Oh, mourn not, Lalage--
Be
comforted!
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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How can you
understand
that this my heart
Is but a sparrow in an eagle's nest?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He said, among others,
I will bring
(and the phrase was just and good,
but not as good as mine)
"the
narcissus
that loves the rain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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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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<
de la doppia
trestizia
di Giocasta>>,
disse 'l cantor de' buccolici carmi,
<
non par che ti facesse ancor fedele
la fede, sanza qual ben far non basta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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exagitet
nostros manis, sectetur et umbras,
insultetque rogis, calcet et ossa mea!
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I think thy spirit hath passed away
From these white cliffs and high-embattled towers;
This gorgeous fiery-coloured world of ours
Seems fallen into ashes dull and grey,
And the age changed unto a mimic play
Wherein we waste our else too-crowded hours:
For all our pomp and
pageantry
and powers
We are but fit to delve the common clay,
Seeing this little isle on which we stand,
This England, this sea-lion of the sea,
By ignorant demagogues is held in fee,
Who love her not: Dear God!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A single star is at her side, and reigns
With her o'er half the lovely heaven; but still
Yon sunny sea heaves brightly, and remains
Rolled o'er the peak of the far Rhaetian hill,
As Day and Night
contending
were, until
Nature reclaimed her order:--gently flows
The deep-dyed Brenta, where their hues instil
The odorous purple of a new-born rose,
Which streams upon her stream, and glassed within it glows,
XXIX.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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For our king is
returned
as from prison,
The old king, to be master again,
Our beloved in justice re-risen:
With guile he hath slain.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"Hear me
forswear
man's sympathies,
His pleasant yea and no,
His riot on the piteous earth
Whereon his thistles grow,
His changing love--with stars above,
His pride--with graves below.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I feel no spring, while spring is
wellnigh
blown,
I find no nest, while nests are in the grove:
Woe's me for mine own heart that dwells alone, 10
My heart that breaketh for a little love.
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Christina Rossetti |
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They
shall arise in America, and be
responded
to from the remainder of the
earth.
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Whitman |
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CCLXXIX
When Tierri sees that battle shall come after,
His right hand glove he
offereth
to Chares.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Tell me, pray; oh, said she, they sleep most sound;
But then between them plac'd shall I be found,
And while the one amidst Love's
frolicks
sports,
The other quiet lies, or Morpheus courts.
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La Fontaine |
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Defeat his wiles; resist his tempting charms
E'en from
suspicion
suffer not alarms.
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La Fontaine |
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He
commanded
the
king's troop of guards, and was killed at the battle of Rowton Heath,
outside Chester, Sept.
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Robert Herrick |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Wie lange pflegt sie wohl zu
schwarmen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Indi spiro: <
ancor ver' la virtu che mi seguette
infin la palma e a l'uscir del campo,
vuol ch'io respiri a te che ti dilette
di lei; ed emmi a grato che tu diche
quello che la
speranza
ti 'mpromette>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://www.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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They steek their een, and grape an' wale
For muckle anes, an'
straught
anes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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-- They were
clansmen
good.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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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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But make
allowance
for me.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Any 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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--which bar to her omniscience
Brings those fearful unfulfilments, that red ravage through her zones
Whereat all
creation
groans.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Fame and honor and glory, and joy for a noble soul;
For a full and
splendid
life, and laurelled rest at the goal.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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XI
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
To his offspring who, with mortal frailty,
Engorged with pride in Rome's bravery,
Looked to
infringe
on Heaven's grandeur,
Cooling again from his initial ardour,
With which Roman hearts he'd filled completely,
Blew new fires, with ardent breath, and fiercely,
Warmed the chilly Goths with his hot valour.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
"Kind words are more than coronets,"
She said, and
wondering
looked at me:
"It is the dead unhappy night, and I must hurry home to tea.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Trapeziums
Rhombs Rhomboids
Paralellograms.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Glorieuse vierge mere
Qui a nul onques amere
Ne fus en terre ne en mer,
Ta douceur ores m'apere
Et ne
sueffres
que mon pere
De devant li me jecte puer.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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To this high
mountain
top the Tempter brought
Our Saviour, and new train of words began.
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Milton |
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At
fourteen
I became your wife;
I was shame-faced and never dared smile.
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Li Po |
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If we now follow the course of the Danube, as we before did that of the Rhine, we first meet with the Hermunduri; 219 a people faithful to the Romans, 220 and on that account the only Germans who are admitted to commerce, not on the bank alone, but within our territories, and in the flourishing colony 221
established
in the province of Rhaetia.
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Tacitus |
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Aubrey de Vere that the poem was an
experiment
meant
to test the degree in which it is in the power of poetry to humanise
external nature.
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Tennyson |
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So buried in the
thoughts
wherewith she strove,
Was Bradamant, she heeded nor her road,
Nor took she care where, at the close of light,
To find befitting shelter for the night.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Thus our light race grows up and lives,
A moment effervescing stirs,
Then seeks ancestral sepulchres,
The
appointed
hour arrives, arrives!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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thou only, if I guess aright,
Liftest the
feathers
of the robin's breast,
That swells its little breast, so full of song,
Singing above me, on the mountain-ash.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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You fly me, Chloe, as o'er
trackless
hills
A young fawn runs her timorous dam to find,
Whom empty terror thrills
Of woods and whispering wind.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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>>
Cette petite anecdote
racontee
par les historiens du poete est devenue
classique; mais nous n'avons pu resister au plaisir de la repeter ici.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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For she hath no
exchequer
now but his,
And proud of many, lives upon his gains.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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If thou didst make the shepherd seek his mate
On that sweet questing, when Proserpina
Forgot it was not Sicily and leant
Across the mossy
Sandford
stile in ravished wonderment,--
Light-winged and bright-eyed miracle of the wood!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the thistles and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and
compelled
to the chaste.
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blake-poems |
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Sorrow is like a fruit: God doth not therewith weigh
Earthward
the branch strong yet but for the blossoming.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And here and there, as up the crags you spring,
Mark many rude-carved crosses near the path;
Yet deem not these devotion's offering--
These are memorials frail of murderous wrath;
For wheresoe'er the shrieking victim hath
Poured forth his blood beneath the assassin's knife,
Some hand erects a cross of mouldering lath;
And grove and glen with
thousand
such are rife
Throughout this purple land, where law secures not life!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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[*The Russian text has here a play on the words which cannot
be
satisfactorily
rendered into English.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"And now beside thee,
bleating
lamb,
I can lie down and sleep,
Or think on Him who bore thy name,
Graze after thee, and weep.
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blake-poems |
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"
She was not
altogether
correct.
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Kipling - Poems |
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XXX
As the sown field its fresh
greenness
shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a thousand sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till barbarous power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the leavings find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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In Greek the word ([Greek:
kephalai])
also means
_heads_, and hence the pun.
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Aristophanes |
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For men do more
willingly
listen, and with
more favour, to precept, than reprehension.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Him answer'd then
Penelope
discrete.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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TWENTY-FOUR HOKKU ON A MODERN THEME
I
Again the larkspur,
Heavenly
blue in my garden.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Twitchell
Release Date: October 17, 2007 [EBook #23058]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE QUEEN OF SPADES ***
Produced by David Widger
THE QUEEN OF SPADES
By
Alexander
Sergeievitch Poushkin
Translated by H.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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Ronsard |
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Oenone
Great gods, what could you tell me that wouldn't yield
To the horror of seeing you die, my eyes
unsealed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Baudelaire, like Poe,
sometimes
"built his nests with the birds of
Night," and that was enough to condemn the work of both men by critics
of the didactic school.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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One felt that joy drew near--
A joy intense that seemed itself to fear--
Brightening in eyes that had been dull,
As all with feeling gazed
Upon the
Strasburg
figure, raised
Above us--mourning, beautiful!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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THE PARDAH NASHIN
Her life is a revolving dream
Of languid and
sequestered
ease;
Her girdles and her fillets gleam
Like changing fires on sunset seas;
Her raiment is like morning mist,
Shot opal, gold and amethyst.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
And, saddening on the sudden, spake Isolt,
"I had
forgotten
all in my strong joy
To see thee--yearnings?
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Tennyson |
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I do remember an apothecary,
And
hereabouts
'a dwells, which late I noted
In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows,
Culling of simples.
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Shakespeare |
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Their gaze draws me into
infinite
space.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
FOOTNOTE:
[7] [This and the following are
fragments
of Pindar found in ancient
authors.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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' he cried,
'Be praised for anguish which has tried,
For beauty which has satisfied:
"'For this world's
presence
half within
And half without me--thought and scene--
This sense of Being and Having Been.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Ah baby, my baby, too rough
Is my
lullaby?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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_
NEUTRAL!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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comme un reve de pierre,
Et mon sein, ou chacun s'est meurtri tour a tour,
Est fait pour
inspirer
au poete un amour
Eternel et muet ainsi que la matiere.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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XXXV
Flordelice marked the maid, that, in her sight,
Appeared a warrior fitted for her needs;
And of the bridge and river 'gan recite,
Where Argier's mighty king the road impedes;
And how he had gone nigh to slay her knight;
Not that more doughty were the monarch's deeds;
But that the wily paynim vantage-ground
In that
streight
bridge and foaming river found.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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it is not you I call unseen, unheard,
untouchable
and untouching,
It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether
you are alive or no,
I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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After those reverend papers, whose soule is
Our good and great Kings lov'd hand and fear'd name,
By which to you he derives much of his,
And (how he may) makes you almost the same,
A Taper of his Torch, a copie writ 5
From his Originall, and a faire beame
Of the same warme, and dazeling Sun, though it
Must in another Sphere his vertue streame:
After those learned papers which your hand
Hath stor'd with notes of use and pleasure too, 10
From which rich
treasury
you may command
Fit matter whether you will write or doe:
After those loving papers, where friends tend
With glad griefe, to your Sea-ward steps, farewel,
Which thicken on you now, as prayers ascend 15
To heaven in troupes at'a good mans passing bell:
Admit this honest paper, and allow
It such an audience as your selfe would aske;
What you must say at Venice this meanes now,
And hath for nature, what you have for taske: 20
To sweare much love, not to be chang'd before
Honour alone will to your fortune fit;
Nor shall I then honour your forture, more
Then I have done your honour wanting it.
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John Donne |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It was nearly level along the beaten track
And the
brambles
caught in my gown--
But it's no use now to think of turning back,
The rest of the way will be only going down.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"You haven't stirred out since
the
beginning
of things.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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His "Fair Ines" had always
for me an
inexpressible
charm:--
O saw ye not fair Ines?
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Poe - 5 |
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Here no man treadeth oft nor loud,
Through
casement
comes the Autumn balm,
Here to the hopeless, hope is vowed,
To pleadings, tendered words of calm.
| Guess: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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James's Lodge, Tarbolton
On
Cessnock
Banks
Mary
The Lass of Ballochmyle
"The gloomy night is gathering fast"
"O whar did ye get that hauver meal bannock?
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Robert Burns |
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e kyng 'fore; his men
bileueden
no?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Aufgescheucht
fliegen die Eulen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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loudly and
musically
call me by my
nighest name!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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e sonne-bem; 28
Of diuers
coloures
hij weren,
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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th,
For Iesu cristes swete loue; to
susteyne
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
--Such were the sounds that o'er the crested pride
Of the first Edward scatter'd wild dismay,
As down the steep of Snowdon's shaggy side
He wound with
toilsome
march his long array:--
Stout Glo'ster stood aghast in speechless trance;
"To arms!
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Golden Treasury |
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"Buried alive from light and air
This year is the hundredth year,
I feed my fire with a
sleepless
care,
Watching my potion wane or wax:
Elixir of Life is simmering there,
And but one thing lacks.
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Christina Rossetti |
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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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The common
soldiers felt safe in their obscurity, and,
careless
of the future,
continued to offer resistance.
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Tacitus |
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backing clouds
Then sleep fell on her eyelids in a Chasm of the Valley
The
Sixteenth
morn the Spectre stood before her manifest ]
The Spectre thus spoke.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The
smallest
housewife in the grass,
Yet take her from the lawn,
And somebody has lost the face
That made existence home!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Quand tu vas balayant l'air de ta jupe large,
Tu fais l'effet d'un beau
vaisseau
qui prend le large,
Charge de toile, et va roulant
Suivant un rythme doux, et paresseux, et lent.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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O, thou child of many
prayers!
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Longfellow |
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Gilgamish and Enkidu
grappled
with each other,
goring like an ox.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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THE
RESPECTABLE
BURGHER
ON "THE HIGHER CRITICISM"
SINCE Reverend Doctors now declare
That clerks and people must prepare
To doubt if Adam ever were;
To hold the flood a local scare;
To argue, though the stolid stare,
That everything had happened ere
The prophets to its happening sware;
That David was no giant-slayer,
Nor one to call a God-obeyer
In certain details we could spare,
But rather was a debonair
Shrewd bandit, skilled as banjo-player:
That Solomon sang the fleshly Fair,
And gave the Church no thought whate'er;
That Esther with her royal wear,
And Mordecai, the son of Jair,
And Joshua's triumphs, Job's despair,
And Balaam's ass's bitter blare;
Nebuchadnezzar's furnace-flare,
And Daniel and the den affair,
And other stories rich and rare,
Were writ to make old doctrine wear
Something of a romantic air:
That the Nain widow's only heir,
And Lazarus with cadaverous glare
(As done in oils by Piombo's care)
Did not return from Sheol's lair:
That Jael set a fiendish snare,
That Pontius Pilate acted square,
That never a sword cut Malchus' ear
And (but for shame I must forbear)
That -- -- did not reappear!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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