Oh what a
multitude
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And weary was the long patrol,
The thousand miles of shapeless strand,
From Brazos to San Blas that roll
Their
drifting
dunes of desert sand.
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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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s minion imps, which in his secret part
Lie nuzzling at the
sacramental
wart,
Horse-leeches sucking at the hemorrhoid vein ;
lie sucks the king, they him, he them again.
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Bees sip not at one flower,
Spring comes not with one shower,
Nor shines the sun alone
Upon one favoured hour,
But with
unstinted
power
Makes every day his own.
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What of earls with whom you have supt,
And of dukes that you dined with
yestreen?
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Music, spleen, perfumes--"colour, sound, perfumes call to
each other as deep to deep; perfumes like the flesh of children, soft as
hautboys, green as the meadows"--criminals, outcasts, the charm of
childhood, the horrors of love, pride, and rebellion, Eastern
landscapes, cats, soothing and false; cats, the true
companions
of
lonely poets; haunted clocks, shivering dusks, and gloomier
dawns--Paris in a hundred phases--these and many other themes this
strange-souled poet, this "Dante, pacer of the shore," of Paris has
celebrated in finely wrought verse and profound phrases.
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provision of this
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But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown
slightly
bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet--and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
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_ The
sacredness
of her beauty is felt here.
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The
sleeping
blood and the shame and the doom!
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ted [154]
To loue, not
violence
here; I am no raui?
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But I can now no more; the parting Sun 630
Beyond the Earths green Cape and verdant Isles
Hesperean
sets, my Signal to depart.
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And I, could I stand by
And see you freeze,
Without my right of frost,
Death's
privilege?
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The
initials
signify "Aerated Bread Company,
Limited.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Like to a forest felled by mountain winds;
And such the storm of battle on this day,
And such the frenzy, whose convulsion blinds
To all save carnage, that, beneath the fray,
An earthquake reeled
unheededly
away!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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My babe so
beautiful!
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
And we walked on, till in a quiet cover we saw a man
scooping
up
the foam and putting it into an alabaster bowl.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Hors de vile oi talent d'aler,
Por oir des oisiaus les sons
Qui
chantoient
par ces boissons.
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Was
managing
St.
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Robert Burns |
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He later changed his mind and
incorporated
it into the text.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I am not weary, and 'tis long to night;
I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes
With the
memorials
and the things of fame
That do renown this city.
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Shakespeare |
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SEA LONGING
A THOUSAND miles beyond this sun-steeped wall
Somewhere the waves creep cool along the sand,
The ebbing tide forsakes the
listless
land
With the old murmur, long and musical;
The windy waves mount up and curve and fall,
And round the rocks the foam blows up like snow,--
Tho' I am inland far, I hear and know,
For I was born the sea's eternal thrall.
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Sara Teasdale |
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XXXVI
When I pass thy door at night
I a benediction breathe:
"Ye who have the
sleeping
world
In your care,
"Guard the linen sweet and cool, 5
Where a lovely golden head
With its dreams of mortal bliss
Slumbers now!
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Sappho |
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Li-shih, who thought such a task beneath him, took
revenge by
affecting
to discover in one of Po's poems a veiled attack
on [the Emperor's mistress] Yang Kuei-fei.
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Li Po |
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With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner
streaming
o'er us!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Where is this
daughter?
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Shakespeare |
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Thus they conferr'd; and now
Melanthius
came
The goat-herd, driving, with the aid of two
His fellow-swains, the fattest of his goats
To feast the suitors.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Go and eat your
excrements!
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Aristophanes |
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I
wondered
what machine of ages gone
This represented an improvement on.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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th
stedfast
of lijf;
His werkes shullen ben made rijf
Ouer al fer & neere.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I am of Sidon,[70] famous for her works
In brass and steel;
daughter
of Arybas,
Who rolls in affluence; Taphian pirates thence
Stole me returning from the field, from whom
This Chief procured me at no little cost.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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How long, delighted,
The stranger fain would linger on his way;
Thine is a scene alike where souls united
Or lonely Contemplation thus might stray;
And could the
ceaseless
vultures cease to prey
On self-condemning bosoms, it were here,
Where Nature, not too sombre nor too gay,
Wild but not rude, awful yet not austere,
Is to the mellow earth as autumn to the year.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
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Appoloinaire |
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Often they stood to face the enemies' ranks
All upright as a flame in windless air,
Wearing their arm and the bright skill of swords
Like spirits clad in
flashing
fire of heaven;
And now in darken'd rooms they lie afraid
And whimper if the nurse moves suddenly.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Shadow,
represent
typically.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Led by that perfume to these lands of ease,
I see a port where many ships have flown
With sails
outwearied
of the wandering seas;
While the faint odours from green tamarisks blown,
Float to my soul and in my senses throng,
And mingle vaguely with the sailor's song.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Such, in the fond
illusion
of my heart,
Such picture would I at that time have made;
And seen the soul of truth in every part,
A steadfast peace that might not be betray'd.
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Golden Treasury |
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With thilk a force he hyt hym to the grounde; 275
And was demasing howe to take his life,
When he behynde received a ghastlie wounde
Gyven by de Torcie, with a stabbyng knyfe;
Base
trecherous
Normannes, if such actes you doe,
The conquer'd maie clame victorie of you.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Facing the
timorous
nakedness of the gazelle
That trembles, on her back like an elephant gone wild,
Waiting upside down, she keenly admires herself,
Laughing with her bared teeth at the child:
And, between her legs where the victim's couched,
Raising the black flesh split beneath its mane,
Advances the palate of that alien mouth
Pale, rosy as a shell from the Spanish Main.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"Then may the Fates look up 10
And smile a little in their tolerant way,
Being full of
infinite
regard for men.
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Sappho |
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CYCLOPS:
Oh,
misfortune
on misfortune!
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Shelley |
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Iapetus another; in his grasp,
A serpent's plashy neck; its barbed tongue
Squeez'd from the gorge, and all its uncurl'd length
Dead; and because the creature could not spit
Its poison in the eyes of
conquering
Jove.
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Keats |
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Two lovers murmur and are still In mutual oblivion
Of any soul that
saunters
by
Or smiles and blesses and is gone.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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131
That between us the common air should bar,
And split the
influence
of every star ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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Ce est la somme de la chose:
Car quant il vit qu'il ne porroit
Acomplir
ce qu'il desirroit,
Et qu'il i fu si pris par sort,
Qu'il n'en pooit avoir confort
En nule guise, n'en nul sens,
Il perdi d'ire tout le sens, 1510
Et fu mors en poi de termine.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Each hath its pang, but feeble
sufferers
groan
With brain-born dreams of evil all their own.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Of all the wicked Ten still the names are held accursed,
And of all the wicked Ten Appius
Claudius
was the worst.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"To-day my soul clasps Form; but where is my troth
Of
yesternight
with Tune: can one cleave to both?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Please God, might I behold him
In
epauletted
white,
I should not fear the foe then,
I should not fear the fight.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The conceits of the poets of other lands I'd bring thee not,
Nor the
compliments
that have served their turn so long,
Nor rhyme, nor the classics, nor perfume of foreign court or indoor
library;
But an odor I'd bring as from forests of pine in Maine, or breath of
an Illinois prairie,
With open airs of Virginia or Georgia or Tennessee, or from Texas
uplands, or Florida's glades,
Or the Saguenay's black stream, or the wide blue spread of Huron,
With presentment of Yellowstone's scenes, or Yosemite,
And murmuring under, pervading all, I'd bring the rustling sea-sound,
That endlessly sounds from the two Great Seas of the world.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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or on a bank where sleep
The beamy daughters of the light starting they rise they flee
From thy fierce love for tho I am dissolvd in the bright God
My spirit still pursues thy false love over rocks & valleys
Los answerd Therefore fade I thus dissolvd in rapturd trance
Thou canst repose on clouds of secrecy while oer my limbs
Cold dews & hoary frost creeps tho I lie on banks of summer
Among the beauties of the World Cold & repining Los
Still dies for Enitharmon nor a spirit springs from my dead corse
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Blake - Zoas |
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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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Down at the foot of the mountain
Two
Japanese
families had flower farms.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The Sirens
Odysseus
and the Sirens
'Odysseus and the Sirens'
Johannes Glauber, Gerard de Lairesse, 1656 - 1726, The Rijksmuseun
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
When you grieve so widely under the stars?
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Appoloinaire |
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[Footnote 61: At that time the nostrils of
convicts
were cut off.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Shakespeare |
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Wee doe
consider
noe flower that is sweet,
But wee your breath in that exhaling meet, 20
And as true types of you, them humbly greet.
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John Donne |
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Lilacs,
False blue,
White,
Purple,
Color of lilac,
You have forgotten your Eastern origin,
The veiled women with eyes like panthers,
The swollen,
aggressive
turbans of jeweled Pashas.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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She's coming, and must not be seen by the
neighbor!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Such love in my heart I find,
Such joy and
sweetness
mine,
Ice turns to flowers fine
And snow to greenery.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Mastery
I would not have a god come in
To shield me suddenly from sin,
And set my house of life to rights;
Nor angels with bright burning wings
Ordering my earthly thoughts and things;
Rather my own frail
guttering
lights
Wind blown and nearly beaten out;
Rather the terror of the nights
And long, sick groping after doubt;
Rather be lost than let my soul
Slip vaguely from my own control--
Of my own spirit let me be
In sole though feeble mastery.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Well has the name of Pontifex been given
Unto the Church's head, as the chief builder
And
architect
of the invisible bridge
That leads from earth to heaven.
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Longfellow |
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I ordered him to
take me to the Commandant, and almost directly my
_kibitka_
stopped
before a wooden house, built on a knoll near the church, which was also
in wood.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Creeds and schools in abeyance,
(Retiring back a while,
sufficed
at what they are, but never forgotten.
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Whitman |
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With all my follies of youth, and I fear, a few
vices of manhood, still I congratulate myself on having had in early
days religion
strongly
impressed on my mind.
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Robert Forst |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And when wind and winter harden
All the
loveless
land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Does yonder thrush,
Schooling
its half-fledg'd little ones to brush
About the dewy forest, whisper tales?
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Keats |
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POWER
Cast the
bantling
on the rocks,
Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat,
Wintered with the hawk and fox,
Power and speed be hands and feet.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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We could not dream but that he had a soul:
What virtue breathed from out his
bravery!
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Sidney Lanier |
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My frail
strength
flees me in my need!
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Pensa, lettor, se quel che qui s'inizia
non procedesse, come tu avresti
di piu savere
angosciosa
carizia;
e per te vederai come da questi
m'era in disio d'udir lor condizioni,
si come a li occhi mi fur manifesti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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When the forest shall mislead me,
When the night and morning lie,
When sea and land refuse to feed me,
'T will be time enough to die;
Then will yet my mother yield
A pillow in her greenest field,
Nor the June flowers scorn to cover
The clay of their
departed
lover.
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Emerson - Poems |
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What a world of merriment their melody
foretells!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The sentinel with his musket beside
a man with his
umbrella
is spectral.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Hippolytus
You always speak of incest and
adultery!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Who walks in wind-blown dust of streets,
That hath a garden where the roses
breathe?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Oh, workmen, seen by me sublime,
When from the tyrant wrenched ye peace,
Can you be dazed by
tinselled
crime,
And spy no wolf beneath the fleece?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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He looks about him to see whether, even now, he may safely utter his voice, and he timidly asks pardon for venturing to break the
reigning
silence.
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Tacitus |
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I really do not believe anything was ever written under an equal number
of limitations; and when I first came to know all the
conditions
of the poem
I was for a moment inclined to think that no genuine work
could be produced under them.
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Sidney Lanier |
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At last, when all the opinions had been given, the General shook the
ashes out of his pipe and made the following speech:--
"Gentlemen, I must tell you, for my part, I am entirely of the opinion
of our friend the ensign, for this opinion is based on the
precepts
of
good tactics, in which nearly always offensive movements are preferable
to defensive ones.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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[29] Or
_azzammim_?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I say that rightfully I slew my mother,
A thing God-scorned, that foully slew my sire
And
chiefest
wizard of the spell that bound me
Unto this deed I name the Pythian seer
Apollo, who foretold that if I slew,
The guilt of murder done should pass from me;
But if I spared, the fate that should be mine
I dare not blazon forth--the bow of speech
Can reach not to the mark, that doom to tell.
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Aeschylus |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Wer schuttet alle schonen Fruhlingsbluten
Auf der
Geliebten
Pfade hin?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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On a day the frost will come, 5
Walking through the autumn world,
Hushing all the brave endeavour
Of the
crickets
in the grass.
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Sappho |
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He
presents
it for a friend's criticism -- at the age of twenty-one --
in these words: "I send you a little poem which sang itself through me
the other day.
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Sidney Lanier |
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