- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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It was you who led her
footsteps
to this shore.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Fain, too, were I
hadst thou but seen himself, what time
the fiend in his
trappings
tottered to fall!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thus with my leader's feet still
equaling
pace
From forth that cloud I came, when now expir'd
The parting beams from off the nether shores.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I have drawn my blade where the
lightnings
meet But the ending is the same:
Who loseth to God as the sword blades lose
Shall win at the end of the game.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
With an hundred serjeants by force they come;
Thirty of them there are, that
straight
are hung.
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Chanson de Roland |
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5
O verray cause of hele and of gladnesse,
Y-heried be thy might and thy
goodnesse!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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1015
`But O, thou Iove, O auctor of nature,
Is this an honour to thy deitee,
That folk
ungiltif
suffren here iniure,
And who that giltif is, al quit goth he?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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If to remember deeds whilome well done be a pleasure
Meet for a man who deems all of his
dealings
be just,
Nor Holy Faith ever broke nor in whatever his compact
Sanction of Gods abused better to swindle mankind,
Much there remains for thee during length of living, Catullus, 5
Out of that Love ingrate further to solace thy soul;
For whatever of good can mortal declare of another
Or can avail he do, such thou hast said and hast done;
While to a thankless mind entrusted all of them perisht.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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A barrel-organ
Rasped a
mournful
measure.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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A voi
divotamente
ora sospira
l'anima mia, per acquistar virtute
al passo forte che a se la tira.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
Þā wæs on sālum sinces brytta
gamol-feax and gūð-rōf, gēoce gelȳfde
610 brego Beorht-Dena;
gehȳrde
on Bēowulfe
folces hyrde fæst-rǣdne geþōht.
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Beowulf |
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(adverbial)
ferhðum
fægne, _happy at heart_, 1634; þæt mon .
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Beowulf |
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"
"Hear him
blaspheming
his first love!
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Kipling - Poems |
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My Thanes and Kinsmen
Henceforth be Earles, the first that euer Scotland
In such an Honor nam'd: What's more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time,
As calling home our exil'd Friends abroad,
That fled the Snares of
watchfull
Tyranny,
Producing forth the cruell Ministers
Of this dead Butcher, and his Fiend-like Queene;
Who (as 'tis thought) by selfe and violent hands,
Tooke off her life.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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O le pauvre amoureux des pays
chimeriques!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Unworthy he, the voice of fame to hear,
That
sweetest
music to an honest ear;
(For 'faith, Lord Fanny!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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' A gloomy smile _290
Of
desperate
hope wrinkled his quivering lips.
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Shelley |
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_insert_ ryght
_before_
yong.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And like the German lord, when he went out of Newgate into the cart, took
order to have his arms set up in his last herborough: said was he taken
and committed upon suspicion of treason, no witness
appearing
against
him; but the judges entertained him most civilly, discoursed with him,
offered him the courtesy of the rack; but he confessed, &c.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The "slack" Beowulf, like the sluggish Brutus, ultimately reveals
his true character, and is presented with a
historic
sword of honor.
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Beowulf |
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So they began to sing, voice answering voice
In strains alternate- for
alternate
strains
The Muses then were minded to recall-
First Corydon, then Thyrsis in reply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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FAIR Constance such reproof could not withstand,
'Twas well the poinard was not in her hand;
Her bosom so
severely
felt the smart,
She would have plunged the dagger through her heart:
But Hope, sweet Hope!
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La Fontaine |
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In every issue there is sure to be at least one poem so interesting as to justify the
publication
of that number of the magazine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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'Tis
mountain
wolves', not horses' food!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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When it
puckered
up with shame,
And I sought him, he never came.
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John Clare |
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There
speckled
thrush, by self-delight embued,
There sings unto himself for joy's amends,
And drinks the honey dew of solitude.
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John Clare |
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LXX
That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's
sweetest
air.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But how shall
finished
creatures
A function fresh obtain?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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) Didst mark how pale
Our
sovereign
turned, how from his face there poured
A mighty sweat?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But merit always has enemies: Pacheco was accused and brought to
Lisbon in irons, where he remained for a
considerable
time chained in a
dungeon.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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There are a few
things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
even without
complying
with the full terms of this agreement.
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Keats - Lamia |
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'
When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
A certain old dream, sick desire of my spine,
Beneath funereal ceilings
afflicted
by dying
Folded its indubitable wing there within me.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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[3] Tammuz is probably a real personage,
although
_Dumu-zi_, his
original name, is certainly later than the title _Ab-u_, probably the
oldest epithet of this deity, see _Tammuz and Ishtar_, p.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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--
A
domestic
cat, soberly marching beside him.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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inges in
knowynge
vsen more of hir faculte or of hir power.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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[Illustration]
There was a Young Person of Smyrna,
Whose
Grandmother
threatened to burn her;
But she seized on the Cat, and said, "Granny, burn that!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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such an one was I--
The wind it
whistled
to my bone.
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Tennyson |
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I'll teach my boy the
sweetest
things;
I'll teach him how the owlet sings.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Ill-omened vapors fill the
imperial
city, 4 in the human world parting is hard.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But canstow pleyen raket, to and fro, 460
Netle in, dokke out, now this, now that,
Pandare?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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' they cried, 'The world is wide,
But
fettered
limbs go lame!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Their voices, dying as they fly,
Thick on the wind are sown;
The names of men blow
soundless
by,
My fellows' and my own.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Where is the rock of Triumph, the high place
Where Rome
embraced
her heroes?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Some few there from the common road did stray;
Laelius and Socrates, with whom I may
A longer
progress
take: Oh, what a pair
Of dear esteemed friends to me they were!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Gather, while 'tis fine,
Your wood; to-morrow shall be gay
With smoking pig and
streaming
wine,
And lord and slave keep holyday.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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XIX
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
All imperfection born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the centuries might devise,
Rome in
ancestral
times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box, enclosed the measure.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Her ancient walls, which still with fear and love
The world admires, whene'er it calls to mind
The days of Eld, and turns to look behind;
Her hoar and cavern'd monuments above
The dust of men, whose fame, until the world
In
dissolution
sink, can never fail;
Her all, that in one ruin now lies hurl'd,
Hopes to have heal'd by thee its every ail.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Forthwith the Sounds and Seas, each Creek & Bay
With Frie innumerable swarme, and Shoales 400
Of Fish that with thir Finns & shining Scales
Glide under the green Wave, in Sculles that oft
Bank the mid Sea: part single or with mate
Graze the Sea weed thir pasture, & through Groves
Of Coral stray, or sporting with quick glance
Show to the Sun thir wav'd coats dropt with Gold,
Or in thir Pearlie shells at ease, attend
Moist nutriment, or under Rocks thir food
In jointed Armour watch: on smooth the Seale,
And bended Dolphins play: part huge of bulk 410
Wallowing unweildie, enormous in thir Gate
Tempest the Ocean: there Leviathan
Hugest of living Creatures, on the Deep
Stretcht
like a Promontorie sleeps or swimmes,
And seems a moving Land, and at his Gilles
Draws in, and at his Trunck spouts out a Sea.
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Milton |
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Dick was
permitted
to see the girls off.
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Kipling - Poems |
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[LADY
ALLWORTH
_turns away_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Whence Adam
faultring
long, thus answer'd brief.
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Milton |
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Therefore to winged Love she speaks these words:
'Son, who art alone my
strength
and sovereignty, son, who scornest the
mighty father's Typhoian shafts, to thee I fly for succour, and sue
humbly to thy deity.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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We use
_freshet_
in the sense of _flood_, for which I have
not chanced upon any authority.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Oh what a
multitude
they seemed, these flowers of London town!
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blake-poems |
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Superb and sole, upon a plumed spray
That o'er the general leafage boldly grew,
He summ'd the woods in song; or typic drew
The watch of hungry hawks, the lone dismay
Of languid doves when long their lovers stray,
And all birds' passion-plays that
sprinkle
dew
At morn in brake or bosky avenue.
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Sidney Lanier |
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It is not only in the rose,
It is not only in the bird,
Not only where the rainbow glows,
Nor in the song of woman heard,
But in the darkest, meanest things
There alway, alway
something
sings.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I stood all potent yesterday; my bravest captains three,
All
stirless
in their tigered selle, magnificent to see,
Hailed as before my gilded tent rose flowing to the gales,
Shorn from the tameless desert steeds, three dark and tossing tails.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He considered these philosophical views of
Mind and Nature to be instinct with the
intensest
spirit of poetry.
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Shelley |
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We
have taken it into our heads that to write a poem simply for the poem's
sake, and to acknowledge such to have been our design, would be to
confess
ourselves
radically wanting in the true poetic dignity and
force:--but the simple fact is that would we but permit ourselves to
look into our own souls we should immediately there discover that under
the sun there neither exists nor _can _exist any work more thoroughly
dignified, more supremely noble, than this very poem, this poem _per se,
_this poem which is a poem and nothing more, this poem written solely
for the poem's sake.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Shortly after the departure of the Emperor,
Petrarch
had the
satisfaction of hearing, in his own church of St.
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Petrarch |
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Unlock the furthest line
Of guest-chambers; and bid the
stewards
there
Make ready a full feast; then close with care
The midway doors.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Unto his horse--there feeding [30] free,
He seems, I think, the rein to give;
Of moon or stars he takes no heed;
Of such we in
romances
read: 355
--'Tis Johnny!
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William Wordsworth |
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Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so,
Not for thy faults, but mine; it is a curse
To understand, not feel, thy lyric flow,
To comprehend, but never love thy verse,
Although no deeper moralist rehearse
Our little life, nor bard prescribe his art,
Nor livelier
satirist
the conscience pierce,
Awakening without wounding the touched heart,
Yet fare thee well--upon Soracte's ridge we part.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Never the treasures in her nest
The
cautious
grave exposes,
Building where schoolboy dare not look
And sportsman is not bold.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He
suffered
from rheumatic fever complicated by an enlarged heart, and died in October 1879, aged eight.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Sees he some
likeness
here?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Their outside
Was
overlaid
with gold, dazzling to view,
But leaden all within, and of such weight,
That Frederick's compar'd to these were straw.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In this fresh joy, 'tis no small part, that shee,
Shee, in whose goodnesse, he that names degree,
Doth injure her; ('Tis losse to be cal'd best,
There where the stuffe is not such as the rest) 500
Shee, who left such a bodie, as even shee
Only in Heaven could learne, how it can bee
Made better; for shee rather was two soules,
Or like to full on both sides written Rols,
Where eyes might reade upon the outward skin, 505
As strong Records for God, as mindes within;
Shee, who by making full
perfection
grow,
Peeces a Circle, and still keepes it so,
Long'd for, and longing for it, to heaven is gone,
Where shee receives, and gives addition.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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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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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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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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Was peynted POVERT al aloon, 450
That not a peny hadde in wolde,
Al-though [that] she hir clothes solde,
And though she shulde
anhonged
be;
For naked as a worm was she.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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WITH A PRESSED FLOWER
This little blossom from afar
Hath come from other lands to thine;
For, once, its white and
drooping
star
Could see its shadow in the Rhine.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Yet mankind's self were
foundered
in eclipse,
If lacking doers, with great works to be done;
And lo, the startled earth already dips
Back into light; a better day's begun;
And soon this leader, teacher, will stand plain,
And build the golden pipes and synthesize
This people-organ for a holy strain.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Your
unfortunate
lover finds here less pain,
Death at your hand, than life with your disdain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Rouze all thie love; false and
entrykyng
wyghte!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And here the flying rumour sped before,
And
magnified
the deed from shore to shore.
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Petrarch |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The giantess's crest and shield appear,
For ensign, decked with swoln and
poisonous
toad.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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ENDEAVOURS
TO FIND PEACE IN THE THOUGHT THAT SHE IS IN HEAVEN.
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Petrarch |
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Go: don't expose
yourself
to the tremor
That will fuel the first ardour of her anger.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Garments ethereal,
Tresses aerial,
Float o'er the flowers,
Float o'er the bowers,
Where, with deep feeling,
Thoughtful
and tender,
Lovers, embracing,
Life-vows are sealing.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Gutenberg Literary Archive
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and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Pres d'un
ruisseau
sans eau la bete ouvrant le bec,
Baignait nerveusement ses ailes dans la poudre,
Et disait, le coeur plein de son beau lac natal:
<< Eau, quand donc pleuvras-tu?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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then,
If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief,
Should be thy portion, with what healing thoughts
Of tender joy wilt thou
remember
me,
And these my exhortations!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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AUTUMNAL
DAY
Lord!
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Rilke - Poems |
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2300
To-day he
pleyneth
for hevinesse,
To-morowe he pleyeth for Iolynesse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Partitions
blood-stained have a reddened smear,
And Terror unrelieved is master here.
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Hugo - Poems |
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But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet--and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my
greatness
flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
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My doubt, mass of ancient night, ends extreme
In many a subtle branch, that
remaining
the true
Woods themselves, proves, alas, that I too
Offered myself, alone, as triumph, the false ideal of roses.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Yet, if we have a fair gale of
wind, I forbid not the
steering
out of our sail, so the favour of the
gale deceive us not.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The gods, it was added,
vouchsafed
the clearest signs
of the favor with which they regarded the enterprise, and of the
high destinies reserved for the young colony.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I had rather wear her grace
Than an earl's
distinguished
face;
I had rather dwell like her
Than be Duke of Exeter
Royalty enough for me
To subdue the bumble-bee!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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America, curious toward foreign characters, stands by its own at all
hazards,
Stands removed, spacious, composite, sound,
initiates
the true use
of precedents,
Does not repel them or the past or what they have produced under
their forms,
Takes the lesson with calmness, perceives the corpse slowly borne
from the house,
Perceives that it waits a little while in the door, that it was
fittest for its days,
That its life has descended to the stalwart and well-shaped heir who
approaches,
And that he shall be fittest for his days.
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