Say, on the noon when the half-sunny hours told that April was nigh,
And I upgathered and cast forth the snow from the crocus-border,
Fashioned
and furbished the soil into a summer-seeming order,
Glowing in gladsome faith that I quickened the year thereby.
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Diva quibus retinens in summis urbibus arces
Ipsa levi fecit
volitantem
flamine currum,
Pinea coniungens inflexae texta carinae.
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And in their lust he can
entangle
them,
Deceiving them far into Judith's beauty,
Which is his power, and lop them from their gods.
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I have no host in battle him to prove,
Nor have I
strength
his forces to undo.
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and derives his witty illustrations from such re-
mote and obscure sources, that Parker did not
hesitate to avow his belief that he had sometimes
drawn on his
invention
for them.
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Upon the
following
vault
We now had mounted, where the rock impends
Directly o'er the centre of the foss.
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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now I call
To my pretty
witchcrafts
all;
Old I am, and cannot do
That I was accustomed to.
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femina nulla bona est, uel, si bona
contigit
una,
nescio quo fato est res mala facta bona.
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te quoque promissam Xutho, Peneie, Creusam
Phthiotum terris
occuluisse
ferunt.
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Would Stralenheim's appearance in Bohemia
Disturb your right, or mine, if once we were 250
Admitted
to our lands?
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Byron |
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_"
[Of the origin of this song the poet gives the
following
account.
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Ah
spirit of man,
ignorant
of fate and the allotted future, or to keep
bounds when elate with prosperity!
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as I have heard, so let me
tell, and
according
to your will unfold things sunken deep under earth
in gloom.
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CCXLVI
That
Emperour
calls on his Franks and speaks:
"I love you, lords, in whom I well believe;
So many great battles you've fought for me,
Kings overthrown, and kingdoms have redeemed!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,
Still constant in a wondrous excellence;
Therefore
my verse to constancy confin'd,
One thing expressing, leaves out difference.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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--my
thoughts
do twine and bud
XXX I see thine image through my tears to-night
XXXI Thou comest!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Her women
removed her wraps and proceeded to get her in
readiness
for the night.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The
Vanishing+
79
* * * * *
FIT I.
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Lewis Carroll |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old person of Pisa,
Whose
daughters
did nothing to please her;
She dressed them in gray, and banged them all day,
Round the walls of the city of Pisa.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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and here for
America!
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Whitman |
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"He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it
clean bare, and cast it away; the
branches
thereof are made white.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Whether the shrimps or crawfish gray,
Or crafty
Mermaids
stole them away,
Nobody knew; and nobody knows
How the Pobble was robbed of his twice five toes!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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His passion, cruel grown, took on a hue
Fierce and
sanguineous
as 'twas possible
In one whose brow had no dark veins to swell.
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Keats - Lamia |
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ise freres don also; prechen aboute ylome,
ffor of
prechyng
it wor?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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All stood
together
on the deck,
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
All fix'd on me their stony eyes
That in the moon did glitter.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Quoi dono lepidum novom libellum
Arida modo pumice
expolitum?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Not wisdom sav'd us, 'twas the Heaven's own care:
Not harbours only, e'en the barren sands
A place of rest denied our weary bands:
From us, alas, what harm could
prudence
fear!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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DID you but know the
virtuous
steps she trod,
While thus devoted to the little god,
You'd thank a hundred times the pow'rs above,
That gave you such a child to bless your love.
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La Fontaine |
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The snellest blast, at mirkest hours,
That round the pathless wand'rer pours,
Is nocht to what poor she endures,
That's trusted
faithless
man, jo.
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Robert Forst |
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I can nat seen how thou mayst go
Other weyes to garisoun;
For Daunger, that is so feloun, 3250
Felly
purposith
thee to werrey,
Which is ful cruel, the soth to sey.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Dodsley having failed him,
Chatterton
next took the bolder step of
writing to Horace Walpole, who must have been much in his mind for
some years before his sending the letter.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Nor is there any place, where, when they've come,
Bodies can be at standstill in the void,
Deprived
of force of weight; nor yet may void
Furnish support to any,--nay, it must,
True to its bent of nature, still give way.
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Lucretius |
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One would
say that a true
Englishman
could speculate only within bounds.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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His
nostrils
dilate as my heels embrace him,
His well-built limbs tremble with pleasure as we race around and return.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Sara Teasdale |
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That Archbishop could never love him, he;
Seeing him there, to strike he's very keen,
Within himself he says all quietly:
"This
Sarrazin
great heretick meseems,
Rather I'ld die, than not slay him clean,
Neer did I love coward nor cowardice.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The
Reader may judge for himself, by
examining
the _Fac simile_ in the
opposite page.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I will not say one word about
apologies
or excuses for not
writing.
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Robert Forst |
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There is no
endowment
in man or woman that is not tallied in you,
There is no virtue, no beauty in man or woman, but as good is in you,
No pluck, no endurance in others, but as good is in you,
No pleasure waiting for others, but an equal pleasure waits for you.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
A noticeable feature about this first book, and one which we think is
peculiar to it, is the harsh
treatment
which the eccentricities of the
inhabitants of certain towns appear to have met with at the hands of their
fellow-residents.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"Between Tupino, and the wave, that falls
From blest Ubaldo's chosen hill, there hangs
Rich slope of
mountain
high, whence heat and cold
Are wafted through Perugia's eastern gate:
And Norcera with Gualdo, in its rear
Mourn for their heavy yoke.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In the Gates of Death
rejoice!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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She wrought this wonder to
bereave you of your wits, hoping to have grieved Guenever and
affrighted
her to death by means of the man that spoke with his head in
his hand before the high table.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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We fancy
ourselves
in the interior of a larger house.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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She might have wept if that hand
Coldly placed against her heart,
Had ever felt dew's
heavenly
wand
Touch human clay with subtle art.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Third in succession, Cyrus, blest of Heaven,
Held rule and 'stablished peace for all his clan:
Lydian and Phrygian won he to his sway,
And wide Ionia to his yoke constrained,
For the god favoured his
discretion
sage.
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Aeschylus |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Then cried Geraint for wine and goodly cheer
To feed the sudden guest, and sumptuously
According
to his fashion, bad the host
Call in what men soever were his friends,
And feast with these in honour of their Earl;
'And care not for the cost; the cost is mine.
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Tennyson |
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And when is emptied out
This space, and a large place between the two
Is made a void, forthwith the primal germs
Of iron, headlong slipping, fall conjoined
Into the vacuum, and the ring itself
By reason thereof doth follow after and go
Thuswise
with all its body.
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Lucretius |
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Its
passions
will rock thee _25
As the storms rock the ravens on high;
Bright reason will mock thee,
Like the sun from a wintry sky.
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Shelley |
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unconscious
of thy doom,
All innocence and opening bloom;
Laugh on!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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þā þæt monige gewearð, þæt hine
sēo brimwylf
ābroten
hæfde, _many believed that the sea-wolf_ (Grendel's
mother) _had killed him_, 1600; hī hyne .
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Beowulf |
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I shall not be in
Ayrshire
for four weeks.
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Robert Forst |
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THE LITTLE BOY FOUND
The little boy lost in the lonely fen,
Led by the
wandering
light,
Began to cry, but God, ever nigh,
Appeared like his father, in white.
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blake-poems |
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I look for no ladder to invade the king's hall--
I stride o'er the ramparts, and down the walls fall,
Till choked are the ditches with the stones, dead and quick,
Whilst the
flagstaff
I use 'midst my teeth as a pick.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"--She pinched her box again,
And ceased her tale, and
listened
to the rain,
Which still as usual pattered fast around,
And bowed the bent-head loaded to the ground;
While larks, their naked nest by force forsook,
Pruned their wet wings in bushes by the brook.
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John Clare |
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III
Miles slid, and the sight of the port upgrew
As they sped on;
When
slipping
its bond the bracelet flew
From her fondled arm.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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LXXV
So are you to my
thoughts
as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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At my sloth and greed there is no one but me to laugh;
My
cheerful
vigour none but myself knows.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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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Meredith - Poems |
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O
children
of the light, now in our grief Give us again the solace of belief.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"I thought--but I am half a child
And very sage art thou--
The
teachings
of the heaven and earth
Should keep us soft and low:
They have drawn _my_ tears in early years,
Or ere I wept--as now.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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(_and_
Longleat)
a; _rest om.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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How
glorious
to this orchard-ground!
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William Wordsworth |
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Look at the lake--
Do you
remember
how we watched the swans
That night in late October while they slept?
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Sara Teasdale |
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]
[Sidenote F:
Blessing
himself, he says, "Cross of Christ, speed me!
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Thee, too, Ismarus, proud nations saw aiming
wounds and arming thy shafts with poison,--thee, of house
illustrious
in
Maeonia, where the rich tilth is wrought by men's hands, and Pactolus
waters it with gold.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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LOVE DISLIKES NOTHING
Whatsoever
thing I see,
Rich or poor although it be,
--'Tis a mistress unto me.
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Robert Herrick |
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In
consequence
of Circe's
instructions, after having spent a complete year in her palace, he
prepares for a voyage to the infernal regions.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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O most kind maid,
It was the swift
celerity
of his death,
Which I did think with slower foot came on,
That brain'd my purpose.
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Shakespeare |
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The Keekin'-Glass
How daur ye ca' me howlet-face,
Ye blear-e'ed, withered
spectre?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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These lesser
mountain
ranges, as well as the
Alleghanies, run from northeast to southwest, and parallel with these
mountain streams are the more fluent rivers, answering to the general
direction of the coast, the bank of the great ocean stream itself.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Preserve,
preserve
the sacred purity
Of innocence and proud shamefacedness;
He, who through passion has been wont to wallow
In vicious pleasures in his youthful days,
Becomes in manhood bloodthirsty and surly;
His mind untimely darkens.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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_ A garland for my gift shall be
Of flowers ne'er suck'd by th'
thieving
bee;
And all most sweet; yet all less sweet than he.
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Robert Herrick |
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CITIES
Can we believe--by an effort
comfort our hearts:
it is not waste all this,
not placed here in disgust,
street after street,
each
patterned
alike,
no grace to lighten
a single house of the hundred
crowded into one garden-space.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Joachim Du Bellay
The Ruins of Rome
(Les Antiquites de Rome)
Joachim du Bellay, French
Renaissance
poet 16th century
'Joachim du Bellay, French Renaissance poet 16th century'
The New York Public Library: Digital Collections
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Translated by A.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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LES DEUX BONNES SOEURS
La Debauche et la Mort sont deux aimables filles,
Prodigues
de baisers et riches de sante,
Dont le flanc toujours vierge et drape de guenilles
Sous l'eternel labeur n'a jamais enfante.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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They hanged him as a beast is hanged:
They did not even toll
A requiem that might have brought
Rest to his startled soul,
But
hurriedly
they took him out,
And hid him in a hole.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'
But thou at home, without or tide or gale,
Canst in thy map
securely
sail;
Seeing those painted countries, and so guess
By those fine shades, their substances;
And from thy compass taking small advice,
Buy'st travel at the lowest price.
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Robert Herrick |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And
blossoms
fall upon an open sea.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying,
performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works
unless you comply with
paragraph
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"It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time," The quavering
tambourines
repeat.
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'Jesus, King of the World,' she cried,
'Through you my grief is at its height,
Insult to you
confounds
me, I
Lose the best of this world wide:
He goes to serve and win your grace.
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Troubador Verse |
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Then, since even this
Was full of peril, and the secret kiss
Of some bold prince might find her yet, and rend
Her prison walls,
Aegisthus
at the end
Would slay her.
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Euripides - Electra |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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ODE ON THE
PLEASURE
ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE.
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Golden Treasury |
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Charles, never in one place, with restless care
Provides
defence and succour every where.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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We fight for it as for
a
principle
of liberty.
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Imagists |
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[The too
hospitable
board of Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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The whole population of both Canadas is
but about 1,700,000 Canadians, English, Irish, Scotch, Indians, and
all, put
together!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
What, then,
extraordinary
stranger, do you love?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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