WALDEINSAMKEIT
I do not count the hours I spend
In
wandering
by the sea;
The forest is my loyal friend,
Like God it useth me.
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dwellers in the nether gloom, avengers of the slain,
By this dear blood I cry to you, do right between us twain;
And even as Appius Claudius hath dealt by me and mine,
Deal you by Appius Claudius and all the
Claudian
line!
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An
immortal
hand is charged with his end.
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Remains the gleam
Of their late motion on the salt sea-meadow,
As
loveliest
hues linger when the sun's gone
And float in the heavens and die in reedy pools--
So slowly, who shall say when light is gone?
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The blanks of meditating flags
Stand high along our avenue:
But I've your naked tresses too
To bury there my
contented
eyes.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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With perfect
knowledge
did I all I did,
I willed to sin, and sinned, I own it all--
I championed men, unto my proper pain.
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I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone:
A wind from the pine-trees
trickles
on my bare head.
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To Miss Ferrier
Enclosing
the Elegy on Sir J.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Here, regarding the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England
possessed
for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
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sed tu horum magnos uicisti sola furores,
ut semel es flauo
conciliata
uiro.
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For which to chaumbre
streight
the wey he took,
And Troilus tho sobreliche he grette,
And on the bed ful sone he gan him sette.
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Ravish'd, she lifted her Circean head,
Blush'd a live damask, and swift-lisping said,
"I was a woman, let me have once more
A woman's shape, and
charming
as before.
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er it lay on bere,
As sonne
schinede
bry?
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The Sounds, and Seas with all their finny drove
Now to the Moon in
wavering
Morrice move,
And on the Tawny Sands and Shelves,
Trip the pert Fairies and the dapper Elves;
By dimpled Brook, and Fountain brim,
The Wood-Nymphs deckt with Daisies trim, 120
Their merry wakes and pastimes keep:
What hath night to do with sleep?
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And at last when she rose to go,
The light was a little dim,
And I ventured to peep, and so
I saw her,
graceful
and slim,
And she kissed him and kissed him, and oh
How I envied and envied him!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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it seems but Sunday past
Since we went out together for the last,
And plain enough indeed it was to find
She'd
something
more than common on her mind;
For she was always fond and full of chat,
In passing harmless jokes bout beaus and that,
But nothing then was scarcely talked about,
And what there was, I even forced it out.
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"Sweep
completed
in the fairway.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I listened till it almost climbed the stairs
From the hall to the only
finished
bedroom,
Before I got up to do anything;
Then ran and shouted, "Shut the bedroom door,
Toffile, for my sake!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Each morn it hangs a rainbow strung with dew
Betwixt boughs green with sap,
So fair, few
creatures
guess it is a trap:
I will not mar the web,
Though sad I am to see the small lives ebb.
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Christina Rossetti |
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[27]
Infinitive
"to shepherd"; see also Poebel, PBS.
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It is a pity to doubt
this green hair legend;
presently
a man of genius will not be able to
enjoy an epileptic fit in peace--as does a banker or a beggar.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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the Night a silver cup
Fill'd with the wine of anguish waited at the golden feast
But the bright Sun was not as yet; he filling all the expanse
Slept as a bird in the blue shell that soon shall burst away
[] [Los saw the wound of his blow he saw he pitied he wept] *
{This is the line as Erdman gives it, but does not remark that the line is nearly illegible in the
manuscript
and appears to be written in pencil and erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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O nimis optato
saeclorum
tempore nati
Heroes, salvete, deum genus, o bona matrum
Progenies, salvete iterum _placidique favete_.
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friend, no
anecdotes
for me, thank you.
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Aristophanes |
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Prepare we rather now, as night enjoins, 340
Our evening fare beside the sable bark,
In which at peep of day we may again
Launch forth secure into the
boundless
flood.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to
understand
you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He offers her his
murderous
paw;
She nerves herself from her alarm
And leans upon the monster's arm,
With footsteps tremulous with awe
Passes the torrent But alack!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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What were the names of the five
daughters
of the Old
Person of China, and what was the purpose for which the
Old Man of the Dargle purchased six barrels of Gargle?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He stops the richest tyrant's breath
And lays his
mischief
still.
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John Clare |
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Penelope appears to
the suitors, and having
reminded
them of the presents which she had a
right to expect from them, receives a gift from each.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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On the other hand, what was the
penalty that she would have paid if she had encouraged his
addresses
as
far as he would have carried them?
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exquisite
dancers in gray twilight!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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In all external grace you have some part,
But you like none, none you, for
constant
heart.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He, up and down,
Meantime
bids seek for female vest and gown.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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IV
These latter scenes confine my roving vers,
To this Horizon is my Phoebus bound,
His Godlike acts, and his temptations fierce,
And former
sufferings
other where are found;
Loud o're the rest Cremona's Trump doth sound;
Me softer airs befit, and softer strings
Of Lute, or Viol still, more apt for mournful things.
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Milton |
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XXII
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: --
"Have mind, thou honored
offspring
of Healfdene
gold-friend of men, now I go on this quest,
sovran wise, what once was said:
if in thy cause it came that I
should lose my life, thou wouldst loyal bide
to me, though fallen, in father's place!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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E forse che la mia narrazion buia,
qual Temi e Sfinge, men ti persuade,
perch' a lor modo lo 'ntelletto attuia;
ma tosto fier li fatti le Naiade,
che
solveranno
questo enigma forte
sanza danno di pecore o di biade.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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'If ther be wolves of sich hewe
Amonges these
apostlis
newe, 6270
Thou, holy chirche, thou mayst be wayled!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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He, with birth and beauty graced,
The trembling client's champion, ne'er tongue-tied,
Master of each manly taste,
Shall bear thy
conquering
banners far and wide.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Meredith - Poems |
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1090
And without wishing you to
increase
your pain
Reflect on my life, and think who I am, again.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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For thae frank, rantin, ramblin billies,
Feint haet o' them's ill-hearted fellows;
Except for breakin o' their timmer,
Or speakin lightly o' their limmer,
Or shootin of a hare or moor-cock,
The ne'er-a-bit they're ill to poor folk,
But will ye tell me, Master Caesar,
Sure great folk's life's a life o'
pleasure?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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A pale wraith stood in the dim grey dawn
Beside his old love's bed
Wavering
like a film of lawn
And wrang his hands and said,
"Oh!
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Tennyson |
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= It was
found
necessary
in 1541 to pass an act (33 Hen.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But though a son was born to him he was not
restored
to
Conservatism; with his mother's death all that had vanished.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Like
warbling
water clucks the talk.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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On a well-corded raft she sent me forth
With num'rous presents; bread she put and wine
On board, and cloath'd me in
immortal
robes;
She sent before me also a fair wind
Fresh-blowing, but not dang'rous.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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_Granville_ the polite,
And knowing _Walsh_, would tell me I could write;
Well-natur'd _Garth_ inflam'd with early praise; 135
And _Congreve_ lov'd, and _Swift_ endur'd my lays;
The courtly _Talbot, Somers, Sheffield_, read;
Ev'n mitred
_Rochester_
would nod the head,
And _St.
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Alexander Pope |
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what if all
Her stores were op'n'd, and this Firmament
Of Hell should spout her Cataracts of Fire,
Impendent horrors, threatning hideous fall
One day upon our heads; while we perhaps
Designing
or exhorting glorious Warr,
Caught in a fierie Tempest shall be hurl'd 180
Each on his rock transfixt, the sport and prey
Of racking whirlwinds, or for ever sunk
Under yon boyling Ocean, wrapt in Chains;
There to converse with everlasting groans,
Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd,
Ages of hopeless end; this would be worse.
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Milton |
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With this, there growes
In my most ill-composd Affection, such
A
stanchlesse
Auarice, that were I King,
I should cut off the Nobles for their Lands,
Desire his Iewels, and this others House,
And my more-hauing, would be as a Sawce
To make me hunger more, that I should forge
Quarrels vniust against the Good and Loyall,
Destroying them for wealth
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And yet, were Love and Pity friends, they might
A double column for my succour throw
Between my worn soul and the mortal blow:
It may not be; such feelings in the sight
Of my loved foe and
mistress
never stir;
The fault is in my fortune, not in her.
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Petrarch |
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But the crown
Of all my life was utmost quietude:
More did I love to lie in cavern rude,
Keeping in wait whole days for Neptune's voice,
And if it came at last, hark, and
rejoice!
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Keats |
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The phratria was a
division
of the tribe and consisted of
thirty families.
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Aristophanes |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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18 _aere
citatis_
Lachm.
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LV
But with a crash like thunder
Fell every
loosened
beam,
And, like a dam, the mighty wreck
Lay right athwart the stream:
And a long shout of triumph
Rose from the walls of Rome,
As to the highest turret-tops
Was splashed the yellow foam.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Or did huge Apis from his car leap down and lay before your feet
Big
blossoms
of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured nenuphar?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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In one of
the ballads the Douglas is killed by a
nameless
English archer,
and the Percy by a Scottish spearman; in the other, the Percy
slays the Douglas in single combat, and is himself made prisoner.
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Ay, it is fit for your
lordship
only.
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Shakespeare |
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Once she
appeared
to me, too: a dark-skinned girl, tumbling
Over her forehead the hair down in waves heavy and dark.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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VII
The face of all the world is changed, I think,
Since first I heard the
footsteps
of thy soul
Move still, oh, still, beside me, as they stole
Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink
Of obvious death, where I, who thought to sink,
Was caught up into love, and taught the whole
Of life in a new rhythm.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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A kingly nature, an angelic mind,
A spotless soul, prompt aspect and keen eye,
Quick penetration,
contemplation
high
And truly worthy of the breast which shrined:
In bright assembly lovely ladies join'd
To grace that festival with gratulant joy,
Amid so many and fair faces nigh
Soon his good judgment did the fairest find.
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Petrarch |
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(And I
Tiresias
have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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From the Northwest comes a shadowy wind,1
somberly
following the Uighurs.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"
"I am like thee, O, Night, patient and passionate; for in my breast
a thousand dead lovers are buried in shrouds of
withered
kisses.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Seaward I go,
'gainst hostile
warriors
hold my watch.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Could it mean
To last, a love set
pendulous
between
Sorrow and sorrow?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Boldly draw near and rend the gates asunder,
By which each
cowering
mortal gladly steals.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Hubur,
mythical
river, 197, 42.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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E io: <
che tu sappi chi e lo sciagurato
venuto a man de li
avversari
suoi>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But, day or night, for ever shall the load
Of wasting agony, that may not pass,
Wear thee away; for know, the womb of Time
Hath not
conceived
a power to set thee free.
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Aeschylus |
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At these feasts, the worship
of Persephone was
associated
with that of Demeter.
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Aristophanes |
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And as a
vanquished
soldier yields his sword
To one who lifts him from the bloody earth,
Even so, Beloved, I at last record,
Here ends my strife.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Peasants
bring forth in safety.
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Byron |
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And whan yow list, ye may come here ayeyn;
And, er ye gon, thus muche I seye yow here;
As help me Pallas with hir heres clere,
If that I sholde of any Greek han routhe, 1000
It sholde be your-selven, by my
trouthe!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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75
What moved my mind with
youthful
lords to roam?
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Alexander Pope |
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complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The crew,
There left, appear'd
astounded
with the place,
Gazing around as one who sees new sights.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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So they stormed the iron Hill,
O'er the
sleepers
lying still,
And their trumpets sang them forward through the dull succeeding dawns,
But the thunder flung them wide,
And they crumpled up and died,--
They had waged the war of monarchs--and they died the death of pawns.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_33 So 1862; No ray of moon or
sunshine
would endure 1834.
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Shelley |
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Then bow in thankfulness both heart and knee
Before his holy shrine,
Who such bright guerdon hath
reserved
for thee.
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Petrarch |
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Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees
That
palpitate
like the chill seas
Around the misty Hebrides!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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III
O distant, terrible forests of Maine,
With huge trees
numberless
as the rain
That falls on your lonely lakes!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I speak to you over cities
I speak to you over plains
My mouth is against your ear
The two sides of the walls face
my voice which
acknowledges
you.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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CHORUS
Wert thou already dowered with
prescience?
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Aeschylus |
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Et dans le vieux logis tout est tiede et vermeil:
Des sombres vetements ne
jonchent
plus la terre,
La bise sous le seuil a fini par se taire.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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TO MAKE AN
AMBLONGUS
PIE.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The very
children
in the school we
had that morning passed had gone through her wars, and recited her
alarms, ere they had heard of the wars of neighboring Lancaster.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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She does not regret that she is left so sad,
But minds that so few can
understand
her song.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
I led from the press-room to the
stifling
office with the maps on the
walls, and the red-haired man rubbed his hands.
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Kipling - Poems |
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]
[Sidenote C: All come
together
by the side of a cliff.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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His visage and the other's speech did raise
Desire in me to know the names of both,
whereof with meek
entreaty
I inquir'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It is a myth which has begotten some exquisite literature,
both in prose and verse, from Ovid's famous epistle to Addison's gracious
fantasy and some impassioned and
imperishable
dithyrambs of Mr.
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Sappho |
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