No it is bought with the price
Of all that a man hath his house his wife his children
Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy
And in the witherd field where the farmer plows for bread in vain
It is an easy thing to triumph in the summers sun
And in the vintage & to sing on the waggon loaded with corn
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted
To speak the laws of prudence to the houseless wanderer
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To listen to the hungry ravens cry in wintry season
When the red blood is filld with wine & with the marrow of lambs
It is an easy thing to laugh at wrathful elements
To hear the dog howl at the wintry door, the ox in the slaughter house moan
To see a god on every wind & a
blessing
on every blast
To hear sounds of love in the thunder storm that destroys our enemies house
To rejoice in the blight that covers his field, & the sickness that cuts off his children
While our olive & vine sing & laugh round our door & our children bring fruits & flowers
Then the groan & the dolor are quite forgotten & the slave grinding at the mill
And the captive in chains & the poor in the prison, & the soldier in the field
When the shatterd bone hath laid him groaning among the happier dead
It is an easy thing to rejoice in the tents of prosperity
Thus could I sing & thus rejoice, but it is not so with me!
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Do not forget these asters that remain,
The scarlet leafage round the
tendrils
twining,
And all the rests of verdant life combining,
Resolve them in the soft autumnal vein.
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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I have heard that on a day
Mine host's sign-board flew away,
Nobody knew whither, till
An astrologer's old quill
To a sheepskin gave the story,
Said he saw you in your glory,
Underneath
a new old-sign
Sipping beverage divine, 20
And pledging with contented smack
The Mermaid in the Zodiac.
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
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including
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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THE WIDOW
BY Mellstock Lodge and Avenue
Towards her door I went,
And sunset on her window-panes
Reflected
our intent.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Ah me,
My brother, should it strike not him, but thee,
This
wrestling
with dark death, behold, I too
Am dead that hour.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The
Commandant
ordered him to be brought before him.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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To test his
perception
and prove her feigned
truth.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XVII
The first four ride until themselves they find
Where the besiegers and
besieged
they view;
And see the banners shaking in the wind,
And the cantonments of those armies two.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The sons,
After the death of Pelops, shared the rule
O'er Mycenae, till Atreus from the realm
Thyestes
drove.
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And that the earth may there abide at rest
In the mid-region of the world, it needs
Must vanish bit by bit in weight and lessen,
And have another substance underneath,
Conjoined to it from its
earliest
age
In linked unison with the vasty world's
Realms of the air in which it roots and lives.
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Lucretius |
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As a King with many crowns He stands,
And our names are graven upon His hands;
As a Priest, with God-uplifted eyes,
He offers for us His Sacrifice;
As the Lamb of God for sinners slain,
That we too may live He lives again;
As our
Champion
behold Him stand,
Strong to save us, at God's Right Hand.
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Christina Rossetti |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Rilke - Poems |
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All have not
appeared
in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
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Appoloinaire |
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"
"I tire of my beauty, I tire of this
Empty splendour and
shadowless
bliss;
"With none to envy and none gainsay,
No savour or salt hath my dream or day.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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and add a gleam,
The lustre, known to neither sea nor land,
But borrowed from the
youthful
Poet's dream; 1820.
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William Wordsworth |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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how
heedless
were the eyes
On whom the summer shone!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I have this moment
finished
the song, so you have it glowing
from the mint.
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Robert Burns |
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and other days come back on me
With
recollected
music, though the tone
Is changed and solemn, like the cloudy groan
Of dying thunder on the distant wind;
Yet could I seat me by this ivied stone
Till I had bodied forth the heated mind,
Forms from the floating wreck which ruin leaves behind;
CV.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Winter-grain sprouts, and those of the light-yellow corn, and the esculent
roots of the garden,
And the apple-trees covered with blossoms, and the fruit afterward, and
wood-berries, and the commonest weeds by the road;
And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern,
whence he had lately risen,
And the schoolmistress that passed on her way to the school,
And the friendly boys that passed, and the
quarrelsome
boys,
And the tidy and fresh-cheeked girls, and the barefoot negro boy and girl,
And all the changes of city and country, wherever he went.
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Whitman |
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At the gates of their dungeon a gorgeous repast,
Rich, unstinted, unpriced,
That the doomed might (forsooth) gather
strength
ere they bled,
With an ignorant pity the jailers would spread
For the martyrs of Christ.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Pur Virgilio si trasse a lei, pregando
che ne mostrasse la miglior salita;
e quella non
rispuose
al suo dimando,
ma di nostro paese e de la vita
ci 'nchiese; e 'l dolce duca incominciava
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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]
[Footnote 45: Trediakofski was an absurd poet whom
Catherine
II.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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His grandfather, called, like himself, Appius Claudius, had left
a name as much
detested
as that Sextus Tarquinius.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Despotism is unjust to everybody,
including
the despot, who was probably
made for better things.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_The
Dominant
City.
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Imagists |
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Other
previous
contributors are Marguerite Wilkin son, John Hall Wheelock, Louis Ginsberg, Fhoebe Hcffman, John Russell McCarthy and Marjorie Allen Seiffert.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Keats - Lamia |
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O
forehead
crowned with thorn!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Hys
Nouryture
26
V.
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Lewis Carroll |
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"I never saw aught like to them
"Unless perchance it were
"The
skeletons
of leaves that lag
"My forest brook along:
"When the Ivy-tod is heavy with snow,
"And the Owlet whoops to the wolf below
"That eats the she-wolf's young.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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wherefore with
infection
should he live,
And with his presence grace impiety,
That sin by him advantage should achieve,
And lace itself with his society?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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220
"And he had been at Inverness;
And Peter, by the mountain-rills,
Had danced his round with Highland lasses;
And he had lain beside his asses
On lofty Cheviot Hills: 225
"And he had trudged through Yorkshire dales,
Among the rocks and winding _scars_;
Where deep and low the hamlets lie
Beneath their little patch of sky
And little lot of stars: 230
"And all along the
indented
coast,
Bespattered with the salt-sea foam;
Where'er a knot of houses lay
On headland, or in hollow bay;--
Sure never man like him did roam!
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William Wordsworth |
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O Jewish woman, if thou knewest all
The hunger and the tears the punisht world
Suffers by cause of thee, and of my dream
That thou wert
somewhere
hidden in mankind!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The
Portuguese
prince even visited the Kingdoms of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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She would lean at the window,
thinking
of him and hoping he would come back.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"I saw thy pulse's
maddening
play,
Wild send thee pleasure's devious way,
Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray,
By passion driven;
But yet the light that led astray
Was light from Heaven.
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Robert Forst |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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,
_murderer
by the sword_: dat.
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Beowulf |
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'Tis Love's caprice to freeze the bosom now
With bolts of ice, with shafts of flame now burn;
And which his lighter pang, I scarce discern--
Or hope or fear, or
whelming
fire or snow.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And when by grace the priest won place,
And served the Abbey well,
He reared this stone to mark where shone
That
midnight
miracle.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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It lingered in my heart but could not rise
The word that would have wrought the sweet surmise Which turns to
godliness
the common clay.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Yet if untimely death awaited my son, it
will be good to think he fell leading the Teucrians into Latium, and
slew his
Volscian
thousands before he fell.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Oh, might I lie on the wind, or fly
In the wilful sea-bird's track,
Would I hurry on, with a
homesick
cry--
Or hasten back?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The couched Brazilian jaguar
Compels the scampering marmoset
With subtle effluence of cat;
Grishkin has a maisonette;
The sleek Brazilian jaguar
Does not in its
arboreal
gloom
Distil so rank a feline smell
As Grishkin in a drawing-room.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The children of whose turbaned seas,
Or what
Circassian
land?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Your horse is
blocking
my cart--please!
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Kipling - Poems |
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`Of Ector, which that is my lord, my brother, 1450
It nedeth nought to preye him freend to be;
For I have herd him, o tyme and eek other,
Speke of
Criseyde
swich honour, that he
May seyn no bet, swich hap to him hath she.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The
poems were first
collected
by their author when he was twenty-sex years
old, and though never, until recently, well received by the critics, have
survived the test of NINE editions.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Gēat
ungemetes
wēl,
rōfne rand-wigan restan lyste:
1795 sōna him sele-þegn sīðes wērgum,
feorran-cundum forð wīsade,
se for andrysnum ealle beweotede
þegnes þearfe, swylce þȳ dōgore
hēaðo-līðende habban scoldon.
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Beowulf |
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It is severe
and aristocratic in the application of its laws and
impervious
to appeal
to serve other than its own aims.
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Rilke - Poems |
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attables dans le
splendide
orgie.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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did enfold
With greedie pawes, and over all did spred
His golden wings: his dreadfull hideous hed 270
Close couched on the bever, seem'd to throw
From flaming mouth bright sparkles fierie red,
That
suddeine
horror to faint harts did show,
And scaly tayle was stretcht adowne his backe full low.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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No more should I be dismayed
If beside the verdant hedges,
We again
together
strayed,
I would whisper soft my pledges
And to thee all homage tender.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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'73 sylphids':
a
feminine
form of "sylphs.
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Alexander Pope |
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_Mynstrelles
Songe, bie a Manne and Womanne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Or if he left his arrows sharp
And came a
minstrel
weary,
I'd never tell him by his harp
Nor know him for my dearie.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Varus, are your trees in
planting?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up,
nonproprietary
or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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For one that LOVE lays hold of by the soul,
A
thousand
by the eyes receive control.
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La Fontaine |
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As he comes skipping upon the stage in the
first scene, reciting his galloping doggerel couplets, we see plainly
that the element of
buffoonery
is uppermost in Jonson's mind.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in
sportive
frolic beat the time,
And stubborn oaks their branchy summits bow.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Therefore
lend us
"Thy wisdom in this our dilemma.
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Tennyson |
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And as they were speaking
together I inquired of them saying, "Is this indeed the Blessed
City, where each man lives according to the
Scriptures?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Hearts that are
happiest
hold not by it;
Better we let, then, the old view reign;
Since there is peace in it, why decry it?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"So in the church-yard she was laid;
And, when the grass was dry, [5]
Together
round her grave we played, 55
My brother John and I.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Loud clanged beneath his horse-hoofs
The helmets of the dead,
And many a curdling pool of blood
Splashed
him heel to head.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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copyright
law means that no one owns a United States
copyright
in these works,
so the Foundation (and you!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Chimene
My honour's there, I must be avenged, still;
However we pride ourselves on love's merit,
Excuse is
shameful
to a noble spirit.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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In him ne deyned sparen blood royal 435
The fyr of love, wher-fro god me blesse,
Ne him forbar in no degree, for al
His vertu or his
excellent
prowesse;
But held him as his thral lowe in distresse,
And brende him so in sondry wyse ay newe, 440
That sixty tyme a day he loste his hewe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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If it be thy
pleasure
let us rather cast
a lot.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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There came a wind like a bugle;
It
quivered
through the grass,
And a green chill upon the heat
So ominous did pass
We barred the windows and the doors
As from an emerald ghost;
The doom's electric moccason
That very instant passed.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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To Theophile Gautier
Friend, poet spirit, you have fled our night,
You left our noise, to
penetrate
the light;
Now your name will shine on pure summits.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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AUTUMN SONG
Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow,
The sunset hangs on a cloud;
A golden storm of
glittering
sheaves,
Of fair and frail and fluttering leaves,
The wild wind blows in a cloud.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Collecting
a force, they return to Frisia and kill Finn in his
home.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The
transaction
alluded to in the last Stanza is related at large in
some Prose Memoirs of Rowley, of which a very incorrect copy has been
printed in the _Town and Country Magazine_ for November 1775.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Did your head, bent back,
search further--
clear through the green leaf-moss
of the larch
branches?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Meredith - Poems |
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The marsh-grass weaves me a wall of green,
But the wind comes
whispering
in between,
In the dead of night when the sky is deep
The wind comes waking me out of sleep--
Why does it always bring to me
The far-off, terrible call of the sea?
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Sara Teasdale |
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But see, a
handmaid
cometh, and the tear
Wet on her cheek!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Meanwhile we linger'd by the water's brink,
Like men, who, musing on their road, in thought
Journey, while
motionless
the body rests.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Oh, no, I am
perfectly
well,
Only a little tired.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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ast illam summa leuiter (sic namque iubebas)
lampade parcentes et inerti
strinximus
arcu.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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RUY BLAS: Surely a
nobleman
would never stoop
To fight a duel with his serving-man?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Yet had his mind through tedious absence lost
The dear
resemblance
of his native coast;
Besides, Minerva, to secure her care,
Diffused around a veil of thickened air;
For so the gods ordain'd to keep unseen
His royal person from his friends and queen;
Till the proud suitors for their crimes afford
An ample vengeance to their injured lord.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Stars fall in
confusion!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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What are the showy
treasures?
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Besides, the
experience
of nursery-men makes it the more questionable.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Contents
Translator's note:
The Ruins Of Rome
Divine spirits, whose powdery ashes lie
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
Newcomer, who looks for Rome in Rome,
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
He who would see the vast power of Nature,
As in her chariot the Phrygian goddess rode,
You sacred ruins, and you holy shores,
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
You cruel stars, inhuman deities,
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
As we pass the summer stream without danger
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
Who would
demonstrate
Rome's true grandeur,
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
All that the Egyptians once devised,
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
That we see nothing but an empty waste
Do you have hopes that posterity
Translator's note:
The text used is from the 1588 edition of Les Antiquites de Rome.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Moment when one must
break with the
living memory,
to inter it
- place it in the coffin,
hide it - with
the
brutality
of
placing it there,
raw contact
to see it no longer
except as idealised -
later, no longer him
living, there - but
the germ of his being
taken back into itself -
the germ allowing
thought for him
- sight of him
vision (ideality
of state) and
speech for him
for in us, pure
him, a refining
- become our
honour, the source
of our finer
feelings -
true re-entry
into the ideal
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Mallarme - Poems |
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To desire this honest gentlewoman, your maid, to
speak a good word to
Mistress
Anne Page for my master,
in the way of marriage.
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But the blind one, in her wicker cage, without ceasing
Haunts this night of spring with her
stuttering
call,
Knowing nothing of the terror that walks in darkness,
Knowing only that some cruelty has stolen the light
That is life, and that she must cry until she dies.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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BEFORE THE SNOW
Autumn is gone: through the blue
woodlands
bare
Shatters the rainy wind.
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Good father Andrew scorned to use finesse,
And in
discourse
the sex would thus address.
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Since there is comfort, why
disdain?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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