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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Ah woe
bementynge
wordes; what wordes can shewe!
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While still our ignorant lives were drowned beneath
The
flooding
of the earthly fate, and chance
Seemed pouring mightily dark and loud between us,
Unspeakable news oft visited our hearts:
We knew each other by desire; yea, spake
Out of the strength of darkness flowing o'er us,
Across the hindering outcry of the world
One to another sweet desirable things.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet
ornament
which truth doth give.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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siððan
hē (Hygelāc) under segne sinc
eal-gode, wælrēaf werede, _while under his banner he protected the
treasures, defended the spoil of battle_ (i.
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Beowulf |
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Then, having
prepared
the paste, insert the whole carefully; adding at the
same time a small pigeon, 2 slices of beef, 4 cauliflowers, and any number
of oysters.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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This
Lodovico
is a proper man.
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Shakespeare |
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How many a
doubtful
day shall sink in night,
Ere the Frank robber turn him from his spoil,
And Freedom's stranger-tree grow native of the soil?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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O to hear you call the sailors and the
soldiers!
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Whitman |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I used to live
entirely
for pleasure.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_Osiris_, the
Egyptian
god of Agriculture (here, perhaps by confusion
with Apis, figured as a Bull), was torn to pieces by Typho and embalmed
after death in a sacred chest.
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Golden Treasury |
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--'Tis morn: with gold the verdant
mountain
glows,
More high, the snowy peaks with hues of rose.
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William Wordsworth |
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haec
indiuidui
semper comes addita fulcri
unanimam tibi se lustra per octo dedit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Beseech you, spirits, give
To Eve who
beggarly
entreats your love
For her and Adam when they shall be dead,
An answer rather fitting to the sin
Than to the sorrow--as the heavens, I trow,
For justice' sake gave theirs.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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e felde
chirkynge
agrise?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Insect lover of the sun,
Joy of thy
dominion!
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Emerson - Poems |
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Ye airy, tender youths, your numbers
Have sung him into
sweetest
slumbers!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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So to the bull Europa gave
Her
beauteous
form, and when she saw
The monstrous deep, the yawning grave,
Grew pale with awe.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Ces enfants seuls etaient ses familiers
Qui, chetifs, fronts nus, oeil
deteignant
sur la joue,
Cachant de maigres doigts jaunes et noirs de boue,
Sous des habits puant la foire et tout vieillots,
Conversaient avec la douceur des idiots!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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methinks ye measure
Your
movements
to some heavenly tune!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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With emulation's noblest fires I glow,
And soon that reptile race that boast below
Bright Fame's conducting lamp, that seems to vie
With my
incessant
journeys round the sky,
And gains, or seems to gain, increasing light,
Yet shall its glories sink in gradual night.
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Petrarch |
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Here sways Rebekah
accompanied
by Zilpah;
Miriam plays to the singing of Bilhah;
Hagar has tales for us, Judith her story;
Esther exhales bright romances and musk.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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" "Be it so," we both
replied, and on those terms we
mutually
pledged our words.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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If you'd seen me even to-day,
The
darnedest
picture of woe,
With this Caliban mug of mine,
So ravaged and raw and red,
Turned to the wall--in fine
Wishing that I was dead.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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While larks with little wing
Fann'd the pure air,
Tasting the breathing spring,
Forth I did fare:
Gay the sun's golden eye
Peep'd o'er the
mountains
high;
Such thy morn!
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Robert Forst |
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To other lands I now must go,
To sing my
Highland
lassie, O.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Cheer up youre hartes, chase sorrowe farre awaie,
Godde and Seyncte
Cuthbert
be the worde to daie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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As when AEneas hangs up and consecrates the arms of Abas with this
inscription:--
"AEneas haec de Danais
victoribus
arma.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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CXXVI
And would that from his realm, in want and woe,
King
Agramant
a mendicant should wend;
That through his means the monarch, brought thus low,
His fathers' ancient seat might reascend:
And thus he might the fruit of fealty show,
And make his sovereign see, a real friend
Was aye to be preferred in wrong or right,
Although the world against him should unite;
CXXVII
And thus the Saracen pours forth his moan,
With rage against his liege and love possest;
And on his way is by long journeys gone,
Giving himself and courser little rest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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His want of merit was the cause he thought,
That she could never to his wish be brought,
While from him not a
syllable
was heard,
Against the lovely belle his soul preferred.
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La Fontaine |
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[21]
_istanamma_
> _istilamma_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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thus ariseth our sphere
Like heroes we banish both
mountain
and mere,
Young and great beams the spirit, unbound
On the fields, on the floods that surround.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Do you think a great city
endures?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Though here to take a part Bellona 's found,
Of
cuirasses
I see but few around;
When Venus closes with the god of Thrace,
Her armour then appears with ev'ry grace.
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La Fontaine |
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So
beautiful
it is to wake at night!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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At half-past three a single bird
Unto a silent sky
Propounded but a single term
Of
cautious
melody.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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First march the bold Epirotes,
Wedged close with shield and spear
And the ranks of false Tarentum
Are
glittering
in the rear.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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They should have known
also how to
interpret
sorrow better.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The members of this troop had served under
Vitellius
when
pro-consul in Africa.
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Tacitus |
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Show me some bastard mushrooms
Sprung from a
pollution
of blood.
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Stephen Crane |
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The room with sweetest flow'rs fair Flora strewed;
A sort of garden o'er the linen traced
Here lakes of love:--there names entwined were placed;
Magnificence like this the nuns admired,
And such
amusements
ardently desired.
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La Fontaine |
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While they were thus
situated, the dwarf, who had followed noiselessly at their heels,
inciting them to keep up the commotion, took hold of their own chain
at the
intersection
of the two portions which crossed the circle
diametrically and at right angles.
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Poe - 5 |
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BEGGAR Forgive me,
gracious
Sir!
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William Wordsworth |
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', and
remember
that Mrs.
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John Donne |
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Thus the prophetic word fulfils itself,
That with my life shall
terminate
my woe.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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O Rose of the crimson beauty,
Why hast thou awakened the
sleeper?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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CHORUS
Be it mine to upraise thro' the reek of the pyre
The chant of delight, while the funeral fire
Devoureth
the corpse of a man that is slain
And a woman laid low!
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Aeschylus |
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Nous nous aimions a cette epoque,
Bleu laideron:
On
mangeait
des oeufs a la coque
Et du mouron!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I think the hemlock likes to stand
Upon a marge of snow;
It suits his own austerity,
And satisfies an awe
That men must slake in wilderness,
Or in the desert cloy, --
An
instinct
for the hoar, the bald,
Lapland's necessity.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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O Patric, by your brazen bell,
There was no limb of mine but fell
Into a
desperate
gulph of love!
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Yeats |
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Somme hyltren matters doe mie
presence
fynde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Porter
And on her
daughter
200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The
stainers
have decreed the stains shall stay.
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Sidney Lanier |
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It is
as if a
sculptor
of to-day were to set himself, with reverence, and trained
craftsmanship, and studious familiarity with the spirit, technique, and
atmosphere of his subject, to restore some statues of Polyclitus or
Praxiteles of which he had but a broken arm, a foot, a knee, a finger upon
which to build.
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Sappho |
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We're under more
constraint
than ever,
And pay more tax than ever yet.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A little Torquatus I wish, from his mother's bosom
reaching
out his dainty
hands, and smiling sweetly at his father with lips apart.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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For she forbad him Ielosye at alle,
And cruelte, and bost, and tirannye;
She made him at hir lust so humble and talle,
That when hir deyned caste on him her ye,
He took in
pacience
to live or dye; 40
And thus she brydeleth him in hir manere,
With no-thing but with scourging of hir chere.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And I have known the eyes already, known them all--
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated,
sprawling
on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
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T.S. Eliot |
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quis deus tibi non bene aduocatus
uecordem parat
excitare
rixam?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen:
Verweile
doch!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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This Troilus ful ofte hir eyen two
Gan for to kisse, and seyde, `O eyen clere,
It were ye that
wroughte
me swich wo,
Ye humble nettes of my lady dere!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The gay, gaudy glare of vanity and art:
The polish'd jewels' blaze
May draw the wond'ring gaze;
And courtly
grandeur
bright
The fancy may delight,
But never, never can come near the heart.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He is a seer--he is individual--he is
complete
in
himself: the others are as good as he; only he sees it, and they do not.
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Whitman |
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'T is beggars banquets best define;
'T is thirsting
vitalizes
wine, --
Faith faints to understand.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Straight
to his heart the bullet crushed;
Down from his breast the red blood gushed,
And o'er his face a glory rushed.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Having heard us to an end, the Count proceeded to relate a few
anecdotes, which rendered it evident that prototypes of Gall and
Spurzheim had
flourished
and faded in Egypt so long ago as to have been
nearly forgotten, and that the manoeuvres of Mesmer were really very
contemptible tricks when put in collation with the positive miracles
of the Theban savans, who created lice and a great many other similar
things.
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Poe - 5 |
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full of snares and sticks, a difficult course
Have I to run, where easy foot and sure
Were rather needed, healthy in each part;
Thou, Lord, who still of pity hast the prize,
Stretch to me thy right hand in this wild wood,
And let thy sun dispel my
darkness
new.
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Petrarch |
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And now the tears were on his face,
And fondly in his arms he took
Fair Geraldine, who met the embrace,
Prolonging
it with joyous look.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Cynthia then, when driving you out of such
unchaste
embraces,
Found you unfaithful, it's true, but she did find you whole.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Can I pour thy wine
While my hands
tremble?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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It rises above the road by the side of
Grasmere
Lake
towards Keswick, and its name is Stone-Arthur.
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William Wordsworth |
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'For thou art mine, and I am thine,
'Till the dreaded
judgement
day,
I am thine, and thou art mine-- _95
Night is past--I must away.
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Shelley |
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Your lordship's pleasure
Shall be
attended
to.
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Poe - 5 |
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But if any one still anxious for literal truth should
insist--'Is not the
impression
as false as the medium that conveys
it?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"The Fragment forms,"
said he, "the postulata, the axioms, the
definition
of a character,
which, if it appear at all, shall be placed in a variety of lights.
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Robert Forst |
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The 'blanks' indeed take on importance, at first glance; the
versification
demands them, as a surrounding silence, to the extent that a fragment, lyrical or of a few beats, occupies, in its midst, a third of the space of paper: I do not transgress the measure, only disperse it.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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learned Anselm do I see, said she,
In this
disguise?
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La Fontaine |
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thou gifted
With
eloquence
which shall not be withstood, _1795
Flow thus!
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Shelley |
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In such like extremes, why, extremes will come pat;
So let's go and wet all our
whistles
with that.
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John Clare |
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Deuce
knows where the Ayah takes him to sit in the
evening!
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Kipling - Poems |
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And when I reached the market place, a youth
standing
on a house-top
cried, "He is a madman.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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LXI
But
fiercely
ran the current,
Swollen high by months of rain:
And fast his blood was flowing;
And he was sore in pain,
And heavy with his armor,
And spent with changing blows:
And oft they thought him sinking,
But still again he rose.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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IX
I stood upon a high place,
And saw, below, many devils
Running, leaping,
And
carousing
in sin.
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Stephen Crane |
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TO HORTALUS
LAMENTING
A LOST BROTHER.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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[Sidenote H: I never
flinched
when thou struckest.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Madam, your Chancellor, Sir
Nicholas
Heath.
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Tennyson |
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But the Pasha's
attention
is failing,
O'er his visage his fair turban stealeth;
From tchebouk {13a} he sleep is inhaling
Whilst round him sweet vapours he dealeth.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Nay, rather for the sake of me, their King,
And the deed's sake my
knighthood
do the deed,
Than to be noised of.
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Tennyson |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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) can copy and
distribute it in the United States without permission and
without paying
copyright
royalties.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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XXXVII
Well I found you in the twilit garden,
Laid a lover's hand upon your shoulder,
And we both were made aware of loving
Past the reach of reason to unravel,
Or the much
desiring
heart to follow.
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Sappho |
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Now since it may not be, but love intend
The welfare mainly of the thing it loves,
All from self-hatred are secure; and since
No being can be thought t' exist apart
And
independent
of the first, a bar
Of equal force restrains from hating that.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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1080
Aboute hir nekke of gentil entaile
Was shet the riche chevesaile,
>>
Par derriere dusques as os,
Qu'il
abaissent
des bons les los,
Et desloent les aloes,
Et si loent les desloes.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Part is
probably not later than the seventeenth century: in other stanzas a more
modern hand, much
resembling
Scott's, is traceable.
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Golden Treasury |
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Racing dawn, the
carriages
come home,--
And the girls with their high baskets full of fruit.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Rilke - Poems |
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La sua
chiarezza
seguita l'ardore;
l'ardor la visione, e quella e tanta,
quant' ha di grazia sovra suo valore.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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