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so deeply that
purity emerges from
the
corruption!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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He repeated all his accusations in a
feeble, but
resolute
tone.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The vast park swoons beneath the burning eye of
the sun, as youth beneath the
lordship
of love.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And O it is delicious, when the day
In winter's loaded garment keenly blows
And turns her back on sudden falling snows,
To go where gravel pathways creep between
Arches of
evergreen
that scarce let through
A single feather of the driving storm;
And in the bitterest day that ever blew
The walk will find some places still and warm
Where dead leaves rustle sweet and give alarm
To little birds that flirt and start away.
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John Clare |
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" The bridge, as I
say, was arched and covered in, in a very
ridiculous
manner, and there
was a most uncomfortable echo about it at all times--an echo which I
never before so particularly observed as when I uttered the four last
words of my remark.
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Poe - 5 |
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And here is Life: the vines in the vale
And friend and foe, and the feast in the hall,
And May and the maid, and the glen and the grail;
God's flags afloat on every wall
In a
thousand
streets unfurled.
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Rilke - Poems |
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What a
tiresome
fellow!
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Aristophanes |
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Angels'
breathless
ballot
Lingers to record thee;
Imps in eager caucus
Raffle for my soul.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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THE husband who so fully gave consent,
Was led his partner's suff'rings to lament
The spirit of a queen in truth she showed,
When
cuckoldom
was on her spouse bestowed;
In decoration, forced to acquiesce,
She would not condescend to join caress.
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La Fontaine |
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O take my hand, Walt
Whitman!
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Whitman |
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He died at an
advanced
age in Montpellier.
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Troubador Verse |
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Ye cedars, with
innumerable
boughs
Hide me, where I may never see them more!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the
sentence
set forth in paragraph 1.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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This
is the only certain reference to Epps I have been able to find, but
Grosart
declares
he is the soldier described in Dekker's _Knights
Conjuring_ as behaving with great courage at the siege of Ostend
(1601-4), where he was killed.
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John Donne |
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Like strange
mechanical
grotesques,
Making fantastic arabesques,
The shadows raced across the blind.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Not a whit could I with Hrunting do
in work of war, though the weapon is good;
yet a sword the Sovran of Men vouchsafed me
to spy on the wall there, in
splendor
hanging,
old, gigantic, -- how oft He guides
the friendless wight!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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HYMN TO ARISTOGEITON AND HARMODIUS
Translation from the Greek
I
WREATHED in myrtle, my sword I'll conceal
Like those
champions
devoted and brave,
When they plunged in the tyrant their steel,
And to Athens deliverance gave.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Geburt und Grab,
Ein ewiges Meer,
Ein
wechselndes
Wehen,
Ein gluhend Leben,
So schaff ich am laufenden Webstuhl der Zeit
Und wirke der Gottheit lebendiges Kleid.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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He calls the cobwebs
"kindred," because the
arguments
of Thomists and Scotists were as fine
spun as a spider's web.
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Alexander Pope |
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The cause y-told of hir cominge, the olde
Pryam the king ful sone in general
Let here-upon his parlement to holde,
Of which the effect
rehersen
yow I shal.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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If you are willing to pledge me your heart, lover,
I'll offer mine: and so we will grasp entire
All the
pleasures
of life, and no strange desire
Will make my spirit prisoner to another.
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Ronsard |
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It is consoling to discover that on some Germans (Lilienkron, for
example) Schiller makes precisely the same
impression
as he does on
us.
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Li Po |
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>>
L'AMOUR DU MENSONGE
Quand je te vois passer, o ma chere indolente,
Au chant des instruments qui se brise au plafond,
Suspendant
ton allure harmonieuse et lente,
Et promenant l'ennui de ton regard profond;
Quand je contemple, aux feux du gaz qui le colore,
Ton front pale, embelli par un morbide attrait,
Ou les torches du soir allument une aurore,
Et tes yeux attirants comme ceux d'un portrait,
Je me dis: Qu'elle est belle!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Lavinia, though you left me like a churl,
I found a friend; and sure as death I swore
I would not part a
bachelor
from the priest.
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Shakespeare |
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The old flame
Throws out clear tokens of
reviving
fire:"
But Virgil had bereav'd us of himself,
Virgil, my best-lov'd father; Virgil, he
To whom I gave me up for safety: nor,
All, our prime mother lost, avail'd to save
My undew'd cheeks from blur of soiling tears.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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My heart failed me; I burst into tears and
murmured
the
name of my loved one.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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O lover, in this radiant world
Whence is the race of mortal men, 10
So frail, so mighty, and so fond,
That fleets into the vast
unknown?
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Sappho |
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'"Nay--but thou errest, Lancelot: never yet
Could all of true and noble in knight and man
Twine round one sin, whatever it might be,
With such a closeness, but apart there grew,
Save that he were the swine thou spakest of,
Some root of
knighthood
and pure nobleness;
Whereto see thou, that it may bear its flower.
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Tennyson |
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Set not thy foot on graves;
Care not to strip the dead
Of his sad ornament,
His myrrh, and wine, and rings,
His sheet of lead,
And
trophies
buried:
Go, get them where he earned them when alive;
As resolutely dig or dive.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Is this
his
repayment
for my maidenhood?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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e stif kyng his-seluen,
108
Talkkande
bifore ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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--so the
countess
passed on until she came through the
little park, where Niobe presented her with a
cabinet, and so departed.
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T.S. Eliot |
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For not the
whispering
south-wind on its way
So much delights me, nor wave-smitten beach,
Nor streams that race adown their bouldered beds.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
The troubled
midnight
and the noon's repose.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Within me
latitude
widens, longitude lengthens;
Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east--America is provided for in the west;
Banding the bulge of the earth winds the hot equator,
Curiously north and south turn the axis-ends;
Within me is the longest day--the sun wheels in slanting rings--it does not
set for months.
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Whitman |
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Why round our coaches crowd the white-glov'd Beaux,
Why bows the side-box from its inmost rows;
How vain are all these glories, all our pains, 15
Unless good sense
preserve
what beauty gains:
That men may say, when we the front-box grace:
'Behold the first in virtue as in face!
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Alexander Pope |
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Two
italicized lines are marked by
asterisks
(*).
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Sara Teasdale |
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Whether
wandering
in your course,
or tempest-driven (such perils manifold on the high seas do sailors
suffer), you have entered the river banks and lie in harbour; shun not
our welcome, and be not ignorant that the Latins are Saturn's people,
whom no laws fetter to justice, upright of their own free will and the
custom of the god of old.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Although it lacks some of
the pomp and circumstance of the best Greek tragedy, it is written with
great dignity in the
strictest
classical form, admirably suggesting
the best in French classical drama.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Biographical
Chronicle
of the English
Drama 1559-1642.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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LIV
His voice with indignation rising high
Such further deed in manhood's name forbade;
The peasant, wild in passion, made reply 480
With bitter insult and revilings sad;
Asked him in scorn what business there he had;
What kind of plunder he was hunting now;
The gallows would one day of him be glad;--
Though inward anguish damped the Sailor's brow, 485
Yet calm he seemed as
thoughts
so poignant would allow.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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love's best habit is in seeming trust,
And age in love, loves not to have years told:
Therefore
I lie with her, and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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On either shore, some
Stand in grief loud or dumb
As the
dreadful
dread
Grows certain though unsaid.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Claudite
ostia, virgines:
Lusimus satis.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The Grand Master, who presided with
great solemnity and honour to himself as a gentleman and mason, among
other general toasts, gave "Caledonia, and Caledonia's Bard, Brother
Burns," which rung through the whole assembly with
multiplied
honours
and repeated acclamations.
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Robert Forst |
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I feel your spirit and I close my eyes,
Knowing the bright hair blowing in the sun,
The eager whisper and the
searching
eyes.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Yis
damoiselle
foughte to be here agayne; 1220
The whyche, albeytte foemen, wee dydd wylle;
So here wee broughte her wythe you to remayne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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These kings,
Though it be but a lightning-moment struck
Upon the darkness of their
ignorant
hearts,
Must know what I know; that there is a beauty,
Only in thee shown forth in bodily sign,
Which can of life make such triumphant glee,
The force of the world seems but man's spirit utter'd.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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YOU AGREE
THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
1.
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Stephen Crane |
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[Illustration]
There was a young person in pink,
Who called out for
something
to drink;
But they said, "O my daughter, there's nothing but water!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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for in good health are ye all, grandly ye digest,
naught fear ye, nor arson nor house-fall, thefts impious nor poison's
furtive cunning, nor aught of
perilous
happenings whatsoe'er.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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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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astoned hadde yit
streyhte
myn
Eres / ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Move eastward, happy earth, and leave
Yon orange sunset waning slow:
From fringes of the faded eve,
O, happy planet,
eastward
go;
Till over thy dark shoulder glow
Thy silver sister-world, and rise
To glass herself in dewy eyes
That watch me from the glen below.
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Tennyson |
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Can't I divine yet the paths through which over and over
To her and from her I'll go,
squandering
valuable time?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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In "sprout-lands" they
seem to vie with one another, and ever some
particular
one in the
midst of the crowd will be of a peculiarly pure scarlet, and by its
more intense color attract our eye even at a distance, and carry off
the palm.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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* * * * *
HUGHIE GRAHAM
There are several
editions
of this ballad.
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Robert Burns |
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I know a bright world of snowy hills at Boonton,
A blue and white
dazzling
light on everything one sees,
The ice-covered branches of the hemlocks sparkle
Bending low and tinkling in the sharp thin breeze,
And iridescent crystals fall and crackle on the snow-crust
With the winter sun drawing cold blue shadows from the trees.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And all preparation is for it--and
identity
is for it--and life and
materials are altogether for it!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second
Marriage
in my house;
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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He alone has
discovered
a
new kind of sarcasm, and it is this sarcasm that keeps him, and may
long keep him, from general popularity.
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Yeats |
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Still might she taste, and still must choke to taste,
The fragrance of sweet oils and gums aflame
Capturing the cool night with spicy riches;
Still after her through the hollow moveless air
The sounded ceremonies came, the cry
Of dainty lust in winding tune of fifes,
The silver fury of cymbals clamouring
Like frenzy in a woman-madden'd brain;
And drumming underneath the whole wild noise,
Like
monstrous
hatred underneath desire,
The thunder of the beaten serpent-skins.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Claudius
had
established a College of Soothsayers in Rome.
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Tacitus |
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3 Guo Ziyi, the
Minister
of Works, was second in command.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I'll be under the earth, a
boneless
phantom,
At rest in the myrtle groves of the dark kingdom:
You'll be an old woman hunched over the fire,
Regretting my love for you, your fierce disdain,
So live, believe me: don't wait for another day,
Gather them now the roses of life, and desire.
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Ronsard |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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So how should I
presume?
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T.S. Eliot |
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First of all, 'tis
he who has
compelled
his rivals no longer to scoff at rags or to war with
lice; and as for those Heracles, always chewing and ever hungry, those
poltroons and cheats who allow themselves to be beaten at will, he was
the first to cover them with ridicule and to chase them from the
stage;[329] he has also dismissed that slave, whom one never failed to
set a-weeping before you, so that his comrade might have the chance of
jeering at his stripes and might ask, "Wretch, what has happened to your
hide?
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Aristophanes |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Li Po |
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let me not perish now,
In the budding of my
Paradisal
Hope!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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where the mighty sword
Which slew its master
righteously?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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O'er earth and sky her lone watch silence keeps,
And bird and beast in stirless slumber lie,
Her starry chariot Night
conducts
on high,
And in its bed the waveless ocean sleeps.
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Petrarch |
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I had trod the road which Dante
treading
saw
the suns of seven circles shine,
Ay!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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THE NIGHTINGALE;
A
CONVERSATIONAL
POEM, WRITTEN IN APRIL, 1798.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
--Thus
answered
Johnny in his glory,
And that was all his travel's story.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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What is thy
cleverness
to me?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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e
bytidyng
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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When the golden days arrive,
With the swallow at the eaves,
And the first sob of the south-wind
Sighing at the latch with spring, 40
Long hereafter shall thy name
Be
recalled
through foreign lands,
And thou be a part of sorrow
When the Linus songs are sung.
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Sappho |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are confirmed as not
protected
by copyright in
the U.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every
drifting
cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The tsar becomes a monk,
And the dark
sepulchre
will be my cell.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--for all that, I am yet of you unseen, this hour, with
irrepressible
love,
Walking New England, a friend, a traveller,
Splashing my bare feet in the edge of the summer ripples, on Paumanok's
sands,
Crossing the prairies--dwelling again in Chicago--dwelling in every town,
Observing shows, births, improvements, structures, arts,
Listening to the orators and the oratresses in public halls,
Of and through the States, as during life[4]--each man and woman my
neighbour,
The Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her,
The Mississippian and Arkansian yet with me--and I yet with any of them;
Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river--yet in my house of adobie,
Yet returning eastward--yet in the Sea-Side State, or in Maryland,
Yet Canadian cheerily braving the winter--the snow and ice welcome to me,
or mounting the Northern Pacific, to Sitka, to Aliaska;
Yet a true son either of Maine, or of the Granite State,[5] or of the
Narragansett Bay State, or of the Empire State;[6]
Yet sailing to other shores to annex the same--yet welcoming every new
brother;
Hereby applying these leaves to the new ones, from the hour they unite with
the old ones;
Coming among the new ones myself, to be their companion and equal--coming
personally to you now;
Enjoining you to acts, characters, spectacles, with me.
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Whitman |
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To
Introduce
Myself.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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How swift upon the
thought!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Preach as I please, I doubt our curious men
Will choose a pheasant still before a hen;
Yet hens of Guinea full as good I hold,
Except you eat the
feathers
green and gold.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I cannot think, why such a
glorious
wealth
As this of love on our hearts should be spent.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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at pater, ut summa prospectum ex arce petebat,
anxia in assiduos absumens lumina fletus,
cum primum inflati
conspexit
lintea ueli,
praecipitem sese scopulorum e uertice iecit,
amissum credens immiti Thesea fato.
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Latin - Catullus |
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I know not
forsure!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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