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The palm and may make country houses gay,
Lambs frisk and play, the
shepherds
pipe all day,
And we hear aye birds tune their merry lay,
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
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At all times of the day and night
This
wretched
woman thither goes,
And she is known to every star,
And every wind that blows;
And there beside the thorn she sits
When the blue day-light's in the skies,
And when the whirlwind's on the hill,
Or frosty air is keen and still,
And to herself she cries,
"Oh misery!
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my cares beguiling:
Mother sits beside thee smiling;
Sleep, my darling,
tenderly!
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In this phase of Rilke's
development, the principle of
renunciation
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negative element in his philosophy.
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The gorger or wimple is stated first to have
appeared
in Edward the
First's reign, and an example is found on the monument of Aveline,
Countess of Lancaster, who died in 1269.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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his late
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O Women, let your voices from this fray
Flash me a fiery signal, where I sit,
The sword across my knees,
expecting
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Or on the lonely high-road, when the stars
Were rising; or by secret mountain-streams,
The guides and the
companions
of thy way!
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Beneath the royal portico display'd,
With Nestor's son Telemachus was laid:
In sleep profound the son of Nestor lies;
Not thine,
Ulysses!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Be with us now or we betray our trust — And say, "There is no wisdom but in death"
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The changeless regions of our empery,
Where once we moved in
friendship
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) has diligently
compared this with the
description
of the shield of Hercules by
Hesiod.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I
perceive
a young bird in this bush!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
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Riotous laughing
bacchanals
fill'd with joy!
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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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'Tis much he dares,
And to that
dauntlesse
temper of his Minde,
He hath a Wisdome, that doth guide his Valour,
To act in safetie.
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" KAU}
Severe the labour, female slaves the mortar trod oppressed
Twelve halls after the names of his twelve sons composd
The golden wondrous
building
& three [centr f[orm]] Central Domes after the Names {Erdman posits that Blake erased the words "centr f[orm]" and replaced them with "Central Domes.
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Garzo, his great-grandfather, was
a notary universally respected for his
integrity
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while in
slumbers
light
She sleeps
My lady sleeps
Sleeps!
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Despite the anguish of this sad affair,
When Chimene
Rodrigue
has secured
All my hopes are dead, my spirit cured.
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See, the ox comes home
With plough up-tilted, and the shadows grow
To twice their length with the
departing
sun,
Yet me love burns, for who can limit love?
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*****
For ever every outside streams away
From off all objects, since
discharge
they may;
And when this outside reaches other things,
As chiefly glass, it passes through; but where
It reaches the rough rocks or stuff of wood,
There 'tis so rent that it cannot give back
An image.
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Lucretius |
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This exquisite poem was
composed
in a very different scene from that to
which it refers, namely in "a Lincolnshire lane at five o'clock in the
morning between blossoming hedges".
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Tennyson |
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Why, God would be content
With but a
fraction
of the love
Poured thee without a stint.
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It has been thought worth while to explain these
allusions, because they illustrate the
character
of the Grecian
Mythology, which arose in the Personification of natural phenomena, and
was totally free from those debasing and ludicrous ideas with which,
through Roman and later misunderstanding or perversion, it has been
associated.
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7 and any additional
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copyright
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Stephen Crane |
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The
portrait
of Atticus, on the other hand, was, as we know,
the work of years.
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In the budding chestnuts
Whose sticky buds glimmer and are half-burst open
The starlings make their clitter-clatter;
And the
blackbirds
in the grass
Are getting as fat as the pigeons.
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Imagists |
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NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And
laughing
is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
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1909
Songs for the New Age The Century Company 1914
War and
Laughter
The Century Company 1915
The Book of Self Alfred A.
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--If we would
consider
what our affairs are indeed,
not what they are called, we should find more evils belonging to us than
happen to us.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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As Gifford says,
the allusion was
doubtless
more familiar in Jonson's day than
in our own.
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[514] 232
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; but I never
expressly
said I loved
her.
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They look upon his eyes,
Filled with deep surprise;
And
wondering
behold
A spirit armed in gold.
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"--
"Angels,
Archangels
cry
One to other ceaselessly
(I hear them sing)
One 'Holy, Holy, Holy,' to their King.
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FROM 'THE BURDEN OF ITYS'
THIS English Thames is holier far than Rome,
Those
harebells
like a sudden flush of sea
Breaking across the woodland, with the foam
Of meadow-sweet and white anemone
To fleck their blue waves,--God is likelier there
Than hidden in that crystal-hearted star the pale monks bear!
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Here it is used to
reinforce
the sense of a binding love.
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Coleridge
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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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_1612-33_]
[286 Tenarif, _1611_, _1612-25:_ Tenarus _1633-69_
Hill _1611_, _1612-25:_ hill _1633-69_]
[288 there, _1611_, _1612-21:_ there _1625-69_]
[289 strooke _1611_, _1612-25:_ strucke _1633-69_]
[290 to morrow, _1611_, _1612-25:_ to morrow _1633-69_]
[295 Vault _1611_, _1612-25:_ vault _1633-69_]
[298 straight] strait _1611-25_]
[300 pock-holes]
pockholes
_1633-69_]
[301 th'earth?
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"Had I been, as you say, dead," replied the Count, "it is more than
probable that dead, I should still be; for I
perceive
you are yet in the
infancy of Calvanism, and cannot accomplish with it what was a common
thing among us in the old days.
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38 _Negat se magni facere aliquis
poetarum utrum Caesar ater an albus homo sit, insania; uerte ut
idem Caesar de illo dixerit,
arrogantia
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We bring thee our love and our garlands for tribute,
With gifts of thy opulent giving we come;
O source of our
manifold
gladness, we hail thee,
We praise thee, O Prithvi, with cymbal and drum.
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)
Note
Not
meaningless
flurries like
Those that frequent the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans Whistler there.
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ALBA
INNOMINATA
From the Provencal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
And the
daughter
spoke, and she said: "O hateful woman, selfish
and old!
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What fortunate, or what
disastrous
bird
Omen'd my fate?
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Petrarch |
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
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which no act of fame
E'er taught to shine, or
sanctified
from shame;
What greater bliss attends their close of life?
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in the cross-ways used you not
On grating straw some
miserable
tune
To mangle?
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Li Po |
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and
brooding
stillnesses which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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It is a pity to doubt
this green hair legend;
presently
a man of genius will not be able to
enjoy an epileptic fit in peace--as does a banker or a beggar.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Each sore defeat of my defeated life
Faced and outfaced me in that bitter hour;
And turned to yearning palsy all my power,
And all my peace to strife,
Self
stabbing
self with keen lack-pity knife.
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Christina Rossetti |
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How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted,
In the
distraction
of this madding fever!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But suddenly some kindling shock
Struck flashing through the wire: a bird,
Poised on it,
screamed
and flew; the flock
Rose with him; wheeled and whirred.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Does he still think his error
pardonable?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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CLXVI
With a fresh wind, that in their favour blows,
They loose their hawser at the close of day:
In heaven above the silent goddess shows
Her shining horn, to guide them on their way;
And on the
following
morn before them rose
The pleasant shores that round Girgenti lay.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Volupte, sois
toujours
ma reine!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_ The
Macmillan
Company, New York; and
Macmillan & Co.
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Imagists |
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(For your dear departed wife, his friend) 2
November
1877
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
You moan, O solitary captive of the threshold,
That this double tomb which our pride should hold's
Cluttered, alas, only with absent weight of flowers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Ev'n when the wished end's denied,
Yet while the busy means are plied,
They bring their own reward:
Whilst I, a hope-abandon'd wight,
Unfitted with an aim,
Meet ev'ry sad
returning
night,
And joyless morn the same!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"La figure, c'est
l'homme"; there, at any rate, is the
intention
of epic symbolism.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For ne'er, O
Liberty!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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onkke3,
[B] "I haf
soiorned
sadly, sele yow bytyde,
& he 3elde hit yow 3are, ?
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at a selly in si3t summe men hit holden,
& an outtrage
awenture
of Arthure3 wondere3;
[D] If 3e wyl lysten ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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blake-poems |
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But this miraculous maiden was too
beautiful
for long life, so she died
soon after I knew her first, and it was I myself who entombed her, upon
a day when spring swung her censer even in the burial-ground.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I tell you this--When, started from the Goal,
Over the flaming shoulders of the Foal
Of Heav'n Parwin and
Mushtari
they flung,
In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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If this interpretation be correct
the
preterite
_edir_ is established.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin
down!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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In common
politeness
I--We have got beyond that!
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Kipling - Poems |
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Aiken was consulted, and in
consequence of his advice, the certificate of
marriage
was destroyed.
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Robert Burns |
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----
From an
anthology
of verse by Jessie B.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Like the tolling bell
Of a convent curst;
Like the billowy roar
On a storm-lashed shore,--
Now hushed, but once more
Maddening
to its worst.
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Hugo - Poems |
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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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' This account was in the best
Rowleian manner, with strange spelling and uncouth words, but for
the most part quite
intelligible
to the ordinary reader.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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From the
analogy of similar stories I suspect that Admetus originally did not know
his guest, and received not so much the reward of
exceptional
virtue as
the blessing naturally due to those who entertain angels unawares.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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ay for charyte
cherysen
a gest,
2056 & halden honour in her honde, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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For
that which happens to the eyes when we behold a body, the same happens to
the memory when we
contemplate
an action.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I remember well
My games of shovel-board at Bishop's tavern
In the old merry days, and she so gay
With her red paragon bodice and her
ribbons!
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Longfellow |
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[183]
And whose more rife with
merriment
than thine,
Oh Stamboul!
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Byron |
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Phaedra
Noble, glittering creator of a sad family,
You, whose
daughter
my mother dared claim to be, 170
Who blush perhaps on viewing my troubled mind,
Oh Sun, I come to look on you for one last time.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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But does a maniac kill the frenzy in him,
When with his fists he beats the
clambering
fiends
That swarm against his limbs?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Whither he went I may not come, it seems
He is become
estranged
from all the rest,
And all the sea is now his wonder-house.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Those grand,
majestic
pines!
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Longfellow |
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It is but
nineteen hundred feet above the village of Princeton, and three
thousand above the level of the sea; but by this slight elevation it
is infinitely removed from the plain, and when we reached it we felt a
sense of remoteness, as if we had
traveled
into distant regions, to
Arabia Petraea, or the farthest East.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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_Sophocles was first,
Euripides second with the Cretan Women,
Alcmaeon
in Psophis, Telephus and
Alcestis.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Like Maia's son he stood,
And shook his plumes, that
heavenly
fragrance fill'd
The circuit wide.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Day after day, though no one sees,
The lonely place no different seems;
The trees, the stack, still images
Constant
in who can say whose dreams?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of
Delight!
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Golden Treasury |
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they
Who laugh and name you a Caricature,
They see not, they whom flesh and blood allure,
The nameless grace of every bleached, bare bone
That is most dear to me, tall
skeleton!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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It
strongly
advised that the Butcher should be
Conveyed in a separate ship:
But the Bellman declared that would never agree
With the plans he had made for the trip:
[Illustration: "THE BEAVER KEPT LOOKING THE OPPOSITE WAY"]
Navigation was always a difficult art,
Though with only one ship and one bell:
And he feared he must really decline, for his part,
Undertaking another as well.
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Lewis Carroll |
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[The charm which
Dumfries
threw over the poet, seems to have dissolved
like a spell, when he sat down in Ellisland: he spoke, for a time,
with little respect of either place or people.
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Robert Burns |
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