Baudelaire
ruined his health, smudged his
soul, yet remained withal, as Anatole France says, "a divine poet.
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Some bold gallant would p'erhaps inform her plain,
She ever kept wild Folly in her train,
And nothing say to me who tales relate;
But oft on reason such
proceedings
wait.
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But thou art not such
A lover, my
Beloved!
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Spain with cry of shame would ring,
If from honor
faithful
fell.
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) Your
eyelashes
are all wet, Sweet?
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Kipling - Poems |
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A little moth,
Late fatten'd in a piece of cloth;
With wither'd cherries, mandrakes' ears,
Moles' eyes: to these the slain stag's tears;
The
unctuous
dewlaps of a snail,
The broke-heart of a nightingale
O'ercome in music; with a wine
Ne'er ravish'd from the flattering vine,
But gently prest from the soft side
Of the most sweet and dainty bride,
Brought in a dainty daisy, which
He fully quaffs up, to bewitch
His blood to height; this done, commended
Grace by his priest; The feast is ended.
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The primrose I will pu', the
firstling
o' the year,
And I will pu' the pink, the emblem o' my dear;
For she's the pink o' womankind, and blooms without a peer,
And a' to be a Posie to my ain dear May.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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HYMN BEFORE SUN-RISE, IN THE
VALE OF CHAMOUNI
Besides the Rivers, Arve and Arveiron, which have their sources in the foot
of Mont Blanc, five conspicuous torrents rush down its sides; and within a
few paces of the Glaciers, the
Gentiana
Major grows in immense numbers,
with its "flowers of loveliest blue.
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Like
Socrates
or Antonine,
Or some auld pagan heathen,
The moral man he does define,
But ne'er a word o' faith in
That's right that day.
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) The Seventy-two Religions
supposed
to divide the World,
including Islamism, as some think: but others not.
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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His bonnet he,
A thought ajee,
Cock'd sprush when first he clasp'd me;
And I, I wat,
Wi'
fainness
grat,
While in his grips be press'd me.
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Robert Forst |
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Whoever wanders
somewhere
in the world
Wanders in vain in the world
Wanders to me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Et des lors je me suis baigne dans le poeme
De la mer, infuse d'astres et latescent,
Devorant
les azurs verts ou, flottaison bleme
Et ravie, un noye pensif parfois descend,
Ou, teignant tout a coup les bleuites, delires
Et rythmes lents sous les rutilements du jour,
Plus fortes que l'alcool, plus vastes que vos lyres,
Fermentent les rousseurs ameres de l'amour.
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All eyes were
instantly
turned upon the speaker.
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Yet these are they whose fathers had not been
Housed with my dogs, whom hip and thigh we smote
And with their blood washed their pollutions clean,
Purging the land which spewed them from its throat;
Their daughters took we for a
pleasant
prey, 50
Choice tender ones on whom the fathers doat.
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[To
enthusiastic
fits of admiration for the young and the beautiful,
such as Burns has expressed in this letter, he loved to give way:--we
owe some of his best songs to these sallies.
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Enter_ LOVELL
_and_ LADY ALLWORTH
_contracted
to one another.
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And fires, stackt hugely high with timber, shall
With nightlong blaze make
friendly
the dark and cold,
Cheer our bodies, and roast great feasts of flesh,--
Ah, to burn trunks of trees, not bracken and ling!
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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His
outspoken
language made him
many enemies, and disgraceful reports were purposely spread abroad
concerning him, which resulted in a duel in which he was mortally
wounded by his brother-in-law, George Danthes.
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To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day:
Down by the river of Adona her soft voice is heard;
And thus her gentle
lamentation
falls like morning dew.
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And fauns and fairies do the meadows till
More by their
presence
than their skill.
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Marvell - Poems |
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["The following lines from a correspondent-besides the deep, quaint
strain of the sentiment, and the curious introduction of some ludicrous
touches amidst the serious and impressive, as was doubtless
intended
by
the author-appears to us one of the most felicitous specimens of unique
rhyming which has for some time met our eye.
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"One of these days, O father of deities," cried she in triumph,
"I shall be
bringing
you my--Hercules, as if new born.
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Filhol is the name of the joglar (jongleur, or minstrel)
No sap chanter qui so no di
No one can sing where no melody is,
Or fashion verse with words unclear,
Or know how the rhymes should appear,
If his logic
inwardly
goes amiss;
But my own song begins like this:
My song gets better, the more you hear.
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Now, hearing from this woman's mouth of mine,
The tale and eke its warning, pray with me,
_Luck sway the scale, with no
uncertain
poise.
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Aeschylus |
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Gather the north flowers to
complete
the south,
And catch the early love up in the late.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Have you seen fruit under cover
that wanted light--
pears wadded in cloth,
protected
from the frost,
melons, almost ripe,
smothered in straw?
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Nearly all these are found
repeatedly in the
literature
of the period.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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In the history of
literature it is difficult to
parallel
such a deliberate piece of
self-stultification.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Of India's clime, the natives, and the laws,
What monarch sways them, what
religion
awes?
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er it lay on bere,
As sonne
schinede
bry?
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What would the world say
If one should slay the other, and if she _280
Should afterwards espouse the
murderer?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Behold how many a realm, array'd in green,
The Ganges' shore and Indus' bank
between!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But this I urge,
Admitting Motion in the Heav'ns, to shew
Invalid that which thee to doubt it mov'd;
Not that I so affirm, though so it seem
To thee who hast thy
dwelling
here on Earth.
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Milton |
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Just to the tale, as present at the fray,
Or taught the labours of the
dreadful
day:
The song recalls past horrors to my eyes,
And bids proud Ilion from her ashes rise.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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He had long been in mean circumstances and ill
concealed
his
sudden accession of wealth.
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Tacitus |
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Like
stricken
women weeping,
Eternal vigil keeping with slow and silent tread--
Soft-shod as are the fairies, the winds patrol the prairies,
The sentinels of God about the pale and patient dead!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
In a
beautiful
pea-green boat:
They took some honey, and plenty of money
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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King Marsilies in war is overturned,
His castles all in ruin have you hurled,
With catapults his ramparts have you burst,
Vanquished his men, and all his cities burned;
Him who entreats your pity do not spurn,
Sinners were they that would to war return;
With
hostages
his faith he would secure;
Let this great war no longer now endure.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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is recovering, and the
young
gentleman
doing well.
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Robert Forst |
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Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more;
I am not partial to
infringe
our laws.
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Shakespeare |
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Space may produce more Worlds, whereof so rife
There went a fame in Heaven that He ere long
Intended to create, and therein plant
A
generation
whom his choice regard
Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven.
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Take thy veil
From off thy face, Jewess, or thou
straight
goest
To entertain my soldiers.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A something in a summer's noon, --
An azure depth, a
wordless
tune,
Transcending ecstasy.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Who bade you
awake from your sleep
And track me beyond the
cerulean
foam of the
deep?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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XXIV
"The Greek shall come against thee,
The
conqueror
of the East.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Imagists |
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] for the
Philological
Society in 1863 for its Transactions, of 1858.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The seven young Fishes swam across the Lake Pipple-Popple, and into the
river, and into the ocean; where, most
unhappily
for them, they saw, on the
fifteenth day of their travels, a bright-blue Boss-Woss, and instantly swam
after him.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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But, O
pigtails
of Rome, still I'm entrammled in you.
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They were much
more
agreeable
objects, with their great broad-brimmed hats and
flowing dresses, than the men and boys.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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--
what brings you
bragging
now?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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These are their gifts,
And Time, who keeps God's word, brings on the day
To seal the marriage of these minds with thine,
Thine
everlasting
lovers.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme perfection depart those for whom life exists only to
discover
and glorify them?
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Appoloinaire |
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In the meantime a thought struck me, and I threw open
an
adjacent
window of the bridge, when the sad truth flashed upon me at
once.
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Poe - 5 |
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CROWNED
I WEAR a crown
invisible
and clear,
And go my lifted royal way apart
Since you have crowned me softly in your heart
With love that is half ardent, half austere;
And as a queen disguised might pass anear
The bitter crowd that barters in a mart,
Veiling her pride while tears of pity start,
I hide my glory thru a jealous fear.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Few names could evoke a wider
expression
of passing regret at their
appearance in the obituary column; for until his health began to fail he
was known to an immense and almost a cosmopolitan circle of acquaintance,
and popular wherever he was known.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He drove up to the market, he waited in the line;
His apples and potatoes were fresh and fair and fine;
But long and long he waited, and no one came to buy,
Save the black-eyed rebel,
watching
from the corner of her eye.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Thou art my love,
And thou art a strorm
That breaks black in the sky,
And, sweeping headlong,
Drenches
and cowers each tree,
And at the panting end
There is no sound
Save the melancholy cry of a single owl--
Woe is me!
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Stephen Crane |
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Wake: the vaulted shadow shatters,
Trampled
to the floor it spanned,
And the tent of night in tatters
Straws the sky-pavilioned land.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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ye,
With night, and clouds, and thunder, and a soul
To make these felt and feeling, well may be
Things that have made me watchful; the far roll
Of your
departing
voices, is the knoll
Of what in me is sleepless,--if I rest.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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At such an hour I heav'd the human sigh,
When roar'd the sullen Arve in anger by,
That not for thee,
delicious
vale!
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Stephen Crane |
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SCENT OF IRISES
A faint, sickening scent of irises
Persists
all morning.
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Imagists |
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But you said that when you wrote
You were staying for the night to the east of Shang-chou;
Sitting alone, lighted by a
solitary
candle
Lodging in the mountain hostel of Yang-Ch'?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I feel as
confused
by all you've said,
As if 'twere a mill-wheel going round in my head!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm,
And shadowy, through the mist of passed years:
For others, good or bad, hatred and tears
Have become indolent; but
touching
thine,
One sigh doth echo, one poor sob doth pine,
One kiss brings honey-dew from buried days.
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Keats |
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' 1130
And hoom they go, with-oute more speche;
And comen ayein, but longe may they seche
Er that they finde that they after cape;
Fortune hem bothe
thenketh
for to Iape.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
"Mainly on oyster-patties," said the Blue-Bottle-Fly; "and, when these are
scarce, on
raspberry
vinegar and Russian leather boiled down to a jelly.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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[Though
satisfied
with the severe satire of these lines, the poet made
a second attempt.
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Robert Burns |
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: Plants under water
sympathise
with the seasons
of the laud, and hence with the winds which affect them.
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Golden Treasury |
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Nay, these the things that make the world, The pick and spade, the ax, the mill, The
furrowed
field, the ploughman grim, The sons of God that work His will.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"
G said, "Green
Gooseberry
fool, the best of cures I hold.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And the still Valkyrie hover panting for
hallowed
souls.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But if, as I'm
informed
weel,
Ye hate as ill's the very deil
The flinty heart that canna feel--
Come, sir, here's to you!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The
instrument
of sadnesses, yes, certainly: the piano flashes, the violin gives off light from its torn fibres, but the street organ in memory's half-light made me dream despairingly.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"
Ah Dica, it is not for thee I go;
And not for Phaon, tho' his ship lifts sail
Here in the
windless
harbor for the south.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And but little thought was theirs of the silent antique years,
In the
building
of their nest.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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God harden me against myself,
This coward with pathetic voice
Who craves for ease and rest and joys:
Myself, arch-traitor to myself;
My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe,
My clog
whatever
road I go.
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Christina Rossetti |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Land of Vermont and
Connecticut!
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Whitman |
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