APPENDIX
THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL
A VERSION BASED ON THE
ORIGINAL
DRAFT OF THE POEM
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HE did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And murdered in her bed.
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[Footnote 14: This fine sentiment is, of course, a
commonplace
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ancient philosophers, but it may be interesting to put beside it a
passage from Cicero, 'De Finibus', ii.
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The Blessed One,
The All-Highest, hath
instilled
into thy soul,
Great lord, the spirit of kindness and meek patience;
Thou wishest not perdition for the sinner,
Thou wilt wait quietly, until delusion
Shall pass away; for pass away it will,
And truth's eternal sun will dawn on all.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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For me
nevermore
the bliss,
The thrill of a woman's kiss.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The
celebrated
Quintus Fabius Maximus, who died
about twenty years before the First Punic War, and more than
forty years before Ennius was born, is said to have been interred
with extraordinary pomp.
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_Half of thy heart_: Queen Eleanor died soon after the
conquest
of
Wales.
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Golden Treasury |
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Myself how
changed!
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Petrarch |
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God hath now sent his living Oracle 460
Into the World, to teach his final will,
And sends his Spirit of Truth
henceforth
to dwell
In pious Hearts, an inward Oracle
To all truth requisite for men to know.
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Then was a little respite to the fear,
That in my heart's recesses deep had lain,
All of that night, so
pitifully
pass'd:
And as a man, with difficult short breath,
Forespent with toiling, 'scap'd from sea to shore,
Turns to the perilous wide waste, and stands
At gaze; e'en so my spirit, that yet fail'd
Struggling with terror, turn'd to view the straits,
That none hath pass'd and liv'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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'Tis yours the
drooping
heart to heal;
Your strength uplifts the poor man's horn;
Inspired by you, the soldier's steel,
The monarch's crown, he laughs to scorn.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Above, below, around,
The
circling
systems formed
A wilderness of harmony;
Each with undeviating aim, _80
In eloquent silence, through the depths of space
Pursued its wondrous way.
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I believe the
grunts were meant for sentences, but she spoke so
indistinctly
that I
can't swear to it.
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Kipling - Poems |
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His dinner ended, from the cave he drove 360
His fatted flocks abroad, moving with ease
That pond'rous barrier, and
replacing
it
As he had only closed a quiver's lid.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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To crown your
happiness
he asks your leave,
And offers, bliss to give and to receive.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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For whom, as olde bokes tellen us,
Was mad swich wo, that tonge it may not telle;
And namely, the sorwe of Troilus,
That next him was of
worthinesse
welle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Make me a heaven, and make me there
Many a less and greater sphere:
Make me the
straight
and oblique lines,
The motions, lations and the signs.
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Robert Herrick |
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The Pobble who has no toes
Was placed in a
friendly
Bark,
And they rowed him back, and carried him up
To his Aunt Jobiska's Park.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"Having
occasion
to visit New York soon after the appearance of Walt
Whitman's book, I was urged by some friends to search him out.
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Let the mad poets say whate'er they please
Of the sweets of Fairies, Peris, Goddesses,
There is not such a treat among them all,
Haunters
of cavern, lake, and waterfall,
As a real woman, lineal indeed
From Pyrrha's pebbles or old Adam's seed.
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'Twere as if man's own works should feel, and show
The hopes, and fears, and
thoughts
from which they flow,
And he be like to them!
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The father & the mother with
The Maidens father & her mother fainting over the body
And the Young Man the Murderer fleeing over the mountains
Reuben slept on Penmaenmawr & Levi slept on Snowdon
Their eyes their ears nostrils & tongues roll outward they behold
What is within now seen without they are raw to the hungry wind
They become Nations far remote in a little & dark Land
The Daughters of Albion girded around their garments of Needlework
Stripping Jerusalems curtains from mild demons of the hills
Across Europe & Asia to China & Japan like lightenings
They go forth & return to Albion on his rocky couch
Gwendolen Ragan Sabrina Gonorill Mehetabel Cordella
Boadicea Conwenna Estrild
Gwinefrid
Ignoge Cambel
Binding Jerusalems Children in the dungeons of Babylon
They play before the Armies before the hounds of Nimrod
While The Prince of Light on Salisbury plain among the druid stone {Erdman's edition splices these stanzas back into the main body of the text at this point, though he notes that Blake does not have a good marker to this effect.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Here sits a raw o' tittlin jads,
Wi' heaving breast an' bare neck;
An' there a batch o' wabster lads,
Blackguarding
frae Kilmarnock,
For fun this day.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Contraries
are not mixed.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Lie close until she pass; then
question
her.
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Euripides - Electra |
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All day they feast, all day the bowls flow round,
And joy and music through the isle resound;
At night each pair on splendid carpets lay,
And crown'd with love the
pleasures
of the day.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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For I heard of few heroes, in
heartier
mood,
with four such gifts, so fashioned with gold,
on the ale-bench honoring others thus!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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There is a
blessing
in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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An elderly waiter
with
trembling
hands was hurriedly spreading a pink and white checked
cloth over the rusty green iron table, saying: "If the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden .
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T.S. Eliot |
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From the young corn the prick-eared
leverets
stare
At strangers come to spy the land--small sirs,
We bring less danger than the very breeze
Who in great zig-zag blows the bee, and whirs
In bluebell shadow down the bright green leas;
From whom in frolic fit the chopt straw darts and flees.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And you are he: the deity
To whom all lovers are designed,
That would their better objects find;
Among which faithful troop am I;
Who, as an offering at your shrine,
Have sung this hymn, and here entreat
One spark of your diviner heat
To light upon a love of mine;
Which, if it kindle not, but scant
Appear, and that to
shortest
view,
Yet give me leave t' adore in you
What I, in her, am grieved to want.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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what, at whispers
With my stern
brother?
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Byron |
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Imagists |
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Then he left,
and the Strong Man departed to see how the
appointment
was to be
blocked.
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"Caledonie," I agree
with you, is not so good a word as could be wished, though it is
sanctioned in three or four
instances
by Allan Ramsay; but I cannot
help it.
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Robert Burns |
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Not far aloof,
Slipped from his head, the garlands lay, and there
By its worn handle hung a
ponderous
cup.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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1505
139
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Latin - Catullus |
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I, with what speed the while
Will send for all my kindred, all my friends,
To fetch him hence, and
solemnly
attend,
With silent obsequy and funeral train,
Home to his father's house.
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Must he then only live to weep,
Who'd prove his friendship true and deep
By day a lonely shadow creep,
At night-time languish,
Oft raising in his broken sleep
The moan of
anguish?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine
Elizabethan
translation which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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despair; he has given immortality to a wagon, and
the bee Sophocles has
transmitted
to eternity a sore toe, and dignified
a tragedy with a chorus of turkeys.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The meadows mine, the mountains mine, --
All forests,
stintless
stars,
As much of noon as I could take
Between my finite eyes.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Since that deeply set
Old
boundary
stone of life remains for them
No less, and theirs a body of mortal birth
No less, than every kind which here on earth
Is so abundant in its members found.
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LAMIA
By John Keats
Part 1
Upon a time, before the faery broods
Drove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous woods,
Before King Oberon's bright diadem,
Sceptre, and mantle, clasp'd with dewy gem,
Frighted away the Dryads and the Fauns
From rushes green, and brakes, and cowslip'd lawns,
The ever-smitten Hermes empty left
His golden throne, bent warm on amorous theft:
From high Olympus had he stolen light,
On this side of Jove's clouds, to escape the sight
Of his great summoner, and made retreat
Into a forest on the shores of Crete.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Hard strove the frightened maiden, and screamed with look aghast;
And at her scream from right and left the folk came running fast;
The money-changer Crispus, with his thin silver hairs,
And Hanno from the stately booth glittering with Punic wares,
And the strong smith Muraena,
grasping
a half-forged brand,
And Volero the flesher, his cleaver in his hand.
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And nowe the bell beganne to tolle,
And claryonnes to sounde;
Syr CHARLES hee herde the horses feete 215
A prauncyng onne the grounde:
And just before the officers,
His lovynge wyfe came ynne,
Weepynge
unfeigned teeres of woe,
Wythe loude and dysmalle dynne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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If you are willing to pledge me your heart, lover,
I'll offer mine: and so we will grasp entire
All the pleasures of life, and no strange desire
Will make my spirit
prisoner
to another.
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Ronsard |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Beloved, I, amid the darkness greeted
By a
doubtful
spirit-voice, in that doubt's pain
Cry, "Speak once more--thou lovest!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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No longer the flowers are gay,
The
springtime
hath lost its caress,
Alone I will dream to-day,
Weep in the silent recess.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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J'ai peur du sommeil comme on a peur d'un grand trou,
Tout plein de vague horreur, menant on ne sait ou;
Je ne vois qu'infini par toutes les fenetres,
Et mon esprit,
toujours
du vertige hante,
Jalouse du neant l'insensibilite.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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From murderous Epigrams flee,
Cruel Wit and
Laughter
impure
That brings tears to the high Azure,
And all that base garlic cuisine!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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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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You must see that
your various
departments
are set in order.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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On me thou lookest with no
doubting
care,
As on a bee shut in a crystalline;
Since sorrow hath shut me safe in love's divine,
And to spread wing and fly in the outer air
Were most impossible failure, if I strove
To fail so.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The yellow leopards, strained and lean,
The treacherous Russian knows so well,
With gaping
blackened
jaws are seen
Leap through the hail of screaming shell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Leave me my tearless, sad refrain,
When in the pine-top wakes the gale
That
breathes
of coming rain.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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For well I know thy gentle mind
Disdains
art's gay disguising;
Beyond what Fancy e'er refin'd,
The voice of nature prizing.
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Robert Forst |
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What for the sage, old
Apollonius?
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Keats |
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This sonnet, and the seven that follow it, were written during
Wordsworth's
residence
at Calais, in the month of August, 1802.
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William Wordsworth |
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I joy
To come on undefiled fountains there,
To drain them deep; I joy to pluck new flowers,
To seek for this my head a signal crown
From regions where the Muses never yet
Have garlanded the temples of a man:
First, since I teach concerning mighty things,
And go right on to loose from round the mind
The tightened coils of dread religion;
Next, since, concerning themes so dark, I frame
Songs so pellucid, touching all throughout
Even with the Muses' charm--which, as 'twould seem,
Is not without a reasonable ground:
But as physicians, when they seek to give
Young boys the nauseous wormwood, first do touch
The brim around the cup with the sweet juice
And yellow of the honey, in order that
The thoughtless age of boyhood be cajoled
As far as the lips, and meanwhile swallow down
The wormwood's bitter draught, and, though befooled,
Be yet not merely duped, but rather thus
Grow strong again with recreated health:
So now I too (since this my doctrine seems
In general somewhat woeful unto those
Who've had it not in hand, and since the crowd
Starts back from it in horror) have desired
To expound our doctrine unto thee in song
Soft-speaking and Pierian, and, as 'twere,
To touch it with sweet honey of the Muse--
If by such method haply I might hold
The mind of thee upon these lines of ours,
Till thou see through the nature of all things,
And how exists the
interwoven
frame.
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Lucretius |
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"My dear Douglas,--I
dedicate
to you the following tragedy, rather
on account of your good opinion of it, than from any notion of my
own that it may be worthy of your acceptance.
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Byron |
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Fill me with the rosy-wine,
Call a toast--a toast divine;
Give the Poet's darling flame,
Lovely Jessy be the name;
Then thou mayest freely boast,
Thou hast given a
peerless
toast.
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It
attacks the aping of foreign fashions, the vices of society, and above
all the cheats and
impositions
of the unscrupulous swindler.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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She seeks the garden in her need--
Sudden she stops, casts down her eyes
And cares not farther to proceed;
Her bosom heaves whilst crimson hues
With sudden flush her cheeks suffuse,
Barely to draw her breath she seems,
Her eye with fire
unwonted
gleams.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The blond
assassin
passes on,
The sun proceeds unmoved
To measure off another day
For an approving God.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second conception during
gestation)
is possible.
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Appoloinaire |
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In middis shal I make a tour
To putte
Bialacoil
in prisoun, 3945
For ever I drede me of tresoun.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
"It must be," said the king: and the council arose hurriedly (as it was
growing late), to put in
execution
the scheme of Hop-Frog.
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Poe - 5 |
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They bring him into the hall, where a
fire was
brightly
burning upon the hearth.
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_Dublin
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TO SOME BIRDS FLOWN AWAY.
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N'est pas luite necessaire 10
A moy, se tu, debonnayre,
Ne me
sequeurs
comme a autrui.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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LE JARDIN
THE lily's
withered
chalice falls
Around its rod of dusty gold,
And from the beech-trees on the wold
The last wood-pigeon coos and calls.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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When aged Thames was bound with fetters base,
And Midway chaste
ravished
before his face.
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Marvell - Poems |
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That he had a Spanish boy to his
interpreter, and his chief negociation was to confer or practise with
Archy, the
principal
fool of state, about stealing hence Windsor Castle
and carrying it away on his back if he can.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged
manacles
I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every blackening church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Notwithstanding
did his son train his ruddy steeds on the
level plain, and sped charioted to war.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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[Sidenote: But it has been shown that God and happiness are the
chief good, wherefore the sovereign felicity and the Supreme
Divinity
are one and the same.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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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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8 how can I bear to hear it
wherever
I go?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of
soothing
verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But Britain,
changeful
as a child at play,
Now calls in princes, and now turns away.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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But when those hours wane,
Indoors they ponder, scared by the harsh storm
Whose pelting saracens on the window swarm,
And listen for the mail to clatter past
And church clock's deep bay withering on the blast;
They feed the fire that flings a freakish light
On pictured kings and queens
grotesquely
bright,
Platters and pitchers, faded calendars
And graceful hour-glass trim with lavenders.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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at
haluendel
& more,
And was hym-self of hungred sore,
And took it in good entent.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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At
Naw Rooz (their New Year's Day) the Snow was lying in patches on the
Hills and in the shaded Vallies, while the Fruit-trees in the Garden
were budding beautifully, and green Plants and Flowers springing upon
the Plains on every side--
'And on old Hyems' Chin and icy Crown
An odorous Chaplet of sweet Summer buds
Is, as in mockery, set--'--
Among the Plants newly appear'd I recognized some
Acquaintances
I had
not seen for many a Year: among these, two varieties of the Thistle; a
coarse species of the Daisy, like the Horse-gowan; red and white
clover; the Dock; the blue Cornflower; and that vulgar Herb the
Dandelion rearing its yellow crest on the Banks of the Water-courses.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"O bed, whereon my
laughing
girlhood's knot
Was severed by this man, for whom I die,
Farewell!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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_ A love of glory is one of those things that may
captivate minds
naturally
great, but not yet arrived at the
perfection of virtue.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The strong light only
increases
its effect.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The kiss of
salutation
lasted in some countries till the later
eighteenth century, perhaps still lasts.
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John Donne |
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The flight of Cranes is most
famously
mentioned in Homer's Iliad.
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Ronsard |
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If want provok'd, or madness made them print,
I wag'd no war with
_Bedlam_
or the _Mint_.
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