_She
jumps off his knee as_
SALTABADIL
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the Spirits
Of Luvah & Vala
shudderd
in their Orb: an orb of blood!
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Make thyself free of Manhood's guild;
Pull down thy barns and greater build;
The wood, the mountain, and the plain
Wave breast-deep with the poet's grain;
Pluck thou the sunset's fruit of gold,
Glean from the heavens and ocean old; 140
From
fireside
lone and trampling street
Let thy life garner daily wheat;
The epic of a man rehearse,
Be something better than thy verse;
Make thyself rich, and then the Muse
Shall court thy precious interviews,
Shall take thy head upon her knee,
And such enchantment lilt to thee,
That thou shalt hear the life-blood flow
From farthest stars to grass-blades low, 150
And find the Listener's science still
Transcends the Singer's deepest skill!
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Dishonour
to deserve from age to age!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But this mansion, throughout its innermost recesses of opulent royalty,
glitters with
gleaming
gold and with silver.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In that reverend face
Behold the father of De Silva's race,
Silvius; in Rome he filled the consul's place
Three times (your
patience
for such honored names).
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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A new world was made
manifest!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And when it was over and the fiddle had
stopped, there was no sound at all of
anything
outside, but the road
was as quiet as before.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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As you
approach
Lake Champlain you begin to see the New York
mountains.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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" (See Ariosto,
_Orlando
Furioso_, vi.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But
wherefore
is the wind,
Which way soever the vane-arrow swing,
Not ever fair for England?
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Tennyson |
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Vipers were added to the other ingredients by
Andromachus, physician to the Emperor Nero, whence the name 'theriaca'
or 'triacle': 'Can an apothecary make a
sovereign
triacle of Vipers
and other poysons, and cannot God admit offences and scandalls into
his physick.
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John Donne |
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NA AUDIART
"QUE BE-M VOLS MAL"
Any one who has read anything of the
troubadours
knows well the tale of Bertran of Born and My Lady Maent of Mon- taignac, and knows also the song he made when she would none
her love-lit glance, of Aelis her speech free-running, of the Vicomp- tess of Chales her throat and her two hands, at Roacoart of Anhes her hair golden as Iseult's ; and even in this fashion of Lady Audiart, " although she would that ill come unto him" he sought
and praised the lineaments of the torse.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Prayers imitate that which is
intellectual; but characters, superior
ineffable
powers.
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Tacitus |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Guillaume de
Poitiers
(1071-1127)
William or Guillem IX, called The Troubador, was Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou, as William VII, between 1086, when he was aged only fifteen, and his death.
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Troubador Verse |
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Yea, all you hearts
Of beauty, and sweet righteous lovers large:
Aurelius fine, oft superfine; mild Saint
A Kempis, overmild; Epictetus,
Whiles low in thought, still with old slavery tinct;
Rapt Behmen, rapt too far; high Swedenborg,
O'ertoppling; Langley, that with but a touch
Of art hadst sung Piers Plowman to the top
Of English songs, whereof 'tis dearest, now,
And most adorable; Caedmon, in the morn
A-calling angels with the cow-herd's call
That late brought up the cattle; Emerson,
Most wise, that yet, in finding Wisdom, lost
Thy Self, sometimes; tense Keats, with angels' nerves
Where men's were better; Tennyson, largest voice
Since Milton, yet some
register
of wit
Wanting; -- all, all, I pardon, ere 'tis asked,
Your more or less, your little mole that marks
You brother and your kinship seals to man.
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Sidney Lanier |
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In youth, by genius nurs'd,
And big with lofty views, he to the world
Went forth, pure in his heart, against the taint
Of
dissolute
tongues, 'gainst jealousy, and hate,
And scorn, against all enemies prepared,
All but neglect: and so, his spirit damped
At once, with rash disdain he turned away,
And with the food of pride sustained his soul
In solitude.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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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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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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day — perhaps more than ever in her
history—is
in the minds and hearts of other nations, these two poetic and romantic episodes of her past are timely.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It is the music of Paradise, that is certain,
somebody
said that.
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Yeats |
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Oro e argento fine, cocco e biacca,
indaco, legno lucido e sereno,
fresco
smeraldo
in l'ora che si fiacca,
da l'erba e da li fior, dentr' a quel seno
posti, ciascun saria di color vinto,
come dal suo maggiore e vinto il meno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A very short poem,
while now and then
producing
a brilliant or vivid, never produces a
profound or enduring effect.
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Poe - 5 |
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When such a figure
appears on the tragic stage one asks at once what
relation
he bears to
Hades, the great Olympian king of the unseen.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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if we dream great deeds, strong men, Revolt Hearts hot,
thoughts
mighty.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Tnou'st heard the knave, abusing those in power,
Bawl freedom loud and then oppress the free;
Thou'st sheltered
hypocrites
in many a shower,
That when in power would never shelter thee.
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John Clare |
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Then great Diores fell, by doom divine,
In vain his valour and
illustrious
line.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Great Menelaus, touch'd with
generous
woe,
Springs to the front, and guards him from the foe.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Such testimony, even though not a single fragment remained to us from which
to judge her poetry for ourselves, might well convince us that the
supremacy
acknowledged
by those who knew all the triumphs of the genius of
old Greece was beyond the assault of any modern rival.
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Sappho |
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In and out, he darts about;
His little heart is throbbing:
Can this be the Bird, to man so good,
Our
consecrated
Robin!
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William Wordsworth |
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The wounded bird, ere yet she breathed her last,
With flagging wings
alighted
on the mast,
A moment hung, and spread her pinions there,
Then sudden dropp'd, and left her life in air.
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Iliad - Pope |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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'Does spring hide its joy,
When buds and
blossoms
grow?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Your orders are vain breath--
That
stranger
enters to be known as Death--
Or merely Exile--clothed in alien guise--
Death drags away--with _his_ prey Exile flies!
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Hugo - Poems |
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VII
"For which of us could hope
To show in life that world-awakening scope
Granted the few whose memory none lets die,
But all men
magnify?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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VII
None looked upon her but he straightway thought
Of all the greenest depths of country cheer, 50
And into each one's heart was freshly brought
What was to him the sweetest time of year,
So was her every look and motion fraught
With out-of-door
delights
and forest lere;
Not the first violet on a woodland lea
Seemed a more visible gift of Spring than she.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The Glory hath departed,
Ichabod!
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Christina Rossetti |
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The light that burns
In fluent, refluent motion
Along the crystal ocean;
The springing of the golden harps between
The bowery wings, in fountains of sweet sound,
The winding,
wandering
music that returns
Upon itself, exultingly self-bound
In the great spheric round
Of everlasting praises;
The God-thoughts in our midst that intervene,
Visibly flashing from the supreme throne
Full in seraphic faces
Till each astonishes the other, grown
More beautiful with worship and delight--
My heaven!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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As I
recollected
the decision of the council of war, I
foresaw a long imprisonment within the walls of Orenburg, and I was
ready to cry with vexation.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The
smallest
vermin make the greatest waste,
And a poor warren once a city rased.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The laughing ripple shoreward flew
To kiss the shining pebbles--
Loud
shrieked
the crowding Boys in Blue
Defiance to the Rebels.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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You complain of a yoke imposed long ago:
Even the gods of Olympus, those gods, we know,
Who frighten criminals with thunderous action, 1305
Have
sometimes
burned with an illicit passion.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Hedgers now along the road
Homeward bend beneath their load;
And from the long furrowed seams,
Ploughmen loose their weary teams:
Ball, with urging lashes wealed,
Still so slow to drive a-field,
Eager
blundering
from the plough,
Wants no whip to drive him now;
At the stable-door he stands,
Looking round for friendly hands
To loose the door its fastening pin,
And let him with his corn begin.
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John Clare |
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Come in joy,
Brother, and take to bind thy
rippling
hair
My crowns!
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Euripides - Electra |
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So stately they ascend
It is as swans
discarded
you
For duties diamond.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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--
And only yesterday it was I saw
Veil'd in streamers of grey
wavering
smoke
My shapely Malvern Hills.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Will it never cease to
torture, this
iteration!
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Imagists |
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_"
[Written for the Museum, in honour of the witty, the handsome, the
lovely, and
unfortunate
Miss Davies.
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Robert Burns |
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"Astolpho gently now directs his speed
To where the spacious pile enfolds the mead
In circuit wide, and views with eager eyes
Each
nameless
charm that happy soil supplies.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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We
encourage
you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Tacitus |
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Aricia
I'm
astonished
and confused by all I hear,
I fear lest a dream deceives me, yes I fear.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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As old Toledos past their days of war
Are kept
mnemonic
of the strokes they bore,
So art thou with us, being good to keep
In our heart's sword-rack, though thy sword-arm
sleep.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But fools are careless:
careless
men care not
For their own proper interest; therefore they
Advise their friend's advantage, not their own.
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Sidney Lanier |
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How can he know that the friends he has left
Are missing him and
thinking
of him?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Creatress
of man and
woman, 192.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And this is so with Virgil more,
perhaps, than with any other poet; for more, perhaps, than any other
poet Virgil depends on his
poetical
quality from first to last.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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, like midges
sporting
in the mottie sun, or craws
prognosticating a storm in a hairst day.
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Robert Forst |
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As a boxer, as a runner, past
compare!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Erst were they royal, sitting on the throne,
And loving are they yet,--their common fate
Tells the tale truly, shows their
trothplight
firm.
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Aeschylus |
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It is for me only that he exposed himself to
all the misfortunes which have
overtaken
him.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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(The
lengthened
shadow of a man
Is history, said Emerson
Who had not seen the silhouette
Of Sweeney straddled in the sun).
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T.S. Eliot |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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' 669
Eufeniens
ansuered
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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'Tis great turmoil, when a guest
Comes to a
mourning
house.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Of all the sounds despatched abroad,
There's not a charge to me
Like that old measure in the boughs,
That
phraseless
melody
The wind does, working like a hand
Whose fingers brush the sky,
Then quiver down, with tufts of tune
Permitted gods and me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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AT length, when our advent'rers round had play'd,
And danc'd with ev'ry widow, wife, and maid,
The full blown lily and the tender rose,
Astolphus said, though clearly I suppose,
We can as many hearts securely link,
As e'er we like, yet better now, I think,
To stop a while in some
delightful
spot,
And that before satiety we've got;
For true it is, with love as with our meat;
If we, variety of dishes eat,
The doctors tell us inj'ry will ensue,
And too much raking none can well pursue.
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La Fontaine |
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Meredith - Poems |
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960
The tyrant
surprised
me unarmed, defenceless.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Then, since even this
Was full of peril, and the secret kiss
Of some bold prince might find her yet, and rend
Her prison walls,
Aegisthus
at the end
Would slay her.
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Euripides - Electra |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not
mysterious
at all
We are the evidence ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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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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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"
I tried to guess from my father's
handwriting
in what mood he had
written the letter.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Regret--though nothing dear
That I wot of, was toward in the wide world at his prime,
Or bloomed
elsewhere
than here,
To die with his decease, and leave a memory sweet, sublime,
Or mark him out in Time .
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Adverbial modifier, _quasi_ preposition [better
explained
in many cases
as prep.
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'693 Erasmus:'
perhaps the
greatest
scholar of the Renaissance.
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Many
examples
are given in Nares and the _NED.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I divide the
speeches
thus:--
_Donne.
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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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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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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When
the wrong, and the disease, and the
injustice
are removed, it will have
no further place.
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She had
wandered
long,
Hearing wild birds' song.
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blake-poems |
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It is, in fact, an absolutely
aristocratic
age--an age
in which he who rules is thereby proven the "best.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Those who had formerly procured the
banishment
of the
satirist were silent while Constantine was in power.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Still as death are the places of life;
The city seems
crumbled
and gone,
Sunk 'mid invisible deeps--
The city so lately rife
With the stir of brain and brawn.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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>>
Celimene
roucoule et dit: << Mon coeur est bon,
Et naturellement, Dieu m'a faite tres belle.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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An idle whim
To see the rebels on the
Scottish
Gate,--
And there was the face of him I was made to love,
There,--ah God,--on the gate, my murder'd lad!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Beautiful things
Have but one spring
With roses let's sow
Time's
footprints!
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BOOK II
PROEM
'Tis sweet, when, down the mighty main, the winds
Roll up its waste of waters, from the land
To watch another's labouring anguish far,
Not that we joyously delight that man
Should thus be smitten, but because 'tis sweet
To mark what evils we ourselves be spared;
'Tis sweet, again, to view the mighty strife
Of armies embattled yonder o'er the plains,
Ourselves no sharers in the peril; but naught
There is more goodly than to hold the high
Serene plateaus, well
fortressed
by the wise,
Whence thou may'st look below on other men
And see them ev'rywhere wand'ring, all dispersed
In their lone seeking for the road of life;
Rivals in genius, or emulous in rank,
Pressing through days and nights with hugest toil
For summits of power and mastery of the world.
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SAS}
Luvah was cast into the
Furnaces
of affliction & sealed
And Vala fed in cruel delight, the furnaces with fire
Stern Urizen beheld urg'd by necessity to keep
The evil day afar, & if perchance with iron power
He might avert his own despair; in woe & fear he saw
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Vala incircle round the furnaces where Luvah was clos'd
In joy she heard his howlings, & forgot he was her Luvah
With whom she walkd in bliss, in times of innocence & youth
Hear ye the voice of Luvah from the furnaces of Urizen
If I indeed am Valas King [Luvahs Lord] & ye O sons of Men
The workmanship of Luvahs hands; in times of Everlasting
When I calld forth the Earth-worm from the cold & dark obscure
I nurturd her I fed her with my rains & dews, she grew
A scaled Serpent, yet I fed her tho' she hated me
Day after day she fed upon the mountains in Luvahs sight
I brought her thro' the Wilderness, a dry & thirsty land
And I commanded springs to rise for her in the black desart
Till she became a Dragon winged bright & poisonous {Erdman notes that a revision was made to this line while it was still wet mending "fordemon" to "Dragon".
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Blake - Zoas |
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" in the wind-rush; and pallid Maclean,
Age-feeble with anger and impotent pain,
Crawled up on the crag, and lay flat, and locked hold of dead roots
of a tree --
And gazed hungrily o'er, and the blood from his back drip-dripped
in the brine,
And a sea-hawk flung down a
skeleton
fish as he flew,
And the mother stared white on the waste of blue,
And the wind drove a cloud to seaward, and the sun began to shine.
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