It is certain that, more than
three hundred and sixty years after the date ordinarily assigned
for the foundation of the city, the public records were, with
scarcely an exception,
destroyed
by the Gauls.
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our extended reign,(226)
Where Xanthus' streams enrich the Lycian plain,
Our numerous herds that range the fruitful field,
And hills where vines their purple harvest yield,
Our foaming bowls with purer nectar crown'd,
Our feasts enhanced with music's
sprightly
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Patroclus
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WORLD BUILDERS By Abigail Fithian Halsev
These are the things that make the world, The sun and air, the earth and sky,
The golden
sunlight
everywhere,
The wings of angels drifting by.
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when he returned to London, to live practically on his wits, and a study
of his poems
suggests
that, the influence of the careful uncle removed,
whatever capital he possessed was soon likely to vanish.
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creations
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And when in the silent hours
I whisper your sacred name,
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fragrant
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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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The first flock of geese is seen beating to
north, in long harrows and waving lines; the jingle of the song
sparrow salutes us from the shrubs and fences; the
plaintive
note of
the lark comes clear and sweet from the meadow; and the bluebird, like
an azure ray, glances past us in our walk.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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2,
_morrow_
for _morning_; l.
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Robert Herrick |
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Miss Thompson feels a
conscious
blush
Suffuse her face, as though her thought
Had ventured further than it ought.
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Were not the
pictures
and the volumes fain
To have me with them always as before?
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Phials full of
sinister
fluids, alternating with
shining knives and instruments of surgery, hung from this living girdle.
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This noble emperesse, ful of grace,
Bad every foul to take his owne place, 320
As they were wont alwey fro yeer to yere,
Seynt
Valentynes
day, to stonden there.
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Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Wherethe
good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
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companions
to visit the seven regions of the world.
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Appoloinaire |
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Let Paphos lift the mirror;
let her look
into the
polished
center of the disk.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The
initials
signify "Aerated Bread Company,
Limited.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Were I from
Dunsinane
away, and cleere,
Profit againe should hardly draw me heere.
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85
And founde his fadre
steppeynge
from the bryne.
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Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me
For
bringing
wood in slowly.
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Shakespeare |
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Ample and ruddy, the board's end he fills
As he our fireside were, our light and heat, 230
Centre where minds diverse and various skills
Find their warm nook and stretch
unhampered
feet;
I see the firm benignity of face,
Wide-smiling champaign, without tameness sweet,
The mass Teutonic toned to Gallic grace,
The eyes whose sunshine runs before the lips
While Holmes's rockets, curve their long ellipse,
And burst in seeds of fire that burst again
To drop in scintillating rain.
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James Russell Lowell |
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That poor
retention
could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Therefore to give them from me was I bold,
To trust those tables that receive thee more:
To keep an adjunct to remember thee
Were to import forgetfulness in me.
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"
I
willingly
acceded to his desire.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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XLII
O heart of insatiable longing,
What spell, what
enchantment
allures thee
Over the rim of the world
With the sails of the sea-going ships?
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Sappho |
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Conquered so often now they will no more
Chance
themselves
against the conqueror.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Of good, and glory, and
eternity!
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your milky stream pale
strippings
of my life!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Grishkin is nice: her Russian eye
Is
underlined
for emphasis;
Uncorseted, her friendly bust
Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Methinks
already I your tears survey,
Already hear the horrid things they say,
Already see you a degraded toast,
And all your honour in a whisper lost!
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Alexander Pope |
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They
trampled
loud the soil, straining to draw 100
Herself with all her vesture; nor alone
She went, but follow'd by her virgin train.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The
cherubim
are winged oxen, but in no way monstrous.
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Appoloinaire |
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The rite decrees our hands must quench the torch
Against the iron mass of your tomb's porch:
None at this simple ceremony should forget,
Those chosen to sing the absence of the poet,
That this monument
encloses
him entire.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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As poets should,
Thou hast built up thy hardihood
With universal food,
Drawn in select proportion fair
From honest mould and vagabond air;
From darkness of the dreadful night,
And joyful light;
From antique ashes, whose departed flame
In thee has finer life and longer fame;
From wounds and balms,
From storms and calms,
From
potsherds
and dry bones
And ruin-stones.
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Sidney Lanier |
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"
The
moonbeams
through the open door did fall,
And shine upon the figure next the wall.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Christina Rossetti |
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It's on your slopes, visited by Venus
Setting in your lava her heels so artless,
When a sad slumber
thunders
where the flame burns low.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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We cannot
overcome
destiny.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And the deity thundered loudly,
Fat with rage, and puffing,
"Kneel, mortal, and cringe
"And grovel and do homage
"To my
particularly
sublime majesty.
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Stephen Crane |
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You took my heart in your hand
With a friendly smile,
With a critical eye you scanned,
Then set it down,
And said: It is still unripe,
Better wait awhile;
Wait while the
skylarks
pipe,
Till the corn grows brown.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
Henceforth
I find no certain
reference to him; according to Fuller he died at the Herald's Office in
1649.
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Robert Herrick |
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when from one
Of the two brightest eyes which ever were,
Beholding it with pain dis urb'd and dim,
Moved
influence
which my own made dull and weak.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I was gone the
livelong
day.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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--the
faintest
sound
And yet the sweetest that ear ever heard!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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On the faint wind floated the silky seeds
As the bright scythe swept through the waving grass,
The ouzel-cock
splashed
circles in the reeds
And flecked with silver whorls the forest's glass,
Which scarce had caught again its imagery
Ere from its bed the dusky tench leapt at the dragon-fly.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The sense of this line is, Would you see every
thing in its
primaeval
state.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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He who regards it directly and intensely sees,
it is true, the star, but it is the star without a ray-while he who
surveys it less
inquisitively
is conscious of all for which the star is
useful to us below-its brilliancy and its beauty.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"I've sought that cub in every hole,
'Midland, and coast, and islet,
For he's the thief who came and stole
Our
sheathless
jewelled stilet.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Will it help breed one good-shaped man, and a
woman to be his perfect and
independent
mate?
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Whitman |
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[402] A town and fortress on the west coast of Messenia, south-east part
of Peloponnese, at the northern extremity of the bay of Sphacteria--the
scene by the by of the modern naval battle of Navarino--in Lacedaemonian
territory; it had been seized by the Athenian fleet, and was still in
their
possession
at the date, 412 B.
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Aristophanes |
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A flowery
kingdom?
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Stephen Crane |
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The uncovered shield
represents
the open Bible.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Chapeau bas, mes
bourgeois!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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She's followed him, of course; she's heard of this
Mad
escapade
and followed after him.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in
sportive
frolic beat the time,
And stubborn oaks their branchy summits bow.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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50 yearly, and permitted
the _Faerie Queene_ to be
published
with a dedication to herself.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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--Thou knewest me better,
And
therefore
shalt forgive me.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
"I will go where I am wanted, for the
sergeant
does not mind;
He may be sick to see me but he treats me very kind:
He gives me beer and breakfast and a ribbon for my cap,
And I never knew a sweetheart spend her money on a chap.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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) "An
unworthy
monk of the Monastery
Of Chudov, Gregory, of the family of Otrepiev, has fallen
into heresy, taught by the devil, and has dared to vex
the holy brotherhood by all kinds of iniquities and acts
of lawlessness.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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His
judgment
consequently
is too correct.
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Poe - 5 |
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& the hHuman form is no more
The
listning
Stars heard, & the first beam of the morning started back
He cried out to his father, depart!
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Blake - Zoas |
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--
non ego diuitias patrum
fructusque
requiro,
quos tulit antiquo condita messis auo:
parua seges satis est; satis est requiescere lecto
si licet et solito membra leuare toro.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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So
freehanded
and so gay!
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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In
mounting
higher,
The angels would press on us and aspire
To drop some golden orb of perfect song
Into our deep, dear silence.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And Charles of this his slender share
With smiles partook a moment there,
To force of cheer a greater show,
And seem above both wounds and woe;--
And then he said--"Of all our band,
Though firm of heart and strong of hand,
In skirmish, march, or forage, none
Can less have said or more have done 100
Than thee,
Mazeppa!
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Byron |
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You built your cities rich
Around each towered hall,--
Without, the statued niche,
Within, the
pictured
wall.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The days gone by
Return upon me almost from the dawn
Of life: the hiding-places of man's power
Open; I would
approach
them, but they close.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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" is begun
For Adonis, and then follows "Ai
Hymenaeus!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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She is dead who never lived,
She who made
pretence
of being:
From her hands the book has slipped
In which her eyes read nothing.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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or how he told
Of the changed limbs of Tereus- what a feast,
What gifts, to him by
Philomel
were given;
How swift she sought the desert, with what wings
Hovered in anguish o'er her ancient home?
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Sweet Science, this large riddle read me plain:
How may the death of that dull insect be
The life of yon trim
Shakespeare
on the tree?
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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If it could be so I'd make no fuss,
All fate's
suffering
would seem sweet today,
Not even if I'd to be a vulture's prey,
Nor he who must roll the boulder, Sisyphus.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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For each beloved hour
Sharp
pittances
of years,
Bitter contested farthings
And coffers heaped with tears.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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