NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And
laughing
is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
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The first personal merit which appears in his almost wholly
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According to his
legendary
vida, he was the lover of Seremonda, or Soremonda, wife of Raimon of Castel Rossillon.
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In headquarters you were allowed to be a remonstrating official; such is
unprecedented
in the court.
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He starts in
revulsion
on
seeing_ APOLLO.
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They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
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Own to light, love, attraction,
O pearls the sea mingles with its great masses,
O
gleaming
birds of the forest's sombre ocean!
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I weep alone the woes which all my kind
Should weep--for virtue's fairest flower has pined
Beneath thy touch: what second blooms
instead?
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Gentle night, do thou
befriend
me,
Downy sleep, the curtain draw;
Spirits kind, again attend me,
Talk of him that's far awa!
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whose vista seems so
brightly
fill'd,
A sunny breath, and that exhaling, dies
The hope, oft, many watchful years have swell'd.
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I fear me
'Tis as you say--his
lordship
is unwell.
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IV
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
One foot on Dawn, the other on the Main,
One hand on Scythia, the other Spain,
Held the round of earth and sky encompassed:
Jupiter fearing, if higher she was classed,
That the old Giants' pride might rise again,
Piled these hills on her, these seven that soar,
Tombs of her
greatness
at the heavens cast.
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I ought to speak out freely
With words though that will take,
For it can scarcely please me
When the
tricksters
rake
More love in than is at stake
For the lover who loves truly.
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From the fixed cone the cloud-rack flowed
Like ample banner flung abroad
To all the dwellers in the plains
Round about, a hundred miles,
With salutation to the sea and to the
bordering
isles.
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Dried is the olive:
elsewhere
turn'd the stream
Whose source from famed Parnassus was derived.
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But, has he a friend that would dispute my claim
With this my sword which I have girt in place
My
judgement
will I warrant every way.
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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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Him at morning-tide
billows bore to the
Battling
Reamas,
whence he hied to his home so dear
beloved of his liegemen, to land of Brondings,
fastness fair, where his folk he ruled,
town and treasure.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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To mask my
departure
I'll stay here a moment.
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Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous
portrait
indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Sweet song--
ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO
We cannot fathom his
mysterious
head,
Through the veiled eyes no flickering ray is sent:
But from his torso gleaming light is shed
As from a candelabrum; inward bent
His glance there glows and lingers.
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Rilke - Poems |
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A horse,
Blowing, staggering, bloody thing,
Forgotten
at foot of castle wall.
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
'Lo, what a fiend is here!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
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if ye but knew
The half as much as
bluebirds
do,
Now in this little tender calm
Each hand would out, and every palm
With patriot palm strike brotherhood's stroke
Or ere these lines of battle broke.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The
violinist
had played it,
or something like it, but had not written it down; but the man with
the wind instrument said it could not be played because it contained
quarter-tones and would be out of tune.
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I am the presence that ever
Baffles your touch's endeavor,--
Gone like the glimmer of dust
Dispersed
by a gust.
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" He sat down
repeating
the last words to
himself.
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"
Love's answer soon the truth forgotten shows--
"This high pure privilege true lovers claim,
Who from mere human feelings
franchised
are!
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Seek not to know which song or saying yields 37
As long as tinted haze the mountain covered 38
Ye speak of
raptures
that are void and friendless 39
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For I don't know when I may
See her, the
distance
is so far.
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Beschamt
nur steh ich vor ihm da
Und sag zu allen Sachen ja.
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Note: There are
references
to a visit to the Temple of Isis at Pompeii with an English girl, Octavia (who tasted a lemon), and to the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli.
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The Ridge was wreathed with angry fire
As flames rise round a martyr's stake;
For many a hero on that pyre
Was offered for our dear land's sake,
What time in heaven the gray clouds flew
To mingle with the deathless blue;
While here, below, the blue and gray
Melted
minglingly
away,
Mirroring heaven, to make another day.
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Upon this night no
sentinels
keep watch.
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Stars of the night sky,
did you see that phantom fadeout,
did you see those phantom riders,
skeleton riders on skeleton horses,
stems of roses in their teeth,
rose leaves red on white-jaw slants,
grinning
along on Pennsylvania Avenue,
the top-sergeants calling roll calls--
did their horses nicker a horse laugh?
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scarce a rod the foes
asunder!
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Germans speak, I suppose,
bitterly
when they're in love.
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What are the principal characteristics of the
giants of romance as seen in
Orgoglio?
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The Chinese poet introduces himself as a timid recluse,
"Reading the Book of Changes at the
Northern
Window," playing chess with
a Taoist priest, or practising caligraphy with an occasional visitor.
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For, as on the alert, O steersman, you mind the bell's admonition,
The bows turn,--the
freighted
ship, tacking, speeds away under her grey
sails;
The beautiful and noble ship, with all her precious wealth, speeds away
gaily and safe.
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Whitman |
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Let the glad lark-song
Over the meadow, 30
That melting lyric
Of molten silver,
Be for a signal
To
listening
mortals,
How I adore thee.
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But I am old; the aged
scarcely
know
The times they wake and sleep, for life burns down;
They breathe the calm of death before they die.
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But after he had taken his own
pleasures, he should have
provided
for his
* The monks.
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Only three manuscripts have the, to
my mind, most
probably
correct reading in _Satyre I_, l.
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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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_155
PANTHEA:
See, near the verge, another chariot stays;
An ivory shell inlaid with crimson fire,
Which comes and goes within its
sculptured
rim
Of delicate strange tracery; the young spirit
That guides it has the dove-like eyes of hope; _160
How its soft smiles attract the soul!
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Shelley |
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Undue
significance
a starving man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.
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Besides, there are a
thousand ways of
tormenting
them.
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Her war poetry appears in the volume
entitled
_A Chant of
Love for England, and other Poems_.
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The silver bugle blows across the meer,
And some will hear it early, others late;
But each will lay himself upon his bier
And hold thereon a moment's solemn state:
And there will be the brief
funereal
rites Whence all shall pass into the utter drear Where sunless, moonless, days succeed to nights, And no wind stirs the surface of the meer.
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The smallest housewife in the grass,
Yet take her from the lawn,
And
somebody
has lost the face
That made existence home!
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Thou wast no true
begetter
of my blood,
Nor she my mother who dares call me child.
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And for what sin,
Acharnian
Elders, tell me that!
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His
companion
goes after, following,
The men of France their warrant find in him.
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Chanson de Roland |
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We hear the warlike
clarions
we view the turning spheres *
Yet Thou in indolence reposest holding me in bonds {These lines first appear after line 2, but are marked to be moved here.
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_Caup_, a wooden
drinking
vessel, a cup.
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And there is only
Holofernes
here.
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And there right suddenly Lord Raoul gave rein
And galloped
straightway
to the crowded square,
-- What time a strange light flickered in the eyes
Of the calm fool, that was not folly's gleam,
But more like wisdom's smile at plan well laid
And end well compassed.
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Now like a mighty wild they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like
harmonious
thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged man, wise guardians of the poor.
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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When sense from spirit files away,
And
subterfuge
is done;
When that which is and that which was
Apart, intrinsic, stand,
And this brief tragedy of flesh
Is shifted like a sand;
When figures show their royal front
And mists are carved away, --
Behold the atom I preferred
To all the lists of clay!
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--I leave thee: as thou mayst, be comforted
By
prophecy
of what I mean in life.
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How can you
understand
that this my heart
Is but a sparrow in an eagle's nest?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And the same may
possibly
be true of variants
in other poems.
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John Donne |
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Many of these brief but happy
compositions, sometimes with his name, and oftener without, he threw
in dozens at a time into Johnson, where they were noticed only by the
captious Ritson: but now a work of higher pretence claimed a share in
his skill: in September, 1792, he was requested by George Thomson to
render, for his national collection, the poetry worthy of the muses of
the north, and to take
compassion
on many choice airs, which had
waited for a poet like the author of the Cotter's Saturday Night, to
wed them to immortal verse.
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Robert Forst |
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You who consoled me in
funereal
night,
Bring me Posilipo, the sea of Italy,
The flower that pleased my grieving heart,
And the trellis where the vine entwines the rose.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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if asked, I shall reply,
They grumble, bark, complain, or fawn, or sigh;
Pull petticoat or gown, and snarl at all,
Who happen in their way just then to fall;
But few so dull as not to comprehend;
Howe'er, this fav'rite whispered to his friend,
The dangers that awaited her around;
But go, said he,
protection
you have found;
Confide in me:--I'll ev'ry ill prevent,
For which the rascal hither has been sent.
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La Fontaine |
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Yet now, before our sun grow dark at noon,
Before we come to nought beneath Thy rod,
Before we go down quick into the pit, 80
Remember us for good, O God, our God:--
Thy Name will I remember, praising it,
Though Thou forget me, though Thou hide Thy face,
And blot me from the Book which Thou hast writ;
Thy Name will I remember in my praise
And call to mind Thy
faithfulness
of old,
Though as a weaver Thou cut off my days,
And end me as a tale ends that is told.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Whylest the congeon[74] flowrette abessie[75] dyghte[76],
Stondethe
unhurte, unquaced[77] bie the storme: 90
Syke is a picte[78] of lyffe: the manne of myghte
Is tempest-chaft[79], hys woe greate as hys forme,
Thieselfe a flowrette of a small accounte,
Wouldst harder felle the wynde, as hygher thee dydste mounte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man at a Junction,
Whose
feelings
were wrung with compunction
When they said, "The Train's gone!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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As for the rest of the world, it languished away, while Ceres,
Derelict of her true task,
dalliance
offered in love.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And what for waste de vittles, now, and th'ow away de bread,
Jes' for to
strength
dese idle hands to scratch dis ole bald head?
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Whether this is sufficient to justify the
adoption
of such a style, in any
metrical composition not professedly ludicrous, the Author is himself in
some doubt.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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For about two
thousand
five hundred years Sappho has held her place as not
only the supreme poet of her sex, but the chief lyrist of all lyrists.
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Sappho |
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Don't think that
Hercules
be still that boy whom Alcmene once bore you;
His adulation of me makes him now god upon earth.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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6 The brocade robe was a mark of
Zhangsun?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Similemente a li splendor mondani
ordino general
ministra
e duce
che permutasse a tempo li ben vani
di gente in gente e d'uno in altro sangue,
oltre la difension d'i senni umani;
per ch'una gente impera e l'altra langue,
seguendo lo giudicio di costei,
che e occulto come in erba l'angue.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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was a
principle
of successful governance.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I wol not
entremete
a del; 6635
But I trowe that the book seith wel,
Who that taketh almesses, that be
Dewe to folk that men may see
Lame, feble, wery, and bare,
Pore, or in such maner care, 6640
(That conne winne hem nevermo,
For they have no power therto),
He eteth his owne dampning,
But-if he lye, that made al thing.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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--to tell
The
loveliness
of loving well!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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For they both invent, feign and devise many things, and
accommodate
all
they invent to the use and service of Nature.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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We want no knives nor forks nor chairs,
No tables nor carpets nor
household
cares;
From worry of life we've fled;
Oh!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The stars, the elements, and Heaven have made
With blended powers a work beyond compare;
All their consenting influence, all their care,
To frame one perfect
creature
lent their aid.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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28
Doth still before thee rise the beauteous image 29
There laughs in the
heightening
year, soft 30
The blissful meadows beckoned.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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At length along the flowery sward I saw
So sweet and fair a lady pensive move
That her mere thought inspires a tender awe;
Meek in herself, but haughty against Love,
Flow'd from her waist a robe so fair and fine
Seem'd gold and snow
together
there to join:
But, ah!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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