Sleepily lull the wasps in the noon-day song,
And through the meagre shelter of the blades
Upon his
sunburnt
forehead slowly trickle
The poppy-petals: large red drops of blood.
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A Farm Picture
Through the ample open door of the
peaceful
country barn,
A sunlit pasture field with cattle and horses feeding,
And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away.
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[1] This office was usually undertaken by the Boots, who found in it
a refuge from the Baker's constant complaints about the insufficient
blacking
of his three pair of boots.
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limitation
set forth in this agreement
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agreement shall be interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or
limitation permitted by the applicable state law.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The gods denying, in just indignation,
Your walls, bloodied by that ancient instance
Of
fraternal
strife, a sure foundation.
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No more he sway'd the future and the past,
But on the moveless present fix'd at last;
As at a goal reposing from his toils,
Like earth
unclothed
of all its vernal foils.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Close by the
straight
Larissa road.
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He does not rise in piteous haste
To put on convict-clothes,
While some coarse-mouthed Doctor gloats, and notes
Each new and nerve-twitched pose,
Fingering
a watch whose little ticks
Are like horrible hammer-blows.
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The last battles of Agricola were fought in Scotland; and, in the pages
of Tacitus, he achieved a splendid victory among the
Grampian
hills.
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Tacitus |
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1921
CONRAD AIKEN
Earth Triumphant The Macmillan Company 1914
Turns and Movies
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The blind met
daylight
in his eye,
The joys of everlasting day;
The sick found health in his reply;
The cripple threw his crutch away.
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[Sidenote E: Gawayne tells her that he will become her own knight and
faithful
servant.
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And the
crucifixion
appeased
me.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
Which
distressed
that Old Man of Jamaica.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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vagliami
'l lungo studio e 'l grande amore
che m'ha fatto cercar lo tuo volume.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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No; 'tis that of Time:
Triumph, arch, pillar, all he doth displace,
Scoffing; and
apostolic
statues climb
To crush the imperial urn, whose ashes slept sublime,
CXI.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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So, being hungry, they
immediately
flew at him, and were going to divide
him into seven pieces, when they began to quarrel as to which of his legs
should be taken off first.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Ich herze dich mit
tausendfacher
Glut
Nur folge mir!
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on my feet fall vain tears
As the roar of my
laughter
redoubles their fears.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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This pleases me, and
furthers
my designs.
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Longfellow |
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Let
suppliant
youths obtain thine ear!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,
At her beauty all wonder intensely;
One moment the Pasha survey'd her,
And,
dropping
his tchebouk, without sense lay.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"Whence, now, bear ye burnished shields,
harness gray and helmets grim,
spears in
multitude?
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And yet I quickly might arrive
Where my
extended
soul is fixed ;
But fate does iron wedges drive,
And always crowds itself betwixt
IV.
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Marvell - Poems |
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But blame him not, he
squandered
ne'er a copper.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Cruell since that thou dost not feare the curse
W^{ch} thy disdayne, and my
despayre
procure,
My prayer for thee shall torment thee worse
Then all the payne thou coudst thereby endure.
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John Donne |
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though the greenest woods be thy domain,
Alone they can drink up the morning rain:
Though a
descended
Pleiad, will not one
Of thine harmonious sisters keep in tune
Thy spheres, and as thy silver proxy shine?
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Keats - Lamia |
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But it is
possible
to enumerate certain characteristics which
distinguish the two kinds of verse.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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L'HOMME ET LA MER
Homme libre,
toujours
tu cheriras la mer!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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that old man venerable
Exclaiming, "How is this, ye tardy
spirits?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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What would he
think of
Cezanne?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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[And
mistakingly
printed 'ic' as Midland or Northern 'ic', instead of the Southern 'ich'.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on
sightless
eyes doth stay!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Though
frankincense
the deities require, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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Mais je sais,
maintenant!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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' EJC}
That he may also draw Ahania's spirit into her Vortex {This line appears to have been
inserted
between 2 previously written lines EJC}
Ah happy blindness [she] Enion sees not the terrors of the uncertain
And oft thus she wails from the dark deep, the golden heavens tremble {Of the 100 lines that make up p.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Verse-nous ton poison pour qu'il nous
reconforte!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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305
--The lights are
vanished
from the watery plains:
No wreck of all the pageantry remains.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And the brave city 10
With its
enchantment?
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Sappho |
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"When I awoke, 'twas in a twilight bower; 420
Just when the light of morn, with hum of bees,
Stole through its
verdurous
matting of fresh trees.
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Keats |
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[44] Text _PA-it-tam_
clearly!
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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L'opium agrandit ce qui n'a pas de bornes,
Allonge l'illimite,
Approfondit le temps, creuse la volupte,
Et de
plaisirs
noirs et mornes
Remplit l'ame au dela de sa capacite.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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At Sea
In the pull of the wind I stand, lonely,
On the deck of a ship, rising, falling,
Wild night around me, wild water under me,
Whipped by the storm,
screaming
and calling.
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Sara Teasdale |
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_insert_ ryght
_before_
yong.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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How very much she to her lessons owed;
A little girl arrived: the husband stared
Cried he, what father of a child
declared!
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La Fontaine |
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Black day he chose for
planting
thee,
Accurst he rear'd thee from the ground,
The bane of children yet to be,
The scandal of the village round.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Tra li ladron trovai cinque cotali
tuoi
cittadini
onde mi ven vergogna,
e tu in grande orranza non ne sali.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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More mad words like these--mere
madness!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And mark me well;
treasure
what now I say
Deep in thy soul.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Wilamowitz
in _Hermes_, xviii.
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Euripides - Electra |
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And yet how still the
landscape
stands,
How nonchalant the wood,
As if the resurrection
Were nothing very odd!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Alone Thou wanderest through space,
Profound
One with the hidden face;
Thou art Poverty's great rose,
The eternal metamorphose
Of gold into the light of sun.
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Rilke - Poems |
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(Your
highness
knows our homely word,)
Millions for self-government,
But for tribute never a cent.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And why it
scatters
its bright beauty thro the humid air.
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blake-poems |
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Hopes apace
Were changed to long despairs, till God's own grace
Could
scarcely
lift above the world forlorn
My heavy heart.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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My holiday shall be
That they
remember
me;
My paradise, the fame
That they pronounce my name.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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They hanged him as a beast is hanged:
They did not even toll
A requiem that might have brought
Rest to his startled soul,
But
hurriedly
they took him out,
And hid him in a hole.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Oh may he glean my lips delights unbidden,
--I gleaned them all since as a dream he rose--
The oleanders "mid the
fragrance
hidden
And others smiling as the jasmin blows.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Many of them are from the
official
song-book of the dynasty and
are known as Yo Fu or Music Bureau poems, as distinct from _shih_, which
were recited.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Dare I, Sir, already
immensely
indebted to
your goodness, ask the additional obligation of your being that friend
to me?
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Robert Burns |
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the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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True he lodg'd
The arrow on the centre of the bow,
And,
occupying
still his seat, drew home
Nerve and notch'd arrow-head; with stedfast sight
He aimed and sent it; right through all the rings
From first to last the steel-charged weapon flew
Issuing beyond, and to his son he spake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Him Nature giveth for defence
His formidable innocence;
The mounting sap, the shells, the sea,
All spheres, all stones, his helpers be;
He shall meet the speeding year,
Without wailing, without fear;
He shall be happy in his love,
Like to like shall joyful prove;
He shall be happy whilst he wooes,
Muse-born, a
daughter
of the Muse.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And how, upon a market-night,
When not a star bestowed its light,
A farmer's shepherd, oer his glass,
Forgot that he had woods to pass:
And having sold his master's sheep,
Was overta'en by
darkness
deep.
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John Clare |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
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Golden Treasury |
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He said; they went, and to
Nausicaa
told
His answer; then the Hero in the stream
His shoulders laved, and loins incrusted rough
With the salt spray, and with his hands the scum 280
Of the wild ocean from his locks express'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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120
Not louder shrieks by dames to heav'n are cast,
When husbands die, or lapdogs breathe their last;
Or when rich china vessels, fall'n from high,
In glitt'ring dust and painted
fragments
lie!
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Alexander Pope |
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Hence the Biancas and
Lucretias
I
And Constances and more reserve; who found,
Or else repair, upon Italian land,
Illustrious houses with supporting hand.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Ring, for the scant
salvation!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The noble warrior, who has claimed her,
Said when he
disarmed
me: 'Have no fear.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It enlivens the dulness of the
Universal
History,
and gives a charm to the most meagre abridgements of Goldsmith.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Do you know it, the Temple with vast peristyle,
And the lemons, bitter, marked by your teeth,
And the grotto fatal to imprudent guests,
Where the
vanquished
dragon's ancient seed sleeps?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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According
to Bachlechner (Pfeiffer's Germania, I.
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Beowulf |
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Absence, hear thou my protestation
A Chieftain to the Highlands bound
A flock of sheep that
leisurely
pass by
Ah, Chloris!
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Golden Treasury |
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In the
southern
clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.
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blake-poems |
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{40c} Ten Brink points out the strongly heathen
character
of this
part of the epic.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty ordained for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was
abandoned
readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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illo non ualidus subiit iuga tempore taurus,
non domito frenos ore
momordit
equus,
non domus ulla fores habuit, non fixus in agris,
qui regeret certis finibus arua, lapis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The
application
of the name in
the 17th Cen.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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After his father's death, while still under age, he obtains the
throne (2371, 2376, 2379); wherefore Bēowulf, as nephew of Heardrēd's
father, acts as
guardian
to the youth till he becomes older, 2378.
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Beowulf |
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Fierce Love it was once steeled a mother's heart
With her own offspring's blood her hands to imbrue:
Mother, thou too wert cruel; say wert thou
More cruel, mother, or more
ruthless
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'363 Knight of the post':
a slang term for a
professional
witness ready to, swear to anything for
money.
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Poetry is reality's essence visioned and made manifest by one endowed
with a perception acutely sensitive to sound, form, and colour, and
gifted with a power to shape into
rhythmic
and rhymed verbal symbols the
reaction to Life's phenomena.
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and a most particuller frind and
acquaintance?
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And watch the clouds, that late were rich with
light,
Slow saddening round, and mark the star of eve
Serenely brilliant (such should wisdom be)
Shine
opposite!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Look on this spot--a nation's
sepulchre!
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Is this not
sufficient
to drive one to hang oneself?
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I go without my clothes now,
One thin shirt for me,
For noble love
protects
now
From the chilly breeze.
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Troubador Verse |
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