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artistic
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Alcyones
pennis planxere uolantes
fleueruntque tuos miserando carmine casus
et tibi contextas umbram fecere per alas.
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TO A FRIEND,
ENCOURAGING
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volunteers
and employees are scattered
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WHEN home returned, the girl, each day and night,
Amused her mind with prospects of delight;
By fancy's aid she saw the future pope,
And all prepared to greet her fondest hope;
But what arrived the whole at once o'erthrew
Hats, dukedoms, castles, vanished from the view:
The
promised
elevation of the NAME
Dissolved to air:-a little female came!
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
etext or this "small print!
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" He affected, indeed, to despise his assailants,
but there is only too good
evidence
that their poisoned arrows rankled
in his heart.
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"--a
phrase I had learned from the
Devonshire
shrimpers.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Fierce Love it was once steeled a mother's heart
With her own offspring's blood her hands to imbrue:
Mother, thou too wert cruel; say wert thou
More cruel, mother, or more
ruthless
he?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin-liberty;
A
countenance
in which did meet
Sweet records, promises as sweet;
A creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food,
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
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Golden Treasury |
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e pore man his bone; 291
he
grantede
him to clo?
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"God save thee, ancyent
Marinere!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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One might almost say the
"comic" type if, for the moment, we may
remember
that that word is
directly derived from 'Komos.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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His steed and he right well agree,
For of this pony there's a rumour,
That should he lose his eyes and ears,
And should he live a
thousand
years,
He never will be out of humour.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Then with eyes to the front all,
And with guns horizontal,
Stood our sires;
And the balls
whistled
deadly,
And in streams flashing redly
Blazed the fires;
As the roar
On the shore,
Swept the strong battle-breakers o'er the green-sodded acres
Of the plain;
And louder, louder, louder cracked the black gunpowder,
Cracking amain!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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His
thoughts
became unbounded and he shouted loudly.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The
creatures
pass to the sounds
Of my tortoise, and the songs I sing.
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Appoloinaire |
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But on mine ear
Sudden a sound of
lamentation
smote,
Whereat mine eye unbarr'd I sent abroad.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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FROSCH:
Will keiner
trinken?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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We
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the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"I know you--
"All day
stuffing
your belly,
"Burying your heart
"In grass and tender sprouts:
"It will not suffice you.
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Stephen Crane |
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The cross with hideous
laughter
Demons mock, 70
By [D] angels planted on the aereal rock.
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William Wordsworth |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
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blake-poems |
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Was halt mich ab, so schlag ich zu,
Zerschmettre
dich und deine Katzengeister!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I only knew what hunted thought
Quickened
his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
XLVIII
He his
discourse
with more beside pursues,
That might from death to life the Child recall;
And all this while Rogero's hands doth loose.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Tear--
tear us an altar,
tug at the cliff-boulders,
pile them with the rough stones--
we no longer
sleep in the wind,
propitiate
us.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Torquains nigh, a sterner spectre stood,
His fasces all besmear'd with filial blood:
He
childless
to the shades resolved to go,
Rather than Rome a moment should forego
That dreadful discipline, whose rigid lore
Had spread their triumphs round from shore to shore.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white--then melts for ever;
Or like the
Borealis
race,
That flit ere you can point their place;
Or like the Rainbow's lovely form
Evanishing amid the storm.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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omnia si facias_:
quem plerique secuti sunt
LXXXVIII
Quid facit is, Gelli, qui cum matre atque sorore
prurit et
abiectis
peruigilat tunicis?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Lord Raoul drew rein with all his company,
And urged his horse i' the crowd, to gain fair view
Of him that spoke, and stopped at last, and sat
Still, underneath where Gris Grillon was laid,
And heard, somewhile, with languid
scornful
gaze,
The friar putting blame on priest and knight.
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Sidney Lanier |
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[9]
At the end of Book I in the
Assyrian
text and at the end of Col.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I swear,
Here at the gate she shall stand
palpable!
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
Soon as had Atys (bastard-she) this lay to comrades sung
The Chorus sudden lulliloos with quivering, quavering tongue,
Again the nimble timbrel groans, the scooped-out cymbals clash,
And up green Ida flits the Choir, with
footsteps
hurrying rash.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Once, among the Bong-trees walking
Where the early
pumpkins
blow,
To a little heap of stones
Came the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Whence this
delusion?
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La Fontaine |
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"
But
O O O O that
Shakespeherian
Rag--
It's so elegant
So intelligent 130
"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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A narrow
compass!
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Golden Treasury |
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Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
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Ronsard |
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"
Lamb, concerned only with individual things, looks
straight
at them, not
through them, seeing them implacably.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And may all the powers that preside
over
conviviality
and friendship, be present with all their kindest
influence, when the bearer of this, Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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The bird that charm'd his summer-day,
Is now the cruel fowler's prey;
Let witless,
trusting
woman say
How aft her fate's the same, jo.
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Robert Forst |
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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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He saw these worlds all marshalled,
And their ways all governed for ever;
And he felt the sight of his soul
Shrivel up like a fire-licked scroll
In his
insupportable
terror.
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Tennyson |
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In his Reply,
Marvell justifies himself in all the alleged in-
stances, and takes
occasion
to show that his oppo-
nent's learning is as hollow as all his other pre-
tensions.
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Marvell - Poems |
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It was this which led him to
embody in his description of a rich fool's splendid house and park
certain unmistakable traces of a living nobleman's estate and to start
in genuine
amazement
and regret when the world insisted on identifying
the nobleman and the fool.
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Alexander Pope |
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Horatius
There can be little doubt that among those parts of early Roman
history which had a
poetical
origin was the legend of Horatius
Cocles.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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My thoughts had been long
wandering
from the volume before me to
the gloom and desolation of the neighboring city.
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Li Po |
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firgenstrēam occurs also in the
_Phoenix_
(Bright, p.
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Beowulf |
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But still the hope
Experience
taught to live,
Equal to judge--you're candid to forgive.
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Robert Forst |
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Whan al was hust, than lay she stille, and
thoughte
915
Of al this thing the manere and the wyse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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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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Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
Of the Two Worlds so wisely--they are thrust
Like foolish
Prophets
forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Then mightst thou more appal; or, less desired,
Be homely and be peaceful, undeplored
For thy destructive charms; then, still untired,
Would not be seen the armed
torrents
poured
Down the deep Alps; nor would the hostile horde
Of many-nationed spoilers from the Po
Quaff blood and water; nor the stranger's sword
Be thy sad weapon of defence, and so,
Victor or vanquished, thou the slave of friend or foe.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Heaven and Earth and the Sun on his indefatigable journey
Over that
infinite
path never did witness the like!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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What ails thee, Earl
Politian?
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Form is half their art and
crucially
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But to win
A
princess!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Priam is struck at his approach, and tries to
persuade
his son
to re-enter the town.
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Iliad - Pope |
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considunt apices gemini dicionis Eoae,
hic cocus, hic leno, defossi uerbere terga,
seruitio, non arte pares, hic saepius emptus,
alter ad Hispanos
nutritus
uerna penatis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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mighty queen, why so
untimely
dressed ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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Now with pallor,
I see the scarlet flag already waving;
It means the harvest-hirelings' dance with Death;
With
unpicked
fruitage tempest-toused and torn.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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For
evermore
and evermore
In the chamber by the sea,
Till death should break the spell-bound door
And end his slavery;
In the chamber strewn with flowers in bloom
With a heavy scent like death,
Echoing ever the song of doom
Which the sad sea moaned beneath.
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Tennyson |
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Erdman indicates that a linking line "must have been dropped in
transcribing
from working notes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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'The second two: they wait,' he said, 'pass on;
His Highness wakes:' and one, that clashed in arms,
By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led
Threading the soldier-city, till we heard
The drowsy folds of our great ensign shake
From blazoned lions o'er the imperial tent
Whispers
of war.
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Tennyson |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Grateful
to me is sleep!
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Longfellow |
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To be eternal--what a brilliant
thought!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Lines 646-651 were previously
Nature, as in her prime, her virgin reign
Begins, and Love and Truth compose her train;
While, with a pulseless hand, and
stedfast
gaze,
Unbreathing Justice her still beam surveys.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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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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Stephen Crane |
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Venus comes in all her might,
Quits Cyprus for my heart, nor lets me tell
Of the Parthian, hold in flight,
Nor
Scythian
hordes, nor aught that breaks her spell.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And some there were,
Dreading the doorways of destruction
So much, lived on,
deprived
by the knife
Of the male member; not a few, though lopped
Of hands and feet, would yet persist in life,
And some there were who lost their eyeballs: O
So fierce a fear of death had fallen on them!
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Lucretius |
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Her leaders have taken
soundings
of every man.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
--And so the conversation slips
Among velleities and carefully caught regrets
Through
attenuated
tones of violins
Mingled with remote cornets
And begins.
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T.S. Eliot |
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A place there was, yet undefiled with gore,
The spot where Hector stopp'd his rage before;
When night descending, from his vengeful hand
Reprieved the relics of the Grecian band:
(The plain beside with mangled corps was spread,
And all his
progress
mark'd by heaps of dead:)
There sat the mournful kings: when Neleus' son,
The council opening, in these words begun:
"Is there (said he) a chief so greatly brave,
His life to hazard, and his country save?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Thus, we do not
necessarily keep eBooks in
compliance
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edition.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Proud of this pride,
He is
contented
thy poor drudge to be,
To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Or des vergers fleuris se figeaient en arriere
Les petales tombes des cerisiers de mai
Sont les ongles de celle que j'ai tant aimee
Les petales fleuris sont comme ses paupieres
Sur le chemin du bord du fleuve lentement
Un ours un singe un chien menes par des tziganes
Suivaient une roulotte trainee par un ane
Tandis que s'eloignait dans les vignes rhenanes
Sur un fifre lointain un air de regiment
Le mai le joli mai a pare les ruines
De lierre de vigne vierge et de rosiers
Le vent du Rhin secoue sur le bord les osiers
Et les roseaux jaseurs et les fleurs nues des vignes
La synagogue
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren
Coiffes de feutres verts le matin du sabbat
Vont a la synagogue en longeant le Rhin
Et les coteaux ou les vignes rougissent la-bas
Ils se disputent et crient des choses qu'on ose a peine traduire
Batard concu pendant les regles ou Que le diable entre dans ton
pere
Le vieux Rhin souleve sa face ruisselante et se detourne pour
sourire
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren sont en colere
Parce que pendant le sabbat on ne doit pas fumer
Tandis que les chretiens passent avec des cigares allumes
Et parce qu'Ottomar et Abraham aiment tous deux
Lia aux yeux de brebis et dont le ventre avance un peu
Pourtant tout a l'heure dans la synagogue l'un apres l'autre
Ils baiseront la thora en soulevant leur beau chapeau
Parmi les feuillards de la fete des cabanes
Ottomar en chantant sourira a Abraham
Ils dechanteront sans mesure et les voix graves des hommes
Feront gemir un Leviathan au fond du Rhin comme une voix d'automne
Et dans la synagogue pleine de chapeaux on agitera les loulabim
Hanoten ne Kamoth bagoim tholahoth baleoumim
Les cloches
Mon beau tzigane mon amant
Ecoute les cloches qui sonnent
Nous nous aimions eperdument
Croyant n'etre vus de personne
Mais nous etions bien mal caches
Toutes les cloches a la ronde
Nous ont vus du haut des clochers
Et le disent a tout le monde
Demain Cyprien et Henri
Marie Ursule et Catherine
La boulangere et son mari
Et puis Gertrude ma cousine
Souriront quand je passerai
Je ne saurai plus ou me mettre
Tu seras loin Je pleurerai
J'en mourrai peut-etre
La Loreley
A Jean Seve
A Bacharach il y avait une sorciere blonde
Qui
laissait
mourir d'amour tous les hommes a la ronde
Devant son tribunal l'eveque la fit citer
D'avance il l'absolvit a cause de sa beaute
O belle Loreley aux yeux pleins de pierreries
De quel magicien tiens-tu ta sorcellerie
Je suis lasse de vivre et mes yeux sont maudits
Ceux qui m'ont regardee eveque en ont peri
Mes yeux ce sont des flammes et non des pierreries
Jetez jetez aux flammes cette sorcellerie
Je flambe dans ces flammes O belle Loreley
Qu'un autre te condamne tu m'as ensorcele
Eveque vous riez Priez plutot pour moi la Vierge
Faites-moi donc mourir et que Dieu vous protege
Mon amant est parti pour un pays lointain
Faites-moi donc mourir puisque je n'aime rien
Mon coeur me fait si mal il faut bien que je meure
Si je me regardais il faudrait que j'en meure
Mon coeur me fait si mal depuis qu'il n'est plus la
Mon coeur me fit si mal du jour ou il s'en alla
L'eveque fit venir trois chevaliers avec leurs lances
Menez jusqu'au couvent cette femme en demence
Va t'en Lore en folie va Lore aux yeux tremblants
Tu seras une nonne vetue de noir et blanc
Puis ils s'en allerent sur la route tous les quatre
La Loreley les implorait et ses yeux brillaient comme des astres
Chevaliers laissez-moi monter sur ce rocher si haut
Pour voir une fois encore mon beau chateau
Pour me mirer une fois encore dans le fleuve
Puis j'irai au couvent des vierges et des veuves
La-haut le vent tordait ses cheveux deroules
Les chevaliers criaient Loreley Loreley
Tout la-bas sur le Rhin s'en vient une nacelle
Et mon amant s'y tient il m'a vue il m'appelle
Mon coeur devient si doux c'est mon amant qui vient
Elle se penche alors et tombe dans le Rhin
Pour avoir vu dans l'eau la belle Loreley
Ses yeux couleur du Rhin ses cheveux de soleil
Schinderhannes
Dans la foret avec sa bande
Schinderhannes s'est desarme
Le brigand pres de sa brigande
Hennit d'amour au joli mai
Benzel accroupi lit la Bible
Sans voir que son chapeau pointu
A plume d'aigle sert de cible
A Jacob Born le mal foutu
Juliette Blaesius qui rote
Fait semblant d'avoir le hoquet
Hannes pousse une fausse note
Quand Schulz vient portant un baquet
Et s'ecrie en versant des larmes
Baquet plein de vin parfume
Viennent aujourd'hui les gendarmes
Nous aurons bu le vin de mai
Allons Julia la mam'zelle
Bois avec nous ce clair bouillon
D'herbes et de vin de Moselle
Prosit Bandit en cotillon
Cette brigande est bientot soule
Et veut Hannes qui n'en veut pas
Pas d'amour maintenant ma poule
Sers-nous un bon petit repas
Il faut ce soir que j'assassine
Ce riche juif au bord du Rhin
Au clair des torches de resine
La fleur de mai c'est le florin
On mange alors toute la bande
Pete et rit pendant le diner
Puis s'attendrit a l'allemande
Avant d'aller assassiner
Rhenane d'automne
A Toussaint-Luca
Les enfants des morts vont jouer
Dans le cimetiere
Martin Gertrude Hans et Henri
Nul coq n'a chante aujourd'hui
Kikiriki
Les vieilles femmes
Tout en pleurant cheminent
Et les bons anes
Braillent hi han et se mettent a brouter les fleurs
Des couronnes mortuaires
C'est le jour des morts et de toutes leurs ames
Les enfants et les vieilles femmes
Allument des bougies et des cierges
Sur chaque tombe catholique
Les voiles des vieilles
Les nuages du ciel
Sont comme des barbes de biques
L'air tremble de flammes et de prieres
Le cimetiere est un beau jardin
Plein de saules gris et de romarins
Il vous vient souvent des amis qu'on enterre
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Livingly owning him,
Lovingly throning him,
Feasting
fraternally,
Praying diurnally,
Bearing his messages,
Sharing his promises,
Find ye your master near,
Find ye him here!
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LI
Is the day long,
O Lesbian maiden,
And the night endless
In thy lone chamber
In
Mitylene?
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Sappho |
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=Poems, 1833=
[The poems
numbered
XXXI-XXXIX were published in the 1832 volume
(_Poems by Alfred Tennyson_.
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HE HUMBLY
CONFESSES
THE ERRORS OF HIS PAST LIFE, AND PRAYS FOR DIVINE
GRACE.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The queen began to think her husband's rage
Had proved a
stimulus
such wars to wage,
And made him wond'rous stout in pleasure's sport,
Though all the while his thoughts were-'bout the court.
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La Fontaine |
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And the dew on the grass and his own cold tears
Were one in brooding mystery,
Though death's loud thunder came upon him,
Though death's loud thunder struck him down--
The boughs and the proud thoughts swept through the thunder,
Till he saw our wide nation, each State a flower,
Each petal a park for holy feet,
With wild fawns merry on every street,
With wild fawns merry on every street,
The vista of ten
thousand
years, flower-lighted and complete.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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_implorati_
Heyse:
fort.
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Latin - Catullus |
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HOLY THURSDAY
'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their
innocent
faces clean,
Came children walking two and two, in read, and blue, and green:
Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.
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blake-poems |
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on
heolster
flēon, 756; flēon on fenhopu,
765; flēon under fen-hleoðu, 821; pret.
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Beowulf |
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Drugged rather, with a
medicine
that God
Prepared for him and gave into my hands.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Nor could I rise with you,
Because your face
Would put out Jesus',
That new grace
Glow plain and foreign
On my
homesick
eye,
Except that you, than he
Shone closer by.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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XXXVII
So
frequently
his mind would stray
He well-nigh lost the use of sense,
Almost became a poet say--
Oh!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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an thou wish that
Catullus
should owe thee his eyes
Or aught further if aught dearer can be than his eyes,
Thou wilt not ravish from him what deems he dearer and nearer
E'en than his eyes if aught dearer there be than his eyes.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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TO DICK, ON HIS SIXTH BIRTHDAY
Tho' I am very old and wise,
And you are neither wise nor old,
When I look far into your eyes,
I know things I was never told:
I know how flame must strain and fret
Prisoned
in a mortal net;
How joy with over-eager wings,
Bruises the small heart where he sings;
How too much life, like too much gold,
Is sometimes very hard to hold.
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Sara Teasdale |
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