Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Why like a
skittish
mare
Do you glance askance at me?
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You will do better to be
searching
out
All sharpen'd steel that may take weapon-use.
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When I can scarce breathe beneath a
shameful
yoke!
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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As from mie towre I kende the commynge foe,
I spied the crossed shielde, & bloddie swerde,
The furyous AElla's banner;
wythynne
kenne
The armie ys.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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To stop their
nostrils
king and duke are fain;
Such an insufferable stench offends.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Diseases
like snakes
crawling
over the earth, leaving trails of slime.
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But we, and the sun and the birds, and the breezes that blow
When
tempests
are striving and lightnings of heaven are spent,
With one consent
Make unto them
Who died for us eternal requiem.
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Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Item
This I give to my poor mother
As a prayer now, to our Mistress
- She who bore bitter pain for me,
God knows, and also much sadness -
I've no other castle or fortress,
That my body and soul can summon,
When I'm faced with life's distress,
Nor has my mother, poor woman:
Ballade
'Lady of Heaven, earthly queen,
Empress of the
infernal
regions,
Receive me, a humble Christian,
To live among the chosen ones,
Though I'm worth less than anyone.
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Villon |
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For
to all the observations of the
ancients
we have our own experience, which
if we will use and apply, we have better means to pronounce.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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he merits not so hard a fate;
I feel regret the lot should him await;
And while soft
pleasure
seems his heart's delight;
His soul is doomed from hence to take its flight.
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La Fontaine |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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blake-poems |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXIV
Now when the sky and when the earth again
Fill with ice: cold hail scattered everywhere,
And the horror of the worst months of the year
Makes the grass bristle across the plain:
Now when the wind
mutinously
prowling,
Cracks the boulders, and uproots the trees,
When the redoubled roaring of the seas
Fills all the shoreline with its wild surging:
Love burns me, and winter's bitter cold
That freezes all, cannot freeze the old
Ardour in my heart that lasts forever.
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Ronsard |
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Men should be more careful; this very
celibacy
leads
weaker vessels astray.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But
fashionable
hatred's flame
Trembles at artificial shame.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Oh,
windflowers
so fresh,
Oh, beautiful leaves, here
now again.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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_Nec potest grande aliquid_, _et supra
caeteros
loqui_,
_nisi mota mens_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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O face of beauty given in anger's guise,
Which still I not enjoy, and still
complain!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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It gave bright
gladness
to his lady's eye,
And yet the tears she wept were tears of sorrow; 730
Answering thus, just as the golden morrow
Beam'd upward from the vallies of the east:
"O that the flutter of this heart had ceas'd,
Or the sweet name of love had pass'd away.
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Keats |
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[3] The name Gilgamish was originally written
_d_Gi-bil-aga-mis, and means "The fire god (_Gibil_) is a commander,"
abbreviated to _d_Gi-bil-ga-mis, and _d_Gi(s)-bil-ga-mis, a form
which by full
labialization
of _b_ to _u_ was finally contracted to
_d_Gi-il-ga-mis.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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That hour of their homesickness, I myself
Will turn, will say
farewell
to Illinois,
To old Kentucky and Virginia,
And go with them to India, whence they came.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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CXCIX
Both
messengers
did on their horses mount;
From that city nimbly they issued out.
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Chanson de Roland |
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O bleak sound,
O shadow of sound, O
phantasm
of thin sound!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I shall wear the bottoms of my
trousers
rolled.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Visitation
SUNLIGHT
slantingly
flows
Down through the rampart notches
Onto thine house by the thicket,
Onto thy garden-close.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Straightway he seized a sleeping warrior
for the first, and tore him
fiercely
asunder,
the bone-frame bit, drank blood in streams,
swallowed him piecemeal: swiftly thus
the lifeless corse was clear devoured,
e'en feet and hands.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Chimene
complains
he has killed her father,
Yet I'd have done so, if I'd been younger.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Press down through the leaves of the
jasmine,
Dig through the
interlaced
roots--nevermore will you find me;
I was no better than dust, yet you cannot replace me.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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) And Li T'ai-po lived many hundred years
ago, but
Shakespeare
lived at a more recent period.
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Li Po |
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So mighte I wene that thinges alle and some,
That whylom been bifalle and over-come,
Ben cause of thilke
sovereyn
purveyaunce, 1070
That for-wot al with-outen ignoraunce.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Each was supposed to
possess certain
definite
ethical characteristics.
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Keats |
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My lady shows herself, not to my good,
A woman indeed, scorns my behest,
Since she wishes not what she should
But what's
forbidden
her finds best.
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Troubador Verse |
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your majesty disdains;
And I'm not used to
panegyric
strains:
The zeal of fools offends at any time,
But most of all, the zeal of fools in rhyme.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Section 1, as
exhibiting
the most ancient
mention of barter.
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Iliad - Pope |
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When, at the sacred font,
The spousals were
complete
'twixt faith and him,
Where pledge of mutual safety was exchang'd,
The dame, who was his surety, in her sleep
Beheld the wondrous fruit, that was from him
And from his heirs to issue.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I gained it so,
By
climbing
slow,
By catching at the twigs that grow
Between the bliss and me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Examples
by the poetess Li I-an
will be found in the second edition of Judith Gautier's "Livre de Jade.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The flowery river-ooze
Upheaves
and falls; the milk purrs in the pail;
Few pilgrims but would choose
The peace of such a life in such a vale.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I
ixpicted
the two eyes o' me wud ha cum'd out of my head
on the spot, I was so dispirate mad!
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Poe - 5 |
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editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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He had a habit of getting his mind
possessed
with some strange opinion,
or what seemed so to his parishioners, and of preaching it while the
notion lasted in the most startling way.
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Yeats |
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This world is [Mine] Thine in which thou dwellest that within thy soul*
That dark & dismal infinite where Thought roams up & down
Is [thine] Mine & there thou goest when with one Sting of my tongue
Envenomd thou rollst inwards to the place [of death & hell where] whence I emergd
She trembling answerd Wherefore was I born & what am I
[A sorrow & a fear a living torment & naked Victim]
I thought to weave a
Covering
[from his] for my Sins from wrath of Tharmas*
{This entire paragraph, internally revised, is marked for deleting, evidently, by two diagonal strike out lines.
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Blake - Zoas |
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LXXVIII
Once in the shining street,
In the heart of a
seaboard
town,
As I waited, behold, there came
The woman I loved.
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Sappho |
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Be Lyon metled, proud, and take no care:
Who chafes, who frets, or where
Conspirers
are:
Macbeth shall neuer vanquish'd be, vntill
Great Byrnam Wood, to high Dunsmane Hill
Shall come against him.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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For thee the multitude waged war and won--
The end thou art of wrestlings and of prayer,
Of
sleepless
watch, long marches, hunger, tears
And blood prolifically spilled, homes lordless,
And homeless lords!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Row, a long row to hoe, _a
difficult
task_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Have our soldiers got faint-hearted, and in noiseless haste
departed?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A line ending with a
"level" has
consequently
to some extent the effect of a "feminine
ending.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Must I battle with a thousand rivals,
To the earth's ends extend my labours,
Attack a camp alone, or rout an army,
Exceed the fame of heroes
legendary?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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An elderly waiter
with
trembling
hands was hurriedly spreading a pink and white checked
cloth over the rusty green iron table, saying: "If the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden .
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T.S. Eliot |
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Like Butler's, it sought for grounds of
faith in the
conditions
on which doubt was rested.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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and
straightway
put an end
To what men undergo.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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In
changing
moon and tidal wave
Glows the feud of Want and Have.
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Emerson - Poems |
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He does not wake at dawn to see
Dread figures throng his room,
The shivering Chaplain robed in white,
The Sheriff stern with gloom,
And the
Governor
all in shiny black,
With the yellow face of Doom.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Amongst the swarms fixed like the rooted stars, my folk is a
streaming
Comet,
Comet of the Asian tiger-darkness,
The Wanderer of Eternity, the eternal Wandering Jew.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Down the blind speed of a fatal world we fly,
As rain blown along earth's fields;
Yet are we god-desiring liturgy,
Sung joys of adoration;
Yea, made of chance and all a labouring strife,
We go charged with a strong flame;
For as a
language
Love hath seized on life
His burning heart to story.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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In the
meantime
you are going to dine.
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Aristophanes |
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All ye friends,
Farewell!
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Euripides - Electra |
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I shall now, with as much
alacrity
as I can muster, go on with
your commands.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to compounds
strange?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Dick saw the trunks aboard, and
went to Maisie's side in the
darkness
under the bridge.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Discourse
is heavy, fasting; when we have supp'd,
We'll mannerly demand thee of thy story,
So far as thou wilt speak it.
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Shakespeare |
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Soon as he saw me, "Hither haste," he cried,
"O
Meliboeus!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And ye shall succor men;
'Tis
nobleness
to serve;
Help them who cannot help again:
Beware from right to swerve.
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Emerson - Poems |
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From some old fortress on the sun
Baronial bees march, one by one,
In
murmuring
platoon!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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my friends, the years flit by
And after them at headlong pace
The
evanescent
fashions fly
In motley and amusing chase.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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in the air
I know not which thy chamber is, --
I 'm
knocking
everywhere.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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_Would_ the fleet get
through?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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_] The
Description
of a Woman.
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Robert Herrick |
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till nothing can I see
But the blind walls enclosing me,
And no sound and no motion hear
But the vague water
throbbing
near,
Sole voice upon the darkening hill
Where all is blank and dead and still.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But dearest heart, and dearer image stay;
Alas, true joyes at best are
_dreame_
enough;
Though you stay here you passe too fast away:
For even at first lifes _Taper_ is a snuffe.
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John Donne |
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Why, untamed do you scare
At any
approach
you see?
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Ronsard |
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In an altogether
extraordinary
way, the poem slurs
over the crucial incidents (as in the inept lines describing the death
of Fafnir, and those, equally hollow, describing the death of
Guttorm--two noble opportunities simply not perceived) and tirelessly
expatiates on the mere surroundings of the story.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Oh let me shut my eyes, close out
The sight of stars and earth and be
Sheltered
a minute by this tree.
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Sara Teasdale |
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On the opposite side was seen
Arminius, swelling with
ferocity
and threats, and denouncing battle.
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Tacitus |
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In the will he
described
himself as "of
perfect memorye in sowle, but sicke in bodye".
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Robert Herrick |
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The fleet, acting in conjunction with the land force, was ready
to play its part in the battle, and extended a
threatening
front
facing the coast.
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Tacitus |
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What a tender mother you are; but
nevertheless
I shall rip
it open.
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Aristophanes |
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He sees that
Euripides
may have had his own
reasons for not making Admetus an ideal husband.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Brotier
observes, that
Riccioli
makes the great year 25,920 solar years;
Tycho Brahe, 25,816; and Cassini, 24,800.
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Tacitus |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Yet who assumes the vaunt
forceful
as iron to be?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Ytte hathe
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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: _quo_ Dah Muretus ||
_fortius_
Muretus || _ausit_ P.
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Meredith - 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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Let the locks of the lightning, all bristling and whitening,
Flash, coiling me round,
While the aether goes surging 'neath thunder and scourging
Of wild winds
unbound!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Though all in one
Condensed their
scattered
rays, they would not form a sun.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I envy ye her actions chaste and dear:
No rock shall stud thy waters, but shall learn
Henceforth
with passion strong as mine to burn.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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_De
corruptela
morum_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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<
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vegnonti
a pregar>>, disse 'l poeta:
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the
changing
breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks pricking us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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