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THEN
Hrothgar
went with his hero-train,
defence-of-Scyldings, forth from hall;
fain would the war-lord Wealhtheow seek,
couch of his queen.
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There had swept
over me a sense of weakness, of
dependence
on a great personal Being
somewhere far off yet near at hand.
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Chor: Oh how comely it is and how reviving
To the Spirits of just men long
opprest!
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Bright shone the lists, blue bent the skies,
And the knights still hurried amain
To the tournament under the ladies' eyes,
Where the
jousters
were Heart and Brain.
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Sidney Lanier |
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For now no more the gods with fate contend,
At Juno's suit the heavenly
factions
end.
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Iliad - Pope |
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($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Haughtiest
swans and peacocks swept west,
And, despite soft derivations,
Crossed the Appalachians,
And turned to blazing warrior souls
Of the forest,
Singing the ways
Of the Ancient of Days.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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When Po entered in obedience to the summons, he was so drunk
that the
courtiers
were obliged to dab his face with water.
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Li Po |
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At last I saw the shadowed bars,
Like a lattice wrought in lead,
Move right across the whitewashed wall
That faced my three-plank bed,
And I knew that somewhere in the world
God's
dreadful
dawn was red.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Why, who but the very same girl who
Hated with all of her heart
stockings
both violet and red.
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Keats - Lamia |
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When I think of other men,
Dreaming
alone by day,
The thought of you like a strong wind
Blows the dreams away.
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He
quarreled
with General
Aupick, and disdained his mother.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Sleepst thou
Companion
dear, what sleep can close 670
Thy eye-lids?
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And there, in compass of that small case, was
gathered
all that
remained on earth of him whose genius and virtue were a crown of glory
to the world--whose love had been the source of happiness, peace, and
good,--to be buried with him!
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Shelley |
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The
kingfisher
flies like an arrow, and wounds the air.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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p{re}misses
ben yg{ra}nted ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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SCHOLARS: Who,
Faustus?
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Has the night
descended?
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Yeats |
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Rychesse
a girdel hadde upon, 1085
The bokel of it was of a stoon
Of vertu greet, and mochel of might;
For who-so bar the stoon so bright,
Of venim [thurte] him no-thing doute,
While he the stoon hadde him aboute.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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proposed
(1) hard-fyndne, = _hard to find_; (2) hord-wynne
dǣl,--_a deal of treasure-joy_ (cf.
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Beowulf |
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The clothing common to all is a sagum 101
fastened
by a clasp, or, in want of that, a thorn.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
(The following lists include
poetical
works only)
AMY LOWELL
A Dome of Many-Colored Glass Houghton Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Descendez, descendez, lamentables victimes,
Descendez
le chemin de l'enfer eternel;
Plongez au plus profond du gouffre ou tous les crimes,
Flagelles par un vent qui ne vient pas du ciel,
Bouillonnent pele-mele avec un bruit d'orage;
Ombres folles, courez au but de vos desirs;
Jamais vous ne pourrez assouvir votre rage,
Et votre chatiment naitra de vos plaisirs.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Of verity, the nature of these same paths,
Varying in many modes (as aforesaid)
Because of unlike nature and warp and woof
Of cosmic things,
constrains
it so to be.
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Lucretius |
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Thou deadly crater, moulded by my muse,
Cast thou thy bronze into my bowed and wounded heart,
And let my soul its
vengeance
to thy bronze impart!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Let's make bally asses of
ourselves!
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Kipling - Poems |
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Slow now and frail, the task too sorely tries,
As a great weight upon a sucker small:
"Who leaps," I said, "too high may midway fall:
Man ill
accomplishes
what Heaven denies.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Of
excising
our cups, and taxing our smoke.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The_ SERVANT
_watches
a moment and goes back into the hall.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Has not the god of the green world, 5
In his large tolerant wisdom,
Filled with the ardours of earth
Her twenty
summers?
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Sappho |
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For this her sweetness Walt, her lover, sought
To win her; wooed her here, his heart o'er fraught
With
fragrance
of her being; and gained his plea.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Perchance my dog will whine in vain
Till fed by
stranger
hands;
But long ere I come back again
He'd tear me where he stands.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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USHER: Franz von
Sickingen
is without and sends word that having
heard how faith has been broken with his brother-in-law, he insists
upon justice, or within an hour he will fire the four quarters of the
town, and abandon it to be sacked by his men.
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But forget not the glory
Of him whose height we try for,
A name to live and die for--
The name of
Washington!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A hedge is about it, very tall,
Hazy and cool, and
breathing
sweet.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He sees that
Euripides
may have had his own
reasons for not making Admetus an ideal husband.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Why do I want this,
when even last night
you
startled
me from sleep?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Whitman |
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Thou wast not born for death,
immortal
Bird!
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Keats |
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Ah, yes, to become legendary, too,
On the brink of a
charlatan
age!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Or him wha led o'er
Scotland
a'
The meikle Ursa-Major?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Yet, would'st thou have the proffer'd combat stand,
The Greeks and Trojans seat on either hand;
Then let a midway space our hosts divide,
And, on that stage of war, the cause be tried:
By Paris there the Spartan king be fought,
For beauteous Helen and the wealth she brought;
And who his rival can in arms subdue,
His be the fair, and his the
treasure
too.
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Iliad - Pope |
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To dig for water on the spot, the Captain
Landed with a small troop, myself being one:
There I
reproached
him with his treachery.
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under thy favour
forbear!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Enjoining, then, my people to abide
Fast by the ship which they should closely guard, 220
I went, but not without a goat-skin fill'd
With sable wine which I had erst received
From Maron, offspring of Evanthes, priest
Of Phoebus
guardian
god of Ismarus,
Because, through rev'rence of him, we had saved
Himself, his wife and children; for he dwelt
Amid the grove umbrageous of his God.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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As soon as
I was master of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid
zone, I took a
steerage
passage in the first ship that was to sail
from the Clyde, for
"Hungry ruin had me in the wind.
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Robert Burns |
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For her this rhyme is penned, whose
luminous
eyes,
Brightly expressive as the twins of Loeda,
Shall find her own sweet name, that, nestling lies
Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader.
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Poe - 5 |
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All is avowed, and as I smote I stand
With foot set firm upon a
finished
thing!
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Aeschylus |
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Oh, victor
unsurpassed
in modern song!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Keats |
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(To Don Diegue)
See how her face
abruptly
changes hue.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Tennyson |
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What fate shall dare uncrown thee from this breast,
O god-born lover, whom my love doth gird
And armour with impregnable delight
Of Hope's
triumphant
keen flame-carven sword?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A
scholarly
edition
of the poems of Pembroke and Rudyard would be a boon.
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John Donne |
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All which,
sir, though I most powerfully and
potently
believe, yet I hold it
not honesty to have it thus set down; for you yourself, sir,
should be old as I am if, like a crab, you could go backward.
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Shakespeare |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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how
shouldst
thou be fear'd
By all, who read what here my eyes beheld!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Let it touch Woman and flesh becomes
Finer and more thrilled
Than air
contrived
in tune,
Lighter round the soul
Than flame is round burning.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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This was that, when his appointed
time for death came, he might escape if he could find some
volunteer
to
die for him.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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From his
conversation
I should
have pronounced him to have been fitted to excel in whatever walk of
ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities.
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Robert Burns |
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If he by Taro, and in Naples' reign,
('Tis said), from Gauls
delivered
Italy,
'Twill be replied.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Eal þū hit
geþyldum
healdest,
"mægen mid mōdes snyttrum.
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Beowulf |
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You may copy it, give it away or
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Now, O Creation of the
cerulean
main, who art in sacred Idalium, and in
Urian haven, and who doth foster Ancona and reedy Cnidos, Amathus and
Golgos, and Dyrrhachium, Adriatic tavern, accept and acknowledge this vow
if it lack not grace nor charm.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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ye
Who are so
restless
in your wisdom, ye
Who have a broom still ready in your hands
To rid the world of nuisances; ye proud, 70
Heart-swoln, while in your pride ye contemplate
Your talents, power, or [10] wisdom, deem him not
A burthen of the earth!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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MISS NEVILLE: My dear
Hastings!
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TO move, Alaciel readily agreed;
Again our couple
ventured
to proceed;
The casket safe in tow; the weather hot;
From rock to rock with care our swimmer got;
The princess, anxious on his back to keep:--
New mode of traversing the wat'ry deep.
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La Fontaine |
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' 175
Criseide un-to that purpos lyte answerde,
As she that was with sorwe
oppressed
so
That, in effect, she nought his tales herde,
But here and there, now here a word or two.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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so deeply that
purity emerges from
the
corruption!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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The genre, which is becoming one, like the symphony, little by little, alongside personal poetry, leaves intact the older verse; for which I
maintain
my worship, and to which I attribute the empire of passion and dreams, though this may be the preferred means (as follows) of dealing with subjects of pure and complex imagination or intellect: which there is no remaining justification for excluding from Poetry - the unique source.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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OUR Roman, having
satisfied
his eyes,
At length withdrew, confounded by surprise.
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La Fontaine |
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III
Soon from out of the Southward seemed nearing
A whirr, as of wings
Waved by mighty-vanned flies,
Or by night-moths of measureless size,
And in
softness
and smoothness well-nigh beyond hearing
Of corporal things.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Here round her fost'ring elm the smiling vine,
In fond embraces, gives her arms to twine,
The num'rous
clusters
pendant from the boughs,
The green here glistens, here the purple glows;
For, here the genial seasons of the year
Danc'd hand in hand, no place for winter here;
His grisly visage from the shore expell'd,
United sway the smiling seasons held.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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l'orgueil plus bienveillant que les
charites
perdues.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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At half-past
eleven enter the
vestibule
boldly, and if you see any one, inquire for
the Countess; if not, ascend the stairs, turn to the left and go on
until you come to a door, which opens into her bedchamber.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second Marriage in my house;
Divorced
old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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DREAM-LOVE
Young Love lies sleeping
In May-time of the year,
Among the lilies,
Lapped in the tender light:
White lambs come grazing,
White doves come
building
there:
And round about him
The May-bushes are white.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Antidotes
Of medicated music,
answering
for
Mankind's forlornest uses, thou canst pour
From thence into their ears.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Sir,
For holy offices I have a time; a time
To think upon the part of business which
I bear i' th' state; and nature does require
Her times of preservation, which perforce
I, her frail son, amongst my brethren mortal,
Must give my
tendance
to.
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Shakespeare |
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Do you think that he,
conscious
of Theseus' honour, 845
Will conceal what I am burning with, this ardour?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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There
is a
considerable
resemblance between this rule of the order of
St.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Him, the bold leader of the Abantian throng,(140)
Seized to despoil, and dragg'd the corpse along:
But while he strove to tug the
inserted
dart,
Agenor's javelin reach'd the hero's heart.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Thourgh yow have I seyd fully in my song
Theffect
and Ioye of Troilus servyse, 1815
Al be that ther was som disese among,
As to myn auctor listeth to devyse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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O how
enraptured
I was!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Alas, this Italy has too long swept
Heroic ashes up for hour-glass sand;
Of her own past,
impassioned
nympholept!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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By bulging rock and gaping cleft,
Even of half mere daylight reft,
Rueful he peered to right and left,
Muttering
in his altered mood: 160
'The fate is hard that weaves my weft,
Though my lot be good.
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Christina Rossetti |
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No things of air these antics were,
That
frolicked
with such glee:
To men whose lives were held in gyves,
And whose feet might not go free,
Ah!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Enter
Malcolme
and Macduffe.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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