Canto XIV
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prima che morte li abbia dato il volo,
e apre li occhi a sua voglia e
coverchia?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Let us pursue her
clamouring
our demands.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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That wild
Charybdis
yours?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Whitman |
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If I glance up
it is written on the walls,
it is cut on the floor,
it is
patterned
across
the slope of the roof.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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There are
beautiful
beeches down beyond the hill.
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Imagists |
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the
bystanders
started--
His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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So the all-seeing sun each day,
Distils the world with chymic ray,
But finds the essence only showers,
Which
straight
in pity back he pours.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The
indirect
is just as much as the direct,
The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the
body, if not more.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Then were I free from this hard heavy yoke
Which makes me envy Atlas, old and worn,
Who with his
shoulders
brings Morocco night.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Stand by the magic of my
powerful
rhymes
'Gainst all the indignation of the times.
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Robert Herrick |
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Or the melon--
let it bleach yellow
in the winter light,
even tart to the taste--
it is better to taste of frost--
the
exquisite
frost--
than of wadding and of dead grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Still,
I fear that I will die as I have lived,
A long-nosed heathen playing with his scars,
A pagan killed by
weltschmerz
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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[c] Vespasian is said to have been what is
uncommon
among sovereign
princes, a patient hearer of truth.
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Tacitus |
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The consul Tuditanus, by no means Gracchan in his views and little inclined to occupy himself with the difficult task of agrarian definition, embraced the opportunity of going off to the Illyrian army and leaving the duty
entrusted
to him unfulfilled.
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unfulfilled |
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Why was the consul Tuditanus not interested in the task of agrarian definition and chose to leave it unfulfilled? |
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Why was the consul Tuditanus not interested in the task of agrarian definition and chose to leave it unfulfilled?
The consul Tuditanus was not interested in the task of agrarian definition and chose to leave it unfulfilled because he was not aligned with Gracchan views and found the task difficult. He took the opportunity to leave and join the Illyrian army. |
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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is in the
temperate
zone, 16% in the Arctic zone, and
?
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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I love
tranquil
solitude,
And such society
As is quiet, wise, and good;
Between thee and me
What diff'rence?
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Golden Treasury |
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But at his touch,
Such sanctity hath Heauen giuen his hand,
They
presently
amend.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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James that reared those arches tall,)
Through the dim mist stood out each belfry dome,
And the boy hailed the
paradise
of home.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Away--away--'mid seas of rays that roll
Empyrean splendor o'er th' unchained soul--
The soul that scarce (the billows are so dense)
Can struggle to its destin'd eminence--
To distant spheres, from time to time, she rode,
And late to ours, the favour'd one of God--
But, now, the ruler of an anchor'd realm,
She throws aside the sceptre--leaves the helm,
And, amid incense and high spiritual hymns,
Laves in
quadruple
light her angel limbs.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Compare
this conception of
melancholy
with the passage in _Lamia_, i.
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Keats |
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This is life
Flaming to heaven in a minute's span
When the breath of battle blows the
smouldering
spark.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I should find
Some way incomparably light and deft,
Some way we both should understand,
Simple and
faithless
as a smile and shake of the hand.
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T.S. Eliot |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Wak'd from my dream, cold horror freez'd my blood;
Fix'd as a rock, before the rock I stood;
"O fairest goddess of the ocean train,
Behold the triumph of thy proud disdain;
Yet why," I cried, "with all I wish'd decoy,
And, when
exulting
in the dream of joy,
A horrid mountain to mine arms convey!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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NOTES
NOTE PRECEDENT TO "LA FRAISNE"
" When the soul is
exhausted
of fire, then doth the spirit return unto its primal nature and there is upon it a peace great and of the
woodland
"
magna pax et silvestrts.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Without
parchment
brief, I bestow
On Filhol the verses I sing now,
In the plain Romance tongue, that he
May take them to Uc le Brun, anew.
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Troubador Verse |
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The
friction
against
the sharp edges of the rock over which they had been stretched with a
strong tension had worn them through.
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Ropes |
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Who hangs over the abyss? |
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No one hangs over the abyss in the passage. |
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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e folk was went away,
And he al-one in
chaumbre
lay,
Alexius gan to preche; 207
Of Iesu he bigan his game,
werldes likyng he gan blame,
his ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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There exists, one would say, in moral as well
as
physical
order, a supreme law which assigns to institutions, as to
certain beings, a fated limit, marked by the term of their utility.
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political |
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Why does the author believe that institutions have a predetermined limit that is marked by their utility? |
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The author believes that institutions have a predetermined limit that is marked by their utility because there exists a supreme law that assigns a fate to institutions, and once their usefulness to the progress of humanity is no longer present, they will eventually fall, despite the empire of traditions, courage, or the memory of a glorious past. |
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Her public is the noon,
Her providence the sun,
Her progress by the bee proclaimed
In sovereign,
swerveless
tune.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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which are the poetry of heaven,
If in your bright leaves we would read the fate
Of men and empires,--'tis to be forgiven,
That in our aspirations to be great,
Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state,
And claim a kindred with you; for ye are
A beauty and a mystery, and create
In us such love and reverence from afar,
That fortune, fame, power, life, have named
themselves
a star.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The crow he was in love no doubt
And [so were] many things:
The ploughman
finished
many a bout,
And lustily he sings,
"My love she is a milking maid
With red rosy cheek;
Of cotton drab her gown was made,
I loved her many a week.
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John Clare |
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His 13th century vida or biography claims he fell in love with the
Countess
of Tripoli without ever having seen her and after taking ship for Tripoli fell ill during the voyage, ultimately dying in the arms of his 'love afar'.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
LXIII
While thus Rinaldo speaks, so swiftly borne
By the quick current flies that nimble yawl;
Not to the lure more swiftly makes return
The falcon,
hurrying
at his lord's recall.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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enne gedere3 he to
Gryngolet
with ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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You must have heard of him, as many
wonderful
stories
have been told about him.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
Chinese prosody
distinguishes
between two tones, a "flat" and a
"deflected.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Athens, he knew, was his only
formidable
enemy.
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formidable |
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Why was Athens the only formidable enemy for the speaker? |
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Athens was the only formidable enemy for the speaker because there was still a possibility that Athens might rouse Greece against the speaker and overpower him by a coalition of which Athens would be the head. Therefore, the speaker needed to isolate Athens by political intrigues, and by driving Athens out of the Chersonese, strike a fatal blow at the commerce on which Athens' prosperity largely depended. |
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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And
underneath
thy cooling shade,
When weary of the light,
The love-spent youth and love-sick maid
Come to weep out the night.
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Robert Herrick |
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The Grecian fleet
Bore down at daybreak from the North, and hung
As multitudinous on the ocean line,
As cranes upon the cloudless
Thracian
wind.
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Shelley |
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Till ye have battled with great grief and fears,
And borne the
conflict
of dream-shattering years,
Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife,
Children, ye have not lived: for this is life.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He asked if I would sell my
Christmas
trees;
My woods--the young fir balsams like a place
Where houses all are churches and have spires.
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Robert Forst |
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[a] Concerning
Maternus
nothing is known with any kind of certainty.
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Tacitus |
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While the second Edition of this version of Omar was preparing,
Monsieur Nicolas, French Consul at Resht, published a very careful and
very good Edition of the Text, from a
lithograph
copy at Teheran,
comprising 464 Rubaiyat, with translation and notes of his own.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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proueniebant
oratores
nouei, stulti adulescentuli.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
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Tacitus |
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Thel is like a watry bow, and like a parting cloud,
Like a
reflection
in a glass: like shadows in the water
Like dreams of infants, like a smile upon an infants face.
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blake-poems |
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THOSE WHO LOVE
Those who love the most
Do not talk of their love;
Francesca, Guenevere,
Dierdre, Iseult, Heloise
In the
fragrant
gardens of heaven
Are silent, or speak, if at all,
Of fragile, inconsequent things.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And canst thou
ride the tempest as a steed, and grasp the
lightning
as a sword?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Or ni feriale
ni
astrale!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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It rais'd my hair, it fann'd my cheek,
Like a meadow-gale of spring--
It mingled
strangely
with my fears,
Yet it felt like a welcoming.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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no mother's love shall lay thee in the sod, or place thy limbs
beneath thine heavy
ancestral
tomb.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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)
I am not the poet of
goodness
only, I do not decline to be the poet
of wickedness also.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Who oft towards the park for quiet wandered
When far a bird allured him o'er the lea,
Who sat beside the tranquil pool and pondered,
And
listened
to the silent secrecy?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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it hath
wildered
you!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Evil service, that day, Guenes
rendered
them,
To Sarraguce going, his own to sell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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But see how I shall batter down the
sort of
education
of which he is so proud.
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Aristophanes |
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--Wise is
rather the
attribute
of a prince than learned or good.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
smallest
sugar maples in our streets make a great show as early as
the fifth of October, more than any other trees there.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Just when the
sufferer
begins to burn,
Then it is free to him; and from an urn,
Still fed by melting ice, he takes a draught--
Young Semele such richness never quaft
In her maternal longing.
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Keats |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live
everything
will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Parsifal
Parsifal has conquered the girls, their sweet
Chatter, amusing lust - and his inclination,
A virgin boy's, towards the Flesh, tempted
To love the little tits and gentle babble;
He's conquered lovely Woman, of subtle
Heart, showing her cool arms,
provoking
breast;
He's conquered Hell, returned to his tent,
With a weighty trophy on his boyish arm.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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what is the gain of
restless
care,
And what is ambitious treasure?
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Shelley |
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MOON-BATHERS
Falls from her heaven the Moon, and stars sink burning
Into the sea where
blackness
rims the sea,
Silently quenched.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I'll not be wooed for pelf;
I'll not blot out my shame
With any man's good name;
But
nameless
as I stand,
My hand is my own hand,
And nameless as I came
I go to the dark land.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Io vidi gia nel cominciar del giorno
la parte oriental tutta rosata,
e l'altro ciel di bel sereno addorno;
e la faccia del sol nascere ombrata,
si che per temperanza di vapori
l'occhio la sostenea lunga fiata:
cosi dentro una nuvola di fiori
che da le mani
angeliche
saliva
e ricadeva in giu dentro e di fori,
sovra candido vel cinta d'uliva
donna m'apparve, sotto verde manto
vestita di color di fiamma viva.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water
ploughed
from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Lewis Carroll |
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_Male perfumes_,
perfumes
of the best kind.
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Robert Herrick |
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"Whereas she him with
pleasure
should descry,
She, seeing him, but suffers grief and pain.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I hear you: yet more clear than all one note,
One sudden hail I still remember best,
That came on sunny days from one afloat
And drew me to the pane in certain quest
Of a long brown face, bare arms and flimsy vest,
In
fragments
through the branches,
Above the green reflections:
Paused by the willows in your varnished boat
You, with your oars at rest.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Will he return when the Autumn
Purples the earth, and the
sunlight
5
Sleeps in the vineyard?
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Sappho |
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'
Cassandre
goth, and he with cruel herte
For-yat his wo, for angre of hir speche; 1535
And from his bed al sodeinly he sterte,
As though al hool him hadde y-mad a leche.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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No smother'd spark like mine emits a flame
To catch the public eye, as you can boast--
A leading name in Cupid's
numerous
host!
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Petrarch |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie
A little further off, to make thee room:
Thou art a
monument
without a tomb,
And art alive still, while thy book doth live
And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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For, right within, the sword of Sin
Pierced to its
poisoned
hilt,
And as molten lead were the tears we shed
For the blood we had not spilt.
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Wilde - Poems |
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VI
_Before Dawn, At the
Scottish
Gate_.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Beside the shining scythe and
exhausted
jug.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And I know a grove
Of large extent, hard by a castle huge
Which the great lord
inhabits
not: and so
This grove is wild with tangling underwood,
And the trim walks are broken up, and grass,
Thin grass and king-cups grow within the paths.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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You yourself,
defeating
my powers' eclipse,
Recalling my soul, already hovering on my lips, 770
You revived me with your flattering advice.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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We were not long enough on
the river to realize that it had length; we got only the
impression
of
its breadth, as if we had passed over a lake a mile or two in breadth
and several miles long, though we might thus have slept through a
European kingdom.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Then far away to the south uprose
A little feather of snow-white smoke,
And we knew that the iron ship of our foes
Was steadily
steering
its course
To try the force
Of our ribs of oak.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A marvel--
The dead child all at once began to
tremble!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Let us stay
Rather on earth, Beloved,--where the unfit
Contrarious moods of men recoil away
And isolate pure spirits, and permit
A place to stand and love in for a day,
With darkness and the death-hour
rounding
it.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Hence it is that
talkative
shallow men do often content the
hearers more than the wise.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And there, as darkness gathers 5
In the rose-scented garden,
The god who
prospers
music
Shall give me skill to play.
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Sappho |
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Then keep your heart for men like me
And safe from
trustless
chaps.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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For since neither by fate did she perish, nor as one who had
earned her death, but
woefully
before her day, and fired by sudden
madness, not yet had Proserpine taken her lock from the golden head, nor
sentenced her to the Stygian under world.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
He's drawn Almace, whose steel was brown and rough,
Through the great press a
thousand
blows he's struck:
As Charles said, quarter he gave to none;
He found him there, four hundred else among,
Wounded the most, speared through the middle some,
Also there were from whom the heads he'd cut:
So tells the tale, he that was there says thus,
The brave Saint Giles, whom God made marvellous,
Who charters wrote for th' Minster at Loum;
Nothing he's heard that does not know this much.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Then he spoke, and spread his hands
Pointing
here and there:
"See my sheep and see the lambs,
Twin lambs which they bare.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
Then made answer John Alden: "The name of
friendship
is sacred;
What you demand in that name, I have not the power to deny you!
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Longfellow |
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And Faith shall come forth the finer,
From
trampled
thickets of fire,
And the orient open diviner
Before her, the heaven rise higher.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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instrumentes
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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