But, being yet alive,
I ask a fitting
punishment
for all
That raised their hands against him.
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We are content with Cupid's delights, authentic and naked--
And with the
exquisite
creak /crack of the bed as it rocks.
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Human nature has
two states, the
spiritual
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upon the grounde he
bleedynge
lies;
Inhild[8] some joice[9] of lyfe or else mie deare love dies.
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THE
AVARICIOUS
WIFE AND
TRICKING GALLANT
WHO knows the world will never feel surprise,
When men are duped by artful women's eyes;
Though death his weapon freely will unfold;
Love's pranks, we find, are ever ruled by gold.
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Thou drawest breath
Even now, long past thy portioned hour of death,
By
murdering
her .
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In all our high
designments
'twill appear, II.
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Such and so shameful is the chain
Which Heaven's new tyrant doth ordain
To bind me
helpless
here.
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Des oisiaus qui leens estoient,
Qui envoisiement chantoient
Les dances d'amors et les notes
Plesans,
cortoises
et mignotes.
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Would you ha' me
mercenary?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Therefore with
reverence
take this day her visible token.
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Longfellow |
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What man's land is the
graveyard?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Have you so little
knowledge
of his heart's reality?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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--Oh, if I could ride
With my head held high-serene against the sky
Do you think I'd have a
creature
like you at my side
With your gloom and your doubt that you love me?
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After the
invention
of reading, even poetry designed primarily for
declamation (like drama or lyric) has depths and subtleties of art which
were not possible for the primitive poet.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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What is this sudden cradle song
That
gradually
lulls my poor being?
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And dost thou speak of love
To me,
Politian?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And for the rest, summon to judgments true,
Unbusied
ears and singleness of mind
Withdrawn from cares; lest these my gifts, arranged
For thee with eager service, thou disdain
Before thou comprehendest: since for thee
I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky,
And the primordial germs of things unfold,
Whence Nature all creates, and multiplies
And fosters all, and whither she resolves
Each in the end when each is overthrown.
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The
collection
is in the nature of a commonplace-book, and includes
a prose letter to Raleigh, and a good many poems by other poets than
Donne, but the bulk of the volume is occupied with his poems,[25] and
most of the poems are signed 'J.
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Ay, truly;
For look how from their
wondrous
bodies comes
Increase: who knoweth where such power ends?
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Marcabru was a
powerful
influence on later poets who adopted the trobar clus style.
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The
complete
Satyr-play had a hero of this type and a Chorus of Satyrs.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Nostra tamen si fas prsesagia jungere vestris,
/ Quo magis
inspexti
sydera spemis humum.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The successful man has thrust himself
Through the water of the years,
Reeking wet with mistakes,--
Bloody mistakes;
Slimed with victories over the lesser,
A figure
thankful
on the shore of money.
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Stephen Crane |
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When that
day came Swift got out a
pamphlet
giving a full account of Partridge's
death.
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Alexander Pope |
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Hujus nam Domini colunt me, Deumque salutant, 5
Pauperis
tugurii pater, filiusque coloni:
Alter, assidua colens diligentia, ut herba
Dumosa, asperaque a meo sit remota sacello:
Alter, parva ferens manu semper munera larga.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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--Yet
sometimes
my heart was trammelled
With fear, evader!
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Imagists |
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Milton |
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It was ever thus
With me; the hour of agitation came
In the first glimmerings of a purpose, when
Passion had too much room to sway; but in
The hour of action I have stood as calm
As were the dead who lay around me: this
They knew who made me what I am, and trusted
To the
subduing
power which I preserved 100
Over my mood, when its first burst was spent.
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Byron |
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Non perche piu ch'un
semplice
sembiante
fosse nel vivo lume ch'io mirava,
che tal e sempre qual s'era davante;
ma per la vista che s'avvalorava
in me guardando, una sola parvenza,
mutandom' io, a me si travagliava.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Sweeney Among the Nightingales
[Greek text inserted here]
Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling
to maculate giraffe.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Literature, also, from which my spirit asks voluptuousness, that will be the agonised poetry of Rome's last moments, so long as it does not breathe a breath of the reinvigorated stance of the
Barbarians
or stammer in childish Latin like Christian prose.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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You see the moonlight
reflected
from
particular stumps in the recesses of the forest, as if she selected
what to shine on.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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As bold Sir Plume had drawn
Clarissa
down,
Chloe stepped in, and killed him with a frown;
She smiled to see the doughty hero slain,
But at her smile the beau revived again.
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Alexander Pope |
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--Tandis que se faisait la rumeur du quartier,
En bas,--seul, et couche sur des pieces de toile
Ecrue, et pressentant
violemment
le voile!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I scorn base man, and have sent
thousands
to the grave.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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For him alone you change the law
That has been
countless
times observed at court?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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He said, and on his throne beside the King
Alcinous
sat.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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' So speaking, he twines green bay
about his brows, and
proclaims
Acestes conqueror first before them all.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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LXVIII
You ask how love can keep the mortal soul
Strong to the pitch of joy
throughout
the years.
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Sappho |
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Round the
headlands
far away
Sweeps the blue Salernian bay
With its sickle of white sand:
Further still and furthermost
On the dim discovered coast
Paestum with its ruins lies,
And its roses all in bloom
Seem to tinge the fatal skies
Of that lonely land of doom.
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Longfellow |
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LOVED youth, to ME you must be ever dear;
To doubt it would ungen'rous now appear;
But tell me, pray, what's love without desire,
Devoid of fear, and nothing to
acquire?
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La Fontaine |
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'
The last epistle
discusses
the nature of happiness, "our being's end and
aim.
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Alexander Pope |
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5 Palace ladies sobbed on their red sleeves, 24 princes of the blood went in
commoners?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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To rise thither with my
inebriate
soul!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The life-blood streaming thro' my heart,
Or my more dear
immortal
part,
Is not more fondly dear!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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VIII
But ere he could his armour on him dight,
Or get his shield, his
monstrous
enimy 65
With sturdie steps came stalking in his sight,
An hideous Geant,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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VII
The light within her eyes, which slays Base
thoughts
and stilleth troubled waters,
Is like the gold where sunlight plays Upon the still overshadowed waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Each
snarling
lash of the stormy sea
Curled like a hungry tongue.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The illustrious
head of the aristocratical party, Marcus Furius Camillus, might
perhaps be, in some measure, protected by his
venerable
age and
by the memory of his great services to the state.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In such a poem as
Milton's,
whatever
is in it is its poetry; the poetry of _Paradise Lost_
is just--_Paradise Lost_!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Give me of kisses a
thousand, and then a hundred, then another thousand, then a second hundred,
then another
thousand
without resting, then a hundred.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Hier sass ich oft
gedankenvoll
allein
Und qualte mich mit Beten und mit Fasten.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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on a
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such person may choose to alternatively give you a replacement
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Coleridge - Poems |
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" the voice of Poesy replies,
"Mystic's that light between the
hemispheres!
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Hugo - Poems |
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But as for me, I have these swine in charge,
Of which, selected with
exactest
care
From all the herd, I send the prime to them.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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To Daumier he
inscribed a poem; and to the
sculptor
Ernest Christophe, to Delacroix
(Sur Tasse en Prison), to Manet, to Guys (Reve Parisien), to an unknown
master (Une Martyre); and Watteau, a Watteau a rebours, is seen in Un
Voyage a Cythere; while in Les Phares this poet of the ideal, spleen
music, and perfume, shows his adoration for Rubens, Leonardo da Vinci,
Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Puget, Goya, Delacroix--"Delacroix, lac de sang
hante des mauvais anges.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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He was pre-
ferred when
Jeffreys
was made Lord Chief Justice.
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Marvell - Poems |
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, that they should cause him to be
revivified
after the lapse of
a certain period--say five or six hundred years.
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Poe - 5 |
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)
"Of fish, a whale's the one for me,
_It is so full of
blubber_!
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Lewis Carroll |
|
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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239 (return)
[ The Greeks and Romans, under the name of the Dioscuri, or Castor and Pollux,
worshipped
those meteorous exhalations which, during a storm, appear on the masts of ships, and are supposed to denote an approaching calm.
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Tacitus |
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I had hoped to see
A scene of wondrous glory, as was told
Of some great God who in a rain of gold
Broke open bars and fell on Danae:
Or a dread vision as when Semele
Sickening for love and unappeased desire
Prayed to see God's clear body, and the fire
Caught her brown limbs and slew her utterly:
With such glad dreams I sought this holy place,
And now with wondering eyes and heart I stand
Before this supreme mystery of Love:
Some
kneeling
girl with passionless pale face,
An angel with a lily in his hand,
And over both the white wings of a Dove.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"What are you doing, my
children?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Apollinax
rolling under a chair,
Or grinning over a screen
With seaweed in its hair.
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T.S. Eliot |
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" She sits with careful brow
Wrapped in her inward grief; nor hears the roar
Of winds and waves that dash against his prow,
Nor the black
cormorant
shrieking on the shore.
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Hugo - Poems |
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An hour later I was eating
one of the crows; and, as Gunga Dass had said,
thanking
my God that I
had a crow to eat.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_
HE CONGRATULATES
BOCCACCIO
ON HIS RETURN TO THE RIGHT PATH.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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These are the
thoughts
I often think
As I stand gazing down
In act upon the cressy brink
To strip and dive and drown;
But in the golden-sanded brooks
And azure meres I spy
A silly lad that longs and looks
And wishes he were I.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
In haste the matron parts: the king proceeds;
"Now to dispose the dead, the care remains
To you, my son, and you, my faithfull swains;
The offending females to that task we doom,
To wash, to scent, and purify the room;
These (every table cleansed, and every throne,
And all the melancholy labour done)
Drive to yon court, without the palace wall,
There the revenging sword shall smite them all;
So with the suitors let them mix in dust,
Stretch'd in a long
oblivion
of their lust.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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But time is too
precious
to be wasted thus;
I'll forgo speech, wishing you to leave us.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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If your deity and decrees keep my Pallas safe for me,
if I live that I may see him and meet him yet, I pray for life; any toil
soever I have
patience
to endure.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Count how many they come
To the beat of Piedmont's drum,
With faces keener and grayer
Than swords of the
Austrian
slayer,
All set against the foe.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
An expression of interior
agitation
passed over the face of the old
woman; then she relapsed into her former apathy.
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The Warders with their shoes of felt
Crept by each padlocked door,
And peeped and saw, with eyes of awe,
Grey figures on the floor,
And
wondered
why men knelt to pray
Who never prayed before.
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Wilde - Poems |
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And I have known the arms already, known them all--
Arms that are
braceleted
and white and bare
(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!
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--First
published
in _Times of India_, Bombay, July, 1874.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The
shortest
version, in couplets, from the Cotton MS.
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"Nor less I deem that there are Powers
Which of
themselves
our minds impress;
That we can feed this mind of ours
In a wise passiveness.
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He said them over and over
thousands
of times.
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Kipling - Poems |
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[Till they had drawn the Spectre quite away from Enion]
And drawing in the Spectrous life in pride and haughty joy
Thus Enion gave them all her
spectrous
life in dark despair.
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"B-o-o-m" and "B-o-o-m" from afar she hears us, She will pass on our starboard bow,
Out of the
drifting
fog she nears us, With rush of waters she's passing now.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In the
literary
world, things seemed to me
very much as they were in the latter half of the last century.
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