from thy shady brow,
Thou small, but
favoured
spot of holy ground!
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The happy tenants share his rounds;
Coila's fair Rachel's care to-day,
And
blooming
Keith's engaged with Gray)
From housewife cares a minute borrow--
That grandchild's cap will do to-morrow--
And join with me a moralizing,
This day's propitious to be wise in.
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exquisite
as it is fine; 'tis Pallas the
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Under his
spurning
feet the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind,
And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace fire,
Swept on, with his wild eye full of ire.
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Which in your
tablets appear--the profits or
expenses?
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L
How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,
'Thus far the miles are
measured
from thy friend!
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ACKNOWLEDGES
THE WISDOM OF HER PAST COLDNESS TO HIM.
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No darker joy than this
Golden amazement now
Shall dare intrude into our dazzling lives:
Stain were it now to know
Mists of sweet warmth and deep
delicious
colour,
Those lovable accomplices that come
Befriending languid hours.
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The tablet of the
Assyrian
version which
carries the portion related on the new tablet has not been found.
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succeeded, and brought away some
thousands
of drawings of the most striking
views from all three Presidencies and from the tropical island.
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You must need keep your
patience
yet awhile,
For I have some few mouthfuls of sweet air
To swallow before I have grown to be as civil
As any other dust.
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I remember well
My games of shovel-board at Bishop's tavern
In the old merry days, and she so gay
With her red paragon bodice and her
ribbons!
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For this her
sweetness
Walt, her lover, sought
To win her; wooed her here, his heart o'er fraught
With fragrance of her being; and gained his plea.
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No
pleasure
in point-lace collars take then,
Nor for the dance thy person deck then!
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The world is round, so travellers tell,
And
straight
though reach the track,
Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well,
The way will guide one back.
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8 Wind and clouds followed the
fleetest
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Lewis Carroll |
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If Love or Death no obstacle entwine
With the new web which here my fingers fold,
And if I 'scape from beauty's tyrant hold
While natural truth with truth reveal'd I join,
Perchance a work so double will be mine
Between our modern style and language old,
That (timidly I speak, with hope though bold)
Even to Rome its growing fame may shine:
But, since, our labour to perfect at last
Some of the blessed threads are absent yet
Which our dear father
plentifully
met,
Wherefore to me thy hands so close and fast
Against their use?
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And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
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Byron |
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I lift my heavy heart up solemnly,
As once Electra her
sepulchral
urn,
And, looking in thine eyes, I over-turn
The ashes at thy feet.
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An ocean scene with its waves torn, a former embroidery, its
sequence
of panels shifted.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But the old forge and mill are shut and done,
The tower is crumbling down, stone by stone falls;
An ague doubt comes
creeping
in the sun,
The sun himself shudders, the day appals,
The concourse of a thousand tempests sprawls
Over the blue-lipped lakes and maddening groves,
Like agonies of gods the clouds are whirled,
The stormwind like the demon huntsman roves--
Still stands my friend, though all's to chaos hurled,
The unseen friend, the one last friend in all the world.
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This
projected
audience
is one hundred million readers.
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Obscurely sacrificed, his
nameless
tomb,
Bare of the sculptor's art, the poet's lines,
Summer shall flush with poppy-fields in bloom,
And Autumn yellow with maturing vines.
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Man's love follows many faces,
My love only one face knoweth;
Towards thee only my love floweth,
And
outstrips
the swift stream's paces.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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No one can imagine too much when the
imagination
is
that of a poet.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
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But at this age my
life
underwent
a great change.
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Upon the beach, around the fire,
Now
quenched
by wind, now burning higher,
Like spirits which our dreams inspire
To hover o'er our trance.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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What pressure from the hands that
lifeless
lie?
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Longfellow |
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1 Datong Palace was a hall in the Tang palace
compound
of Chang?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And were you saved,
And I
condemned
to be
Where you were not,
That self were hell to me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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He died in 1173, possibly a victim of the widespread
epidemic
of that year.
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Paradiso
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Whose saintly visage is too bright
To hit the sense of human sight,
And
therefore
to our weaker view
O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue;
Black, but such as in esteem
Prince Memnon's sister might beseem.
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Golden Treasury |
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was
transparent
as a needle
Was it cooing about something else?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I hear a haggard student turn and sigh:
I hear men begging Heaven to let them die:
And,
drowning
all, a wild-eyed woman's cry.
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Sidney Lanier |
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and
brooding
stillnesses which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Then had the hapless Hero premature
Perish'd, but for
sagacity
inspired
By Pallas azure-eyed.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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) the thongs
unbound!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Certain
of our young men and women, too restless and sociable to be readers,
had amongst them an
interest
in Irish legend and history, and years
of imaginative politics had kept them from forgetting, as most modern
people have, how to listen to serious words.
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Yeats |
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' to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with
artificial
tears,
And frame my face to all occasions.
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Shakespeare |
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Les pleurs
Ajoutent
un charme au visage,
Comme le fleuve au paysage;
L'orage rajeunit les fleurs.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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He gives
Wisdom to youth, to
weakness
strength.
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Strange ghostly banners o'er them float,
Strange bugles sound an awful note,
And all their faces and their eyes
Are lit with
starlight
from the skies.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Charles the great in vain your aid will seek--
None such as he till God His Judgement speak;--
Here must you die, and France in shame be steeped;
Here
perishes
our loyal company,
Before this night great severance and grief.
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Chanson de Roland |
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My heart was fill'd with wonder and amaze,
As one struck dumb, in silence stands at gaze
Expecting
counsel, when my friend drew near,
And said: "What do you look?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Owneth thy sire one third, one third is right of thy mother,
Only the third is thine: stint thee to strive with the others,
Who to the
stranger
son have yielded their dues with a dower!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a
question
on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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ergo iam multos nimium
temerarius
annos,
improba, qui tulerim teque tuamque domum?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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His locked, letter'd, braw brass collar
Shew'd him the
gentleman
an' scholar;
But though he was o' high degree,
The fient a pride, nae pride had he;
But wad hae spent an hour caressin,
Ev'n wi' al tinkler-gipsy's messin:
At kirk or market, mill or smiddie,
Nae tawted tyke, tho' e'er sae duddie,
But he wad stan't, as glad to see him,
An' stroan't on stanes an' hillocks wi' him.
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A story born out of the dreaming eyes
And crazy brain and
credulous
ears of famine.
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An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy
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It levelled strong Euphrates in its course;
Supreme yet weightless as an idle mote
It seemed to tame the waters without force
Till not a murmur swelled or billow beat:
Lo, as the purple shadow swept the sands,
The prudent crocodile rose on his feet
And shed
appropriate
tears and wrung his hands.
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
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(Such
language
holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
Or the stricken eagle soar!
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Silius neatly
translates
it,
"Turpe duci totam somno consumere noctem.
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Iliad - Pope |
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[103] It is to him
that Rome's attention turns, while you, Sire,
careless
who is friend
or foe, cherish in your bosom a rival, who sits feasting at his table
and watches his emperor in pain.
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Tacitus |
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'
And drawing
somewhat
backward she replied,
'Can he be wronged who is not even his own,
But save for dread of thee had beaten me,
Scratched, bitten, blinded, marred me somehow--Mark?
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Tennyson |
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I was
imprisoned
in your days and
nights--and I sought a door into larger days and nights.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Still, the
alacrity
with
which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for
the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat
astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Autolycus, Sisyphus,
Thersites
are all Satyr-play
heroes and congenial to the Satyr atmosphere; but the most congenial of
all, the one hero who existed always in an atmosphere of Satyrs and the
Komos until Euripides made him the central figure of a tragedy, was
Heracles.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A strange
choice to our mind, but
apparently
the poem was greatly admired as
a masterpiece of wit.
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Close by the
straight
Larissa road.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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This terror then, this
darkness
of the mind,
Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light,
Nor glittering arrows of morning can disperse,
But only nature's aspect and her law.
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Lucretius |
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Five score
thousand
Franks swooned on the earth and fell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Fresh breezes, bowery lawns, and innocent floods, 970
Ripe fruits, and lonely couch, contentment gave;
But ever since I heedlessly did lave
In thy
deceitful
stream, a panting glow
Grew strong within me: wherefore serve me so,
And call it love?
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Keats |
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And the shy stars grew bold and scattered gold,
And chanting voices ancient secrets told,
And an acclaim of angels
earthward
rolled.
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Sidney Lanier |
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I gave up my
part of the farm to my brother; in truth it was only
nominally
mine;
and made what little preparation was in my power for Jamaica.
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"Such be the plea, and by the plea deceive:
For Jove
infatuates
all, and all believe.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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During the four succeeding years he made numerous
excursions
amid
the beautiful countries which from the basin of the Euxine--and
amongst these the Crimea and the Caucasus.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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You yourself, condemning your unjust intent,
Urged our hands to prepare you for this instant:
You yourself,
recalling
your former strength, 165
Wished to rise again, and see the light at length.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:
Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me
Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun
Delights
to peep, to gaze therein on thee;
Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art,
They draw but what they see, know not the heart.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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to the place where the
dead
Bēowulf
lay), 3115.
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Beowulf |
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XXV
His right hand glove that
Emperour
holds out;
But the count Guenes elsewhere would fain be found;
When he should take, it falls upon the ground.
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Chanson de Roland |
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