Strait through the dusky hall tumult ensued
Among the suitors, of whom thus, a youth,
With eyes
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then I alone
Wander among the virgins of the summer Look they cry
The poor forsaken Los mockd by the worm the shelly snail
The Emmet & the beetle hark they laugh & mock at Los
Secure now from the smitings of thy Power Demon of Fury {The beginning of this inserted line is set well in from the heads of the accompanying lines, but there seems no reason not to bring it into line with them EJC}
Enitharmon answerd If the God
enrapturd
me infolds
In clouds of sweet obscurity my beauteous form dissolving
Howl thou over the body of death tis thine But if among the virgins {The inserted material is clearly written over erased material EJC}
Of summer I have seen thee sleep & turn thy cheek delighted
Upon the rose or lilly pale.
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THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
April is the
cruellest
month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
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Full soon that better mind was gone;
No hope, no wish remain'd, not one,--
They stirr'd him now no more;
New objects did new
pleasure
give,
And once again he wish'd to live
As lawless as before.
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No cloud, no relique of the sunken day
Distinguishes
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Of sullen Light, no obscure trembling hues.
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Over the mounds stood the nettles in pride,
And, where no fine flowers, there kind weeds dared to wave;
It seemed but as
yesterday
she lay by my side,
And now my dog ate of the grass on her grave.
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She watched them at the
gateway until their
sparkling
arms dipped below the downs, then climbed
up to her tower with the shield and there she studied it and mused over
it every day.
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Dead fell the birds, with blood-stains on their breasts,
Or wounded crept away from sight of man,
While the young died of famine in their nests;
A
slaughter
to be told in groans, not words,
The very St.
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"What right," said I, "had the
old
gentleman
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But Physic yet could never reach
The
maladies
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enterd his world of love]
Not long in harmony they dwell, their life is drawn away
And wintry woes succeed;
successive
driven into the Void
Where Enion craves: successive drawn into the golden feast
[In beauty love & scorn ?
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(Only certain very bold instructions of mine,
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Footsteps
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Haste, where gay youth
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A vile dependent of the
Claudian
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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If Kingdom move thee not, let move thee Zeal,
And Duty; Zeal and Duty are not slow;
But on Occasions forelock
watchful
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which from God began,
Natures ethereal, human, angel, man,
Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,
No glass can reach; from
Infinite
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From thee to nothing.
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always drag in some
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The honorable orators,
Always the honorable orators,
Buttoning the buttons on their prinz alberts,
Pronouncing the
syllables
"sac-ri-fice,"
Juggling those bitter salt-soaked syllables--
Do they ever gag with hot ashes in their mouths?
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'132 to bear:'
to endure the pains and
troubles
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1 That is, the Emperor has set up his
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'Tis sure no
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Non ideo, Gelli, sperabam te mihi fidum
In misero hoc nostro, hoc perdito amore fore,
Quod te cognossem bene constantemve putarem
Aut posse a turpi mentem
inhibere
probro,
Sed neque quod matrem nec germanam esse videbam 5
Hanc tibi, cuius me magnus edebat amor.
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The
Glossary
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O sweet Sleep-Angel, throned now
On the round glory of his brow,
Wave thy wing and waft my vow
Breathed
over Baby Charley.
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1912
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed The
Macmillan
Company 1914
Men, Women and Ghosts The Macmillan Company 1916
Can Grande's Castle The Macmillan Company 1918
Pictures of the Floating World The Macmillan Company 1919
Legends Houghton Mifflin Co.
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The Ubii, migrating from Germany to Gaul, on account of the enmity of the Catti, and their own attachment to the Roman interest, were received under the
protection
of Marcus Agrippa, in the year of Rome 717.
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When evening rose, and
darkness
cover'd o'er
The face of things, we slept along the shore.
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The English Translation
Un Coup de Des - Page 1
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The English Translation - Compressed, and Punctuated
ATHROW OF THE DICE NEVER, EVEN WHEN TRULY CAST IN THE ETERNAL CIRCUMSTANCE OF A SHIPWRECK'S DEPTH, Can be only the Abyss raging, whitened, stalled beneath the desperately sloping incline of its own wing, through an advance falling back from ill to take flight, and veiling the gushers, restraining the surges, gathered far within the shadow buried deep by that alternative sail, almost matching its yawning depth to the wingspan, like a hull of a vessel rocked from side to side
THE MASTER, beyond former calculations, where the lost manoeuvre with the age rose implying that formerly he grasped the helm of this conflagration of the concerted horizon at his feet, that readies itself; moves; and merges with the blow that grips it, as one threatens fate and the winds, the unique Number, which cannot be another Spirit, to hurl it into the storm, relinquish the cleaving there, and pass proudly; hesitates, a corpse pushed back by the arm from the secret, rather than taking sides, a hoary madman, on behalf of the waves: one overwhelms the head, flows through the submissive beard, straight shipwreck that, of the man without a vessel, empty no matter where
ancestrally never to open the fist clenched beyond the helpless head, a legacy, in vanishing, to someone ambiguous, the immemorial ulterior demon having, from non-existent regions, led the old man towards this ultimate meeting with probability, this his childlike shade caressed and smoothed and rendered supple by the wave, and shielded from hard bone lost between the planks born of a frolic, the sea through the old man or the old man against the sea, making a vain attempt, an Engagement whose dread the veil of illusion rejected, as the phantom of a gesture will tremble, collapse, madness, WILL NEVER ABOLISH
AS IF A simple insinuation into silence, entwined with irony, or the mystery hurled, howled, in some close swirl of mirth and terror, whirls round the abyss without scattering or dispersing and cradles the virgin index there AS IF
a solitary plume overwhelmed, untouched, that a cap of midnight grazes, or encounters, and fixes, in crumpled velvet with a sombre burst of laughter, that rigid whiteness, derisory, in opposition to the heavens, too much so not to signal closely any bitter prince of the reef, heroically adorned with it, indomitable, but contained by his petty reason, virile in lightning
anxious expiatory and pubescent dumb laughter that IF the lucid and lordly crest of vertigo on the invisible brow sparkles, then shades, a slim dark tallness, upright in its siren coiling, at the moment of striking, through impatient ultimate scales, bifurcated, a rock a deceptive manor suddenly
evaporating
in fog that imposed limits on the infinite
IT WAS THE NUMBER, stellar outcome, WERE IT TO HAVE EXISTED other than as a fragmented, agonised hallucination; WERE IT TO HAVE BEGUN AND ENDED, a surging that denied, and closed, when visible at last, by some profusion spreading in sparseness; WERE IT TO HAVE AMOUNTED to the fact of the total, though as little as one; WERE IT TO HAVE LIGHTED, IT WOULD BE, worse no more nor less indifferently but as much, CHANCE Falls the plume, rhythmic suspense of the disaster, to bury itself in the original foam, from which its delirium formerly leapt to the summit faded by the same neutrality of abyss
NOTHING of the memorable crisis where the event matured, accomplished in sight of all non-existent human outcomes, WILL HAVE TAKEN PLACE a commonplace elevation pours out absence BUT THE PLACE some lapping below, as if to scatter the empty act abruptly, that otherwise by its falsity would have plumbed perdition, in this region of vagueness, in which all reality dissolves
EXCEPT at the altitude PERHAPS, as far as a place fuses with, beyond, outside the interest signalled regarding it, in general, in accord with such obliquity, through such declination of fire, towards what must be the Wain also North A CONSTELLATION cold with neglect and desuetude, not so much though that it fails to enumerate, on some vacant and superior surface, the consecutive clash, sidereally, of a final account in formation, attending, doubting, rolling, shining and meditating before stopping at some last point that crowns it All Thought expresses a Throw of the Dice
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'Tis plain that for prowess, not plunged into exile,
for high-hearted valor,
Hrothgar
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Now with pallor,
I see the scarlet flag already waving;
It means the harvest-hirelings' dance with Death;
With unpicked
fruitage
tempest-toused and torn.
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ensuring the
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`And thou, citee, whiche that I leve in wo, 1205
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bretheren
al y-fere,
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"Sometimes from lairs of life
Methinks I catch a groan,
Or
multitudinous
moan,
As though I had schemed a world of strife,
Working by touch alone.
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, when In
Vulponem
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And whatsoe'er possesses in itself
More largely many powers and properties
Shows thus that here within itself there are
The largest number of kinds and
differing
shapes
Of elements.
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Lucretius |
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Are the things so strange and
marvelous
you see or have seen?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Cuddie and his mother in 'Old
Mortality!
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Wind shall not hurt thee,
Rain not appal thee,
Lightning not blast thee;
Thou art worn so frail,
Only the moonlight pale
To an ash shall burn thee,
To an
invisible
Pain.
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All that in woman is adored
In thy dear self I find--
For the whole sex can but afford
The
handsome
and the kind.
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XIII
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
Nor the cutting edge of conquering blade,
Nor the havoc
ruthless
soldiers made,
In sacking you, Rome, ever and again,
Nor the tricks that fickle fortune played,
Nor envious centuries corrosive rain,
Nor the spite of men, nor gods' disdain,
Nor your own power in civil strife displayed,
Nor the impetuous storms that you withstood,
Nor the river-god's winding course in flood,
That has so often drowned you in its thunder,
Not all combined have so abased your pride,
As that this nothing left you, by Time's tide,
Still makes the world halt here, and gaze in wonder.
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Da ward ein roter Leu, ein kuhner Freier,
Im lauen Bad der Lilie vermahlt,
Und beide dann mit offnem Flammenfeuer
Aus einem
Brautgemach
ins andere gequalt.
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Godunov!
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Unheard, unseen, three years her arts prevail;
The fourth, her maid reveal'd the amazing tale,
And show'd as unperceived we took our stand,
The
backward
labours of her faithless hand.
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hwylce
Sǣgēata
sīðas wǣron,
1987.
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Since my young days of passion--joy, or pain,
Perchance
my heart and harp have lost a string,
And both may jar: it may be, that in vain
I would essay as I have sung to sing.
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Faith, oh my faith, what fragrant breath,
What sweet odour from her mouth's excess,
What rubies and what
diamonds
were there.
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But does a maniac kill the frenzy in him,
When with his fists he beats the
clambering
fiends
That swarm against his limbs?
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= The waterway under the old
London Bridge was
obstructed
by the narrowness of the arches,
by cornmills built in some of the openings, and by the great
waterworks at its southern end.
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"Tell her this
"And more,--
"That the king of the seas
"Weeps too, old,
helpless
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And voices, tuned her
peerless
form to praise,
Suffer a solemn pause with mute amaze.
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be still possess'd
Of dear remembrance,
blessing
still and bless'd!
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(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I remember it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A
charlatan
of twilight formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having unhooked a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf observes with saddened pose
How Harlequin magically grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where Melancholy sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the midnight will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
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--the damps of death were upon him--he could not
have
survived
an hour.
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Enter
Macbeths
Lady, and a Seruant.
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His countenance a billow,
His fingers, if he pass,
Let go a music, as of tunes
Blown
tremulous
in glass.
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Madeleine
Still wept against the glory of her hair,
Nor did the lovers part their lips the while,
But kissed
unheeding
that I watched them there.
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Where have you been by it most
annoyed?
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Alas for me, whom love forgets,
Who stray from the proper track;
A share of joy would be mine yet,
But sorrow it is that
troubles
me;
And I can find no place to rest,
For it turns all joy to bitterness.
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"
The
whispered
"No"--how little meant!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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He scampered to the bushes far away;
The
shepherd
called the ploughman to the fray;
The ploughman wished he had a gun to shoot.
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Then hanging gardens, with flowers and galleries:
O'er vast fountains bending grew ebon-trees;
Temples, where seated on their rich tiled thrones,
Bull-headed idols shone in jasper stones;
Vast halls, spanned by one block, where watch and stare
Each upon each, with straight and moveless glare,
Colossal
heads in circles; the eye sees
Great gods of bronze, their hands upon their knees.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He sits down with his holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then Humility takes its root
Underneath
his foot.
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The trees have always
scrupulously
obeyed.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Across the travelling landscape evenly drooped and lifted
The telegraph wires, thick ropes of snow in the
windless
air;
They drooped and paused and lifted again to unseen summits,
Drawing the eyes and soothing them, often, to a drowsy stare.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I had rescued from wildness a patch of the Southern Moor
And, still rustic, I
returned
to field and garden.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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--A Satire on Rome_
This sharp indictment is put in the mouth of one Umbricius, who is
represented
as leaving his native city in disgust.
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All these are possible, but _beloved Africa_, and the omission of the
two half lines, "'tis not need The
scarecrow
unto mankind," are pure
blunders.
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Robert Herrick |
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for mark what ills attend
Still on the old, as to the grave they bend:
A ghastly visage, to
themselves
unknown;
For a smooth skin, a hide with scurf o'ergrown;
And such a cheek, as many a grandam ape
In Tabraca's thick woods is seen to scrape.
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In _The
Alchemist_
(_Wks.
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Then is your mind well trained and cased
In Spanish boots,[18] all snugly laced,
So that henceforth it can creep ahead
On the road of thought with a
cautious
tread.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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No, they were
tolerant
and Christian, saying, 'We
Only deplore .
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Yet these he
promises
as soon as clean :
But how I loathed to see my neighbour glean
Those papers, which he peeled from within
Like white flakes rising from a leper's skin !
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Marvell - Poems |
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How long those four years
seemed in review, and how closely Maisie was
connected
with every hour
of them!
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Kipling - Poems |
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"All this to make 'Una dompna soiseubuda', a
borrowed
lady,
or as the Italians translated it 'Una donna ideale'"
Ezra Pound
Dompna, puois de mi no?
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Troubador Verse |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'
`Now wel,' quod she,
`foryeven
be it here!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And look how when a frantic storm doth tear
A
stubborn
oak, or holm, long growing there,
But lull'd to calmness, then succeeds a breeze
That scarcely stirs the nodding leaves of trees:
So when this war, which tempest-like doth spoil
Our salt, our corn, our honey, wine and oil,
Falls to a temper, and doth mildly cast
His inconsiderate frenzy off, at last,
The gentle dove may, when these turmoils cease,
Bring in her bill, once more, the branch of peace.
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Robert Herrick |
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