'41 yonder argent fields:'
the sky
spangled
with silvery stars.
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THE lady has agreed, you will remark,
That in a room where ev'ry part is dark,
(Perhaps to 'scape the keeper's prying sight,
Or shame directs exclusion of the light,)
She will receive your gay
inconstant
spouse;
Now, take her place; the case deceit allows;
Make Jack your friend; nor haggle at the price;
A hundred ducats give, is my advice;
He'll place you in the room where darkness reigns;
Think not too fast, nor suffer heavy chains;
Do what you wish, and utter not a word;
To speak, assuredly would be absurd;
'Twould spoil the whole; destroy the project quite;
Attend, and see if all things be not right.
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La Fontaine |
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It's the voice that the light made us understand here
That Hermes
Trismegistus
writes of in Pimander.
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Appoloinaire |
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Scraps of a song keep
rumbling
in my head .
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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"Surely," said I, "surely that is
something
at my window lattice;
Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore--
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;--
'Tis the wind and nothing more!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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" Dick
devoured
the troubled little face
with his eyes.
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Kipling - Poems |
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In the court of heaven
The gods in
conclave
sat and judged the cause,
Not from a pleader's tongue, and at the close,
Unanimous into the urn of doom
This sentence gave, _On Ilion and her men,
Death:_ and where hope drew nigh to pardon's urn
No hand there was to cast a vote therein.
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Aeschylus |
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With you I shared Philippi's rout,
Unseemly parted from my shield,
When Valour fell, and warriors stout
Were tumbled on the inglorious field:
But I was saved by Mercury,
Wrapp'd in thick mist, yet trembling sore,
While you to that
tempestuous
sea
Were swept by battle's tide once more.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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His wealth is scattered to the winds; his children
Are long since dead; but those
celestial
gates
Survive, and keep his name and memory green.
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Longfellow |
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Though he was
terrified
with a blaze streaming from the kirk, yet it
is a well-known fact that to turn back on these occasions is running
by far the greatest risk of mischief, he prudently advanced on his
road.
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Robert Forst |
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These, when the Spartan queen approach'd the tower,
In secret own'd
resistless
beauty's power:
They cried, "No wonder such celestial charms(113)
For nine long years have set the world in arms;
What winning graces!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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Perhaps that other life
is
contrast
always to this.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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He first communicates his design to the princes in council,
that he would propose a return to the soldiers, and that they should put a
stop to them if the
proposal
was embraced.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Let there be no news going through the land
Out of
Bethulia
but this: that we
At Judith's hands had our deliverance,
But she from Holofernes and his crew
Unwilling and astonisht reverence,
As they were men with minds opprest by God.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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of horde, 1109; for
horde, _on account of_ (the robbing of) _the hoard_, 2782;
hǣðnum
horde,
2217; gen.
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Beowulf |
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The sad, lone stream its noiseless tread
Spread o'er the
glistening
pebbles:
All silent now the Yankees stood;
All silent stood the Rebels:
For each responsive soul had heard
That plaintive note's appealing,
So deeply "Home, Sweet Home" had stirred
The hidden founts of feeling.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Now my honour is turned into
decline!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Stephen Crane |
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It is the fair acceptance, sir, creates
The
entertainment
perfect, not the cates.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
VIII
Aphrodite of the foam,
Who hast given all good gifts,
And made Sappho at thy will
Love so greatly and so much,
Ah, how comes it my frail heart 5
Is so fond of all things fair,
I can never choose between
Gorgo and
Andromeda?
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Sappho |
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The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes,
cigarette
ends
Or other testimony of summer nights.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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For Venus hir
assailith
so,
That night and day from hir she stal
Botouns and roses over-al.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Once we met at the
Southern
end of Wei Bridge, but scattered again to
the north of the Tso Terrace.
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Li Po |
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Though faction's scorn at first did shun
With coldness thy inspired song,
Though clouds of malice passed thy sun,
They could not hide it long;
Its
brightness
soon exhaled away
Dank night, and gained eternal day.
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John Clare |
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be merciful, nor say
That this poor aching breast now nourishes
A
murderer
in my boy, and of his father.
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Byron |
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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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Through the
divinity of
themselves
shall the kosmos and the new breed of poets be
interpreters of men and women and of all events and things.
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Whitman |
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Well, I hope writing to _you_ will ease a little my
troubled
soul.
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Robert Burns |
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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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The wealth might disappoint,
Myself a poorer prove
Than this great purchaser suspect,
The daily own of Love
Depreciate the vision;
But, till the
merchant
buy,
Still fable, in the isles of spice,
The subtle cargoes lie.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Eufeniens
seide in his mende,
'?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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People fight; what is there
extraordinary
in
that, allow me to ask?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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LAUGHING SONG
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the
dimpling
stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
when the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene,
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing "Ha, ha he!
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blake-poems |
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Nay, what though
The yellow blood of Trade meanwhile should pour
Along its arteries a
shrunken
flow,
And the idle canvas droop around the shore?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Byron's mother was
descended
from James I.
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Byron |
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Needs it a Magus begot of son upon mother who bare him,
If that impious faith, Persian
religion
be fact,
So may their issue adore busy gods with recognised verses 5
Melting in altar-flame fatness contained by the caul.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its
thousand
feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And microbes more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
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Appoloinaire |
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'Mid the green
mountains
many and many a song
We two had sung, like little birds in May.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And still the centre of his cheek
Is
blooming
as a cherry.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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A shadowy human form winged & in his depths
The dazzlings as of gems shone clear, rapturous in joy fury
Glorying in his own eyes Exalted in
terrific
Pride
[ Searching for glory wishing that the heavens had eyes to See
And courting that the Earth would ope her Eyelids & behold
Such wondrous beauty repining in the midst of all his glory
That nought but Enion could be found to praise adore & love
Three days in self admiring raptures on the rocks he flamd
And three dark nights repind the solitude.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Therefore cast
All sorrow from thy soul; and if again
Chance bring thee, where like
conference
is held,
Think I am ever at thy side.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Et couche dans les glaieuls, Favre,
Fait son
cillement
aqueduc
Et ses reniflements a poivre!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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May such praise confirm his birth from true mother, such fame unique as
rests with
Telemachus
from best of mothers, Penelope.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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Men are
occasionally
particular,
and the least particular men are always the most exacting.
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Kipling - Poems |
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III
_Then dawned a mood of musing thoughtfulness;
As if he doubted whether he could bless
Her wayward spirit, through each fickle hour,
With love's serenity of
flawless
power,
Or she remain a vision, as when first
She came to soothe his fancy all athirst.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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This
contemned
of a man,
This marred one heedless day,
This heart take Thou to scan
Both within and without:
Refine with fire its gold,
Purge Thou its dross away,--
Yea, hold it in Thy hold,
Whence none can pluck it out.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Maggior paura non credo che fosse
quando Fetonte
abbandono
li freni,
per che 'l ciel, come pare ancor, si cosse;
ne quando Icaro misero le reni
senti spennar per la scaldata cera,
gridando il padre a lui <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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