Call here thy congress of the great, the wise,
The hearing ears, the seeing eyes, --
Enrich us out of every farthest clime, --
Yea, make all ages native to our time,
Till thou the freedom of the city grant
To each most antique habitant
Of Fame, --
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Let every player that shall mimic us
In audience see old godlike Aeschylus, --
Bring Homer, Dante, Plato, Socrates, --
Bring Virgil from the visionary seas
Of old romance, -- bring Milton, no more blind, --
Bring large Lucretius, with unmaniac mind, --
Bring all gold hearts and high resolved wills
To be with us about these happy hills, --
Bring old Renown
To walk familiar citizen of the town, --
Bring Tolerance, that can kiss and disagree, --
Bring Virtue, Honor, Truth, and Loyalty, --
Bring Faith that sees with undissembling eyes, --
Bring all large Loves and heavenly Charities, --
Till man seem less a riddle unto man
And fair Utopia less Utopian,
And many peoples call from shore to shore,
`The world has bloomed again, at
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Nowe to the warre lette all the
slughornes
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And rode to Vesta's door;
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SYMBOLS
From infinite
longings
finite deeds rise
As fountains spring toward far-off glowing skies,
But rushing swiftly upward weakly bend
And trembling from their lack of power descend--
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dear-bought
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Hope comes to kindle wrath; they hurl their
missiles
strongly; even
as under black clouds cranes from the Strymon utter their signal notes
and sail clamouring across the sky, and noisily stream down the gale.
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XXXVIII
Will not men
remember
us
In the days to come hereafter,--
Thy warm-coloured loving beauty
And my love for thee?
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CHORUS
Then, upon imputation of such guilt,
Doth Zeus without
surcease
torment thee thus?
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Then, with his victors back he came;
All France with booty teemed, her name
Was writ on
sculptured
stone;
And Paris cried with joy, as when
The parent bird comes home again
To th' eaglets left alone.
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clear air, and ring
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I have pite to seen the sorwe,
That waketh bothe eve and morwe,
To
innocents
doth such grevaunce;
I pray god yeve him evel chaunce,
That he ever so bisy is 4275
Of any womman to seyn amis!
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In she plunged boldly,
No matter how coldly
The rough river ran,--
Over the brink of it,
Picture it,--think of it,
Dissolute
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If there come truth from them,
As vpon thee Macbeth, their
Speeches
shine,
Why by the verities on thee made good,
May they not be my Oracles as well,
And set me vp in hope.
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or if those women you note
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He said it and quit and faded away,
A
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To sea I gazed, and then I turned
Stricken
toward the shore,
Praying half-crazed to a moon that burned
Above your door.
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CCXXXIV
That admiral ten columns more reviews;
The first is raised of Giants from Malpruse;
The next of Huns; the third a Hungar crew;
And from Baldise the Long the fourth have trooped;
The fifth is raised of men from Val-Penuse;
The sixth is raised of tribesmen from Maruse;
The seventh is from Leus and Astrimunes;
The eighth from Argoilles; the ninth is from Clarbune;
The tenth is raised of
beardsmen
from Val-Frunde,
That is a tribe, no love of God e'er knew.
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Nay, once again:
If, when a serpent's darting forth its tongue,
And lashing its tail, thou gettest chance to hew
With axe its length of trunk to many parts,
Thou'lt see each severed fragment writhing round
With its fresh wound, and
spattering
up the sod,
And there the fore-part seeking with the jaws
After the hinder, with bite to stop the pain.
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XVII
Twice a week the winter thorough
Here stood I to keep the goal:
Football
then was fighting sorrow
For the young man's soul.
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Afin que contre moy traire
Ne le
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, 43) that in this poem
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Dich zu verjungen, gibt's auch ein naturlich Mittel;
Allein es steht in einem andern Buch,
Und ist ein
wunderlich
Kapitel.
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Thus ruled
unrighteous
and raged his fill
one against all; until empty stood
that lordly building, and long it bode so.
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We were as men who through a fen
Of filthy darkness grope:
We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or to give our anguish scope:
Something
was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.
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"
Messalinus
had added, "that to
Tiberius, Livia, Antonia, Agrippina and Drusus, public thanks were to be
rendered for having revenged the death of Germanicus;" but had omitted
to mention Claudius.
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You
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flesh in shadow.
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My feet kept drowsing,
drowsing
still,
My fingers were awake;
Yet why so little sound myself
Unto my seeming make?
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Guan Zhong
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not
tolerate
oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Now rounded, now
stretched
out, now narrowing,
Now tapering, now triangular, now forming
Ranks like flights of Cranes in frost-escaping line.
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Thinke thy selfe
labouring
now with broken breath, 90
And thinke those broken and soft Notes to bee
Division, and thy happyest Harmonie.
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410
So he; whose words soon as the sacred might
Heard of Telemachus,
approaching
quick
His father, thus, humane, he interposed.
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[19] howled in the mist and ghosts
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Judith, we are two upright minds in this
Herd of
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That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy
highways
where I went
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XXV
Therewith she gan her passion to renew,
And cry, and curse, and raile, and rend her heare,
Saying, that harlot she too lately knew,
That caused her shed so many a bitter teare, 220
And so forth told the story of her feare:
Much seemed he to mone her haplesse chaunce,
And after for that Ladie did inquere;
Which being taught, he forward gan advaunce
His fair
enchaunted
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Of the frivolous Judge--of the corrupt Congressman, Governor,
Mayor--of such as these standing helpless and exposed,
Of the mumbling and screaming priest, (soon, soon deserted,)
Of the lessening year by year of venerableness, and of the dicta of
officers, statutes, pulpits, schools,
Of the rising forever taller and
stronger
and broader of the
intuitions of men and women, and of Self-esteem and Personality;
Of the true New World--of the Democracies resplendent en-masse,
Of the conformity of politics, armies, navies, to them,
Of the shining sun by them--of the inherent light, greater than the rest,
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'Neath great slabs of marble they hid them in vain,
'Gainst this
everliving
fire, God's own flaming rain!
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255
Alexius of hem took leue,
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So long as
I have any control over the National Theatre Society it will be carried
on in this spirit, call it art for art's sake if you will; and no plays
will be produced at it which were written, not for the sake of a good
story or fine verses or some
revelation
of character, but to please
those friends of ours who are ever urging us to attack the priests or
the English, or wanting us to put our imagination into handcuffs that
we may be sure of never seeming to do one or the other.
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CLXVI
The count Rollanz wakes from his swoon once more,
Climbs to his feet; his pains are very sore;
Looks down the vale, looks to the hills above;
On the green grass, beyond his companions,
He sees him lie, that noble old baron;
'Tis the Archbishop, whom in His name wrought God;
There he proclaims his sins, and looks above;
Joins his two hands, to Heaven holds them forth,
And
Paradise
prays God to him to accord.
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wooden structure to an age that builds in stone, and again imposes the
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CANTO XI
"O thou Almighty Father, who dost make
The heavens thy dwelling, not in bounds confin'd,
But that with love
intenser
there thou view'st
Thy primal effluence, hallow'd be thy name:
Join each created being to extol
Thy might, for worthy humblest thanks and praise
Is thy blest Spirit.
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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But since your worth--wide as the ocean is,--
The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,
My saucy bark, inferior far to his,
On your broad main doth
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accurate
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Since I have seen falling to my life's flood
The leaf of a rose
snatched
from out your days,
Now at last I can say to the fleeting years:
- Pass by!
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I am thy root in the earth
and thou art my flower in the sky, and
together
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(On their knees,
groaning
and wailing.
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Here is Murray's
fragments
o' the ten commands;
Gifted by black Jock to get them aff his hands.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And then,
voluptuousness
divine!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And weigh the massy Globes Cubes, then fix them in their awful stations
And all the time in Caverns shut, the golden Looms erected
First spun, then wove the Atmospheres, there the Spider & Worm
Plied the wingd shuttle piping shrill thro' all the list'ning threads
Beneath the Caverns roll the weights of lead & spindles of iron
The enormous warp & woof rage direful in the affrighted deep
While far into the vast unknown, the strong wing'd Eagles bend
Their venturous flight, in Human forms distinct; thro darkness deep
They bear the woven draperies; on golden hooks they hang abroad
The universal curtains & spread out from Sun to Sun
The
vehicles
of light, they separate the furious particles
Into mild currents as the water mingles with the wine.
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Blake - Zoas |
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let me suffer, being at your beck,
The imprison'd absence of your liberty;
And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each check,
Without
accusing
you of injury.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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His
undiscovered
limbs to ocean roll; 1240
And charity upon the hope would dwell
It was not Lara's hand by which he fell.
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Byron |
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The steel-clad champion death drops all around
As
glaciers
water.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Scarce had night's chilly shade forsook the sky
What time to
nibbling
sheep the dewy grass
Tastes sweetest, when, on his smooth shepherd-staff
Of olive leaning, Damon thus began.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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'tis a dull and endless strife,
Come, hear the
woodland
linnet,
How sweet his music; on my life
There's more of wisdom in it.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"'Mong
swelling
floods of reeking gore,
They, ardent, kindling spirits, pour;
Or 'mid the venal senate's roar,
They, sightless, stand,
To mend the honest patriot-lore,
And grace the hand.
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Robert Forst |
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To them that have it shall be given; For him that hath
not—all
is well.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that renowned Colossus, great in story:
And
whatever
noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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or a fine
Sad memory, with thy songs to
interfuse?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Spring up--sway forward--
follow the
quickest
one,
aye, though you leave the trail
and drop exhausted at our feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Keats |
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But how will you make the
journey?
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Aristophanes |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's
goodness
fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He
selected
his card--an ace.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Have I not offered toast on frothing toast
Looking toward the melancholy host;
Praised the old wall-eyed mare to please the groom;
Laughed to the
laughing
maid and fetched her broom;
Stood in the background not to interfere
When the cool ancients frolicked at their beer;
Talked only in my turn, and made no claim
For recognition or by voice or name,
Content to listen, and to watch the blue
Or grey of eyes, or what good hands can do?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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