LVII
Return we, where eternal fame is due,
Leaving Alcina in her trouble sore:
I speak of
valorous
Rogero, who
Had disembarked upon the safer shore.
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It was hot, and sleep, gently flowing,
Was trickling through my dreaming soul,
When the vague form of a vibrant ghost
Arrived to disturb my dreaming, softly
Leaning down to me, pure ivory teeth,
And offering me her
flickering
tongue,
Her lips were kissing me, sweet and long,
Mouth on mouth, thigh on thigh beneath.
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Ronsard |
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They were in the
proportion
of the soldiers to
the laborers in an African ant-hill.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Here nearly always if the ring-dove coos
This immaterial grief with many a fold of cloud
Crushes the ripe star of tomorrows, whose crowd
Will be
silvered
by its scintillations.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Cape Cod starts you along the beaches to Rhode Island;
Connecticut
takes you from a river to the sea.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The child
inclined
his ear,
And then grew weary and gray.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And only fools
abominably
crazed,
Those who will set imagination down
As less in truth than their dim sensual wit,
Dare doubt that, while these dreams of ours, these bodies,
Still quiver in the world each with its own
Delight, the great divine wrath of our love
Hath stricken off from us the place of the world!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Then pointed to her
bleeding
breast,
And shrieked, and fled away.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Those who read the Revelations
Must not criticise
Those who read the same edition
With
beclouded
eyes!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Why weaves she not her world-webs to according lutes and tabors,
With nevermore this too
remorseful
air upon her face,
As of angel fallen from grace?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I might tell how but the day before
John Burns stood at his cottage door,
Looking down the village street,
Where, in the shade of his peaceful vine,
He heard the low of his
gathered
kine,
And felt their breath with incense sweet
Or I might say, when the sunset burned
The old farm gable, he thought it turned
The milk that fell like a babbling flood
Into the milk-pail red as blood!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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His talents placed him at the head of
the fashion, and with those enchanting vices which Quintilian ascribes
to him, he was, no doubt, the person who
contributed
most to the
corruption of taste and eloquence.
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Tacitus |
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Muffle the sound of bells,
Mournfully
human, that cries from the darkening valley;
Close, with your leaves, about the sound of water:
Take me among your hearts as you take the mist
Among your boughs!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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While I had power to bless you,
Nor any round that neck his arms did fling
More
privileged
to caress you,
Happier was Horace than the Persian king.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Pass we then
For so Heaven's
pleasure
is, that I should lead
Another through this savage wilderness.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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On either side
All round about the fragrant marge
From fluted vase, and brazen urn
In order, eastern flowers large,
Some
dropping
low their crimson bells
Half-closed, and others studded wide
With disks and tiars, fed the time
With odour in the golden prime
Of good Haroun Alraschid.
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Tennyson |
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org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Keats - Lamia |
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"]
[Sidenote F: All the
renowned
assembly he thanks full oft.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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So from a
powerless
husband shall be wrought
A powerless peril.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I will not play the Seer;
I will no longer strive to ope
The mystic volume, where appear
The herald Hope, forerunning Fear,
And Fear, the
pursuivant
of Hope.
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Longfellow |
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1095
Hath kinde thee
wroughte
al-only hir to plese?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Nor is it for nothing that the
fashion of Vergilian
quotation
so long dominated our parliamentary
eloquence.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He wore an ancient long buff vest,
Yellow as saffron,--but his best,
And,
buttoned
over his manly breast,
Was a bright blue coat, with a rolling collar,
And large gilt buttons,--size of a dollar,--
With tails that the country-folk called "swaller.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Hero ever found
Eviradnus
is kinsman of the race
Of Amadys of Gaul, and knights of Thrace,
He smiles at age.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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How holily he works in all his
business!
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Shakespeare |
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I walked, with other souls in pain,
Within another ring,
And was
wondering
if the man had done
A great or little thing,
When a voice behind me whispered low,
'_That fellow's got to swing_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Yes, on an isle the air charges
With sight and not with visions
Every flower showed itself larger
Without
entering
our discussions.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Fendent le lac aux eaux
rougies!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The Horse
Pegasus
'Pegasus'
Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509 - 1516, The Rijksmuseun
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy,
My verses, the
patterns
of all poetry.
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Appoloinaire |
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) Then when the grey wolves
everychone
Drink of the winds their chill small-beer And lap o' the snows food's gueredon,
Then maketh my heart his yule-tide cheer (Skoal !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Still it whisper'd promised pleasure
And bade the lovely scenes at
distance
hail!
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Golden Treasury |
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He came late along the waste,
Shod like a traveller for haste;
With malice dared me to
proclaim
him,
That the maids and boys might name him.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The maids to catch this cowslip ball:
But since these
cowslips
fading be,
Troth, leave the flowers, and, maids, take me.
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Robert Herrick |
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But time is too
precious
to be wasted thus;
I'll forgo speech, wishing you to leave us.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"I will hope and trust in heaven,
Nancy, Nancy;
Strength
to bear it will be given,
My spouse, Nancy.
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Robert Burns |
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I know not; and never again was she given back to our
eyes; nor did I turn to look for my lost one, or cast back a thought,
ere we were come to ancient Ceres' mound and hallowed seat; here at
last, when all gathered, one was missing,
vanished
from her child's and
her husband's company.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
VIDA DE SAN MILLAN
BY GONZALO DE BERCEO
And when the kings were in the field,--their
squadrons
in array,--
With lance in rest they onward pressed to mingle in the fray;
But soon upon the Christians fell a terror of their foes,--
These were a numerous army,--a little handful those.
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Longfellow |
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Far as the east from even,
Dim as the border star, --
Courtiers quaint, in kingdoms,
Our
departed
are.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Alway in which my death and Love reside,
That, as a child the rod, its glance I fly,
Though long the time has been since first I tried;
And ever since, so
wearisome
or high,
No place has been where strong will has not hied,
Her shunning, at whose sight my senses die,
And, cold as marble, I am laid aside:
Wherefore if I return to see you late,
Sure 'tis no fault, unworthy of excuse,
That from my death awhile I held aloof:
At all to turn to what men shun, their fate,
And from such fear my harass'd heart to loose,
Of its true faith are ample pledge and proof.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But why should I be here, O God, I a green seed of unfulfilled
passion, a mad tempest that seeketh neither east nor west, a
bewildered
fragment
from a burnt planet?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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O born in Manlius' year with me,
Whate'er you bring us, plaint or jest,
Or passion and wild revelry,
Or, like a gentle wine-jar, rest;
Howe'er men call your Massic juice,
Its broaching claims a festal day;
Come then;
Corvinus
bids produce
A mellower wine, and I obey.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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280
Thou
therefore
whom thou only canst redeeme,
Thir Nature also to thy Nature joyne;
And be thy self Man among men on Earth,
Made flesh, when time shall be, of Virgin seed,
By wondrous birth: Be thou in Adams room
The Head of all mankind, though Adams Son.
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Milton |
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"
The conversation was
interrupted
at this point, to the great regret of
the young girl.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The
last mentioned passage finds a still closer parallel in a couplet from
the
contemporary
ballad, which Gifford quotes from Hutchinson (p.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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From sea to sea, north and south, east and west,
Fusing and holding, claiming, devouring the whole;
No more with tender lip, nor musical labial sound,
But out of the night
emerging
for good, our voice persuasive no more,
Croaking like crows here in the wind.
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Whitman |
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Today, without presuming anything about what will emerge from this in future, nothing, or almost a new art, let us readily accept that the tentative participates, with the unforeseen, in the pursuit,
specific
and dear to our time, of free verse and the prose poem.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Not slow our eyes to find it; well we knew who stood behind it,
Though the
earthwork
hid them from us, and the stubborn
walls were dumb:
Here were sister, wife, and mother, looking wild upon each other,
And their lips were white with terror as they said, THE HOUR
HAS COME!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Socrates
taught
Parrhasius
and Clito (two noble statuaries) first to express
manners by their looks in imagery.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Strange
sensations
crept about me
At the sight of all these birds.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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--
Not raging Ocean, when its billows boil;
Nor Typhon, when he lifts the trembling soil
Of Arima, his tortured limbs to ease;
Nor Etna, thundering o'er the subject seas--
Surpass'd the fury of the baffled Power,
Who stamp'd with rage, and bann'd the luckless hour
Scenes yet unsung demand my
loftiest
lays--
But oh!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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For
journeying
on to Hercules, at length
That lawless wretch, that man of brutal strength,
Deaf to Heaven's voice, the social rites transgress'd;
And for the beauteous mares destroy'd his guest.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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XVII
Nay; I'll sing "The Bridge of Lodi"--
That long-loved,
romantic
thing,
Though none show by smile or nod he
Guesses why and what I sing!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Not from the grand old masters,
Not from the bards sublime,
Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the
corridors
of Time.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
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Appoloinaire |
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" He thus in answer spake
"They shall be closed all, what-time they here
From
Josaphat
return'd shall come, and bring
Their bodies, which above they now have left.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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This sad period of
probation
is illuminated by the
episode of his first love.
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Emerson - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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They might (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax' self the blessing of a friend;
Or find some doctor that would save the life
Of
wretched
Shylock, spite of Shylock's wife:
But thousands die, without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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[_Here the
manuscript
abruptly terminates.
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Robert Burns |
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And wJio, pray, could swear,
That he would forbear
To cull out the good of an alien,
Who still doth advance
The government of France
With a wife and
religion
Italian ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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[Sidenote: They want the fewest who measure their
abundance
by the
necessities of nature, and not by the superfluity of their
desires.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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the ripe moon hangs above
Weaving
enchantment
o'er the shadowy lea.
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Rilke - Poems |
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'
"With ready speed the joyful crew obey:
Alone Eurylochus
persuades
their stay.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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So also will Ousel, for his jockey doesn't
understand
a waiting
race.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Now did the hour of sweet repast arrive,
And from the field the victim flocks they drive:
Medon the herald (one who pleased them best,
And honour'd with a portion of their feast),
To bid the banquet, interrupts their play:
Swift to the hall they haste; aside they lay
Their garments, and
succinct
the victims slay.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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of the
Inhabitants
of England.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Auguration
Silvery
swallows
I saw flying,
Swallows snow and silver white,
In the breezes lullabying,
In the breezes hot and light.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The Clown Chastised
Eyes, lakes of my simple passion to be reborn
Other than as the actor who
gestures
with his hand
As with a pen, and evokes the foul soot of the lamps,
Here's a window in the walls of cloth I've torn.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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She often accuses me and tries me,
And lays false charges now, at will,
Yet
whenever
she acts vilely
All the fault's laid at my door still!
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Troubador Verse |
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XVIII
And then at last our bliss
Full and perfect is,
But now begins; for from this happy day
Th'old Dragon under ground
In straiter limits bound,
Not half so far casts his usurped sway, 170
And wrath to see his Kingdom fail,
Swindges
the scaly Horrour of his foulded tail.
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Milton |
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In scenam vero prodire, et populo esse spectaculo nemini in
iisdem
gentibus
fuit turpitudini.
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Tacitus |
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Like moon just dawning on the night
The
crescent
honours of his head;
One dapple spot of snowy white,
The rest all red.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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156
_scilla_
O: _silla_ GRVenLa1
158 _conub_ BAC: _connub.
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Latin - Catullus |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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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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alter erit tum Tiphys, et altera quae uehat Argo
delectos heroas; erunt etiam altera bella,
atque iterum ad Troiam magnus
mittetur
Achilles.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I'm also pleased to view some lord
Who leads the vanguard in attack,
On armoured horse, a
fearless
sword,
Who can inspire his men to hack
Away and bravely fight,
And when the conflict's joined aright,
Each must in readiness delight,
And follow where he might,
For none attains to honour's height
Till blows have landed left and right.
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Troubador Verse |
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TO ANTHEA
Anthea, I am going hence
With some small stock of innocence;
But yet those blessed gates I see
Withstanding
entrance
unto me;
To pray for me do thou begin;--
The porter then will let me in.
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Robert Herrick |
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For the cheat, Turner, for them both mui^t
throw ;
♦ Campfispe was Alexander's mistress, whom ApelN^s, by
Alexander's command, painted naked, and fell
violently
in
love with her.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Outside the day was one of green and blue,
With touches of a
luminous
glowing red,
Across the quiet pond the small waves sped.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Not song but wail, and
mourners
pale,
Not bards, to love belong.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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That Emperour, if he combat with me,
Must lose his head, cut from his
shoulders
clean;
He may be sure naught else for him's decreed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The
shutters
were drawn and the undertaker wiped his feet--
He was aware that this sort of thing had occurred before.
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To realise the nineteenth century one must
realise every century that has preceded it and that has
contributed
to
its making.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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XXXVI
Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Although our
undivided
loves are one:
So shall those blots that do with me remain,
Without thy help, by me be borne alone.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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_The
conclusion
concerning the whole_, _and the parts_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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No
footstep
stirred: the hated world an slept,
Save only thee and me.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Unnatural vices
Are
fathered
by our heroism.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Now let us come to what
concerns
us more
Than bridge or gardens.
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Longfellow |
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Equipt with feathers, black as ink in hue,
And piercing talons was the winged pest;
An eye of fire it had, a cruel look,
And, like ship-sails, two
spreading
pinions shook.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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As the dulce downie barbe beganne to gre,
So was the well thyghte texture of hys lore;
Eche daie
enhedeynge
mockler for to bee, 105
Greete yn hys councel for the daies he bore.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Relieve my terrors, and grant a mother's prayers
such power that they may yield to no stress of
voyaging
or of stormy
gust: be birth on our hills their avail.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Old Nestor, rising then, the hero led
To his high seat: the chief refused and said:
"'Tis now no season for these kind delays;
The great
Achilles
with impatience stays.
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Iliad - Pope |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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XXX
God grant I meet not at a ball
Or at a promenade mayhap,
A
schoolmaster
in yellow shawl
Or a professor in tulle cap.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Robert Burns |
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By the all-pitying love
That could thy Godhead move
To dwell a lowly
sojourner
on earth,
Turn, Lord!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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sometimes
for necessity, when we are driven, or think it
fitter, to speak that in obscure words, or by circumstance, which uttered
plainly would offend the hearers.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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