Our translator
evidently
took note of various readings, for on p.
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The
comparison
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Redistribution
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subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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emperour
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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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And as in flame
A sparkle is distinct, or voice in voice
Discern'd, when one its even tenour keeps,
The other comes and goes; so in that light
I other
luminaries
saw, that cours'd
In circling motion, rapid more or less,
As their eternal phases each impels.
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You lithe matador in the arena at
Seville!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The circles of the stormy moon
Slide
westward
toward the River Plate,
Death and the Raven drift above
And Sweeney guards the horned gate.
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'tis true, I have gone here and there,
And made my self a motley to the view,
Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear,
Made old
offences
of affections new;
Most true it is, that I have look'd on truth
Askance and strangely; but, by all above,
These blenches gave my heart another youth,
And worse essays prov'd thee my best of love.
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II
De l'ancien
Frascati
Vestale enamouree;
Pretresse de Thalie, helas!
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Darkness again the wood investeth,
The moon midst clouds is seen to sail,
And once more on the margin resteth
The maiden
beautiful
and pale.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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20
LXVII
Indoors the fire is kindled;
Beechwood is piled on the hearthstone;
Cold are the
chattering
oak-leaves;
And the ponds frost-bitten.
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Sappho |
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Epistle To Colonel De Peyster
My honor'd Colonel, deep I feel
Your
interest
in the Poet's weal;
Ah!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And of the negress, wan and phthisical,
Tramping
the mud, and with her haggard eyes
Seeking beyond the mighty walls of fog
The absent palm-trees of proud Africa;
Of all who lose that which they never find;
Of all who drink of tears; all whom grey grief
Gives suck to as the kindly wolf gave suck;
Of meagre orphans who like blossoms fade.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on friendly pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From
mournful
climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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SAS}
I opend all the floodgates of the heavens to quench her thirst
PAGE 27
And I
commanded
the Great deep to hide her in his hand
Till she became a little weeping Infant a span long
I carried her in my bosom as a man carries a lamb
I loved her I gave her all my soul & my delight
I hid her in soft gardens & in secret bowers of Summer
Weaving mazes of delight along the sunny Paradise
Inextricable labyrinths, She bore me sons & daughters
And they have taken her away & hid her from my sight
They have surrounded me with walls of iron & brass, [I die] O Lamb {According to Erdman's edition, the words "I die" were erased and replaced with "O Lamb.
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Blake - Zoas |
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'61'
Explain the
metaphor
in this line.
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Alexander Pope |
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'Sweet love, that seems not made to fade away,
Sweet death, that seems to make us
loveless
clay,
I know not which is sweeter, no, not I.
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Tennyson |
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Till I espi'd thee, fair indeed and tall,
Under a Platan, yet methought less faire,
Less winning soft, less amiablie milde,
Then that smooth watry image; back I turnd, 480
Thou
following
cryd'st aloud, Return fair Eve,
Whom fli'st thou?
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Milton |
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(Note: Written to
Mademoiselle
Roumanille whom Mallarme knew as a child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I tried (nor failed, I think),
To hold thy soul up from its hurt, and be
Somewhat of sight to thee, until thy long
Blind season of
disaster
should be changed.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
Then they loosed him; and, with one swift leap,
Blackmouth
swooped right down into the deep;--
Jumped out into space beyond the edge,
While the Apaches cowered along the ledge.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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tombe neige
Tombe et que n'ai-je
Ma bien-aimee entre mes bras
POEME LU AU MARIAGE D'ANDRE SALMON
Le 13 juillet 1909
En voyant des drapeaux ce matin je ne me suis pas dit
Voila les riches vetements des pauvres
Ni la pudeur democratique veut me voiler sa douleur
Ni la liberte en honneur fait qu'on imite maintenant
Les feuilles o liberte vegetale o seule liberte terrestre
Ni les maisons flambent parce qu'on partira pour ne plus revenir
Ni ces mains agitees travailleront demain pour nous tous
Ni meme on a pendu ceux qui ne savaient pas profiter de la vie
Ni meme on renouvelle le monde en reprenant la Bastille
Je sais que seuls le renouvellent ceux qui sont fondes en poesie
On a pavoise Paris parce que mon ami Andre Salmon s'y marie
Nous nous sommes rencontres dans un caveau maudit
Au temps de notre jeunesse
Fumant tous deux et mal vetus attendant l'aube
Epris epris des memes paroles dont il faudra changer le sens
Trompes trompes pauvres petits et ne sachant pas encore rire
La table et les deux verres devinrent un mourant qui nous jeta le
dernier regard d'Orphee
Les verres tomberent se briserent
Et nous apprimes a rire
Nous partimes alors pelerins de la perdition
A travers les rues a travers les contrees a travers la raison
Je le revis au bord du fleuve sur lequel flottait Ophelie
Qui blanche flotte encore entre les nenuphars
Il s'en allait au milieu des Hamlets blafards
Sur la flute jouant les airs de la folie
Je le revis pres d'un moujik mourant compter les beatitudes
En admirant la neige semblable aux femmes nues
Je le revis faisant ceci ou cela en l'honneur des memes paroles
Qui changent la face des enfants et je dis toutes ces choses
Souvenir et Avenir parce que mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
Rejouissons-nous non pas parce que notre amitie a ete le fleuve
qui nous a fertilises
Terrains riverains dont l'abondance est la nourriture que tous
esperent
Ni parce que nos verres nous jettent encore une fois le regard
d'Orphee mourant
Ni parce que nous avons tant grandi que beaucoup pourraient
confondre nos yeux et les etoiles
Ni parce que les drapeaux claquent aux fenetres des citoyens qui
sont contents depuis cent ans d'avoir la vie et de menues choses a
defendre
Ni parce que fondes en poesie nous avons des droits sur les
paroles qui forment et defont l'Univers
Ni parce que nous pouvons pleurer sans ridicule et que nous savons
rire
Ni parce que nous fumons et buvons comme autrefois
Rejouissons-nous parce que directeur du feu et des poetes
L'amour qui emplit ainsi que la lumiere
Tout le solide espace entre les etoiles et les planetes
L'amour veut qu'aujourd'hui mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
L'ADIEU
J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyere
L'automne est morte souviens-t'en
Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre
Odeur du temps brin de bruyere
Et souviens-toi que je t'attends
SALOME
Pour que sourie encore une fois Jean-Baptiste
Sire je danserais mieux que les seraphins
Ma mere dites-moi pourquoi vous etes triste
En robe de comtesse a cote du Dauphin
Mon coeur battait battait tres fort a sa parole
Quand je dansais dans le fenouil en ecoutant
Et je brodais des lys sur une banderole
Destinee a flotter au bout de son baton
Et pour qui voulez-vous qu'a present je la brode
Son baton
refleurit
sur les bords du Jourdain
Et tous les lys quand vos soldats o roi Herode
L'emmenerent se sont fletris dans mon jardin
Venez tous avec moi la-bas sous les quinconces
Ne pleure pas o joli fou du roi
Prends cette tete au lieu de ta marotte et danse
N'y touchez pas son front ma mere est deja froid
Sire marchez devant trabants marchez derriere
Nous creuserons un trou et l'y enterrerons
Nous planterons des fleurs et danserons en rond
Jusqu'a l'heure ou j'aurai perdu ma jarretiere
Le roi sa tabatiere
L'infante son rosaire
Le cure son breviaire
LA PORTE
La porte de l'hotel sourit terriblement
Qu'est-ce que cela peut me faire o ma maman
D'etre cet employe pour qui seul rien n'existe
Pi-mus couples allant dans la profonde eau triste
Anges frais debarques a Marseille hier matin
J'entends mourir et remourir un chant lointain
Humble comme je suis qui ne suis rien qui vaille
Enfant je t'ai donne ce que j'avais travaille
MERLIN ET LA VIEILLE FEMME
Le soleil ce jour-la s'etalait comme un ventre
Maternel qui saignait lentement sur le ciel
La lumiere est ma mere o lumiere sanglante
Les nuages coulaient comme un flux menstruel
Au carrefour ou nulle fleur sinon la rose
Des vents mais sans epine n'a fleuri l'hiver
Merlin guettait la vie et l'eternelle cause
Qui fait mourir et puis renaitre l'univers
Une vieille sur une mule a chape verte
S'en vint suivant la berge du fleuve en aval
Et l'antique Merlin dans la plaine deserte
Se frappait la poitrine en s'ecriant Rival
O mon etre glace dont le destin m'accable
Dont ce soleil de chair grelotte veux-tu voir
Ma Memoire venir et m'aimer ma semblable
Et quel fils malheureux et beau je veux avoir
Son geste fit crouler l'orgueil des cataclysmes
Le soleil en dansant remuait son nombril
Et soudain le printemps d'amour et d'heroisme
Amena par la main un jeune jour d'avril
Les voies qui viennent de l'ouest etaient couvertes
D'ossements d'herbes drues de destins et de fleurs
Des monuments tremblants pres des charognes vertes
Quand les vents apportaient des poils et des malheurs
Laissant sa mule a petits pas s'en vint l'amante
A petits coups le vent defripait ses atours
Puis les pales amants joignant leurs mains dementes
L'entrelacs de leurs doigts fut leur seul laps d'amour
Elle balla mimant un rythme d'existence
Criant Depuis cent ans j'esperais ton appel
Les astres de ta vie influaient sur ma danse
Morgane regardait de haut du mont Gibel
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain:
The joy their wives, their sons, and servants share,
Ease of their toil, and partners of their care:
The laugh, the jest, attendants on the bowl,
Smoothed every brow, and opened every soul:
With growing years the pleasing licence grew,
And taunts
alternate
innocently flew.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Then to my lord, where by the meadow side
He prays the
woodland
nymphs.
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Euripides - Electra |
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received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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We have been, let us say, to hear the latest Pole
Transmit
the Preludes, through his hair and finger-tips.
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T.S. Eliot |
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All is true the great God saith;
Mayflower, Ship of
Charity!
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Sidney Lanier |
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His
judgment
consequently
is too correct.
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Poe - 5 |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The church and state you safely may invade ;
So
boundless
Lewis in full glory shines,
Whilst your starved power in legal fetters pines.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Painting
is truly a luminous language.
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Appoloinaire |
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By the same Author
THE SHADOWS OF SILENCE AND
THE SONGS OF YESTERDAY
THE GRAVE OF EROS AND THE
BOOK OF
MOURNFUL
MELODIES
WITH DREAMS FROM THE EAST
BAUDELAIRE--THE FLOWERS OF EVIL
In preparation
THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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In fact, just at that point of time
Byron's fame--like the setting sun--shone out with
dazzling
lustre
and irresistibly charmed the mind of Pushkin amongst many others.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Flow gently, sweet Afton, amang thy green braes,
Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays;
My Mary's asleep by thy
murmuring
stream,
Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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re_ O: _exurire_ GRDBLa1
11
_mellitus_
Hand: _me me_ ?
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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πλε(ί)ων =
πλεονς
= pleios = pleor).
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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at euer he hadde
resceyued
{and} laued
oute of ?
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Spenser here follows closely the
description
of
the shield of the magician Atlante in Ariosto's _Orlando Furioso_, ii, 55.
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He, the hearth's lord, brooks not to see
Its
outraged
hospitality.
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Aeschylus |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The Project Gutenberg
Literary
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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XIII
And there he sets him to fulfil
His frustrate first intent:
And lay upon her bed, at last,
The
offering
earlier meant:
When, on his stooping figure, ghast
And haggard eyes are bent.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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PORTIA
TO ELLEN TERRY
(_Written at the Lyceum Theatre_)
I MARVEL not Bassanio was so bold
To peril all he had upon the lead,
Or that proud Aragon bent low his head
Or that Morocco's fiery heart grew cold:
For in that gorgeous dress of beaten gold
Which is more golden than the golden sun
No woman
Veronese
looked upon
Was half so fair as thou whom I behold.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And
now we have left Rouse's Point, and entered the Sorel River, and
passed the
invisible
barrier between the States and Canada.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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You stood where, 'mid the white and gold,
The rose-fire through the gloom
Touched hair and cheek and garment's fold
With soft,
ethereal
bloom.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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She Bade Me
Song--Does Haughty Gaul
Invasion
Threat?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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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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Keats - Lamia |
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e same
good
[Sidenote: It has been shown that all the aforesaid things are
only pursued for the sake of happiness--hence it is clear that
good and
happiness
are essentially the same.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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My handsome tan-faced
horsemen!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Encircled in her
clasping
arms,
How have the raptur'd moments flown!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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' 1680
This
Pandarus
gan newe his tunge affyle,
And al hir cas reherce, and that anoon;
Whan it was seyd, sone after, in a whyle,
Quod Troilus, `As sone as I may goon,
I wol right fayn with al my might ben oon, 1685
Have god my trouthe, hir cause to sustene.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Will it please you
question
him?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Would
forthwith
finish under such a hand ;
Foreshortened time its useless course would stay,
And soon precipitate the latest day :
But a thick cloud about that morning lies.
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Marvell - Poems |
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such swiftly subside, burnt up for religion's sake,
For not all matter is fuel to heat,
impalpable
flame, the essential
life of the earth,
Any more than such are to religion.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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We used to call the gully, "the Gully of the Black Smoke,"
but its native name is altogether
different
of course.
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Kipling - Poems |
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O
children
of the light, now in our grief Give us again the solace of belief.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Since then 't is centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first
surmised
the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But mark
How she scatters o'er the wool
Woven shapes, till it is full
Of men that struggle close, complex;
Short-clipp'd steeds with
wrinkled
necks
Arching high; spear, shield, and all
The panoply that doth recall
Mighty war; such war as e'en
For Helen's sake is waged, I ween.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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By similar
appointment
he ordain'd
Over the world's bright images to rule.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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But that spirit of liberty upon which they are founded, and that
security of
property
which is their leading principle, must in time have
a wide and stupendous effect.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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the Place
fulfilled
with shadow that aye glows
Because of very God.
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He would not hear
of life being
sacrificed
to any system of thought or morals.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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IMITATION
A dark unfathom'd tide
Of interminable pride--
A mystery, and a dream,
Should my early life seem;
I say that dream was fraught
With a wild, and waking thought
Of beings that have been,
Which my spirit hath not seen,
Had I let them pass me by,
With a
dreaming
eye!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la
coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"I fear thee, ancient
Mariner!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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" KAU}
For many a window ornamented with sweet
ornaments
Lookd out into the World of Tharmas, where in ceaseless torrents {Lowercase "world" mended to "World.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or
redistribute
this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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that this good word of thine
Fail not, and soon thou shalt such bounty share 650
And
friendship
at my hands, that, at first sight,
Whoe'er shall meet thee shall pronounce thee blest.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The
helpless
worm arose and sat upon the Lillys leaf,
And the bright Cloud saild on, to find his partner in the vale.
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blake-poems |
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Yet my Hart
Throbs to know one thing: Tell me, if your Art
Can tell so much: Shall Banquo's issue euer
Reigne in this
Kingdome?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Special rules,
set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to
copying and
distributing
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protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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At the Ching river many die of poison:
Crossing
the Lu one is lucky if one is only ill.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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12 _innupte secum ut
meditata
requi_(_ae_ D)_runt_ TD: _in_(_i_
Ba)_nupte que_ (_que?
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Latin - Catullus |
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They claim that Theseus
appeared
in Epirus.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The
inanimate
object and the
living creature in nature are not seen in the sharp contours of their
isolation; they are viewed and interpreted in the atmosphere that
surrounds them, in which they are enwrapped and so densely veiled that
the outlines are only dimly visible, be that atmosphere the mystic grey
of northern twilight or the dark velvety blue of southern summer nights.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And never a human voice comes near
To speak a gentle word:
And the eye that watches through the door
Is
pitiless
and hard:
And by all forgot, we rot and rot,
With soul and body marred.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Ceaselessly
up to thee, white peak of snow,
My stormy spirit will in vapours go!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Nor did gentle Eurytion, though he alone struck the bird down from the
lofty sky, grudge him to be
preferred
in honour.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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[214] Sparta had been menaced with an
earthquake
in 427 B.
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Aristophanes |
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ATHANASIUS
MIKAILOVICH
PUSHKIN, friend of Prince Shuisky.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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FRASER: I have
listened
to this lecture with the greatest
interest.
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Li Po |
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Burns was
preparing
a home at Ellisland; Mrs.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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1 He is
imagining
that his wife may have been killed.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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For when he hath
put on the care of the public good and common safety, I am a wretch, and
put off man, if I do not
reverence
and honour him, in whose charge all
things divine and human are placed.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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at herest my bone,
whi
helestou
my leoue sone
So long in my house, 477
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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It is plain that they
interfere
with the regular argument of the poem.
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Alexander Pope |
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XXXVI
The Three stood calm and silent,
And looked upon the foes,
And a great shout of laughter
From all the
vanguard
rose:
And forth three chiefs came spurring
Before that deep array;
To earth they sprang, their swords they drew,
And lifted high their shields, and flew
To win the narrrow way;
XXXVII
Aunus from green Tifernum,
Lord of the Hill of Vines;
And Seius, whose eight hundred slaves
Sicken in Ilva's mines;
And Picus, long to Clusium
Vassal in peace and war,
Who led to fight his Umbrian powers
From that gray crag where, girt with towers,
The fortress of Nequinum lowers
O'er the pale waves of Nar.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I knew not this, and therefore did I weep:
That God would love a Worm I knew, and punish the evil foot
That wilful bruis'd its
helpless
form: but that he cherish'd it
With milk and oil I never knew, and therefore did I weep,
And I complaind in the mild air, because I fade away.
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blake-poems |
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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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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Sir Job sailed forth, the evening bright and still,
"No place on earth," he cried, "like
Greenwich
Hill!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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_ Your former wish ye got from me
With ease; for first ye asked to learn from her
Relating
her own trials;
The rest now hear, what sufferings 't is necessary
This young woman should endure from Here.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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