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But why expose them to such
confrontation?
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How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,
'Thus far the miles are
measured
from thy friend!
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There, while her tears deplored the godlike man,
Through all her train the soft
infection
ran;
The pious maids their mingled sorrows shed,
And mourn the living Hector, as the dead.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast, quenching my fire,
A deity at the gods'
ambrosial
feast.
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Ronsard |
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'T is as in midmost us there glows a sphere Translucent, molten gold, that is the "I" And into this some form
projects
itself:
Christus, or John, or eke the Florentine; And as the clear space is not if a form 's
Imposed thereon,
So cease we from all being for the time,
And these, the Masters of the Soul, live on.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And most serene of aspect, and most clear:
Surely that stream was
unprofaned
by slaughters,
A mirror and a bath for Beauty's youngest daughters!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Far hence is by unequal gods removed
That man of bounties, loving and
beloved!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I suppose in the whole of India there are
few men whose
learning
is greater than his, and I don't think
there are many men more beloved.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The circles of the stormy moon
Slide
westward
toward the River Plate,
Death and the Raven drift above
And Sweeney guards the horned gate.
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Defer to the you,
she has
certitude
for, me?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,
If you groan such groans you might balk the
government
cannon.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Quem colent homines magis
Caelitum?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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It is no small matter, this round and delicious globe, moving so exactly in
its orbit for ever and ever, without one jolt, or the untruth of a
single second;
I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten
billions of years,
Nor planned and built one thing after another, as an
architect
plans and
builds a house.
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Whitman |
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Behold these
sickning
Spheres {The Man is erased from the 1st rendition and Albion is set in its place.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of
withered
leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
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T.S. Eliot |
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"Who can have
patience
with a man
That's got no more discretion than
An idiotic goose?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Now on the moth-time of that evening dim
He would return that way, as well she knew,
To Corinth from the shore; for freshly blew
The eastern soft wind, and his galley now
Grated the quaystones with her brazen prow
In port Cenchreas, from Egina isle
Fresh anchor'd; whither he had been awhile
To
sacrifice
to Jove, whose temple there
Waits with high marble doors for blood and incense rare.
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Keats - Lamia |
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_Orchestra
Tutti_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Now let us go to kneel before the tombs
Of Russia's great
departed
rulers.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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To let a creed, built in the heart of things,
Dissolve before a
twinkling
atom!
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William Wordsworth |
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Miss Nancy
Ellicott
smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.
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T.S. Eliot |
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One autumn day, my mother was making honey jam in her parlour, while,
licking my lips, I was
watching
the operations, and occasionally tasting
the boiling liquid.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Solomon, Song of,
portions
of it done into Latin verse by Mr.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Seven queens shone round her ivory bed,
Like seven soft gems on a silken thread,
Like seven fair lamps in a royal tower,
Like seven bright petals of Beauty's flower
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose
"Where is my rival, O King Feroz?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
"As you see, Alexey Ivanytch is a man of wit, and of good family, to be
sure, well off, too; but only to think of being obliged to kiss him
before
everybody
under the marriage crown!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Where fyndest thou a swinker of labour
Have me unto his
confessour?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Even the
Immortal
Gods the wand'rer's pray'r
Respect, and such am I, who reach, at length,
Thy stream, and clasp thy knees, after long toil.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And I wol yive him al that falles
To a chambre; and al his halles
I wol do peynte with pure golde,
And tapite hem ful many folde 260
Of oo sute; this shal he have,
If I wiste wher were his cave,
If he can make me slepe sone,
As did the
goddesse
Alcione.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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He
flourished
about 500 B.
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Aristophanes |
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_ For was she not a
serpent?
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Keats |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the beginning of his four and a half year
residence
in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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V
Arrived there, the dore they find fast lockt;
For it was warely watched night and day,
For feare of many foes: but when they knockt,
The Porter opened unto them
streight
way: 40
He was an aged syre, all hory gray,
With lookes full lowly cast, and gate full slow,
Wont on a staffe his feeble steps to stay,
Hight Humilta.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Some, with the
tottering
steps of Age,
Trod down the darksome way;
And some, in youth's lamented prime,
Like thee were torn away:
Yet these, however hard their fate,
Their native earth receives;
Amid their weeping friends they died,
And fill their fathers' graves.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I love thee, Mary dearly love--
There's nought so fair on earth I see,
There's nought so dear in heaven above,
As Mary
Bayfield
is to me.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Derriere les decors
De l'existence immense, au plus noir de l'abime,
Je vois distinctement des mondes singuliers,
Et, de ma clairvoyance
extatique
victime,
Je traine des serpents qui mordent mes souliers.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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190
But it's high time for us to be settin' our faces
Towards reconstructin' the national basis,
With an eye to beginnin' agin on the jolly ticks
We used to chalk up 'hind the back-door o' politics;
An' the fus' thing's to save wut of Slav'ry ther's lef'
Arter this (I mus' call it)
imprudence
o' Jeff:
For a real good Abuse, with its roots fur an' wide,
Is the kin' o' thing _I_ like to hev on my side;
A Scriptur' name makes it ez sweet ez a rose,
An' it's tougher the older an' uglier it grows-- 200
(I ain't speakin' now o' the righteousness of it,
But the p'litickle purchase it gives an' the profit).
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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In the light hereof may be
understood
the uninterrupted waxing and waning of things, and the
perpetual succession of existence.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Yet am I fixed to go--withhold me not--
Assured I am, assured, that Zeus will grant
The boon I crave, the
loosening
of thy bonds.
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Aeschylus |
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"Then, if you'd be impressive,
Remember what I say,
That
abstract
qualities begin
With capitals alway:
The True, the Good, the Beautiful--
Those are the things that pay!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The volume
purported
to have no editor, yet
a collection without an editor was pronounced preposterous.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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He
has mingled his own ideas with the subjects he drew from Menander, just
as
Sophocles
and Euripides mingled theirs with the subjects they drew
from former writers, sparing neither history nor romance, where "decorum"
and the rules of the Drama were at issue.
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La Fontaine |
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--b) _before_,
coram, in conspectu: no hē þǣre feohgyfte for scēotendum
scamigan
þorfte,
_had no need to be ashamed of the gift before the warriors_, 1027; for þǣm
werede, 1216; for eorlum, 1650; for duguðe, _before the noble band of
warriors_, 2021.
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Beowulf |
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I wot not where
thou dwellest, but teach me thereto, tell me how thou art called, and I
shall
endeavour
to find thee,--and that I swear thee for truth and by
my sure troth.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Phaedra
complains
I've been offended.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Yet therein now doth lodge a noble peer,
Great England's glory and the world's wide wonder,
Whose
dreadful
name late thro' all Spain did thunder,
And Hercules' two pillars standing near
Did make to quake and fear:
Fair branch of honour, flower of chivalry!
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Golden Treasury |
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If it could be so I'd make no fuss,
All fate's
suffering
would seem sweet today,
Not even if I'd to be a vulture's prey,
Nor he who must roll the boulder, Sisyphus.
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Ronsard |
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28
Doth still before thee rise the
beauteous
image 29
There laughs in the heightening year, soft 30
The blissful meadows beckoned.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
But I cried out,--"That is a false prophet; for I shall be a
musician, and naught but a
musician
shall I be.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Now Media dreads our Alban steel,
Our
victories
land and ocean o'er;
Scythia and Ind in suppliance kneel,
So proud before.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Sev'nteen days 330
I sail'd the flood continual, and descried,
On the eighteenth, your shadowy mountains tall
When my exulting heart sprang at the sight,
All wretched as I was, and still ordain'd
To strive with
difficulties
many and hard
From adverse Neptune; he the stormy winds
Exciting opposite, my wat'ry way
Impeded, and the waves heav'd to a bulk
Immeasurable, such as robb'd me soon
Deep-groaning, of the raft, my only hope; 340
For her the tempest scatter'd, and myself
This ocean measur'd swimming, till the winds
And mighty waters cast me on your shore.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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This face owes to the sexton his
dismalest
fee,
An unceasing death-bell tolls there.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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whate'er thy name:
That
something
still which prompts the eternal sigh,
For which we bear to live, or dare to die,
Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies,
O'erlooked, seen double, by the fool, and wise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Not so the wise; no coward watch he keeps
To spy what danger on his pathway creeps;
Go where he will, the wise man is at home,
His hearth the earth,--his hall the azure dome;
Where his clear spirit leads him, there's his road
By God's own light
illumined
and foreshowed.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Charming
literary
person!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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sed postquam puri
peruenit
ad aetheris auras,
mox redit; illa suis conditur inde locis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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250
My mother, why elud'st thou my attempt
To clasp thee, that ev'n here, in Pluto's realm,
We might to full satiety indulge
Our grief,
enfolded
in each other's arms?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Chanson de Roland |
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In the stead of a king so just and so pious, a little
monk, fat, rosy, barefooted, with a shorn head, and half covered with a
dirty mantle, bent by
hypocrisy
more than by age, lost in debauchery
whilst proud of his affected poverty, and still more of the real wealth
he has amassed--this man holds the reins of this staggering empire.
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Petrarch |
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nonnullae flammas
quatiunt
trepidaeque minantur
stridentis nullo igne facis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
"Yea, we are twin brothers, O, Night; for thou
revealest
space and
I reveal my soul.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Others like sisters wander, grave and slow,
Among the rocks haunted by
spectres
thin,
Where Antony saw as larvae surge and flow
The veined bare breasts that tempted him to sin.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The chants
of the Welsh harpers preserved, through ages of darkness, a faint
and
doubtful
memory of Arthur.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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XC
Yet he who would excuse the sudden wheel,
Upon his courser might the blame bestow:
But, after, he so ill his strokes did deal,
Demosthenes
his cause might well forego.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Unauthenticated
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Du Fu - 5 |
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My breath caught, I lurched forward--
stumbled
in the ground-myrtle.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But
those
blessings
which the apparent gods bestow in common every day, not
on one family, nor on a single city, but on the whole world, why do you
not acknowledge?
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Tacitus |
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I have no more to give, all that was mine
Is laid, a wrested tribute, at thy shrine;
Let me depart, for my whole soul is wrung,
And all my
cheerless
orisons are sung;
Let me depart, with faint limbs let me creep
To some dim shade and sink me down to sleep.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Their voices, dying as they fly,
Thick on the wind are sown;
The names of men blow
soundless
by,
My fellows' and my own.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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_ hoc
est, soles hoc
praestare
matribus.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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" And that
illustrious
judgment
by the most learned M.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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On
the other hand, Archimago symbolizes the
deceptions
of the Jesuits and
Duessa the false Church of Rome masquerading as true religion.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And can ye thus
unfriended
leave me?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Which, if it now or shall
hereafter
shine,
'Twas by your splendour, lady, not by mine.
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Robert Herrick |
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I swear,
Here at the gate she shall stand
palpable!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Their perpetual
revolts, their impatience of all rule and civilized life, their
treachery and cruelty, obliged the
authorities
to keep a sharp watch
upon them in order to reduce them to submission.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Suddenly
we heard a voice crying, "This is the
sea.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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" He had an
unassuaged
thirst for the absolute.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A grave, on which to rest from
singing?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I dreamt I saw thee, robed in purple flakes,
Break amorous through the clouds, as morning breaks,
And, swiftly as a bright
Phoebean
dart,
Strike for the Cretan isle; and here thou art!
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Keats |
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He sate his horse, the which he called Marmore,
Never so swift was any bird in course;
He's loosed the reins, and spurring on that horse
He's gone to strike Gerin with all his force;
The scarlat shield from's neck he's broken off,
And all his sark thereafter has he torn,
The ensign blue clean through his body's gone,
Until he flings him dead, on a high rock;
His
companion
Gerer he's slain also,
And Berenger, and Guiun of Santone;
Next a rich duke he's gone to strike, Austore,
That held Valence and the Honour of the Rhone;
He's flung him dead; great joy the pagans shew.
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Chanson de Roland |
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How
joyfully
didst thou
Live out thy youth!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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E io: <
memoria o uso a l'amoroso canto
che mi solea quetar tutte mie doglie,
di cio ti piaccia
consolare
alquanto
l'anima mia, che, con la sua persona
venendo qui, e affannata tanto!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Why are Eyelids stord with arrows ready drawn,
Where a thousand
fighting
men in ambush lie!
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blake-poems |
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If the Bard was weather-wise, who made
The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence,
This night, so tranquil now, will not go hence
Unroused
by winds, that ply a busier trade
Than those which mould yon cloud in lazy flakes,
Or the dull sobbing drafty that moans and rakes
Upon the strings of this AEolian lute,
Which better far were mute.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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They climb over cliffs, where each hill had a hat
and a mist-cloak, until the next morn, when they find
themselves
on a
full high hill covered with snow.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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We all are sensible that there is a set of critics now existing, who
prefer Lucilius [d] to Horace, and Lucretius [e] to Virgil; who
despise the eloquence of
Aufidius
Bassus [f] and Servilius Nonianus,
and yet admire Varro and [g] Sisenna.
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Tacitus |
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THAT
advantageous
'tis, we now will prove:
Folks laugh; your wife a pliant glove shall move;
But, if you've twenty favourites around,
A single syllable will ne'er resound.
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La Fontaine |
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Fame that her high worth to raise,
Seem'd erst so lavish and profuse,
We may justly now accuse 10
Of
detraction
from her praise,
Less then half we find exprest,
Envy bid conceal the rest.
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Milton |
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The happier state
In Heav'n, which follows dignity, might draw
Envy from each inferior; but who here
Will envy whom the highest place exposes
Formost to stand against the Thunderers aime
Your bulwark, and
condemns
to greatest share
Of endless pain?
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Milton |
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Expectation and doubt 5
Flutter my
timorous
heart.
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Sappho |
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