'Rhoecus, I am the Dryad of this tree,'
Thus she began, dropping her low-toned words
Serene, and full, and clear, as drops of dew,
'And with it I am doomed to live and die;
The rain and sunshine are my caterers, 60
Nor have I other bliss than simple life;
Now ask me what thou wilt, that I can give,
And with a
thankful
joy it shall be thine.
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[213]
December
17-23.
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Tacitus |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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' Yet still I
smothered
my wrath and said, 'Then recite one of
the famous pieces from the modern poets.
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But that Poe had overwhelming
influence
in the formation of his
poetic genius is not the truth.
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Two butterflies went out at noon
And waltzed above a stream,
Then stepped straight through the firmament
And rested on a beam;
And then
together
bore away
Upon a shining sea, --
Though never yet, in any port,
Their coming mentioned be.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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All night the moon peered wan and pale
Thro' rifts in a
scudding
storm-rent veil
O'er a moving mountainous waste.
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The scenes that follow I from Rome have drawn;
Not Rome of old, ere manners had their dawn,
When customs were
unpleasant
and severe
The females, silly, and gallants in fear;
But Rome of modern days, delightful spot!
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Thou art a queen, fair Lesley,
Thy
subjects
we, before thee;
Thou art divine, fair Lesley,
The hearts o' men adore thee.
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[306] By this jest Aristophanes means to imply that tyranny is dead, and
that no one aspires to despotic power, though this silly accusation was
constantly being raised by the
demagogues
and always favourably received
by the populace.
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He, when the wheel of empire
whirleth
back,
And though the world's disjointed axle crack,
Sings still of ancient rights and better times.
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Take my leaves,
America!
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Whitman |
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It is proved my Lady Hero hath been falsely accus'd, the Prince
and Claudio
mightily
abus'd, and Don John is the author of all,
who is fled and gone.
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tombe neige
Tombe et que n'ai-je
Ma bien-aimee entre mes bras
POEME LU AU MARIAGE D'ANDRE SALMON
Le 13 juillet 1909
En voyant des drapeaux ce matin je ne me suis pas dit
Voila les riches vetements des pauvres
Ni la pudeur democratique veut me voiler sa douleur
Ni la liberte en honneur fait qu'on imite maintenant
Les feuilles o liberte vegetale o seule liberte terrestre
Ni les maisons flambent parce qu'on partira pour ne plus revenir
Ni ces mains agitees travailleront demain pour nous tous
Ni meme on a pendu ceux qui ne savaient pas profiter de la vie
Ni meme on renouvelle le monde en reprenant la Bastille
Je sais que seuls le renouvellent ceux qui sont fondes en poesie
On a pavoise Paris parce que mon ami Andre Salmon s'y marie
Nous nous sommes rencontres dans un caveau maudit
Au temps de notre jeunesse
Fumant tous deux et mal vetus attendant l'aube
Epris epris des memes paroles dont il faudra changer le sens
Trompes trompes pauvres petits et ne sachant pas encore rire
La table et les deux verres devinrent un mourant qui nous jeta le
dernier regard d'Orphee
Les verres tomberent se briserent
Et nous apprimes a rire
Nous partimes alors pelerins de la perdition
A travers les rues a travers les contrees a travers la raison
Je le revis au bord du fleuve sur lequel flottait Ophelie
Qui blanche flotte encore entre les nenuphars
Il s'en allait au milieu des Hamlets blafards
Sur la flute jouant les airs de la folie
Je le revis pres d'un moujik mourant compter les beatitudes
En admirant la neige semblable aux femmes nues
Je le revis faisant ceci ou cela en l'honneur des memes paroles
Qui changent la face des enfants et je dis toutes ces choses
Souvenir et Avenir parce que mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
Rejouissons-nous non pas parce que notre amitie a ete le fleuve
qui nous a fertilises
Terrains
riverains
dont l'abondance est la nourriture que tous
esperent
Ni parce que nos verres nous jettent encore une fois le regard
d'Orphee mourant
Ni parce que nous avons tant grandi que beaucoup pourraient
confondre nos yeux et les etoiles
Ni parce que les drapeaux claquent aux fenetres des citoyens qui
sont contents depuis cent ans d'avoir la vie et de menues choses a
defendre
Ni parce que fondes en poesie nous avons des droits sur les
paroles qui forment et defont l'Univers
Ni parce que nous pouvons pleurer sans ridicule et que nous savons
rire
Ni parce que nous fumons et buvons comme autrefois
Rejouissons-nous parce que directeur du feu et des poetes
L'amour qui emplit ainsi que la lumiere
Tout le solide espace entre les etoiles et les planetes
L'amour veut qu'aujourd'hui mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
L'ADIEU
J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyere
L'automne est morte souviens-t'en
Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre
Odeur du temps brin de bruyere
Et souviens-toi que je t'attends
SALOME
Pour que sourie encore une fois Jean-Baptiste
Sire je danserais mieux que les seraphins
Ma mere dites-moi pourquoi vous etes triste
En robe de comtesse a cote du Dauphin
Mon coeur battait battait tres fort a sa parole
Quand je dansais dans le fenouil en ecoutant
Et je brodais des lys sur une banderole
Destinee a flotter au bout de son baton
Et pour qui voulez-vous qu'a present je la brode
Son baton refleurit sur les bords du Jourdain
Et tous les lys quand vos soldats o roi Herode
L'emmenerent se sont fletris dans mon jardin
Venez tous avec moi la-bas sous les quinconces
Ne pleure pas o joli fou du roi
Prends cette tete au lieu de ta marotte et danse
N'y touchez pas son front ma mere est deja froid
Sire marchez devant trabants marchez derriere
Nous creuserons un trou et l'y enterrerons
Nous planterons des fleurs et danserons en rond
Jusqu'a l'heure ou j'aurai perdu ma jarretiere
Le roi sa tabatiere
L'infante son rosaire
Le cure son breviaire
LA PORTE
La porte de l'hotel sourit terriblement
Qu'est-ce que cela peut me faire o ma maman
D'etre cet employe pour qui seul rien n'existe
Pi-mus couples allant dans la profonde eau triste
Anges frais debarques a Marseille hier matin
J'entends mourir et remourir un chant lointain
Humble comme je suis qui ne suis rien qui vaille
Enfant je t'ai donne ce que j'avais travaille
MERLIN ET LA VIEILLE FEMME
Le soleil ce jour-la s'etalait comme un ventre
Maternel qui saignait lentement sur le ciel
La lumiere est ma mere o lumiere sanglante
Les nuages coulaient comme un flux menstruel
Au carrefour ou nulle fleur sinon la rose
Des vents mais sans epine n'a fleuri l'hiver
Merlin guettait la vie et l'eternelle cause
Qui fait mourir et puis renaitre l'univers
Une vieille sur une mule a chape verte
S'en vint suivant la berge du fleuve en aval
Et l'antique Merlin dans la plaine deserte
Se frappait la poitrine en s'ecriant Rival
O mon etre glace dont le destin m'accable
Dont ce soleil de chair grelotte veux-tu voir
Ma Memoire venir et m'aimer ma semblable
Et quel fils malheureux et beau je veux avoir
Son geste fit crouler l'orgueil des cataclysmes
Le soleil en dansant remuait son nombril
Et soudain le printemps d'amour et d'heroisme
Amena par la main un jeune jour d'avril
Les voies qui viennent de l'ouest etaient couvertes
D'ossements d'herbes drues de destins et de fleurs
Des monuments tremblants pres des charognes vertes
Quand les vents apportaient des poils et des malheurs
Laissant sa mule a petits pas s'en vint l'amante
A petits coups le vent defripait ses atours
Puis les pales amants joignant leurs mains dementes
L'entrelacs de leurs doigts fut leur seul laps d'amour
Elle balla mimant un rythme d'existence
Criant Depuis cent ans j'esperais ton appel
Les astres de ta vie influaient sur ma danse
Morgane regardait de haut du mont Gibel
Ah!
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Glamys, and Thane of Cawdor:
The
greatest
is behinde.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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XXIV
Let the world's
sharpness
like a clasping knife
Shut in upon itself and do no harm
In this close hand of Love, now soft and warm,
And let us hear no sound of human strife
After the click of the shutting.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I
mightier
than he?
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Aristophanes |
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Wherefore do I so,
peradventure
thou askest.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
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LFS}
Spreading them out before the Sun like Stalks of flax to dry
The infant joy is beautiful but its anatomy
Horrible Ghast & Deadly nought shalt thou find in it
But Death Despair & Everlasting brooding Melancholy
Thou wilt go mad with horror if thou dost Examine thus * {added on center right margin, 90 degrees rotated LFS}
Every moment of my secret hours Yea I know
That I have sinnd & that my Emanations are become harlots
I am already
distracted
at their deeds & if I look
Upon them more Despair will bring self murder on my soul
O Enion thou art thyself a root growing in hell
Tho thus heavenly beautiful to draw me to destruction
Sometimes I think thou art a flower expanding *{This and the following four lines are added evidently in light pencil in the top margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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`But certeyn is, som maner
Ialousye
1030
Is excusable more than som, y-wis.
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the
beautifier
of the dead,
Adorner of the ruin, comforter
And only healer when the heart hath bled--
Time!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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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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At whose command whole empires rise or fall:
He shakes the feeble props of human trust,
And towns and armies humbles to the dust
What shame to Greece a
fruitful
war to wage,
Oh, lasting shame in every future age!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Say, I intreat thee, what
achievement
high
Is, in this restless world, for me reserv'd.
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Keats |
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To SEND
DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any particular
state visit www.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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In my
afternoon
walk I would
fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thy registers and thee I both defy,
Not
wondering
at the present nor the past,
For thy records and what we see doth lie,
Made more or less by thy continual haste.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Still he beheld, nor mingled with the throng;
But viewed them not with
misanthropic
hate:
Fain would he now have joined the dance, the song;
But who may smile that sinks beneath his fate?
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Byron |
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_
[333]
Prometheus
is said to have stolen fire from heaven.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Moult sot bien paindre et bien portraire
Cil qui tiex ymages sot faire:
Car bien
sembloit
chose vilaine,
De dolor et de despit plaine;
Et fame qui petit seust
D'honorer ceus qu'ele deust.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I felt my heart as turn'd to snow,
Presage, perhaps, that
happiness
decays!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And the danger which thou
incurrest?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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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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Hir eyen two were cleer and light
As any candel that
brenneth
bright; 3200
And on hir heed she hadde a crown.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I see them meet
in gloriously
triumphant
congratulation on the victorious field,
exulting in their heroic royal leader, and rescued liberty and
independence!
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Robert Burns |
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Pregnant
again 206
96 To M^r T.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The traitor still may nestle
In balmy bed of state,
But mark the Warder, watching
His
guardsman
at his gate.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Can a brave man do more or less
Than with nice conscientiousness
To exercise the calling he
inherits?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Nay; it was sure, and was wrought
Under
inscrutable
powers:
Bravely the two armies fought
And left the land, that was greater than they, still theirs and ours!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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All the
characters--the knights, ladies, dwarfs, magicians, dragons, nymphs,
satyrs, and giants--are the
conventional
figures of pastoral romance.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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seinen
Schulern
gewidmet von Finck de Bailleul.
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Byron |
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Why fade these
children
of the spring?
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blake-poems |
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' --
And wente his wey,
thenking
on this matere,
And how he best mighte hir beseche of grace,
And finde a tyme ther-to, and a place.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"And he shall be king of men,
For Allah hath heard his prayer,
And the
Archangel
in the air,
Gabriel, hath said, Amen!
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Longfellow |
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Then hanging gardens, with flowers and galleries:
O'er vast fountains bending grew ebon-trees;
Temples, where seated on their rich tiled thrones,
Bull-headed idols shone in jasper stones;
Vast halls, spanned by one block, where watch and stare
Each upon each, with straight and moveless glare,
Colossal
heads in circles; the eye sees
Great gods of bronze, their hands upon their knees.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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We fight for it as for
a
principle
of liberty.
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Imagists |
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So ferde it by this fers and proude knight; 225
Though he a worthy kinges sone were,
And wende nothing hadde had swiche might
Ayens his wil that sholde his herte stere,
Yet with a look his herte wex a-fere,
That he, that now was most in pryde above, 230
Wex
sodeynly
most subget un-to love.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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This night, refresh and fortify thy train;
Between the trench and wall let guards remain:
Be that the duty of the young and bold;
But thou, O king, to council call the old;
Great is thy sway, and weighty are thy cares;
Thy high
commands
must spirit all our wars.
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Iliad - Pope |
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' We used to discuss
everything
that was known to us
about Ireland, and especially Irish literature and Irish history.
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Yeats |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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[226] As already shown, the Athenians were
addicted
to carrying small
coins in their mouths.
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Aristophanes |
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There where the
Texture o'er her sad lips is closely drawn
A
trembling
smile softly begins to dawn .
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Rilke - Poems |
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, _very much_: with
following
gen.
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Beowulf |
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Enough, O deed
impromptu
and secret!
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Whitman |
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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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Lost causes triumph like the sun; Dreams that deluded are brought true; A resurrection morning breaks —
The soul in him is born anew,
Then, to the old and easy path Of dull, sad
inanition
wanes:
And still this is the man God made, And still the love of God remains!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The owlets through the long blue night
Are
shouting
to each other still:
Fond lovers!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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" Now sign it
"Cesar," the name I
commonly
employ
In love affairs.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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let me
blameless
gaze upon
Features that seem at heart my own;
Nor fear those watchful sentinels,
Who charm the more their glance forbids,
Chaste-glowing, underneath their lids,
With fire that draws while it repels.
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Emerson - Poems |
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So, when the sun restores the purple day,
Their
strength
and skill the suitors shall assay;
To him the spousal honour is decreed,
Who through the rings directs the feather'd reed.
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Ah, I am
learning
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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The sage retired: unable to control
The mighty griefs that swell her
labouring
soul
Rolling convulsive on the floor is seen
The piteous object of a prostrate queen.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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But why should'st thou suspect the war's
success?
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Iliad - Pope |
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"Turn,
Beatrice!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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At the week's end came a note
from Miss Leland,
complaining
of his neglecting her so many days.
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142 the
Dutchesse
of Braganza.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Is to-day
nothing?
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Whitman |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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When the loose mountain trembles from on high,
Shall
gravitation
cease, if you go by?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Black, with pale naked
bleeding
wings, Light
Through the glass, burnished with gold and spice,
Through panes, still dismal, alas, and cold as ice,
Hurled itself, daybreak, against the angelic lamp.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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iam clarus
occultum
Andromedae pater
ostendit ignem, iam Procyon furit
et stella uesani Leonis
sole dies referente siccos;
iam pastor umbras cum grege languido
riuomque fessus quaerit et horridi
dumeta Siluani, caretque
ripa uagis taciturna uentis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I see a herald from the shore
Draw hither, shadowed with the olive-wreath--
And thirsty dust, twin-brother of the clay,
Speaks plain of travel far and truthful news--
No dumb surmise, nor tongue of flame in smoke,
Fitfully kindled from the
mountain
pyre;
But plainlier shall his voice say, _All is well,_
Or--but away, forebodings adverse, now,
And on fair promise fair fulfilment come!
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Aeschylus |
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Descend O Urizen descend with horse & chariot
Threaten not me O visionary thine the
punishment!
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Blake - Zoas |
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"
XXXVI
Then on his way to be
baptized
he hied,
That he might next espouse the martial may,
With Bradamant; who served him as a guide
To Vallombrosa's fane, an abbey gray,
Rich, fair, nor less religious, and beside,
Courteous to whosoever passed that way;
And they encountered, issuing from the chase,
A woman, with a passing woful face.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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One feels that
Alcestis
herself, for
all her tender kindness, has seen through him.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The
cavalier
amid that band, whom they
So honour, unless dazzled is mine eye
By those fair faces, is the shining light
Of his Arezzo, and Accolti hight.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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[in Anhui], poured a
libation
on his grave and
forbade the woodmen to cut down the trees which grew there.
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Li Po |
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What cant assumes, what
hypocrites
will dare,
Speaks home to truth and shows it what they are.
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John Clare |
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His gait was soundless, like the bird,
But rapid, like the roe;
His
fashions
quaint, mosaic,
Or, haply, mistletoe.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted,
In the
distraction
of this madding fever!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Sea Garden
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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He would hold a scroll of something,
Hold it firmly in his left-hand;
He would keep his right-hand buried
(Like Napoleon) in his waistcoat;
He would
contemplate
the distance
With a look of pensive meaning,
As of ducks that die ill tempests.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside,
And naked on the Air of Heaven ride,
Were't not a Shame--were't not a Shame for him
In this clay carcass
crippled
to abide?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Three
spotless
virgins to your bed I'll bring,
A sacrifice to you, their God and king.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The
enclosed
will show you partly what I have been doing.
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Sidney Lanier |
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This one day, I am where Heaven and I
Commonly stand together; you shall not have
Shelter from me in a
worshipt
God to-day,
Kings; look yonder at many-power'd night,
Telling her beauty to the sea and taking
The prone adoring waters into her blue
Desire, setting them as herself on flame
With perils of joy, lending them her achieved
Raptures, her white experiences of stars.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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So unsuspected violets
Within the fields lie low,
Too late for
striving
fingers
That passed, an hour ago.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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