Meanwhile, awaken'd from his dream of love,
On Ida's summit sat
imperial
Jove:
Round the wide fields he cast a careful view,
There saw the Trojans fly, the Greeks pursue;
These proud in arms, those scatter'd o'er the plain
And, 'midst the war, the monarch of the main.
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Cheveux bleus,
pavillon
de tenebres tendues,
Vous me rendez l'azur du ciel immense et rond;
Sur les bords duvetes de vos meches tordues
Je m'enivre ardemment des senteurs confondues
De l'huile de coco, du musc et du goudron.
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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is
dwelling
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For life is weary, now my lord is slain,
The
gracious
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All shadowy black the body dread,
All frenzied fire the head,--
The hunger of its mouth a hollow crimson flame,
The hatred in its eyes a blaze
Fierce and green, stabbing the ruddy glaze,
And sharp white jetting fire the teeth snarl'd at me,
And white the dribbling rage of froth,--
A throat that gaped to bay and paws working violently,
Yet soundless all as a winging moth;
Tugging towards me, famishing for my heart;--
Even while thou, O golden god, wert still
Looking the
beautiful
kindness of thy will
Into my soul, even then must I be,
With thy bright promise looking at me,
Then bitterly of that hound afraid?
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Could I
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* * * * *
O Hermes, master of knowledge,
Measure and number and rhythm,
Worker of wonders in metal, 15
Moulder of malleable music,
So often the giver of secret
Learning to
mortals!
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"
The god of battle issues on the plain,
Stirs all the ranks, and fires the Trojan train;
In form like Acamas, the Thracian guide,
Enraged to Troy's
retiring
chiefs he cried:
"How long, ye sons of Priam!
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Yet so it befell, his falchion pierced
that
wondrous
worm, -- on the wall it struck,
best blade; the dragon died in its blood.
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The word order is
inverted
for the sake of the rhyme.
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Lo these starry hosts
They are thy servants if thou wilt obey my awful Law
Los answerd furious art thou one of those who when most complacent
Mean
mischief
most.
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BEGGAR Ay; and if truth were known
I have good
business
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[12]
[11] The
opposite
of a parting by death.
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Tomorrow
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--is it not for hope,
A hope within thee deeper than thy truth,
Of finally
conducting
him and his
To fill the vacant thrones of me and mine,
Which affront heaven with their vacuity?
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What tell'st thou me of
supping?
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Look here and see the Patriarch much abused
Who twice seven years for his fair Rachel choosed
To serve: O powerful love
increased
by woe!
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_' This
estimate of the clergy must not be overlooked when
considering
the
struggle that went on in Donne's mind too before he crossed the
Rubicon.
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An old gown
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Love has been nothing but a subordinate incident, almost one might say
an ornament, in the early epics; in Apollonius, though working through a
deal of gross and
lumbering
mythological machinery, love becomes for the
first time one of the primary values of life.
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Then, like to thee, would I in my old age
Have gladly from the noisy world withdrawn,
To vow myself a dedicated monk,
And in the quiet
cloister
end my days.
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The godlihede or beautee which that kinde 1730
In any other lady hadde y-set
Can not the
mountaunce
of a knot unbinde,
A-boute his herte, of al Criseydes net.
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Roses--pavement--
I will take all this city away with me--
People--uproar--the pavement jostling and flickering--
Women with
incredible
eyelids:
Dandies in spats:
Hard-faced throng discussing me--I know them all.
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Imagists |
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This
Hermione
absorbed
The lustre of the land and ocean,
Hills and islands, cloud and tree,
In her form and motion.
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In Erech of the wide spaces [57]
he hurled the axe,
and they
assembled
about him.
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Thou maruell'st at my words: but hold thee still,
Things bad begun, make strong
themselues
by ill:
So prythee goe with me.
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NIGHT of grief and gloom 1
Black velvet
covering
veils
Footsteps in the room
Wherein thy love travails.
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I live with him, I hear his voice,
I stand alive to-day
To witness to the certainty
Of immortality
Taught me by Time, -- the lower way,
Conviction every day, --
That life like this is endless,
Be
judgment
what it may.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Many
eminent English poets have been laid under contribution by him,
often without going through the form of
acknowledging
the
source of inspiration.
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A moment he stood
balancing
with emotion,
And all but lost himself.
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A Presence large, a grave and
steadfast
Form
Amid the leaves' light play and fantasy,
A calmness conquered out of many a storm,
A Manhood mastered by a chestnut-tree!
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But with
austerity!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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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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Why behold we
Marks of his lightnings most on
mountain
tops?
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Lucretius |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in
Khorassan
in the latter half of
our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth
Century.
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Thou snatchedst me from the
despairing
state
In which my senses, well nigh crazed, were sunken.
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From every wight as fer as is the cloude
He was, so wel
dissimulen
he coude.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Manoa then departs to prosecute his endeavour with the Philistian Lords
for Samson's redemption; who in the mean while is visited by other
persons; and lastly by a publick Officer to require coming to the Feast
before the Lords and People, to play or shew his strength in thir
presence; he at first refuses, dismissing the publick officer with
absolute denyal to come; at length perswaded
inwardly
that this was from
God, he yields to go along with him, who came now the second time with
great threatnings to fetch him; the Chorus yet remaining on the place,
Manoa returns full of joyful hope, to procure e're long his Sons
deliverance: in the midst of which discourse an Ebrew comes in haste
confusedly at first; and afterward more distinctly relating the
Catastrophe, what Samson had done to the Philistins, and by accident to
himself; wherewith the Tragedy ends.
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Milton |
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His father--also Thomas--dead three months before his son's birth, had
been a
subchaunter
in Bristol Cathedral and had held the mastership
in a local free school.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Which of the gods will now smile in sweet
condescension
on Cupid?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The harbour-bay was clear as glass,
So
smoothly
it was strewn!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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O weary fa' the
waukrife
cock,
And the foumart lay his crawin!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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After their attempts have
proved ineffectual, Ulysses, taking Eumaeus and Philaetius apart,
discovers himself to them; then returning, desires leave to try
his strength at the bow, which, though refused with indignation by
the suitors,
Penelope
and Telemachus cause it to be delivered to
his hands.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The
gracious
Duncan
Was pittied of Macbeth: marry he was dead:
And the right valiant Banquo walk'd too late,
Whom you may say (if't please you) Fleans kill'd,
For Fleans fled: Men must not walke too late.
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But, ah, thy rage
Is
insupportable!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
Thus while he spoke, the queen of heaven, enraged,
And queen of war, in close consult engaged:
Apart they sit, their deep designs employ,
And
meditate
the future woes of Troy.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Songs of a Strolling Player
THROUGH the
blossoms
softly simmer
Drops profound and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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1802
FROST AT MIDNIGHT
The Frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped
by any wind.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Of this heresy Emerson said:
"I deny
personality
to God because it is too little, not too much.
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At length
Cerialis
soothed their alarm.
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bid now
approach
610
Yon stranger.
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Io fui di Montefeltro, io son Bonconte;
Giovanna
o altri non ha di me cura;
per ch'io vo tra costor con bassa fronte>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Alone the cries
Of the night sentinels arise
And from the Millionaya afar(19)
The sudden
rattling
of a car.
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Fortuitously
appearing
for a moment in the World
He suddenly departs, never to return.
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CXV
Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
Even those that said I could not love you dearer:
Yet then my
judgment
knew no reason why
My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer.
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Song
Composed
In August
Tune--"I had a horse, I had nae mair.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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News from the humming city comes to it
In sound of funeral or of
marriage
bells;
And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear
The windy clanging of the minster clock;
Although between it and the garden lies
A league of grass, wash'd by a slow broad stream,
That, stirr'd with languid pulses of the oar,
Waves all its lazy lilies, and creeps on,
Barge-laden, to three arches of a bridge
Crown'd with the minster-towers.
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Deluded by [the] summers heat they sport in
enormous
love
And cast their young out to the [?
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Blake - Zoas |
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This object swives
girls enow, and fancies himself a handsome fellow, and is not
condemned
to
the mill as an ass?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The silver bugle blows across the meer,
And some will hear it early, others late;
But each will lay himself upon his bier
And hold thereon a moment's solemn state:
And there will be the brief
funereal
rites Whence all shall pass into the utter drear Where sunless, moonless, days succeed to nights, And no wind stirs the surface of the meer.
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The ears are
excused, the
understanding
is not.
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330
In France, the men, who, for their
desperate
ends,
Had plucked up mercy by the roots, were glad
Of this new enemy.
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William Wordsworth |
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II
Unconquerably there must
As my hope hurls itself free
Burst on high and be lost
In silence and in fury
A voice alien to the wood
Or
followed
by no echo,
The bird one never could
Hear again in this life below.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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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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Although, of course, he'd known
That there were stars, somehow before the war
He'd never
realised
them--so thick-sown,
Millions and millions.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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It cannot be my spirit,
For that was thine before;
I ceded all of dust I knew, --
What opulence the more
Had I, a humble maiden,
Whose
farthest
of degree
Was that she might,
Some distant heaven,
Dwell timidly with thee!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Romance lives by repetition, and
repetition
converts an appetite into an
art.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The frozen
imperturbability
of the poet, his cutting enunciation, his
power of blasphemy, his hatred of Nature, his love of the artificial,
have been copied by the aesthetic blades of our day.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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1475
And Troilus, of whom ye nil han routhe,
Shal causeles so sterven in his
trouthe!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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" he seem'd to say;
"Through this dark medium no
detecting
ray
Assists thy sight; but I, like thee, can boast
My birth on famed Etruria's ancient coast.
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I know not whether I am sitting on the
ruins of a wall, or on the
material
which is to compose a new one.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"And I for truth, -- the two are one;
We
brethren
are," he said.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the beginning of his four and a half year
residence
in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes
landscape
or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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press me with thy little hand;
It loosens
something
at my chest;
About that tight and deadly band
I feel thy little fingers press'd.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"And when I also claim a nook,
And your feet tread me in,
Bestow me, under my old name,
Among my kith and kin,
That
strangers
gazing may not dream
I did a husband win.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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While Capito had a foul reputation for extortion and
loose living, some people yet believed that he had
withheld
his hand
from treason.
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Tacitus |
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Siehst du die
Schnecke
da?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Fierce is that King, with 's hoary beard, and proud,
And
Bramimunde
hath yielded up her towers;
But ten ere great, and lesser fifty around.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Now the moon-white butterflies
Float across the liquid air,
Glad as in a dream;
And, across thy lover's heart, 10
Visions of one scarlet mouth
With its
maddening
smile.
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Sappho |
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Again the
restless
orb his toil renews,
Dust mounts in clouds, and sweat descends in dews.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
la la
To Carthage then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou
pluckest
me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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He
promised
'a new start'.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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O I never thought that joys would run away from boys,
Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such summer joys;
But alack I never dreamed that the world had other toys
To petrify first feelings like the fable into stone,
Till I found the
pleasure
past and a winter come at last,
Then the fields were sudden bare and the sky got overcast
And boyhood's pleasing haunt like a blossom in the blast
Was shrivelled to a withered weed and trampled down and done,
Till vanished was the morning spring and set the summer sun
And winter fought her battle strife and won.
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John Clare |
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Departed out of parlement echone,
This Troilus, with-oute wordes mo,
Un-to his
chaumbre
spedde him faste allone, 220
But-if it were a man of his or two,
The whiche he bad out faste for to go,
By-cause he wolde slepen, as he seyde,
And hastely up-on his bed him leyde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Low lies the pall,
Lowly the
mourners
all
Their passage grope;
No sable hue
Mars the serene blue
Of heaven's cope.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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E come quei che con lena affannata,
uscito fuor del pelago a la riva,
si volge a l'acqua
perigliosa
e guata,
cosi l'animo mio, ch'ancor fuggiva,
si volse a retro a rimirar lo passo
che non lascio gia mai persona viva.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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