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But worse still: that he may bear down every argument in
favor of these poems, he
triumphantly
drags forward a passage, in his
abomination with which he expects the reader to sympathize.
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Poe - 5 |
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(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I remember it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A charlatan of twilight formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having unhooked a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf observes with saddened pose
How Harlequin magically grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where
Melancholy
sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the midnight will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
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Appoloinaire |
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My soul, which bears but ill such
dazzling
light,
Says with a sigh: "O blessed day!
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Petrarch |
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I taught him to
recognise
stones
beyond angels with a few strokes of a rod.
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Yeats |
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They took a plough and plough'd him down,
Put clods upon his head,
And they hae sworn a solemn oath
John
Barleycorn
was dead.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Leoite, parentes, vanissime
horainum
ordo,
Figuli fllioruin, substructores hominum,
Fartores opum, longi speratores^
£t nostro, si fas, sapite infortunio.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The thing that made me more and more afraid
Was that we'd ground it sharp and hadn't known,
And now were only wasting
precious
blade.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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For who defends our leafy tabernacle
From bold intrusion of the travelling crowd,--
Who but the midge, mosquito and the fly,
Which past
endurance
sting the tender cit,
But which we learn to scatter with a smudge,
Or baffle by a veil, or slight by scorn?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Just then, as through one
cloudless
chink in a black stormy
sky
Shines out the dewy morning-star, a fair young girl came by.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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To what further rigorous pruning her verses would have been
subjected had she
published
them herself, we cannot know.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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It was made from the shell of a tortoise, stuck round with leather, with two horns and a
sounding
board and strings made from sheep's gut.
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Appoloinaire |
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'tis the first, 'tis
flattery
in my seeing,
And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:
Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,
And to his palate doth prepare the cup:
If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
IX
On moonlit heath and
lonesome
bank
The sheep beside me graze;
And yon the gallows used to clank
Fast by the four cross ways.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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, etiam R, quamuis _{d_} post
inlatum sit || _uir_ T
29
_uinxere_
O
30 _a_ om.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The seruice, and the
loyaltie
I owe,
In doing it, payes it selfe.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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They
entered Rome without having had a single
skirmish
with the enemy.
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Petrarch |
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Not that the deep fundamental
note of humanity is ever absent in his poems; the eternal
diapason
is
there even when least overheard.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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this strange man has left me
Troubled
with wilder fancies, than the moon
Breeds in the love-sick maid who gazes at it,
Till lost in inward vision, with wet eye
She gazes idly!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Your golden hair
strewed the sweet
whiteness
of the pillows
and the counterpane.
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Imagists |
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Here shall you trace in flowing operation,
In every state of practical, busy movement, the rills of civilization,
Materials here under your eye shall change their shape as if by magic,
The cotton shall be pick'd almost in the very field,
Shall be dried, clean'd, ginn'd, baled, spun into thread and cloth
before you,
You shall see hands at work at all the old processes and all the new ones,
You shall see the various grains and how flour is made and then
bread baked by the bakers,
You shall see the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and
on till they become bullion,
You shall watch how the printer sets type, and learn what a
composing-stick is,
You shall mark in amazement the Hoe press
whirling
its cylinders,
shedding the printed leaves steady and fast,
The photograph, model, watch, pin, nail, shall be created before you.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Here, where the dames of Rome their gilded hair
Waved to the wind, now wave the reed and
thistle!
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Poe - 5 |
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Pythagoras
Free-thinker, Man, do you think you alone
Think, while life
explodes
everywhere?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Lawrence and Amy Lowell
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
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Imagists |
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It is only that can
naturalise
him.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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IV
The diver at Sorrento from beneath
The vitreous indigo, who swiftly riseth,
By will and not by action as it seemeth,
Moves not more smoothly, and no thought sur-
miseth
How she takes motion from the
lustrous
sheath
Which, as the trace behind the swimmer, gleameth Yet presseth back the aether where it streameth.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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" It was no palace-hall
Lofty and
luminous
wherein we stood,
But natural dungeon where ill footing was
And scant supply of light.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Lo Navarrese ben suo tempo colse;
fermo le piante a terra, e in un punto
salto e dal
proposto
lor si sciolse.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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285_) in the earth with its
mountains
and
hollows, and (_l.
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John Donne |
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"Therewithal
Silvanus came, with rural honours crowned;
The
flowering
fennels and tall lilies shook
Before him.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
Then Goody, who had nothing said,
Her bundle from her lap let fall;
And,
kneeling
on the sticks, she prayed 95
To God that is the judge of all.
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William Wordsworth |
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As under cover of
departing
Day
Slunk hunger-stricken Ramazan away,
Once more within the Potter's house alone
I stood, surrounded by the Shapes of Clay.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Our pace took sudden awe,
Our feet
reluctant
led.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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VII
Enkindled
by my votive work
No burning faith I find;
The deeper thinkers sneer and smirk,
And give my toil no mind;
From nod and wink
I read they think
That I am fool and blind.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Besides, we observe ten vessels
Of our old enemies,
flaunting
their banners;
They have dared to approach the river-course.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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She speaks without
observing
the_
PEASANT'S _presence_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The rain, it rains not every day
On the soak'd meads; the Caspian main
Not always feels the unequal sway
Of storms, nor on Armenia's plain,
Dear Valgius, lies the cold dull snow
Through all the year; nor northwinds keen
Upon Garganian
oakwoods
blow,
And strip the ashes of their green.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Has that sweet sister of the cruel Pallantides
Ever been involved in her brothers'
perfidies?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The
stillness
round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Mysteriously
glowing through a background dim
When he was suffering she came to him,
And all the heavy pain within his heart
Rose in his hands and stole into his art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And if as a lad grows older
The
troubles
he bears are more,
He carries his griefs on a shoulder
That handselled them long before.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I promise clemency; I will not punish
With vain
disgrace
a lie that's past.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
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Appoloinaire |
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Idomeneosne
petam montes?
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Latin - Catullus |
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For you sae douce, ye sneer at this,
Ye're nought but
senseless
asses, O:
The wisest man the warl' e'er saw,
He dearly lov'd the lasses, O.
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Robert Forst |
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Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"The slighted maids my
torments
see,
And laugh at a' the pangs I dree;
While she, my cruel, scornful Fair,
Forbids me e'er to see her mair.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The Portuguese prince even visited the
Kingdoms
of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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But the words have scarce been spoken, when the ominous
calm is broken,
And a bellowing crash has emptied all the
vengeance
of the storm!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
Thus
continued
Hiawatha,
And then added, speaking slowly,
"That this peace may last forever,
And our hands be clasped more closely,
And our hearts be more united,
Give me as my wife this maiden,
Minnehaha, Laughing Water,
Loveliest of Dacotah women!
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Longfellow |
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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A prison
Enter
POSTHUMUS
and two GAOLERS
FIRST GAOLER.
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Shakespeare |
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My dear friend, this god has made
life
unbearable
to me through ceasing to be blind.
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Aristophanes |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I was alone, alone, alone
With the
mountains
and the sky.
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Tennyson |
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LFS}
Rising upon his Couch of Death Albion beheld his Sons
Turning his
Eyesoutward
to Self.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Heap high the logs, and melt the cold,
Good Thaliarch; draw the wine we ask,
That
mellower
vintage, four-year-old,
From out the cellar'd Sabine cask.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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We would prefer to send you
information
by email.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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For so it needs must be,
Thou shalt at once be
introduced
by me.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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* You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Then Aegle, fairest of the Naiad-band,
Aegle came up to the half-frightened boys,
Came, and, as now with open eyes he lay,
With juice of blood-red
mulberries
smeared him o'er,
Both brow and temples.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Those times: the times when I was quite alone
By memories wrapt that
whispered
to me low,
My silence was the quiet of a stone
Over which rippling murmuring waters flow.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Come, we'll abroad: and let's obey
The
proclamation
made for May:
And sin no more, as we have done, by staying;
But, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.
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Robert Herrick |
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The living fires come flashing from her eyes,
And screams of horror rend th'
affrighted
skies.
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Alexander Pope |
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He bends his head to bless, as dreams come true,
The promise of that grave;
Then, with a vaster hope than thought can scan,
Touching his ancient sword,
Prays for that
mightier
realm of God in man:
"Hasten thy kingdom, Lord.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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or the quick dying gasps
Of the life meeting, when the faint eyes swim
Through tears of a wide mist
boundless
and dim,
In one caress?
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Shelley |
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Ton regard,
infernal
et divin,
Verse confusement le bienfait et le crime,
Et l'on peut pour cela te comparer au vin.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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816 the poet Po
Chu-i wrote as follows (he is discussing Tu Fu as well as Li Po): "The
world
acclaims
Li Po as its master poet.
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Li Po |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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TO HIS KINSWOMAN,
MISTRESS
SUSANNA HERRICK
When I consider, dearest, thou dost stay
But here awhile, to languish and decay;
Like to these garden glories, which here be
The flowery-sweet resemblances of thee:
With grief of heart, methinks, I thus do cry,
Would thou hadst ne'er been born, or might'st not die!
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Robert Herrick |
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whose far-resounding fame
Is bounded only by the starry frame,
Consummate pattern of
imperial
sway,
Whose pious rule a warlike race obey!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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There's
_Ingines_
?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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left thus deformed
And
monstrous
to your eyes.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Dodsley lay low and said nothing, and so the
incident
closed.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And he spake words of
reproach
to the
company of suitors.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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A
newspaper
is a market
Where wisdom sells its freedom
And melons are crowned by the crowd.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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I will lead thee
into the midst of Erech of the wide places,
even unto the holy house,
dwelling
place of Anu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Yea, and my heart
It was, my heart in its hiding of green love,
That took so wildly the
approaching
sound
Of something strangely fearful walking near.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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My honour's mute, my duty
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Then with a slow incline of his broad breast,
Like to a diver in the pearly seas,
Forward he stoop'd over the airy shore,
And plung'd all
noiseless
into the deep night.
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Keats |
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O but you've had such
practice
in being caught,
You'll break away quite easily when you want.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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O
Liberty!
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Whitman |
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But now to find thee were
Herculean
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Thinking
of this, my voice chokes and I ask of Heaven above,
Was I spared from death only to spend the rest of my years in
sorrow?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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How shall I link such sun-cast symmetry
With the torn
troubled
form I know as thine,
That profile, placid as a brow divine,
With continents of moil and misery?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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THE LITTLE BOY FOUND
The little boy lost in the lonely fen,
Led by the wandering light,
Began to cry, but God, ever nigh,
Appeared
like his father, in white.
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blake-poems |
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Am I
deceived
once more,
Or is this my last hope I stand before?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Hearken to each war-vulture
Crying, "Down with all culture
Of land or
religion!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Indeed your earthly beacons of the night,
The hanging lampions and the torches, bright
With darting gleams and dense with livid soot,
Do hurry in like manner to supply
With ministering heat new light amain;
Are all alive to quiver with their fires,--
Are so alive, that thus the light ne'er leaves
The spots it shines on, as if rent in twain:
So
speedily
is its destruction veiled
By the swift birth of flame from all the fires.
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Lucretius |
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Some are already sent to
overtake
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Never in our hands
Shall the
avenging
sword be stayed
Till you are healed of all your pain,
And come with Honour to your own again.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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even years after the official
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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