Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal
themselves?
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An opiate meet to quell the malady Oflifeunlived?
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"Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall
My buried life, and Paris in the Spring,
I feel
immeasurably
at peace, and find the world
To be wonderful and youthful, after all.
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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But this hint
should also prepare us for the
conclusion
of the poem.
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Why won't my saint confer
Favours on me, her fierce
idolater?
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Deduit fu biaus et lons et drois,
James en terre ne venrois
Ou vous truissies nul plus bel homme:
La face avoit cum une pomme,
Vermoille
et blanche tout entour,
Cointes fu et de bel atour.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Nay, more--that pageant of which thou tellest--
The nightly sky displayed, ablaze with stars,
Upon his shield, palters with double sense--
One
headstrong
fool will find its truth anon!
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Say,
beautiful
Lady Borghese,
What would you give to me more?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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20
Soone as the erlie maten belle was tolde,
And sonne was come to byd us all good daie,
Bothe armies on the feeld, both brave and bolde,
Prepar'd for fyghte in
champyon
arraie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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We are a king and queen,
Our royal
carriage
is a motor bus,
We watch our subjects with a haughty joy.
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[Footnote D: By an evident error,
corrected
in the first reprint of this
edition (1840).
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Leonor
Madame, pardon me,
If I'm at fault for censuring this folly,
A great princess so
strangely
to forget
Herself, and love a simple knight as yet!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Praising
thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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So may Apollo,
glorious
archer, smite
Thee also.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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IV
If my praise her grace effaces,
Then 't is not my heart that showeth, But the skilless tongue that soweth Words
unworthy
of her graces.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Asteropeus with grief beheld the slain,
And rush'd to combat, but he rush'd in vain:
Indissolubly
firm, around the dead,
Rank within rank, on buckler buckler spread,
And hemm'd with bristled spears, the Grecians stood,
A brazen bulwark, and an iron wood.
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Iliad - Pope |
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"Thou, to abate thy wonder, note that none
Bears rule in earth, and its frail family
Are
therefore
wand'rers.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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[ORESTES _and_ PYLADES _go in,
following
the_ SERVANTS.
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Euripides - Electra |
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" "Verse is in itself a music, and the natural
symbol of that union of passion with thought and pleasure, which
constitutes the essence of all poetry "; "a more than usual state of
emotion, with more than usual order," as he has
elsewhere
defined it.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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CV cum CIV
continuant
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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I said to him,
"We now know more of thee than then;
We were but weak in
judgment
when,
With hearts abrim,
We clamoured thee that thou would'st please
Inflict on us thine agonies,"
I said to him.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Rilke - Poems |
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[Note how the shorter
versions
lengthen the end of the story.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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happy are the blessed souls that sing
Loud
hallelujahs
in eternal ring!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Poetry, and the art which professes to
regulate
and limit its powers,
cannot subsist together.
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darkning
in the West
Lost!
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Blake - Zoas |
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He was too tired and stiff and cramped to
do more than nod
uneasily
from time to time, waking with a start and
punching the driver with the pistol.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
I
composed
this song out of compliment to one of the happiest and
worthiest married couples in the world, Robert Riddel, Esq.
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Robert Forst |
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Behold what
blessings
wealth to life can lend!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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At last he comes to the notice of
Gilgamish
himself, who is
shocked by the newly acquired manner of Enkidu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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41,
contains
a bitter attack on the painted ladies whom
it calls the "Picts.
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Alexander Pope |
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Sing Tempe too, glad youths, in strain as loud,
And Phoebus' birthplace, and that
shoulder
fair,
His golden quiver proud
And brother's lyre to bear.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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in
paragraph
1.
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XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that
arrogant
display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice threefold array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You contemplate the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
--_British
Quarterly
Review_.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The
Latin ballads
perished
forever.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere
In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
From dusty bondage into
luminous
air.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Meredith - Poems |
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THOAS: The traitors have contrived a cunning web,
And cast it round thee, who, secluded long,
Giv'st willing
credence
to thine own desire.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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XVIII
Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd,
Yet kindling rage, her selfe she gathered round, 155
And all attonce her beastly body raizd
With doubled forces high above the ground:
Tho wrapping up her wrethed sterne arownd,
Lept fierce upon his shield, and her huge traine
All
suddenly
about his body wound, 160
That hand or foot to stirre he strove in vaine:
God helpe the man so wrapt in Errours endlesse traine.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Our Life
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
We know in pairs we will know all about us
We'll love everything our children will smile
At the dark history or mourn alone
Uninterrupted Poetry
From the sea to the source
From mountain to plain
Runs the phantom of life
The foul shadow of death
But between us
A dawn of ardent flesh is born
And exact good
that sets the earth in order
We advance with calm step
And nature salutes us
The day
embodies
our colours
Fire our eyes the sea our union
And all living resemble us
All the living we love
Imaginary the others
Wrong and defined by their birth
But we must struggle against them
They live by dagger blows
They speak like a broken chair
Their lips tremble with joy
At the echo of leaden bells
At the muteness of dark gold
A lone heart not a heart
A lone heart all the hearts
And the bodies every star
In a sky filled with stars
In a career in movement
Of light and of glances
Our weight shines on the earth
Glaze of desire
To sing of human shores
For you the living I love
And for all those that we love
That have no desire but to love
I'll end truly by barring the road
Afloat with enforced dreams
I'll end truly by finding myself
We'll take possession of earth
Index of First Lines
I speak to you over cities
Easy and beautiful under
Between all my torments between death and self
She is standing on my eyelids
In one corner agile incest
For the splendour of the day of happinesses in the air
After years of wisdom
Run and run towards deliverance
Life is truly kind
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
A face at the end of the day
By the road of ways
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
Adieu Tristesse
Woman I've lived with
Fertile Eyes
I said it to you for the clouds
It's the sweet law of men
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
On my notebooks from school
I have passed the doors of coldness
I am in front of this feminine land
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
From the sea to the source
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Your Orange Hair in the Void of the World
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
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I Only Wish to Love You
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We Have Created the Night
Even When We Sleep
To Marc Chagall
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We two
'At Dawn I Love You'
'She Looks Into Me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Imagists |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast,
quenching
my fire,
A deity at the gods' ambrosial feast.
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And she watches them with
amusement as they flutter about her, petting her as if she were a
nice child, a child or a toy, not dreaming that she is saying to
herself sorrowfully: "How utterly empty their lives must be of
all
spiritual
beauty IF they are nothing more than they appear to be.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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In Yen and Chao are many fair ladies,
Beautiful
people with faces like jade.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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He may have accompanied Richard I and Aimar V
ofLimoges
on the Third Crusade.
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Troubador Verse |
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Perhaps of them and their
authority
one has spoken enough.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering
the whirlpool.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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LIII
THE TRUE LOVER
The lad came to the door at night,
When lovers crown their vows,
And
whistled
soft and out of sight
In shadow of the boughs.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And God, like a father, rejoicing to see
His
children
as pleasant and happy as He,
Would have no more quarrel with the Devil or the barrel,
But kiss him, and give him both drink and apparel.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I was
disturbed
at this;
I accosted the man.
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Stephen Crane |
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for the boy who loved thee best,
Whose very name should be a memory
To make thee linger, sleeps in silent rest
Beneath the Roman walls, and melody
Still mourns her
sweetest
lyre; none can play
The lute of Adonais: with his lips Song passed away.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Time bring back the order of classic days;
Earth has shuddered with
prophetic
breath.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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She leans me
out at her mistress' chamber window, bids me a thousand times
good night--I tell this tale vilely; I should first tell thee how
the Prince, Claudio and my master, planted and placed and
possessed
by my master Don John, saw afar off in the orchard this
amiable encounter.
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Shakespeare |
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Emperours
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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'65'
The
Maeander
is a river in Asia Minor.
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Alexander Pope |
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Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired
wanderers
weep.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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COUNTING SHEEP
Half-awake I walked
A dimly-seen sweet
hawthorn
lane
Until sleep came;
I lingered at a gate and talked
A little with a lonely lamb.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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He was emotionally and
artistically
unable to forge a finished work from them.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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She had given the ring to her
goldsmiths
twain,
Who smiled, as they handed it back again.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Fool'd, fool'd, fool'd are our lives, held by the world in jeer;
With crazed eyes we behold veils of enormous fear
Hiding dreadfully those
marvellous
gates and stairs
Where the heathen delighted with sin throng with their prosperous prayers.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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But who can tell aright the fiercer thing,
The aweless soul, within man's breast
inhabiting?
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Incipit
Prohemium
Liber Quartus.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Raising himself on his elbow, the wounded man called for
another pistol, crying, "I've
strength
left to fire my shot!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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How could I expect to find
so great a
strength?
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Yeats |
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Curs'd be each vision that befools us,
Of fame,
outlasting
earthly life!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Nor is the wide world
ignorant
of her worth;
For the four winds blow in from every coast
Renowned suitors, and her sunny locks
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece,
Which makes her seat of Belmont Colchos' strond,
And many Jasons come in quest of her.
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Shakespeare |
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With a
houseful
of hungry men to feed
I guess you'd find.
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Robert Forst |
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How gently each has been
deposited
on the water!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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WORLDS
Through the pale green forest of tall bracken-stalks,
Whose interwoven fronds, a jade-green sky,
Above me glimmer,
infinitely
high,
Towards my giant hand a beetle walks
In glistening emerald mail; and as I lie
Watching his progress through huge grassy blades
And over pebble boulders, my own world fades
And shrinks to the vision of a beetle's eye.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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3 The far west suffers the worst wounds, 20 linked
mountains
darken beacon fires night and day.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in
patterns
on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Fear the gaze in the blind wall that watches:
There is a verb
attached
to matter itself.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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He dauntless thus: "Thou
conqueror
of the fair,
Thou woman-warrior with the curling hair;
Vain archer!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Thou therefore also taste, that equal Lot
May joyne us, equal Joy, as equal Love;
Least thou not tasting, different degree
Disjoyne
us, and I then too late renounce
Deitie for thee, when Fate will not permit.
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Milton |
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my love well knows
Her pretty looks have been mine enemies;
And therefore from my face she turns my foes,
That they elsewhere might dart their injuries:
Yet do not so; but since I am near slain,
Kill me
outright
with looks, and rid my pain.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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That
Emperour
woke not at all, but slept.
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Chanson de Roland |
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ergo age, sacrilegae tandem cadat hostia gentis:
submittant
trepidi perfida colla Getae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Three times
circling
beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory, beauteous above all.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Such as
eternity
at last transforms into Himself,
The buried shrine shows at its sewer-mouth's
The black rock enraged that the north wind rolls it on
Hyperbole!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Sweets with sweets war not, joy
delights
in joy:
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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This pitiless
indictment
I bring without pity against myself.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Of
Farinata
and Tegghiaio say,
They who so well deserv'd, of Giacopo,
Arrigo, Mosca, and the rest, who bent
Their minds on working good.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And immediately each ship breaks the bond that held it, as with dipping
prows they plunge like dolphins deep into the water: from it again (O
wonderful and
strange!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Lucretius |
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unto the mighty
presence
of the shepherd,
unto the place of the .
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Here's
righteous
metal!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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where the Giant on the mountain stands,
His blood-red tresses
deepening
in the sun,
With death-shot glowing in his fiery hands,
And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon;
Restless it rolls, now fixed, and now anon
Flashing afar,--and at his iron feet
Destruction cowers, to mark what deeds are done;
For on this morn three potent nations meet,
To shed before his shrine the blood he deems most sweet.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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G
[563] 26
Gentlewoman
1716 gentlewoman W, G
[564] 27, 33, 39 SN.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Now flaming from the zenith, Sol had driven
His fervid orb through half the vault of heaven;
While on each host with equal tempests fell
The
showering
darts, and numbers sank to hell.
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Iliad - Pope |
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And for that riches where is my
deserving?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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behold
Nature asham'd, or better to express,
Troubl'd that thou should'st hunger, hath purvey'd
From all the
Elements
her choicest store
To treat thee as beseems, and as her Lord
With honour, only deign to sit and eat.
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Milton |
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