There seemed not a holy thing in hail,
Nor shape of light or love,
From the Abbey north of
Blackmore
Vale
To the Abbey south thereof.
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On your hand as it waved adieu
There were veins of blue;
In your voice as it said good-bye
Was a
petulant
cry,
'You have only wasted your life.
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555
What need of armes, where peace doth ay remaine,
(Said he,) and
battailes
none are to be fought?
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The
flaunting
flow'rs our gardens yield,
High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield;
But thou, beneath the random bield
O' clod or stane,
Adorns the histie stibble field,
Unseen, alane.
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hē him frēondlārum hēold,
_supported
him with friendly advice_,
2378.
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Beowulf |
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DANAUS
Look you, not swiftly puts a fleet to sea,
Nor swiftly to its moorings; long it is
Or e'er the saving cables to the shore
Are borne, and long or e'er the
steersmen
cry,
_The good ship swings at anchor--all is well_.
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Aeschylus |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which
simulates
rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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So hath Trade
withered
up Love's sinewy prime,
Men love not women as in olden time.
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Sidney Lanier |
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[12] This scene not
improbably
illustrates the
effort of Enkidu to rescue his friend from the goddess.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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But Hugo's method, of a connected
sequence
of separate
poems, instead of one continuous poem, may come in here.
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]
Before the farm where, o'er the porch, festoon
Wild creepers red, and gaffer sits at noon,
Whilst strutting fowl display their varied crests,
And the old
watchdog
slumberously rests,
They half-attentive to the clarion of their king,
Resplendent in the sunshine op'ning wing--
There stood a cow, with neck-bell jingling light,
Superb, enormous, dappled red and white--
Soft, gentle, patient as a hind unto its young,
Letting the children swarm until they hung
Around her, under--rustics with their teeth
Whiter than marble their ripe lips beneath,
And bushy hair fresh and more brown
Than mossy walls at old gates of a town,
Calling to one another with loud cries
For younger imps to be in at the prize;
Stealing without concern but tremulous with fear
They glance around lest Doll the maid appear;--
Their jolly lips--that haply cause some pain,
And all those busy fingers, pressing now and 'gain,
The teeming udders whose small, thousand pores
Gush out the nectar 'mid their laughing roars,
While she, good mother, gives and gives in heaps,
And never moves.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"Then my rich robes
trailing
show
As I go,
None to chide should be so bold;
And upon my sandals fine
How should shine
Rubies worked in cloth-of-gold!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Is my own son
In
complicity
with my enemies then?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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To who in all this
presence
speaks your Grace?
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Shakespeare |
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'
When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
A certain old dream, sick desire of my spine,
Beneath
funereal
ceilings afflicted by dying
Folded its indubitable wing there within me.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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'
I asked the
childish
voice.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Full swells the deep pure fountain of young life,
Where ON the heart and FROM the heart we took
Our first and sweetest nurture, when the wife,
Blest into mother, in the
innocent
look,
Or even the piping cry of lips that brook
No pain and small suspense, a joy perceives
Man knows not, when from out its cradled nook
She sees her little bud put forth its leaves--
What may the fruit be yet?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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_Drum Taps_
are, of course, songs of the Civil War, and their
_Sequel_
is mainly on the
same theme: the chief poem in this last section being the one on the death
of Lincoln.
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Whitman |
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In vain I begged them to surrender to me:
Scimitars in hand they would not listen;
But seeing their men fall all around them,
And that they were
fighting
on unshielded,
They sought our chief: answering, they yielded,
I sent them to you, with due compliments;
The war then ceased through lack of combatants.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Myself moving forward then and now and forever,
Gathering and showing more always and with velocity,
Infinite
and omnigenous, and the like of these among them,
Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancers,
Picking out here one that I love, and now go with him on brotherly terms.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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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The action of the
stronger
to suspend,
Reason still use, to reason still attend.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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e
972 _wykked_--wyckede
973 _blysses_--blysse
974 _forsake_--forsakyn
_nart_--art
_blysful_--blysseful]
[Headnote:
ADVERSITY
IS BUT TRANSIENT.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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LIII
That
Emperour
draws near to his domain,
He is come down unto the city Gailne.
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Chanson de Roland |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,
Lift not thy hands to IT for help--for It
Rolls
impotently
on as Thou or I.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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_Tecum habita_, _ut noris quam sit tibi curta
supellex_
{11}
PERS.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And faith, 'tis pleasant till 'tis past:
The
mischief
is that 'twill not last.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Farming in those deserted
mountains?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Ay, canst thou buy a single sigh
Of true love's least, least
ecstasy?
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Sidney Lanier |
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The thunder-lipped grey guns
Lament him, fierce and slow,
Where he found his
dreamless
bed,
Head to head with a foe.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Tennyson |
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Like mighty footlights burned the red
At bases of the trees, --
The far
theatricals
of day
Exhibiting to these.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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These
beauteous
forms,
Through a long absence, have not been to me [4]
As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: 25
But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;
And passing even into my purer mind, [5] 30
With tranquil restoration:--feelings too
Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps,
As have no slight or trivial influence [6]
On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered, acts 35
Of kindness and of love.
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William Wordsworth |
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went shuffling through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his
numbered
tomb.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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It is
invigorating
to breathe the cleansed air.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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ATOSSA
Neither!
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Aeschylus |
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Beautiful, wide-spread,
fire upon leaf,
what meadow yields
so
fragrant
a leaf
as your bright leaf?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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_Merchant
of Venice_, I.
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Keats |
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(Surely there is
something
more in each of the trees, some living soul.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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90
Ah, dearest nurse,
sagacious
as thou art,
Thou little know'st to scan the counsels wise
Of the eternal Gods.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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90
Ah, dearest nurse,
sagacious
as thou art,
Thou little know'st to scan the counsels wise
Of the eternal Gods.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Wilde - Poems |
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[Affectionately
dedicated
to all "original researchers" who pant for
"endowment.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Primes de quoi Deduit servoit,
Et quel
compaignie
il avoit
Sans longue fable vous veil dire,
Et du vergier tretout a tire 700
La facon vous redirai puis.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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* * * * *
"O Wagner, westward bring thy
heavenly
art,
No trifler thou: Siegfried and Wotan be
Names for big ballads of the modern heart.
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Sidney Lanier |
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* * * * *
"O Wagner, westward bring thy
heavenly
art,
No trifler thou: Siegfried and Wotan be
Names for big ballads of the modern heart.
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Sidney Lanier |
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To take some Quakers back
I brought here from
Barbadoes
in the Swallow.
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Longfellow |
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"[160]
The first book I met with in my early years, which I perused with
pleasure, was, "The Life Of Hannibal;" the next was, "The History of
Sir William Wallace:" for several of my earlier years I had few other
authors; and many a
solitary
hour have I stole out, after the
laborious vocations of the day, to shed a tear over their glorious,
but unfortunate stories.
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Robert Forst |
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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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Or why should pride humility make thrall,
And
injuries
the innocent oppress?
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Golden Treasury |
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--My young Friend,
As time
advances
either we become
The prey or masters of our own past deeds.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The score is found in Le manuscript di roi, a
collection
of songs copied circa 1270 for Charles of Anjou, the brother of Louis IX.
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Troubador Verse |
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Brought by my husband to Troezen, only to see,
Once more, the enemy that I'd sent away:
My wound, still living, quickly bled again,
It's no longer an ardour hidden in my veins: 305
It's Venus
fastening
wholly on her prey.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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He lookd and saw a spacious Plaine, whereon
Were Tents of various hue; by some were herds
Of Cattel grazing: others, whence the sound
Of
Instruments
that made melodious chime
Was heard, of Harp and Organ; and who moovd
Thir stops and chords was seen: his volant touch
Instinct through all proportions low and high
Fled and pursu'd transverse the resonant fugue.
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Milton |
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Then, through the distant future's
boundless
space,
We seek the lost companion of our days:
"Return, return!
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Hugo - Poems |
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XXVIII
THE WELSH MARCHES
High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam
Islanded
in Severn stream;
The bridges from the steepled crest
Cross the water east and west.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"Their days dream as a droning stream
Or
moonlight
in a wood.
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Tennyson |
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Yet dwelt that
greatness
in his shape decayed,
That still though dead, greater than death he laid.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The sequence is admirable for
sheer craftsmanship, for astonishing craftsmanship; but it did not
manage to effect anything like a
conspicuous
symbolism.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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In _Love's Welcome_ Jonson speaks again of 'Satan's
sumptuous
Arse',
_Wks.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And so, when all the time had failed,
Without
external
sound,
Each bound the other's crucifix,
We gave no other bond.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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" I asked with
weakening
breath.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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It was the limit of my dream,
The focus of my prayer, --
A perfect,
paralyzing
bliss
Contented as despair.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Yet think not,
friendship
only prompts my lays;
I follow Virtue: where she shines, I praise:
Point she to priest or elder, Whig or Tory,
Or round a Quaker's beaver cast a glory.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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To this end they don
men's clothes, and taking seats in the Assembly on the Pnyx, command a
majority of votes and carry a series of
revolutionary
proposals--that the
government be vested in a committee of women, and further, that property
and women be henceforth held in common.
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Aristophanes |
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"
"Because I believe he has serious intentions
concerning
you.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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So by mine inner contemplation long,
By
thoughts
that need no speech nor oath nor song,
My spirit soars above the motley throng
Of days and nights, Nirvana.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Avant que ton coeur ne se blase,
A la gloire de Dieu rallume ton extase;
C'est la Volupte vraie aux
durables
appas!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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This fact makes the new text the more interesting since the
legend of Gilgamish is said to have originated at Erech and the
hero in fact figures as one of the
prehistoric
Sumerian rulers of
that ancient city.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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New
children
play upon the green,
New weary sleep below;
And still the pensive spring returns,
And still the punctual snow!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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As yet they knew not to enkindle fire
Against the cold, nor hairy pelts to use
And clothe their bodies with the spoils of beasts;
But huddled in groves, and mountain-caves, and woods,
And 'mongst the thickets hid their squalid backs,
When driven to flee the
lashings
of the winds
And the big rains.
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The mortal moon hath her eclipse endur'd,
And the sad augurs mock their own presage;
Incertainties now crown themselves assur'd,
And peace
proclaims
olives of endless age.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Then, quickened with Zeus' veritable seed,
A progeny she bare,
A stainless babe, a child of
heavenly
breed.
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Aeschylus |
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"Friends and
confederates!
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Iliad - Pope |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And how they guard it, who o'erween
A
stricken
people, with their might!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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, three of the four rivers that watered
Eden, the
Hiddekel
being omitted.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Why, yes: with
Scripture
still you may be free;
A horse-laugh, if you please, at honesty:
A joke on Jekyl, or some odd old Whig
Who never changed his principle, or wig:
A patriot is a fool in every age,
Whom all Lord Chamberlains allow the stage:
These nothing hurts; they keep their fashion still,
And wear their strange old virtue, as they will.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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My portrait of
Vittoria
Colonna.
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Longfellow |
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(to cut the matter short)
Whate'er my fate, or well or ill at Court,
Whether old age, with faint but
cheerful
ray,
Attends to gild the evening of my day,
Or death's black wing already be displayed,
To wrap me in the universal shade;
Whether the darkened room to muse invite,
Or whitened wall provoke the skewer to write:
In durance, exile, Bedlam or the Mint--
Like Lee or Budgel, I will rhyme and print.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And brave Kyng
Harrolde
had nowe donde hys saie;
He threwe wythe myghte amayne hys shorte horse-spear.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I
O Execrable
avarice!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I returned home very
considerably
improved.
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Robert Forst |
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I'm the lord who asks your hand
If you do not bid me stand
Loving
shepherd
here!
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Hugo - Poems |
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This
Quatrain
Mr.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Stephen Crane |
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The ancient sea that made men young is dry,
Youth has no fountain, now there's no more Styx,
And the grim reaper with his pointed scythe
Steps forward, thoughtfully, to clear the field;
My turn arrives; night fills my
troubled
eye,
That from doves' flights, alas, reads coming days,
Weeps over cradles, smiles to see new graves.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I felt a
clearing
in my mind
As if my brain had split;
I tried to match it, seam by seam,
But could not make them fit.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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