[6] Sign whose
gunufied
form is read _aga_.
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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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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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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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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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II
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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_Hermes_: called Trismegistus, a
mystical
writer of the Neo-Platonist
school; _Thebes_, etc.
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Golden Treasury |
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The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent
advance and retreat--the enemy triumphs--the prison, the handcuffs, the
iron
necklace
and anklet, the scaffold, garrote, and lead-balls, do their
work--the cause is asleep--the strong throats are choked with their own
blood--the young men drop their eyelashes toward the ground when they pass
each other .
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Whitman |
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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
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Keats - Lamia |
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For Piso; if the
tenderness
of
kinsmen, if the faith of friends, has furnished him with patrons, let
them aid him in his peril, show their utmost eloquence, and exert their
best diligence.
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Tacitus |
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IF you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As
housewives
do a fly.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
"The Ancient Mariner" is full of images of light and
luminous
colour in sky
and sea; Glycine's song in "Zapolya" is the most glittering poem in our
language, with a soft glitter like that of light seen through water.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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the lean bare tree is widowed again For
Michault
le Borgne that would confess In "faith and troth" to a traitoress,
"Which of his brothers had he slain?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The periods of stillness were generally
shorter, but I
frequently
counted seventeen, eighteen or twenty before
there was a movement.
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Yeats |
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From her
friendship
I'm severed
Yet my faith's so in place,
That I can barely counter
The beauty of her face.
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Troubador Verse |
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And this voice said: "Accursed be your
rifles and targets, you
turbulent
living ones, who care so little for
the dead in their divine repose!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Mark how, possess'd, his
lashless
eyelids stretch
Around his demon eyes!
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Keats - Lamia |
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Keats - Lamia |
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O it has ruffled every spirit there,
Saving love's self, who stands superb to share
The general gladness: awfully he stands;
A sovereign quell is in his waving hands;
No sight can bear the lightning of his bow;
His quiver is mysterious, none can know 540
What themselves think of it; from forth his eyes
There darts strange light of varied hues and dyes:
A scowl is
sometimes
on his brow, but who
Look full upon it feel anon the blue
Of his fair eyes run liquid through their souls.
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Keats |
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And Betty's standing at the door,
And Betty's face with joy o'erflows,
Proud of herself, and proud of him,
She sees him in his
travelling
trim;
How quietly her Johnny goes.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--and their wild legion
Cease to thunder at my door;
Fleeting
through night's rayless region,
Hither they return no more.
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Hugo - Poems |
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That which in fragrance and in hue defied
The odoriferous and lucid East,
Fruits, flowers and herbs and leaves, and whence the West
Of all rare
excellence
obtain'd the prize,
My laurel sweet, which every beauty graced,
Where every glowing virtue loved to dwell,
Beheld beneath its fair and friendly shade
My Lord, and by his side my Goddess sit.
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Petrarch |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
Burst from the eyes of Antar a swift rain,--Gratitude's
glittering
drops,--as he threw
One shining arm round the smith, like a chain.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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[ga] _Finding their
patients
past all care and cure.
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Byron |
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May we long share our odd,
inanimate
feast,
And meet at last on the Cloudy River of the Sky.
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Li Po |
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Devant la
splendide
etendue ou l'on sente
Souffler la ville enormement florissante!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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If Hope
prostrate
lie,
Love too will sink and die.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Luckily, the person to whose
care he had left his house--the son of the worthy rustic, lately
deceased--having a
presentiment
of the robbery, had conveyed to the
castle a great many books which Petrarch left behind him; and the
robbers, believing that there were persons in the castle to defend it,
had not the courage to make an attack.
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Petrarch |
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" He then:
"Now pass thee on: sev'n times the tired sun
Revisits not the couch, which with four feet
The forked Aries covers, ere that kind
Opinion shall be nail'd into thy brain
With
stronger
nails than other's speech can drive,
If the sure course of judgment be not stay'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,
Thassay so hard, so sharp the conquering,
The dredful Ioy, that alwey slit so yerne,
Al this mene I by love, that my feling
Astonyeth with his wonderful
worching
5
So sore y-wis, that whan I on him thinke,
Nat wot I wel wher that I wake or winke.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Hackman and
Miss Reay_, 1775-79,
introduction
by Gilbert Burgess: Heinemann,
1895.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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In things of great receipt with ease we prove
Among a number one is reckon'd none:
Then in the number let me pass untold,
Though in thy store's account I one must be;
For nothing hold me, so it please thee hold
That nothing me, a
something
sweet to thee:
Make but my name thy love, and love that still,
And then thou lov'st me for my name is 'Will.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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It requires a certain age and degree of experience
to appreciate this kind of calamity, when we feel the
desolation
of
losing our accustomed friends, and almost wish ourselves out of life
that we may escape from its solitude.
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Petrarch |
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Purgatorio
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Now the people of
Erech
assemble
about him admiring his godlike appearance.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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This, and what need full else
That call's vpon vs, by the Grace of Grace,
We will
performe
in measure, time, and place:
So thankes to all at once, and to each one,
Whom we inuite, to see vs Crown'd at Scone.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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413_
_Annual
Biography
and Obituary_, _vi.
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Byron |
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And canst thou
ride the tempest as a steed, and grasp the
lightning
as a sword?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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zip *******
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Macneile Dixon's learned and
vigorous
"English Epic and
Heroic Poetry"; and especially the assistance of Mr.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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& not
As
Garments
woven subservient to her hands but having a will
Of its own perverse & wayward Enion lovd & wept*
{written vertically up the right margin LFS}
Nine days she labourd at her work.
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Blake - Zoas |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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X
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Through magic arts won the Golden Fleece,
Sowing the plain with the old serpent's teeth,
To engender soldiers from the furrow's store,
This city, that in youthful season bore
A Hydra's nest of warriors, raised a yeast
Of brave nurslings, who their proud glory saw
Fill the Sun's mansions, to the west and east:
But in the end, lacking a Hercules
To vanquish so fecund a progeny,
Arming themselves in civil enmity,
Mowed each other down, a cruel harvest,
Reliving thus the
fraternal
harsh unrest
Which had blinded that proud seeded army.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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FOOTNOTE:
[E] The religious society she had
belonged
to.
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Yeats |
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He to that heav'n, at which the shadow ends
Of your
sublunar
world, was taken up,
First, in Christ's triumph, of all souls redeem'd:
For well behoov'd, that, in some part of heav'n,
She should remain a trophy, to declare
The mighty contest won with either palm;
For that she favour'd first the high exploit
Of Joshua on the holy land, whereof
The Pope recks little now.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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This I made good to you, in our last conference,
Past in
probation
with you:
How you were borne in hand, how crost:
The Instruments: who wrought with them:
And all things else, that might
To halfe a Soule, and to a Notion craz'd,
Say, Thus did Banquo
1.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The goddess with the
terrible
plume invites you to eat this long
cake; you will row the harder on it.
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Aristophanes |
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Or, if he wanders up the howe,
Her living image in her yowe
Comes
bleating
till him, owre the knowe,
For bits o' bread;
An' down the briny pearls rowe
For Mailie dead.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Her second husband
was a bricklayer, or small builder, and they lived for a time near
Charing Cross in
Hartshorn
Lane.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Remorse is memory awake,
Her companies astir, --
A
presence
of departed acts
At window and at door.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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IV
If I had been a boy,
I would have worshiped your grace,
I would have flung my worship
before your feet,
I would have
followed
apart,
glad, rent with an ecstasy
to watch you turn
your great head, set on the throat,
thick, dark with its sinews,
burned and wrought
like the olive stalk,
and the noble chin
and the throat.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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In the deep nights I dig for you, O
Treasure!
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Rilke - Poems |
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II
I've seen people put
A
chrysalis
in a match-box,
"To see," they told me, "what sort of moth would come.
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Imagists |
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Such beings
sometimes
feel themselves precipitately thrust towards
action, like an arrow from a bow.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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)
'Which _Copland_ scarce had spoke, but quickly every Hill
Upon her verge that stands, the neighbouring valleys fill;
_Helvillon_ from his height, it through the mountains threw,
From whence as soon again, the sound _Dunbalrase_ drew,
From whose stone-trophed head, it on the _Wendrosse_ went,
Which tow'rds the sea again, resounded it to _Dent_,
That _Brodwater_ therewith within her banks astound,
In sailing to the sea, told it to _Egremound_,
Whose buildings, walks, and streets, with echoes loud and long,
Did
mightily
commend old _Copland_ for her song.
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William Wordsworth |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous bourgmestres vous bateliers
Et vous
conseillers
de regence
Vous aussi tziganes sans papiers
La vie vous pourrit dans la panse
La croix vous pousse entre les pieds
Le vent du Rhin ulule avec tous les hiboux
Il eteint les cierges que toujours les enfants rallument
Et les feuilles mortes
Viennent couvrir les morts
Des enfants morts parlent parfois avec leur mere
Et des mortes parfois voudraient bien revenir
Oh!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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Keats - Lamia |
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And
fiercely
by the arm he took her,
And by the arm he held her fast, 90
And fiercely by the arm he shook her,
And cried, "I've caught you then at last!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The acolyte
Amid the chanted joy and thankful rite
May so fall flat, with pale
insensate
brow,
On the altar-stair.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Then he
followed
his foes, who fled before him
sore beset and stole their way,
bereft of a ruler, to Ravenswood.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Even yet, however, he was not
completely
satisfied and from time to time
he added a touch to his work until he finally produced the finished
picture which we know as 'The Rape of the Lock'.
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Alexander Pope |
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Past cure I am, now Reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with
evermore
unrest;
My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are,
At random from the truth vainly express'd;
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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In one is a lion, which
my father's slaves brought from the desert of Ninavah; in the other
is a
songless
sparrow.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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With act and speech and pen
'Tis yours to spread
The morning-red
That ushers in a grander day:
To scatter prejudice that blinds,
And hail fresh thoughts in noble minds;
To overthrow bland tyrannies
That cheat the people, and with slow disease
Change the
Republic
to a mockery.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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_cunningly
set gem, rich jewel_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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It is
impossible
to say just what I mean!
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T.S. Eliot |
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The Jellyfish
Medusae
'Medusae'
Descriptive
Catalogue
of the Medusae of the Australian Seas, Lendenfeld, R.
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Appoloinaire |
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With the exception of a stray
commercial
traveller, who stopped once
for a night, there had been nobody for a whole month but this guest,
and now he was thinking of going away.
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Yeats |
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IV
JEUNESSE
I
DIMANCHE
Les calculs de cote, l'inevitable
descente
du ciel, la visite des
souvenirs et la seance des rythmes occupent la demeure, la tete et le
monde de l'esprit.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Stephane
Mallarme
(1844-1896)
Stephane Mallarme
'Stephane Mallarme'
Paul Gauguin, 1891, The Rijksmuseum
Sigh
My soul towards your brow, where, O calm sister,
An autumn dreams blotched by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a melancholy garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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outen any
grucchyng
word,
Mete ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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[3] The name Gilgamish was
originally
written
_d_Gi-bil-aga-mis, and means "The fire god (_Gibil_) is a commander,"
abbreviated to _d_Gi-bil-ga-mis, and _d_Gi(s)-bil-ga-mis, a form
which by full labialization of _b_ to _u_ was finally contracted to
_d_Gi-il-ga-mis.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Strength
of limb I still possess to seek the rivers and hills;
Still my heart has spirit enough to listen to flutes and strings.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Of threats of Hell and Hopes of
Paradise!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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In Bolton, while we rested on
the rails of a cottage fence, the strains of music which issued from
within, probably in compliment to us, sojourners,
reminded
us that
thus far men were fed by the accustomed pleasures.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Head to tail in a heaving ring day after day,
Night after slow night, the
starving
mommets crept,
Each following each, head to tail, day after day,
An unbroken ring of hunger--then it was snapt.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Not with less noise, with less impetuous force,
The tide of Trojans urge their
desperate
course,
Than when in autumn Jove his fury pours,
And earth is loaden with incessant showers;
(When guilty mortals break the eternal laws,
Or judges, bribed, betray the righteous cause;)
From their deep beds he bids the rivers rise,
And opens all the flood-gates of the skies:
The impetuous torrents from their hills obey,
Whole fields are drown'd, and mountains swept away;
Loud roars the deluge till it meets the main;
And trembling man sees all his labours vain!
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Iliad - Pope |
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The wind of that eternal ditty sings,
Humming of future things, that burn the mind
To leave some
fragment
of itself behind.
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John Clare |
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]
THE
APOTHEOSIS
OF HOMER.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The Muses, still with Freedom found,
Shall to thy happy coast repair;
Blest Isle, with matchless beauty crown'd,
And manly hearts to guard the fair:--
Rule
Britannia!
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Golden Treasury |
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But the Pasha's attention is failing,
O'er his visage his fair turban stealeth;
From
tchebouk
{13a} he sleep is inhaling
Whilst round him sweet vapours he dealeth.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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O fairest of Creation, last and best
Of all Gods Works, Creature in whom excell'd
Whatever
can to sight or thought be found,
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!
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Milton |
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No pomp, no lictor clears the way
'Mid rabble-routs of
troublous
feelings,
Nor quells the cares that sport and play
Round gilded ceilings.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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220_
_Hercules_, wreck of
American
ship, _vi.
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Byron |
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