Arrived there,
That bare-head knight for dread and
dolefull
teene,
Would faine have fled, ne durst approchen neare, 305
But th' other forst him stay, and comforted in feare.
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XXXVII
As through the wild green hills of Wyre
The train ran, changing sky and shire,
And far behind, a fading crest,
Low in the
forsaken
west
Sank the high-reared head of Clee,
My hand lay empty on my knee.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Wet or dry it was the same:
She would come in at all hours,
Set me eating and drinking
And say I must grow strong; 280
At last the day seemed long
And home seemed
scarcely
home
If she did not come.
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Christina Rossetti |
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No tender wisdom floods the eyes
That watch me with their
suppliant
light--
I hold him dearer than the wise,
And for him make me wise and bright.
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Yeats |
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Thou there dysperpellest[69] thie levynne-bronde;
Whylest mie soulgh's forwyned, thou art the gare; 415
Sleene ys mie
comforte
bie thie ferie honde;
As somme talle hylle, whann wynds doe shake the ground,
Itte kerveth all abroade, bie brasteynge hyltren wounde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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requests
that the images and OCR not be re-hosted, redistributed or used commercially.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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how your door is
creaking!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I was
extremely
curious to know on what account my retainer had thought
of writing to Pugatchef.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Glory and worship be
To you, sweet Maids, thrice three,
Who still inspire me;
And teach me how to sing
Unto the lyric string,
My measures
ravishing!
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Robert Herrick |
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See how trees on trees, in legions,
Hurrying
by us, change their places,
And the bowing crags make faces,
And the rocks, long noses showing,
Hear them snoring, hear them blowing!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Besides, we observe ten vessels
Of our old enemies,
flaunting
their banners;
They have dared to approach the river-course.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days of
receipt of the work.
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Stephen Crane |
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III
Had Roland of Eleusis' deity
The sovereign power possessed no less than will,
He for
Angelica
had land and sea
Ransacked, and wood and field, and pool and rill,
Heaven, and Oblivion's bottom: but since he
Had not, his pressing purpose to fulfil,
Her dragon and her car, the unwearied knight
Pursued the missing maid as best he might.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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day — perhaps more than ever in her history—is in the minds and hearts of other nations, these two poetic and
romantic
episodes of her past are timely.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Whose fault has foiled her fond
endeavor?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Now o're the one halfe World
Nature seemes dead, and wicked Dreames abuse
The Curtain'd sleepe: Witchcraft celebrates
Pale Heccats Offrings: and wither'd Murther,
Alarum'd by his Centinell, the Wolfe,
Whose howle's his Watch, thus with his
stealthy
pace,
With Tarquins rauishing sides, towards his designe
Moues like a Ghost.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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quid tum, si carpunt, tacita quem mente
requirunt?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Tu contiens, mer d'ebene, un eblouissant reve
De voiles, de rameurs, de flammes et de mats:
Un port retentissant ou mon ame peut boire
A grands flots le parfum, le son et la couleur;
Ou les vaisseaux,
glissant
dans l'or et dans la moire,
Ouvrent leurs vastes bras pour embrasser la gloire
D'un ciel pur ou fremit l'eternelle chaleur.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Tacitus |
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[64]
Allusion
to cock-fighting.
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Aristophanes |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Now, in the
desolate
dawn,
Crying of blue jays.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Epitaph On A Lap-Dog
Named Echo
In wood and wild, ye
warbling
throng,
Your heavy loss deplore;
Now, half extinct your powers of song,
Sweet Echo is no more.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Certain
qualities
of the highest poet
Pope no doubt lacked, lofty imagination, intense passion, wide human
sympathy.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
I will accept thy will to do and be,
Thy hatred and
intolerance
of sin,
Thy will at least to love, that burns within
And thirsteth after Me:
So will I render fruitful, blessing still
The germs and small beginnings in thy heart,
Because thy will cleaves to the better part.
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Christina Rossetti |
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God hath made
us
conquerors
over the evil that was in us.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I would not have a pain to own
For those dark curls and those bright eyes
A
frowning
lip, a heart of stone,
False love and folly I despise.
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John Clare |
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Of night, or
lonelines
it recks me not,
I fear the dred events that dog them both,
Lest som ill greeting touch attempt the person
Of our unowned sister.
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Milton |
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And wines, purple and blue and like gold fire,
Made of the colours of the morning sea
And
fragrance
wild as woman's need of love.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And might it not be possible to escape them by
turning into one of our narrow New England lanes, shut in though it were
by bleak stone walls on either hand, and where no better flowers were to
be gathered than goldenrod and
hardhack?
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James Russell Lowell |
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inge is in his
substaunce
as longe as it is oon.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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And dost thou not find, replied Adam, these words therein,
And Adam rebelled against his Lord and
transgressed?
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Shelley |
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It occurred
to me that the author might be John Davies of Hereford, who was
a
dependent
of the Countess and her two sons, and who made a
calligraphic copy of the _Psalms_ of Sidney and his sister, from
which they were printed by Singer in 1823.
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John Donne |
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I
O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray
Warbl'st at eeve, when all the Woods are still,
Thou with fresh hope the Lovers heart dost fill,
While the jolly hours lead on
propitious
May,
Thy liquid notes that close the eye of Day,
First heard before the shallow Cuccoo's bill
Portend success in love; O if Jove's will
Have linkt that amorous power to thy soft lay,
Now timely sing, ere the rude Bird of Hate
Foretell my hopeles doom in som Grove ny: 10
As thou from yeer to yeer hast sung too late
For my relief; yet hadst no reason why,
Whether the Muse, or Love call thee his mate,
Both them I serve, and of their train am I.
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Milton |
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Lo, now Thy banner over me is love,
All heaven flies open to me at Thy nod:
For Thou hast lit Thy flame in me a clod,
Made me a nest for
dwelling
of Thy Dove.
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Christina Rossetti |
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ng,
Governor
of the
districts Hsuan and Sh?
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Li Po |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure,
whatever
is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of everything certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
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Villon |
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I lopp'd the branchy head: aloft in twain
Sever'd the bole, and smoothed the shining grain;
Then posts, capacious of the frame, I raise,
And bore it, regular, from space to space:
Athwart the frame, at equal distance lie
Thongs of tough hides, that boast a purple dye;
Then polishing the whole, the
finished
mould
With silver shone, with elephant, and gold.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--and now
Her sacred beauty
vanishes
away.
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Shelley |
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(72)
The Larinas
unwisely
went,
From apprehension of the cost,
By their own horses, not the post--
So Tania to her heart's content
Could taste the pleasures of the road.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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What serener palaces,
Where I may all my many senses please,
And by mysterious sleights a hundred thirsts
appease?
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Keats - Lamia |
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310
To make it more renomed than before,
(I, tho a Saxon, yet the truthe will telle)
The Saxonnes steynd the place wyth Brittish gore,
Where nete but bloud of
sacrifices
felle.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Now let us go to kneel before the tombs
Of Russia's great
departed
rulers.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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, _merit on account of
services
rendered during many
years_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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On the black promontory's windless head,
The last awake, the
fireflies
rise and fall
And tangle up their dithering skeins of light.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I prefer deeper patience,
Monotony
of stalled beasts.
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Imagists |
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The world was made for man, but made
Wisely a steep difficulty to be climbed,
That he, so
labouring
the stubborn slant,
May step from off the world with a well-used courage,
All slouch disgrace fought out of him, a man
Well worthy of a Heaven.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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ing is
flitti{n}g
fortune but a manere shewyng of wrycchednesse [[pg 32]]
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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For drink I would venture my neck;
A hizzie's the half of my craft;
But what could ye other expect
Of ane that's
avowedly
daft?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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My
bardship
here, at your levee,
On sic a day as this is,
Is sure an uncouth sight to see,
Amang thae birth-day dresses
Sae fine this day.
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Robert Burns |
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in mutinous game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The
elements
freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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gret
solempnite
912
(77)
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Give me exhaustless--make me a fountain,
That I exhale love from me
wherever
I go,
For the sake of all dead soldiers.
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Whitman |
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My head slues round on my neck,
Music rolls, but not from the organ,
Folks are around me, but they are no
household
of mine.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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_
[J] This essay was written
immediately
after the opening of the Abbey
Theatre, though it was not printed, through an accident, until the art
of the Abbey has become an art of peasant comedy.
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Yeats |
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--
Of voices whereof but to speak
Makes mine own all sunk and weak;
Of smiles the thought of which is sweeping
All my soul to floods of weeping;
Of looks whose absence fain would weigh
My looks to the ground for aye;
Of clasping hands--ah me, I wring
Mine, and in a tremble fling
Downward, downward all this
paining!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Use wealth, it wastes, a stayd hand heapes the store,
But this the more wee use wee have the more;
Use, not like usury whose growth is lending, 45
Rich
thoughts
this treasure keepe and thrive by spending;
Th'expense runnes circular, turning returning,
Such love no hart consumes, yet ever burning.
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John Donne |
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So
choosing
but a gown
And taking but a prayer,
The only raiment I should need,
I struggled, and was there.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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would that I could lift my hope
So high, for though she is
extremely
poor, _275
Her virtue is her dowry.
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Shelley |
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"
When the tired glutton labours through a treat,
He finds no relish in the sweetest meat,
He calls for something bitter, something sour,
And the rich feast
concludes
extremely poor:
Cheap eggs, and herbs, and olives still we see;
Thus much is left of old simplicity!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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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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A fine example of a
peculiar
class of Poetry;--that written by
thoughtful men who practised this Art but little.
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Golden Treasury |
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The salt marshes of Glynn County, Georgia,
immediately
around
the sea-coast city of Brunswick.
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Sidney Lanier |
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355
[28]
He paused--for shadows of strange shape,
Massy and black, before him lay;
But through the dark, and through the cold, [29]
And through the yawning
fissures
old,
Did Peter boldly press his way 360
Right through the quarry;--and behold
A scene of soft and lovely hue!
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William Wordsworth |
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"
Then Goody, who had nothing said,
Her bundle from her lap let fall;
And
kneeling
on the sticks, she pray'd
To God that is the judge of all.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"--
Ere half this region-whisper had come down,
Hyperion
arose, and on the stars 350
Lifted his curved lids, and kept them wide
Until it ceas'd; and still he kept them wide:
And still they were the same bright, patient stars.
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Keats |
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The idea of necessity is obtained by our
experience of the connection between objects, the uniformity of the
operations of nature, the constant conjunction of similar events, and
the
consequent
inference of one from the other.
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Shelley |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
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Rilke - Poems |
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My books closed again on Paphos' name,
It delights me to choose with solitary genius
A ruin, by foam-flecks in
thousands
blessed
Beneath hyacinth, far off, in days of fame.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
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Ronsard |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A thought is with me sometimes, and I say,--
Should the whole frame of earth by inward throes 30
Be wrenched, or fire come down from far to scorch
Her pleasant habitations, and dry up
Old Ocean, in his bed left singed and bare,
Yet would the living Presence still subsist
Victorious, and
composure
would ensue, 35
And kindlings like the morning--presage sure
Of day returning and of life revived.
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William Wordsworth |
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Urania-Venus,[82] queen of sacred love,
Arose and fixed her asking eyes on Jove;
Her eyes, well pleas'd, in Lusus' sons could trace
A kindred likeness to the Roman race,
For whom of old such kind regard she bore;[83]
The same their
triumphs
on Barbaria's shore,
The same the ardour of their warlike flame,
The manly music of their tongue the same:[84]
Affection thus the lovely goddess sway'd,
Nor less what Fate's unblotted page display'd,
Where'er this people should their empire raise,
She knew her altars would unnumber'd blaze,
And barb'rous nations at her holy shrine
Be humaniz'd and taught her lore divine.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But bloody Thestylis, that waits
To bring the mowing camp their cates,
Greedy as kite, has trussed it up
And
forthwith
means on it to sup.
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Marvell - Poems |
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For three long years they will not sow
Or root or seedling there:
For three long years the
unblessed
spot
Will sterile be and bare,
And look upon the wondering sky
With unreproachful stare.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
He spoke, then rush'd amid the warrior crew,
And sent his voice before him as he flew,
Loud, as the shout encountering armies yield
When twice ten thousand shake the
labouring
field;
Such was the voice, and such the thundering sound
Of him whose trident rends the solid ground.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Satan has
darkened
all the Inn!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
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Lors
veissies
carole aler,
Et gens mignotement baler,
Et faire mainte bele tresche,
Et maint biau tor sor l'erbe fresche.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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O
laughter
if only to royally invest
My absent tomb purple, down there, is spread.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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His family: a mass of dense
coloured
globes.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at random a part of them;
I am a real Parisian;
I am a
habitant
of Vienna, St.
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Whitman |
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money paid for a work or a
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of receipt of the work.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Do thou only, asking divine favour
with peace-offerings, be
bounteous
in welcome and draw out reasons for
delay, while the storm rages at sea and Orion is wet, and his ships are
shattered and the sky unvoyageable.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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te, & made
sorweful
chere,
Teres ouer his whyte lere
Bytere he let falle.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Thel answerd, O thou little virgin of the
peaceful
valley.
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blake-poems |
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Not Sparta's queen alone was fired
By broider'd robe and braided tress,
And all the
splendours
that attired
Her lover's guilty loveliness:
Not only Teucer to the field
His arrows brought, nor Ilion
Beneath a single conqueror reel'd:
Not Crete's majestic lord alone,
Or Sthenelus, earn'd the Muses' crown:
Not Hector first for child and wife,
Or brave Deiphobus, laid down
The burden of a manly life.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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They would
naturally
attribute the project of Romulus
to some divine intimation of the power and prosperity which it
was decreed that his city should attain.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Beneath the silken silence
The crystal branches slept,
And dreaming thro' the dew-fall
The cold white
blossoms
wept.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock,
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,
Their colours and their forms, were then to me
An appetite: a feeling and a love,
That had no need of a remoter charm,
By thought supplied, or any interest
Unborrowed
from the eye.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Yet he availed not to heal the stroke of the
Dardanian
spear-point, nor
was the wound of him helped by his sleepy charms and herbs culled on the
Massic hills.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
First
somewhat
pausing, till the mournful words
Were ended, then to me the bard began:
"Lose not the time; but speak and of him ask,
If more thou wish to learn.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The Hill of Posilipo is
situated
to the west of the city of Naples, and is the site of Virgil's tomb.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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His flurry now can't last long;
He'll never again see land--
Try that on _him_,
Marchand!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Within the navil of this hideous Wood, 520
Immur'd in cypress shades a Sorcerer dwels
Of Bacchus, and of Circe born, great Comus,
Deep skill'd in all his mothers witcheries,
And here to every thirsty wanderer,
By sly enticement gives his banefull cup,
With many murmurs mixt, whose pleasing poison
The visage quite transforms of him that drinks,
And the inglorious likenes of a beast
Fixes instead, unmoulding reasons mintage
Character'd in the Face; this have I learn't 530
Tending my flocks hard by i'th hilly crofts,
That brow this bottom glade, whence night by night
He and his monstrous rout are heard to howl
Like stabl'd wolves, or tigers at their prey,
Doing
abhorred
rites to Hecate
In their obscured haunts of inmost bowres.
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Milton |
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If I these
thoughts
may not prevent,
If such be of my creed the plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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MOPSUS
What if he also strive
To out-sing
Phoebus?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The statue by Saint Gaudens was
unveiled
in New York in
1903.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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