Only three manuscripts have the, to
my mind, most
probably
correct reading in _Satyre I_, l.
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For seven pyres
devoured
young-limbed
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In these lines as they stand in the
editions
and most of the
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BLACKMOUTH, OF COLORADO
"Who is
Blackmouth?
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Let us stay
Rather on earth, Beloved,--where the unfit
Contrarious
moods of men recoil away
And isolate pure spirits, and permit
A place to stand and love in for a day,
With darkness and the death-hour rounding it.
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For twenty men that you shall now send in
To France the Douce he will repair, that King;
In the rereward will follow after him
Both his nephew, count Rollant, as I think,
And Oliver, that
courteous
paladin;
Dead are the counts, believe me if you will.
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The priests were singing, and the organ sounded,
And then anon the great
cathedral
bell.
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Ripe apples drop about my head;
The
luscious
clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
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XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's citizens be spoiled by leisure,
That
Carthage
should be spared destruction!
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and brooding
stillnesses
which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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This high-toned and lovely
Madrigal
is quite in the style, and worthy
of, the "pure Simonides.
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Golden Treasury |
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A roll of the prisoners
whom the dwarf
discovers
in Pride's dungeon is given.
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Gradually
it became plain to him he could not
finish it.
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Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
Sacred to
ridicule
his whole life long,
And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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XXIII
Brought by a pedlar vagabond
Unto their solitude one day,
This monument of thought profound
Tattiana
purchased
with a stray
Tome of "Malvina," and but three(56)
And a half rubles down gave she;
Also, to equalise the scales,
She got a book of nursery tales,
A grammar, likewise Petriads two,
Marmontel also, tome the third;
Tattiana every day conferred
With Martin Zadeka.
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let that eye, which, wild as the gazelle's,
Now brightly bold or beautifully shy,
Wins as it wanders, dazzles where it dwells,
Glance o'er this page, nor to my verse deny
That smile for which my breast might vainly sigh,
Could I to thee be ever more than friend:
This much, dear maid, accord; nor question why
To one so young my strain I would commend,
But bid me with my wreath one
matchless
lily blend.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
Varus drew me off to see his
mistress
as I was strolling from the Forum: a
little whore, as it seemed to me at the first glance, neither inelegant nor
lacking good looks.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Of all these ways, if each pursues his own,
Satire be kind, and let the wretch alone:
But show me one who has it in his power
To act
consistent
with himself an hour.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Heir of
Tyrrhenian
kings, for you
A mellow cask, unbroach'd as yet,
Maecenas mine, and roses new,
And fresh-drawn oil your locks to wet,
Are waiting here.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Christina Rossetti |
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Aye, creative, who dares to risk "the ethereal dwellings of
Zeus," or "the wing of Time," or "a heart that is above
swearing
by the
sacred emblems," and "a tongue that takes an oath, while yet the soul is
unpledged.
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Aristophanes |
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Life made an end of,
Life but just begun;
Life
finished
yesterday,
Its last sand run;
Life new-born with the morrow
Fresh as the sun:
While done is done for ever;
Undone, undone.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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We let them pass; all
appearing
tranquil;
No soldiers at the port, the city still.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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--to tell
The
loveliness
of loving well!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Lo, I know thee full of wrath
Against one deed, but all too placable
Unto the other,
minishing
the crime.
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Aeschylus |
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Down the long dusky line
Teeth gleam and eyeballs shine;
And the bright bayonet,
Bristling
and firmly set,
Flashed with a purpose grand,
Long ere the sharp command
Of the fierce rolling drum
Told them their time had come,
Told them what work was sent
For the black regiment.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The dusk kept dropping, dropping still;
No dew upon the grass,
But only on my
forehead
stopped,
And wandered in my face.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The leaves that wave against my cheek caress
Like women's hands; the embracing boughs express
A
subtlety
of mighty tenderness;
The copse-depths into little noises start,
That sound anon like beatings of a heart,
Anon like talk 'twixt lips not far apart.
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Sidney Lanier |
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(To Don Diegue)
You may speak next, I
sanction
her complaint.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Pardon my transport, gentle shade,
While o'er the turf I bow;
Thy earthy house is circumscrib'd,
And
solitary
now.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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A
thousand
times I fondly ask the boon;
Let's take it to the woods: 'tis not too soon;
Young as it is, I'll feed it morn and night,
And always make it my supreme delight.
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La Fontaine |
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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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Mark by what
wretched
steps their glory grows,
From dirt and seaweed as proud Venice rose;
In each how guilt and greatness equal ran,
And all that raised the hero, sunk the man:
Now Europe's laurels on their brows behold,
But stained with blood, or ill exchanged for gold;
Then see them broke with toils or sunk with ease,
Or infamous for plundered provinces.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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What rivers and what heights,
What shores and seas between
Me rise and those twin lights,
Which made the storm and blackness of my days
One
beautiful
serene,
To which tormented Memory still strays:
Free as my life then pass'd from every care,
So hard and heavy seems my present lot to bear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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To a modern romantic reader her
insistence
that her husband
shall not marry again seems hardly delicate.
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I know my need, I know thy giving hand,
I crave thy
friendship
at thy kind command;
But there are such who court the tuneful Nine--
Heavens!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Last night, closed in the image of an owl,
I hurried to the cliffs of Donegal,
And saw,
creeping
on the uneasy surge,
Those ships that bring the woman grain and meal;
They are five days from us.
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Yeats |
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1202)
Fortz chausa es que tot lo maior dan
A harsh thing it is that brings such harm,
Peire
Cardenal
(c.
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Troubador Verse |
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CENCI:
Why
miserable?
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Shelley |
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Whoever dies
somewhere
in the world
Dies without cause in the world
Looks at me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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serta mihi
floresque
nouos, mea gaudia, ponunt:
fusus in Elysia sic ego ualle moror.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I ought to speak out freely
With words though that will take,
For it can scarcely please me
When the
tricksters
rake
More love in than is at stake
For the lover who loves truly.
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Troubador Verse |
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sacred to the fall of day
Queen of propitious stars, appear,
And early rise, and long delay
When
Caroline
herself is here!
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Golden Treasury |
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Like white water are you who fill the cup of my mouth,
Like a brook of water
thronged
with lilies.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Narcissus
fell in love with his own reflection.
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Ronsard |
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III
I, the restless one; the circler of circles;
Herdsman and roper of stars, who could not capture
The secret of self; I who was tyrant to weaklings,
Striker of children; destroyer of women; corrupter
Of innocent dreamers, and laugher at beauty; I,
Too easily brought to tears and weakness by music,
Baffled and broken by love, the
helpless
beholder
Of the war in my heart of desire with desire, the struggle
Of hatred with love, terror with hunger; I
Who laughed without knowing the cause of my laughter, who grew
Without wishing to grow, a servant to my own body;
Loved without reason the laughter and flesh of a woman,
Enduring such torments to find her!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Are so
superfluous
cold,
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The
Queen Dowager, now the most
desolate
of widows, compassionates their
case, but cannot assist them.
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Petrarch |
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In the midst of
pleasure
my soul suffers:
I drown in joy, and tremble with my fears.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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At this moment Vassilissa
Igorofna
appeared on the ramparts, followed by
Marya, who had not wished to leave her.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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O pang all pangs above
Is
Kindness
counterfeiting absent Love!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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" said
The Doctor, looking
somewhat
grim,
"What, woman!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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His locked, letter'd, braw brass collar
Shew'd him the
gentleman
an' scholar;
But though he was o' high degree,
The fient a pride, nae pride had he;
But wad hae spent an hour caressin,
Ev'n wi' al tinkler-gipsy's messin:
At kirk or market, mill or smiddie,
Nae tawted tyke, tho' e'er sae duddie,
But he wad stan't, as glad to see him,
An' stroan't on stanes an' hillocks wi' him.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Not yet had Night driven of the Hours
climbed her mid arch;
Palinurus
rises lightly from his couch, explores
all the winds, and listens to catch a breeze; he marks the
constellations gliding together through the silent sky, Arcturus, the
rainy Hyades and the twin Oxen, and scans Orion in his armour of gold.
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Li Po |
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Yonnondio
A song, a poem of itself--the word itself a dirge,
Amid the wilds, the rocks, the storm and wintry night,
To me such misty, strange tableaux the syllables calling up;
Yonnondio--I see, far in the west or north, a limitless ravine, with
plains and mountains dark,
I see swarms of
stalwart
chieftains, medicine-men, and warriors,
As flitting by like clouds of ghosts, they pass and are gone in the
twilight,
(Race of the woods, the landscapes free, and the falls!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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So
entertaind
those odorous sweets the Fiend
Who came thir bane, though with them better pleas'd
Then Asmodeus with the fishie fume,
That drove him, though enamourd, from the Spouse
Of Tobits Son, and with a vengeance sent 170
From Media post to Aegypt, there fast bound.
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Milton |
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37 BC
THE ECLOGUES
by Virgil
ECLOGUE I
MELIBOEUS TITYRUS
MELIBOEUS
You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy
Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse
Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,
And home's
familiar
bounds, even now depart.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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At the rising of the Moon,
One after another,
His
shipmates
drop down dead.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Here we perforce shall drag them; and throughout
The dismal glade our bodies shall be hung,
Each on the wild thorn of his
wretched
shade.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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ANTIGONE
I charge thee, use no useless
heralding!
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Aeschylus |
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Does he still think his error
pardonable?
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Hans, holding jeers and cuckoldom in dread,
Would have his
precious
rib with caution tread,
And nothing but the Bible e'er peruse;
All other books he daily would abuse;
Blamed secret visits; frowned at loose attire;
And censured ev'ry thing gallants admire.
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La Fontaine |
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Silent and
motionless
we lie;
And no one knoweth more than this.
| Guess: |
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Longfellow |
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This is not cinquefoil, it is deadly
nightshade!
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Longfellow |
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"But the good monk, in
cloistered
cell,
Shall gain it by his book and bell,
His prayers and tears;
And the brave knight, whose arm endures
Fierce battle, and against the Moors
His standard rears.
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Longfellow |
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The Acharnians were throughout the most extreme
partisans
of the
warlike party during the Peloponnesian struggle.
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Aristophanes |
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II
Far fall the day when England's realm shall see
The sunset of
dominion!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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They
agreed to determine the contest by a display of their wisdom and power,
in conferring the most
beneficial
gift on mankind.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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There are of them, in truth, who fear their harm,
And to the
shepherd
cleave; but these so few,
A little stuff may furnish out their cloaks.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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With the great gale we journey
That breathes from gardens thinned,
Borne in the drift of blossoms
Whose petals throng the wind;
Buoyed on the heaven-heard whisper
Of dancing
leaflets
whirled
From all the woods that autumn
Bereaves in all the world.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Andrew,
translated
from the
Old English, with an Introduction.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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That it was May me thoughte tho,
It is fyve yere or more ago; 50
That it was May, thus dremed me,
In tyme of love and Iolitee,
That al thing ginneth waxen gay,
For ther is neither busk nor hay
In May, that it nil
shrouded
been, 55
And it with newe leves wreen.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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LXXXII
The images below them in their hand
Long scrolls and of an ample size contain,
Which of the
worthiest
figures of that band
The several names with mickle praise explain
As well their own at little distance stand,
Inscribed upon that scroll, in letters plain,
Rinaldo, by the help of blazing lights,
Marked, one by one, the ladies and their knights.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Prometheus too and Pelops' sire
In
listening
lose the sense of woe;
Orion hearkens to the lyre,
And lets the lynx and lion go.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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So all my spirit fills
With pleasure infinite,
And all the
feathered
wings of rest
Seem flocking from the radiant West
To bear me thro' the night.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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O the
trembling
fear!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Sounds Aeolian
Breath'd from the hinges, as the ample span
Of the wide doors disclos'd a place unknown
Some time to any, but those two alone,
And a few Persian mutes, who that same year
Were seen about the markets: none knew where
They could inhabit; the most curious
Were foil'd, who watch'd to trace them to their house:
And but the flitter-winged verse must tell,
For truth's sake, what woe
afterwards
befel,
'Twould humour many a heart to leave them thus,
Shut from the busy world of more incredulous.
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Keats - Lamia |
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death
in its
vastness
- terrible
death
to strike down so
small a being
I say to deathcoward
ah!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster, the faster it grows:
But the
rapturous
charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Fortunately for us, however, two small but
incomparable
odes and a few
scintillating fragments have survived, quoted and handed down in the
eulogies of critics and expositors.
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Sappho |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Quoi dono lepidum novom libellum
Arida modo pumice
expolitum?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Forgael was playing,
And they were
listening
there beyond the sail.
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Yeats |
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5 In mid-summer the emperor ritually presents
cherries
to his officials.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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