It's a cot and a
hospital
ward for me,
But I'll tell 'em in Blighty, wherever I be,
How the Guards came through.
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Down upon us heavily runs,
Silent and sullen, the
floating
fort;
Then comes a puff of smoke from her guns,
And leaps the terrible death,
With fiery breath,
From each open port.
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But the summit and crown of all crimes is that which in Lemnos befell;
A woe and a mourning it is, a shame and a
spitting
to tell;
And he that in after time doth speak of his deadliest thought,
Doth say, _It is like to the deed that of old time in Lemnos was
wrought_;
And loathed of men were the doers, and perished, they and their seed,
For the gods brought hate upon them; none loveth the impious deed.
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At night if he
suddenly
screams and wakes,
Do they bring him only a few small cakes, or a LOT,
For the Akond of Swat?
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[Note 40: The "Blago-Namierenni," or "Well-Wisher," was an
inferior Russian
newspaper
of the day, much scoffed at by
contemporaries.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind;
All are not fit with them to stir and toil,
Nor is it discontent to keep the mind
Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil
In one hot throng, where we become the spoil
Of our infection, till too late and long
We may deplore and struggle with the coil,
In
wretched
interchange of wrong for wrong
Midst a contentious world, striving where none are strong.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Well, as much
As star
transcends
a sequin, and just such
As temple is to rubbish-heap, I say,
You do eclipse their beauty every way.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The
following
year 24 inflicted a severe wound on his peace of mind, and his domestic concerns.
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Tacitus |
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Nam quo me
referam?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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She might have wept if that hand
Coldly placed against her heart,
Had ever felt dew's
heavenly
wand
Touch human clay with subtle art.
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Naturel
Ce qui dit a l'un:
Sepulture!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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None knows enough of love
To speak without trembling,
Yet I've seen
laughter
move,
Though not from joy arising,
And many the sighs that prove
No more than clever feigning;
Yet Love is leading me,
Towards the best I see,
Without shame or cheating.
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Troubador Verse |
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Sam: He must allege some cause, and offer'd fight
Will not dare mention, lest a
question
rise
Whether he durst accept the offer or not,
And that he durst not plain enough appear'd.
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Milton |
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"
THE GOING OF THE BATTERY
WIVES' LAMENT
(_November_ 2, 1899)
I
O IT was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough--
Light in their loving as
soldiers
can be--
First to risk choosing them, leave alone losing them
Now, in far battle, beyond the South Sea!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And said: until thy latest minute
Preserve,
preserve
my Talisman;
A secret power it holds within it--
'Twas love, true love the gift did plan.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no
connivance
none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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Appoloinaire |
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Beneath this southern axle of the world
Never, with daring search, was flag unfurl'd;
Nor pilot knows if
bounding
shores are plac'd,
Or, if one dreary sea o'erflow the lonely waste.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Moins d'une lieue d'ici est Saint Apollinaire
In Classe,
basilique
connue des amateurs
De chapitaux d'acanthe que touraoie le vent.
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Hence
horrible
shadow,
Vnreall mock'ry hence.
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Dans tes
environs
affluera reveusement la
curiosite d'anciennes foules et de luxes oisifs.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Light laughs the breeze in her castle of sunshine;
Babbles the bee in a stolid ear;
Pipe the sweet birds in ignorant cadence, --
Ah, what sagacity
perished
here!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Ship in sight
is none; three stags he espies
straying
on the shore; behind whole herds
follow, and graze in long train across the valley.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I knew not this, and therefore did I weep:
That God would love a Worm I knew, and punish the evil foot
That wilful bruis'd its
helpless
form: but that he cherish'd it
With milk and oil I never knew, and therefore did I weep,
And I complaind in the mild air, because I fade away.
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blake-poems |
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It is difficult to acknowledge duly my
obligation
to collectors of
autograph Letters--Mr.
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your
laughter
at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But it is threaded with gold and
powdered
with scarlet beads.
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Imagists |
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He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get
yourself
some teeth.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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)
_insert_
your _after_ to.
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_i_, _ii_) as
they are scanned and
accented
by Lindsay:--
_i.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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Villon |
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This
Paradise
I give thee, count it thine
To Till and keep, and of the Fruit to eate: 320
Of every Tree that in the Garden growes
Eate freely with glad heart; fear here no dearth:
But of the Tree whose operation brings
Knowledg of good and ill, which I have set
The Pledge of thy Obedience and thy Faith,
Amid the Garden by the Tree of Life,
Remember what I warne thee, shun to taste,
And shun the bitter consequence: for know,
The day thou eat'st thereof, my sole command
Transgrest, inevitably thou shalt dye; 330
From that day mortal, and this happie State
Shalt loose, expell'd from hence into a World
Of woe and sorrow.
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Milton |
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It is said that Pope himself
admired these lines so much that he could not repeat them without his
voice
faltering
with emotion.
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Alexander Pope |
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For the sense of the
ultimate
uselessness of life, of
the blankness of imperturbable darkness that surrounds it, Goethe's word
"Hell" is not too shocking.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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What cause, what love, to this
compared
may be?
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Petrarch |
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Take heed, ye unwise among the people;
O ye fools, when will ye
understand?
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Christina Rossetti |
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I sigh,--it breathes no more on me; _10
Its mute and
uncomplaining
lot
Is such as mine should be.
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Shelley |
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_insert_
With _before_ Your;
Gg.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I am alone,
Indeed; and you are many; yet with me
Comes Holofernes,
certainly
a captive.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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To signify unto his Majesty
That
Cardinal
Beaufort is at point of death;
For suddenly a grievous sickness took him
That makes him gasp, and stare, and catch the air,
Blaspheming God, and cursing men on earth.
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Shakespeare |
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We would have
preferred
to be able to return occasionally to
the old stage of statue-making, of gesture.
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Bihold the dedis that I do;
But thou be blind, thou
oughtest
so;
For, varie hir wordis fro hir dede,
They thenke on gyle, withouten drede,
What maner clothing that they were, 6215
Or what estat that ever they bere,
Lered or lewd, lord or lady,
Knight, squier, burgeis, or bayly.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Though my
strength
is great, my love is too.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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I tell you spirits, to the face,
I give to spirit-tyranny no place,
My spirit cannot
exercise
it.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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While yet we live, scarse one short hour perhaps,
Between us two let there be peace, both joyning,
As joyn'd in injuries, one enmitie
Against a Foe by doom express assign'd us,
That cruel Serpent: On me
exercise
not
Thy hatred for this miserie befall'n,
On me already lost, mee then thy self
More miserable; both have sin'd, but thou 930
Against God onely, I against God and thee,
And to the place of judgement will return,
There with my cries importune Heaven, that all
The sentence from thy head remov'd may light
On me, sole cause to thee of all this woe,
Mee mee onely just object of his ire.
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Milton |
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XI
On your
midnight
pallet lying
Listen, and undo the door:
Lads that waste the light in sighing
In the dark should sigh no more;
Night should ease a lover's sorrow;
Therefore, since I go to-morrow;
Pity me before.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'Tis Thou that crown'st my glittering hearth
With
guiltless
mirth;
And giv'st me wassail bowls to drink,
Spiced to the brink.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
The
Bodleian
Quatrain pleads Pantheism by way of Justification.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The world
dishonored
thou hast left.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived
the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the expected guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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gov'ment promised Indians lots,
But at last it closed
accounts
with shots.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It is discordaunce that can accorde, 4715
And
accordaunce
to discorde.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Then to perform the cure so well begun,
To him I showed this glonous setting sun ;
How, by her people's looks pursued from far,
She mounted on a bright
celestial
car, .
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Marvell - Poems |
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But the people
kneeling
before the Bishop's chair
Forget the passing over the cobbles in the square.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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borelych
burne on bent, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
The Other Language
Three days after I was born, as I lay in my silken cradle, gazing
with
astonished
dismay on the new world round about me, my mother
spoke to the wet-nurse, saying, "How does my child?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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His other brothers, proud and high,
Masters, who, in prosperity,
Might rival kings;
Who made the bravest and the best
The
bondsmen
of their high behest,
Their underlings;
What was their prosperous estate,
When high exalted and elate
With power and pride?
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Longfellow |
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The hemlock's nature thrives on cold;
The gnash of
northern
winds
Is sweetest nutriment to him,
His best Norwegian wines.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I want a Shakspeare; I want
likewise
an English dictionary--Johnson's,
I suppose, is best.
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Robert Burns |
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Even so I sit and howl in dust,
You sit in gold and sing: 30
Now which of us has
tenderer
heart?
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Christina Rossetti |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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more
horrible
than that
Is the curse in a dead man's eye!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The birds of passage, which follow
ministerial sunshine through every clime of political faith and
manners, flocked to your branches; and the beasts of the field (the
lordly
possessors
of hills and valleys) crowded under your shade.
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Robert Burns |
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" And she writes again, with deeper
significance: "I too have learnt the subtle
philosophy
of living from
moment to moment.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Whose
multitudes
are these?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Come, sir, leave me your
snatches
and yield me a direct
answer.
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Shakespeare |
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Will bleat of flocks or
bellowing
of herds
Make up for the lost music, when your teams
Drag home the stingy harvest, and no more
The feathered gleaners follow to your door?
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Longfellow |
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dead even
then;
Months, years, an echoing,
garnished
house-but dead, dead, dead!
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Golden Treasury |
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She hailed him there in his pride,
Home from the
perilous
years,
In the heart of his walled lands,
In the Giants' cloud-capt ring;
Herself, none other, laid
The hone to the axe's blade;
She lifted it in her hands,
The woman, and slew her king.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe
Such as
eternity
at last transforms into Himself,
The Poet rouses with two-edged naked sword,
His century terrified at having ignored
Death triumphant in so strange a voice!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Contents
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere
Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
Le Testament: Rondeau
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Ballade: Du
Concours
De Blois
Ballade: Epistre
L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
Index of First Lines
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Tell me where, or in what country
Is Flora, the lovely Roman,
Archipiades or Thais,
Who was her nearest cousin,
Echo answering, at clap of hand,
Over the river, and the meadow,
Whose beauty was more than human?
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Villon |
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"
The truth may be that he
contracted
his last illness as the result of
falling into the water while drunk.
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Li Po |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Li Po |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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XXI
Softly the first step of twilight
Falls on the
darkening
dial,
One by one kindle the lights
In Mitylene.
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Sappho |
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PINE
By John Russell McCarthy
You must have dreamed a little every year For fifty years: you must have been a child, Shy and diffident with the violets, School-girlish with the daisies, or perhaps
A youthful Indian with the hickory tree;
You must have been a lover with the beech, A wise young father walking with your sons Beneath the maple; then have battled long Grim and defiant with the oak : all these
You must have been for fifty
dreaming
years Before you may hold converse with the pine.
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Thereon, of lordly work and no less fair,
Cushions
were laid, with jewels shining bright.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Comrades!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But I will stake,
Seeing you are so mad, what you yourself
Will own more priceless far- two beechen cups
By the divine art of Alcimedon
Wrought and embossed, whereon a limber vine,
Wreathed round them by the graver's facile tool,
Twines over
clustering
ivy-berries pale.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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&
Anticrist
to de?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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We build our houses on the sand
Comely
withoutside
and within; 20
But when the winds and rains begin
To beat on them, they cannot stand;
They perish, quickly overthrown,
Loose from the very basement stone.
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Christina Rossetti |
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And of Henri IV:
Henrie the greate, great both in peace and war
Whom none could teach or imitate aright,
Findes peace above, from which he here was far;
A victor without
insolence
or spite,
A Prince that reigned, without a Favorite.
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John Donne |
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Hysteria
As she laughed I was aware of becoming
involved
in her
laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were
only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.
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But thou, flee far and with unfaltering speed;
For they shall hunt thee through the
mainland
wide
Where'er throughout the tract of travelled earth
Thy foot may roam, and o'er and o'er the seas
And island homes of men.
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Aeschylus |
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And if I did so say,
The beauty that me bound
Increase
from day to day,
More cruel to my wound!
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Petrarch |
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Perhapshedidnotjest;
theysaysomesimpleshave
More wide-spanned power than old wives draw
from them.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Marvell - Poems |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then
vanished
to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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'Tis
mountain
wolves', not horses' food!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Ambassadors from India GAMA sought,
And oaths of peace, for oaths of
friendship
brought;
The glorious tale, 'twas all he wish'd, to tell;
So Ilion's[542] fate was seal'd when Hector fell.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to compounds
strange?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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