We walked in so pure and bright a light, gilding the withered
grass and leaves, so softly and
serenely
bright, I thought I had never
bathed in such a golden flood, without a ripple or a murmur to it.
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FIGHTING
Last year we were
fighting
at the source of the San-kan;
This year we are fighting at the Onion River road.
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Li Po |
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And so many
children
poor?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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(Indessen haben die jungen
Meerkatzchen
mit einer grossen Kugel gespielt und
rollen sie hervor.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And thus
Began the
loathing
of the acorn; thus
Abandoned were those beds with grasses strewn
And with the leaves beladen.
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Lucretius |
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The armed men more weighty were for that,
Many of them down to the bottom sank,
Downstream
the rest floated as they might hap;
So much water the luckiest of them drank,
That all were drowned, with marvellous keen pangs.
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Chanson de Roland |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The sentries sheltered their
guilt under the general's disgrace, pretending that they had orders to
keep quiet and not disturb him: so they had dispensed with the
bugle-call and the
challenge
on rounds, and dropped off to sleep
themselves.
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Tacitus |
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Keats - Lamia |
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--I only
interposed
between my brother and his
impending fate by the loan of so much.
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Robert Burns |
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Note:
Bellerie
was situated on his family estate La Possonniere.
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Ronsard |
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Indulgence
bids the dropsy grow;
Who fain would quench the palate's flame
Must rescue from the watery foe
The pale weak frame.
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'Tis possible, besides,
That a big bulk of piled sand may bar
His mouths against his onward waves, when sea,
Wild in the winds, tumbles the sand to inland;
Whereby the river's outlet were less free,
Likewise less headlong his
descending
floods.
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Lucretius |
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A Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
With nothing of
language
but
A beating in the sky
From so precious a place yet
Future verse will rise.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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But here, where murder
breathed
her bloody steam;
And here, where buzzing nations choked the ways,
And roared or murmured like a mountain-stream
Dashing or winding as its torrent strays;
Here, where the Roman million's blame or praise
Was death or life, the playthings of a crowd,
My voice sounds much--and fall the stars' faint rays
On the arena void--seats crushed, walls bowed,
And galleries, where my steps seem echoes strangely loud.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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_Lighten
my candle_, etc.
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Robert Herrick |
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In the meadow ground the frogs
With their
deafening
flutes begin,--
The old madness of the world 15
In their golden throats again.
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Sappho |
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--
I think it's
fiendish
to have killed so many.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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blake-poems |
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Her eye
proclaims
her of the Briton-Line:
Her lion-port, her awe-commanding face
Attemper'd sweet to virgin-grace.
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Golden Treasury |
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His last dread
pleasure!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Has not the god of the green world, 5
In his large
tolerant
wisdom,
Filled with the ardours of earth
Her twenty summers?
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Sappho |
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Buckingham, "had no reference to your age
at the period of
interment
(I am willing to grant, in fact, that you are
still a young man), and my illusion was to the immensity of time during
which, by your own showing, you must have been done up in asphaltum.
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Poe - 5 |
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Quest' ultima gia mai non si cancella
se non servata; e intorno di lei
si preciso di sopra si favella:
pero
necessitato
fu a li Ebrei
pur l'offerere, ancor ch'alcuna offerta
si permutasse, come saver dei.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The third most
glorious
of these majesties
Give aid, O sapphires of th' eternal see, And by your light illume pure verity.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
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Keats - Lamia |
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These Grendel-deeds
I heard in my home-land
heralded
clear.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Nancy,
presumably
Mrs.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The idea of Fate 'arose from the
observation
of the
regularity of the sidereal movements'.
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John Donne |
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For his Aunt Jobiska said, "No harm
Can come to his toes if his nose is warm;
And it's
perfectly
known that a Pobble's toes
Are safe--provided he minds his nose.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the
abandoned
light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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FAUST:
Werd ich den Jammer
uberstehen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I wat she was a sheep o' sense,
An' could behave hersel' wi' mense:
I'll say't, she never brak a fence,
Thro'
thievish
greed.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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'
_'Tresvolontiers;' _and he
proceeded
to his library, brought me a Dr.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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You know the
councils
of the ever-living,
And all the tossing of your wings is joy,
And all that murmuring's but a marriage song;
But if it be reproach, I answer this:
There is not one among you that made love
By any other means.
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Yeats |
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I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of
Delight!
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Golden Treasury |
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My father could not believe it possible that I
should be mixed up in a
disgraceful
revolt, of which the object was the
downfall of the throne and the extermination of the race of "_boyars_.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It is interesting also to compare Donne's series of
petitions
with
those in a Middle English Litany preserved in the Balliol Coll.
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John Donne |
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I see his messengers
attending
thee.
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Longfellow |
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In golden dreams the sage duennas slept;
A female
sentinel
to watch was kept.
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La Fontaine |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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I might not be so anguisshous,
That I mote glad and Ioly be,
Whan that I
remembre
me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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No chapter met, howe'er, when morrow came;
Another day arrived, and still the same;
The sages of the convent thought it best,
In fact, to let the mystick
business
rest.
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La Fontaine |
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Rilke - Poems |
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THUBASCUM, a town of
Mauritania
in Africa.
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Tacitus |
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AS I CAME DOWN IN THE HARBOR By Louis Ginsberg
As I came down in the harbor, I saw ships careening — Tall ships with taut sails, bulging slowly away;
As I came down in the harbor, like far
swallows
flying, Delicate were the sails I saw, poised faint and dim !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
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Troubador Verse |
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Canst hear me through the water-bass,
Cry: "To the Shore,
Sweetheart?
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Sidney Lanier |
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I have
searched
all day for a grain of some sort, and
there is none to be found.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The
helmsman
steerd, the ship mov'd on;
Yet never a breeze up-blew;
The Marineres all 'gan work the ropes,
Where they were wont to do:
They rais'd their limbs like lifeless tools--
We were a ghastly crew.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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See to it that both act honourably,
Once over, bring the
conqueror
to me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And the Spirit,
stooping
earthward,
With his finger on the meadow
Traced a winding pathway for it,
Saying to it, "Run in this way!
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Longfellow |
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It has this much in its favour, that a wall of considerable age crests
its summit, and one can whilst sitting down on a rock close behind it
be
sheltered
from the north and east, and yet obtain an extensive view
of the subadjacent country.
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William Wordsworth |
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De workmen's few an' mons'rous slow,
De cotton's sheddin' fas';
Whoop, look, jes' look at de Baptis' row,
Hit's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
Hit's mightily in de grass.
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Sidney Lanier |
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But by my heart of love laid bare to you,
My love that you can make not void nor vain,
Love that
foregoes
you but to claim anew
Beyond this passage of the gate of death,
I charge you at the Judgment make it plain
My love of you was life and not a breath.
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Christina Rossetti |
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)--"which flows
continuously, with only an aspirate pause in the middle, like that
before the short line in the Sapphic Adonic, while the fifth has at the
middle pause no similarity of sound with any part besides, gives the
versification an
entirely
different effect.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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'
The poet who writes best in the
Shakespearian
manner is a poet with
a circumstantial and instinctive mind, who delights to speak with
strange voices and to see his mind in the mirror of Nature; while Mr.
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Yeats |
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My heart was dust that used to leap
To you; I
answered
half asleep:
'My pillow is damp, my sheets are red,
There's a leaden tester to my bed:
Find you a warmer playfellow,
A warmer pillow for your head, 120
A kinder love to love than mine.
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Christina Rossetti |
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That little floweret's peaceful lot,
In yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet's flight, I wot,
Nae ruder visit knows,
Was mine, till Love has o'er me past,
And blighted a' my bloom;
And now, beneath the
withering
blast,
My youth and joy consume.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Yet now, before our sun grow dark at noon,
Before we come to nought beneath Thy rod,
Before we go down quick into the pit, 80
Remember us for good, O God, our God:--
Thy Name will I remember, praising it,
Though Thou forget me, though Thou hide Thy face,
And blot me from the Book which Thou hast writ;
Thy Name will I remember in my praise
And call to mind Thy
faithfulness
of old,
Though as a weaver Thou cut off my days,
And end me as a tale ends that is told.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Light they disperse, and with them go
The summer Friend, the
flattering
Foe;
By vain Prosperity received
To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.
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Golden Treasury |
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But he has, I think,
insufficiently
analysed the diverse strains in Donne's
love-poetry.
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John Donne |
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According to his
legendary
vida, he was the lover of Seremonda, or Soremonda, wife of Raimon of Castel Rossillon.
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Troubador Verse |
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' The
interjected
'O knottie riddle' does not mean, 'Who is
to say which is the worst?
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John Donne |
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It
is also
uncertain
whether he knew, when he entered the service of Lin,
that this prince was about to take up arms against the Emperor.
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Li Po |
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used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Perhaps, if I the cup should hold awry,
The liquor out might on a sudden fly;
I'm sometimes awkward, and in case the cup
Should fancy me another, who would sup,
The error, doubtless, might unpleasant be:
To any thing but this I will agree,
To give you pleasure, Damon, so adieu;
Then Reynold from the
antlered
corps withdrew.
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La Fontaine |
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It's true, though your enemy,
I cannot blame you for fleeing infamy;
And, however strong my
outburst
of pain
I do not accuse you, I only weep again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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replied in the _United Irishman_
with an
impassioned
letter.
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Yeats |
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ELECTRA,
_daughter
of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"You will be
laughing
now, remembering
We called you once Dead World, and barren thing.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Beneath the moon that shines so bright,
Till she is tired, let Betty Foy
With girt and stirrup fiddle-faddle;
But
wherefore
set upon a saddle
Him whom she loves, her idiot boy?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Silent and
motionless
we lie;
And no one knoweth more than this.
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Longfellow |
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Gradually
it became plain to him he could not
finish it.
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Yeats |
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Whan fader or moder arn in grave, 4860
Hir children shulde, whan they ben deede,
Ful
diligent
ben, in hir steede,
To use that werke on such a wyse,
That oon may thurgh another ryse.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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There were undoubtedly more than two cities
engluphed
in the "dead sea.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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•
Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Two little fishes whom hee never harm'd,
Nor fed on their kinde, two not throughly arm'd
With hope that they could kill him, nor could doe
Good to themselves by his death (they did not eate
His flesh, nor suck those oyles, which thence
outstreat)
345
Conspir'd against him, and it might undoe
The plot or all, that the plotters were two,
But that they fishes were, and could not speake.
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John Donne |
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Boccalini, in his "Advertisements from Parnassus," tells us that Zoilus
once presented Apollo a very caustic criticism upon a very admirable
book:--whereupon the god asked him for the
beauties
of the work.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Harmless and silent as the
pestilence!
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Longfellow |
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"
" -- Thou shalt not so the ordered lots confound,
Or break our compact (was Rogero's cry):
Either, first
Rodomont
shall take the field,
Or shall to me his right of battle yield.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Chimene
My honour's there, I must be avenged, still;
However we pride ourselves on love's merit,
Excuse is
shameful
to a noble spirit.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Lanier's growth in
artistic
form.
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Sidney Lanier |
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But, when he had refused the proffered gold,
To cruel injuries he became a prey,
Sore traversed in whate'er he bought and sold:
His troubles grew upon him day by day,
Till all his
substance
fell into decay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
The Other Language
Three days after I was born, as I lay in my silken cradle, gazing
with
astonished
dismay on the new world round about me, my mother
spoke to the wet-nurse, saying, "How does my child?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous
portrait
indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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In the midst of
pleasure
my soul suffers:
I drown in joy, and tremble with my fears.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not
substantial
things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and Crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
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Golden Treasury |
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Defeat, my Defeat, my shining sword and shield,
In your eyes I have read
That to be
enthroned
is to be enslaved,
And to be understood is to be leveled down,
And to be grasped is but to reach one's fullness
And like a ripe fruit to fall and be consumed.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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1157-1170)
A townsman's son from the Bishopric of Clermont-Ferrand, Peire d'Alvernhe was a
professional
troubadour.
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Troubador Verse |
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'Twas then in valleys lone, remote,
In spring-time, heard the cygnet's note
By waters shining tranquilly,
That first the Muse
appeared
to me.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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