Thank Heaven,
It righted, and then turned; and after it
The whole flock
followed
safe--four, five, six, seven,
Yes, they were all there safe.
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Vain to this
sickening
heart these scenes appear:
No form but hers can meet my tearful eyes;
In every passing gale her voice I hear;
It seems to tell me, "I have heard thy sighs.
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thee I also saw
Half spider now in anguish
crawling
up
Th' unfinish'd web thou weaved'st to thy bane!
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_ They would
undertake
to fleece unsuspecting
strangers in their town.
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How deadly like this sky, these fields, these treen,
To
trappings
of the tomb!
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Among the minor poems of Bryant, none has so much impressed me as the
one which he
entitles
"June.
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he caught on
a rock that ran out; the reef ground, the oars struck and
shivered
on
the jagged teeth, and the bows crashed and hung.
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I ixpicted the two eyes o' me wud ha cum'd out of my head
on the spot, I was so
dispirate
mad!
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in the air
I know not which thy chamber is, --
I 'm
knocking
everywhere.
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"
Yet, in his triumph, the
chieftain
made wail:
"Slain is the craftsman, the one friend alone
Able to honor the man who creates.
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670
Upon the Normannes brazen adventayle
The
thondrynge
bill of myghtie Alfwould came;
It made a dentful bruse, and then dyd fayle;
Fromme rattlynge weepons shotte a sparklynge flame;
Eftsoons agayne the thondrynge bill ycame, 675
Peers'd thro hys adventayle and skyrts of lare;
A tyde of purple gore came wyth the same,
As out hys bowells on the feelde it tare;
Campynon felle, as when some cittie-walle
Inne dolefulle terrours on its mynours falle.
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See Collier,
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It is said that by the end of the war he had
personally
ministered to
upwards of 100,000 sick and wounded.
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Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in
forgetful
snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
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For Man to tell how human Life began 250
Is hard; for who himself
beginning
knew?
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The desperate crew ascend, unfurl the sails
(The seaward prow invites the tardy gales);
Then take repast till
Hesperus
display'd
His golden circlet, in the western shade.
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FROM OMAR KHAYYAM
Each spot where tulips prank their state
Has drunk the life-blood of the great;
The violets yon field which stain
Are moles of
beauties
Time hath slain.
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But they are few, and all romance has flown,
And men can prophesy about the sun,
And lecture on his arrows--how, alone,
Through a waste void the
soulless
atoms run,
How from each tree its weeping nymph has fled,
And that no more 'mid English reeds a Naiad shows her head.
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To him
good Aeneas speaks in bitter words: 'Lucagus, no slackness in thy
coursers' flight hath betrayed thee, or vain shadow of the foe turned
them back; thyself thou leapest off the
harnessed
wheels.
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some indeed becoming insane on the very spot; others
proclaiming their impious deeds, but others not
proclaiming
them before
they perished; some destroying themselves, and others becoming a prey
to incurable diseases.
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Phrynichus is as bold as a cock and
terrifies
his rivals.
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"At length, her life's third flowery epoch won,
She, year by year, so grew in charms and worth,
That ne'er, methinks, the sun
Such gracefulness and beauty saw on earth;
Her eyes so full of modesty and mirth,
Music and welcome on her words so hung,
That mute in her high praise,
Which thine alone may sound, is every tongue:
So bright her countenance with
heavenly
rays,
Not long thy dazzled vision there may rest;
From this her fair and fleshly tenement
Such fire through thine is sent
(Though gentler never kindled human breast),
That yet I fear her sudden flight may be
Too soon the cause of bitter grief to thee.
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Les reins portent deux mots graves: _Clara Venus_
--Et tout ce corps remue et tend sa large croupe
Belle
hideusement
d'un ulcere a l'anus.
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Upon the other hand,
the
terrible
truth that pain is a mode through which man may realise
himself exercises a wonderful fascination over the world.
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suggests
gehȳðde, = _plundered_ (i.
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For, truly, though to know this doth import
For many things, yet for this very thing
On which
straightway
I'm going to discourse,
'Tis needful most of all to make it sure
That naught's at hand but body mixed with void.
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Meanwhile the Quangle-Wangle threw back the pumpkin with immense
force, so that it hit the rocks where the
malicious
little boy in
rose-colored knickerbockers was sitting; when, being quite full of
lucifer-matches, the pumpkin exploded surreptitiously into a thousand bits;
whereon the rocks instantly took fire, and the odious little boy became
unpleasantly hotter and hotter and hotter, till his knickerbockers were
turned quite green, and his nose was burnt off.
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Quite otherwise it is, when forth we move,
Impelled by a blow of another's mighty powers
And mighty urge; for then 'tis clear enough
All matter of our total body goes,
Hurried along, against our own desire--
Until the will has pulled upon the reins
And checked it back, throughout our members all;
At whose arbitrament indeed sometimes
The stock of matter's forced to change its path,
Throughout
our members and throughout our joints,
And, after being forward cast, to be
Reined up, whereat it settles back again.
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All sat aghast; forth flew at once the oars
From ev'ry hand, and with a clash the waves 240
Smote all together; check'd, the galley stood,
By billow-sweeping oars no longer urged,
And I, throughout the bark, man after man
Encouraged
all, addressing thus my crew.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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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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Parce que vous fouillez le ventre de la Femme
Vous craignez d'elle encore une convulsion
Qui crie,
asphyxiant
votre nichee infame
Sur sa poitrine, en une horrible pression.
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At length for intermission sake they led him
Between the pillars; he his guide
requested
1630
(For so from such as nearer stood we heard)
As over-tir'd to let him lean a while
With both his arms on those two massie Pillars
That to the arched roof gave main support.
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THOAS: The traitors have contrived a cunning web,
And cast it round thee, who, secluded long,
Giv'st willing
credence
to thine own desire.
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Unheeded Night has
overcome
the vales,
On the dark earth the baffl'd vision fails,
If peep between the clouds a star on high,
There turns for glad repose the weary eye;
The latest lingerer of the forest train,
The lone-black fir, forsakes the faded plain;
Last evening sight, the cottage smoke no more,
Lost in the deepen'd darkness, glimmers hoar;
High towering from the sullen dark-brown mere,
Like a black wall, the mountain steeps appear,
Thence red from different heights with restless gleam
Small cottage lights across the water stream,
Nought else of man or life remains behind
To call from other worlds the wilder'd mind,
Till pours the wakeful bird her solemn strains
[viii] Heard by the night-calm of the watry plains.
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)
Note
Not
meaningless
flurries like
Those that frequent the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans Whistler there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Don't think that
Hercules
be still that boy whom Alcmene once bore you;
His adulation of me makes him now god upon earth.
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'
XV
When I consider every thing that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment,
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
When I perceive that men as plants increase,
Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky,
Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,
And wear their brave state out of memory;
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,
Where wasteful Time
debateth
with decay
To change your day of youth to sullied night,
And all in war with Time for love of you,
As he takes from you, I engraft you new.
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<
odio sovra colui che tu ti mangi,
dimmi 'l perche>>, diss' io, <
che se tu a ragion di lui ti piangi,
sappiendo
chi voi siete e la sua pecca,
nel mondo suso ancora io te ne cangi,
se quella con ch'io parlo non si secca>>.
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701-762)
BY ARTHUR WALEY
INTRODUCTION
Since the Middle Ages the Chinese have been almost unanimous in
regarding Li Po as their greatest poet, and the few who have given the
first place to his
contemporary
Tu Fu have usually accorded the second
to Li.
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But now the evening curdles dank and grey,
Changing her watchet hue for sombre weed;
And moping owls, to close the lids of day,
On drowsy wing proceed;
While chickering crickets,
tremulous
and long,
Light's farewell inly heed,
And give it parting song.
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John Clare |
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There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were
climbing
all the while
Till when they reached the other side,
A dominie in gray
Put gently up the evening bars,
And led the flock away.
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[41]
Literally
nostrils.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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When her son appeared she
received
him with a
smile.
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Yeats |
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And the blacksmith he threw off his apron and swore
Small swipes should
bemoisten
his gullet no more:
Let it out on the floor for the dry cock-a-roach--
And he held up his hammer with threatens to broach
Sir John in his castle without leave or law
And suck out his blood with a reed or a straw
Ere he'd soak at the swipes--and he turned him to start,
Till the host for high treason came down a full quart.
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"My little boy, which like you more,"
I said and took him by the arm--
"Our home by Kilve's
delightful
shore,
"Or here at Liswyn farm?
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But natheles, he gladded him in this;
He thoughte he
misacounted
hadde his day, 1185
And seyde, `I understonde have al a-mis.
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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e
fissches
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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XX
Beloved, my Beloved, when I think
That thou wast in the world a year ago,
What time I sat alone here in the snow
And saw no footprint, heard the silence sink
No moment at thy voice, but, link by link,
Went
counting
all my chains as if that so
They never could fall off at any blow
Struck by thy possible hand,--why, thus I drink
Of life's great cup of wonder!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The Son of Heaven worries about Liangzhou, 8 on a strict
schedule
I should arrive as soon as I can.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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'Tis yours the drooping heart to heal;
Your strength uplifts the poor man's horn;
Inspired
by you, the soldier's steel,
The monarch's crown, he laughs to scorn.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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This day wilt thou either bring back in triumph the gory head and spoils
of Aeneas, and we will avenge Lausus' agonies; or if no force opens a
way, thou wilt die with me: for I deem not, bravest, thou wilt deign to
bear an alien rule and a
Teucrian
lord.
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e sorweful fortune ne
co{n}fou{n}de
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The grass covers the prairies,
The bean bursts noiselessly through the mould in the garden,
The delicate spear of the onion pierces upward,
The apple-buds cluster together on the apple branches,
The resurrection of the wheat appears with pale visage out of its graves,
The tinge awakes over the willow-tree and the mulberry-tree,
The he-birds carol mornings and evenings, while the she-birds sit on their
nests,
The young of poultry break through the hatched eggs,
The new-born of animals appear--the calf is dropped from the cow, the colt
from the mare,
Out of its little hill faithfully rise the potato's dark-green leaves,
Out of its hill rises the yellow maize-stalk;
The summer growth is innocent and
disdainful
above all those strata of sour
dead.
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Whitman |
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The wave--there is a
movement
there!
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Poe - 5 |
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III
Qual in colle aspro, al
imbrunir
di sera
L'avezza giovinetta pastorella
Va bagnando l'herbetta strana e bella
Che mal si spande a disusata spera
Fuor di sua natia alma primavera,
Cosi Amor meco insu la lingua snella
Desta il fior novo di strania favella,
Mentre io di te, vezzosamente altera,
Canto, dal mio buon popol non inteso
E'l bel Tamigi cangio col bel Arno 10
Amor lo volse, ed io a l'altrui peso
Seppi ch' Amor cosa mai volse indarno.
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Milton |
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(_Taking the_ LITTLE GIRL
_to her_) What good
And gentle care will guide thy
maidenhood?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Lay this laurel on the one
Too
intrinsic
for renown.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Theorus, who is a man not less
illustrious
than Euphemius,[73] takes the
sponge out of the pot and blacks our shoes.
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Aristophanes |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the cockerel so tardily calls the day,
When night to the
troubled
soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly deceiving me with a specious view.
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Ronsard |
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Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,
Conquer all
mysteries
by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine--
Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made
The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
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Keats |
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or the righteous ban
Of all the Gods, whose
dreadful
images
Here represent their shadowy presences,
May pierce them on the sudden with the thorn
Of painful blindness; leaving thee forlorn,
In trembling dotage to the feeblest fright
Of conscience, for their long offended might,
For all thine impious proud-heart sophistries,
Unlawful magic, and enticing lies.
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Keats - Lamia |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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The few who yet survived,
resolute
and firm
Around me fought.
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Shelley |
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One day, she even
ventured
to smile upon her admirer,
for such he seemed to be.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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No door of cedar,
Alas, shall lead her
Unto the stream that shows forever
Love's face like some
reflected
star!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Steamer,
straining
at your ropes
Lift your anchor towards an exotic rawness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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443
DE
PROFUNDIS
II.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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)
NIGHT IN ARIZONA
THE moon is a charring ember
Dying into the dark;
Off in the
crouching
mountains
Coyotes bark.
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Ever thus, in dismal round,
Shall Pain and Mystery profound
Pursue me like a sleepless hound,
"With crimson-dashed and eager jaws,
Me, still in ignorance of the cause,
Unknowing
what I broke of laws?
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Me thought I heard a voyce cry, Sleep no more:
Macbeth does murther Sleepe, the innocent Sleepe,
Sleepe that knits vp the rauel'd Sleeue of Care,
The death of each dayes Life, sore Labors Bath,
Balme of hurt Mindes, great Natures second Course,
Chiefe
nourisher
in Life's Feast
Lady.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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THAT WAS MY COUNTER-BLADE UNDER
LEONARDO
TERRONE, MASTER OF FENCE
i~* ONE while your tastes were keen to you, \J Gone where the grey winds call to you,
By that high fencer, even Death,
Struck of the blade that no man parrieth;
Such is your fence, one saith, One that hath known you.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Do I
contradict
myself?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Let it be your grief
That he is dead
And your
opportunity
gone;
For, in that, you were a coward.
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Stephen Crane |
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Perchance
'tis joy,
To see Orestes' comrade, that he feels.
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Euripides - Electra |
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THE POET'S FINAL RETREAT IN SPAIN
Mayhap, my Juvenal, your feet
Stray down some noisy Roman street,
While after many years of Rome
I have
regained
my Spanish home.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Skeleton men and boys riding
skeleton
horses,
the rib bones shine, the rib bones curve,
shine with savage, elegant curves--
a jawbone runs with a long white slant,
a skull dome runs with a long white arch,
bone triangles click and rattle,
elbows, ankles, white line slants--
shining in the sun, past the White House,
past the Treasury Building, Army and Navy Buildings,
on to the mystic white Capitol Dome--
so they go down Pennsylvania Avenue to-day,
skeleton men and boys riding skeleton horses,
stems of roses in their teeth,
rose dark leaves at their white jaw slants--
and a horse laugh question nickers and whinnies,
moans with a whistle out of horse head teeth:
why?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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mooth, round, [124]
And well torn'd chin, as with the
_Billyard_
ball; 85
Rowle on the?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Wherefore I admit the wealth, whilst
everything
is wanting.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Others will enter the gates of the ferry, and cross from shore to shore;
Others will watch the run of the flood-tide;
Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights
of
Brooklyn
to the south and east;
Others will see the islands large and small;
Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour
high;
A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see
them,
Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring-in of the flood-tide, the falling-back
to the sea of the ebb-tide.
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Whitman |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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The illustrated Title-page is
embellished
with a
vignette, "Villeneuve," engr.
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Byron |
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But you will
certainly
feel no more anger because of the
blows I have given you.
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Aristophanes |
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It will be further observed that, at the
beginning
of every poem, two
dates are given; the first, on the left-hand side, is the date of
composition; the second, on the right-hand side, is the date of the
first publication.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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In truth with you my
sunshine
fled,
And gayety with your light tread--
Glad noise that set me dreaming still.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thel is like a watry bow, and like a parting cloud,
Like a
reflection
in a glass: like shadows in the water
Like dreams of infants, like a smile upon an infants face.
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blake-poems |
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A
sofferir
tormenti, caldi e geli
simili corpi la Virtu dispone
che, come fa, non vuol ch'a noi si sveli.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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There Tibur marched and Pedum
Beneath proud Tarquin's rule,
And
Ferentinum
of the rock,
And Gabii of the pool.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Yet not too far to come at call,
And do the little toils
That make the circuit of the rest,
And deal occasional smiles
To lives that stoop to notice mine
And kindly ask it in, --
Whose invitation, knew you not
For whom I must
decline?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Conversation Galante
I observe: "Our sentimental friend the moon
Or possibly (fantastic, I confess)
It may be Prester John's balloon
Or an old battered lantern hung aloft
To light poor
travellers
to their distress.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The wind blows, and uplifts thy
drooping
banner,
And round thee throng and run
The rushes, the green yeomen of thy manor,
The outlaws of the sun.
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Longfellow |
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Cold be the fierce winds,
Treacherous
round him.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the
woodlands
I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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