And oft, robb'd of my perfect mind, I thought
At last my feet a resting-place had found:
Here will I weep in peace, (so fancy wrought,)
Roaming the illimitable waters round;
Here watch, of every human friend disowned,
All day, my ready tomb the ocean-flood--
To break my dream the vessel reached its bound:
And
homeless
near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined, and wanted food.
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Then persevere ; for still new charges sound,
And if thou
overcom*st
thou shalt be crowned.
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When I awoke,
somewhat
late, on the morrow I saw that the storm was
over.
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"O, give me back," I cried, "the vanished splendors,
The breath of morn, and the
exultant
strife,
When the swift stream of life
Bounds o'er its rocky channel, and surrenders
The pond, with all its lilies, for the leap
Into the unknown deep!
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Phlebas, le Phenicien, pendant quinze jours noye,
Oubliait les cris des mouettes et la houle de Cornouaille,
Et les profits et les pertes, et la cargaison d'etain:
Un courant de sous-mer l'emporta tres loin,
Le
repassant
aux etapes de sa vie anterieure.
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Alack, O sisters, O
dishonoured
brood
Of mother Night!
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Would I were hers in body, and not in soul,
And she admitted me secretly to her
chamber!
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_Hesperides_
851, and Note.
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Robert Herrick |
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SOLNESS: You will see
something
different this evening.
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[84] The trial of Anne Turner in 1615, in
which charges of witchcraft were joined with those of poisoning,
especially attracted the
attention
of Jonson.
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The four-gill chap, we'se gar him clatter,
An' kirsen him wi' reekin water;
Syne we'll sit down an' tak our whitter,
To cheer our heart;
An' faith, we'se be
acquainted
better
Before we part.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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If
Rodrigue
should emerge as victor,
If that great soldier yields to his valour,
I may esteem him, love him without shame.
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in his ninth year
Is only
concerned
with things to eat.
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Golden Treasury |
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Nor did Luna delay about kissing that
beautiful
dreamer--
Jealous Aurora had else hastily wakened the lad.
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Like ape or clown, in monstrous garb
With crooked arrows starred,
Silently
we went round and round
The slippery asphalte yard;
Silently we went round and round,
And no man spoke a word.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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To one,
encouraged
by his aspect mild,
I spoke--the other with a frown recoil'd.
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Petrarch |
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When he was young he little knew
Of
husbandry
or tillage;
And now is forced to work, though weak,
--The weakest in the village.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Thus, a red lion,[11] a bold suitor, married
The silver lily, in the
lukewarm
bath,
And, from one bride-bed to another harried,
The two were seen to fly before the flaming wrath.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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[_As the song ceases the doors are thrown open and_ ADMETUS _comes
before them: a great funeral
procession
is seen moving out.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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or the righteous ban
Of all the Gods, whose dreadful images
Here represent their shadowy presences,
May pierce them on the sudden with the thorn
Of painful blindness; leaving thee forlorn,
In trembling dotage to the feeblest fright
Of conscience, for their long
offended
might,
For all thine impious proud-heart sophistries,
Unlawful magic, and enticing lies.
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Keats - Lamia |
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In ruined
loveliness
thou liest dead,
Alone of all thy sisters; for at last
Italia's royal warrior hath passed
Rome's lordliest entrance, and hath worn his crown
In the high temples of the Eternal Town!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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All her lovers have passed, her beautiful lovers have passed,
The young and eager men that fought for her
arrogant
hand,
And the only voice which endures to mourn for her at the last
Is the voice of the lonely land.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The genre, which is becoming one, like the symphony, little by little, alongside personal poetry, leaves intact the older verse; for which I maintain my worship, and to which I attribute the empire of passion and dreams, though this may be the preferred means (as follows) of dealing with subjects of pure and complex imagination or intellect: which there is no
remaining
justification for excluding from Poetry - the unique source.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"
[8] It is said to have been customary in the days of Homer, when the
Greeks retired from a banquet to their beds, to cut out the tongues of
the victims, and offer them to the Gods in
particular
who presided over
conversation.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan translation which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in
English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Rilke - Poems |
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--He lay there, drunken, glutted with me,
And his bare
falchion
hung beside the bed,--
Look on it, and look on the blood I made
Go pouring thunder of pleasure through his brain!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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[56] It afterwards
appeared
that the Moorish King of Mombas had been
informed of what happened at Mozambique, and intended to revenge it by
the total destruction of the fleet.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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, nisi quod pro _nobisque_ a habet _nihloque_, D
_nihilo_, O compendium scripturae quod aut _nihiloque_ aut
_nobisque_ significare potuit, praeterea
_inmundior
illo_ est in
D.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Fame could find
No parallel, thy
greatness
to presage.
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John Clare |
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But although some part of Marlowe's play is grotesque, there
is no epithet which can fitly
characterise
its greatest scenes except
"tremendous.
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At the
beginning
of the T'ien-pao period[10] he went south to Kuei-chi,
and became intimate with Wu Yun.
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Li Po |
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So they with voices sweet their music poured
Melodious
on my ear, winning with ease
My heart's desire to listen, and by signs
I bade my people, instant, set me free.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Ah then at times I
drooping
sit,
And spend many an anxious hour;
Nor in my book can I take delight,
Nor sit in learning's bower,
Worn through with the dreary shower.
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blake-poems |
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ere to-morrow's dawn be here,
"Send forth my messengers over the sea,
To seek seven
beautiful
brides for me;
"Radiant of feature and regal of mien,
Seven handmaids meet for the Persian Queen.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He, with his lord, stands rooted in the mud,
With risk to both of
drowning
in the flood.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Barwick,
_Superintendent
of the Reading Room_.
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Byron |
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-
Was
grinsest
du mir, hohler Schadel, her?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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A GAME OF CHESS
The Chair she sat in, like a
burnished
throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Am I that Sappho who would run at dusk
Along the surges
creeping
up the shore
When tides came in to ease the hungry beach,
And running, running till the night was black,
Would fall forespent upon the chilly sand
And quiver with the winds from off the sea?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Lord grant that thou may aye inherit
Thy mither's person, grace, an' merit,
An' thy poor,
worthless
daddy's spirit,
Without his failins,
'Twill please me mair to see thee heir it,
Than stockit mailens.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Down the Oceanus[55] the current bore
My galley, winning, at the first, her way 780
With oars, then, wafted by
propitious
gales.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Rilke - Poems |
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I knew not but the next
Would be my final inch, --
This gave me that
precarious
gait
Some call experience.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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Fortunate
one,
scented and stinging,
rigid myrrh-bud,
camphor-flower,
sweet and salt--you are wind
in our nostrils.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
[Illustration]
Then the Banker
endorsed
a blank cheque (which he crossed),
And changed his loose silver for notes.
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Lewis Carroll |
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And
credulous
ambassadors accuse:
" Is this," saith one, " the nation that we read,
" Spent with both wars, under a captain dead !
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Marvell - Poems |
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When my wounded engines shall plunge me through the vacant depth of the sky,
And my body goes falling, falling, to my lonely mother, the sea,
You will watch for my joyous signal and swoop in swift reply,
And snatch me against your
breastplate
where my waking soul shall lie!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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There is no pause (the knack
Is
perfect)
while his left hand pulls from out a stack
Leather —I think —the track
Curves sharp, and will not let me see
Just what the task .
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Three days through
sapphire
seas we sailed,
The steady Trade blew strong and free,
The Northern Light his banners paled,
The Ocean Stream our channels wet,
We rounded low Canaveral's lee,
And passed the isles of emerald set
In blue Bahama's turquoise sea.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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It will especially be startled
at the combination of an undoubting persuasion of the truth of the
popular
religion
with a cool and determined perseverance in enormous
guilt.
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Shelley |
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Thus speaketh one
Ferdinand
in the words of the play--
"She died full young"--one Bossola answers him--
"I think not so--her infelicity
"Seemed to have years too many"--Ah luckless lady!
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Poe - 5 |
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Thou wilt not
Escape the
judgment
even of this world,
As thou wilt not escape the doom of God.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
That steer you up and down, and high and low,
Never remaining long, when once they show,
Pulling your chariot endlessly there and back:
My desires and yours are never a match,
Because the
passions
that pierce your soul,
And the ardours that inflame mine so,
Court different desires to ease their lack.
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Ronsard |
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_), "that a man
whose soul possessed an
uncommon
share of ardour and sensibility, and
had experienced all the violence of the passions, should scarcely have
condescended to introduce love into his tragedies; or, when he does,
that he should only employ it with a kind of reserve and severity.
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Byron |
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Out of the heavy night she came, Silently calling his name;
Deep in her mutineering eyes Love
chanting
lullabies,
Timidly questioning
One who was wont to sing,
Stilling the songs upon his lips, Freezing his finger tips,
Stabbing his heart, and nailing his feet Fast to the iron street,
Trustingly going then
Down the dark street again.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In Macedonian fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur,
prospering
everywhere,
Might tumble down in more disastrous fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Chief
Executive
and Director
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Tankard, or spoon,
Earring, or stone,
A watch, some ancient brooch
To match the grandmamma,
Staid
sleeping
there.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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LIFE OF LI PO, FROM THE "NEW HISTORY OF THE T'ANG DYNASTY,"
COMPOSED
IN
THE ELEVENTH CENTURY.
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Li Po |
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>>,
gridavan
tutti insieme i maladetti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Hac ego
pnecipua
credo herbam dote placere,
Hinc tuus has nebulas doctor in astra veliit.
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Marvell - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes,
Tenets with books, and
principles
with times.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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There was no mistaking the
eyebrows
of the one
or the beard of the other.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_zag-sal_,
liturgical
note, 103 f.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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As
practising
how they could thunder too ;
Out of the binder's hand the sheaves they tore.
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Marvell - Poems |
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622 in the
Bodleian
library by F.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And still those
buzzards
wheeled, while light withdrew
Out of the vales and to surging slopes ascended,
Till the loftiest-flaming summit died to blue.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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a knight and maid arrive, ere well
The
cavaliers
are seated in the sell.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Coin the day-dawn into lines
In which its proper
splendor
shines;
Coin the moonlight into verse
Which all its marvel shall rehearse,
Chasing with words fast-flowing things; nor try
To plant thy shrivelled pedantry
On the shoulders of the sky.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
He said,
observant
of the blue-eyed maid;
Then in the sheath return'd the shining blade.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Artemis
The
thirteenth
returns.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"Woman, while guarded by my arm (he said)
I will not thou
shouldst
any danger dread.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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-rum [15] sa a-nim im-ku-ut a-na si-ri-ia
as-si-su-ma ik-ta-bi-it [16] e-li-ia
ilam [17] is-su-ma nu-us-sa-su [18] u-ul el-ti-'i
ad-ki ma-tum pa-hi-ir [19] e-li-su
id-lu-tum u-na-sa-ku si-pi-su
u-um-mi-id-ma pu-ti
i-mi- du ia-ti
as-si-a-su-ma at-ba-la-as-su a-na si-ri-ki
um-mi iluGilgamis mu-u-da-a-at ka-la-ma
iz-za-kar-am a-na iluGilgamis
mi-in-di
iluGilgamish
sa ki-ma ka-ti
i-na si-ri i-wa-li-id-ma
u-ra-ab-bi-su sa-du-u
ta-mar-su-ma [sa(?
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And immediately I
regretted
it.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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How
deserved
your fame: they speak it everywhere!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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A
FLEETING
GLIMPSE OF A VILLAGE.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I turn my body and gaze
longingly
towards the West.
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Li Po |
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will naught abate
Your fierce
interminable
hate?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Thel answerd, O thou little virgin of the
peaceful
valley.
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blake-poems |
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(And I Tiresias have
foresuffered
all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Royalty
payments
should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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X
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Through magic arts won the Golden Fleece,
Sowing the plain with the old serpent's teeth,
To engender soldiers from the furrow's store,
This city, that in youthful season bore
A Hydra's nest of warriors, raised a yeast
Of brave nurslings, who their proud glory saw
Fill the Sun's mansions, to the west and east:
But in the end, lacking a Hercules
To
vanquish
so fecund a progeny,
Arming themselves in civil enmity,
Mowed each other down, a cruel harvest,
Reliving thus the fraternal harsh unrest
Which had blinded that proud seeded army.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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From no other book of his, not excepting _The Book of Hours_, can we
deduce so accurate a conception of Rilke's
philosophy
of Life and Art as
we can draw from his comparatively short monograph on Auguste Rodin.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Goodfellow's sensitive conscientiousness forbade him to
withhold
from
the court) was considered so unbroken and so thoroughly conclusive, that
the jury, without leaving their seats, returned an immediate verdict
of "Guilty of murder in the first degree.
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Poe - 5 |
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The Clown Chastised
Eyes, lakes of my simple passion to be reborn
Other than as the actor who
gestures
with his hand
As with a pen, and evokes the foul soot of the lamps,
Here's a window in the walls of cloth I've torn.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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During the night he awoke with a start; the moon shone into his chamber,
making
everything
plainly visible.
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Why is the light of [[Vala]] Enitharmon darken'd in her dewy morn *
Why is the silence of [[Vala lightning]] Enitharmon a Cloud terror & her smile a
whirlwind
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Uttering this darkness in my halls, in the pillars of my Holy-ones
Why dost thou weep [[O]] as Vala?
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Blake - Zoas |
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XI
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
To his
offspring
who, with mortal frailty,
Engorged with pride in Rome's bravery,
Looked to infringe on Heaven's grandeur,
Cooling again from his initial ardour,
With which Roman hearts he'd filled completely,
Blew new fires, with ardent breath, and fiercely,
Warmed the chilly Goths with his hot valour.
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