O thou, whatteer thie name,
Or Zabalus or Queed,
Comme, steel mie sable spryte,
For fremde[70] and
dolefulle
dede.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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At last he comes to the notice of
Gilgamish
himself, who is
shocked by the newly acquired manner of Enkidu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Imagination, loudening with the surf
Of the midsummer wind among the boughs,
Gathers my spirit from the haunts remote
Of
faintest
silence and the shades of sleep,
To bear me on the summit of her wave
Beyond known shores, beyond the mortal edge
Of thought terrestrial, to hold me poised
Above the frontiers of infinity,
To which in the full reflux of the wave
Come soon I must, bubble of solving foam,
Borne to those other shores--now never mine
Save for a hovering instant, short as this
Which now sustains me ere I be drawn back--
To learn again, and wholly learn, I trust,
How beautiful it is to wake at night.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Myn
aristotul
q{uo}d she.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Hamilton's
kindness
in introducing me to you.
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Robert Forst |
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She should haue dy'de heereafter;
There would haue beene a time for such a word:
To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow,
Creepes in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last
Syllable
of Recorded time:
And all our yesterdayes, haue lighted Fooles
The way to dusty death.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, by Anonymous
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Et dans le vieux logis tout est tiede et vermeil:
Des sombres vetements ne
jonchent
plus la terre,
La bise sous le seuil a fini par se taire.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Do not think me unaware,
I who have
snatched
at you
as the street-child clutched
at the seed-pearls you spilt
that hot day
when your necklace snapped.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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AH SUNFLOWER
Ah Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller's journey is done;
Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my
Sunflower
wishes to go!
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blake-poems |
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CVII
Then Oliver has drawn his mighty sword
As his comrade had bidden and implored,
In
knightly
wise the blade to him has shewed;
Justin he strikes, that Iron Valley's lord,
All of his head has down the middle shorn,
The carcass sliced, the broidered sark has torn,
The good saddle that was with old adorned,
And through the spine has sliced that pagan's horse;
Dead in the field before his feet they fall.
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Chanson de Roland |
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But if there be in glory aught of good,
It may by means far different be attain'd
Without ambition, war, or violence; 90
By deeds of peace, by wisdom eminent,
By patience, temperance; I mention still
Him whom thy wrongs with Saintly
patience
born,
Made famous in a Land and times obscure;
Who names not now with honour patient Job?
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Milton |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The sturdy
shieldsman
showed that bright
burg-of-the-boldest; bade them go
straightway thither; his steed then turned,
hardy hero, and hailed them thus: --
"'Tis time that I fare from you.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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--one could pull out his hair with vexation,
And run up the walls for
mortification!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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) Pehlevi, the old Heroic
Sanskrit
of Persia.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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XIII
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
Nor the cutting edge of conquering blade,
Nor the havoc ruthless soldiers made,
In sacking you, Rome, ever and again,
Nor the tricks that fickle fortune played,
Nor envious
centuries
corrosive rain,
Nor the spite of men, nor gods' disdain,
Nor your own power in civil strife displayed,
Nor the impetuous storms that you withstood,
Nor the river-god's winding course in flood,
That has so often drowned you in its thunder,
Not all combined have so abased your pride,
As that this nothing left you, by Time's tide,
Still makes the world halt here, and gaze in wonder.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Ful
craftier
to pley she was
Than Athalus, that made the game
First of the ches: so was his name.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Of us, Varyags in blood, there are full many,
But 'tis no easy thing for us to vie
With Godunov; the people are not wont
To recognise in us an ancient branch
Of their old warlike masters; long already
Have we our appanages forfeited,
Long served but as
lieutenants
of the tsars,
And he hath known, by fear, and love, and glory,
How to bewitch the people.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Next follow'd Courage, with his martial stride,
From where the Feal wild woody coverts hide;
Benevolence, with mild,
benignant
air,
A female form, came from the tow'rs of Stair:
Learning and Worth in equal measures trode
From simple Catrine, their long-lov'd abode:
Last, white-rob'd Peace, crown'd with a hazel wreath,
To rustic Agriculture did bequeath
The broken iron instruments of death;
At sight of whom our Sprites forgat their kindling wrath.
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Robert Burns |
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Obscurely sacrificed, his nameless tomb,
Bare of the sculptor's art, the poet's lines,
Summer shall flush with poppy-fields in bloom,
And Autumn yellow with
maturing
vines.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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He cared not for our sighs; and though 't be true
That he divided us, his worth I knew:
He must be blind that cannot see the sun,
But by strict justice Love is quite undone:
Counsel from such a friend gave such a stroke
To love, it almost split, as on a rock:
For as my father I his wrath did fear,
And as a son he in my love was dear;
Brothers
in age we were, him I obey'd,
But with a troubled soul and look dismay'd:
Thus my dear half had an untimely death,
She prized her freedom far above her breath;
And I th' unhappy instrument was made;
Such force th' intreaty and intreater had!
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Petrarch |
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'"]
"The world is but a Thought," said he:
"The vast
unfathomable
sea
Is but a Notion--unto me.
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Lewis Carroll |
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I am of Sidon,[70] famous for her works
In brass and steel; daughter of Arybas,
Who rolls in affluence; Taphian pirates thence
Stole me returning from the field, from whom
This Chief
procured
me at no little cost.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
And reason's voice my stubborn mind subdued;
Conviction soon the solemn words pursued;
I saw all mortal glory pass away,
Like vernal snows beneath the rising ray;
And wealth, and power, and honour, strive in vain
To 'scape the laws of Time's
despotic
reign.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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This was the work of a French abbe, de Montfaucon Villars (1635-1673),
who was well known in his day both as a
preacher
and a man of letters.
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Alexander Pope |
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Komm, gib mir deinen Rock und Mutze;
Die Maske muss mir
kostlich
stehn.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The water is ever fresh and newe 1560
That welmeth up with wawes brighte
The
mountance
of two finger highte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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540
LXI
A cart and horse beside the rivulet stood;
Chequering the canvas roof the
sunbeams
shone.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Some of the
poet's allusions remain
enigmatical
to the present day.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Tyr'd, now I leave this place, and but pleas'd so
As men which from gaoles to
execution
goe, 230
Goe through the great chamber (why is it hung
With the seaven deadly sinnes?
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John Donne |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly--
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast
formless
things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping from out their Condor wings
Invisible Wo!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Sara Teasdale |
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I saw the
crackling
flashes drive; 1798.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Let my despair burst forth, at liberty,
Your speech has now too long
restrained
me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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You do well to be
stricken
silent here.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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What serener palaces,
Where I may all my many senses please,
And by mysterious
sleights
a hundred thirsts appease?
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Keats - Lamia |
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--Many men believe not themselves what they would persuade
others; and less do the things which they would impose on others; but
least of all know what they themselves most
confidently
boast.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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No pause allow'd,
In wond'rous sort self-moving, to one strand
Of those, where the
departed
roam, she falls,
Here learns her destin'd path.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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1
MCMXXII
PREFATORY NOTE
When the fourth volume of this series was published three years ago,
many of the critics who had up till then, as Horace Walpole said of God,
been the dearest
creatures
in the world to me, took another turn.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The real blunder
would have been to represent these old poets as deeply versed in
general history, and studious of
chronological
accuracy.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Where are the
infinite
ways which, Seraphtrod,
Wound thro' your great Elysian solitudes,
Whose lowest depths were, as with visible love,
Fill'd with Divine effulgence, circumfus'd,
Flowing between the clear and polish'd stems,
And ever circling round their emerald cones
In coronals and glories, such as gird
The unfading foreheads of the Saints in Heaven?
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Tennyson |
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The very
roughness
of her
rendering is part of herself, and not lightly to be touched; for it
seems in many cases that she intentionally avoided the smoother and
more usual rhymes.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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As their
families
increase, the stronger
commit depredations on the weaker; and thus from generation to
generation, they who either dread just punishment or unjust oppression,
fly farther and farther in search of that protection which is only to be
found in civilized society.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Father
self corporal and a self aetherial
a dweller by streams and in
The Legend thus :
" A treatise wherein is shown that there are in
existence
on earth rational creatures besides man, endowed like him with a body and soul, that are born and die like him, redeemed by our Lord Jesus Christ, and capable of receiving salvation or damnation.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Therewith a second Tiphys shall there be,
Her hero-freight a second Argo bear;
New wars too shall arise, and once again
Some great
Achilles
to some Troy be sent.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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IV
For wonderfully to live I now begin:
So that the darkness which accompanies
Our being here, is fasten'd up within
The power of light that holdeth me;
And from these shining chains, to see
My joy with bold
misliking
eyes,
The shrouded figure will not dare arise.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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ee on,
No
herberewe
more ne lesse; 657
Make of me ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Auld Coila now may fidge fu' fain,
She's gotten poets o' her ain;
Chiels wha their
chanters
winna hain,
But tune their lays,
Till echoes a' resound again
Her weel-sung praise.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He was poor--he gave his pistols, which he
had used against the
smugglers
on the Solway, to his physician, adding
with a smile, that he had tried them and found them an honour to their
maker, which was more than he could say of the bulk of mankind!
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Robert Forst |
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I
I
recollect
that I was bound to sing
(I promised so, but it escaped my mind)
Of a suspicion, fraught with suffering
To Bradamant of more displeasing kind,
And made by keener and more venomed sting
Than caused that other wound, wherewith she pined,
Which, hearing Richardet his news impart,
Had pierced her breast and preyed upon her heart.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Series
For the splendour of the day of
happinesses
in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's citizens be spoiled by leisure,
That Carthage should be spared
destruction!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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His mother
was the daughter of a
Yorkshire
gentleman, who lost two sons in the
service of Charles I (cf.
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Alexander Pope |
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It is as if a dozen unacademic
painters, separated by temperament and distance, were to arrange to have
an
exhibition
every two years of their latest work.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Yet tender
thoughts
dwell there, no solitude
Hath power youth's natural feelings to exclude;
There doth the maiden watch her lover's sail
Approaching, and upbraid the tardy gale.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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We may
conclude
with worthy and wise Dr.
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James Russell Lowell |
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VIII
"Can you be cruel enough to sadden me thus with
reproaches?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Un gazetier fumeux, qui se croit un flambeau,
Dit au pauvre, qu'il a noye dans les tenebres:
<< Ou donc l'apercois-tu, ce createur du Beau,
Ce Redresseur que tu
celebres?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
distribution
of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Hugo - Poems |
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) The custom of
throwing
a little Wine on the ground before
drinking still continues in Persia, and perhaps generally in the East.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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3 _dulcis musarum_ D:
_dulcissimus
har_(_u_ O)_um_ ?
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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This translation or rather adaptation
contains
many of the two hundred or so fragments, in some cases fragments of the fragments, excluding things I found too partial or obscure to resonate.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I stir the cold breasts of antiquity,
And in the soft stone of the pyramid
Move wormlike; and I flutter all those sands
Whereunder lost and
soundless
time is hid.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And thou enjoin'st me a
cessation
too
From sorrows num'rous, and which, fretting, wear
My heart continual; first, my spouse I lost
With courage lion-like endow'd, a prince
All-excellent, whose never-dying praise
Through Hellas and all Argos flew diffused;
And now my only son, new to the toils 990
And hazards of the sea, nor less untaught
The arts of traffic, in a ship is gone
Far hence, for whose dear cause I sorrow more
Than for his Sire himself, and even shake
With terror, lest he perish by their hands
To whom he goes, or in the stormy Deep;
For num'rous are his foes, and all intent
To slay him, ere he reach his home again.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Etymologies
are given only in cases of especial interest.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Denying that which mine own spirit guesses
--Our great and ancient fame is also known--
Can I tear off the scarf which veils my tresses,
And with an early
widowhood
atone?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is
essential
for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Meredith - Poems |
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and show'dst what
different
spirits move
The good men and the evil; those who love
And those who love not.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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]
[Footnote Ii: An insect so called, which emits a short,
melancholy
cry,
heard, at the close of the summer evenings, on the banks of the Loire.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Footsteps
shuffled
on the stair.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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XVII
Pale rose leaves have fallen
In the
fountain
water;
And soft reedy flute-notes
Pierce the sultry quiet.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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1481:
_famuloque
tanus_ (_tanus al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The ploughman he talked of his skill as divine,
How he could plough
thurrows
as straight as a line;
And the blacksmith he swore, had he but the command,
He could shoe the king's hunter the best in the land;
And the cobbler declared, was his skill but once seen,
He should soon get an order for shoes from the queen.
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In fact, it is so
interesting
that the people who use it do not
know what it means.
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XXVI
Who would
demonstrate
Rome's true grandeur,
In all her vast dimensions, all her might,
Her length and breadth, and all her depth and height
Needs no line or lead, compass or measure:
He only need draw a circle, at his leisure,
Round all that Ocean in his arms holds tight,
Be it where Sirius scorches with his light,
Or where the northerlies blow cold forever.
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Because of the beautiful white
shoulders
and the rounded breasts
1 can in no wise forget my beloved of the peach-
trees,
And the little winds that speak when the dawn is
unfurled
And the rose-colour in the grey oak-leaf's fold
When it first comes, and the glamour that rests On the little streams in the evening; all of these Call me to her, and all the loveliness in the world Binds me to my beloved with strong chains of gold.
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"Then thou, dread Lord of Fate, unmov'd remain,
Nor let weak change thine awful
counsels
stain,
For Lusus' race thy promis'd favour show;
Swift as the arrow from Apollo's bow
Let Maia's[87] son explore the wat'ry way,
Where, spent with toil, with weary hopes, they stray;
And safe to harbour, through the deep untried,
Let him, empower'd, their wand'ring vessels guide;
There let them hear of India's wish'd-for shore,
And balmy rest their fainting strength restore.
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The gatherd storme is rype; the bigge drops falle;
The forswat[24]
meadowes
smethe[25], and drenche[26] the raine; 30
The comyng ghastness do the cattle pall[27],
And the full flockes are drivynge ore the plaine;
Dashde from the cloudes the waters flott[28] againe;
The welkin opes; the yellow levynne[29] flies;
And the hot fierie smothe[30] in the wide lowings[31] dies.
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[Footnote E: In January 1801 Charles Lamb thus wrote to Wordsworth of
his 'Old Cumberland Beggar':
"It appears to me a fault that the instructions conveyed in it are too
direct, and like a lecture: they don't slide into the mind of the
reader while he is imagining no such matter,"
At the same time he refers to
"the
delicate
and curious feeling in the wish of the Beggar that he
may have about him the melody of birds, although he hears them not.
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Elle se secouera de vous, hargneux
pourris!
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Ma poi che l'altre vergini dier loco
a lei di dir, levata dritta in pe,
rispuose, colorata come foco:
'Modicum, et non
videbitis
me;
et iterum, sorelle mie dilette,
modicum, et vos videbitis me'.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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[15] The
variants
have _kima kisri_; _ki-[ma]?
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A LITTLE GIRL LOST
Children of the future age,
Reading this
indignant
page,
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
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He bare hym
curteislich
& tsllie,
To fulfille his faders wille,
Glad as he had ybe.
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MOPSUS
What if he also strive
To out-sing
Phoebus?
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DAEMON:
Already half is done
In the
imagination
of an act.
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Now Progne prattles, Philomel complains,
And spring assumes her robe of various dye;
The meadows smile, heaven glows, nor Jove disdains
To view his
daughter
with delighted eye;
While Love through universal nature reigns,
And life is fill'd with amorous sympathy!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And if I gain, -- oh, gun at sea,
Oh, bells that in the
steeples
be,
At first repeat it slow!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair
imperfect
shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
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For thou hast sought 460
The truth in solitude, and, since the days
That gave thee liberty, full long desired,
To serve in Nature's temple, thou hast been
The most
assiduous
of her ministers;
In many things my brother, chiefly here 465
In this our deep devotion.
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Thus, we do not
necessarily
keep eBooks
in compliance with any particular paper edition.
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THE reader must not fail to keep in mind;
Aminta's parents were both rich and kind,
And having only her to be their heir,
The aged couple let the
youthful
pair,
With all their train, within the house reside,
And tranquilly the moments seemed to glide.
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La Fontaine |
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After
breakfast
we proceeded to the fall, which was within half a
mile, and at this distance its rustling sound, like the wind among the
leaves, filled all the air.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Goblin Market
In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857
Dream-land
At Home
From Sunset to Starrise
Love from the North
Winter Rain
A Dirge
Confluents
Noble Sisters
Spring
The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860
A Birthday
Remember
After Death
An End
My Dream
Song
The Hour and the Ghost
A Summer Wish
An Apple Gathering
Song
Maude Clare
Echo
Winter: My Secret
Another Spring
A Peal of Bells
Fata Morgana
"No, thank you, John"
May
A Pause of Thought
Twilight
Calm
Wife to Husband
Three Seasons
Mirage
Shut out
Sound Sleep
Song
Song
Dead before Death
Bitter for Sweet
"The Master is Come, and Calleth for Thee"
Rest
The First Spring Day
The Convent Threshold
Up-Hill
DEVOTIONAL PIECES.
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Though that thou slepe, we may here
Of
Ielousie
gret noyse here.
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