[Illustration:
SOLITUDES
OF VAUCLUSE.
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Petrarch |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He was
proud--he remembered the indifferent
practice
of the corps to which he
belonged, and turning to Gibson, one of his fellow-soldiers, who stood
at his bedside with wet eyes, "John," said he, and a gleam of humour
passed over his face, "pray don't let the awkward-squad fire over me.
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Robert Burns |
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A number of personal references are best pursued by reading a biography of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later
relationship
with the actress Jenny Colon.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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For pryde is founde, in every part, 2245
Contrarie
unto Loves art.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Gilgamish
is enamoured of the beautiful virgin goddess Ishara, and Enkidu,
fearing the effeminate effects of his friend's attachment, prevents
him forcibly from
entering
a house.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The nephew does things very
shabbily, and I think the
Memsahib
must help him.
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Kipling - Poems |
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COUNTING SHEEP
Half-awake I walked
A dimly-seen sweet
hawthorn
lane
Until sleep came;
I lingered at a gate and talked
A little with a lonely lamb.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Note: Pound
utilises
an issue of translation regarding the last line of verse 1, E jois le grans, e l'olors d'enoi gandres in Canto XX.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
"Well hast thou spoke (rejoin'd the
attentive
swain):
Thy lips let fall no idle word or vain!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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His eldest
daughter
was Biatrix.
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Troubador Verse |
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I will reveal a great, a terrible
conspiracy
against the gods
to you.
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Aristophanes |
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(thus his heart he vents)
Once spread the
inviting
banquet in our tents:
Thy sweet society, thy winning care,
Once stay'd Achilles, rushing to the war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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PLANH
It is of the white
thoughts
that he saw in the Forest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Enfin la verite froide se revela:
J'etais mort sans surprise, et la
terrible
aurore
M'enveloppait.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"On the other side,
Incensed
with indignation, Satan stood
Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,
That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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This should be a privacy,
Not even your lover near, this hour of first
Strange knowledge that you have
accepted
love.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I wot the
stranger
worketh woe within--
For lo!
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Aeschylus |
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'
Withouten wordes mo, right than, 6135
Fals-Semblant his sermon bigan,
And seide hem thus in audience:--
Barouns, tak hede of my
sentence!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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II
I squared the broad foundations in
Of
ashlared
masonry;
I moulded mullions thick and thin,
Hewed fillet and ogee;
I circleted
Each sculptured head
With nimb and canopy.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Aboute hir eyen two a purpre ring
Bi-trent, in sothfast
tokninge
of hir peyne, 870
That to biholde it was a dedly thing,
For which Pandare mighte not restreyne
The teres from his eyen for to reyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Thee, Socrates,
Thou dear and very strong one, I forgive
Thy year-worn cloak, thine iron stringencies
That were but dandy upside-down, thy words
Of truth that, mildlier spoke, had
mainlier
wrought.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Heated with wine, to rinse our mouths and hands
In those cold waters was a joy beyond
compare!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Ronsard |
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Hence "Notre Dame" long stood
unique: it was
translated
in all languages, and plays and operas were
founded on it.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Those who
practice
poetry search for and love only the perfection that is God Himself.
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Appoloinaire |
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* You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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632
625 _The Arbiter of
pleasure
and of play_.
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Byron |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or
sharpened
claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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VIII
So, I ask the wives of Lodi
For
traditions
of that day;
But alas!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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LEAVES
ONE by one, like leaves from a tree,
All my faiths have forsaken me;
But the stars above my head
Burn in white and
delicate
red,
And beneath my feet the earth
Brings the sturdy grass to birth.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Never sadder tale was heard
By a man of woman born:
The
Marineres
all return'd to work
As silent as beforne.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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WHOis she coming, that the roses bend
Their
shameless
heads to do her honour ?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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Oddly
enough the late Francis
Thompson
used 'carcanet' in the sense of
'coronet':
Who scarfed her with the morning?
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John Donne |
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I skoal to the eyes as grey-blown mere (Who knows whose was that
paragon?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Earth
breathes
him like an eternal spring: he is a second sky over
the Earth.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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the raskall routes appall,
Men into stones
therewith
he could transmew,
And stones to dust, and dust to nought at all;
And when him list the prouder lookes subdew,
He would them gazing blind, or turne to other hew.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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--Me voila libre et
solitaire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Great
Menelaus
views with pitying eyes,
Lifts his bright lance, and at the victor flies;
Mars urged him on; yet, ruthless in his hate,
The god but urged him to provoke his fate.
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Iliad - Pope |
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_100
A man who thus twice
crucifies
his God
May well .
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Shelley |
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Any fairly practised writer,
with the
slightest
ear for rhythm, could compose, for hours together, in
the easy running metre of 'The Song of Hiawatha.
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Lewis Carroll |
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"'Tis no common rule,
Lycius," said he, "for uninvited guest
To force himself upon you, and infest
With an unbidden
presence
the bright throng
Of younger friends; yet must I do this wrong,
And you forgive me.
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Keats - Lamia |
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There
happiness
attends
With inbred joy until the heart oerflow,
Of which the world's rude friends,
Nought heeding, nothing know.
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John Clare |
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We
disembark
and worship Apollo's
town.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The butternut, which is a
remarkably
spreading
tree, is turned completely yellow, thus proving
its relation to the hickories.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'
Falls a small cry in the dark and calls--
'I see you
standing
there!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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He died in 1173,
possibly
a victim of the widespread epidemic of that year.
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Troubador Verse |
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The pigeons from the dove cote cooed over the old lane,
The crow flocks from the oakwood went flopping oer the grain;
Like lots of dear old
neighbours
whom I shall see no more
They greeted me that morning I left the English shore.
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John Clare |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation
information
page at www.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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les colliers
tinteront
cherront les masques
Va-t'en va-t'en contre le feu l'ombre prevaut
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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ir swiche men
ben frendes at nede as ben
conseiled
by fortune {and} nat by vertue.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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grāpode
gearofolm, _he took hold with ready hand_, 2086.
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Beowulf |
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Fourth Self: I, amongst you all, am the most miserable, for naught
was given me but odious hatred and
destructive
loathing.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Quivi venimmo; e quindi giu nel fosso
vidi gente
attuffata
in uno sterco
che da li uman privadi parea mosso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Flexibus in calami tamen omnia sponte le-
guntur :
Quod non
significant
verba, figura notat.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The works of the poet were much admired in society, but
he was not happy in his
domestic
life.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
Small the Theme of My Chant
Small the theme of my Chant, yet the greatest--namely, One's-Self--
a simple,
separate
person.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Not now are we one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor
ten;)
Nor market nor depot are we, nor money-bank in the city;
But these, and all, and the brown and spreading land, and the mines below,
are ours;
And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers great and small;
And the fields they moisten are ours, and the crops, and the fruits are
ours;
Bays and channels, and ships sailing in and out, are ours--and we over all,
Over the area spread below, the three
millions
of square miles--the
capitals,
The thirty-five millions of people--O bard!
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Whitman |
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How much better is it to be silent, or at least to speak
sparingly!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Thou hast brought it about that both our peoples,
sons of the Geat and Spear-Dane folk,
shall have mutual peace, and from
murderous
strife,
such as once they waged, from war refrain.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I will leave all, and come and make the hymns of you;
None have understood you, but I understand you;
None have done justice to you--you have not done justice to yourself;
None but have found you imperfect--I only find no
imperfection
in you;
None but would subordinate you--I only am he who will never consent to
subordinate you;
I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what
waits intrinsically in yourself.
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Whitman |
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huld know his
countenance!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The majestic quietude of the long lines of _The Book of
Pictures_ is broken, the colours are more vibrant, more scintillating
and the
pictures
are painted in nervous, darting strokes as though to
convey the manner in which they were perceived: in one single,
all-absorbing glance.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Lurcanio's heart with vengeful hatred glows
Against Geneura; while that other knight
As well
maintains
the quarrel for her right.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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He
promised
'a new start'.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Sweet friend, do you wake or are you
sleeping?
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Troubador Verse |
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Division
into
Act and Scene referring chiefly to the Stage (to which this work never
was intended) is here omitted.
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Milton |
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And then the rolling thunder gets awake,
And from black clouds the
lightning
flashes break.
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John Clare |
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LXXIV
But be contented: when that fell arrest
Without all bail shall carry me away,
My life hath in this line some interest,
Which for
memorial
still with thee shall stay.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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It is characterized by
much of the
coarseness
which was so prevalent
in that age, and from which Marvell was by no
means free ; though, as we shall endeavour here-
after to show, his spirit was far from partaking
of the malevolence of ordinary satirists.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Distress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
In whom are the sins of the race, nor to stir
In your foul tresses a mournful tempest
Beneath the fatal boredom my kisses pour:
A heavy sleep without those dreams that creep
Under curtains alien to remorse, I ask of your bed,
Sleep you can savour after your dark deceits,
You who know more of
Nothingness
than the dead.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The inmates of the
Pyramids
assume
The hue of Rhamesis, black with the gloom.
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Hugo - Poems |
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THE SONG OF PRINCESS ZEB-UN-NISSA
IN PRAISE OF HER OWN BEAUTY
(From the Persian)
When from my cheek I lift my veil,
The roses turn with envy pale,
And from their pierced hearts, rich with pain,
Send forth their
fragrance
like a wail.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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" the
cheerful
cry goes forth,
His furs are powdered on the way
By the fine silver of the north.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
1.
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Keats |
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'twas a
precious
flock to me,
As dear as my own children be;
For daily with my growing store
I loved my children more and more.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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So does
flattery
mine;
And all your courtly civet-cats can vent,
Perfume to you, to me is excrement.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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how appears he in your eyes
This stranger, graceful as he is in port,
In stature noble, and in mind
discrete?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And in matters of this nature it must be confessed
that
adequate
events are as necessary as the _vates sacer_ to record
them.
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James Russell Lowell |
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And now the other maidens in the hall
Assembling, kindled on the hearth again
Th'
unwearied
blaze; then, godlike from his couch 150
Arose Telemachus, and, fresh-attired,
Athwart his shoulders his bright faulchion slung,
Bound his fair sandals to his feet, and took
His sturdy spear pointed with glitt'ring brass;
Advancing to the portal, there he stood,
And Euryclea thus, his nurse, bespake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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e toumbe
richeliche
I-grey|?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was
standing
up
In the black dock's dreadful pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
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Wilde - Poems |
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What
instinct
hadst thou for it?
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Shakespeare |
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Who will be happier,
shouldst
thou always weep?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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they love thee least who owe thee most--
Their birth, their blood, and that sublime record
Of hero sires, who shame thy now
degenerate
horde!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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" we cry, and lo, apace
Pleasure
appears!
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Hugo - Poems |
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N'es-tu pas l'oasis ou je reve, et la gourde
Ou je hume a longs traits le vin du
souvenir?
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This, and what need full else
That call's vpon vs, by the Grace of Grace,
We will
performe
in measure, time, and place:
So thankes to all at once, and to each one,
Whom we inuite, to see vs Crown'd at Scone.
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In the "Appendix" to the
_Two
Foscari_
(first ed.
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Gleams like a pool the ballroom floor--
A
burnished
solitude.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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fyrndagum
(_in old
times_), 1452.
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How much awaits him
of lief and of loath, who long time here,
through days of warfare this world
endures!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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as 'twere fain
That your
paternal
river's banks,
And Vatican, in sportive strain,
Should echo thanks.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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There, when hueless is the west
And the darkness hushes wide,
Where the lad lies down to rest
Stands the
troubled
dream beside.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:
But
wherefore
says she not she is unjust?
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