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Annie
On the coast of Texas
Twixt Mobile and Galveston there was a
Great garden full of roses
That also contained a villa
Like a giant rose.
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The paradoxical element of
the poems is such that one may sometimes find them in conflict with what
has preceded, and would not be much
surprised
if they said at any moment
the reverse of whatever they do say.
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19 Traveling Late:
Extempore
I cannot reach Three Rivers,1 evening mountains thick on the road home.
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The idea that Fate or Fortune is the deputy of God in the sphere of
external goods ([Greek: ta ektos agatha], i beni del mondo) is very
clearly
expressed
by Dante in the _Convivio_, iv.
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A Florentine, MAGNIFICENT by name,
Was what we've just described, in fact and fame;
The title was bestowed upon the knight,
For noble deeds
performed
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In the mid-frost should drink of Hebrus' stream,
And in wet winters face Sithonian snows,
Or, when the bark of the tall elm-tree bole
Of drought is dying, should, under Cancer's Sign,
In
Aethiopian
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I'm thinking, wi' sic a braw fellow,
In
poortith
I might mak a fen;
What care I in riches to wallow,
If I maunna marry Tam Glen!
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With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man's knead,
And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed:
Yea, the first Morning of
Creation
wrote
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
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I am a
minstrel
with a harp,
For love of her my songs are sweet,
And yet I dare not lift the voice
That lies so far beneath her feet.
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Zeus, lord of guestright, look upon
The grace our
stranger
lips have won.
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Li Po |
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She did not
come, but
although
the water began to rise, he trusted so firmly in her
word, that he clung to the pillars of the bridge and waited till he was
drowned.
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Li Po |
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Still, as the fray grew louder,
Boldly they worked and well;
Steadily
came the powder,
Steadily came the shell.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The
fruition
of beauty is no chance of hit or miss--it is inevitable as
life--it is exact and plumb as gravitation.
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copyright
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And close beside this aged thorn,
There is a fresh and lovely sight,
A
beauteous
heap, a hill of moss,
Just half a foot in height.
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I corresponds to the
Assyrian
version Book I,
Col.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And Betty's standing at the door,
And Betty's face with joy o'erflows,
Proud of herself, and proud of him,
She sees him in his
travelling
trim;
How quietly her Johnny goes.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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Tods was in bed, but he kept awake till he heard the
bursts of
laughter
from the men over the coffee.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my
delicate
youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Crimson it was,
With smokey
lightnings
braided, in its first
Swift surge into the gloom before her face;
But it began to golden, and became
Astonishingly white.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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If to remember deeds whilome well done be a pleasure
Meet for a man who deems all of his dealings be just,
Nor Holy Faith ever broke nor in
whatever
his compact
Sanction of Gods abused better to swindle mankind,
Much there remains for thee during length of living, Catullus, 5
Out of that Love ingrate further to solace thy soul;
For whatever of good can mortal declare of another
Or can avail he do, such thou hast said and hast done;
While to a thankless mind entrusted all of them perisht.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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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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In the heart of the Hills of Life, I know
Two springs that with
unbroken
flow
Forever pour their lucent streams
Into my soul's far Lake of Dreams.
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Und die
Physiognomie
versteht sie meisterlich:
In meiner Gegenwart wird's ihr, sie weiss nicht wie,
Mein Maskchen da weissagt verborgnen Sinn;
Sie fuhlt, dass ich ganz sicher ein Genie,
Vielleicht wohl gar der Teufel bin.
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Sons of Tyndarus, that is, Castor and Pollux, "the great twin brethren,"
held in peculiar
reverence
at Sparta.
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Aristophanes |
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In the 1140s he was a
propagandist
for the Reconquista, of Spain from the Moors.
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There's nothing in the world like the
devotion
of a married woman.
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"
"Thy aid avails me not (the chief replied);
My own experience shall their doom decide:
A witness-judge
precludes
a long appeal:
Suffice it then thy monarch to conceal.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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What is the reason of this
terrible
summons?
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Shakespeare |
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_I_ charge you, by great Saint Martino
And prodigies
quickened
by wrong,
Remember your Dead on Ticino;
Be worthy, be constant, be strong--
Bah!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I am
eternally
young, and as teacher I still love the young ones.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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Could it mean
To last, a love set
pendulous
between
Sorrow and sorrow?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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E comincio questa santa orazione:
Paradiso
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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So cowards fight when they can fly no further;
So doves do peck the falcon's
piercing
talons;
So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,
Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.
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"
A
CHRISTMAS
CAROL.
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Houghton
Mifflin Company, Boston,
1912.
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Imagists |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The
schoolboy
hears and brushes through the trees
And runs about till drabbled to the knees.
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John Clare |
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Call me not "love", call me your conquered foe,
That now, since you have
battered
down her gates,
Gives you the keys that lock the highest tower
And mounts with you to prove her homage true;
Oh bid me go no farther lest I fall,
My foot has slipped upon the rain-worn stones,
Why are the stairs so narrow and so steep?
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Sara Teasdale |
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" As on his feet
The falcon first looks down, then to the sky
Turns, and forth stretches eager for the food,
That woos him thither; so the call I heard,
So onward, far as the
dividing
rock
Gave way, I journey'd, till the plain was reach'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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What were thy gain, and what the guerdon won,
Though I should yield my life, or stoop my crest;
If she shall never be thy
glorious
meed,
Who flies, while vainly we in battle bleed?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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It is clear, then, that no Authoritarian
Socialism
will do.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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You
received
your orders at the foot of Taibai, you will gallop your horse to beside Chou Pool.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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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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I that do seeme not I, Duessa am,
(Quoth she) how ever now in garments gilt,
And
gorgeous
gold arrayd I to thee came;
Duessa I, the daughter of Deceipt and Shame.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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[_The body of_ ALCESTIS _is carried into the house by mourners;_
ADMETUS
_follows
it.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Something
in her bosom wrings,
For relief a sigh she brings:
And O, her een, they spak sic things!
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Robert Forst |
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er-to, policed ful clene,
Aboute his kne3 knaged wyth knote3 of golde;
[F] Queme
quyssewes
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I am torn, torn with thy beauty,
O Rose of the
sharpest
thorn !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A native, if he be
vicious, deserves to be a stranger, and cast out of the
commonwealth
as
an alien.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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So unsuspected violets
Within the fields lie low,
Too late for
striving
fingers
That passed, an hour ago.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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CHORUS
How like a sleuth-hound
questing
on the track,
Keen-scented unto blood and death she hies!
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Aeschylus |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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[The good and
generous
James Burness, of Montrose, was ever ready to
rejoice with his cousin's success or sympathize with his sorrows, but
he did not like the change which came over the old northern surname of
Burness, when the bard modified it into Burns: the name now a rising
one in India, is spelt Burnes.
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Robert Burns |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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[54] The tablet is
reckoned
at forty lines in each column,
[55] Literally "he attained my front.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I hear huge
Pestilence
draw his vaporous breath:
"Beware, prepare, or else ye die," he saith.
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CHORUS
Yea, and
eftsoons
indeed my rights shalt know.
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Aeschylus |
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[OF PARTS ONLY]
I cited once t' appear before the noble queen,
That ought to guide each mortal life that in this world is seen,
That
pleasant
cruel foe that robbeth hearts of ease,
And now doth frown, and then doth fawn, and can both grieve and please;
And there, as gold in fire full fined to each intent,
Charged with fear, and terror eke I did myself present,
As one that doubted death, and yet did justice crave,
And thus began t' unfold my cause in hope some help to have.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Would'st thou haue that
Which thou esteem'st the Ornament of Life,
And liue a Coward in thine owne
Esteeme?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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But I wonder
If, from its being kept forever under,
These
thoughts
may not have risen that so keep
This new-built city from both work and sleep.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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His green seraglio has its eunuchs too,
Lest any tyrant him outdo,
And in the cherry he does nature vex,
To
proci*eate
without a sex.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume
enclosed
by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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With seeds so intertwined even from birth,
They're dowered
conjointly
with a partner-life;
No energy of body or mind, apart,
Each of itself without the other's power,
Can have sensation; but our sense, enkindled
Along the vitals, to flame is blown by both
With mutual motions.
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Lucretius |
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For I have
followed
the white folk of the forest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Some bless the cart, some kiss the sheaves,
Some prank them up with oaken leaves:
Some cross the fill-horse, some with great
Devotion
stroke the home-borne wheat:
While other rustics, less attent
To prayers than to merriment,
Run after with their breeches rent.
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Robert Herrick |
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With what a joy my lofty gratulation
Unawed I sang, amid a slavish band:
And when to whelm the disenchanted nation,
Like fiends embattled by a wizard's wand,
The
Monarchs
marched in evil day,
And Britain join'd the dire array;
Though dear her shores and circling ocean,
Though many friendships, many youthful loves
Had swoln the patriot emotion
And flung a magic light o'er all her hills and groves;
Yet still my voice, unaltered, sang defeat
To all that braved the tyrant-quelling lance,
And shame too long delay'd and vain retreat!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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One Two Three Four Five contribute their quota:
Something
is gained if one caught but the import,
Show it us, Hugues of Saxe-Gotha.
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Kipling - Poems |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Whose sleep hath been taken
Beneath the cold moon,
As the spell which no slumber
Of witchery may test,
The
rythmical
number
Which lull'd him to rest?
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Poe - 5 |
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"On this Coast of Coromandel
Shrimps and
watercresses
grow,
Prawns are plentiful and cheap,"
Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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With some little
difficulty
I at length came within sight of him,
approached, and followed him closely, yet cautiously, so as not to
attract his attention.
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Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Charles looked up towards the sky, and there
Thunders and winds and blowing gales beheld,
And hurricanes and marvellous tempests;
Lightnings
and flames he saw in readiness,
That speedily on all his people fell;
Apple and ash, their spear-shafts all burned,
Also their shields, e'en the golden bosses,
Crumbled the shafts of their trenchant lances,
Crushed their hauberks and all their steel helmets.
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It was his custom once a year to hold a large
reception at his house,
attended
by all the families connected with
the institution and by the leading people of the town.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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[Footnote 13: One wonders
Tennyson
could have had the heart to excise the
beautiful couplet which in his MS.
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The King hath happily receiu'd, Macbeth,
The newes of thy successe: and when he reades
Thy personall Venture in the Rebels sight,
His Wonders and his Prayses doe contend,
Which should be thine, or his: silenc'd with that,
In viewing o're the rest o'th' selfe-same day,
He findes thee in the stout Norweyan Rankes,
Nothing afeard of what thy selfe didst make
Strange Images of death, as thick as Tale
Can post with post, and euery one did beare
Thy prayses in his
Kingdomes
great defence,
And powr'd them downe before him
Ang.
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--Green light did pass
Through one small window, where a looking-glass
Placed in the parlour, richly there revealed
A
spacious
landscape and a blooming field.
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ILU7TBIS8IXO VIBO
BOBilNO
LAKCELOTO
JOSEPHO DE MANIBAN,
OKAMXATOMAKTI.
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Marvell - Poems |
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It is
certain that
satirical
poems were common at Rome from a very
early period.
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But the traveller, travelling through it,
May not--dare not openly view it;
Never its mysteries are exposed
To the weak human eye unclosed;
So wills its King, who hath forbid
The uplifting of the fringed lid;
And thus the sad Soul that here passes
Beholds it but through
darkened
glasses.
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Now while my
brightest
arms my limbs invest,
To Saturn's son be all your vows address'd:
But pray in secret, lest the foes should hear,
And deem your prayers the mean effect of fear.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;
All tongues--the voice of souls--give thee that due,
Uttering
bare truth, even so as foes commend.
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AUTUMN SONG
Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow,
The sunset hangs on a cloud;
A golden storm of
glittering
sheaves,
Of fair and frail and fluttering leaves,
The wild wind blows in a cloud.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And I a sheep-hook will bestow
To have his little King-ship know,
As he is Prince, he's
Shepherd
too.
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Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire
Sprinkled
with stars, like Ariadne's tiar:
Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet!
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