But there is a road from
Winchester
town,
A good, broad highway leading down;
And there, through the flush of the morning light,
A steed as black as the steeds of night,
Was seen to pass, as with eagle flight,
As if he knew the terrible need;
He stretched away with his utmost speed;
Hills rose and fell; but his heart was gay,
With Sheridan fifteen miles away.
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"What do they say of me in
Orenburg?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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2 The bold man is
saddened
at his tomb mound, the recluse bows at Tripod Lake.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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^1
Dearest of
distillation!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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) hide in what things Allius sent me
Aid, forbear to declare what was the aidance he deigned:
Neither shall
fugitive
Time from centuries ever oblivious
Veil in the blinds of night friendship he lavisht on me.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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If you have an
opportunity, please remember me in the solemn league and
covenant
of
friendship to Mrs.
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Robert Burns |
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It was quite without
ideals, unless indeed the
conventions
of "good form" may be dignified by
that name.
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Alexander Pope |
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To SEND
DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any particular
state visit www.
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Yeats |
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) to thy home
convoying
perjury-curses?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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In no wise daunted by this rebuff, he found the
opportunity
to send
her another note in a few days.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But anon, imbued
With a sudden,
bounding
access
Of passion, it relaxes
All timider persuasion.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Fear no more the
lightning
flash
Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finish'd joy and moan:
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.
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Golden Treasury |
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"
It being remembered that there were six of us with Master Villon, when that expecting presently to be hanged he writ a ballad whereof ye know :
"
Frtres
humftins
qui aprls nous vivez" NK ye a skoal for the gallows tree !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
'Twas in the
seventeen
hunder year
O' grace, and ninety-five,
That year I was the wae'est man
Of ony man alive.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Yet shall you have, to rectify your palate,
An olive, capers, or some bitter salad
Ushering
the mutton; with a short-legged hen,
If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,
Lemons and wine for sauce: to these, a coney
Is not to be despaired of for our money;
And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,
The sky not falling, think we may have larks.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Kipling - Poems |
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and stoop to sue for a
Numidian
marriage among those whom
already over and over I have disdained for husbands?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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'
DIRGE
CONCORD, 1838
I reached the middle of the mount
Up which the
incarnate
soul must climb,
And paused for them, and looked around,
With me who walked through space and time.
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Emerson - Poems |
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These charges were contemptuously
dismissed
by the presbyterial court.
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Robert Burns |
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death
in its
vastness
- terrible
death
to strike down so
small a being
I say to deathcoward
ah!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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If eyes, corrupt by over-partial looks,
Be anchor'd in the bay where all men ride,
Why of eyes'
falsehood
hast thou forged hooks,
Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Das ist ein
Sturmen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Gentle night, do thou
befriend
me,
Downy sleep, the curtain draw;
Spirits kind, again attend me,
Talk of him that's far awa!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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org/dirs/3/1/6/3168
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions will
be renamed.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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In small
proportions
we just beauties see;
And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Golden Treasury |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Francois and Margot and thee and me,
For Jehan and Raoul de Vallerie
Whose frames have the night and its winds in fee
Maturin, Guillaume, Jacques d'Allmain, Culdou, lacking a coat to bless
One lean moiety of his nakedness,
That
plundered
St.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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(_f_) si uitam
inspicias
hominum, si denique mores,
cum culpant alios: nemo sine crimine uiuit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I said to him,
"We now know more of thee than then;
We were but weak in
judgment
when,
With hearts abrim,
We clamoured thee that thou would'st please
Inflict on us thine agonies,"
I said to him.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
Cried Maclean: "Now a ten-tined buck in the sight of the wife and the child
I had killed if the
gluttonous
kern had not wrought me a snail's own wrong!
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Sidney Lanier |
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He hath supped where creep
Eyeless worms in hush of sleep;
Yet, when he smiles, the hand he draws
Athwart his
grinning
jaws
Faintly their thin bones rattle, and.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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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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He suffered from
rheumatic
fever complicated by an enlarged heart, and died in October 1879, aged eight.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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THE LAMB
Little Lamb, who make thee
Dost thou know who made thee,
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing, wolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales
rejoice?
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blake-poems |
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Those who find ugly
meanings
in beautiful things are corrupt without
being charming.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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They took another method, and placed the three Eagles
of the legions, with the standards of the several cohorts, altogether
without rank or priority; then
forthwith
digged turf and were rearing
a tribunal, one high enough to be seen at a distance.
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Tacitus |
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Hence, thou
suborned
informer!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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thy fields and farms, thy far-off woods and mountains,
As in
procession
coming.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But
thoughts
like these are idle things,
And I stay here.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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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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Elizabeth Browning |
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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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He has made his will, and given me his wealth, his
house, his goods, and store of golden plate, besides two
thousand
ducats ready coined.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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XXXVII
Through every rowme he sought, and every bowr, 325
But no where could he find that woful thrall:
At last he came unto an yron doore,
That fast was lockt, but key found not at all
Emongst that bounch, to open it withall;
But in the same a little grate was pight, 330
Through which he sent his voyce, and lowd did call
With all his powre, to weet, if living wight
Were housed there within, whom he
enlargen
might.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"Does Dormer do anything,
Sergeant?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Friend, as we both in
confidence
complain
To see our ill-placed hopes return in vain,
Let that chief good which must for ever please
Exalt our thought and fix our happiness.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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They chained us each to a column stone,
And we were three--yet, each alone;
We could not move a single pace, 50
We could not see each other's face,
But with that pale and livid light
That made us strangers in our sight:
And thus together--yet apart,
Fettered in hand, but joined in heart,[d]
'Twas still some solace in the dearth
Of the pure elements of earth,
To hearken to each other's speech,
And each turn
comforter
to each
With some new hope, or legend old, 60
Or song heroically bold;
But even these at length grew cold.
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Byron |
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That way
blocked!
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Euripides - Electra |
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while the feet
Of Rome's clay image, dabbled soft in blood,
Grow flat with
dissolution
and, as meet,
Will soon be shovelled off like other mud,
To leave the passage free in church and street.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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But may I learn by what thou
swearest?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Wherefore
dost thou start?
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Keats |
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_ This is at first sight a
strange reading, and I was
disposed
to think that _1635-69_, which
has the support of several MSS.
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John Donne |
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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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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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I care not if the pomps you show
Be what they
soothfast
appear,
Or if yon realms in sunset glow
Be bubbles of the atmosphere.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The Assistant Chancellor's business
Is to "save men, govern the country
And
harmonize
Yin and Yang.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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He stops the richest tyrant's breath
And lays his
mischief
still.
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John Clare |
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C'est le Diable qui tient les fils qui nous
remuent!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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These hands have helped it go and even race;
Not all the motion, though, they ever lent,
Not all the miles it may have thought it went,
Have got it one step from the
starting
place.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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673, and the
examples
quoted there, e.
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John Donne |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Whom his ain son of life bereft,
The grey-hairs yet stack to the heft;
Wi' mair of
horrible
and awfu',
Which even to name wad be unlawfu'.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Shuttleworthy seldom, if ever,
visited "Old Charley," and never was known to take a meal in his house,
still this did not prevent the two friends from being exceedingly
intimate, as I have just observed; for "Old Charley" never let a day
pass without
stepping
in three or four times to see how his neighbour
came on, and very often he would stay to breakfast or tea, and almost
always to dinner, and then the amount of wine that was made way with by
the two cronies at a sitting, it would really be a difficult thing to
ascertain.
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Poe - 5 |
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Around the man who seeks a noble end,
Not angels but
divinities
attend.
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Emerson - Poems |
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PROSE
I
FLAIRY
Pour Helene se conjurerent les seves ornementales dans les ombres
vierges et les clartes
impassibles
dans le silence astral.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And then, as though the fire fainter grows,
She gathers up the flame--again it glows,
As with proud gesture and imperious air
She flings it to the earth; and it lies there
Furiously
flickering and crackling still--
Then haughtily victorious, but with sweet
Swift smile of greeting, she puts forth her will
And stamps the flames out with her small firm feet.
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Rilke - Poems |
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pect (would he would try mee)
Not, as the
Conjurers
doe, when they ha' rais'd him.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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th so forto do;--
his shankes semeden al blood rede;
Myne herte wop for grete drede; 64
Als a
pilgryme
he rood to Rome,
And ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I to
hexameters
tell, in pentameters I will confide it:
During the day she was joy, happiness all the night long.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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_Phyllis_, the
Thracian
princess who hanged herself for love of
Demophoon.
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Robert Herrick |
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Through green bamboos a deep road ran
Where dark
creepers
brushed our coats as we passed.
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Li Po |
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Chorus--O why should Fate sic pleasure have,
Life's dearest bands
untwining?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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What my amaze, when first I fully learn'd
The
wondrous
change upon my person done,
And saw my thin hairs to those green leaves turn'd
(Whence yet for them a crown I might have won);
My feet wherewith I stood, and moved, and run--
Thus to the soul the subject members bow--
Become two roots upon the shore, not now
Of fabled Peneus, but a stream as proud,
And stiffen'd to a branch my either arm!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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O how charmingly Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers
blooming
and luxuriant.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Why, from what whim of yours,
Do you leave the field open to your
accusers?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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See them,
sounding
the flood that floats them on,
Moving their sides like human forms.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Be bounteous still
To give us only good; and, if the night
Have
gathered
aught of evil, or concealed,
Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Index of First Lines
Under the
Mirabeau
flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've gathered this sprig of heather
The strollers in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not surprised my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my abandoned youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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Better have borne the petulant proud disdain
Of Amaryllis, or
Menalcas
wooed,
Albeit he was so dark, and you so fair!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And I have
travelled
far as Hull, to see 1815.
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William Wordsworth |
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[6] Sign whose
gunufied
form is read _aga_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Then shall they seek to avail
themselves
of names,
Places and titles, and with these to joine
Secular power, though feigning still to act
By spiritual, to themselves appropriating
The Spirit of God, promisd alike and giv'n
To all Beleevers; and from that pretense,
Spiritual Lawes by carnal power shall force 520
On every conscience; Laws which none shall finde
Left them inrould, or what the Spirit within
Shall on the heart engrave.
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Milton |
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It is all in keeping that he should arrive tired,
should feast and drink and sing; should be
suddenly
sobered and should go
forth to battle with Death.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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In the
southern
clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Cure of that:
Can'st thou not Minister to a minde diseas'd,
Plucke from the Memory a rooted Sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the Braine,
And with some sweet
Obliuious
Antidote
Cleanse the stufft bosome, of that perillous stuffe
Which weighes vpon the heart?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,
At her beauty all wonder intensely;
One moment the Pasha survey'd her,
And,
dropping
his tchebouk, without sense lay.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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With mien to match the morning
And gay
delightful
guise
And friendly brows and laughter
He looked me in the eyes.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Il est l'affection et l'avenir, la force et
l'amour que nous, debout dans les rages et les ennuis, nous voyons
passer dans le ciel de tempete et les
drapeaux
d'extase.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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God save the Marquis,
His lovely sister, save,
Her loyal love and brave,
It
conquers
me anew,
Better still holds me too.
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Troubador Verse |
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reads rǣswa (referring to
Heorogār
alone), and places a point
(with the Ms.
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Beowulf |
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Did I think of you last
evening?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I squared the broad
foundations
in
Of ashlared masonry;
I moulded mullions thick and thin,
Hewed fillet and ogee;
I circleted
Each sculptured head
With nimb and canopy.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And there the'inamor'd fish will stay,
Begging
themselves
they may betray.
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John Donne |
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The little light fades the immense and
diaphanous
shadows,
The air tastes good to my palate.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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poor youth,
What taste of purer air hast thou to soothe
My
essence?
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Keats - Lamia |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I never saw sad men who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
We
prisoners
called the sky,
And at every careless cloud that passed
In happy freedom by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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