Do not seek
to
dissuade
me.
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You will turn
eastward
in a little while.
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You should have come to the cuckoo's calling,
Or when grapes are green in the cluster,
Or, at least, when lithe
swallows
muster
For their far off flying
From summer dying.
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Andrew's night,
My future
sweetheart
in the body.
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Meredith - Poems |
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--proceed no further;
God won't accept your thanks for
Murther!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Yet the
instances
of it by no means deserve that severity
of censure with which some writers have condemned him.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Both keep their pace that nothing can provoke
Followed by
brindled
dog that snuffs the ground
With urging bark and hurries at his heels.
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25
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NOTICE
So scarce are back num bers of CONTEMPORARY
Here is what literary critics say about
Contemporary
Verse:
"Slender in bulk — but it contains good poems.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The
following
evening he went again.
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The genre, which is becoming one, like the symphony, little by little, alongside personal poetry, leaves intact the older verse; for which I maintain my worship, and to which I attribute the empire of passion and dreams, though this may be the
preferred
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Mallarme - Poems |
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In order that the reader may judge fairly of these fragments of
the lay of Virginia, he must imagine himself a
Plebeian
who has
just voted for the reelection of Sextius and Licinius.
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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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Meanly they seek the blessing to confine,
And force that sun but on a part to shine,
Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, 400
But ripens spirits in cold northern climes;
Which from the first has shone on ages past,
Enlights the present, and shall warm the last;
Tho' each may feel
increases
and decays,
And see now clearer and now darker days.
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Rigaut de
Berbezilh
(fl.
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Troubador Verse |
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The Roman Emperor is
Frederick
II of Sicily.
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Troubador Verse |
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The
Countess
Anna Fedorovna was seated before her mirror in her
dressing-room.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I offer here an alternative translation of the tercet to fulfil Arnaut's rhyming scheme
according
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volunteers
and donations from
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She
followed
on slowly after the last
As though some object must be passed by,
And yet as if were it once but passed
She would no longer walk but fly.
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Rilke - Poems |
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WHEN the clouds' swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and
strong
That things are all as they best may be, save a few to be right ere
long,
And my eyes have not the vision in them to discern what to these is so
clear,
The blot seems
straightway
in me alone; one better he were not here.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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How many legions
overcome?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Or friends or kinsfolk on the citied earth,
To share our
marriage
feast and nuptial mirth?
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Keats - Lamia |
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A Negress
Possessed by some demon now a negress
Would taste a girl-child saddened by strange fruits
Forbidden ones too under the ragged dress,
This glutton's ready to try a trick or two:
To her belly she twins two fortunate tits
And, so high that no hand knows how to seize her,
Thrusts the dark shock of her booted legs
Just like a tongue
unskilled
in pleasure.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Despite all the torment that I suffer
To
renounce
true love is not my plan,
Though I'm exiled to a desert shore,
These words shall rhyme the whole affair:
More than ploughmen, lovers toil so;
In the tale, Monclis no more admires
Audierna, than I for my love have sighed.
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Troubador Verse |
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Nor speak I rashly, but with faith averr'd,
And what I speak
attesting
Heaven has heard.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Like ape or clown, in monstrous garb
With crooked arrows starred,
Silently
we went round and round
The slippery asphalte yard;
Silently we went round and round,
And no man spoke a word.
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All
Summarised
The Soul.
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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[_They
surround_
JUDITH _and go with her_.
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Hence
shall spring a race of tempered
Ausonian
blood, whom thou shalt see
outdo men and gods in duty; nor shall any nation so observe thy
worship.
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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For
sparkling
was the rosy wine,
And private was the chamber:
And dear was she I dare na name,
But I will aye remember:
And dear was she I dare na name,
But I will aye remember.
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APPENDIX
THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL
A VERSION BASED ON THE
ORIGINAL
DRAFT OF THE POEM
I
HE did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And murdered in her bed.
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Wilde - Poems |
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A Single Smile
A single smile disputes
Each star with the
gathering
night
A single smile for us both
And the blue of your joyful eyes
Against the mass of night
Finding its flame in my eyes
I have seen by needing to know
The deep night create the day
With no change in our appearance.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And look, where the narrow white streets of the town
Leap up from the blue water's edge to the wood, 15
Scant room for man's range between mountain and sea,
And the market where woodsmen from over the hill
May traffic, and sailors from far foreign ports
With
treasure
brought in from the ends of the earth.
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Sappho |
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O, not in darkness, not in fear of men,
Shall Argos find him, when he comes again,
Mine own
undaunted
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Euripides - Electra |
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Spurred furious Hate; he foamed at mouth,
His breath was hot upon the air,
His breath
scorched
souls, as a dry drought
Withers green trees and burns them bare.
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Not Dante
dreaming
all the infernal state,
Beheld such scenes of envy, sin, and hate.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Living, and weeping, late I've learn'd to say
That here below--Oh,
knowledge
dearly bought!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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he stays:
And soon the
fragments
dim of lovely forms
Come trembling back, unite, and now once more
The pool becomes a mirror; and behold
Each wildflower on the marge inverted there,
And there the half-uprooted tree--but where,
O where the virgin's snowy arm, that leaned
On its bare branch?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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It's the voice that the light made us
understand
here
That Hermes Trismegistus writes of in Pimander.
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Appoloinaire |
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Bid her haste and
sprinkle river water over her body, and bring [636-667]with her the
beasts ordained for expiation: so let her come: and thou
likewise
veil
thy brows with a pure chaplet.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
A new light rises 'neath the evening star,
A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
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"
'Twas dark
Thyestes
spoke.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Sometimes your piping is delicious,
And then again it's simply vicious;
Though on the whole the varying jangle
Weaves round me an
entrancing
tangle
Of memories grave or joyous:
Things to weep or laugh at;
Love that lived at a hint, or
Days so sweet, they'd cloy us;
Nights I have spent with friends;--
Glistening groves of winter,
And the sound of vanished feet
That walked by the ripening wheat;
With other things.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a handbag, whether it had handles or
not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary
decencies
of
family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French
Revolution.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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He
trembles
for Orestes' wrath?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Already my spirit, longing for better ways,
Paces through my flesh, rebelliously,
And already brings the victim fuel to feed
His
immolation
in your vision's rays.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Where looks inhuman dwelt on
festering
heaps!
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Where when that fairest Una she beheld,
Whom well she knew to spring from heavenly race, 70
Her hart with joy unwonted inly sweld,
As feeling
wondrous
comfort in her weaker eld.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Consenting to be nailed here by the hand
To the very bay-tree under which she stept
A queen of old, and plucked a leafy branch;
And, licensing the world too long indeed
To use her broad phylacteries to staunch
And stop her bloody lips, she takes no heed
How one clear word would draw an avalanche
Of living sons around her, to succeed
The
vanished
generations.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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In this garden all the hot noon
I await thy fluttering
footfall
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Sappho |
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Oh, come you home of Sunday
When Ludlow streets are still
And Ludlow bells are calling
To farm and lane and mill,
Or come you home of Monday
When Ludlow market hums
And Ludlow chimes are playing
"The
conquering
hero comes,"
Come you home a hero,
Or come not home at all,
The lads you leave will mind you
Till Ludlow tower shall fall.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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`I love thee well, dear Love,' quoth she, `and yet
Would that thy creed with mine
completely
met,
As one, not two.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"There was one odd Fellow in our Company--he was so like a Figure in
the 'Pilgrim's Progress' that Richard always called him the
'ALLEGORY,' with a long white beard--a rare Appendage in those
days--and a Face the colour of which seemed to have been baked in,
like the Faces one used to see on
Earthenware
Jugs.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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* * * *
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so
peacefully!
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T.S. Eliot |
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Their sorrow was deep as the waters of the Lake that
go
straight
down a thousand miles.
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Li Po |
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' This is Joseph Glanvil's story--
There was very lately a lad in the University of
Oxford, who being of very pregnant and ready parts and
yet wanting the
encouragement
of preferment, was by
his poverty forced to leave his studies there, and to
cast himself upon the wide world for a livelihood.
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Yeats |
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Lilamani, aetat 1
Limpid jewel of delight
Severed from the tender night
Of your sheltering mother-mine,
Leap and sparkle, dance and shine,
Blithely
and securely set
In love's magic coronet.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The sunlit southern slopes produce
numinous
mushrooms; 8 on shadowy north slope rest Oxherd and Dipper Fanning out, tall pines hang inverted, jutting jagged, weird rocks rush.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Yea, and alive in me: my spirit hath been
Enjoyed by the lust of the world, and I am changed
Vilely by the vile thing that clutcht on me,
Like
sulphurous
smoke eating into silver.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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In the palace grounds
An alcove on a garden gives, and there
A tiny thing--forgot in the general fear,
Lulled in the flower-sweet dreams of infancy,
Bathed with soft
sunlight
falling brokenly
Through leaf and lattice--was at that moment waking;
A little lovely maid, most dear and taking,
The prince's sister--all alone, undressed--
She sat up singing: children sing so best.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Elate with joy the king his aspect rears,
And valiant GAMA, thrill'd with transport, hears
His drums' bold rattling raise the battle sound;
Echo, deep-ton'd, hoarse, vibrates far around;
The shiv'ring trumpets tear the shrill-voic'd air,
Quiv'ring the gale, the flashing lightnings flare,
The smoke rolls wide, and sudden bursts the roar,
The lifted waves fall trembling, deep the shore
Groans; quick and quicker blaze
embraces
blaze
In flashing arms; louder the thunders raise
Their roaring, rolling o'er the bended skies
The burst incessant; awe-struck Echo dies
Falt'ring and deafen'd; from the brazen throats,
Cloud after cloud, enroll'd in darkness, floats,
Curling their sulph'rous folds of fiery blue,
Till their huge volumes take the fleecy hue,
And roll wide o'er the sky; wide as the sight
Can measure heav'n, slow rolls the cloudy white:
Beneath, the smoky blackness spreads afar
Its hov'ring wings, and veils the dreadful war
Deep in its horrid breast; the fierce red glare,
Cheq'ring the rifted darkness, fires the air,
Each moment lost and kindled, while around,
The mingling thunders swell the lengthen'd sound.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman
of a stiller town.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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_1669_]
[42 Valour, undubb'd,
Windmill
go, _Ed_: Valour undubd
Windmill go.
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John Donne |
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Consider
it not so deepely
Mac.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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'Tis hardly worth while coming all this
distance
to be
compelled to keep my father!
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Aristophanes |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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See you not yon hills and dales,
The sun shines on sae
brawlie!
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Robert Burns |
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Why did they not come along with you,
Dumourier?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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In the poem entitled _Pont Du
Carrousel_, written in Paris a few years later, Rilke has visioned the
blind beggar aloof amid the
fluctuating
crowds of the metropolis.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue;
And they went to sea in a sieve.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Western beams follow flowing water;
Stir a ripple in
wandering
person's mind.
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Li Po |
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The waters had
trickled
not slowly,
The thunder was not spent
Nor the wind near finishing;
Who would have said that the storm was diminishing?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
The day returns, my bosom burns,
The
blissful
day we twa did meet:
Tho' winter wild in tempest toil'd,
Ne'er summer-sun was half sae sweet.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Would that in manner like, I were able
with thee to sport and sad cares of mind to
lighten!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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He hath thee maked vicaire and
maistresse
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Et que mal hyer et pis m'est hui,
Tost apres si me ranvite,
Vierge douce, se pren fuite,
Se je fui a la poursuite,
Ou fuiray, qu'a mon refui?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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It narrates how the son and
daughter of the
murdered
king, Agamemnon, slew, in due course of revenge,
and by Apollo's express command, their guilty mother and her paramour.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Till the evening, nearing,
One the
shutters
drew --
Quick!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the
beginning
of his four and a half year residence in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Let us stay
Rather on earth, Beloved,--where the unfit
Contrarious moods of men recoil away
And isolate pure spirits, and permit
A place to stand and love in for a day,
With darkness and the death-hour
rounding
it.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Yet so it befell, his
falchion
pierced
that wondrous worm, -- on the wall it struck,
best blade; the dragon died in its blood.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Pour from those lips soft syllables to win
Peace for the Romans,
glorious
Lady, peace!
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Lucretius |
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With every
sentiment
of grateful respect,
I have the honour to be,
Madam,
Your obliged and grateful humble servant,
R.
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Robert Burns |
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Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
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Ronsard |
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The doctor's wormwood style, the hash of tongues
A pedant makes, the storm of Gonson's lungs,
The whole artillery of the terms of war,
And (all those plagues in one) the bawling bar:
These I could bear; but not a rogue so civil,
Whose tongue will
compliment
you to the devil.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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others shall pass, as we have passed,
As we have come, so others shall meet,
And the dream that our mind had
sketched
in haste,
Shall others continue, but never complete.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Said I, my husband never moves from hence;
No jealous fancy, but to show the sense
He entertains of my pure,
virtuous
life,
And fond affection for a loving wife.
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La Fontaine |
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Think we, like some weak prince, the Eternal Cause
Prone for His
favourites
to reverse His laws?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Is there
anything
of this destiny left, or no?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And every human heart that breaks,
In prison-cell or yard,
Is as that broken box that gave
Its
treasure
to the Lord,
And filled the unclean leper's house
With the scent of costliest nard.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Fire-breathing, venomous once, they no longer now
depredate
our
Flocks and meadows and woods, fields of golden grain.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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