Heavenly hurt it gives us;
We can find no scar,
But
internal
difference
Where the meanings are.
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But in the field were Lancelot's kith and kin,
Ranged with the Table Round that held the lists,
Strong men, and
wrathful
that a stranger knight
Should do and almost overdo the deeds
Of Lancelot; and one said to the other, 'Lo!
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That's what I call a genuine art,
To make poor rats with poison
wriggle!
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My soul burns with the
quenchless
fire
That lit my lover's funeral pyre:
Alas!
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you scorn our race;
You
captives
of your air-tight halls,
Wear out indoors your sickly days,
But leave us the horizon walls.
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Sudden, a fear came o'er his
troubled
soul,
What more was written on the Future's scroll?
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Smoothed
by long fingers,
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We might just see how
horrible
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XXVIII
But to
Oneguine!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And what the people but a herd confus'd,
A
miscellaneous
rabble, who extol 50
Things vulgar, & well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise,
They praise and they admire they know not what;
And know not whom, but as one leads the other;
And what delight to be by such extoll'd,
To live upon thir tongues and be thir talk,
Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?
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Kipling - Poems |
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E'en where its name is cancel'd, there came I,
Pierc'd in the heart, fleeing away on foot,
And
bloodying
the plain.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I call him bankrupt in the courts of song Who hath her gold to eye and pays her not,
Defaulter
do I call the knave who hath got Her silver in his heart and doth her wrong.
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Her gracious stars the lady blest,
And thus spake on sweet Christabel:
All our household are at rest,
The hall as silent as the cell;
Sir Leoline is weak in health,
And may not well
awakened
be,
But we will move as if in stealth,
And I beseech your courtesy,
This night, to share your couch with me.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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To ease my mind I gazed to the South East;
As my eyes wandered, my
thoughts
went far away.
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"You're a
wild elephant, and no
educated
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Mallowe
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IN THE
MOUNTAINS
ON A SUMMER DAY
Gently I stir a white feather fan,
With open shirt, sitting in a green wood.
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Li Po |
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The American bards shall be marked for
generosity
and affection and for
encouraging competitors: they shall be kosmos--without monopoly or
secrecy--glad to pass anything to any one--hungry for equals night and day.
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[97] An accusation
frequently
hurled at the orators.
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Aristophanes |
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For you, on Latmos, fondling your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As restraint for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the
daylight
that your night forgot.
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Ronsard |
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ein & bad hem seke
in
Eufemians
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"Grieve not so, dear mother," the just-grown
daughter
speaks through her
sobs;
The little sisters huddle around, speechless and dismayed;
"See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete will soon be better.
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Whitman |
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It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past,
enlightened
to perceive
New periods of pain.
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" He thus connects it with the poems
referring to Matthew in such a way that it may be said to belong to that
series; and, while he
assigned
it to the year 1798, both in the edition
of 1845, and in that of 1849-50, it is quite possible that it was
written in 1799.
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William Wordsworth |
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Could she have guessed that it would be;
Could but a crier of the glee
Have climbed the distant hill;
Had not the bliss so slow a pace, --
Who knows but this
surrendered
face
Were undefeated still?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Friday night again and all my songs
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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We passed the school where
children
played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.
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To Cynthia on her
Kindness
to his Rival_
ISTE quod est, ego saepe fui: sed fors et in hora
hoc ipso electo carior alter erit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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O'er miles and miles the
shattered
ruins spread
Beneath its base, from captive tempests bred,
The air seemed filled with harmony strange and dire;
While swarmed around the entire human race
A future Babel, on the world's whole space
Fixed its eternal spire.
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Hugo - Poems |
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I alone of all things
Fret with
unsluiced
fire.
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Sappho |
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Thine is the bounty that prospered our sowing,
Thine is the bounty that
nurtured
our corn.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think,
His
venerable
hand to take,
And warming in our own,
A passage back, or two, to make
To times when he was young.
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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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CCXXXVII
That even-tide is light as was the day;
Their armour shines beneath the sun's clear ray,
Hauberks and helms throw off a dazzling flame,
And
blazoned
shields, flowered in bright array,
Also their spears, with golden ensigns gay.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Bel Restaur, 'the lovely one who
restores
me', or the Fair Healer, may be Guida da Rodez, 1212-1265, daughter of Henri I Count of Rodez.
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Troubador Verse |
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Varus, are your trees in
planting?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I
Charles the King, our Lord and Sovereign,
Full seven years hath sojourned in Spain,
Conquered the land, and won the western main,
Now no
fortress
against him doth remain,
No city walls are left for him to gain,
Save Sarraguce, that sits on high mountain.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Good
harbourage
withal of bed and board,
She in her hostel found; but small delight
This and all comforts else to her afford.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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This music is
successful
with a "dying fall"
Now that we talk of dying--
And should I have the right to smile?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Solemn Dances
THERE laughs in the
heightening
year, Sweet,
The scent from the garden benign.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Paradiso
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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O cities
memories
of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their thinkers their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the clusters of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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THE NIZAM OF HYDERABAD
(Presented at the Ramzan Durbar)
Deign, Prince, my tribute to receive,
This lyric offering to your name,
Who round your jewelled scepter bind
The lilies of a poet's fame;
Beneath whose sway concordant dwell
The peoples whom your laws embrace,
In brotherhood of diverse creeds,
And harmony of diverse race:
The votaries of the Prophet's faith,
Of whom you are the crown and chief
And they, who bear on Vedic brows
Their mystic symbols of belief;
And they, who
worshipping
the sun,
Fled o'er the old Iranian sea;
And they, who bow to Him who trod
The midnight waves of Galilee.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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That will neuer bee:
Who can
impresse
the Forrest, bid the Tree
Vnfixe his earth-bound Root?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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A hard-working life, checkered by the odd adventures which happen
to the odd and the adventurous and pass over the commonplace; a
career brightened by the high appreciation of unimpeachable
critics; lightened, till of late, by the pleasant society and good
wishes of innumerable friends; saddened by the growing pressure of
ill health and solitude; cheered by his
constant
trust in the love
and sympathy of those who knew him best, however far away,--such
was the life of Edward Lear.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
"And didna ye get the locks, the locks,
The locks o' my ain black hair,
Whilk I sent by post, whilk I sent by box,
Whilk I sent by the
carrier?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Yet ere the varlet Marcus again might seize the maid,
Who clung tight to Muraena's skirt, and sobbed, and shrieked for
aid,
Forth through the throng of gazers the young Icilius pressed,
And stamped his foot, and rent his gown, and smote upon his
breast,
And sprang upon that column, by many a
minstrel
sung,
Whereon three mouldering helmets, three rusting swords, are hung,
And beckoned to the people, and in bold voice and clear
Poured thick and fast the burning words which tyrants quake to
hear.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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50 a Year
622
Washington
Square Philadelphia
r HARVARD
UNIVERSITY!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Now even the cattle court the cooling shade
And the green lizard hides him in the thorn:
Now for tired mowers, with the fierce heat spent,
Pounds
Thestilis
her mess of savoury herbs,
Wild thyme and garlic.
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Biblioteka
Narodowa, 1975, Wikimedia Commons
Annie
On the coast of Texas
Twixt Mobile and Galveston there was a
Great garden full of roses
That also contained a villa
Like a giant rose.
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We believe that the individuality of a poet may
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Imagists |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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A Song o/Only a little while,
**f V,ir8in Sith
sleepeth
this child here
Stay ye the branches.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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That glance of hers, pure, tender, clear, and sweet,
Methought
it said, "Take what thou canst while nigh;
For here no more thou'lt see me, till on high
From earth have mounted thy slow-moving feet.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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As proude Bayard ginneth for to skippe
Out of the wey, so priketh him his corn,
Til he a lash have of the longe whippe, 220
Than
thenketh
he, `Though I praunce al biforn
First in the trays, ful fat and newe shorn,
Yet am I but an hors, and horses lawe
I moot endure, and with my feres drawe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I floated down its
historic
stream in
something more than imagination, under bridges built by the Romans,
and repaired by later heroes, past cities and castles whose very names
were music to my ears, and each of which was the subject of a legend.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I floated down its
historic
stream in
something more than imagination, under bridges built by the Romans,
and repaired by later heroes, past cities and castles whose very names
were music to my ears, and each of which was the subject of a legend.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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from his helpless
Creature
be repaid
Pure Gold for what he lent him dross-allay'd--
Sue for a Debt he never did contract,
And cannot answer--Oh the sorry trade!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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A little more
The multitude will groan and wail, Boris
Pucker awhile his forehead, like a toper
Eyeing a glass of wine, and in the end
Will humbly of his
graciousness
consent
To take the crown; and then--and then will rule us
Just as before.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A painter of the Umbrian school
Designed upon a gesso ground
The nimbus of the
Baptized
God.
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T.S. Eliot |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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In thieving thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high,
surmounted
by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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What marvel, when at those sweet airs
The hundred-headed beast spell-bound
Each black ear droops, and Furies' hairs
Uncoil their
serpents
at the sound?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand
fruitful
poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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That trusted home,
Might yet
enkindle
you vnto the Crowne,
Besides the Thane of Cawdor.
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C'est grace aux astres non pareils,
Qui tout au fond du ciel flamboient,
Que mes yeux
consumes
ne voient
Que des souvenirs de soleils.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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O lover, in this radiant world
Whence is the race of mortal men, 10
So frail, so mighty, and so fond,
That fleets into the vast
unknown?
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Sappho |
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A demon wishing to interrupt her prayers
extinguished
the light she carried, but divine power rekindled it.
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(Omitting the first of the two
following
couplets.
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So sieh dies Zeichen
Dem sie sich beugen,
Die schwarzen
Scharen!
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That evening the unbeliever went to the temple and
prostrated
himself
before the altar and prayed the gods to forgive his wayward past.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Sometimes my bush burns, and sometimes it is
A leafless wilding shivering by the wall;
But I have known when winter barberries
Pricked the effeminate palate with surprise
Of savor whose mere
harshness
seemed divine.
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chief
Of pains
resistless!
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on friendly pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From
mournful
climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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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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Chimene
Is it to your
boasting
I must listen?
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XXXVI
When I pass thy door at night
I a
benediction
breathe:
"Ye who have the sleeping world
In your care,
"Guard the linen sweet and cool, 5
Where a lovely golden head
With its dreams of mortal bliss
Slumbers now!
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Poor
thoughtless
wench!
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John Clare |
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The thick
darkness
carries with it
Rain and a ravel of cloud.
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Imagists |
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Thou canst not ask me with thee here to roam
Over these hills and vales, where no joy is,--
Empty of
immortality
and bliss!
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Keats - Lamia |
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'For he
promised
that he would come: 10
His word was given; from earth or heaven,
He must keep his word, and must come home.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Where'er he be, on water or on land,
Under pale suns or climes that flames enfold;
One of Christ's own, or of Cythera's band,
Shadowy beggar or Croesus rich with gold;
Citizen, peasant, student, tramp; whate'er
His little brain may be, alive or dead;
Man knows the fear of mystery everywhere,
And peeps, with
trembling
glances, overhead.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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