But as I trowe I shal not
gretly
trauaile
to don ?
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In the long laughter, ceaseless roaming round,
Joy, mirth and glee give out a maelstrom's sound;
And the
astonished
gazer casts his care,
Where ev'ry eyeball glistens in the flare.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The lord of boundless revenues,
Salute not him as happy: no,
Call him the happy, who can use
The bounty that the gods bestow,
Can bear the load of poverty,
And tremble not at death, but sin:
No
recreant
he when called to die
In cause of country or of kin.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The bells they sound on Bredon,
And still the
steeples
hum.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Servilius Caepio to
exasperate
Viriatus, and force him,
by repeated affronts, to commit the first acts of hostility.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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THE STORY OF THE FOUR LITTLE CHILDREN WHO WENT ROUND THE WORLD
THE HISTORY OF THE SEVEN FAMILIES OF THE LAKE PIPPLE-POPPLE
NONSENSE
COOKERY
NONSENSE BOTANY
NONSENSE ALPHABET, No.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Then rode Geraint into the castle court,
His charger
trampling
many a prickly star
Of sprouted thistle on the broken stones.
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Tennyson |
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Under a palm
wherethrough
a planet burned
We ate, and sank to rest.
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Sidney Lanier |
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He was buried in the
cemetery
of Saint-Joseph, by the side of Moliere.
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La Fontaine |
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What me is tid a sory
chaunce!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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That's all that's left already of our true play,
Where the pure poet's gesture, humble, vast
Must deny the dream, the enemy of his trust:
So that on the morning of his exalted stay,
When ancient death is for him as for Gautier,
The un-opening of sacred eyes, the being-still,
The solid tomb may rise,
ornament
this hill,
The sepulchre where lies the power to blight,
And miserly silence and the massive night.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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In mine earldom
A man may hang gold
bracelets
on a bush,
And leave them for a year, and coming back
Find them again.
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Tennyson |
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"This Homer felt, who gave his men
With glory but a transient state:
His very Jove could not reverse
Irrevocable
fate.
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Christina Rossetti |
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While his pipe is puffing out,
Sue he's putting to the rout,
Gossiping, who takes delight
To shool her knitting out at night,
And back-bite
neighbours
bout the town--
Who's got new caps, and who a gown,
And many a thing, her evil eye
Can see they don't come honest by.
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John Clare |
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Says
Chemubles
"My sword is in its place,
At Rencesvals scarlat I will it stain;
Find I Rollanz the proud upon my way,
I'll fall on him, or trust me not again,
And Durendal I'll conquer with this blade,
Franks shall be slain, and France a desert made.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Tu Fu is placed first by the Chinese
because he is the
greatest
national poet.
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Li Po |
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Aeschylus |
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MENALCAS
You shall not balk me now; where'er you bid,
I shall be with you; only let us have
For auditor- or see, to serve our turn,
Yonder
Palaemon
comes!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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But yvel she
spendith
hir servyse,
For no man wol hir love, ne pryse; 4960
She is hated, this wot I wele.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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'Tis thus that blood, discharged
From out our bodies, spurts its jets aloft
And
spatters
gore.
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Lucretius |
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Upon the rigid form of morion's sheen
Winged lions and the Cerberus are seen,
And
serpents
winged and finned; things made to fright
The timid foe, alone by sense of sight.
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Hugo - Poems |
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For in an evening of young moon, that went
Filling the moist air with a rosy fire,
I and my beloved knew our love;
And knew that thou, O morning, wouldst arise
To give us knowledge of
achieved
desire.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The
successful
man has thrust himself
Through the water of the years,
Reeking wet with mistakes,--
Bloody mistakes;
Slimed with victories over the lesser,
A figure thankful on the shore of money.
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Stephen Crane |
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That caution is
unnecessary!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The
copyright
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Till mighty Brahma puts his golden palm
Within the gipsy king's great striped tent,
And asks his fortune told by that great love-line
That winds across his palm in
splendid
flame.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Who will be happier,
shouldst
thou always weep?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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that dost float 5
In such clear water, that thy boat
May rather seem
To brood on air [A] than on an earthly stream;
Suspended
in a stream as clear as sky,
Where earth and heaven do make one imagery; 10
O blessed vision!
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William Wordsworth |
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Once when the
grindstone
almost jumped its bearing
It looked as if he might be badly thrown
And wounded on his blade.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Emerson - Poems |
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The flowers of the field have dabbled their
powdered
cheeks;
The mountain grasses are bent level at the waist.
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Now front to front each
frowning
champion stands,
And poises high in air his adverse hands.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Thou for thy wedded lord
The cleansing wave hast poured--
A treacherous
welcome!
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Aeschylus |
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I beg you tell the Great River | whose stream flows to the East
That
thoughts
of you will cling to my heart | when _he_ has ceased
to flow.
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Li Po |
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nec te praetereo, qui per caua saxa uolutans
Tiburis Argei pomifera arua rigas,
Ilia cui placuit, quamuis erat horrida cultu,
ungue notata comas, ungue notata genas:
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delictaque
Martis
errabat nudo per loca sola pede;
hanc Anien rapidis animosus uidit ab undis
glaucaque de mediis sustulit ora uadis
atque ita 'quid nostras' dixit 'teris anxia ripas,
Ilia, ab Idaeo Laumedonte genus?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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" KAU}
Los joyd & Enitharmon laughd, saying Let us go down
And see this labour & sorrow; They went down to see the woes
Of Vala & the woes of Luvah, to draw in their delights
And Vala like a shadow oft appeard to Urizen
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The King of Light beheld her mourning among the Brick kilns
compelld
To labour night & day among the fires, her lamenting voice
Is heard when silent night returns & the labourers take their rest
O Lord wilt thou not look upon our sore afflictions
Among these flames incessant labouring, our hard masters laugh
At all our sorrow.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Golden Treasury |
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For,
voyaging
to learn the direful art
To taint with deadly drugs the barbed dart;
Observant of the gods, and sternly just,
Ilus refused to impart the baneful trust;
With friendlier zeal my father's soul was fired,
The drugs he knew, and gave the boon desired.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Is
execution
done on Cawdor?
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Stephen Crane |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
So I beheld united the bright school
Of him the monarch of
sublimest
song,
That o'er the others like an eagle soars.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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THE CHILD'S GRAVE
I came to the churchyard where pretty Joy lies
On a morning in April, a rare sunny day;
Such bloom rose around, and so many birds' cries
That I sang for delight as I
followed
the way.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Doux comme le
Seigneur
du cedre et des hysopes,
Je pisse vers les cieux bruns tres haut et tres loin,
Avec l'assentiment des grands heliotropes.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Do you see
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Here is what literary critics say about Contemporary Verse:
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He paid no attention to this, but soon he
heard the
vestibule
door open.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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There came
Ahasuerus
conquering
Into my father's land.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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He was the inventor of the planh, the Provencal dirge, and some
circumstantial
evidence points to his having died on crusade as a follower of Louis VII of France.
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Troubador Verse |
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LIII
THE TRUE LOVER
The lad came to the door at night,
When lovers crown their vows,
And
whistled
soft and out of sight
In shadow of the boughs.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete
and ready for the revels rude,
When dreadful guests would come to spoil her solitude.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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We know
The joy of
sufferings
deep
That blend with a love divine,
And the hidden warmth of the snow!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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With frugal skill her simple wants she tends,
She folds her tawny heifers and her sheep
On lonely meadows when the
daylight
ends,
Ere the quick night upon her flock descends
Like a black panther from the caves of sleep.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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why do you
tantalize
me thus?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Finishing
the figure of the coins, coined,
stamped, and given their value by her, Donne passes on to a couple of
new images.
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John Donne |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The sixth line runs
And which no
affection
praise enough can give!
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John Donne |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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[165] Cleonymus was an Athenian general of
exceptionally
tall stature;
Aristophanes incessantly rallies him for his cowardice; he had cast away
his buckler in a fight.
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Aristophanes |
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315
XXXVI
Dismounting lightly from his loftie steed,
He to him lept, in mind to reave his life,
And proudly said, Lo there the worthie meed
Of him that slew Sansfoy with bloudie knife;
Henceforth his ghost freed from
repining
strife, 320
In peace may passen over Lethe lake,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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TWENTY-FOUR HOKKU ON A MODERN THEME
I
Again the larkspur,
Heavenly
blue in my garden.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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lh folha par
When fresh leaves and shoots appear,
And the blossom gleams on the bough,
And the
nightingale
high and clear
Raises his voice, and sings aloud,
I joy in him, and enjoy the flowers,
And joy in my lady and I, for hours;
By joy on all sides I'm caught and bound,
But this is joy, and all other joys drowned.
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Troubador Verse |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer
throughout
next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that mysterious maid.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I, who have favour'd many, come to be
Grac'd now, at last, or
glorified
by thee,
Lo!
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Robert Herrick |
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," he says, "with a
cowardly ferocity, exults over the
anticipated
'death-bed repentance' of
the objects of his dislike; and indulges himself in a pleasant 'Vision
of Judgment,' in prose as well as verse, full of impious impudence.
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Byron |
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To
Charlotte
Cushman.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Wouldst thou go on before me, and say, Look,
This is the woman which I told you of,
You kings; does she not, as I said, stir up
Quaking desire through all your
muscles?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Who
Following the
solitary
leap
External once of our vagabond - seeks
Verlaine?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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" He then to me:
"The four
resplendent
stars, thou saw'st this morn
Are there beneath, and these ris'n in their stead.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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THE FLY
Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My
thoughtless
hand
Has brushed away.
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blake-poems |
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Purgatorio
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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With her each day the
pleasing
hours he shares,
And at her aspect ciilms his growing cares ;
Or with a grandsire's joy her children sees.
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Marvell - Poems |
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No parts of early Roman
history are richer with poetical coloring than those which relate
to the long contest between the
privileged
houses and the
commonality.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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God is not only
merciful
to call, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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And art thou
sleeping
yet?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The meadows in the sun are twice as green
For all the scatter of fresh red mounded earth,
The mischief of the moles:
No dullish red,
Glostershire
earth new-delved
In April!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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You took my heart in your hand
With a
friendly
smile,
With a critical eye you scanned,
Then set it down,
And said: It is still unripe,
Better wait awhile;
Wait while the skylarks pipe,
Till the corn grows brown.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The sweetest
blossoms
die.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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the very
_Infanta_
of the _Giants_!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Apples on the small trees
are hard,
too small,
too late ripened
by a desperate sun
that
struggles
through sea-mist.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A cup
peculiarly
mellow
Corvinus asks: so come, old fellow,
From your time-honoured bin descend,
And let me gratify my friend!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Si mi spronaron le parole sue,
ch'i' mi sforzai carpando
appresso
lui,
tanto che 'l cinghio sotto i pie mi fue.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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On moonlit heath and
lonesome
bank
The sheep beside me graze;
And yon the gallows used to clank
Fast by the four cross ways.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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SAILING SHIPS
Lying on Downs above the wrinkling bay
I with the
kestrels
shared the cleanly day,
The candid day; wind-shaven, brindled turf;
Tall cliffs; and long sea-line of marbled surf
From Cornish Lizard to the Kentish Nore
Lipping the bulwarks of the English shore,
While many a lovely ship below sailed by
On unknown errand, kempt and leisurely;
And after each, oh, after each, my heart
Fled forth, as, watching from the Downs apart,
I shared with ships good joys and fortunes wide
That might befall their beauty and their pride;
Shared first with them the blessèd void repose
Of oily days at sea, when only rose
The porpoise's slow wheel to break the sheen
Of satin water indolently green,
When for'ard the crew, caps tilted over eyes,
Lay heaped on deck; slept; mumbled; smoked; threw dice;
The sleepy summer days; the summer nights
(The coast pricked out with rings of harbour-lights),
The motionless nights, the vaulted nights of June
When high in the cordage drifts the entangled moon,
And blocks go knocking, and the sheets go slapping,
And lazy swells against the sides come lapping;
And summer mornings off red Devon rocks,
Faint inland bells at dawn and crowing cocks;
Shared swifter days, when headlands into ken
Trod grandly; threatened; and were lost again,
Old fangs along the battlemented coast;
And followed still my ship, when winds were most
Night-purified, and, lying steeply over,
She fled the wind as flees a girl her lover,
Quickened by that pursuit for which she fretted,
Her temper by the contest proved and whetted.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I do you greete from hence;
Full soone I hope to taste of your good cheere;
Goode Byshoppe Carpynter dyd byd mee saie, 55
Hee wysche you healthe &
selinesse
for aie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"Am I so much to blame, that yesterday, when you were pleading
Warmly the cause of another, my heart, impulsive and wayward,
Pleaded your own, and spake out, forgetful perhaps of
decorum?
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Longfellow |
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Selected from the finest Fancies of Moderne
Muses, With a
Thousand
out Landish Proverbs.
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Robert Herrick |
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Then
methinks
I hear
Almost thy voice's sound,
Afar its echo falls,
And calmer grows my care.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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CCLXI
In the admiral is much great virtue found;
He strikes Carlun on his steel helm so brown,
Has broken it and rent, above his brow,
Through his thick hair the sword goes
glancing
round,
A great palm's breadth and more of flesh cuts out,
So that all bare the bone is, in that wound.
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Chanson de Roland |
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[Poems by William Blake 1789]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE
and THE BOOK of THEL
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
INTRODUCTION
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of
pleasant
glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
"Pipe a song about a Lamb!
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blake-poems |
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Wilt thou not wake to their summons,
O
Lityerses?
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Sappho |
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By the turning, once again,
The moon
thniwfeh
up your visage wan,
And yet too late to call you back.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Thus Bracy said: the Baron, the while,
Half-listening heard him with a smile;
Then turned to Lady Geraldine,
His eyes made up of wonder and love;
And said in courtly accents fine,
"Sweet maid, Lord Roland's
beauteous
dove,
With arms more strong than harp or song,
Thy sire and I will crush the snake!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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So, in haste
(For shame of Summer's long delay,
Yet gazing still what way she paced),
"He
summoned
Autumn, slanting down
The second bar.
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Sidney Lanier |
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First march'd Menestheus, of
celestial
birth,
Derived from thee, whose waters wash the earth,
Divine Sperchius!
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Iliad - Pope |
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