For if my mistress find me lying here
She will not ruth or gentle pity show,
But lay her boar-spear down, and with austere
Relentless fingers string the cornel bow,
And draw the feathered notch against her breast,
And loose the arched cord; aye, even now upon the quest
I hear her
hurrying
feet,--awake, awake,
Thou laggard in love's battle!
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
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It's some consid'ble of a spell sence I hain't writ no letters,
An' ther' 's gret changes hez took place in all polit'cle metters:
Some
canderdates
air dead an' gone, an' some hez ben defeated,
Which 'mounts to pooty much the same; fer it's ben proved repeated
A betch o' bread thet hain't riz once ain't goin' to rise agin,
An' it's jest money throwed away to put the emptins in:
But thet's wut folks wun't never larn; they dunno how to go,
Arter you want their room, no more 'n a bullet-headed bean;
Ther' 's ollers chaps a-hangin' roun' thet can't see peatime's past,
Mis'ble as roosters in a rain, heads down an' tails half-mast: 10
It ain't disgraceful bein' beat, when a holl nation doos it,
But Chance is like an amberill,--it don't take twice to lose it.
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Your fathers' guilt you still must pay,
Till, Roman, you restore each shrine,
Each temple,
mouldering
in decay,
And smoke-grimed statue, scarce divine.
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips
denounce
you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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To say and strait unsay, pretending first
Wise to flie pain,
professing
next the Spie,
Argues no Leader, but a lyar trac't,
Satan, and couldst thou faithful add?
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Vansuythen was only an
ordinarily
good woman.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The last of the crew needs
especial
remark,
Though he looked an incredible dunce:
He had just one idea--but, that one being "Snark,"
The good Bellman engaged him at once.
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, _the life allotted to anyone, life
determined
by fate_:
acc.
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The boyars
Remember
Godunov as erst he was,
Peer to themselves; and even now the race
Of the old Varyags is loved by all.
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The
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The deaths of the Doge of Venice and of the Lord of Milan were soon
followed by another, which, if it had
happened
some years earlier, would
have strongly affected Petrarch.
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Petrarch |
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We are to understand by the truly honourable that which, setting aside
all consideration of utility, may be rightly praised in itself,
exclusive of any
prospect
of reward or compensation.
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Tennyson |
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Thus Providence, right understood,
Whose end and aim is doing good,
Sends nothing here without its use;
Though ignorance loads it with abuse,
And fools despise the
blessing
sent,
And mock the Giver's good intent.
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John Clare |
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So, since this name was cut
When love and griefe their exaltation had,
No doore 'gainst this names
influence
shut;
As much more loving, as more sad, 40
'Twill make thee; and thou shouldst, till I returne,
Since I die daily, daily mourne.
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And thus great honour to
Morgante
paid
The Abbot: many days they did repose.
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Byron |
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That perhaps
He is a deacon run away from Moscow,
In his own district a
notorious
rogue.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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II
Fair year, fair year, thy
children
call,
But thou art deaf as death;
All in the bloomed May.
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Tennyson |
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From salty spray
The brown tint of his glowing cheek still rough;
Fruit quickly ripe,
'Neath foreign suns in
scorching
airs and heat.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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There is hardly such direct warrant for publishing the Translations;
which were only intended, many years ago, to accompany and explain
certain Engravings after ancient Gems, in the projected work of a
friend, by whose kindness they are now recovered: but as two of the
original series (the "Adonis" of Bion and "Song to the Rose" from
Achilles Tatius) have subsequently appeared, it is
presumed
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Mantillas elsewhere hide dull eyes--
Compared
with these, how small!
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Hugo - Poems |
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The bohemian glass on the
_étagère_
is no longer there.
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Imagists |
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This was Nizam ul Mulk, Vizier
to Alp Arslan the Son, and Malik Shah the Grandson, of Toghrul Beg the
Tartar, who had wrested Persia from the feeble
Successor
of Mahmud the
Great, and founded that Seljukian Dynasty which finally roused Europe
into the Crusades.
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Li Po |
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]
THE little white clouds are racing over the sky,
And the fields are strewn with the gold of the flower of March,
The daffodil breaks under foot, and the
tasselled
larch
Sways and swings as the thrush goes hurrying by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
I
straightway
rose, and show'd myself less spent
Than I in truth did feel me.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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A something, which already has been shown,
Was saved through Hispal's nervous arm alone:
Said he, far better bless a real friend,
Than have each treasure rifled in the end,
By some
successful
ruffian; think it o'er;
You little dream for whom you guard the store.
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La Fontaine |
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'
Then winked at Hebe, who turned red,
And
smoothed
her apron's creases.
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She
listened
with a feeling of terror
and disgust.
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Westward on the high-hilled plains
Where for me the world began,
Still, I think, in newer veins
Frets the
changeless
blood of man.
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"
Presently my soul grew stronger;
hesitating
then no longer,
"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you "--here I opened wide the door;----
Darkness there and nothing more.
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Poe - 5 |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I was bothe
anguissous
and trouble 1755
For the peril that I saw double;
I niste what to seye or do,
Ne gete a leche my woundis to;
For neithir thurgh gras ne rote,
Ne hadde I help of hope ne bote.
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that my
wakening
hands were through her tresses wound.
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Petrarch |
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Meredith - Poems |
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The merry are the men of
pleasure of all denominations; the jovial lads, who have too much fire
and spirit to have any settled rule of action; but, without much
deliberation, follow the strong impulses of nature: the thoughtless,
the careless, the indolent--in particular _he_ who, with a happy
sweetness of natural temper, and a cheerful vacancy of thought, steals
through life--generally, indeed, in poverty and obscurity; but poverty
and obscurity are only evils to him who can sit gravely down and make
a
repining
comparison between his own situation and that of others;
and lastly, to grace the quorum, such are, generally, those whose
heads are capable of all the towerings of genius, and whose hearts are
warmed with all the delicacy of feeling.
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Torpenhow
found him on the floor.
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Kipling - Poems |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,
At her beauty all wonder intensely;
One moment the Pasha survey'd her,
And,
dropping
his tchebouk, without sense lay.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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So might we talk of the old
familiar
faces,
How some they have died, and some they have left me,
And some are taken from me; all are departed;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Control the present: all beside
Flows like a river seaward borne,
Now rolling on its placid tide,
Now whirling massy trunks uptorn,
And waveworn crags, and farms, and stock,
In chaos blent, while hill and wood
Reverberate to the
enormous
shock,
When savage rains the tranquil flood
Have stirr'd to madness.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Lest these
enclasped
hands should never hold,
This mutual kiss drop down between us both
As an unowned thing, once the lips being cold.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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`And thou, citee, whiche that I leve in wo, 1205
And thou, Pryam, and
bretheren
al y-fere,
And thou, my moder, farwel!
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lines 1-3,
_Poetical
Works_, 1899, ii.
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Byron |
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E come augelli surti di rivera,
quasi
congratulando
a lor pasture,
fanno di se or tonda or altra schiera,
si dentro ai lumi sante creature
volitando cantavano, e faciensi
or D, or I, or L in sue figure.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But what foul wrong have I done to thee, Ozias,
That thou shouldst go about to put such wrong
Into my life as these
defiling
words?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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They will return to the moving pillar of smoke,
The whitest toothed, the
merriest
laughers known,
The blackest haired of all the tribes of men.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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THE FUTURE
After ten thousand
centuries
have gone,
Man will ascend the last long pass to know
That all the summits which he saw at dawn
Are buried deep in everlasting snow.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I have no ghosts,
An old man in a
draughty
house
Under a windy knob.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Dear Smith, the slee'st, pawkie thief,
That e'er
attempted
stealth or rief!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Wars in his empire will at times arise,
And, in the field, his standard meet the eyes;
Now
stealing
secretly, with skilful lure.
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La Fontaine |
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You amid the bog-end's yellow incantation,
You sitting in the
cowslips
of the meadows above,
--Me, your shadow on the bog-flame, flowery may-blobs,
Me full length in the cowslips, muttering you love--
You, your soul like a lady-smock, lost, evanescent,
You, with your face all rich, like the sheen on a dove--!
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Imagists |
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But poets continued (and
continue
till to-day), side by side with their
_lu-shih_, to write in the old metre which disregards tone, calling such
poems _Ku shih_, "old poems.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The
earthwork
is manned by
warriors clad in hides.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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>>
L'AMOUR DU MENSONGE
Quand je te vois passer, o ma chere indolente,
Au chant des instruments qui se brise au plafond,
Suspendant ton allure harmonieuse et lente,
Et promenant l'ennui de ton regard profond;
Quand je contemple, aux feux du gaz qui le colore,
Ton front pale, embelli par un morbide attrait,
Ou les torches du soir
allument
une aurore,
Et tes yeux attirants comme ceux d'un portrait,
Je me dis: Qu'elle est belle!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Leonor
By keeping your noble rank in mind;
Heaven owes you a king, you love a
subject!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The lords of war are beaten down, your
glorious
task is done;
You fought to make the whole world free, and the victory is won.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But, if the seeds--
Which thus produce the ocean's one pure sheen--
Be now with one hue, now another dyed,
As oft from alien forms and divers shapes
A cube's
produced
all uniform in shape,
'Twould be but natural, even as in the cube
We see the forms to be dissimilar,
That thus we'd see in brightness of the deep
(Or in whatever one pure sheen thou wilt)
Colours diverse and all dissimilar.
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Lucretius |
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And heard this voice of sorrow
breathed
from the hollow pit.
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blake-poems |
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O
CAPTAIN!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Now, from such a king, always remembering that he possessed one
veritable
elephant
and could count his descent for 1,200 years, I
expected, when it was my fate to wander through his dominions, no more
than mere license to live.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The Vizier was
generous
and
kept his word.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
While far on the
opposite
side
Floats another shield on the tide,
Like a jewel set in the wide
Sea-current's eddying ring.
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Longfellow |
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Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an
overwhelming
question .
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T.S. Eliot |
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) The phantom of the
Terrible
hath made me
His son; from out the sepulchre hath named me
Dimitry, hath stirred up the people round me,
And hath consigned Boris to be my victim.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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With the gusts of April
Rich fruit-tree
blossoms
fall,
On the hedged-in orchard-green,
From the southern wall.
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Christina Rossetti |
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And
wherefore
slaughtered?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung,
And stuck adherent, and suspended hung;
Till the huge surge roll'd off; then
backward
sweep
The refluent tides, and plunge him in the deep.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"He was to blame in wearing away his youth in
contemplation
with the end
of poetizing in his manhood.
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Ses yeux couleur de tabac d'Espagne, son
epaisse chevelure sombre, son elegance, son intelligence,
l'enchantement de sa voix chaude et bien timbree, plus encore que son
eloquence naturelle qui lui faisait developper des paradoxes avec une
magnifique intelligence et on ne saurait dire quel
magnetisme
personnel
qui se degageait de toutes les impressions refoulees au-dedans de lui,
le rendaient extremement seduisant.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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They are not made
Frailly by earth or hands, but
immortal
in our dream.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Are they panic-struck and
helpless?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Beginning with the Vernal Equinox, it must be
remembered; and (howsoever the old Solar Year is practically
superseded by the clumsy Lunar Year that dates from the Mohammedan
Hijra) still commemorated by a Festival that is said to have been
appointed by the very Jamshyd whom Omar so often talks of, and whose
yearly
Calendar
he helped to rectify.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I loved to see the infant soul 30
(How mighty in the weakness
Of its
untutored
meekness!
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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The water flows, the wind in passing by
In murmuring tones takes up the
questioning
cry.
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Hugo - Poems |
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[1]
I fear thee and thy
glittering
eye,
And thy skinny hand, so brown.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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How pleased they were at what you said;
You try to touch the smile,
And dip your fingers in the frost:
When was it, can you tell,
You asked the company to tea,
Acquaintance, just a few,
And chatted close with this grand thing
That don't
remember
you?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Gawayne assures her that he has
nothing worthy of her acceptance; that he is on an "uncouth errand,"
and
therefore
has "no men with no mails containing precious things,"
for which he is truly sorry.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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This refers to the
violence
with which Henry VIII forced
Protestantism upon the people.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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faint
outstretchd
upon the plain
Wailing runs round the vValleys from the Mill & from the Barn
But most the polishd Palaces dark silent bow with dread {"Dark" written on top of "?
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Blake - Zoas |
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We must
dethrone
him.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Send me now, and I shall go;
Call me, I shall hear you call;
Use me ere they lay me low
Where a man's no use at all;
Ere the
wholesome
flesh decay,
And the willing nerve be numb,
And the lips lack breath to say,
"No, my lad, I cannot come.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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That word shall I (said he)
avouchen
good, 575
Sith to thee is unknowne the cradle of thy blood.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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As Proserpine still weeps for her
Sicilian
air.
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Keats |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Berlin,
Whose form was
uncommonly
thin;
Till he once, by mistake, was mixed up in a cake,
So they baked that Old Man of Berlin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He
was
transported
to his residence and expired after several days
passed in extreme agony.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Perhaps a native of some distant shore,
The future consort of her bridal hour:
Or rather some descendant of the skies;
Won by her prayer, the aerial
bridegroom
flies,
Heaven on that hour its choicest influence shed,
That gave a foreign spouse to crown her bed!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Lights, lights,
She
entertains
Sir Ferdinand
Klein.
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T.S. Eliot |
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When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
A certain old dream, sick desire of my spine,
Beneath funereal ceilings afflicted by dying
Folded its
indubitable
wing there within me.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Never a house like this such loves as these hath united,
Never did love conjoin by such-like
covenant
lovers, 335
As th'according tie Thetis deigned in concert wi' Peleus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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