Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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He never varies the tale in the telling, and grows
very hot and indignant when he thinks of the
disrespectful
treatment
he received.
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Kipling - Poems |
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At this the
Ithacan with loud clamour drags Calchas the
soothsayer
forth amidst
them, and demands of him what is this the gods signify.
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such as creation of derivative works, reports,
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and
research.
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Sara Teasdale |
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_Shot_, one
traverse
of the shuttle from side to side of the web.
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Robert Burns |
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When my eyes are closed
Faces fragile, pale, yet flushed a little, like petals of roses :
If these things have confused my memories of her So that I could not draw her face
Even if I had skill and the colours,
Yet because her face is so like these things
They but draw me nearer unto her in my thought
And
thoughts
of her come upon my mind gently, As dew upon the petals of roses.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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L aurel, so sweet, for my cause now fighting,
O live, so noble,
removing
all bitter foliage,
R eason does not wish me unused to owing,
E ven as I'm to agree with this wish, forever,
Duty to you, but rather grow used to serving:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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IN THE
CHURCHYARD
AT TARRYTOWN
Here lies the gentle humorist, who died
In the bright Indian Summer of his fame!
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Longfellow |
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From the cave of my
ignorance, amid the fogs of my dulness, and
pestilential
fumes of my
political heresies, I look up to thee, as doth a toad through the
iron-barred lucerne of a pestiferous dungeon, to the cloudless glory
of a summer sun!
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Robert Forst |
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" The north of China was in the hands of
the
Tungusie
Tartars, who founded the Northern Wei dynasty--a name
particularly familiar, since it is the habit of European collectors to
attribute to this dynasty any sculpture which they believe to be earlier
than T'ang.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Sell no honours, nor give them hastily, but bestow them with
counsel and for reward; if he do,
acknowledge
it (though late), and mend
it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring?
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blake-poems |
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And yet give I him respite,
A
twelvemonth
and a day;
Now haste and let see tite (soon)
Dare any here-in ought say.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And Betty's most
especial
charge,
Was, "Johnny!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Moving my spirit past the last defence
That
shieldeth
mortal things from mightier sight, Where freedom of the soul knows no alloy,
I saw what forms the lordly powers employ; Three splendours, saw I, of high holiness, From clarity to clarity ascending
Through all the roofless, tacit courts extending In aether which such subtle light doth bless
As ne'er the candles of the stars hath wooed; Know ye herefrom of their similitude.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"_
[Footnote 1: The
Cathedral
Notre Dame of Paris, which is the scene of the
author's romance, "Notre Dame.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The bo's'n whispers
Hoarsely behind his hand: 'Now, all
together!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The Agamemnonian story was
exhibited on the
Athenian
theatre with as many variations as dramas.
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Shelley |
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"
No
wrinkled
crones were they, as I had deemed,
But fair as yesterday, to-day, to-morrow,
To mourner, lover, poet, ever seemed;
Something too high for joy, too deep for sorrow,
Thrilled in their tones, and from their faces gleamed.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Also the blossoms on grapevines are wanting in shape and in color,
Although
the fruit when it's ripe pleases both mankind and gods.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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Ronsard |
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Then, when the towns subject to you saw that you were angered one
against the other and were showing each other your teeth like dogs, they
hatched a
thousand
plots to pay you no more dues and gained over the
chief citizens of Sparta at the price of gold.
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Aristophanes |
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you too I heard
murmuring
low through one of the
wrists around my head,
Heard the pulse of you when all was still ringing little bells last
night under my ear.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Many a goodly court my presence knows,
Yet in her there's more that does impress,
Measure and wit and other virtue glows
Beauty, youth, good manners, actions stir,
Of
courtesy
she has well-learnt her share
Of all displeasing things I find her free
I think no good thing lacking anyway.
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Troubador Verse |
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"I am your lord; through many a
sufferance
tried
Arrived now here, whom twenty years have held
Forth from my home.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Beloved,
Tho' sorrow, futility, defeat
Surround
us,
They cannot bear us down.
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Sara Teasdale |
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For all that's left of winter
Is
moisture
in the ground.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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gratefully
accepts contributions of money, time,
public domain materials, or royalty free copyright licenses.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The more I have to thank the poet for the
substance
and tone of his
letters, and some particular expressions in them, the more does it become
incumbent upon me to guard against any misapprehension.
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Whitman |
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But art thou one, whom new
opinions
sway,
One who believes as Tindal leads the way,
Who virtue and a church alike disowns,
Thinks that but words, and this but brick and stones?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The mighty Mahmud, the victorious Lord,
That all the
misbelieving
and black Horde
Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul
Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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'T was a long parting, but the time
For interview had come;
Before the judgment-seat of God,
The last and second time
These
fleshless
lovers met,
A heaven in a gaze,
A heaven of heavens, the privilege
Of one another's eyes.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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He's cured the king, here he's king, abides,
And priest of the
quintessential
holy Treasure.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Too well thou knowest the
presence
of that man
Is hateful to me!
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Longfellow |
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Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig
Zeche
lustiger
Gesellen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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O my sons, my sons,
I, Simeon of the pillar, by surname Stylites, among men;
I, Simeon, The watcher on the column till the end;
I, Simeon, whose brain the sunshine bakes;
I, whose bald brows in silent hours become
Unnaturally hoar with rime, do now
From my high nest of penance here proclaim
That Pontius and
Iscariot
by my side
Show'd like fair seraphs.
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Tennyson |
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If not, then woe
To the
miscreant!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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These men err not by chance, but
knowingly and willingly; they are like men that affect a fashion by
themselves; have some singularity in a ruff cloak, or hat-band; or their
beards
specially
cut to provoke beholders, and set a mark upon
themselves.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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55
In white and glowing blossomy undulation 57
Stars ascend up there 58
Par from the harbour's noise 59
My child came home 60
Love calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
61
Behold the crossways 62
Windows where I gazed with you 63
Whene'er I stand upon your bridge 64
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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He did not wring his hands nor weep,
Nor did he peek or pine,
But he drank the air as though it held
Some
healthful
anodyne;
With open mouth he drank the sun
As though it had been wine!
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Wilde - Poems |
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' The Jews are at this
day remarkably
tenacious
of their religion.
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Shelley |
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I
entrusted
him to you at a tender age.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"--
All this, my friends,
translate
aright:
"I with my friend intend to fight!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Benignant stars their bright companionship
Gave to the fortunate side
When came that fair birth on our nether world,
Its sole star since, who, as the laurel leaf,
The worth of honour fresh and fragrant keeps,
Where lightnings play not, nor
ungrateful
winds
Ever o'ersway its head.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Lavish, lavish promiser,
Nigh
persuading
gods to err!
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Emerson - Poems |
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Long-absent Harold reappears at last;
He of the breast which fain no more would feel,
Wrung with the wounds which kill not, but ne'er heal;
Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him
In soul and aspect as in age: years steal
Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb;
And life's
enchanted
cup but sparkles near the brim.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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pulcre
conuenit
improbis cinaedis.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The Foundation is
committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Imagists |
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She returned to Hyderabad in September 1898, and in
the
December
of that year, to the scandal of all India, broke
through the bonds of caste, and married Dr.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It felt that, in spite of all
possible
pains,
It had somehow contrived to lose count,
And the only thing now was to rack its poor brains
By reckoning up the amount.
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Lewis Carroll |
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He talked, and talked, and
talked in a low dry whisper to himself, and there was no
stopping
him.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Or on still
evenings
when the rain falls close There comes a tremor in the drops, and fast
My pulses run, knowing thy thought hath passed That beareth thee as doth the wind a rose.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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En cest sonnet coind'e leri
To this light tune, graceful and slender,
I set words, and shape and plane them,
So they'll be both true and sure,
With a little touch, and the file's care;
For Amor gilds and smoothes the flow
Of my song she alone inspires,
Who
nurtures
worth and is my guide.
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Troubador Verse |
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Lay thy bow of pearl apart
And thy crystal-shining quiver;
Give unto the flying hart
Space to breathe, how short soever;
Thou that mak'st a day of night,
Goddess
excellently
bright.
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Golden Treasury |
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The fac-simile given in the present volume is from one of
the earlier
transition
periods.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Who hath the power
At once to roll a multitude of skies,
At once to heat with fires ethereal all
The fruitful lands of multitudes of worlds,
To be at all times in all places near,
To stablish darkness by his clouds, to shake
The serene spaces of the sky with sound,
And hurl his lightnings,--ha, and whelm how oft
In ruins his own temples, and to rave,
Retiring to the wildernesses, there
At practice with that thunderbolt of his,
Which yet how often shoots the guilty by,
And slays the
honourable
blameless ones!
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Lucretius |
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"
They beheld him--their Baker--their hero unnamed--
On the top of a
neighbouring
crag,
Erect and sublime, for one moment of time.
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Lewis Carroll |
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O that she would take my vows,
And breathe them sighingly among the boughs,
To sue her gentle ears for whose fair head,
Daily, I pluck sweet
flowerets
from their bed,
And weave them dyingly--send honey-whispers
Round every leaf, that all those gentle lispers
May sigh my love unto her pitying!
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Keats |
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'
The
Litanies
referred to in Donne's letter to Goodyere may be read in
Migne's _Patrologia Latina_, vol.
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John Donne |
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The page image should be consulted LFS}
PAGE 7 Examining the sins of Tharmas I have soon found my own
O slay me not thou art his Wrath
embodied
in Deceit
I thought Tharmas a Sinner & I murderd his Emanations *
His secret loves & Graces Ah me wretched What have I done *
For now I find that all those Emanations were my Childrens Souls *
And I have murderd them with Cruelty above atonement *
Those that remain have fled from my cruelty into the desarts
Singing with both to ownAnd thou the delusive tempter to these deeds sittest before me *
(illegible)But where is (illegible) Tharmas all thy soft delusive beauty cannot
Tempt me to murder honest lovemy own soul & wipe my tears & smile
In this thy world for ah!
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Blake - Zoas |
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And Trouble, knocking at my window-pane
And at my closet door, shall knock in vain;
I will not heed him with his stealthy tread,
Nor from my reverie uplift my head;
For I will plunge deep in the pleasure still
Of
summoning
the spring-time with my will,
Drawing the sun out of my heart, and there
With burning thoughts making a summer air.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Ah, but now
We are not
swimmers
in this dangerous life.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Note: The
Scythians
at the extreme end of the Empire in Roman times were regarded as living barbaric lives (See Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto).
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Ronsard |
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Troy commends to thee her holy things and household
gods; take them to
accompany
thy fate; seek for them a city, which,
after all the seas have known thy wanderings, thou shalt at last
establish in [296-327]might.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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For those ashamed of him Cupid reserves the bitterest passions,
Mingling for
hypocrites
their pleasure in vice and remorse.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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'
Whereat the armourer turning all amazed
And seeing one so gay in purple silks,
Came forward with the helmet yet in hand
And answered, 'Pardon me, O stranger knight;
We hold a tourney here
tomorrow
morn,
And there is scantly time for half the work.
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Tennyson |
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The
Immediate
Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The fire within the heart so burns us up
That we would wander Hell and Heaven through,
Deep in the Unknown seeking
something
_new_!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Imagists |
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Me there emerging, the huge waves had dash'd
Full on the land, where, incommodious most,
The shore presented only
roughest
rocks,
But, leaving it, I swam the Deep again,
Till now, at last, a river's gentle stream
Receiv'd me, by no rocks deform'd, and where
No violent winds the shelter'd bank annoy'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my
brothers
more?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Wythe passent[67] steppe the lyonn mov'th alonge;
Wyllyamm hys ironne-woven bowe hee bendes,
Wythe myghte alyche the roghlynge[68]
thonderr
stronge;
The lyonn ynn a roare hys spryte foorthe sendes.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
Zourine
directly
settled matters.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The laughing ripple shoreward flew
To kiss the shining pebbles--
Loud shrieked the crowding Boys in Blue
Defiance
to the Rebels.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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How many
flutterings
before they
rest quietly in their graves!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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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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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Juno is the emblem of riches and dignities;
Minerva, that of the
sciences
purely human; Venus is that of religion,
which contains the sciences both human and divine; the charming female,
which she promises to the Trojan shepherd, is that divine wisdom which
gives tranquillity of heart.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But suddenly some kindling shock
Struck flashing through the wire: a bird,
Poised on it,
screamed
and flew; the flock
Rose with him; wheeled and whirred.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Nevylle, a baronne, bee yatte[76]
honnoure
thyne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"Thou first be witness,
hospitable
Jove!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Funeral
Libation
(At Gautier's Tomb)
To you, gone emblem of our happiness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Again, the forward power
Of scent in dogs doth lead the hunter on
Whithersoever the splay-foot of wild beast
Hath hastened its career; and the white goose,
The saviour of the Roman citadel,
Forescents
afar the odour of mankind.
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Lucretius |
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To-day
criticisms
of Poe are vitiated by the
desire to make him an angel.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Have you not heard, that even jetting water
May have such
spouting
force, that it becomes
A rod of glittering white iron, and swords
Will beat rebounding on its speed in vain?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Tony being ordered
to attend them on horseback, hits on an expedient which he does not
reveal, but
contents
himself with bidding Hastings meet him two hours
hence in the garden.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And when I answer you, some days
Vaguely and wildly, do not fear
That my love walks
forbidden
ways,
Breaking the ties that hold it here.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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LXV
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad
mortality
o'ersways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Finally the 'Essay on Man' is of
interest
in what it tells us of Pope
himself.
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Alexander Pope |
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And will cat throats again, if he be paid ;
In the Irish
shambles
he first learned the trade.
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Marvell - Poems |
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That done, he lets me go,
And with his head over his
shoulder
turn'd
He seem'd to find his way without his eyes,
For out o' doors he went without their help
And to the last bended their light on me.
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Shakespeare |
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ETEOCLES
Clansmen of Cadmus, at the signal given
By time and season must the ruler speak
Who sets the course and steers the ship of State
With hand upon the tiller, and with eye
Watchful against the
treachery
of sleep.
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Aeschylus |
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** In ail the trials he set himself,
even with
indecent
earnestness, to get the prisoners to be
always cast"
t One of the same principles with Scroggs.
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Marvell - Poems |
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In the faint
fragrance
of flowers,
On the sweet draft of the sea-wind,
Linger strange hints now that loosen
Tears for thy gay gentle spirit,
O Lityerses!
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Sappho |
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XVIII
Then with his waving wings displayed wyde,
Himselfe up high he lifted from the ground, 155
And with strong flight did forcibly divide
The yielding aire, which nigh too feeble found
Her
flitting
parts,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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