Translated
from the Swedish by
STORK, author of "Sea and Bay," etc.
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William Dean Howells and the _North
American
Review_:--"The
Passengers of a Retarded Submersible.
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The proud Castile accepts his honour'd faith,
And peace
succeeds
the dreadful scenes of death.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And a third seed spoke also, "I see in us nothing that
promises
so
great a future.
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the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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What are our woes and
sufferance?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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" "The poet
might perhaps, had he pleased, have
exhibited
Admetus in a more amiable
point of view.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Now let me crunch you
With full weight of
affrighted
love.
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I turned my head back to
Fengxiang
County,1 late in the day its banners appeared and faded from view.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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For you, on Latmos, fondling your
sleeping
boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As restraint for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the daylight that your night forgot.
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Ronsard |
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And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the raven his nest has made
In its
thickest
shade.
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blake-poems |
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For this was the great
vengeance
wrought on Tarquin's evil seed?
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I roam anew,
Scarce conscious of my late
distress
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BOSER GEIST:
Wie anders, Gretchen, war dir's,
Als du noch voll Unschuld
Hier zum Altar tratst
Aus dem
vergriffnen
Buchelchen
Gebete lalltest,
Halb Kinderspiele,
Halb Gott im Herzen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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What didst thou say,
Jacinta?
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In the _Ode on Melancholy_ Keats, in a more bitter mood, finds the
presence, in a
fleeting
world, of eternal beauty the source of the
deepest melancholy.
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von (Robert), p39 1887, Internet Book Archive Images
Medusas,
miserable
heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
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Appoloinaire |
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Reft, ix, 31; x, 65,
snatched
away.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The channel, that I know no more, Whence, to
unfathomed
oceans, rolls The current of my being, now 1
Into the dark is turning me.
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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See, the elder and younger move
At the garden's edge, and beside them
White
carnations
with long frail stems,
Stirred by the wind, in a marble urn,
Lean, watching them, live and motionless,
And, trembling with shade there, seem to be
Butterflies caught in flight, frozen ecstasy.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Latin - Catullus |
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And the power of a
seductive
lover
Stifle with craven silence all my honour!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And, for the town even now fearfully aches
In
scalding
thirst, not five days had I granted,
Had it not been for somewhat I must say
Secretly to thee.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Unknown, albeit lying near,
To men, the path to the Daemon sphere;
And they that swiftly come and go
Leave no track on the
heavenly
snow.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Now, every careful student of
the
versification
of Faust must feel and see that Goethe did not
intersperse the one kind of rhyme with the other, at random, as those
translators do; who, also, give the female rhyme (on which the vivacity of
dialogue and description often so much depends,) in so small a proportion.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Arthur, in mood
as joyful as a child, his blood young and his brain wild, declares that
he will not eat nor sit long at the table until some adventurous thing,
some uncouth tale, some great marvel, or some
encounter
of arms has
occurred to mark the return of the New Year (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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O lily flower, O gem of
priceless
worth,
O dove with patient voice and patient eyes,
O fruitful vine amid a land of dearth,
O maid replete with loving purities,
Thou bowedst down thy head with friends on earth
To raise it with the saints in Paradise.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Sachons, cette nuit
d'hiver, de cap en cap, du pole tumultueux au chateau, de la foule a la
plage, de regards en regards, forces et
sentiments
las, le heler et le
voir, et le renvoyer, et sous les marees et au haut des deserts de
neige, suivre ses vues, ses souffles, son corps, son jour.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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"
Again the Jew says, "It is but recently, and as it were yesterday, since
we
punished
Christ; and you, who are [in no respect superior to] keepers
of oxen, have abandoned the laws of your ancestors and country.
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Tacitus |
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Elvire
One way or the other, you're satisfied,
You are avenged, or
Rodrigue
has not died;
And whatever destiny ordains for you
You've honour, glory and a husband too.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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-the
appointed
hour is fled.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Thou art Lucina, Juno hight
By mothers lien in painful plight,
Thou
puissant
Trivia and the Light 15
Bastard, yclept the Lune.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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On the
whole, we may call it a volume which no library,
pretending
to entire
completeness, should fail to place upon its shelves.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Happy, happy, happy they
Whose living love,
untroubled
by all strife,
Binds them till the last sad day,
Nor parts asunder but with parting life!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Away with you and all your
withered
flowers,
I have a flower in my soul no one can take!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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'
'quid si prisca redit Venus
diductosque
iugo cogit aeneo?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Hast any mortal name,
Fit
appellation
for this dazzling frame?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Elvire
Reject, Madame, so tragic a design;
Reject this law,
tyrannical
and blind.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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I drank at thy fountain
False waters of thirst;
Thou
intimate
stranger,
Thou latest and first!
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Emerson - Poems |
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And I will kiss her in the waterfalls,
And at the rainbow's end, and in the incense
That curls about the feet of sleeping gods,
And sing with her in
canebrakes
and in rice fields,
In Romany, eternal Romany.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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As the
requirements
for other states are met, additions to this list
will be made and fund raising will begin in the additional states.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A
Birthday
Song.
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Sidney Lanier |
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SAS}
Thy brother Luvah hath smitten me but pity thou his youth
Tho thou hast not pitid my Age O Urizen Prince of Light
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Blake - Zoas |
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And I will now
foreshow
thee what the Gods
Teach me, and what, though neither augur skill'd
Nor prophet, I yet trust shall come to pass.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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I had gone with a young man and his sister--friends and
relations
of my
own--to pick stories out of an old countryman; and we were coming home
talking over what he had told us.
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Yeats |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Golden lights will gleam out
sullenly
into silence,
Before I return.
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Imagists |
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that
everything
was alive!
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Whitman |
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He replied to the Emperor "Your servant finds in the Six Canonical
Books
'In offering products, one must offer what is there, and not what
isn't there'
On the waters and lands of Tao-chou, among all the things that live
I only find
dwarfish
_people_; no dwarfish _slaves_.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And, for the love of god, beth not my fo;
Al can I not to yow, my lady dere, 160
Compleyne
aright, for I am yet to lere.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A route of evanescence
With a
revolving
wheel;
A resonance of emerald,
A rush of cochineal;
And every blossom on the bush
Adjusts its tumbled head, --
The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy morning's ride.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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It is a fortunate
circumstance
that the
first editor was so thoroughly competent.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Round about them to right and left the armies stand
locked and the iron field shivers with naked points; thou
wheelest
thy
chariot on the sward alone.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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O
headlong
Anio!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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That the first
Principle
and foundation, in this as in
everything else, is Good Sense, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Then here
contented
will I lie;
Alone I cannot fear to die.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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" Two years ago the alphabet determined the
arrangement; this time
seniority
has been the sole arbiter of
precedence.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Oh, though oft depressed and lonely,
All my fears are laid aside,
If I but
remember
only
Such as these have lived and died!
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Longfellow |
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Is the spot marked with no
colossal
bust?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The earth
itself has slept, as it were its first, not its last sleep, save when
some street-sign or wood-house door has faintly creaked upon its
hinge, cheering forlorn nature at her
midnight
work,--the only sound
awake 'twixt Venus and Mars,--advertising us of a remote inward
warmth, a divine cheer and fellowship, where gods are met together,
but where it is very bleak for men to stand.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And then the bray of brazen horns 5
Arose above their
clanking
march,
As the long waving column filed
Into the odorous purple dusk.
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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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All through the night we knelt and prayed,
Mad
mourners
of a corse!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Straight
the three bands prepare in arms to join,
Each band the number of the sacred nine.
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And shall he miss
Of other
thoughts
no thought but this,
Harmonious dews of sober bliss?
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Lewis Carroll |
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O happy time of
youthful
lovers (thus
My story may begin) O balmy time,
In which a love-knot on a lady's brow
Is fairer than the fairest star in heaven!
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William Wordsworth |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this
electronic
work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Le bourdon se lamente, et la buche enfumee
Accompagne en fausset la pendule enrhumee,
Cependant qu'en un jeu plein de sales parfums,
Heritage fatal d'une vieille hydropique,
Le beau valet de coeur et la dame de pique
Causent
sinistrement
de leurs amours defunts.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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God and Nature could not thus consent,
And my dark fears are
groundless
and undue.
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Petrarch |
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A SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER In "Los
Pastores
de Belen.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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He gathered all that springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling,
seasoned
sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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You
prostitutes
flaunting over the trottoirs or obscene in your rooms,
Who am I that I should call you more obscene than myself?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Eight times
emerging
from the flood,
She mew'd to every watery God
Some speedy aid to send:--
No Dolphin came, no Nereid stirr'd,
Nor cruel Tom nor Susan heard--
A favourite has no friend!
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Golden Treasury |
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First let us learn how lo's frenzy came--
(She telling her
disasters
manifold)
Then of their sequel let her know from thee.
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Aeschylus |
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Her happiness or
misery were in my hands, and who could trifle with such a
deposit?
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Robert Burns |
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Above his head a tangle glows
Of wine-red roses, blushes, snows,
Closed buds and buds that unclose,
Leaves, and moss, and
prickles
too;
His hand shook as he plucked a rose,
And the rose dropped dew.
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Christina Rossetti |
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I struck thee dead, then stood above,
With tears that none but
dreamers
weep;'
`Dreams,' quoth Love;
"`In dreams, again, I plucked a flower
That clung with pain and stung with power,
Yea, nettled me, body and mind.
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Sidney Lanier |
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--the Eye divine
Turned upon it, makes it shine;
And when I touch it, poems sweet
Like separate souls shall fly from it,
Each to the
immortal
fytte.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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What this century
worships
is wealth.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Aristophanes |
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(1) Quae tamen ille ab aeterno cuncta
prospiciens
providentiae cernit
intuitus, et suis quaeque meritis praedestinata disponit.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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They think of towns to ease their
feverish
eyes,
And make them stand and meditate forever,
Domes of astonishment, to heal the mind.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Not tears for the dead nor sighs,
But worship and joy divine
Shall win thee peace in thy skies,
O
daughter
mine!
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Euripides - Electra |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Beowulf took
cup in hall: {15b} for such costly gifts
he
suffered
no shame in that soldier throng.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Come in joy,
Brother, and take to bind thy
rippling
hair
My crowns!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Sic certest: clamant
Victoris
rupta miselli
Ilia, et emulso labra notata sero.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And it called out, 'Here
is the hunt, where is the
huntsman
and the hound?
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Yeats |
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Li Po |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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O
metamorphose
mystique
De tous mes sens fondus en un!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Fade amas d'etoiles ratees
Comblez les coins
--Vous
creverez
en Dieu, batees
D'ignobles soins!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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