"
On the morrow, I had
scarcely
begun to dress before the door of my room
opened, and a young officer came in.
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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Though they sleep or wake to torment
and wish to
displace
our old cells--
thin rare gold--
that their larve grow fat--
is our task the less sweet?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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60
'Will you give me a morning
draught?
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Christina Rossetti |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Hove,
Who
frequented
the depths of a grove;
Where he studied his books, with the wrens and the rooks,
That tranquil old person of Hove.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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those less
imperious
voices, hands
Not half so cruel as thine, those earthlier forms!
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" she having been supposed to lie in wait for
children
to kill
them.
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Many a green isle needs must be
In the deep wide sea of misery,
Or the mariner, worn and wan,
Never thus could voyage on
Day and night, and night and day,
Drifting
on his dreary way,
With the solid darkness black
Closing round his vessel's track;
Whilst above, the sunless sky
Big with clouds, hangs heavily,
And behind the tempest fleet
Hurries on with lightning feet,
Riving sail, and cord, and plank,
Till the ship has almost drank
Death from the o'er-brimming deep;
And sinks down, down, like that sleep
When the dreamer seems to be
Weltering through eternity;
And the dim low line before
Of a dark and distant shore
Still recedes, as ever still
Longing with divided will,
But no power to seek or shun,
He is ever drifted on
O'er the unreposing wave,
To the haven of the grave.
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Golden Treasury |
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Let me take with me
this hope in thee, I shall go more
daringly
to every fortune.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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'Tis this that leads me ever to advise,
To sleep at ease
whichever
side he lies.
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La Fontaine |
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Why are your minds
astonisht
so unwisely?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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and the lofty
birthright
Nature gave,
The noblest talent Heaven to man has lent,
Thou bid'st the Poet fling to folly's ocean!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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This Troilus was present in the place,
Whan axed was for Antenor Criseyde,
For which ful sone
chaungen
gan his face, 150
As he that with tho wordes wel neigh deyde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Life is
still deep and
tremendous
and sonorous.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I do not find that the cuticular aristocracy
of the South has added anything to the refinements of civilization
except the carrying of bowie-knives and the chewing of tobacco,--a
high-toned
Southern
gentleman being commonly not only _quadrumanous_ but
_quidruminant_.
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Iesu heuene kyng,-- 116
On
Wedenysday
in clene leinte
A voice me bede I ne shulde nou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Were it not that his art's glory, full of fire
Till the dark
communal
moment all of ash,
Returns as proud evening's glow lights the glass,
To the fires of the pure mortal sun!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Doth any deem me fool, to hold a fair
Maid in my room and seek no joy, but spare
Her
maidenhood?
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Euripides - Electra |
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LXXXI
Orlando had left Sobrino (as I said)
On earth, and against Sericana's pride,
Desirous
valiant Brandimart to aid,
Even as he was, afoot, in fury hied:
When, prompt to assail Gradasso with the blade,
He, loose and walking in mid field, espied
The goodly horse, which had Sobrino thrown;
And bowned him straight to make the steed his own.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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{Transcriber's note:
The
spelling
and hyphenation in the original are inconsistent, and have
not been changed.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Some sailors are
discovered
crouching
by the sail.
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Yeats |
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Stephen Crane |
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He has a great delight who drowns
his gaze in the
immensity
of sky and sea.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The child so taught by the paths,
Resigns her ecstasy
Says the word:
Anastasius!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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]
[Sidenote F: I menaced thee with one blow for the
covenant
between us on
the first night.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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This cursed man, when
striking
out right and left with his
torch, knocked over ten loaves worth an obolus apiece, and then, to cap
the deal, four others.
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Aristophanes |
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Meredith - Poems |
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You, Emperor made
By Rome, a son of
Hercules
'tis said;
And you of Spartibor.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"Can it be that they are afraid of an attack by the Kirghiz; but
then is it likely that Ivan
Kouzmitch
would hide from me such a trifle?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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(GREGORY
suddenly
draws a dagger; all give way
before him; he dashes through the window.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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" And shud ye be wantin' to
diskiver who is the pink of
purliteness
quite, and the laider of the hot
tun in the houl city o' Lonon--why it's jist mesilf.
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Poe - 5 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And Faith shall come forth the finer,
From
trampled
thickets of fire,
And the orient open diviner
Before her, the heaven rise higher.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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So when I see this robin now,
Like a red apple on the bough,
And question why he sings so strong,
For love, or for the love of song;
Or sings, maybe, for that sweet rill
Whose silver tongue is never still--
Ah, now there comes this thought unkind,
Born of the
knowledge
in my mind:
He sings in triumph that last night
He killed his father in a fight;
And now he'll take his mother's blood--
The last strong rival for his food.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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When evening shades obscure the sky,
And bring the solemn hours again,
Begin, sweet bird, thy melody,
And soothe a poor
forsaken
swain.
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Robert Burns |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Paris may change; my
melancholy
is fixed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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To know if he was patient, part content,
Was dying as he thought, or different;
Was it a pleasant day to die,
And did the
sunshine
face his way?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"I have
burdened
you with orphan children,
With orphan children two or three.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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O for the
gentleness
of old Romance,
The simple plaining of a minstrel's song!
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Keats |
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How many lovers
Hath not its lulling
Cradled to slumber
With the ripe flowers, 15
Ere for our pleasure
This golden summer
Walked through the corn-lands
In
gracious
splendour!
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Sappho |
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Each day, each moment, to increase my glory,
Laurels heap on laurels, victory on victory:
The prince, at my side, might test his mettle
Protected by my arm, in every battle;
He would learn to conquer by watching me;
And
matching
his great character, swiftly
He would see.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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* * * * *
[When Li Po came to the capital and showed this poem to Ho Chih-ch'ang,
Chih-ch'ang raised his
eyebrows
and said: "Sir, you are not a man of
this world.
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Li Po |
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A fever burns me, Phaon; 5
My knees quake on the threshold,
And all my
strength
is loosened,
Slack with disappointment.
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Sappho |
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If the dove preached from her bough
And the lamb from his sod,
The lamb and the dove
Were
preachers
sent from God.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
XCVI
As a good hawk, who duck or woodcock shy,
Partridge or pigeon, or such other prey,
Seeing towards her from a distance fly,
Raises her head, and shows her blithe and gay;
So Mandricardo, in security
Of crushing Rodomont in that affray,
Gladly his courser seized,
bestrode
the seat,
Reined him, and in the stirrups fixt his feet.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Phaedra
What benefit do you hope for from this
violence?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
I sat and looked at him in awe,
For
certainly
I never saw
A thing so white and wavy.
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Lewis Carroll |
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"
Burst from the eyes of Antar a swift rain,--Gratitude's
glittering
drops,--as he threw
One shining arm round the smith, like a chain.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Now, she spoke again
"Certes, 'tis heavy
purchase
of a throne,
To pass the night here utterly alone.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Ballantyne, to whom the Poem is inscribed, was
generous
when the
distresses of his farming speculations pressed upon him: others of his
friends figure in the scene: Montgomery's courage, the learning of
Dugald Stewart, and condescension and kindness of Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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Appears
Suddenly
in their midst, wild, pale with rage,
Judas Bityagovsky.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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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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Oh the
trembling
fear!
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blake-poems |
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"
Began the rev'rend sage;
"Does thirst of wealth thy step constrain,
Or
youthful
pleasure's rage?
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Robert Forst |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian
courtesan
and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Ten polish'd chariots I possess'd at home,
And still they grace Lycaon's princely dome:
There veil'd in spacious coverlets they stand;
And twice ten
coursers
wait their lord's command.
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Iliad - Pope |
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"--"If I should stay,"
Said Lamia, "here, upon this floor of clay,
And pain my steps upon these flowers too rough,
What canst thou say or do of charm enough
To dull the nice
remembrance
of my home?
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Keats - Lamia |
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CHORUS
Aegisthus, for this
insolence
of thine
That vaunts itself in evil, take my scorn.
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Aeschylus |
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_
_Grant us your mantle, Greek;
grant us but one
to fright (as your eyes) with a sword,
men, craven and weak,
grant us but one to strike
one blow for you,
passionate
Greek.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Thus pains and
pleasures
turn by turn succeed:
He smarts at last who does not first take heed.
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Robert Herrick |
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HAS she as usual matters that demand
Attendance at the cloister to be
scanned?
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La Fontaine |
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Now confess,
Didst ever think my
daughter
would be a queen?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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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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though I love what others do abhor,
With others thou
shouldst
not abhor my state:
If thy unworthiness rais'd love in me,
More worthy I to be belov'd of thee.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Then thus
Telemachus
rebuked the deed.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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the lark starts up from his bed in the meadow there,
Breaking
the gossamer threads and the nets of dew,
And flashing adown the river, a flame of blue!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Despite the anguish of this sad affair,
When Chimene
Rodrigue
has secured
All my hopes are dead, my spirit cured.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Hier sass ich oft
gedankenvoll
allein
Und qualte mich mit Beten und mit Fasten.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Ever new
My after fame shall grow, while
pontiffs
climb
With silent maids the Capitolian height.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"No longer mourn thy
pilgrimage
below--
O Jacob!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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" And Dimitri
answered
"Here!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Thus we know,
That moisture is
dispersed
about in bits
Too small for eyes to see.
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Lucretius |
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VIII
Like
swelling
river waves that strain,
Onward the people crowd
In serried, billowing train.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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But how shul ye don in this sorwful cas,
How shal youre tendre herte this
sustene?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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[Note 78: This touching scene produced a lasting
impression
on
Pushkin's mind.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Lewis Carroll |
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_ almost the whole of the
fourth act), of which there is neither hint nor
suggestion
in the story.
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Byron |
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Now
blessings
on the man, whoe'er he be,
That joined your names with mine!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Pales,
bring gifts,
bring your
Phoenician
stuffs,
and do you, fleet-footed nymphs,
bring offerings,
Illyrian iris,
and a branch of shrub,
and frail-headed poppies.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Eufeniens his son gan calle,
And
tidynges
amonge hem alle
He tolde hym ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
retorted
my driver, ill-humouredly.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but O my soul is white!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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God sitting on his Throne sees Satan flying towards this world, then
newly created; shews him to the Son who sat at his right hand;
foretells the success of Satan in
perverting
mankind; clears his own
Justice and Wisdom from all imputation, having created Man free and able
enough to have withstood his Tempter; yet declares his purpose of grace
towards him, in regard he fell not of his own malice, as did Satan, but
by him seduc't.
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Milton |
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Why,
certainly
I do.
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Aristophanes |
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Silent he Urizeneye'd the Prince * {In the gap after this stanza, several
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Blake - Zoas |
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The Countess Anna
Fedorovna
was seated before her mirror in her
dressing-room.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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All other known examples are purely
instrumental
pieces.
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Troubador Verse |
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Contact the
Foundation
as set forth in Section 3 below.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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To portray a
Roman of the age of Camillus or Curius as superior to national
antipathies, as mourning over the devastation and slaughter by
which empire and triumphs were to be won, as looking on human
suffering with the sympathy of Howard, or as treating conquered
enemies with the
delicacy
of the Black Prince, would be to
violate all dramatic propriety.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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'T is not conferred by any,
But possible to earn
A
pittance
at a time,
Until, to her surprise,
The soul with strict economy
Subsists till Paradise.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
The God on half-shut
feathers
sank serene,
She breath'd upon his eyes, and swift was seen
Of both the guarded nymph near-smiling on the green.
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Keats |
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If I had a thousand sons,
the first humane
principle
I would teach them should be to
forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.
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Shakespeare |
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"They knew whose hand struck home the death,
They knew who broke but would not bend,
Could
venerate
an equal foe
And scorn a laggard friend.
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Christina Rossetti |
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