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BREDON HILL (1)
In summertime on Bredon
The bells they sound so clear;
Round both the shires they ring them
In
steeples
far and near,
A happy noise to hear.
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And will this divine grace, this supreme
perfection
depart those for whom life exists only to discover and glorify them?
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Appoloinaire |
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From the remote
interior, its current conducts him by broad and easy steps, or by one
gentler
inclined
plane, to the sea.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Note: Hercules, Alcmene's son, tormented by the shirt of Nessus
immolated
himself on a pyre on Mount Oeta, and was deified.
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Ronsard |
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Herman did not recover his usual
composure
during the entire day.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Then Devens looked and saw the light:
He got him forth into the night,
And watched alone on the river-shore,
And marked the British
ferrying
o'er.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Miss Nancy
Ellicott
smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.
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T.S. Eliot |
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So, in the like name of that love of ours,
Take back these thoughts which here
unfolded
too,
And which on warm and cold days I withdrew
From my heart's ground.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Now while I sat in the day, and looked forth,
In the close of the day, with its light, and the fields of spring, and the
farmer
preparing
his crops,
In the large unconscious scenery of my land, with its lakes and forests,
In the heavenly aerial beauty, after the perturbed winds and the storms;
Under the arching heavens of the afternoon swift passing, and the voices of
children and women,
The many-moving sea-tides,--and I saw the ships how they sailed,
And the summer approaching with richness, and the fields all busy with
labour,
And the infinite separate houses, how they all went on, each with its meals
and minutiae of daily usages;
And the streets, how their throbbings throbbed, and the cities
pent--lo!
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Whitman |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Hear now, ye suitors of the
matchless
Queen,
My bosom's dictates.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The deed he saw could not have rated higher
Than his most
worthless
life:--it angers me!
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Shelley |
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An Alfred awoke them in England, a
Chaucer, a Caxton would not let them die; an Elizabeth revived them
among the
glorious
music of her reign.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Which day, the treasurer to the said funds
produced
a letter from Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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Your rainbow
glitters
in the skies.
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Sidney Lanier |
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List to me, O
Madelaine!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Again the shrill-lipped bugles blow
Where the swift currents of the river flow
Past Fredericksburg: far off the heavens are red
With sudden conflagration: on yon height,
Linstock
in hand, the gunners hold their breath:
A signal-rocket pierces the dense night,
Flings its spent stars upon the town beneath:
Hark!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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ut uidetur ||
_peperere_
(uel _rupere_)
Itali: _propere_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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A dance divine, that, time after time, resumed,
Broke, and re-formed again,
circling
every way,
Merged and then parted, turned, then turned away,
Mirroring the curves Meander's course assumed.
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Ronsard |
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I wish that
leastwise
these should breed disgust
In thee and old Fuficius, rogue twice-cookt.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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During the ride I turned over in my
mind a thousand projects for
rescuing
the poor girl without being able
to decide on any.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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There are, then, certain bodies, possessed of power
To vary forever the empty and the full;
And these can nor be sundered from without
By beats and blows, nor from within be torn
By penetration, nor be overthrown
By any assault soever through the world--
For without void, naught can be crushed, it seems,
Nor broken, nor severed by a cut in twain,
Nor can it take the damp, or seeping cold
Or
piercing
fire, those old destroyers three;
But the more void within a thing, the more
Entirely it totters at their sure assault.
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Lucretius |
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For God shall right thy
grievous
wrong,
And man shall sing thee a true-love song,
Voiced in act his whole life long,
Yea, all thy sweet life long,
Fair Lady.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The Sung writer Hsieh Chung-yung arranged in
chronological
order all
the information about the poet's life that can be gleaned not only from
the T'ang histories, but also from the poems themselves.
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Li Po |
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Farewell, green fields and happy groves,
Where flocks have took delight,
Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen, they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each
sleeping
bosom.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Dying alone, and not my life with me,
Comely and sweet it then had been to die,
Leaving my life's best part
unscathed
and free;
But now my fond hopes lie
Dead in her silent dust: a secret chill
Shoots through me when I think that I live still.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The Lilly of the valley
breathing
in the humble grass
Answerd the lovely maid and said: I am a watry weed,
And I am very small and love to dwell in lowly vales:
So weak the gilded butterfly scarce perches on my head
Yet I am visited from heaven and he that smiles on all
Walks in the valley, and each morn over me spreads his hand
Saying, rejoice thou humble grass, thou new-born lily flower.
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blake-poems |
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Like an
enchantress
here thou show'st,
Vexing thy restless lover's ghost.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Where is
Baptiste?
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Longfellow |
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permission
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Chanson de Roland |
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Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee,
Which, used, lives th'
executor
to be.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"Give voice to us, we pray, O Lord,
"That we may sing Thy
goodness
to the sun.
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Stephen Crane |
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Than spak he thus, `O lady myn Criseyde,
Wher is your feyth, and wher is your
biheste?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"I would know why," -- he said -- "thou
wishedst
me
Less legs and bigger brows; and when?
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Sidney Lanier |
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THE
CONQUEROR
WORM.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"Does spring hide its joy,
When buds and
blossoms
grow?
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blake-poems |
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When Cynthia lights wi' silver ray,
The weary shearer's
hameward
way;
Thro' yellow waving fields we'll stray,
And talk o' love my dearie, O.
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Robert Burns |
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Deare Duff, I prythee
contradict
thy selfe,
And say, it is not so.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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`And
thenketh
wel, ye shal in Grekes finde,
A more parfit love, er it be night,
Than any Troian is, and more kinde, 920
And bet to serven yow wol doon his might.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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About this peiiod he lost his
father under circumstances
peculiarly
affecting.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Sur les cranes, la neige applique un blanc chapeau:
Le corbeau fait panache a ces tetes felees,
Un morceau de chair tremble a leur maigre menton:
On dirait,
tournoyant
dans les sombres melees,
Des preux, raides, heurtant armures de carton.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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intercepta
tuis conduntur flumina muris;
consumunt totos celsa lauacra lacus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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High passion
throbbing
in a sphere
That Art hath wrought of diamond clear,
-- A great heart beating in a tear.
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Sidney Lanier |
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But that Empire, so grand, so
glorious
a prize, 575
Is not the dearest gift of all, to my eyes.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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By lake and stream and
gleaming
hall
And modest copse and the forest tall,
Where'er he went, the magic guide
Kept its place by the poet's side.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The
description
which you give of the state
of our country during the plague, appeared to me most true and most
pathetic.
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Petrarch |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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a house on earth in
contrast
with a
dwelling in heaven): nom.
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Beowulf |
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Let love sparkle in her e'e;
Let her lo'e nae man but me;
That's the tocher-gude I prize,
There the luver's
treasure
lies.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I am a good deal pleased with some
sentiments
myself, as
they are just the native querulous feelings of a heart, which, as the
elegantly melting Gray says, "melancholy has marked for her own.
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Robert Forst |
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Below the ice, the unheard stream's
Clear heart thrilled on in ecstasy;
And lo, a
visionary
blush
Stole warmly o'er the voiceless wild;
And in her rapt and wintry hush
The lonely face of Nature smiled.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And as she sleep, anoon-right tho hir mette, 925
How that an egle,
fethered
whyt as boon,
Under hir brest his longe clawes sette,
And out hir herte he rente, and that a-noon,
And dide his herte in-to hir brest to goon,
Of which she nought agroos, ne no-thing smerte, 930
And forth he fleigh, with herte left for herte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the
universe
into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"--
If one, settling a pillow by her head,
Should say: "That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And then the
festival
begins!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown
slightly
bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet--and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Me, lured by hope her sorrows to remove,
A heart that could not much itself approve,
O'er Gallia's wastes of corn dejected led,
Her road elms
rustling
high above my head,
Or through her truant pathways' native charms,
By secret villages and lonely farms,
To where the Alps .
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Byron |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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tel que le bon Dieu me fit,
Je veux
toujours
paraitre.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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To you what triumph, where ye now are blest,
If of our worthy choice the fame have spread:
And how his laurell'd crest,
Will old
Fabricius
rear, with joy elate,
That his own Rome again shall beauteous be and great!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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De son oeuvre je
reparlerai
peut-etre
encore.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Is it for me, the
favourite
of my lord?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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wandryng
risorses yflit by dyuerse speres.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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A swan from time past
remembers
it's he
Magnificent yet struggling hopelessly
Through not having sung a liveable country
From the radiant boredom of winter's sterility.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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A
newspaper
is a game
Where his error scores the player victory
While another's skill wins death.
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Stephen Crane |
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IDONEA Here art thou, then can I be
desolate?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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That the winds are really not infectious,
That this is no cheat, this transparent green-wash of the sea which
is so amorous after me,
That it is safe to allow it to lick my naked body all over with its tongues,
That it will not endanger me with the fevers that have deposited
themselves in it,
That all is clean forever and forever,
That the cool drink from the well tastes so good,
That blackberries are so flavorous and juicy,
That the fruits of the apple-orchard and the orange-orchard, that
melons, grapes, peaches, plums, will none of them poison me,
That when I recline on the grass I do not catch any disease,
Though probably every spear of grass rises out of what was once
catching
disease.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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Then came Death abroad through the land,
And blighted the
beautiful
lily-wand.
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Longfellow |
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In gowany glens thy burnie strays,
Where bonnie lasses bleach their claes;
Or trots by hazelly shaws and braes,
Wi'
hawthorns
gray,
Where blackbirds join the shepherd's lays
At close o' day.
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Robert Forst |
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Do the
feasters
gluttonous feast?
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Whitman |
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The bridal-songs and cradle-songs have cadences of sorrow,
The
laughter
of the sun to-day, the wind of death to-morrow.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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New feet within my garden go,
New fingers stir the sod;
A
troubadour
upon the elm
Betrays the solitude.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Not lightly given thy mate to ill
Joys and
adulterous
delights
Foul fleshly pleasures seeking still
Shall ever choose he lie o' nights 100
Far from thy tender paps.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And naked to the hangman's noose
The morning clocks will ring
A neck God made for other use
Than
strangling
in a string.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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It must
be as
incapable
of telling a lie as nature, and it must sometimes say
before all the virtues, 'The greatest of these is charity.
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Yeats |
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For I will tell thee;
therefore
mark.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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In the red sky, and in the purple streak,
Like
friendly
kings who would each other seek,
Two meeting suns were shown.
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Hugo - Poems |
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His
response
to the Airs of Tang was that ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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(Nachdem die Locher alle gebohrt und
verstopft
sind.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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" Minerva cried,
"Since all who in the Olympian bower reside
Now make the
wandering
Greek their public care,
Let Hermes to the Atlantic isle repair;
Bid him, arrived in bright Calypso's court,
The sanction of the assembled powers report:
That wise Ulysses to his native land
Must speed, obedient to their high command.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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this is my room;
there are my books, there the piano,
there the last bar I wrote,
there the last line,
and oh the
sunlight!
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The stream, the trees, the grass, the sighing wind,
All of them utter sounds of 'monishment
And grave
parental
love.
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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so many troops have
made
prisoner
of a woman.
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Tacitus |
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'Tis
impossible
then to be rid of him.
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Aristophanes |
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"
Coleridge
as a
critic is not easily to be summed up.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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According to
mythology
(Hesiod's _Theog_.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The pilgrimes saw he faste by,
That beren hem ful mekely,
And
humblely
they with him mette.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"For first you write a sentence,
And then you chop it small;
Then mix the bits, and sort them out
Just as they chance to fall:
The order of the phrases makes
No
difference
at all.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The best Latin
eclogues
are imitations of
Theocritus.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Far other vests thy limbs
majestic
grace,
Far other glories lighten from thy face!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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who also in her prime of love,
Spousal embraces,
vitiated
with Gold,
Though offer'd only, by the sent conceiv'd 390
Her spurious first-born; Treason against me?
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Milton |
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And
henceforth
there shall be no chain,
Save underneath the sea
The wires shall murmur through the main
Sweet songs of liberty.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Does he beat his wife with a gold-topped pipe,
When she lets the
gooseberries
grow too ripe, or ROT,
The Akond of Swat?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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