Sir Job sailed forth, the evening bright and still,
"No place on earth," he cried, "like
Greenwich
Hill!
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_ Your former wish ye got from me
With ease; for first ye asked to learn from her
Relating
her own trials;
The rest now hear, what sufferings 't is necessary
This young woman should endure from Here.
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HE EXCUSES HIMSELF FOR
VISITING
LAURA TOO OFTEN, AND LOVING HER TOO
MUCH.
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A sample, now, we have given of his pow'rs,
And who would wish for more
delightful
hours?
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La Fontaine |
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Silly rich peasants stamp the carpets of men,
Dead men who dreamed fragrance and light
Into their woof, their lives;
The rug of an honest bear
Under the feet of a cryptic slave
Who speaks always of baubles,
Forgetting
state, multitude, work, and state,
Champing and mouthing of hats,
Making ratful squeak of hats,
Hats.
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'So I
stretched
out my hand first, but then I called out, "I'd be
burned in the flames before I could get within three yards of you.
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Yeats |
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She hath drawn me from mine old ways,
Till men say that I am mad;
But I have seen the sorrow of men, and am glad, For I know that the wailing and
bitterness
are a folly.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The
result is deadly; and because he was never
anywhere
near his subject.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I never knew thee check thy will for ought
Save for the
prattling
of thy little ones.
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Tennyson |
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Come view all the sooner tomorrow
That which, for centuries now, gods have let you enjoy:
Italy's shoreline so long
overgrown
with moist reeds, elevations
Somberly rising to shades cast by the bushes and trees.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Zwar bin ich gescheiter als all die Laffen,
Doktoren, Magister, Schreiber und Pfaffen;
Mich plagen keine Skrupel noch Zweifel,
Furchte mich weder vor Holle noch Teufel-
Dafur ist mir auch alle Freud entrissen,
Bilde mir nicht ein, was Rechts zu wissen,
Bilde mir nicht ein, ich konnte was lehren,
Die
Menschen
zu bessern und zu bekehren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The Parrots lived upon the Soffsky-Poffsky trees, which were
beautiful
to
behold, and covered with blue leaves; and they fed upon fruit, artichokes,
and striped beetles.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Of Sarraguce Charles garrisons the tow'rs;
A thousand knights he's left there,
fighters
stout;
Who guard that town as bids their Emperour.
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Chanson de Roland |
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what is 3992
couenable
to euery wy?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Hast thou had
absolution
for thine oath?
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Tennyson |
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Tacitus |
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Entbehren
sollst du!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Et comme il savourait surtout les sombres choses,
Quand, dans la chambre nue aux persiennes closes,
Haute et bleue, acrement prise d'humidite,
Il lisait son roman sans cesse medite,
Plein de lourds ciels ocreux et de forets noyees,
De fleurs de chair aux bois
siderals
deployees,
Vertige, ecroulements, deroutes et pitie!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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was stationary;
And where bullets
whistling
fly,
Came the sadder, fainter cry,
"Help us, brothers, ere we die,--
Save us, Sanitary!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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--The vulgar are commonly ill-natured,
and always
grudging
against their governors: which makes that a prince
has more business and trouble with them than ever Hercules had with the
bull or any other beast; by how much they have more heads than will be
reined with one bridle.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Wythe
murtherr
tyredd, hee sleynges hys bowe alyne[72].
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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'T's you who speaks, and, would that in my arms
Permission
I had got to clasp your charms!
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La Fontaine |
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And bid Neaera come and trill,
Her bright locks bound with
careless
art:
If her rough porter cross your will,
Why then depart.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The
occasion
of publishing these Imitations was the clamour raised on
some of my Epistles.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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It comes from the natural inability of a community
corrupted by
authority
to understand or appreciate Individualism.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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When I a ship see on the seas,
Cuff'd with those wat'ry savages,
And
therewithal
behold it hath
In all that way no beaten path,
Then, with a wonder, I confess
Thou art our way i' th' wilderness;
And while we blunder in the dark,
Thou art our candle there, or spark.
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Robert Herrick |
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NEATH
trembling
tree tops to and fro we wander
Along the beech-grove, nearly to the bower,
And see within the silent meadow yonder,
The almond tree a second time in flower.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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XX
"I am in love," her
whispers
tell
The aged woman in her woe:
"My heart's delight, thou art not well.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Les
vendeurs
ne sont pas a bout de solde!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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On which the seven young Geese were greatly alarmed, and all of a
tremble-bemble: so one of them put out his long neck, and just touched him
with the tip of his bill; but no sooner had he done this than the
Plum-pudding Flea skipped and hopped about more and more, and higher and
higher; after which he opened his mouth, and, to the great surprise and
indignation of the seven Geese, began to bark so loudly and furiously and
terribly, that they were totally unable to bear the noise; and by degrees
every one of them
suddenly
tumbled down quite dead.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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' And with these words he drew nigh the wave,
and [23-58]caught up water from its
brimming
eddy, making many prayers
to the gods and burdening the air with vows.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Perhaps the
Senior
Subaltern
had been trapped in his youth.
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Kipling - Poems |
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One harvest from thy field
Homeward
brought the oxen strong;
A second crop thine acres yield,
Which I gather in a song.
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Emerson - Poems |
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It
reconciles
me to thee.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Don Rodrigue has
convinced
his father
To propose him when the council's over,
Judge then the chance that he'll be denied.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Such a man as you assures the
happiness
of all his
fellow-citizens.
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Aristophanes |
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Innocent
one,
pray thou for me a sinner.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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His son
Malprimes
is very chivalrous,
He's great and strong;--his ancestors were thus.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Note: Bellerie was
situated
on his family estate La Possonniere.
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Ronsard |
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--qui boirais
Ton gout de
framboise
et de fraise,
O chair de fleur!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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]
44 (return)
[ Plutarch, in his Life of Marius,
describes
somewhat differently the arms and equipage of the Cimbri.
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Tacitus |
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O lineage accurst,
O doom and
despair!
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Aeschylus |
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when calamity and age
With
vigorous
youth, unknown to cares, engage!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Here hovering ghosts, like fowl, his shade surround,
And clang their pinions with
terrific
sound;
Gloomy as night he stands, in act to throw
The aerial arrow from the twanging bow.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The Viceroy
possessed no name--nothing but a string of counties and two-thirds
of the
alphabet
after them.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
LXI
There is no more to say now thou art still,
There is no more to do now thou art dead,
There is no more to know now thy clear mind
Is back
returned
unto the gods who gave it.
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Sappho |
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The Viceroy
possessed no name--nothing but a string of counties and two-thirds
of the
alphabet
after them.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade,
Apt emblem of a
virtuous
maid--
Silent and chaste she steals along,
Far from the world's gay busy throng:
With gentle yet prevailing force,
Intent upon her destined course;
Graceful and useful all she does,
Blessing and blest where'er she goes;
Pure-bosom'd as that watery glass,
And Heaven reflected in her face.
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Golden Treasury |
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"
"O, you are
crueller
than any man ever told of in a story, or sung about
in song!
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Tennyson |
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The Viceroy
possessed no name--nothing but a string of counties and two-thirds
of the
alphabet
after them.
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Kipling - Poems |
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His comrades leave him
forgotten
on the
unknown dust of the plain, moaning his last and gasping his life away;
Opis wings her flight to the skyey heaven.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But nothing
can come into poetry that is not shaped and recognizable; how else but
in
anthropomorphism
could destiny, or (its poetic equivalent) deity,
exist in _Paradise Lost_?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Gladness, pain,
Delight and death, and moods of bliss or bane,
With love and hate, or good and evil--all,
At
separate
times, in separate accents call;
Yet 't is the same heart-throb within the breast
That gives an impulse to our worst and best.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Here and there occur breaks in the story, chiefly
because there are fit
incidents
for song which no poet has fitly
sung as yet.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Is there no pity, no relenting ruth,
Points to the parents
fondling
o'er their child?
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Robert Burns |
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Disloyalty
is a better bond for war than it ever proves
in peace.
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Tacitus |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Stephen Crane |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Stephen Crane |
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Let war and trade and creeds and song
Blend, ripen race on race,
The
sunburnt
world a man shall breed
Of all the zones and countless days.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The Fly
The Fable of the Ant and the Fly
'The Fable of the Ant and the Fly'
Aegidius Sadeler, Marcus
Gheeraerts
(I), Marcus Gheeraerts (I), 1608, The Rijksmuseun
The songs that our flies know
Were taught to them in Norway
By flies who are they say
Divinities of snow.
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Appoloinaire |
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I flee, I confess, from young Aricia, 50
Last of a deadly race that
conspires
against me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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'T is not we
Denounce
it, but the Law before all time:
The brave makes danger opportunity;
The waverer, paltering with the chance sublime,
Dwarfs it to peril: which shall Hesper be?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Prom thousand blossoms came a bubbling
'Mid purple sheen of sorcery,
The song of
countless
warblers singing
Broke through the Spring's first cry of glee.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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They encamp
before the city, and draw their
trenches
round the walls.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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They say you are twisted by the sea,
you are cut apart
by wave-break upon wave-break,
that you are
misshapen
by the sharp rocks,
broken by the rasp and after-rasp.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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9
are, so far as I know,
translated
for the first time.
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Li Po |
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LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
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Sappho |
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If I glance up
it is written on the walls,
it is cut on the floor,
it is
patterned
across
the slope of the roof.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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He has
something
else to do than to answer
your questions.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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He has
something
else to do than to answer
your questions.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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All my
emprises
have been fill'd with Thee,
My speculations, plans, begun and carried on in thoughts of Thee,
Sailing the deep or journeying the land for Thee;
Intentions, purports, aspirations mine, leaving results to Thee.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I envy nests of sparrows
That dot his distant eaves,
The wealthy fly upon his pane,
The happy, happy leaves
That just abroad his window
Have summer's leave to be,
The
earrings
of Pizarro
Could not obtain for me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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With ceaseless suit I pray'd, but all in vain;
One prayer among a
thousand
scarce could gain
A slight regard--so hopeless was my state,
And such the laws of Love imposed by fate!
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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"O Memmius, well and slowly didst
thou
irrumate
me, supine, day by day, with the whole of that beam.
| Guess: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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X
MARCH
The sun at noon to higher air,
Unharnessing
the silver Pair
That late before his chariot swam,
Rides on the gold wool of the Ram.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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III
The road that runs up to
Messines!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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III
The road that runs up to
Messines!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The years had not
sharpened
their smooth round faces,
I met their eyes and found them mild--
Do they, too, dream of me, I wonder,
And for them am I too a child?
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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When their
judgments
are firm, and out of
danger, let them read both the old and the new; but no less take heed
that their new flowers and sweetness do not as much corrupt as the
others' dryness and squalor, if they choose not carefully.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Poor Betty now has lost all hope,
Her
thoughts
are bent on deadly sin,
A green-grown pond she just has past,
And from the brink she hurries fast, 295
Lest she should drown herself therein.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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It has been seen, however, that
his Worldly Ambition was not exorbitant; and he very likely takes a
humorous or perverse pleasure in exalting the
gratification
of Sense
above that of the Intellect, in which he must have taken great
delight, although it failed to answer the Questions in which he, in
common with all men, was most vitally interested.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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He now of this, now that, the mantle sheared;
As though of pewter, not of iron beat,
Or rather of soft rind their arms had been:
So
matchless
was his force and sword so keen!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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It may be wilderness without,
Far feet of failing men,
But holiday
excludes
the night,
And it is bells within.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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A little girl who was at service in the village of Grange, close
under the seaward slopes of Ben Bulben, suddenly
disappeared
one
night about three years ago.
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Le vent baise ses seins et deploie en corolle
Ses longs voiles berces mollement par les eaux;
Les saules
frissonnants
pleurent sur son epaule,
Sur son grand front reveur s'inclinent les roseaux.
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repel an impious foe,
Impious and false, a light yet cruel race,
Who laugh away all virtue, mingling mirth
With deeds of murder; and still promising
Freedom,
themselves
too sensual to be free,
Poison life's amities, and cheat the heart
Of faith and quiet hope, and all that soothes
And all that lifts the spirit!
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Why,
beholding
this,
Why with our wail o'er sad mortality
Mourn we for men, mere men, that fade and fall?
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'328-329'
An allusion to the old
pictures
of the serpent in Eden with a snake's
body and a woman's, or angel's, face.
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Cinnae
tribuitur
|| _citta_
Cauensis, h.
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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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The everlasting ice and snow
Were
loosened
then, but not to flow;--
With a loud crash like solid thunder
The avalanche came, burying under 100
The village; turning life and breath
And rest and joy and plans to death.
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Christina Rossetti |
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What coral, what lilies, and what roses,
In seeming, my open hand discloses,
Now, with twin
caresses
stroking her.
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21 Returning Home On Foot: A Ballad1 In years of your prime Your Excellency has met with
perilous
times, running the state depends indeed on the qualities of a hero.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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There,
Everything
that's done is fair and square.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience 330
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead
mountain
mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water 350
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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