They are the mills which grinde you, yet you are
The winde which drives them; and a
wastfull
warre
Is fought against you, and you fight it; they 25
Adulterate lawe, and you prepare their way
Like wittals; th'issue your owne ruine is.
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, whose surpassing value it was
difficult
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In the dim meadows desolate
Dost thou
remember
Sicily?
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Bold Paris first the work of death begun
On great Menestheus, Areithous' son,
Sprung from the fair Philomeda's embrace,
The
pleasing
Arne was his native place.
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Pyrrhus was
completely
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In one, among the city streets a laborer's home appear'd,
After his day's work done, cleanly, sweet-air'd, the gaslight burning,
The carpet swept and a fire in the
cheerful
stove.
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Wee'l haue thee, as our rarer
Monsters
are
Painted vpon a pole, and vnder-writ,
Heere may you see the Tyrant
Macb.
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[Illustration]
There was a young person in green,
Who seldom was fit to be seen;
She wore a long shawl, over bonnet and all,
Which
enveloped
that person in green.
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I could
see the scales go up and down, but I could not see the shades who were,
I knew,
crowding
about him.
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come like a stranger near,
And clasp young Moses with maternal joy;
Nor fear the speechless
transport
and the tear
Will e'er betray thy fond and hidden claim,
For Iphis knows not yet a mother's name!
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WINTER IN
DURNOVER
FIELD
SCENE.
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The very roughness of her
rendering is part of herself, and not lightly to be touched; for it
seems in many cases that she
intentionally
avoided the smoother and
more usual rhymes.
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_ None, surely, till I may be
released
from bonds.
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The sheep-herd steeks his
faulding
slap,
And owre the moorland whistles shrill;
Wi' wild, unequal, wand'ring step,
I meet him on the dewy hill.
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"
_Confessions
de J.
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There was
something in the character of Saint-Preux, in his abnegation of self,
and in the worship he paid to Love, that coincided with Shelley's own
disposition; and, though
differing
in many of the views and shocked by
others, yet the effect of the whole was fascinating and delightful.
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He when to
Pharamond
(as now to you)
Was shown the castle on the rocky mount,
Heard him relate the things I now recount.
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ARCHY:
If your Majesty were
tormented
night and day by fever, gout,
rheumatism, and stone, and asthma, etc.
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Again, as in a building,
If the first plumb-line be askew, and if
The square deceiving swerve from lines exact,
And if the level waver but the least
In any part, the whole
construction
then
Must turn out faulty--shelving and askew,
Leaning to back and front, incongruous,
That now some portions seem about to fall,
And falls the whole ere long--betrayed indeed
By first deceiving estimates: so too
Thy calculations in affairs of life
Must be askew and false, if sprung for thee
From senses false.
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Where'er my footsteps turned, 20
Her voice was like a hidden bird that sang;
The thought of her was like a flash of light
Or an unseen companionship, a breath
Or fragrance
independent
of the wind.
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Have they
nostrils
breathing flame?
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More than a century and
a half after the death of Mariana, this
venerable
ballad, of
which one imperfect copy on parchment, four hundred years old,
had been preserved at Bivar, was for the first time printed.
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e fen, [folio 24a]
his
penaunce
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Meredith - Poems |
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As a spider he creeps and he
clutches
his prey,
And he hales me away.
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Aeschylus |
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The hum of
multitudes
was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I am here to fight
Wolves for the joy of the world,
marvellous
women!
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Always
repenting
of wrongs done
Will never bring my heart to rest.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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THIS
calendar
o'erspread with rubrick days;
She soon forgot and learn'd the pirate's ways;
The matrimonial zone aside was thrown,
And only mentioned where the fact was known:
OUR lawyer would his fingers sooner burn;
Than have his wife but virtuous home return;
By means of gold he entertain'd no doubt,
Her restoration might be brought about.
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La Fontaine |
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None answer'd this; but after Silence spake
A Vessel of a more
ungainly
Make:
"They sneer at me for leaning all awry;
What?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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" The picture was
carried in triumph to the church, and
deposited
there.
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Besides
originality
and daring, which have been already
insisted upon, width and intensity are leading characteristics of his
writings--width both of subject-matter and of comprehension, intensity of
self-absorption into what the poet contemplates and expresses.
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Whitman |
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
A new light rises 'neath the evening star,
A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
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Milton |
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To
transmute
crime to wisdom, so to stem
The vice of Japhet by the thought of Shem.
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Emerson - Poems |
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harmonies
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The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;
As the good and gallant stripling shook and trembled;
A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,
O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet
The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward,
The lappets of its front were button'd backward,
And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;
See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,
From his eyeballs hot and briny tears distilling;
On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,
Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;
Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd,
Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him:
O my boy, O my treasure, and my
darling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving
foresight
may be vain:
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men,
Gang aft a-gley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain,
For promis'd joy.
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_
[229]
_Tu quoque littoribus nostris, AEneia nutrix,
AEternam
moriens famam,
Caieta, dedisti.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Or des vergers fleuris se figeaient en arriere
Les petales tombes des cerisiers de mai
Sont les ongles de celle que j'ai tant aimee
Les petales fleuris sont comme ses paupieres
Sur le chemin du bord du fleuve lentement
Un ours un singe un chien menes par des tziganes
Suivaient une roulotte trainee par un ane
Tandis que s'eloignait dans les vignes rhenanes
Sur un fifre lointain un air de regiment
Le mai le joli mai a pare les ruines
De lierre de vigne vierge et de rosiers
Le vent du Rhin secoue sur le bord les osiers
Et les roseaux jaseurs et les fleurs nues des vignes
La synagogue
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren
Coiffes de feutres verts le matin du sabbat
Vont a la synagogue en longeant le Rhin
Et les coteaux ou les vignes rougissent la-bas
Ils se disputent et crient des choses qu'on ose a peine traduire
Batard concu pendant les regles ou Que le diable entre dans ton
pere
Le vieux Rhin souleve sa face ruisselante et se detourne pour
sourire
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren sont en colere
Parce que pendant le sabbat on ne doit pas fumer
Tandis que les chretiens passent avec des cigares allumes
Et parce qu'Ottomar et Abraham aiment tous deux
Lia aux yeux de brebis et dont le ventre avance un peu
Pourtant tout a l'heure dans la synagogue l'un apres l'autre
Ils baiseront la thora en soulevant leur beau chapeau
Parmi les feuillards de la fete des cabanes
Ottomar en chantant sourira a Abraham
Ils dechanteront sans mesure et les voix graves des hommes
Feront gemir un Leviathan au fond du Rhin comme une voix d'automne
Et dans la synagogue pleine de chapeaux on agitera les loulabim
Hanoten ne Kamoth bagoim tholahoth baleoumim
Les cloches
Mon beau tzigane mon amant
Ecoute les cloches qui sonnent
Nous nous aimions eperdument
Croyant n'etre vus de personne
Mais nous etions bien mal caches
Toutes les cloches a la ronde
Nous ont vus du haut des clochers
Et le disent a tout le monde
Demain Cyprien et Henri
Marie Ursule et Catherine
La boulangere et son mari
Et puis Gertrude ma cousine
Souriront quand je passerai
Je ne saurai plus ou me mettre
Tu seras loin Je pleurerai
J'en mourrai peut-etre
La Loreley
A Jean Seve
A Bacharach il y avait une sorciere blonde
Qui laissait mourir d'amour tous les hommes a la ronde
Devant son tribunal l'eveque la fit citer
D'avance il l'absolvit a cause de sa beaute
O belle Loreley aux yeux pleins de pierreries
De quel magicien tiens-tu ta sorcellerie
Je suis lasse de vivre et mes yeux sont maudits
Ceux qui m'ont
regardee
eveque en ont peri
Mes yeux ce sont des flammes et non des pierreries
Jetez jetez aux flammes cette sorcellerie
Je flambe dans ces flammes O belle Loreley
Qu'un autre te condamne tu m'as ensorcele
Eveque vous riez Priez plutot pour moi la Vierge
Faites-moi donc mourir et que Dieu vous protege
Mon amant est parti pour un pays lointain
Faites-moi donc mourir puisque je n'aime rien
Mon coeur me fait si mal il faut bien que je meure
Si je me regardais il faudrait que j'en meure
Mon coeur me fait si mal depuis qu'il n'est plus la
Mon coeur me fit si mal du jour ou il s'en alla
L'eveque fit venir trois chevaliers avec leurs lances
Menez jusqu'au couvent cette femme en demence
Va t'en Lore en folie va Lore aux yeux tremblants
Tu seras une nonne vetue de noir et blanc
Puis ils s'en allerent sur la route tous les quatre
La Loreley les implorait et ses yeux brillaient comme des astres
Chevaliers laissez-moi monter sur ce rocher si haut
Pour voir une fois encore mon beau chateau
Pour me mirer une fois encore dans le fleuve
Puis j'irai au couvent des vierges et des veuves
La-haut le vent tordait ses cheveux deroules
Les chevaliers criaient Loreley Loreley
Tout la-bas sur le Rhin s'en vient une nacelle
Et mon amant s'y tient il m'a vue il m'appelle
Mon coeur devient si doux c'est mon amant qui vient
Elle se penche alors et tombe dans le Rhin
Pour avoir vu dans l'eau la belle Loreley
Ses yeux couleur du Rhin ses cheveux de soleil
Schinderhannes
Dans la foret avec sa bande
Schinderhannes s'est desarme
Le brigand pres de sa brigande
Hennit d'amour au joli mai
Benzel accroupi lit la Bible
Sans voir que son chapeau pointu
A plume d'aigle sert de cible
A Jacob Born le mal foutu
Juliette Blaesius qui rote
Fait semblant d'avoir le hoquet
Hannes pousse une fausse note
Quand Schulz vient portant un baquet
Et s'ecrie en versant des larmes
Baquet plein de vin parfume
Viennent aujourd'hui les gendarmes
Nous aurons bu le vin de mai
Allons Julia la mam'zelle
Bois avec nous ce clair bouillon
D'herbes et de vin de Moselle
Prosit Bandit en cotillon
Cette brigande est bientot soule
Et veut Hannes qui n'en veut pas
Pas d'amour maintenant ma poule
Sers-nous un bon petit repas
Il faut ce soir que j'assassine
Ce riche juif au bord du Rhin
Au clair des torches de resine
La fleur de mai c'est le florin
On mange alors toute la bande
Pete et rit pendant le diner
Puis s'attendrit a l'allemande
Avant d'aller assassiner
Rhenane d'automne
A Toussaint-Luca
Les enfants des morts vont jouer
Dans le cimetiere
Martin Gertrude Hans et Henri
Nul coq n'a chante aujourd'hui
Kikiriki
Les vieilles femmes
Tout en pleurant cheminent
Et les bons anes
Braillent hi han et se mettent a brouter les fleurs
Des couronnes mortuaires
C'est le jour des morts et de toutes leurs ames
Les enfants et les vieilles femmes
Allument des bougies et des cierges
Sur chaque tombe catholique
Les voiles des vieilles
Les nuages du ciel
Sont comme des barbes de biques
L'air tremble de flammes et de prieres
Le cimetiere est un beau jardin
Plein de saules gris et de romarins
Il vous vient souvent des amis qu'on enterre
ah!
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Person of Cheadle
Was put in the stocks by the Beadle
For
stealing
some pigs, some coats, and some wigs,
That horrible person of Cheadle.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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According
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Blake - Zoas |
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Then keep your heart for men like me
And safe from
trustless
chaps.
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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He slapped old friends on the back and asked them if
the stumps were coming away easily; he talked nonsense concerning
labor and the
inalienable
rights of elephants to a long 'nooning'; and,
wandering to and fro, he thoroughly demoralized the garden till sundown,
when he returned to his picket for food.
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Kipling - Poems |
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On the morrow morning
Pugatchef
sent someone to call me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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HOLY THURSDAY
'Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,
The
children
walking two and two, in red, and blue, and green:
Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Yet finding them past cure, as
doctores
fly
Their patientes past all hope of remedy,
No charitable soule will once impart
One word of comfort to so sicke a heart;
But as a hurt deare beaten from the heard, 85
Men of my shadow allmost now affeard
Fly from my woes, that whilome wont to greet mee,
And well nigh thinke it ominous to meete mee.
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John Donne |
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could my sighs in accents flow
So
musically
lorn,
That thou might'st catch my am'rous woe,
And cease, proud Maid!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Were you
thinking
that those were the words--those delicious sounds out of
your friends' mouths?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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So they began to sing, voice
answering
voice
In strains alternate- for alternate strains
The Muses then were minded to recall-
First Corydon, then Thyrsis in reply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I
wondered
at you.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Pass down, the while these altars glow
With sacred fire, to earth below
And your
appointed
shrine.
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Aeschylus |
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1010
Les cheveus ot blons et si lons
Qu'il li
batoient
as talons;
Nez ot bien fait, et yelx et bouche.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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'SOTTO VOCE'
(To EDWARD THOMAS)
The haze of noon wanned silver-grey,
The
soundless
mansion of the sun;
The air made visible in his ray,
Like molten glass from furnace run,
Quivered o'er heat-baked turf and stone
And the flower of the gorse burned on--
Burned softly as gold of a child's fair hair
Along each spiky spray, and shed
Almond-like incense in the air
Whereon our senses fed.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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_A18_,
_N_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ _no title_, _JC_]
[5 know; _Ed:_ know, _1633-69_]
[8 with] in _1669_]
[16 might] must _TCC_]
[18 beare] endure _1669_
torturing]
tormenting
_JC_, _O'F_ (_corr.
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John Donne |
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That will not be, if she
torments
me,
Peace and a truce are all I'm asking,
For it grieves me to exit limply,
And lose the good of all this suffering.
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Troubador Verse |
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And we conquer but to save:--
So peace instead of death let us bring:
But yield, proud foe, thy fleet
With the crews, at England's feet,
And make
submission
meet
To our King.
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Golden Treasury |
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"
[Illustration]
And so, in truth, it was: and they soon found that what they had taken for
an immense wig was in reality the top of the Cauliflower; and that he had
no feet at all, being able to walk tolerably well with a fluctuating and
graceful movement on a single cabbage-stalk,--an
accomplishment
which
naturally saved him the expense of stockings and shoes.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I
I BELIEVE in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call
magic, in what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not
know what they are, in the power of
creating
magical illusions, in the
visions of truth in the depths of the mind when the eyes are closed;
and I believe in three doctrines, which have, as I think, been handed
down from early times, and been the foundations of nearly all magical
practices.
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Yeats |
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But Moore used
them without the permission and an undignified quarrel arose as to the
true
authorship
of the passage.
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Alexander Pope |
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On her return from the drive, she
hastened
to her chamber to
read the missive, in a state of excitement mingled with fear.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Not
far from it Tarchon and his Tyrrhenians were encamped in a protected
place; and now from the hill-top the tents of all their army might be
seen
outspread
on the fields.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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A pleader, a dissembler,
An epicure, a thief, --
Betimes an oratorio,
An ecstasy in chief;
The Jesuit of orchards,
He cheats as he enchants
Of an entire attar
For his
decamping
wants.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But why this
mourning
hair, this garb of woe?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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A Song o/Only a little while,
**f V,ir8in Sith
sleepeth
this child here
Stay ye the branches.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But to see and hear and touch Woman
Breaks our shell of this
accursed
world,
And turns our measured days to measureless gleam.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Moriarty
read out his very soul for the benefit of any one
who was in the room between ten-thirty that night and two-forty-five
next morning.
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Kipling - Poems |
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sicine discedens
neglecto
numine diuum,
immemor a deuota domum periuria portas?
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Latin - Catullus |
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and 3824
to
discoueren
me ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Certain
qualities
of the highest poet
Pope no doubt lacked, lofty imagination, intense passion, wide human
sympathy.
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Alexander Pope |
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But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,
Most worthy comfort, now my
greatest
grief,
Thou best of dearest, and mine only care,
Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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" It is
doubtful
whether one can
call it a tragedy at all.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Though
scarcely
half as big, demure and small,
He fights with dogs for bones and beats them all.
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John Clare |
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Hush, call no echo up in further proof
Of
desolation!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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What hast thou to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired,
wandering
singer, singing through
The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I
understand
her signs.
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Shakespeare |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The troops with elevated eyes,
Implore the god whose thunder rends the skies:
"O father of mankind,
superior
lord!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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We see how wearing-down hath
minished
these,
But just what motes depart at any time,
The envious nature of vision bars our sight.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Sylvan, I have been
So wrencht and
fearfully
used.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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te sine nil altum mens incohat: en age segnis
rumpe moras; uocat ingenti clamore Cithaeron,
Taygetique
canes domitrixque Epidaurus equorum,
et uox adsensu nemorum ingeminata remugit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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All these are fading now;
Our brig hastes on her way,
Her
unremembering
prow
Is leaping o'er the sea,
Far away, far away.
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Emerson - Poems |
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