Fragment On Sensibility
Rusticity's
ungainly
form
May cloud the highest mind;
But when the heart is nobly warm,
The good excuse will find.
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Et cependant voila des siecles innombrables
Que vous vous combattez sans pitie ni remord,
Tellement vous aimez le carnage et la mort,
O
lutteurs
eternels, o freres implacables!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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'457'
This was
especially
true in Pope's day when literature was so closely
connected with politics that an author's work was praised or blamed not
upon its merits, but according to his, and the critic's, politics.
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Sweet moans,
dovelike
sighs,
Chase not slumber from thine eyes!
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blake-poems |
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Thou may'st restore
The son in safety to his native shore;
While the fell foes, who late in ambush lay,
With fraud
defeated
measure back their way.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one, promises
nothing, sits in calmness and light, is
positive
and composed, and knows no
discouragement.
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Whitman |
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O
beautiful
star with the crimson mouth!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I dare say I have
scarcely
touched upon the secret of Mr.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
[9] The fragments which have been assigned to Book II in the British
Museum collections by Haupt, Jensen, Dhorme and others belong to
later tablets,
probably
III or IV.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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IV
Telles vous cheminez, stoiques et sans plaintes,
A travers le chaos des vivantes cites,
Meres au coeur saignant,
courtisanes
ou saintes,
Dont autrefois les noms par tous etaient cites.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Therein the Patient
Must
minister
to himselfe
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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We grow cold,
Grow weary and
oppressed!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The
blessing
this a father gives his child!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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She is God's bribery to man
That he the world endure,
His wage for
carrying
the weight of being.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"The most powerful, the most finely
imaginative
Ihe most powerful" (l, e.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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and over happy, had but the keels of
Dardania
never
touched our shores!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Your
trumpets
sound, as many as ye bear!
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Chanson de Roland |
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If I had
encouraged
him the khansamah would have wandered all through
Bengal with his corpse.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
CXIX
Swift through the field Turpin the
Archbishop
passed;
Such shaven-crown has never else sung Mass
Who with his limbs such prowess might compass;
To th'pagan said "God send thee all that's bad!
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Chanson de Roland |
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What effect
is
produced
in xxx and how?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But
trusteth
wel, I swere it yow,
That it is clene out of his thought.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In either case
the origin of true
government
as of true religion was love.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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He bowed with grace to natural law,
And then went round it on his feet,
After the manner of our stock;
Not much concerned for those to whom,
At that
particular
time o'clock,
It must have looked as if the course
He steered was really straight away
From that which he was headed for--
Not much concerned for them, I say;
No more so than became a man--
_And_ politician at odd seasons.
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Robert Forst |
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"Nor is it every apple I desire,
Nor that which pleases every palate best;
'Tis not the lasting Deuxan I require,
Nor yet the red-cheeked
Greening
I request,
Nor that which first beshrewed the name of wife,
Nor that whose beauty caused the golden strife:
No, no!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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understands
ealdhlāford
to mean the former possessor
of the hoard.
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Beowulf |
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This is the alchemical fusion of male and female
principles
which produces gold, a process sacred to Hermes Trismegistos.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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A different matter troubles and
consumes
me!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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You ask again, do the healing days close up
The open darkness which then drew us in,
The dark that
swallows
all, and nought throws up.
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Imagists |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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complete
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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227,
considers
the termination of "Paradise Lost" somewhat similar.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Then glowed my cloud, and broke and
unveiled
thee.
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Sidney Lanier |
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"Prisoned on watery shore,
Starry
jealousy
does keep my den
Cold and hoar;
Weeping o're,
I hear the father of the ancient men.
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blake-poems |
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Oh, sharper tangs pierced through this
perfumed
May.
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Sidney Lanier |
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He that loves a rosy cheek
Or a coral lip admires,
Or from star-like eyes doth seek
Fuel to
maintain
his fires;
As old Time makes these decay,
So his flames must waste away.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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He foresaw how the brave Roman nation,
Impatient of the
blandishments
of pleasure
Once sated with vain amusements' measure,
Would turn to civil war as a distraction.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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MY LADY,
The honour you have done your poor poet, in writing him so very
obliging a letter, and the pleasure the enclosed beautiful verses have
given him, came very
seasonably
to his aid, amid the cheerless gloom
and sinking despondency of diseased nerves and December weather.
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Robert Burns |
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What potent charm
Has drawn thee from thy German farm
Into the old
Alsatian
city?
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Longfellow |
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Driftwood
My
forefathers
gave me
My spirit's shaken flame,
The shape of hands, the beat of heart,
The letters of my name.
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Sara Teasdale |
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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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Our
Emperour
has sent you here this brief.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Papa he said, "Oh,
dreadful
man!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Ed elli a me: <
di lor
tormento
a terra li rannicchia,
si che ' miei occhi pria n'ebber tencione.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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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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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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ca, which was
imported
into Athens in large
quantities after the conclusion of a treaty of navigation, which Cleon
made with this country.
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Aristophanes |
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There are two guests at table now;
The king, deposed and older grown,
No longer
occupies
the throne,--
The crown is on his sister's brow;
A Princess from the Fairy Isles,
The very pattern girl of girls.
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Longfellow |
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{17a} That is, these two Danes,
escaping
home, had told the story of
the attack on Hnaef, the slaying of Hengest, and all the Danish
woes.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Darkly he moved on,
A hideous spectre hesitating, white,
And ever as he went, a drop of blood
Implacably
from the darkness broke away
And stained that awful whiteness.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Or ache with tremendous
decisions?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And not for all our questioning 10
Shall we
discover
more than joy,
Nor find a better thing than love!
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Sappho |
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--
Should that morn come, and show thy opened eyes
All that Life's
palpitating
tissues feel,
How wilt thou bear thyself in thy surprise?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The first a native of Apollonia, a natural philosopher; and the beginning of his treatise on Natural Philosophy is as follows: "It appears to me to be well for every one who
commences
any kind of philosophical treatise, to lay down some undeniable principle to start with.
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writes |
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What principle is best to begin with? |
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According to the passage, the principle that is best to begin with in a philosophical treatise is an undeniable principle, as stated by the first Diogenes who was a natural philosopher from Apollonia. |
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Diogenes Laertius |
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75
Oft maie the moone, yn sylverr sheenynge lyghte,
Inne varied
chaunges
varyed blessynges shedde,
Besprengeynge far abrode mischaunces nyghte;
And thou, fayre Birtha!
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shimmering |
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How does Birtha resemble the moon? |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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If there are any who will work with me
In
building
up our country's power and fame,
On equal laws for rich and poor alike,
I shall be pleased to meet them in this room
In two hours' time.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The seeds of
instinct are
preserved
under the thick hides of cattle and horses,
like seeds in the bowels of the earth, an indefinite period.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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We watched the ghostly dancers spin
To sound of horn and violin,
Like black leaves
wheeling
in the wind.
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Wilde - Poems |
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This mighty
consummation
made, the host
Mov'd on for many a league; and gain'd, and lost
Huge sea-marks; vanward swelling in array,
And from the rear diminishing away,--
Till a faint dawn surpris'd them.
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Keats |
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Lady Gregory has written of the people of the
markets and
villages
of the West, and their speech, though less full of
peculiar idiom than that of Mr.
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Yeats |
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" shrieked Enid,
thinking
of the prince's wound and loss of
blood, "do not kill a dead man!
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Tennyson |
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To Beowulf gave the bairn of Healfdene
a gold-wove banner, guerdon of triumph,
broidered battle-flag,
breastplate
and helmet;
and a splendid sword was seen of many
borne to the brave one.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Requests
consolation
CCXCIII.
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Robert Forst |
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This habit it was that brought about perhaps the gravest charge
that has ever been made against Pope, that of
accepting
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Alexander Pope |
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"
To these native
strictures
very little need be added.
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Li Po |
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Fell the rain,
And to the fosses came all that the land
Contain'd not; and, as
mightiest
streams are wont,
To the great river with such headlong sweep
Rush'd, that nought stay'd its course.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
A little space we were remov'd from thence,
When I perceiv'd the
mountain
hollow'd out.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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My punctuation will not probably in the
end quite satisfy either the
Elizabethan
purist, or the critic who
would have preferred a modernized text.
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John Donne |
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It 's far, far treasure to surmise,
And
estimate
the pearl
That slipped my simple fingers through
While just a girl at school!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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What have we to do
With Kaikobad the Great, or
Kaikhosru?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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To yonder spheres I dare no more aspire,
Whence the sweet tidings downward float;
And yet, from
childhood
heard, the old, familiar note
Calls back e'en now to life my warm desire.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A
MANSERVANT
_in his house_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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],
Page 14
And of alle wicked
sarasynes!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
She ceas'd--and buried then her burning cheek
Abash'd, amid the lilies there, to seek
A shelter from the fervour of His eye;
For the stars
trembled
at the Deity.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Profitless
usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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_Visions
of the Evening.
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Imagists |
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"Tell him night
finished
before we finished,
And the old clock kept neighing 'day!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And George's
blue plume has
disappeared!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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--
The rose was plucked when dusk was dim
Beside a
laughing
boy.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The saddle, the gallop, the pressure upon the seat, the cool
gurgling
by the ears and hair.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But if you had a little real love,
A little strength,
You would leave your
nonchalant
idle lovers
And go walking down the white road
Behind the waggoners.
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Imagists |
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No way could he take
to avenge on the slayer slaughter so foul;
nor e'en could he harass that hero at all
with
loathing
deed, though he loved him not.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Knows he who tills this lonely field
To reap its scanty corn,
What mystic fruit his acres yield
At
midnight
and at morn?
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Emerson - Poems |
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--
But it was out of that dread August night
From which all Europe woke to war, that we,
This
beautiful
Dawn-Youth, and I, had come,
He from afar.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Lone from the field the Pasha fled afar,
And, musing, wiped his reeking scimitar;
His two dead steeds upon the sands were flung,
And on their sides their empty
stirrups
hung.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Such fate to
suffering
worth is giv'n,
Who long with wants and woes has striv'n,
By human pride or cunning driv'n
To mis'ry's brink;
Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heav'n,
He, ruin'd, sink!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
Oh, hide thy knotted knees in fern,
And
overlook
the chace;
And from thy topmost branch discern
The roofs of Sumner-place.
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Tennyson |
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XXXVII
"To the same place Jocundo made return,
At the same hour, upon the
following
day;
And, putting on the king the self-same scorn,
Again beheld that dwarf and dame at play:
And so upon the next and following morn;
For -- to conclude -- they made no holiday:
While she (what most Jocundo's wonder moved)
The pigmy for his little love reproved.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Within a hut of stone
To bask the
centuries
away
Nor once look up for noon?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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MARTHE:
Erzahlt mir seines Lebens
Schluss!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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If you are
redistributing
or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Soon spreads the dismal shade
Of Mystery over his head,
And the
caterpillar
and fly
Feed on the Mystery.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Mute the first echo that so
grateful
rung!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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--No need,
I think, to bring up into speech the years
Since in the barley-field
Manasses
lay
Shot by the sun.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Are you not
penitent?
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Longfellow |
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"
Whereupon
a million strove to answer him.
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Stephen Crane |
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