His family: a mass of dense
coloured
globes.
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Though cold it grows,
I will not freeze forever,
In whom love rose
That will my heart deliver
I'll not shiver,
Love hides me from head to toe,
Brings
strength
rather
And tells me which way to go.
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The content is however universal enough, I think, for a reader of any spiritual
persuasion
to respond in their own manner, within their own belief system.
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And I
Am setting such a war of joy against thee,
It shall be as man's heart became a god
Murdering thy mind of
weakling
darkness.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Howbeit she was born
Unnoised as any
stealing
summer morn.
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Sidney Lanier |
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" "It has been ascribed by many to the
Author of the
_Pleasures
of Hope_.
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Byron |
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The Boots and the Broker were sharpening a spade--
Each working the grindstone in turn:
But the Beaver went on making lace, and displayed
No interest in the concern:
Though the Barrister tried to appeal to its pride,
And vainly
proceeded
to cite
A number of cases, in which making laces
Had been proved an infringement of right.
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Lewis Carroll |
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i
douttren
with eye wel; ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
He forthwith answ'ring, thus his words began:
"The valley' of waters, widest next to that
Which doth the earth engarland, shapes its course,
Between
discordant
shores, against the sun
Inward so far, it makes meridian there,
Where was before th' horizon.
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Næs þā on hlytme, hwā þæt hord strude,
syððan or-wearde ǣnigne dǣl
secgas gesēgon on sele wunian,
3130 lǣne licgan: lȳt ǣnig mearn,
þæt hī
ofostlice
ūt geferedon
dȳre māðmas; dracan ēc scufun,
wyrm ofer weall-clif, lēton wǣg niman,
flōd fæðmian frætwa hyrde.
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Beowulf |
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Once, in her
arrogance
even maintained that she had subjected
To her own will, as her slave, Jove's most illustrious son.
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He was to tell the tonga Babu
afterwards
of the Other Man, and the Babu
was to make such arrangements as seemed best.
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Kipling - Poems |
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J'irai la-bas ou l'arbre et l'homme, pleins de seve,
Se pament
longuement
sous l'ardeur des climats;
Fortes tresses, soyez la houle qui m'enleve!
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Rilke - Poems |
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Mars respects not
the
favourites
of the Muses; I have no such idea of my name, as that it
would shelter me from the furies of war.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Then let us drink--The Stewartry,
Kerroughtree's laird, and a' that,
Our
representative
to be,
For weel he's worthy a' that.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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2 This refers to the famous visit of the Prince of Wu to Lu,
recounted
in the Zuo Tradition (Xiang 29).
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Death is a
dialogue
between
The spirit and the dust.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I have sojourned in the Muse's land,
Have
wandered
with the wandering star,
Seeking for strength, and in my hand
Held all philosophies that are;
Yet nothing could I hear nor see
Stronger than That Which Needs Must Be.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Hath he never before sounded you in this
business?
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Shakespeare |
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THAT MIGHTY MONARCH,
Alexander
the Great (B.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He, with threefold jaws gaping in ravenous
hunger, catches it when thrown, and sinks to earth with
monstrous
body
outstretched, and sprawling huge over all his den.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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complete
list of Masefield's works sent on request.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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There is no mask but he will wear;
He
invented
oaths to swear;
He paints, he carves, he chants, he prays,
And holds all stars in his embrace.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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e
wrongful
dede of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I could not weep:
The sources whence such blessings flow _225
Were not to be
approached
by me!
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Shelley |
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It was la bas
with him even in the tortures of his
wretched
love-life.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Garmented
soft in white,
Haughty, and yet how love-imbuing and tender!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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As we worked, we argued out
whether it was right to say as much as we
remembered
of the Burial of
the Dead.
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Kipling - Poems |
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He was strongly
suspected
of having
forged a will by which Dr.
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Alexander Pope |
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A heavy
reckoning
for you, sir.
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Shakespeare |
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By their
exquisite
farings
Is this granite specked;
Is trodden to infinite dust;
By gnawing lichens decked.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Stephen Crane |
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They look upon his eyes,
Filled with deep surprise;
And
wondering
behold
A spirit armed in gold.
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blake-poems |
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1650
As he deserved, so let me render him honour:
And, the better to appease his spirit's anger,
Despite the
plotting
of her guilty brothers,
Treat his loved one, from today, as my daughter.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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But when
gleaming
objects dense,
As chiefly mirrors, have been set before it,
Nothing of this sort happens.
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Lucretius |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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THROUGH the
casement
a noble-child saw
In the spring-time golden and green,
As he harked to the swallow's lore,
And looked so rejoiced and keen.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"Whom do you wish to
present?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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the gates
Roll back, and far within
For me the
Heavenly
Bridegroom waits, [4]
To make me pure of sin.
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Tennyson |
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That seems impossible, and, to my mind, poets have the right to hope after their death for the everlasting happiness that obtains complete
knowledge
of God, that is to say of the sublime beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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But then we first must make the journey
thither?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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How oft my guardian angel gently cried,
"Soul, from thy
casement
look, and thou shalt see
How he persists to knock and wait for thee!
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Longfellow |
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"
The
courtier
smooth, who forty years had shined
An humble servant to all human kind,
Just brought out this, when scarce his tongue could stir,
"If--where I'm going--I could serve you, sir?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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DOCTORS
EVERY night I lie awake
And every day I lie abed
And hear the doctors, Pain and Death,
Conferring
at my head.
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Sara Teasdale |
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In these two or three
brief hours of his power out of a lifetime, Coleridge is
literally
a
wizard.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"
"Is she
unhappy?
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Sara Teasdale |
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How
silently
serene a sea of pride!
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Poe - 5 |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Meredith - Poems |
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And now resting for a time
from his long labors, Pope turned to the adornment and
cultivation
of
the little house and garden that he had leased at Twickenham.
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Alexander Pope |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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7 and any additional
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Imagists |
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And bound for the same bourn as I,
On every road I wandered by,
Trod beside me, close and dear,
The beautiful and death-struck year:
Whether in the
woodland
brown
I heard the beechnut rustle down,
And saw the purple crocus pale
Flower about the autumn dale;
Or littering far the fields of May
Lady-smocks a-bleaching lay,
And like a skylit water stood
The bluebells in the azured wood.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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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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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Li Po |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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Mulched with
unsavory
death,
Grow, Soul!
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Sidney Lanier |
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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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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It was from this memorable spot
that
Napoleon
and the Grand Army first obtained a glimpse at the
city of the Tsars.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Nothing but the tattered rag
Of the drooping Rebel flag,
And the sea-birds
screaming
round it in their play.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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First you shall learn yourselves: for neither light
Understandeth itself, nor
darkness
light.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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THE monarch from the
muleteer
with care,
In front, snipt off a bulky lock of hair.
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La Fontaine |
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Though not
strictly
a troubadour text, it is a first example of a form, the alba, adopted later.
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Troubador Verse |
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So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And
wondered
if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His sightless soul may stray.
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Wilde - Poems |
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With your arched eyebrow threat me not,
And
tremulous
eyes, like April skies,
That seem to say, "forget me not,"
I pray you, love, forget me not.
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Tennyson |
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They may be
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and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Then, when the mellowing years have made thee man,
No more shall mariner sail, nor pine-tree bark
Ply traffic on the sea, but every land
Shall all things bear alike: the glebe no more
Shall feel the harrow's grip, nor vine the hook;
The sturdy
ploughman
shall loose yoke from steer,
Nor wool with varying colours learn to lie;
But in the meadows shall the ram himself,
Now with soft flush of purple, now with tint
Of yellow saffron, teach his fleece to shine.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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To him,
whatever
to a guest is owed
I paid, and hospitable gifts bestow'd:
To him seven talents of pure ore I told,
Twelve cloaks, twelve vests, twelve tunics stiff with gold:
A bowl, that rich with polish'd silver flames,
And skill'd in female works, four lovely dames.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down
Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina
Quando fiam ceu chelidon-- O swallow swallow
Le Prince d'Aquitaine a la tour abolie 430
These
fragments
I have shored against my ruins
Why then Ile fit you.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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OR BREAKE THE CHAYNE, refers to Jove's
proposition
to fasten a golden
chain to the earth by which to test his strength.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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O how charmingly Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers
blooming
and luxuriant.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Ah
Censorinus!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And since I am so loyal to you, lady,
That Love grants me no power to love elsewhere,
But lets me pay court to one, maybe,
Who might remove the heavy grief I bear;
So when I think of you to whom joy bows,
All other love's
forgotten
and displaced:
With her my heart holds dearest, there it stays.
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Troubador Verse |
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But think not haply that the primal bodies
Remain
despoiled
alone of colour: so,
Are they from warmth dissevered and from cold
And from hot exhalations; and they move,
Both sterile of sound and dry of juice; and throw
Not any odour from their proper bodies.
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Lucretius |
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Slowly there grew a tender awe,
Sun-like, o'er faces brown and hard,
As if in him who read they felt and saw
Some
presence
of the bard.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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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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Aricia
And how could you endure that
terrible
lies
Should darken the course of so fine a life?
| Guess: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The crows upon the
swelling
hills,
The cows upon the lea,
Sheep feeding by the pasture rills,
Are ever dear to me,
Because sweet freedom is their mate,
While I am lone and desolate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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His persons no longer will
have a particular character, but he knows that he can rely upon the
incidents, and he feels himself fortunate when there is nothing in
his play that has not
succeeded
a thousand times before the curtain
has risen.
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Yeats |
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Of these, the Marsigni and Burrii in language 234 and dress
resemble
the Suevi.
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Tacitus |
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The storm hath blown thee a lover, sweet,
And laid him
kneeling
at thy feet.
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Sidney Lanier |
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How perfect the earth, and the
minutest
thing upon it!
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Whitman |
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These answers would be
susceptible of whatever retrospective construction the exigencies of the
political
campaign
might seem to demand, and the candidate could take
his position on either side of the fence with entire consistency.
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James Russell Lowell |
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REPLACEMENT
OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
But I cried out,--"That is a false prophet; for I shall be a
musician, and naught but a
musician
shall I be.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I was reading then one of those dear poems (whose flakes of rouge have more charm for me than young flesh), and dipping a hand into the pure animal fur, when a street organ sounded
languishingly
and sadly under my window.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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_Help with your
presence
and devise to praise.
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John Donne |
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And this
mysterious
volume, see!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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