restores
the world-wide mart;
So let each dweller on the Bay
Fold Boston in his heart,
Till these echoes be choked with snows,
Or over the town blue ocean flows.
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Emerson - Poems |
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nicht ohne
Narrheit
horen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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If you
received
it electronically, such person may
choose to alternatively give you a second opportunity to
receive it electronically.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I was
disappointed
that it had not improved in
appearance as to size, nor had it acquired anything of the majesty of
age, which, even though less perhaps than any other tree, the larch
sometimes does.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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en chemise,
Les baisers repetes, et la gaite
permise?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Stephen Crane |
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So spattered all the earth there would you find
That through the field the grass so green and fine
With men's life-blood is all
vermilion
dyed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The many heard, and the loud revelry
Grew hush; the stately music no more breathes;
The myrtle sicken'd in a
thousand
wreaths.
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Keats - Lamia |
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It is on account of this latter
meaning, that Aristophanes adds "and her spouse," because in cases in
which women were sued at law, their
husbands
were summoned as conjointly
liable.
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Aristophanes |
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With a
Prologue
for her
benefit-night
CCCXXI.
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Robert Forst |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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throw out
questions
and answers!
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Whitman |
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NURSE'S SONG
When voices of children are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And
everything
else is still.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"England's righteous," they rejoin:
"Who shall grudge her exaltations
When her wealth of golden coin
Works the welfare of the
nations?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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They can take down all the huff and swelling of
their looks, and like dexterous
auditors
place the counter where he shall
value nothing.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The
scholars
everywhere call this clever,
But none have yet become weavers ever.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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[726] A
Thracian
brigand, who forced strangers to share his daughters'
bed, or be devoured by his horses.
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Aristophanes |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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For though there is no name or fame in a woman's punishment, nor
honour in the victory, yet shall I have praise in quenching a guilty
life and
exacting
a just recompense; and it will be good to fill my soul
with the flame of vengeance, and satisfy the ashes of my people.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It is an accustom'd action with her, to seeme
thus washing her hands: I haue knowne her
continue
in
this a quarter of an houre
Lad.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the raven his nest has made
In its
thickest
shade.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Wythe passent[67] steppe the lyonn mov'th alonge;
Wyllyamm
hys ironne-woven bowe hee bendes,
Wythe myghte alyche the roghlynge[68] thonderr stronge;
The lyonn ynn a roare hys spryte foorthe sendes.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And "running up" is
a performance almost as
undignified
as the Frog March.
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Kipling - Poems |
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et si stellarum motus cursusque uagantis
nosse uelis, qua et sint signorum in sede locatae,
quae uerbo ex falsis Graiorum uocibus errant,
re uera certo lapsu
spatioque
feruntur,
omnia iam cernes diuina mente notata.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
VII
"I've flown there before you," he said then:
"Your
households
are well;
But--your kin linger less
On your glory arid war-mightiness
Than on dearer things.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But short was even's placid smile,
My startled soul to charm,
When Nelly lightly skipt the stile,
With milk-pail on her arm:
One
careless
look on me she flung,
As bright as parting day;
And like a hawk from covert sprung,
It pounced my peace away.
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John Clare |
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Cunning and keen they speak then, each to each,
Says Blancandrins: "Charles, what a man is he,
Who
conquered
Puille and th'whole of Calabrie;
Into England he crossed the bitter sea,
To th' Holy Pope restored again his fee.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Their shining fronts,
Their songs, their splendours, (better, yet the same,
As river-water hallowed into fonts)
Met in thee, and from out thee overcame
My soul with
satisfaction
of all wants:
Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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BEQUEATHED
CARE, the charge intrusted to thee (by Una).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It was she who took all
the necessary
measures
unknown to the Commandant.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Ah God,
beautiful
God, my soul is wild
With love of thee.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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what thy memory cannot contain,
Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find
Those children nursed, deliver'd from thy brain,
To take a new
acquaintance
of thy mind.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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His canvas is the
beautiful
bright veil
Through which her sorrow shines.
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Rilke - Poems |
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O lonely Himalayan height,
Grey pillar of the Indian sky,
Where saw'st thou last in
clanging
flight
Our winged dogs of Victory?
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Wilde - Poems |
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e wil of
ma{n}kynde
whiche ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Then on the pleine the steemie lode hee throwde,
Smokynge
wyth lyfe, and dy'd with crymson bloude.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The fountain sang and sang
The things one cannot tell,
The
dreaming
peacocks stirred
And the gleaming dew-drops fell.
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Sara Teasdale |
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As the bold eagle with fierce sorrow stung,
Or parent vulture, mourns her ravish'd young;
They cry, they scream, their
unfledged
brood a prey
To some rude churl, and borne by stealth away:
So they aloud: and tears in tides had run,
Their grief unfinish'd with the setting sun;
But checking the full torrent in its flow,
The prince thus interrupts the solemn woe.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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That we
perceived
ourselves erst only .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Eight Middle High German
versions
of this Legend were edited by Mass|mann, Quedlinburg, 1843.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
"They called me the
hyacinth
girl.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With
sorceries
sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's mysterious season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Is it the dirt, the squalor,
the wear of human bodies,
and the dead faces of our
neighbours?
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Imagists |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Still to the south our pointed keels we guide,
And, thro' the austral gulf, still onward ride:
Her palmy forests
mingling
with the skies,
Leona's[347] rugg'd steep behind us flies;
The Cape of Palms[348] that jutting land we name,
Already conscious of our nation's[349] fame.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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My destiny
From
henceforth
I confide to thee!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Ay, the
Parliament
can make every true-born man of us a
bastard.
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Tennyson |
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Could anything show more explicitly than this that Wordsworth was not
perfectly satisfied with his own
artificial
groups?
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William Wordsworth |
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I have but little gold of late, brave Timon,
The want whereof doth daily make revolt
In my
penurious
band.
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Shakespeare |
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FABIEN DEI FRANCHI
TO MY FRIEND HENRY IRVING
THE silent room, the heavy creeping shade,
The dead that travel fast, the opening door,
The murdered brother rising through the floor,
The ghost's white fingers on thy
shoulders
laid,
And then the lonely duel in the glade,
The broken swords, the stifled scream, the gore,
Thy grand revengeful eyes when all is o'er,--
These things are well enough,--but thou wert made
For more august creation!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Such as the
proudest
hearts may feel
When great joy or great good they see!
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Troubador Verse |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The laughing ripple shoreward flew
To kiss the shining pebbles--
Loud shrieked the
crowding
Boys in Blue
Defiance to the Rebels.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Sweet moans,
dovelike
sighs,
Chase not slumber from thy eyes!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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He had
inherited
his
father's affection for Petrarch.
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Petrarch |
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This way my Lord, the Castles gently rendred:
The Tyrants people, on both sides do fight,
The Noble Thanes do brauely in the Warre,
The day almost it selfe
professes
yours,
And little is to do
Malc.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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