And down this
terrible
aisle,
While heaven's ranges roar aghast,
Pours a vast file of strange and hidden things:
Forbidden monsters, crocodiles with wings
And perfumed flesh that sings and glows
With more fresh colors than the rainbow knows.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The
horsepond
where he dips his wings,
The wet day prints it full of rings.
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les colliers
tinteront
cherront les masques
Va-t'en va-t'en contre le feu l'ombre prevaut
Ah!
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rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address.
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CXXI
'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,
When not to be
receives
reproach of being;
And the just pleasure lost, which is so deem'd
Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing:
For why should others' false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?
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Continued
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A light is shining but the distant star
From which it still comes to me has been dead
A
thousand
years .
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Rilke - Poems |
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Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening thy power to lend base
subjects
light?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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At last I saw the ocean, a
pleasing
sight to me:
I stood upon the shore of a mighty glorious sea.
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John Clare |
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whanne hir
blysfulnesse
dure?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Thy
graceful
form instilling soft desire,
Thy curling tresses, and thy silver lyre,
Beauty and youth; in vain to these you trust,
When youth and beauty shall be laid in dust:
Troy yet may wake, and one avenging blow
Crush the dire author of his country's woe.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Baratynski
(Feasts)
A journey to Moscow!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Roar now above my decaying flesh, you winds,
Whirl out your earth-scents over this body, tell me
Of ferns and stagnant pools, wild roses,
hillsides!
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Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide,
And wash my Body whence the life has died,
And in a Windingsheet of
Vineleaf
wrapt,
So bury me by some sweet Gardenside.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly--
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping from out their Condor wings
Invisible
Wo!
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Poe - 5 |
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What a set would his
shoulders
have, and neck,
To bear his goodly-purposed head; what gait
And usage of his limbs!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But thou hast learn'd less creditable arts,
Nor hast a will to work, preferring much
By beggary from others to extort
Wherewith
to feed thy never-sated maw.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Observe that stanza i
contains
the moral of Canto IX.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I would not [delay to set out], unless I might
approach
it on New
Year's morn, for all the lands within England, etc.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And with such
figuring
of Paradise
The sacred strain must leap, like one, that meets
A sudden interruption to his road.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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At a cool and early hour on a pleasant morning in July, my companion
and I passed rapidly through Acton and Stow,
stopping
to rest and
refresh us on the bank of a small stream, a tributary of the Assabet,
in the latter town.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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You
masquerader!
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Imagists |
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"
The poems of Sappho so mysteriously lost to us seem to have consisted of at
least nine books of odes,
together
with _epithalamia_, epigrams,
elegies, and monodies.
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Sappho |
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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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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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tene Thetis tenuit pulcerrima
Neptunine?
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LII
Ere she had ended all, she gan to faint: 455
But he her
comforted
and faire bespake,
Certes, Madame, ye have great cause of plaint,
The stoutest heart, I weene, could cause to quake.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Above, below, the rose of snow,
Twined with her blushing foe, we spread:
The
bristled
boar in infant gore
Wallows beneath the thorny shade.
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Golden Treasury |
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The warm breeze wakens;
And we pass on, forgetting,
Toward the solemn horizon of bronzed cumulus
That bounds our brooding sea,
gathering
gloom
That, when night falls, will dissipate in flaws
Of watery lightning, washing the hot sky,
Cleansing all hearts of heat and restlessness,
Until, with day, another blue be born.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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praecipuus color est, quali sunt sidera caeli,
praecoqua
uel qualis Punica grana tegit:
qualis inest foliis, quae fert agreste papauer,
cum pandit uestes Flora rubente solo.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Like armored knight
The granite Castle fights with all its might,
Resisting
through the winter.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old person of Nice,
Whose
associates
were usually Geese.
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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While human nature is the same, the fate of Laish will always be the
fate of the weak and defenceless; and thus the most amiable description
of savage life raises in our minds the
strongest
imagery of the misery
and impossible continuance of such a state.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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STANZAS WRITTEN IN
DEJECTION
NEAR NAPLES.
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Golden Treasury |
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' I long to
catch the subtle music of their fairy dances and make a poem with
a rhythm like the quick
irregular
wild flash of their sudden
movements.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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My thoughts on former pleasures ran;
I thought of Kilve's delightful shore,
My
pleasant
home, when spring began,
A long, long year before.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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MATTHEW: Faith, not past a two
shillings
or so.
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Oh, that in some lone retreat,
Like
Endymion
I were lain;
And that she, who rules my fate,
There one night to stay would deign;
Never from his billowy bed
More might Phoebus lift his head!
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Petrarch |
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how can the entire household be
together
again?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Scarce had she ceased, when out of heaven a bolt
(For now the storm was close above them) struck,
Furrowing
a giant oak, and javelining
With darted spikes and splinters of the wood
The dark earth round.
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Not but we may exceed, some holy time,
Or tired in search of truth, or search of rhyme;
Ill health some just indulgence may engage,
And more the sickness of long life, old age;
For fainting age what cordial drop remains,
If our
intemperate
youth the vessel drains?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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As
knightly
Roland on the coward's flinch:
And, after chloroform and ether-gas,
We find out slowly what the bee and finch
Have ready found, through Nature's lamp in each,
How to our races we may justify
Our individual claims and, as we reach
Our own grapes, bend the top vines to supply
The children's uses,--how to fill a breach
With olive-branches,--how to quench a lie
With truth, and smite a foe upon the cheek
With Christ's most conquering kiss.
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Or superbite, e via col viso altero,
figliuoli
d'Eva, e non chinate il volto
si che veggiate il vostro mal sentero!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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So longe of this they speken up and doun,
Til Troilus gan at the laste assente
To ryse, and forth to
Sarpedoun
they wente.
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suffering
souls are fain
To know aright what yet remains to bear.
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Come give me thy
loveliest
lay.
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Laughing at their guile,
And crying, "Why tie the
fetters?
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Developing
the mountains, leaves, and flowers
And shining in the brawling brook, where-by,
Clear as its current, glide the sauntering hours
With a calm languor, which, though to the eye
Idlesse it seem, hath its morality,
If from society we learn to live,
'Tis solitude should teach us how to die;
It hath no flatterers; vanity can give
No hollow aid; alone--man with his God must strive:
XXXIV.
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The second book of poems appeared two years later and like the first
volume _Traumgekront_ is full of the music that is
reminiscent
of the
mild melancholy of the Bohemian folk-songs, in whose gentle rhythms the
barbaric strength of the race seems to be lulled to rest as the waves of
a far-away tumultuous sea gently lap the shore.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The Phoenix was the
mythical
bird that rose again from the ashes of its own immolation.
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Oh 1 why did he sing me that song,
I threw him the ring from my hand
Bitter and
treacherous
wrong
That sought me with fetters to brand.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"Literary" epic is as close to its subject as "authentic"; but, as a
general rule, "authentic" epic, in response to its
surrounding
needs,
has a simple and concrete subject, and the closeness of the poet to this
is therefore more obvious than in "literary" epic, which (again in
response to surrounding needs) has been driven to take for subject some
great abstract idea and display this in a concrete but only ostensible
subject.
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Old Nestor first perceived the
approaching
sound,
Bespeaking thus the Grecian peers around:
"Methinks the noise of trampling steeds I hear,
Thickening this way, and gathering on my ear;
Perhaps some horses of the Trojan breed
(So may, ye gods!
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Iliad - Pope |
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She won without a single woman's wile,
Illumining
the earth with peerless smile.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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[_He
vanishes
with_ FAUST, _the companions start back from each
other_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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At thy behest I will shake off that nature
Which from my,
forefathers
I did inherit,
Which with my mother's milk I did imbibe,
And be no more Politian, but some other.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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His ardour
straight
the obedient prince suppress'd,
And, artful, thus the suitor-train address'd:
"O lay the cause on youth yet immature!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--to God himself we cannot give
A holier name; and, under such a mask,
To lead a Spirit,
spotless
as the blessed,
To that abhorred den of brutish vice!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Sensible of this disadvantage which
every version of historical poetry must suffer, the translator has not
only in the notes added every
incident
which might elucidate the
subject, but has also, all along, in the episode in the third and fourth
books, in the description of the painted ensigns in the eighth, and in
the allusions in the present book, endeavoured to throw every historical
incident into that universal language, the picturesque of poetry.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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If you received it electronically, such person may
choose to alternatively give you a second
opportunity
to
receive it electronically.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Lancelot
in the meantime rose to his feet in all his
agony and by a sort of miracle as it seemed to those who were on his
side, drove all his opponents back to the barrier.
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Tennyson |
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Why should we go on always restraining and
binding?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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ASTRAEA
Each the herald is who wrote
His rank, and
quartered
his own coat.
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Emerson - Poems |
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But Business forbid that they should give him an
increase of pay at his present
ridiculously
immature age!
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Kipling - Poems |
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The digital images and OCR of this work were
produced
by Google, Inc.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I ceased, when
Agamemnon
thus replied.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Were hee a kinde diuell,
And had
humanity
in him, hee would come, but
To ?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Quae quoniam verae nascuntur pectore ab imo,
Vos nolite pati nostrum vanescere luctum,
Sed quali solam Theseus me mente reliquit, 200
Tali mente, deae,
funestet
seque suosque.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The apple tree has been
celebrated
by the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and
Scandinavians.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Only look at what is to be seen,
and you will have garden enough, without
deepening
the soil in your
yard.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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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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Rilke - Poems |
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Yet shun
Achilles!
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Iliad - Pope |
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You may copy it, give it away or
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Latin - Catullus |
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Mine by the sign in the scarlet prison
Bars cannot
conceal!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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dēorlīce dǣd, 585;
dōmlēasan
dǣd,
2891; frēcne dǣde, 890; dǣd, 941; acc.
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Beowulf |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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My
daughter!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Fresh from the
trenches
and gray with grime,
Silent they march like a pantomime;
"But what need of music?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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It is not true,
I am frightened, I am
frightened
of you
And of everything.
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Imagists |
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Nor, harass'd as he was, resign'd he yet
His raft, but
buffetting
the waves aside
With desp'rate efforts, seized it, and again
Fast seated on the middle deck, escaped.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And thou, O
Clessammor, where is thy
dwelling
in the wind?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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'
Her
departure
was always unexpected, her moods changed with so much
rapidity.
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Yeats |
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Sweet smiles, mother's smile,
All the
livelong
night beguile.
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blake-poems |
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'
XV
When I consider every thing that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment,
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
When I perceive that men as plants increase,
Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky,
Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,
And wear their brave state out of memory;
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,
Where
wasteful
Time debateth with decay
To change your day of youth to sullied night,
And all in war with Time for love of you,
As he takes from you, I engraft you new.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Mine are the longest days, the
loveliest
nights;
The mower's scythe makes music to my ear;
I am the mother of all dear delights;
I am the fairest daughter of the year.
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Longfellow |
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You dropped a purple ravelling in,
You dropped an amber thread;
And now you 've littered all the East
With duds of
emerald!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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quam bene Saturno uiuebant rege, priusquam
tellus in longas est
patefacta
uias!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The warriors
standing
on the breezy shore,
To dry their sweat, and wash away the gore,
Here paused a moment, while the gentle gale
Convey'd that freshness the cool seas exhale;
Then to consult on farther methods went,
And took their seats beneath the shady tent.
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Iliad - Pope |
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He said; and where she stood, her
trembling
knees
Fail'd under her, and all her spirits went.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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So canopied, lay an
untasted
feast
Teeming with odours.
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Keats - Lamia |
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I was just thinking
'Twere better not to
struggle
any more.
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Shelley |
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And look, where the narrow white streets of the town
Leap up from the blue water's edge to the wood, 15
Scant room for man's range between mountain and sea,
And the market where
woodsmen
from over the hill
May traffic, and sailors from far foreign ports
With treasure brought in from the ends of the earth.
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Sappho |
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I look to the west when I gae to rest,
That happy my dreams and my
slumbers
may be;
Far, far in the west is he I lo'e best,
The lad that is dear to my babie and me!
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Robert Forst |
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Also a tent in the orchard raise on high,
Those
messengers
had lodging for the night;
Dozen serjeants served after them aright.
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Chanson de Roland |
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With that, he left him
wondering
as he lay,
Then from Achilles chased the mist away:
Sudden, returning with a stream of light,
The scene of war came rushing on his sight.
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Iliad - Pope |
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