At such a time
When sun with beams amid the tempest-murk
Hath shone against the showers of black rains,
Then in the swart clouds there emerges bright
The
radiance
of the bow.
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Now, as he plodded on, with sullen clang
A sound of chains along the desert rang;
He looked, and saw upon a gibbet high
A human body that in irons swang,
Uplifted
by the tempest whirling by; 80
And, hovering, round it often did a raven fly.
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And who hath said
There should be
likeness
in a brother's tread
And sister's?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Farthest
away, I oftenest dreamed
That I was with her.
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--Entre le laurier-rose et le lotus jaseur
Glisse amoureusement le grand Cygne reveur
Embrassant la Leda des blancheurs de son aile;
--Et tandis que Cypris passe, etrangement belle,
Et, cambrant les rondeurs
splendides
de ses reins,
Etale fierement l'or de ses larges seins
Et son ventre neigeux brode de mousse noire,
--Heracles, le Dompteur, qui, comme d'une gloire
Fort, ceint son vaste corps de la peau du lion,
S'avance, front terrible et doux, a l'horizon!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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He
put his horses to a gallop,
continually
looking, however, towards the
east.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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' Sir John Davies makes
a similar
allusion
_(Epigrams_, ed.
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what are we that we should
For covenants of long
affection
sue?
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Such thou must be to me, who must
Like the other foot
obliquely
run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And me to end where I begun.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull
catalogue
of common things.
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Wilde - Poems |
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But when the
beautiful
ground
Lights upward all the air,
Noon thaws the frozen eaves,
And makes the rime on post and paling steam
Silvery blue smoke in the golden day.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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EPIGRAMS
A GIRL
You were that clear
Sicilian
fluting
That pains our thought even now.
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Imagists |
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Before mine eyes in
opposition
sits
Grim Death my Son and foe, who sets them on,
And me his Parent would full soon devour
For want of other prey, but that he knows
His end with mine involvd; and knows that I
Should prove a bitter Morsel, and his bane,
When ever that shall be; so Fate pronounc'd.
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Milton |
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XVI
It nods and
curtseys
and recovers
When the wind blows above,
The nettle on the graves of lovers
That hanged themselves for love.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Here met the foe
Fierce Vulcan, queenly Juno here,
And he who ne'er shall quit his bow,
Who laves in clear
Castalian
flood
His locks, and loves the leafy growth
Of Lycia next his native wood,
The Delian and the Pataran both.
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Updated editions will replace the
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly Landscape with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob
Gerritsz
Cuyp, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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Appoloinaire |
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That hankers after Heaven, but clings to earth;
That neither here nor there knows
thorough
mirth,
Half-choosing, wholly missing, the good part:--
Oh fool among the foolish, in thy quest.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Neither have I come but
because destiny had given me this place to dwell in; nor wage I war with
your people; your king it is who hath broken our
covenant
and preferred
to trust himself to Turnus' arms.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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A son-in-law, like you, I once appeared,
And similar misfortune justly feared;
Complaint I made, and
mentioned
a divorce;
Of heat and rage the ordinary course.
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La Fontaine |
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Peythroppe found to his
surprise
that he had been
gazetted a month's leave.
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Kipling - Poems |
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No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses reckon up their own:
I may be
straight
though they themselves be bevel;
By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be shown;
Unless this general evil they maintain,
All men are bad and in their badness reign.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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350
Life cannot be so slight, as to be quenched
Thus
quickly!
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Byron |
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--Une vieille servante, alors, en a pris soin:
Les petits sont tout seuls en la maison glacee;
Orphelins
de quatre ans, voila qu'en leur pensee
S'eveille, par degres, un souvenir riant.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Tacitus |
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t,
In
fondynge
he was y-bro?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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`I graunte wel that thou
endurest
wo 785
As sharp as doth he, Ticius, in helle,
Whos stomak foules tyren ever-mo
That highte volturis, as bokes telle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Through many a clime 'tis mine to go,
With many a
retrospection
curst;
And all my solace is to know,
Whate'er betides, I've known the worst.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Even to
fruitful
Ephyre, perchance,
He will proceed, seeking some baneful herb
Which cast into our cup, shall drug us all.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's rest
A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest;
The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash
Strikes, and
prepares
it for another Guest.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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She was a careless, fearless girl,
And made her answer plain,
Outspoken she to earl or churl,
Kindhearted in the main,
But somewhat
heedless
with her tongue,
And apt at causing pain;
A mirthful maiden she and young,
Most fair for bliss or bane.
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Christina Rossetti |
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It might be told (but
wherefore
speak of things
Common to all?
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William Wordsworth |
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Be this the
Whetstone
of your sword, let griefe
Conuert to anger: blunt not the heart, enrage it
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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A most gentle maid
Who dwelleth in her
hospitable
home
Hard by the Castle, and at latest eve,
(Even like a Lady vow'd and dedicate
To something more than nature in the grove)
Glides thro' the pathways; she knows all their notes,
That gentle Maid!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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More than I, if truth were told,
Have stood and sweated hot and cold,
And through their reins in ice and fire
Fear
contended
with desire.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The God, who made both lad and lass,
Unwilling for a bungling hand to pass,
Made
opportunity
right after.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Dick is--or rather
was--an able-bodied man of moderate
attractions
and a certain amount of
audacity.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
_Paradise
Lost_, ii.
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Byron |
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Biglow
himself, whose entire winter leisure is occupied, as he assures me, in
answering demands for autographs, a labor exacting enough in itself, and
egregiously so to him, who, being no ready penman, cannot sign so much
as his name without strange contortions of the face (his nose, even,
being essential to complete success) and
painfully
suppressed
Saint-Vitus-dance of every muscle in his body.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Ma dimmi: al tempo d'i dolci sospiri,
a che e come concedette amore
che
conosceste
i dubbiosi disiri?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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" Yea even as Peire Vidal ran as a wolf for her of Penautier
though some say that twas folly or as Garulf
Bisclavret
so ran truly, till the King brought him respite (See 'Lais' Marie de France), so was he ever by the Ash Tree.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Since
rallying
from our wall we forced the foe,
Still aim'd at Hector have I bent my bow:
Eight forky arrows from this hand have fled,
And eight bold heroes by their points lie dead:
But sure some god denies me to destroy
This fury of the field, this dog of Troy.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Among the minor poems of Bryant, none has so much
impressed
me as the
one which he entitles "June.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The
following
Early English lives do not belong to the great Collection of long-line "Saints' Lives" in the Harleian, Vernon, and other MSS, from which I printed a selec|tion*.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
This was an
allusion
to the Hawley Boy, who was in the habit of riding
all across Simla in the Rains, to call on Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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In that which becks
Our ready minds to
fellowship
divine,
A fellowship with essence; till we shine, 780
Full alchemiz'd, and free of space.
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Keats |
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L'eure soit ore la maudite,
Que povres homs fu
conceus!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
Thus said, he turned; and Satan, bowing low,
As to
superior
Spirits is wont in Heaven,
Where honour due and reverence none neglects,
Took leave, and toward the coast of Earth beneath,
Down from the ecliptic, sped with hoped success,
Throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel,
Nor stayed till on Niphantes' top he lights.
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Keats - Lamia |
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" said Eviradnus in his wrath,
"I rather should have hewn your limbs away,
And left you
crawling
on your stumps, I say,--
But now die fast.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Oh soon, and better so than later
After long disgrace and scorn,
You shot dead the
household
traitor,
The soul that should not have been born.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Ma di s'i' veggio qui colui che fore
trasse le nove rime, cominciando
'Donne ch'avete
intelletto
d'amore'>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Antiquaries differ widely as to the
situation
of the field of
battle.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I, loving freedom, and untried;
No sport of every random gust,
Yet being to myself a guide,
Too blindly have reposed my trust:
And oft, when in my heart was heard
Thy timely mandate, I deferr'd
The task, in
smoother
walks to stray;
But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may.
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Golden Treasury |
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Retreating they had form'd in a hollow square with their baggage for
breastworks,
Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemies, nine times their
number, was the price they took in advance,
Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone,
They treated for an
honorable
capitulation, receiv'd writing and
seal, gave up their arms and march'd back prisoners of war.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Soft went the music the soft air along,
While fluent Greek a vowel'd undersong
Kept up among the guests discoursing low
At first, for scarcely was the wine at flow;
But when the happy vintage touch'd their brains,
Louder they talk, and louder come the strains
Of powerful instruments--the gorgeous dyes,
The space, the splendour of the draperies,
The roof of awful richness, nectarous cheer,
Beautiful slaves, and Lamia's self, appear,
Now, when the wine has done its rosy deed,
And every soul from human
trammels
freed,
No more so strange; for merry wine, sweet wine,
Will make Elysian shades not too fair, too divine.
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Keats - Lamia |
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'
Howard looked at him in a
mystified
way and the conversation dropped.
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Yeats |
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--Since thus it profits him
To study, I will wrap his senses up
In sweet oblivion of all thought but of _210
A piece of
excellent
beauty; and, as I
Have power given me to wage enmity
Against Justina's soul, I will extract
From one effect two vengeances.
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Shelley |
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Imagists |
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Then I, long tried
By natural ills,
received
the comfort fast,
While budding, at thy sight, my pilgrim's staff
Gave out green leaves with morning dews impearled.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And ever and anon the wolf would steal
The
children
and devour, but now and then,
Her own brood lost or dead, lent her fierce teat
To human sucklings; and the children, housed
In her foul den, there at their meat would growl,
And mock their foster mother on four feet,
Till, straightened, they grew up to wolf-like men,
Worse than the wolves.
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Tennyson |
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Note: The Rose
tremiere
is the hollyhock.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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(and you!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Be the slackness girt and the
softness
quelled
And the slowness fleet.
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Christina Rossetti |
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But by the mouth
To imitate the liquid notes of birds
Was earlier far 'mongst men than power to make,
By
measured
song, melodious verse and give
Delight to ears.
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Lucretius |
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how unlike those late
terrific
sleeps!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And for ther is so greet diversitee
In English and in wryting of our tonge,
So preye I god that noon
miswryte
thee, 1795
Ne thee mismetre for defaute of tonge.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Then, again,
Whatever abides eternal must indeed
Either repel all strokes, because 'tis made
Of solid body, and permit no entrance
Of aught with power to sunder from within
The parts compact--as are those seeds of stuff
Whose nature we've exhibited before;
Or else be able to endure through time
For this: because they are from blows exempt,
As is the void, the which abides untouched,
Unsmit by any stroke; or else because
There is no room around, whereto things can,
As 'twere, depart in
dissolution
all,--
Even as the sum of sums eternal is,
Without or place beyond whereto things may
Asunder fly, or bodies which can smite,
And thus dissolve them by the blows of might.
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Lucretius |
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The
transformation
was soon consummated.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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ELECTRA (_trying to mask her excitement and resist the
contagion
of his_).
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Euripides - Electra |
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Evidemment
il se <> pour mieux
plaire a quelque belle.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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ou or
deceiuest
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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_Drums in
distance
announce the enemy's approach_.
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Surely there can be nothing in mere _size, _abstractly
considered--there can be nothing in mere _bulk, so _far as a volume
is concerned, which has so
continuously
elicited admiration from these
saturnine pamphlets!
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Poe - 5 |
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I come not now to ask her back from thee;
Nay, let her love thee with
insensate
love;
I take back naught that bears the brand of shame.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"'Tis no common rule,
Lycius," said he, "for uninvited guest
To force himself upon you, and infest
With an unbidden
presence
the bright throng
Of younger friends; yet must I do this wrong,
And you forgive me.
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Oh, come you home of Sunday
When Ludlow streets are still
And Ludlow bells are calling
To farm and lane and mill,
Or come you home of Monday
When Ludlow market hums
And Ludlow chimes are playing
"The
conquering
hero comes,"
Come you home a hero,
Or come not home at all,
The lads you leave will mind you
Till Ludlow tower shall fall.
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Father
omnipotent!
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Fortune in men has some small
difference
made,
One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade;
The cobbler aproned, and the parson gowned,
The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned,
"What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl?
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"No other contemporary poet has more
independently
yoked the dominant thought of the times.
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I well believe thou lovest;
But listen; with thy stormy,
doubtful
fate
I have resolved to join my own; but one thing,
Dimitry, I require; I claim that thou
Disclose to me thy secret hopes, thy plans,
Even thy fears, that hand in hand with thee
I may confront life boldly--not in blindness
Of childlike ignorance, not as the slave
And plaything of my husband's light desires,
Thy speechless concubine, but as thy spouse,
And worthy helpmate of the tsar of Moscow.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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C'est la que j'ai vecu dans les voluptes calmes,
Au milieu de l'azur, des vagues, des splendeurs
Et des esclaves nus, tout impregnes d'odeurs,
Qui me rafraichissaient le front avec des palmes,
Et dont l'unique soin etait d'approfondir
Le secret
douloureux
qui me faisait languir.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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guarda qua giuso a la nostra
procella!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Chimene
It is just, great King, that a
murderer
perish.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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But where it fell
The saved will tell
On patriotic day,
Some
epauletted
brother
Gave his breath away.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sometimes
a
nightingale sings to the moon, weary of empty hills.
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Li Po |
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A white face, drooping, on a bending neck:
A tube-rose that with heavy petal curves
Her stem: a foam-bell on a wave that swerves
Back from the
undulating
vessel's deck.
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Sidney Lanier |
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LIFE'S ALCHEMY By Abigail Fithian Halsey
For love that came with laughter And left us all in tears,
The sting that followed after
And haunted all our years
With love's
remembered
laughter And unforgotten tears;
For life that came with singing And changed with time to pain, Till years the meaning bringing
Had turned our loss to gain And given back the singing Made sweeter by the pain;
For all that love has taken, For all that life has left,
Say not, "We are forsaken," Nor cry, "We are bereft.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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So cried I with clenched hands and passionate pain,
Thinking of dear ones by Potomac's side;
Again the loon laughed mocking, and again
The echoes bayed far down the night and died,
While waking I
recalled
my wandering brain.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He sails
in the vast Triton, who amazes the blue
waterways
with his shell, and
swims on with shaggy front, in human show from the flank upward; his
belly ends in a dragon; beneath the monster's breast the wave gurgles
into foam.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Their pride of precedence, let it be
wounded!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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and fling down
To float awhile upon these bushes near
Your blue
transparent
robes: take off my crown,
And take away my jealous veil; for here
To-day we shall be joyous while we lave
Our limbs amid the murmur of the wave.
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Hugo - Poems |
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