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Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past
That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse,
And call the vales, and bid them hither cast
Their bells and
flowerets
of a thousand hues.
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Behold me here
Brought down to slave's estate, and far away
Wanders Orestes, banished from the wealth
That once was thine, the profit of thy care,
Whereon these revel in a
shameful
joy.
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His
position
was
that of a sizar, or paid scholar, who was exempt from the payment of
tuition fees and earned his way by serving in the dining hall or performing
other menial duties.
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"So at last have
journeyed
hither,
Seeking out some better sport;
I intend to try my prowess
On the mighty Atta Troll.
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In a rude hunger now hee
millions
drawes
Into his bloody, or plaguy, or sterv'd jawes.
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At the outbreak of the
Civil War he sided with the king, but after a short imprisonment made
his
submission
to the Parliament, and was relieved of the sequestration
of his estates.
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The literary value, if I am allowed to say so, of this print-less distance which mentally
separates
groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically accelerate or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one's simultaneous sight of the page: the latter taken as unity, as elsewhere the Verse is or perfect line.
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An
old woman told a friend and myself that she saw what she thought were
white birds, flying over an
enchanted
place; but found, when she got
near, that they had dogs' heads, and I do not doubt that my hound and
these dog-headed birds are of the same family.
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Yeats |
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This Tyrant, whose sole name
blisters
our tongues,
Was once thought honest: you haue lou'd him well,
He hath not touch'd you yet.
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Thus was my
education
finished.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Prom
leaflets
that bedeck the ground
Renewed and goodly scents arise,
The coloured volume I expound,
While you repeat the words I prize.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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512
80 _non post_ cum
_unanimis_
iungebat Harberton, tamquam de
maritis dictum qui uxores amare desierunt et sic iam Scal.
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Latin - Catullus |
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A woman, if her mind
So turn, can light on many a
pleasant
thing
To fill her board.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Now
mind, as you
proposed
yourself, place your head on the block and speak.
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1180
And yet so sweet the tears they shed,
'Tis sorrow so unmixed with dread,
They scarce can bear the morn to break
That
melancholy
spell,
And longer yet would weep and wake,
He sings so wild and well!
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Byron |
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_"
[Soon after the death of Burns, the very
handsome
Miscellanies of
Brash and Reid, of Glasgow, contained what was called an improved John
Anderson, from the pen of the Ayrshire bard; but, save the second
stanza, none of the new matter looked like his hand.
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Robert Forst |
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What delight it is, a wonder rather,
When her hair, caught above her ear,
Imitates the style that Venus
employed!
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Ronsard |
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Such the arcane chose for confidant,
The great twin reed we play under the azure ceiling,
That turning towards itself the cheek's quivering,
Dreams, in a long solo, so we might amuse
The beauties round about by false notes that confuse
Between itself and our credulous singing;
And create as far as love can, modulating,
The vanishing, from the common dream of pure flank
Or back followed by my shuttered glances,
Of a sonorous, empty and
monotonous
line.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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GD}
He could
controll
the times & seasons, & the days & years
She could controll the spaces, regions, desart, flood & forest
But had no power to weave a Veil of covering for her Sins
She drave the Females all away from Los
And Los drave all the Males from her away
They wanderd long, till they sat down upon the margind sea.
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Blake - Zoas |
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He opd and closd hys eyen in
everlastynge
nyghte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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In vain Calypso long
constrained
my stay,
With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay;
With all her charms as vainly Circe strove,
And added magic to secure my love.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--'
I must dearest Agnes, the night is far gone-- _5
I must wander this evening to
Strasburg
alone,
I must seek the drear tomb of my ancestors' bones,
And must dig their remains from beneath the cold stones.
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Shelley |
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"With
frontier
strength ye stand your ground," verse, 133.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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_
(_a_) The rhymes used are the "106" of modern
dictionaries
(not those of
the Odes, as Giles states).
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Amongst them, dressed
in a red caftan, sword in hand, might be seen a man mounted on a white
horse, a
conspicuous
figure.
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--if I e'er took delight in thy praises,
'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases,
Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover
She thought that I was not
unworthy
to love her.
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Golden Treasury |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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No less than an order from the
Board of Excise, at Edinburgh, is
necessary
before I can have so much
time as to meet you in Ayrshire.
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Robert Forst |
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"Do you know
I have some very
beautiful
poems floating in the air," she wrote
to me in 1904; "and if the gods are kind I shall cast my soul
like a net and capture them, this year.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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by whom the strifes of men are weighed
In an
impartial
balance, give thine aid
To the just cause; and, oh!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Therefore
bring violets.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime;
So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,
Despite of
wrinkles
this thy golden time.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Twice seven consenting years have shed
Their utmost bounty on thy head:
And these grey rocks; that [1] household lawn; 5
Those trees, [A] a veil just half withdrawn;
This fall of water that doth make
A murmur near the silent lake;
This little bay; a quiet road
That holds in shelter thy Abode--10
In truth
together
do ye seem [2]
Like something fashioned in a dream;
Such Forms as from their covert peep
When earthly cares are laid asleep!
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William Wordsworth |
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He told me I had very
beautiful
hands.
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Aristophanes |
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Thus what thou desir'st,
And what thou fearst, alike
destroyes
all hope
Of refuge, and concludes thee miserable
Beyond all past example and future, 840
To Satan onely like both crime and doom.
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Milton |
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_Letter in Verse_
Like boys that run behind the loaded wain
For the mere joy of riding back again,
When summer from the meadow carts the hay
And school hours leave them half a day to play;
So I with leisure on three sides a sheet
Of foolscap dance with poesy's measured feet,
Just to ride post upon the wings of time
And kill a care, to
friendship
turned in rhyme.
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John Clare |
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Di questa costa, la dov' ella frange
piu sua rattezza, nacque al mondo un sole,
come fa questo
talvolta
di Gange.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He is the gem; and all the landscape wide
(So doth his grandeur isolate the sense)
Seems but the setting,
worthless
all beside,
An empty socket, were he fallen thence.
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James Russell Lowell |
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For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb
Disdains
the tillage of thy husbandry?
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The Lion
Wild Animals
'Wild Animals'
Caspar Luyken, Christoph Weigel, 1695 - 1705, The Rijksmuseun
O lion, miserable image
Of kings
lamentably
chosen,
Now you're only born in a cage
In Hamburg, among the Germans.
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Appoloinaire |
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MORE
NONSENSE
PICTURES, RHYMES, BOTANY, ETC.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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_
NOTE
The
typography
of the edition of 1633 has been closely followed, in
its use for example of 'u' and 'v'; and of long 's', which is avoided
in certain combinations, e.
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John Donne |
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Nay, for a need, thus far come near my person:
Tell them, when that my mother went with child
Of that insatiate Edward, noble York
My
princely
father then had wars in France
And, by true computation of the time,
Found that the issue was not his begot;
Which well appeared in his lineaments,
Being nothing like the noble Duke my father.
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Shakespeare |
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"
It shouted in a
terrible
voice that fell
Upon them like a judgment from on high.
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It was not frost, for on my flesh
I felt
siroccos
crawl, --
Nor fire, for just my marble feet
Could keep a chancel cool.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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O what a
multitude
they seemed, these flowers of London town!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I did not think indeed that I should pine
Beneath such pangs against such skyey rocks,
Doomed to this drear hill and no neighbouring
Of any life: but mourn not ye for griefs
I bear to-day: hear rather,
dropping
down
To the plain, how other woes creep on to me,
And learn the consummation of my doom.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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But the very same plan to the Beaver occurred:
It had chosen the very same place:
Yet neither betrayed, by a sign or a word,
The disgust that
appeared
in his face.
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Lewis Carroll |
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For each beloved hour
Sharp pittances of years,
Bitter
contested
farthings
And coffers heaped with tears.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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What should avail me
the many-twined
bracelets?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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80
As when the shepster in the shadie bowre
In jintle slumbers chase the heat of daie,
Hears doublyng echoe wind the wolfins rore,
That neare hys flocke is watchynge for a praie,
He tremblynge for his sheep drives dreeme awaie, 85
Gripes faste hys burled croke, and sore adradde
Wyth fleeting strides he hastens to the fraie,
And rage and prowess fyres the
coistrell
lad;
With trustie talbots to the battel flies,
And yell of men and dogs and wolfins tear the skies.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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That pain should be allied
To
pleasure
is, alas!
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Petrarch |
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THAT LONG
WANDRING
GREEKE.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And
where the dew lies on the primrose, the violet and whitethorn leaves
they are emerald and beryl, yet nothing more than the dews of the
morning on the budding leaves; nay, the road grasses are covered with
gold and silver beads, and the further we go the
brighter
they seem to
shine, like solid gold and silver.
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John Clare |
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Who is it that doth stand so near
His
whispered
words I almost hear?
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Longfellow |
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The Peacock
Juno and the Peacock
'Juno and the Peacock'
Magdalena van de Passe, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 1634, The Rijksmuseun
In
spreading
out his fan, this bird,
Whose plumage drags on earth, I fear,
Appears more lovely than before,
But makes his derriere appear.
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Appoloinaire |
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Father
self corporal and a self aetherial
a dweller by streams and in
The Legend thus :
" A treatise wherein is shown that there are in existence on earth rational creatures besides man, endowed like him with a body and soul, that are born and die like him, redeemed by our Lord Jesus Christ, and capable of
receiving
salvation or damnation.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Meredith - Poems |
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A trifle of swank and dash,
Cool as a home parade,
Twinkle and glitter and flash,
Flinching
never a shade,
With the shrapnel right in their face
Doing their Hyde Park stunt,
Keeping their swing at an easy pace,
Arms at the trail, eyes front!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Ce qu'il faut a ce coeur profond comme un abime,
C'est vous, Lady Macbeth, ame
puissante
au crime,
Reve d'Eschyle eclos au climat des autans;
Ou bien toi, grand Nuit, fille de Michel-Ange,
Qui tors paisiblement dans une pose etrange
Tes appas faconnes aux bouches des Titans!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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As by the dead we love to sit,
Become so
wondrous
dear,
As for the lost we grapple,
Though all the rest are here, --
In broken mathematics
We estimate our prize,
Vast, in its fading ratio,
To our penurious eyes!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Let none of earth inherit
That vision on my spirit;
Those
thoughts
I would control
As a spell upon his soul:
For that bright hope at last
And that light time have past,
And my worldly rest hath gone
With a sigh as it pass'd on
I care not tho' it perish
With a thought I then did cherish.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
Here the speaker sat down in his place,
And
directed
the Judge to refer to his notes
And briefly to sum up the case.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Nothing useless is, or low;
Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
Strengthens
and supports the rest.
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Longfellow |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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His olde wo, that made his herte swelte,
Gan tho for Ioye wasten and to-melte,
And al the
richesse
of his sykes sore
At ones fledde, he felte of hem no more.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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with a
Tetrastich
(whether genuine or not), taken out of its
alphabetical order; the Oxford with one of Apology; the Calcutta with
one of Expostulation, supposed (says a Notice prefixed to the MS.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I never hear of prisons broad
By soldiers battered down,
But I tug
childish
at my bars, --
Only to fail again!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Laoganus and
Dardanus
expire,
The valiant sons of an unhappy sire;
Both in one instant from the chariot hurl'd,
Sunk in one instant to the nether world:
This difference only their sad fates afford
That one the spear destroy'd, and one the sword.
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And, for the love of god, for-yeve it me
If I speke ought ayein your hertes reste;
For trewely, I speke it for the beste;
`Makinge
alwey a protestacioun,
That now these wordes, whiche that I shal seye, 1290
Nis but to shewe yow my mocioun,
To finde un-to our helpe the beste weye;
And taketh it non other wyse, I preye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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With legs and arms a limpid
treacherous
swimmer
With endless leaps, disowning the sickness
Hamlet!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And when I at last must throw off this frail covering
Which I've worn for three-score years and ten,
On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering,
Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again:
But my face in the glass I'll
serenely
survey,
And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow;
As this old worn-out stuff, which is threadbare to-day
May become everlasting to-morrow.
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Golden Treasury |
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a daughter of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand
rejoiced
to grant me life again.
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Ronsard |
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Who this soft nonsense could impart,
Imprudent prattle of the heart,
Attractive in its
banefulness?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Wife of Ibycus the poor,
Let aged
scandals
have at length their bound:
Give your graceless doings o'er,
Ripe as you are for going underground.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Hūru þæt on lande lȳt manna þāh
mægen-āgendra mīne gefrǣge,
þēah þe hē dǣda gehwæs dyrstig wǣre,
2840 þæt hē wið attor-sceaðan oreðe gerǣsde,
oððe hring-sele hondum styrede,
gif hē
wæccende
weard onfunde
būan on beorge.
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Beowulf |
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Then he
brought his
embroidered
coat and covered me with it, and I slept with
my head on his lap.
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Li Po |
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Prologue: The Spire of
Strasburg
Cathedral
I.
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Longfellow |
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Twilight
has veiled the little flower-face
Here on my heart, but still the night is kind
And leaves her warm sweet weight against my breast.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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[Picture: Decorative graphic]
Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a
flattering
word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And don't you see that changeableness
Is to find new grief with every
footstep?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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A printer's boy, folding those pages,
Fell
slumbrously
upon one side;
Like those famed Seven who slept three ages.
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Shelley |
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Clear water a hundred feet deep reflected the faces
of the singers--singing-girls delicate and
graceful
in the light of
the young moon.
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Li Po |
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I, who at times with dangerous falsehood fraught,
At times with partial truth, his words have seen,
Live in suspense, still missing the just mean,
'Twixt yea and nay a
constant
battle fought.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Yes, long before he died, he found that time
Is a true friend to sorrow; and unless
His thoughts were turned on Leonard's luckless fortune, 410
He talked about him with a
cheerful
love.
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William Wordsworth |
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And stole from death thy
brother?
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Euripides - Electra |
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With what cruel glances his harsh severity
Left you well nigh
submissive
at his feet!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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III
"Those who our
grandsires
be
Lie here embraced by deeper death than we;
Nor shape nor thought of theirs canst thou descry
With keenest backward eye.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But since thy destiny
prohibits
thee
Elsewhere to dwell, be this at least thy care
Not always to sojourn in hatred there.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft
deceitful
wiles.
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blake-poems |
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