When 'bout a league the travellers had moved,
Discussing freely, as they all approved,
The conversation turned on spells and prayer,
Their pow'r o'er worms of earth, or birds of air;
To charm the wolf, or guard from thunder's roar,
And many
wonderful
achievements more;
Besides the cures a prayer would oft produce;
To man and beast it proves of sov'reign use,
Far greater than from doctors e'er you'll view,
Who, with their Latin, make so much ado.
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I was drunk with the dawn
Of a
splendid
surmise--
I was stung by a look, I was slain by a tear, by a tempest of sighs.
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If
Rodrigue
is essential to the State,
Must I pay for the workings of fate.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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I come for modest boon
that,--didst thine heart long for aught, which thou desiredst chaste and
untouched,--thou 'lt
preserve
for me the chastity of my boy.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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This noble country, they long possessed,
With
jealousy
in their eyes they address.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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_ And I a sheep-hook will bestow,
To have his little
kingship
know,
As he is prince, he's shepherd too.
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Robert Herrick |
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Patroclus
thrice mounts it in
armour.
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Iliad - Pope |
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L'une venoit tout
belement
770
Contre l'autre; et quant el estoient
Pres a pres, si s'entregetoient
Les bouches, qu'il vous fust avis
Que s'entrebaisassent ou vis:
Bien se savoient desbrisier.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The Horse
Pegasus
'Pegasus'
Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509 - 1516, The Rijksmuseun
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy,
My verses, the
patterns
of all poetry.
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Appoloinaire |
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I thought that one must write
without care, for that was of the coteries, but with a gusty energy
that would put all
straight
if it came out of the right heart.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Tumult was in the soul of all beside,
Ill joy, or doubt, or fear; but those who saw
Their
tranquil
victim pass, felt wonder glide
Into their brain, and became calm with awe.
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Shelley |
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Finally, she
remembered
a friend of hers, Count
Saint-Germain.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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With well-timed croupe the nimble coursers veer;
On foams the bull, but not unscathed he goes;
Streams from his flank the crimson torrent clear:
He flies, he wheels, distracted with his throes:
Dart follows dart; lance, lance; loud
bellowings
speak his woes.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,
Steal from his figure, and no pace perceiv'd;
So your sweet hue, which
methinks
still doth stand,
Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceiv'd:
For fear of which, hear this thou age unbred:
Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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_1639-69_]
[58 not
naturally
free.
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John Donne |
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IV
Far in the West there lies a desert land, where the mountains
Lift, through
perpetual
snows, their lofty and luminous summits.
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Longfellow |
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Where are the teams of last
December?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Mavrone,
That my good
mistress
should lose all this money.
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Yeats |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
Pitying, I dropped a tear:
But I saw a glow-worm near,
Who replied, "What wailing wight
Calls the
watchman
of the night?
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blake-poems |
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But these were the works of every hand; the other of
the brain only, and those the most
generous
and exalted wits and spirits,
that cannot rest or acquiesce.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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--Le reve maternel, c'est le tiede tapis,
C'est le nid
cotonneux
ou les enfants tapis,
Comme de beaux oiseaux que balancent les branches,
Dorment leur doux sommeil plein de visions blanches.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"For Annie" was first
published
in the "Flag of our Union," in the
spring of 1849.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I loved, was loved, agreed were both our fathers;
I was telling you the delightful news
At the sad moment when they
quarrelled
too,
Which fatal telling, as soon as it was done,
Ruined all hope of its consummation.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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From Maximin
IN sorrow, day and night the disciple watched
Upon the mount where from the Lord ascended:
"Thus leaveth thou thy
faithful
to despair?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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She kept in time without a beat
As true as church-bell ringers,
Unless she tapped time with her feet,
Or
squeezed
it with her fingers; 20
Her clear unstudied notes were sweet
As many a practised singer's.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Often did Juno eke Queen of the Heavenly host
Boil wi' the rabidest rage at dire default of a husband
Learning the
manifold
thefts of her omnivolent Jove, 140
Yet with the Gods mankind 'tis nowise righteous to liken,
* * * *
* * * *
Rid me of graceless task fit for a tremulous sire.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Yet let her retain me, as she please,
For my
suffering
is not so rare.
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Troubador Verse |
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"Poets," said Shelley, "are the unacknowledged
legislators
of the
world," and he meant by legislation the guidance and determination of
the verdicts of the human soul.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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As glares the
famished
eagle
From the Digentian rock
On a choice lamb that bounds alone
Before Bandusia's flock,
Herminius glared on Sextus,
And came with eagle speed,
Herminius on black Auster,
Brave champion on brave steed;
In his right hand the broadsword
That kept the bridge so well,
And on his helm the crown he won
When proud Fidenae fell.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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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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Geoffrey
Keynes, of St.
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John Donne |
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{117b} You might believe that the uprooted
Cyclades
were floating in.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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All beauty
comes from
beautiful
blood and a beautiful brain.
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Whitman |
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of all our youth,
Whom chose he for his
followers?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Though hourly
comforts
from the gods we see, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Who breaks a
butterfly
upon a wheel?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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One after one by the horned Moon
(Listen, O
Stranger!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I will not ask thee what strange anger sent
That blaze of proud
contempt
in the King's face:
But ere the voice of the King seals up thy life
In an unalterable judgment, I
Am granted now to come as his last message:
And, as I will, to speak.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Yes, on an isle the air charges
With sight and not with visions
Every flower showed itself larger
Without
entering
our discussions.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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His impatient looks devour
Oft the humble and the poor;
And, seeing his eye glare,
They drop their few pale flowers,
Gathered with hope to please,
Along the
mountain
towers,--
Lose courage, and despair.
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Emerson - Poems |
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LXXIX
"But since to abandon thee, to whom a prize
I know not, my sad fate compels, I swear,
My Isabella, by that mouth, those eyes,
By what enchained me first, that lovely hair;
My spirit, troubled and despairing, hies
Into hell's deep and gloomy bottom; where
To think, thou wert
abandoned
so by me,
Of all its woes the heaviest pain will be.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Petersburg, Boldino, Tsarskoe Selo, 1880-1881]
I
In the Lyceum's noiseless shade
As in a garden when I grew,
I
Apuleius
gladly read
But would not look at Cicero.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand
My thread-bare
Penitence
a-pieces tore.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Dare I, Sir, already immensely
indebted
to
your goodness, ask the additional obligation of your being that friend
to me?
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Robert Forst |
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They are dreams of horror clothed in brass,
Which from profoundest depths of evil pass
With futile aim to dare the
Infinite!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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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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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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the
remembrance
murders me!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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[in Anhui], poured a
libation
on his grave and
forbade the woodmen to cut down the trees which grew there.
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Li Po |
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The
hillsides
must not know it,
Where I have rambled so,
Nor tell the loving forests
The day that I shall go,
Nor lisp it at the table,
Nor heedless by the way
Hint that within the riddle
One will walk to-day!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thus saying, she offers him a rich ring of red gold "with a shining
stone
standing
aloft," that shone like the beams of the bright sun.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And gleams, through the pallor,
A mouth with a
conquering
smile;
Red chilli, a scarlet flower,
Hearts'-blood gives it fire.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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On Lenski's
matrimonial
fate
They long ago had held debate.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
That steer you up and down, and high and low,
Never remaining long, when once they show,
Pulling your chariot
endlessly
there and back:
My desires and yours are never a match,
Because the passions that pierce your soul,
And the ardours that inflame mine so,
Court different desires to ease their lack.
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Ronsard |
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'376-377'
Suffered Budgell to attribute to his (Pope's) pen the slanderous gossip
of the 'Grub Street Journal',--a paper to which Pope did, as a matter of
fact, contribute--and let him (Budgell) write
anything
he pleased except
his (Pope's) will.
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Alexander Pope |
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The tall hills
Push up their shady groves into the sky,
And fail and cease where the intense light spills
Its
parching
torrent on the gaunt and dry
Rock of the further mountains, whence the snow
That softened their harsh edges long is gone,
And nothing tempers now
The hot flood falling on the barren stone.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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410
Browne as the
fylberte
droppyng from the shelle,
Browne as the nappy ale at Hocktyde game,
So browne the crokyde rynges, that featlie fell
Over the neck of the all-beauteous dame.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I had the right, few days ago,
Thy steps to watch, thy place to know:
How have I
forfeited
the right?
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Emerson - Poems |
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The experiments of the Irish National Theatre Society will have of
necessity to be for a long time few and timid, and we must often,
having no money and not a great deal of leisure, accept for a while
compromises, and much even that we know to be
irredeemably
bad.
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Yeats |
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When Milton
states that
They also serve who only stand and wait,
he has
probably
in mind the opinion of Dionysius the
Areopagite (adopted by Aquinas), that the four highest
orders of angels (Dominations, Thrones, Cherubs, and
Seraphim) never leave God's presence to bear messages.
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John Donne |
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--Slave-dhow being
chased round
Tajurrah
Bah.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Thou Spirit who ledst this glorious Eremite
Into the Desert, his Victorious Field
Against the Spiritual Foe, and broughtst him thence 10
By proof the undoubted Son of God, inspire,
As thou art wont, my prompted Song else mute,
And bear through highth or depth of natures bounds
With prosperous wing full summ'd to tell of deeds
Above Heroic, though in secret done,
And
unrecorded
left through many an Age,
Worthy t' have not remain'd so long unsung.
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Milton |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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For me, my
faculties
are frozen,
My dearest member nearly dozen'd,
I've sent you here, by Johnie Simson,
Twa sage philosophers to glimpse on;
Smith, wi' his sympathetic feeling,
An' Reid, to common sense appealing.
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Robert Burns |
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THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN
I
The thick lids of Night closed upon me
Alone at the Bill
Of the Isle by the Race {253}--
Many-caverned, bald, wrinkled of face--
And with
darkness
and silence the spirit was on me
To brood and be still.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Oh, if there may departing be
Any forgot by victory
In her imperial round,
Show them this meek apparelled thing,
That could not stop to be a king,
Doubtful
if it be crowned!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Jade bells
suddenly
all a-tinkle!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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If they know nothing of death it is because they know
little of life, for the secrets of life and death belong to those, and
to those only, whom the
sequence
of time affects, and who possess not
merely the present but the future, and can rise or fall from a past of
glory or of shame.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I have been more than once a victim to these crises and outbreaks which
give us cause to believe that evil-meaning demons slip into us, to make
us the
ignorant
accomplices of their most absurd desires.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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what are you
jabbering
about?
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The
fountain
sang and sang
But the satyr never stirred--
Only the great white moon
In the empty heaven heard.
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No need of Moorish archer's craft
To guard the pure and stainless liver;
He wants not, Fuscus, poison'd shaft
To store his quiver,
Whether he
traverse
Libyan shoals,
Or Caucasus, forlorn and horrent,
Or lands where far Hydaspes rolls
His fabled torrent.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Your souls, that should have noble lodging here,
Have crept like
peasants
into huts that have
No force within their walls, but must be shored
With borrowed firmness.
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'Twas he, indignant at the honor paid
To crime, who with his heel an onslaught made
Upon Duke Lupus' shameful monument,
Tore down, the statue he to fragments rent;
Then column of the
Strasburg
monster bore
To bridge of Wasselonne, and threw it o'er
Into the waters deep.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep .
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Already
standest
there, O Boniface!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In the
mountains
my wife and children weep facing the heavens, 12 from your stables I need the wind-chasing brown charger.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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THE
TRAGEDIE
OF MACBETH.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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That ground will take no
footprint!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Keats - Lamia |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing
nocturnal
hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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my ardent spirit burns,
And all the tribute of my heart returns,
For boons accorded,
goodness
ever new,
The gift still dearer, as the giver, you.
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Robert Forst |
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use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Appoloinaire |
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Pomiers i ot, bien m'en sovient,
Qui chargoient pomes grenades,
C'est uns fruis moult bons a malades; 1340
De noiers i ot grant foison,
Qui chargoient en la saison
Itel fruit cum sunt nois mugades,
Qui ne sunt ameres, ne fades;
Alemandiers
y ot plante,
Et si ot ou vergier plante
Maint figuier, et maint biau datier;
Si trovast qu'en eust mestier,
Ou vergier mainte bone espice,
Cloz de girofle et requelice, 1350
Graine de paradis novele,
Citoal, anis, et canele,
Et mainte espice delitable,
Que bon mengier fait apres table.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Like
lightning
next the Pelean javelin flies:
Its erring fury hiss'd along the skies;
Deep in the swelling bank was driven the spear,
Even to the middle earth; and quiver'd there.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Life is but Thought: so think I will
That Youth and I are
housemates
still.
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Golden Treasury |
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Why fade these
children
of the spring?
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blake-poems |
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10
To whom
inscribe
my dainty tome--just out and with ashen pumice polished?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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