Orpheus
invented
all the sciences, all the arts.
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Appoloinaire |
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And there is no place
In all the coast for
wreckage
like this bay;
There often will my grannam be, a sack
Over her shoulders, turning up the crust
Of sun-dried weed to find her winter's warmth.
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_The_ absurdity _of
conceiting
himself the _final cause
_of the creation, or expecting that perfection in the_
moral _world, which is not in the_ natural.
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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MARGARETE (wirft sich zu ihm):
O lass uns knien, die Heil'gen
anzurufen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Arrived was the hour
when to hall
proceeded
Healfdene's son:
the king himself would sit to banquet.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Gauge of more and less through space,
Electric star or pencil plays,
The lonely Earth amid the balls
That hurry through the eternal halls,
A
makeweight
flying to the void,
Supplemental asteroid,
Or compensatory spark,
Shoots across the neutral Dark.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Perhaps he will die, and the
sacrilegious
vow 1315
Of a maddened father may yet be carried out.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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In his deep
thoughts
the wonder did increase.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of
Alexander
the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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XXIV
Up then, up dreary Dame, of darknesse Queene,
Go gather up the reliques of thy race,
Or else goe them avenge, and let be seene, 210
That dreaded Night in
brightest
day hath place,
And can the children of faire light deface.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events,
heroes, records of the earth;
I see the places of the sagas;
I see pine-trees and fir-frees torn by northern blasts;
I see granite boulders and cliffs--I see green meadows and lakes;
I see the burial-cairns of Scandinavian warriors;
I see them raised high with stones, by the marge of
restless
oceans, that
the dead men's spirits, when they wearied of their quiet graves,
might rise up through the mounds, and gaze on the tossing billows,
and be refreshed by storms, immensity, liberty, action.
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Whitman |
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With so much
quarrelling
and so few kisses
How long do you think our love can last?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Well was the crime, and well the
vengeance
spared;
Even power immense had found such battle hard.
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Iliad - Pope |
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My limbs are
loosened
where they stand,
When I behold this aged band--
Oh God!
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Aeschylus |
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"And the tsar has
commanded
to arrest him--"
OFFICER.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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The rat is the
concisest
tenant.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"Much of the experienced man I long to hear,
If or his certain eye, or
listening
ear,
Have learn'd the fortunes of my wandering lord?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Edward Dickinson, was the
leading lawyer of Amherst, and was
treasurer
of the well-known
college there situated.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
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Ronsard |
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Keats - Lamia |
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This layered palace lies against
whirling
gusts, 4 looming at the mouth of a hole in the earth.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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That the maker of cities grew faint
with the splendour of palaces,
paused while the incense-flowers
from the incense-trees
dropped on the marble-walk,
thought anew,
fashioned
this--
street after street alike.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Remote from man, and storms of mortal care,
A
heavenly
silence did the waves invest;
I looked and looked along the silent air,
Until it seemed to bring a joy to my despair.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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34-35:
and make more
Mynes in the earth, then
Quarries
were before.
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John Donne |
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his
ellenweorc
duguðum
dēmdon, _praised his heroic deed with all their might_,
3176.
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Beowulf |
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Night and her
admirable
stars again!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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yet a few short years of useful life, 430
And all will be complete, thy race be run,
Thy monument of glory will be raised;
Then, though (too weak to tread the ways of truth)
This age fall back to old idolatry,
Though men return to servitude as fast 435
As the tide ebbs, to ignominy and shame
By nations sink together, we shall still
Find solace--knowing what we have learnt to know,
Rich in true happiness if allowed to be
Faithful alike in forwarding a day 440
Of firmer trust, joint
labourers
in the work
(Should Providence such grace to us vouchsafe)
Of their deliverance, surely yet to come.
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William Wordsworth |
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'Joy drowns the twilight in the dew,
And fills with stars night's purple cup,
And wakes the sluggard seeds of corn,
And stirs the young kid's budding horn,
And makes the infant ferns unwrap,
And for the peewit paints his cap,
And rolls along the unwieldy sun,
And makes the little planets run:
And if joy were not on the earth,
There were an end of change and birth,
And earth and heaven and hell would die,
And in some gloomy barrow lie
Folded like a frozen fly;
Then mock at Death and Time with glances
And waving arms and
wandering
dances.
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Yeats |
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Ahi Pisa,
vituperio
de le genti
del bel paese la dove 'l si suona,
poi che i vicini a te punir son lenti,
muovasi la Capraia e la Gorgona,
e faccian siepe ad Arno in su la foce,
si ch'elli annieghi in te ogne persona!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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There are many
chimaeras
that exist today, and before combating one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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Lo, now that body is the song whereof
Spirit is mood, knoweth not our
delight?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Be it lawful I love thee, as thou lov'st those
Whom thine eyes woo as mine
importune
thee:
Root pity in thy heart, that, when it grows,
Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The agreement of the printed texts does not carry much weight, for
any examination of the
variants
in this poem will reveal that they are
errors due to misunderstanding, e.
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John Donne |
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Cartier, Jacques,
commendable
zeal of.
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James Russell Lowell |
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This was Nizam ul Mulk, Vizier
to Alp Arslan the Son, and Malik Shah the Grandson, of Toghrul Beg the
Tartar, who had wrested Persia from the feeble Successor of Mahmud the
Great, and founded that
Seljukian
Dynasty which finally roused Europe
into the Crusades.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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additional
cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Li Po |
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The poet himself is never cynical; his
joyousness is all too apparent in the very manner and
intensity
of
expression.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women
breathed
by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'
When an early Irish poet calls the Irishman famous for much loving,
and a proverb, a friend has heard in the Highlands of Scotland, talks
of the
lovelessness
of the Irishman, they may say but the same thing,
for if your passion is but great enough it leads you to a country where
there are many cloisters.
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Yeats |
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A "hair-brain'd,
sentimental
trace"
Was strongly marked in her face;
A wildly-witty, rustic grace
Shone full upon her:
Her eye, ev'n turn'd on empty space,
Beam'd keen with honour.
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Robert Forst |
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Now, stay not,
He might return: yet kiss me; I shall know _385
That then thou hast
consented
to his death.
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Shelley |
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After they entered in, and free speech was granted, aged
Ilioneus
with
placid mien thus began:
'Queen, to whom Jupiter hath given to found this new city, and lay the
yoke of justice upon haughty tribes, we beseech thee, we wretched
Trojans storm-driven over all [525-559]the seas, stay the dreadful
flames from our ships; spare a guiltless race, and bend a gracious
regard on our fortunes.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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FIRST ECHO:
Lies fallen and
vanquished!
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Shelley |
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>> en inclinant la tete;
--Et nous
prendons
du temps a trouver cette bete!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Then he fell
Into deep
dreamless
slumber.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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ty, and filthy, and ragged and louzy,
With dam'n me,
renounce
me, and all the fine phra?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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To folk afar was my father known,
noble atheling,
Ecgtheow
named.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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We climbed the
ploughed
land,
dragged the seed from the clefts,
broke the clods with our heels,
whirled with a parched cry
into the woods:
_Can you come,
can you come,
can you follow the hound trail,
can you trample the hot froth?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Its haggard look
congeals
a mortal's blood,
And almost turns him into stone;
The story of Medusa thou hast known.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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_ Compare: 'I should violate
my own arm rather than a Church, nor
willingly
deface the name of
Saint or Martyr.
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John Donne |
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Thus lies the sea-shell
Under the
rustling
twilight of the sea;
No gods remember it, no understanding
Cleaves the long darkness with a sword of light.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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As naked champions, smear'd with slippery oil,
Are wont intent to watch their place of hold
And vantage, ere in closer strife they meet;
Thus each one, as he wheel'd, his countenance
At me directed, so that opposite
The neck mov'd ever to the
twinkling
feet.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
So spake the varlet Marcus; and dread and silence came
On all the people at the sound of the great
Claudian
name.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprize,
And bid
alternate
passions fall and rise!
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Alexander Pope |
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" KAU}
They weighd & orderd all & Urizen [in comfort saw]
comforted
saw {The erased phrase "in comfort saw" is speculation on Erdman's part.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Their sweet and lofty countenance
His
enchanted
food;
He need not go to them, their forms
Beset his solitude.
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Emerson - Poems |
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G
[779] 37, 8 Not
intricate
(l.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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To try
theology
I'm almost minded.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Soft clouds, the whitest of the year,
Sailed through the sky--the brooks ran clear;
The lambs from rock to rock were bounding; 25
With songs the budded groves resounding;
And to my heart are still endeared
The thoughts with which it then was cheered; [2]
The faith which saw that gladsome pair
Walk through the fire with
unsinged
hair.
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William Wordsworth |
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Therefore, evil days
Are coming on us, O my
countrymen!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in
paragraph
1.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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_
TO THE SUN, WHOSE SETTING HID LAURA'S
DWELLING
FROM HIS VIEW.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Index of First Lines
I'd like to turn the deepest of yellows,
At the sorrow I'm made to feel by Love,
Now fearfulness, and now hopefulness
I'd like to be Ixion or Tantalus,
Whether her golden hair curls languidly,
Sweet beauty, murderess of my life,
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
Now, when Jupiter, fired by his lusts,
I'd like to burn all the dross of my human clay,
Now when the sky and when the earth again
It was hot, and sleep, gently flowing,
Those twin pulses of thickly clotted milk
I'm sending you some flowers, that my hand
Marie, the man who'd change the letters of your name
Kiss me then Marie: no then, don't kiss me,
As in May month, on its stem we see the rose
Among love's pounding seas, for me there's no support,
The other day you saw me, as you passed by,
So often forging peace, so often fighting,
Though the human spirit gives itself noble airs
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
When you are truly old, beside the evening candle,
That night Love drew you down into the ballroom
Sweetheart, let's see if the rose
O Fount of Bellerie,
Why like a
skittish
mare
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Ronsard |
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My Two Daughters
In
pleasant
evening's fresh-clear darkness,
One seems a swan, the other a dove,
Both joyous, both lovely, O sweetness!
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Is Heaven a
physician?
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Only to
exquisite
lovers,
Fashioned for beauty's fulfilment,
Mated as rhythm to reed-stop 15
Whence the wild music is moulded,
Ever appears the full measure
Of the world's wonder.
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Sappho |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Mannahatta
I was asking for
something
specific and perfect for my city,
Whereupon lo!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Retaking the Capital 357 The uniforms of the
vanguard
are stained with blood, 36 a windblown hair will split on the swords of the attack cavalry.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Jofore, 2994, 2998), one of the
Gēatas, son of Wonrēd and brother of Wulf (2965, 2979), kills the Swedish
king,
Ongenþēow
(2487 ff.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Our
conditions
mend;
In a change of mates we shall both rejoice;
I hoped that it thus might end!
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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where the rosy-bosom'd Hours,
Fair Venus' train, appear,
Disclose
the long-expecting flowers
And wake the purple year!
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Golden Treasury |
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1705 _is
incomplete
in sense,
as the sentence has no verb.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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for the great triumph
That
stretches
many a mile.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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How we did entrust
Futurity
to her!
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"--Borne aloft
With the bright mists about the
mountains
hoar
These words dissolv'd: Crete's forests heard no more.
| Guess: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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The meadow grass could be cemented down
From growing under
pavements
of a town;
The apple trees be sent to hearth-stone flame.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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For this step Burns had more than sufficient reasons: the profits of
his volume amounted to little more than enough to waft him across the
Atlantic: Wee Johnnie, though the edition was all sold, refused to
risk another on speculation: his friends, both Ballantynes and
Parkers, volunteered to relieve the printer's anxieties, but the poet
declined their bounty, and gloomily indented himself in a ship about
to sail from Greenock, and called on his muse to take farewell of
Caledonia, in the last song he ever
expected
to measure in his native
land.
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Robert Forst |
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On one occasion he had been employed by his
constituents to wait on the Duke of Monmouth,
then governor of Hull, with a
complimentary
letter, and to present him with a purse contain-
ing " six broad pieces " as an honorary fee.
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Marvell - Poems |
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His glance too fell on a gold-wove banner
high o'er the hoard, of
handiwork
noblest,
brilliantly broidered; so bright its gleam,
all the earth-floor he easily saw
and viewed all these vessels.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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His father slew Troy's
thousands
in their pride;
He hath but one to kill.
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Euripides - Electra |
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A thought went up my mind to-day
That I have had before,
But did not finish, -- some way back,
I could not fix the year,
Nor where it went, nor why it came
The second time to me,
Nor
definitely
what it was,
Have I the art to say.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Tense and still like one who to sing must rise
Before a throng on a festal night
She lifted her head, and her bright glad eyes
Were like pools which
reflected
light.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Stand we forth;
Render them back upon the
insulted
ocean,
And let them toss as idly on its waves
As the vile sea-weed, which some mountain-blast
Swept from our shores!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Her love, too, is quite
different
from
his.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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but true as strange,
How much I was
mistaken!
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Poe - 5 |
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"
Hrōðgār
maðelode him on andsware:
"Þē þā word-cwydas wittig drihten
"on sefan sende!
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Beowulf |
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Alway me lyked for to dwelle, 1635
To seen the cristal in the welle,
That shewed me ful openly
A
thousand
thinges faste by.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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" KAU}
For many a window ornamented with sweet
ornaments
Lookd out into the World of Tharmas, where in ceaseless torrents {Lowercase "world" mended to "World.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon
Turns Ashes--or it prospers; and anon,
Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face
Lighting
a little Hour or two--is gone.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Upon Delacroix he
lavished
the largesse of his admiration.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I with leave of speech implor'd,
And humble
deprecation
thus repli'd.
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Milton |
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But the Emperour is verily come back,
--So tells me now my man, that Sulian--
Ten great columns he's set them in their ranks;
He's a proof man who sounds that olifant,
With a clear call he rallies his comrades;
These at the head come cantering in advance,
Also with them are fifteen thousand Franks,
Young bachelors, whom Charles calls Infants;
As many again come
following
that band,
Who will lay on with utmost arrogance.
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Chanson de Roland |
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You
bewitched
the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was festering in your blood.
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Ronsard |
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