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what Thou art,
Surpasses
me to know;
Yet sure I am, that known to Thee
Are all Thy works below.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Here in an aether more clear now a luster
encircles
my forehead.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Les pieces etaient tapissees d'un papier aux
larges rayures rouges et noires,
couleurs
diaboliques, qui
s'accordaient avec les draperies d'un lourd damas.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"Why doth my face," said Beatrice, "thus
Enamour thee, as that thou dost not turn
Unto the
beautiful
garden, blossoming
Beneath the rays of Christ?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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XVI
Breac and
Landriglier
past on the left hand,
Orlando's vessel skims the Breton shore;
Then shapes her course towards the chalky strand,
Whence England's isle the name of Albion bore:
But the south wind, which had her canvas fanned,
Shifts to north-west, and freshening, blows so sore,
The mariners are fain to strike all sail,
And wear and scud before the boisterous gale.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And then her mouth, more
delicate
5
Than the frail wood-anemone,
Brushes my cheek, and deeper grow
The purple shadows.
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Sappho |
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The poems
contributed
by him to
the volume of 1827, 'Poems by Two Brothers', are not without some slight
promise, but are very far from indicating extraordinary powers.
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Tennyson |
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The Elephant
Two Elephants
'Two Elephants'
Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594, The Rijksmuseun
I carry
treasure
in my mouth,
As an elephant his ivory.
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Appoloinaire |
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Can innocents the rage of parties know,
And they who ne'er
offended
find a foe?
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Iliad - Pope |
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PANTHEA:
Look, sister, where a troop of spirits gather,
Like flocks of clouds in spring's
delightful
weather, _665
Thronging in the blue air!
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Shelley |
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Now are you old,
blossoming
white and blanched,
Yet by such words you still appear infant.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I leave now, and go too
To unite all our
scattered
votes for you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Upstood Acroneus and Ocyalus,
Elatreus, Nauteus, Prymneus, after whom
Anchialus with Anabeesineus
Arose, Eretmeus, Ponteus, Proreus bold,
Amphialus
and Thoon.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Note: Hercules, Alcmene's son, tormented by the shirt of Nessus
immolated
himself on a pyre on Mount Oeta, and was deified.
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Ronsard |
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accipiat
coniunx felici foedere diuam,
dedatur cupido iam dudum nupta marito.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Even this
entertainment
wearies after a time; and all the times are
very, very long.
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Kipling - Poems |
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BAL DES PENDUS
Au gibet noir, manchot aimable,
Dansent, dansent les paladins,
Les maigres paladins du diable,
Les
squelettes
de Saladins.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Free us, for without be goodly colours, Green of the wood-moss and flower-colours, And
coolness
beneath the trees.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Pourtant, qui n'a serre dans ses bras un squelette,
Et qui ne s'est nourri des choses du
tombeau?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground,
Ye must not slumber there,
Where stranger steps and tongues resound
Along the
heedless
air;
Your own proud land's heroic soil
Shall be your fitter grave;
She claims from war his richest spoil--
The ashes of her brave.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I tell the day, to please him thou art bright,
And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:
So flatter I the swart-complexion'd night,
When
sparkling
stars twire not thou gild'st the even.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Lo, where the white-maned horses of the surge, 10
Plunging in
thunderous
onset to the shore,
Trample and break and charge along the sand!
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Sappho |
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Oozed from the bracken's desolate track,
By dark rains havocked and
drenched
black.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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In
short, we have now a perfect
plaything
for the summer.
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Shelley |
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No, _Child_, in a Carre,
The
charriot
of Triumph, which mo?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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: SONNET
on the tally-board of wasted days
IF write me for They daily
proud idleness, Let high Hell summons me, and I confess,
No overt act the
preferred
charge allays.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Man, like the
generous
vine, supported lives;
The strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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How a ring-dove
Let fall a sprig of yew tree in his path;
And how he died: and then, that love doth scathe,
The gentle heart, as
northern
blasts do roses;
And then the ballad of his sad life closes
With sighs, and an alas!
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Keats |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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So clean forth of thy breast, rackt with
solicitous
care,
Mind fled, sense being reft!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Aeolian harp,
How
strangely
wise thy strain!
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Emerson - Poems |
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A
language
like this must ever be a bar to the progress and
accomplishments of literature.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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While yet _610
The fight hung balanced, there arose a storm
Which swept the
phantoms
from among the stars.
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Shelley |
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Not this promise of thee had I given to Evander thy sire at my
departure, when he
embraced
me as I went and bade me speed to a wide
empire, and yet warned me in fear that the men were valiant, the people
obstinate in battle.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Since I have seen falling to my life's flood
The leaf of a rose
snatched
from out your days,
Now at last I can say to the fleeting years:
- Pass by!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Whilst I, from boyhood up, a
wretched
monk,
Wander from cell to cell!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Was the road of late so
toilsome?
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Whitman |
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Nothing can be better than--
---------------the bards sublime,
Whose distant
footsteps
echo
Down the corridors of Time.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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AT midnight, when the spark had left the bed;
A servant, by his orders, drew the thread;
On whom the husband, without fear, laid hold,
And with him enter'd like a soldier bold,
Not then supposing he'd a valet seiz'd;
Well tim'd it prov'd, howe'er;--the lady pleas'd
Her voice to raise, on hearing what was said,
And through the house
confusion
quickly spread.
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La Fontaine |
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"
They go to
strikewith
th'swords, are on their belts.
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Chanson de Roland |
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You dropped a purple ravelling in,
You dropped an amber thread;
And now you 've littered all the East
With duds of
emerald!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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OSWALD No, no, my Friend, you may pursue your business--
'Tis a poor wretch of an unsettled mind,
Who has a trick of
straying
from his keepers;
We must be gentle.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Oh, some
scholar!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The robin is the one
That
interrupts
the morn
With hurried, few, express reports
When March is scarcely on.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For he who dazzles, makes men Samson-blind,
Will see the pillars of his palace kiss
E'en at the
whelming
ruin!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Oh, when shall Britain,
conscious
of her claim,
Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Joyful are the
thoughts
of home,
Now I'm ready for my chair,
So, till morrow-morning's come,
Bill and mittens, lie ye there!
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John Clare |
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When the door had closed,
and the peacock curtain,
glimmering
like many-coloured flame, fell
between us and the world, I felt, in a way I could not understand,
that some singular and unexpected thing was about to happen.
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Yeats |
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Not
until later was he to reach the height of an
impersonal
objectivity in
his art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Swefte as the roareynge wyndes the gyaunte flies, 75
Stayde the loude wyndes, and shaded reaulmes yn nyghte,
Stepte over cytties, on meint[44] acres lies,
Meeteynge the herehaughtes of morneynge lighte;
Tyll mooveynge to the Weste,
myschaunce
hys gye[45],
He thorowe warriours gratch fayre Elstrid did espie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Suddenly I feel an immense will
Stored up
hitherto
and unconscious till this instant.
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Imagists |
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And sharp the link of life will snap,
And dead on air will stand
Heels that held up as
straight
a chap
As treads upon the land.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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-- `Lightly I hold your proof of valour here,'
(Those northern monarchs was she wont to tell)
`And if, like sun amid the stars, one peer
Outshines
his fellows, him I honour well:
But therefore hold him not, in fierce alarms,
Of living men the bravest knight at arms.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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XXIX
THE LENT LILY
'Tis spring; come out to ramble
The hilly brakes around,
For under thorn and bramble
About the hollow ground
The
primroses
are found.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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is
auenture
forto frayn,
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The holy man a knotted
cincture
wore;
But, 'neath his garb:--heart-rotten to the core.
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La Fontaine |
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CANTO 44
ARGUMENT
Rinaldo his sister to the Child hath plight,
And to
Marseilles
is with the warrior gone:
And having crimsoned wide the field in fight,
Therein arrives King Otho's valiant son.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The little pony glad may be,
But he is milder far than she,
You hardly can
perceive
his joy.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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e kynges sister sunes, & ful siker kni3tes;
112 [D] Bischop
Bawdewyn
abof bi-gine3 ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Am I that Sappho who would run at dusk
Along the surges creeping up the shore
When tides came in to ease the hungry beach,
And running, running, till the night was black,
Would fall
forespent
upon the chilly sand
And quiver with the winds from off the sea?
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Meredith - Poems |
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resou{n}s
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Meredith - Poems |
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What liberty
A
loosened
spirit brings!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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`Of Ector, which that is my lord, my brother, 1450
It nedeth nought to preye him freend to be;
For I have herd him, o tyme and eek other,
Speke of
Criseyde
swich honour, that he
May seyn no bet, swich hap to him hath she.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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It attained a still higher degree
of
excellence
among the English and the Lowland Scotch, during
the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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" He
fired, and
slightly
wounded his opponent, shouting "Bravo!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Than
thoughte
he thus: `If I my tale endyte
Ought hard, or make a proces any whyle,
She shal no savour han ther-in but lyte,
And trowe I wolde hir in my wil bigyle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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give thy self the thanks, if aught in me
Worthy perusal stand against thy sight;
For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,
When thou thy self dost give
invention
light?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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CCXLII
And
Guineman
tilts with the king Leutice;
Has broken all the flowers on his shield,
Next of his sark he has undone the seam,
All his ensign thrust through the carcass clean,
So flings him dead, let any laugh or weep.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Repeat often what we have formerly written; which beside
that it helps the consequence, and makes the juncture better, it quickens
the heat of imagination, that often cools in the time of setting down,
and gives it new strength, as if it grew lustier by the going back; as we
see in the
contention
of leaping, they jump farthest that fetch their
race largest; or, as in throwing a dart or javelin, we force back our
arms to make our loose the stronger.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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To their untimely doom they went;
Ill strove they, and to no avail,
And minished is their
armament!
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Aeschylus |
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My vessel, Neptune, Shaker of the shores,
At yonder utmost
promontory
dash'd
In pieces, hurling her against the rocks
With winds that blew right thither from the sea,
And I, with these alone, escaped alive.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
He said, "I was the worm beneath men's feet;
My father's
brethren
held me in their thrall,
But Thou didst send the Paladin of Gaul,
O Lord!
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Hugo - Poems |
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'
DIRGE
CONCORD, 1838
I reached the middle of the mount
Up which the
incarnate
soul must climb,
And paused for them, and looked around,
With me who walked through space and time.
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Emerson - Poems |
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With them I take delight in weal
And seek relief in woe;
And while I understand and feel
How much to them I owe,
My cheeks have often been bedew'd
With tears of
thoughtful
gratitude.
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Golden Treasury |
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"
"When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of
thoughts
be laid at last,
The man of flesh and soul be slain
And the man of bone remain?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And others shiv'ring on the stone pilasters
* Drink
raindrops
from the hollow flower-steens,
27
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Now, of my
threescore
years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I begged him to
announce
me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"LOCA
PASTORUM
DESERTA ATQUE OTIA DIA.
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William Wordsworth |
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A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A GAME OF CHESS
The Chair she sat in, like a
burnished
throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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We have thus far
exhausted
trillions of winters and summers,
There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Upon the
mountain
did they feed;
They throve, and we at home did thrive.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Oenone
You're moved by my
censure?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Calais, the wind is come and heaven pales And
trembles
for the love of day to be.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Lines To A Gentleman,
Who had sent the Poet a Newspaper, and offered
to
continue
it free of Expense.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Peace-lovers, haters
Of
shameless
traitors,
We hate not France, but this man's heart of stone.
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Tennyson |
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They roused him with muffins--they roused him with ice--
They roused him with mustard and cress--
They roused him with jam and judicious advice--
They set him
conundrums
to guess.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Is not yon lingering orange after-glow
That stays to vex the moon more fair than all
Rome's
lordliest
pageants!
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Wilde - Poems |
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