Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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In his
appointed
hour, all was forthcoming--
Judge, axe, and deathsman veiled!
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Speak now, Love, you have no more to fear:
Cease to hide, this
satisfies
my father;
A single blow brings honour now to me,
My soul to despair, my love to liberty.
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"
As he approaches
Paradise
more closely, the deliciousness of the place
affects even his senses.
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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come, I pray,
With speed put on your
woodland
dress,
And bring no book; for this one day
We'll give to idleness.
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How to entangle, trammel up and snare
Your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there
Like the hid scent in an
unbudded
rose?
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All her hounds are dead, her
beautiful
hounds are dead,
That paced beside the hoofs of her high and nimble horse,
Or streaked in lean pursuit of the tawny hare that fled
Out of the yellow gorse.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
THE HILL OF ILLUSION
What
rendered
vain their deep desire?
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I KNOW ALL THIS WHEN GIPSY FIDDLES CRY
Oh, gipsies, proud and stiff-necked and perverse,
Saying: "We tell the
fortunes
of the nations,
And revel in the deep palm of the world.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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'Tis a good friend of mine, whom it shall
straight
cheer up;
Thy kitchen's best to give him don't delay thee.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The
bounteous
largess given thee to give?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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What use of
shortening
the way!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Ill was I then for toil or service fit:
With tears whose course no effort could confine,
By high-way side
forgetful
would I sit
Whole hours, my idle arms in moping sorrow knit.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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PHANTOM OR FACT
A
DIALOGUE
IN VERSE
AUTHOR
A Lovely form there sate beside my bed,
And such a feeding calm its presence shed,
A tender love so pure from earthly leaven,
That I unnethe the fancy might control,
'Twas my own spirit newly come from heaven,
Wooing its gentle way into my soul!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Tomorrow
we depart from Cracow.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Far and near and low and louder
On the roads of earth go by,
Dear to friends and food for powder,
Soldiers
marching, all to die.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I don't believe in the
existence
of Puritan women.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I wept, but now I sing; its heavenly light
That living sun conceals not from my view,
But virtuous love therein revealeth true
His holy purposes and precious might;
Whence, as his wont, such flood of sorrow springs
To shorten of my life the
friendless
course,
Nor bridge, nor ford, nor oar, nor sails have force
To forward mine escape, nor even wings.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Did heaven bestow its
quenchless
inner light,
So long ago, for thy small want to-night?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or
fleeting
hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Therefore
we live; though such a life wee have,
As but so many mandrakes on his grave.
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John Donne |
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And euen now
To Crown my
thoughts
with Acts: be it thoght & done:
The Castle of Macduff, I will surprize.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Blake considered
altering
"Exulting" to "Indignant" and "Feast of envy" to "Feast of love" in the second rendition, but later changed his mind and returned to the original.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"
"Perhaps," he said, "_you_ first transgressed
The laws of hospitality:
All Ghosts
instinctively
detest
The Man that fails to treat his guest
With proper cordiality.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Even now Hippolyte
prepares
to leave us too:
And I fear that if he appears, in that storm,
The fickle crowd will follow him in swarms.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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The stars rise, the moon bends her arc,
Each
glowworm
winks her spark,
Let us get home before the night grows dark:
For clouds may gather
Though this is summer weather, 250
Put out the lights and drench us through;
Then if we lost our way what should we do?
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Christina Rossetti |
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THE HANGING VICTORY, the victory which hung
doubtful
in the balance.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XCV
How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Which, like a canker in the
fragrant
rose,
Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
The
housekeeper
came.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Went step by step, to stumble soon began,
So feeble he is, no further fare he can,
For too much blood he's lost, and no
strength
has;
Ere he has crossed an acre of the land,
His heart grows faint, he falls down forwards and
Death comes to him with very cruel pangs.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The celebrated travel book entitled: 'History of Prince Don Pedro of Portugal, in which is told what
happened
to him on the way composed for Gomez of Santistevan when he had covered the seven regions of the globe, one of the twelve who bore the prince company', reports that the Prince of Portugal, Don Pedro of Alfaroubeira, set out with twelve companions to visit the seven regions of the world.
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Appoloinaire |
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L'uno al
pubblico
segno i gigli gialli
oppone, e l'altro appropria quello a parte,
si ch'e forte a veder chi piu si falli.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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FEMMES DAMNEES
A la pale clarte des lampes languissantes,
Sur de
profonds
coussins tout impregnes d'odeur,
Hippolyte revait aux caresses puissantes
Qui levaient le rideau de sa jeune candeur.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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It was as though we saw the Secret Will,
It was as though we floated and were free;
In the south-west a planet shone serenely,
And the high moon, most reticent and queenly,
Seeing the earth had
darkened
and grown still,
Misted with light the meadows of the sea.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Cryseyda
gan al his chere aspyen,
And leet so softe it in hir herte sinke, 650
That to hir-self she seyde, `Who yaf me drinke?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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s
forces�and
forced to accept a post in An Lushan?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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For, fisherman, what fresh or seawater catch
equals him, either in form or savour,
that lovely divine fish, Jesus, My
Saviour?
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Appoloinaire |
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We
remained
for a while in Tongjia Swamp, about to go through Luzi Barrier.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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To Fancy's eye--
Prompt her affections to personify--
It is the fresh and frolic hour, arrayed
In guise of Andalusian dancing maid,
Appealing
by a crevice fine and rare,
As of a door oped in "th' incorporal air.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It
extended
to
many places; but most of all it afflicted Milan.
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Petrarch |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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LXXVI
Ye have heard how Marsyas,
In the folly of his pride,
Boasted of a matchless skill,--
When the great god's back was turned;
How his fond imagining 5
Fell to ashes cold and grey,
When the
flawless
player came
In serenity and light.
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Sappho |
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Now, sir, if ye hae friends enow,
Tho' real friends, I b'lieve, are few;
Yet, if your
catalogue
be fu',
I'se no insist:
But, gif ye want ae friend that's true,
I'm on your list.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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--Let not my
presence
trouble you--
Sit down!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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In
order to appease the threatening storm, he immediately proposed to the
Emperor that he should come to Milan and receive the iron crown; while
he himself, by an embassy from Milan, would endeavour to restore peace
between the
Venetians
and the Genoese.
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Petrarch |
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Now know I how the mind itself doth part
(Now making peace, now war, now truce)--what art
Poor lovers use to hide their stinging woe:
And how their blood now comes, and now doth go
Betwixt their heart and cheeks, by shame or fear:
How they be eloquent, yet speechless are;
And how they both ways lean, they watch and sleep,
Languish
to death, yet life and vigour keep:
I trod the paths made happy by her feet,
And search the foe I am afraid to meet.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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We
left Concord at twenty minutes before eight in the morning, and were
in
Burlington
about six at night, but too late to see the lake.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Short is the date
prescribed
to mortal man;
Shall Jove for one extend the narrow span,
Whose bounds were fix'd before his race began?
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Iliad - Pope |
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What was his
furthest
mind, of home, or God,
Or what the distant say
At news that he ceased human nature
On such a day?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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this is holiday to what was felt
When
Isabella
by Lorenzo knelt.
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Keats |
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They stood
together
on the strand,
They only, each by each;
Home, her home, was close at hand,
Utterly out of reach.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Monstrous
old whale!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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If I
renounced
her love, she'd scorn me:
She ought not, for love it is adorns me.
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Troubador Verse |
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coeur racorni, fume comme un jambon,
Recuit a la flamme
eternelle!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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So Rhoecus made no doubt that he was blest,
And all along unto the city's gate
Earth seemed to spring beneath him as he walked,
The clear, broad sky looked bluer than its wont,
And he could scarce believe he had not wings, 90
Such
sunshine
seemed to glitter through his veins
Instead of blood, so light he felt and strange.
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James Russell Lowell |
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" whispered a voice which
thrilled
through
me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It is in this wise that God
speaketh
unto me.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Note: This poem is a
consequence
of the two previous poems.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Primos passa toros et adhuc placanda marito
Merserat in nitidos se
Cleopatra
lacus,
Dum fugit amplexus: sed prodidit unda latentem,
Lucebat, totis cum tegeretur aquis.
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Robert Herrick |
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Mesmer- ism
FAMAM
LIBROSQUE
CANO songs?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not
tolerate
oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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'
"'That chief (rejoin'd the god) his race derives
From Ithaca, and wondrous woes survives;
Laertes' son: girt with circumfluous tides,
He still
calamitous
constraint abides.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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'
The goddess fled away on her golden shell,
Her adored image
returning
to us on the swell,
And the sky shone beneath the scarf of Iris.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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ey wollde for no need
Com to gedur in
Flesschely
ded.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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My lord, I know your noble ear
Woe ne'er assails in vain;
Embolden'd thus, I beg you'll hear
Your humble slave complain,
How saucy Phoebus'
scorching
beams,
In flaming summer-pride,
Dry-withering, waste my foamy streams,
And drink my crystal tide.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Oh, what has
happened?
| Guess: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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--Is it not a fact that this report
Is
artfully
concocted?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In vain bad rhymers all mankind reject,
They treat themselves with most profound respect;
'Tis to small purpose that you hold your tongue:
Each praised within, is happy all day long;
But how
severely
with themselves proceed
The men, who write such verse as we can read?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thou lay'st unspotted souls to rest;
Thy golden rod pale
spectres
know;
Blest power!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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VII
The stones of that fair hall lie far and wide,
And but a few recall its ancient mould;
Yet when I pass the spot I long to hold
As truth what fancy saith:
"His protest lives where
deathless
things abide!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Though its walls stand, shall bring the city lower :
When legislators shall their trust betray,
Saving their own, shall give the rest away ;
And those false men, by the easy people sent^
Give taxes to the king by
parliament
;
When barefaced villains shall not blush to cheat.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Hence moans are heard and fierce lashes resound, with the clank of iron
and
dragging
chains.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Is the
description
of the wood in vii
true to nature?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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l paubres quan jai el ric ostal
No more than a beggar dare complain,
Estat ai gran sazo
I've felt, for so long, so
Raimbaut de
Vaqueiras
(c1155- fl.
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Troubador Verse |
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Is
execution
done on Cawdor?
| Guess: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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if I
For once could have thee close to me,
With happy heart I then would die,
And my last
thoughts
would happy be,
I feel my body die away,
I shall not see another day.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The poor man weeps--here Gavin sleeps,
Whom canting
wretches
blam'd:
But with such as he, where'er he be,
May I be sav'd or damn'd!
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Robert Burns |
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Yet when a child, and barefoot,
I more than once, at morn,
Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash
Unbraiding in the sun, --
When,
stooping
to secure it,
It wrinkled, and was gone.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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in medio mihi Caesar erit templumque tenebit:
illi uictor ego et Tyrio conspectus in ostro
centum
quadriiugos
agitabo ad flumina currus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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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The mother said
gently, "Is that you,
darling?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And, anyway, its standing in the yard
Under a ruinous live apple tree
Has nothing any more to do with me,
Except that I
remember
how of old,
One summer day, all day I drove it hard,
And some one mounted on it rode it hard,
And he and I between us ground a blade.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I am a son of Mars,
Who have been in many wars,
And show my cuts and scars
Wherever
I come;
This here was for a wench,
And that other in a trench,
When welcoming the French
At the sound of the drum.
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Robert Forst |
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' Such words he uttered, and, clinging fast to the
tiller,
slackened
hold no whit, and looked up steadily on the stars.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Here, regarding the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this
quatrain
from a poem whose Author I do not know.
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Appoloinaire |
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Now there's nothing at all
So rare, such a wild adventure of glee,
As watching love for you in a man beginning;--
To see the sight of you pour into his senses
Like brandy gulpt down by a frozen man,
A thing that runs
scalding
about his blood;
To see him holding himself firm against
The sudden strength of wildness beating in him!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The text and
arrangement
of the poems show that this
is a reprint of Bell's edition.
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John Donne |
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The sailors, hearing the female Halycon sing,
prepared
to die, safe however around mid-December, when these birds make their nests, and one knows that then the sea will be calm.
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Appoloinaire |
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I
verified
the name next morning: Toffile;
The rural letter-box said Toffile Lajway.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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LVI
And, like a horse unbroken
When first he feels the rein,
The furious river struggled hard,
And tossed his tawny mane,
And burst the curb and bounded,
Rejoicing to be free,
And whirling down, in fierce career,
Battlement, and plank, and pier,
Rushed
headlong
to the sea.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Really any one would take us
(Any one that did not know us)
For the most
unpleasant
people!
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Lewis Carroll |
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The reason of the variety of
arrangement
is, I suppose, this: The
_Funerall Elegie_ was probably, as Chambers suggests, the first part
of the poem, composed probably in 1610.
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John Donne |
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LX
Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are
guttering
low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
And leave your friends and go.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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