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There is still another tradition, which
ascribes
to the Jews a more
illustrious origin, deriving them from the ancient Solymans, so highly
celebrated in the poetry of Homer.
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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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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
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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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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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T.S. Eliot |
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VIII
What can I give thee back, O liberal
And princely giver, who hast brought the gold
And purple of thine heart, unstained, untold,
And laid them on the outside of the wall
For such as I to take or leave withal,
In unexpected
largesse?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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* * * * *
I suddenly remember the
distance
that I must travel;
I spring from bed and look out to see the time.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Time numbers motion, yet (without a crime
'Gainst old truth) motion number'd out his time:
And like an Engin mov'd with wheel and waight,
His
principles
being ceast, he ended strait.
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Milton |
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The color on the cruising cloud,
The interdicted ground
Behind the hill, the house behind, --
There
Paradise
is found!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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CCXXXI
"Fair son Malprimes," says
Baligant
to him,
"I grant it you, as you have asked me this;
Against the Franks go now, and smite them quick.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Ariel,
Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell; Exit ARIEL
I will discase me, and myself present
As I was
sometime
Milan.
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Shakespeare |
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E'er since I watch'd him, hov'ring at his hair,
No power can the impenitent absolve;
Nor to repent and will at once consist,
By contradiction
absolute
forbid.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Bold and accursed are they who all this while
Have strove to isle this monarch from this isle,
And to improve
themselves
by false pretence.
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Marvell - Poems |
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By life that ebbed with none to stanch the failing
By Love's sad harvest
garnered
in the spring,
When Love in ignorance wept unavailing
O'er young buds dead before their blossoming;
By all the grey owl watched, the pale moon viewed,
In past grim years, declare our gratitude!
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Kipling - Poems |
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_ And this is
Patriotism?
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Byron |
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3 The
persuader
Li Yiji told Liu Bang that he could take the seventy cities of Qi without effort.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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_The
Beautiful
Stranger_
I cannot know what country owns thee now,
With France's forest lilies on thy brow.
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)--
Caught by the under-death,
In the drawing of a breath,
Down went dauntless Craven,
He and his
hundred!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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The armed men more weighty were for that,
Many of them down to the bottom sank,
Downstream
the rest floated as they might hap;
So much water the luckiest of them drank,
That all were drowned, with marvellous keen pangs.
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Chanson de Roland |
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* * * * *
FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A:
"For myself, I would rather have written 'The Mad Mother' than all the
works of all the Bolingbrokes and Sheridans, those
brilliant
meteors,
that have been exhaled from the morasses of human depravity since the
loss of Paradise.
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By every rudder that divides the seas,
Tall Grief shall stand, the
helmsman
of the ship.
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But all I hear is silence,
And
something
that may be leaves or may be sea.
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One moment, one more word,
While my heart beats still,
While my breath is stirred
By my
fainting
will.
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Christina Rossetti |
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the mother's heart with woe for ever wild,
This heart whose sovran bliss brought forth so bitter birth--
This world as vast as thou, even _thou_, O sorrowless Earth,
Is
desolate
and void because of this one child!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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You should not murmur if your fate is,
To have a bit of
pleasure
gratis.
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I know my need, I know thy giving hand,
I crave thy
friendship
at thy kind command;
But there are such who court the tuneful Nine--
Heavens!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Why is the light of [[Vala]] Enitharmon darken'd in her dewy morn *
Why is the silence of [[Vala lightning]] Enitharmon a Cloud terror & her smile a
whirlwind
*
Uttering this darkness in my halls, in the pillars of my Holy-ones
Why dost thou weep [[O]] as Vala?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Modern
geographers
I 'twas there they thought,
Where Venice twenty years the Turks had fought,
(While the first year the navy is but shown,
The next divided, and the third we've none.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Free scope he yields unto his glance,
Reviews both dress and countenance,
With all
dissatisfaction
shows.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Diadumenos_
QVOD spirat tenera malum
mordente
puella,
quod de Corycio quae uenit aura croco;
uinea quod primis cum floret cana racemis,
gramina quod redolent, quae modo carpsit ouis;
quod myrtus, quod messor Arabs, quod sucina trita,
pallidus Eoo ture quod ignis olet;
gleba quod aestiuo leuiter cum spargitur imbre,
quod madidas nardo passa corona comas:
hoc tua, saeue puer Diadumene, basia fragrant.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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[329] In spite of what he says, Aristophanes has not always disdained
this sort of low comedy--for instance, his
Heracles
in 'The Birds.
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Aristophanes |
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En cest sonnet coind'e leri
To this light tune, graceful and slender,
I set words, and shape and plane them,
So they'll be both true and sure,
With a little touch, and the file's care;
For Amor gilds and smoothes the flow
Of my song she alone inspires,
Who
nurtures
worth and is my guide.
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Troubador Verse |
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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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|| In
GOCVen uix
dinoscas
_iu-_ an _ui-_ exaratum sit
2 _suauiolum_ GORVen et plerique || _amb_(_am_ G)_rosio_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Dante has _dindi_ as a
childish
or low word for
_danari_ (money), and in Shropshire small Roman coins are still dug up
which the peasants call _dinders_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Guillaume de Poitiers (1071-1127)
William or Guillem IX, called The Troubador, was Duke of
Aquitaine
and Gascony and Count of Poitou, as William VII, between 1086, when he was aged only fifteen, and his death.
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Troubador Verse |
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He fled to
Brussels, there to rehabilitate his
dwindling
fortunes.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Sweet moan, sweeter smile,
All the
dovelike
moans beguile.
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blake-poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Think of my little
sisters!
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Poe - 5 |
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And, as our happy circle sat,
The fire well capp'd the company:
In grave debate or
careless
chat,
A right good fellow, mingled he:
He seemed as one of us to sit,
And talked of things above, below,
With flames more winsome than our wit,
And coals that burned like love aglow.
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Sidney Lanier |
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From Algidus and Aventine
List, goddess, to our grave
Fifteen!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Unspaced
punctuation, e.
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John Donne |
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Boccalini, in his "Advertisements from Parnassus," tells us that Zoilus
once presented Apollo a very caustic criticism upon a very admirable
book:--whereupon the god asked him for the
beauties
of the work.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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There is nothing
like _Paradise Lost_ in the
preceding
poems, and epic poetry has done
nothing since but decline from that towering glory.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Forgael was playing,
And they were
listening
there beyond the sail.
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Yeats |
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To
feastful
mirth be this white hour assign'd.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Through his personality; his pathos and
ethology he has furthermore engendered a new ideal;
a synthesis of
Christian
and Pagan feeling which in
this form has not existed before.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And had I turned the
stranger
from my door,
Who sought my shelter, hadst thou praised me more?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Ye houlets, frae your ivy bow'r
In some auld tree, or eldritch tow'r,
What time the moon, wi' silent glow'r,
Sets up her horn,
Wail thro' the dreary
midnight
hour,
Till waukrife morn!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Each highest joy of earth must yield its zest,
Not all the world--the
boundless
azure--
Can fill the void within his craving breast.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
exclaimed
the old man,
"Happy are my eyes to see you.
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Longfellow |
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a
daughter
of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand rejoiced to grant me life again.
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Ronsard |
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"--
Starts with sudden life and hears
Through the slow dripping of the
caverned
caves,--
_Angel Voices.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Sweet friend, do you wake or are you
sleeping?
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Troubador Verse |
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thy love, though much, is not so great:
It is my love that keeps mine eye awake:
Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat,
To play the
watchman
ever for thy sake:
For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,
From me far off, with others all too near.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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e
fortunes
{and} ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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But, Queen, such squalid undress none should see,
Those dream-endangering eyewounds no more be
Where lovers first behold thy form in
pilgrimage
to thee.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic
work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Business
of every other kind devolved on Galeazzo.
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Petrarch |
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No, they were
tolerant
and Christian, saying, 'We
Only deplore .
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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XXXIX
I grow weary of the foreign cities,
The sea travel and the
stranger
peoples.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
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with this eBook or online at www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I mean, has ne'er your heart been smitten
slightly?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I composed these verses while I stayed at
Ochtertyre
with Sir William
Murray.
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Robert Forst |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
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Be Lyon metled, proud, and take no care:
Who chafes, who frets, or where Conspirers are:
Macbeth shall neuer vanquish'd be, vntill
Great Byrnam Wood, to high
Dunsmane
Hill
Shall come against him.
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I will reveal a great, a terrible
conspiracy
against the gods
to you.
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Aristophanes |
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I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of
battered
hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.
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I
trembled
at
the storied cliffs.
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XXXV
His malady, whose cause I ween
It now to
investigate
is time,
Was nothing but the British spleen
Transported to our Russian clime.
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For philosophy and poetry combined, Browning and
Tennyson
lie
nearer to our age and mode of thought than Pope.
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So spake the varlet Marcus; and dread and silence came
On all the people at the sound of the great
Claudian
name.
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MELIBOEUS
I grudge you not the boon, but marvel more,
Such wide
confusion
fills the country-side.
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But, on coming to the top of a high hill, they
perceived
at a
long distance off a Clangle-Wangle (or, as it is more properly written,
Clangel-Wangel); and, in spite of the warning they had had, they ran
straight up to it.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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She hath called me from mine old ways, She hath hushed my rancour of council, Bidding me praise
Naught but the wind that
flutters
in the leaves.
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