To the
catalogue of lost arts I would
mournfully
add also that of listening to
two-hour sermons.
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Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime;
So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,
Despite of
wrinkles
this thy golden time.
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2300
To-day he
pleyneth
for hevinesse,
To-morowe he pleyeth for Iolynesse.
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Yes, though you may think me perverse, if it were
proposed
to me to
dwell in the neighborhood of the most beautiful garden that ever human
art contrived, or else of a Dismal Swamp, I should certainly decide
for the swamp.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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S'io era corpo, e qui non si concepe
com' una
dimensione
altra patio,
ch'esser convien se corpo in corpo repe,
accender ne dovria piu il disio
di veder quella essenza in che si vede
come nostra natura e Dio s'unio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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To them
must also be attributed the illiberal sneers at the Greeks, the
furious party spirit, the contempt for the arts of peace, the
love of war for its own sake, the ungenerous
exultation
over the
vanquished, which the reader will sometimes observe.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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So Boyhood sets: comes Youth,
A painful night of mists and dreams;
That broods till Love's
exquisite
truth,
The star of a morn-clear manhood, beams.
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XVI
AND the lord of earls, to each that came
with Beowulf over the briny ways,
an
heirloom
there at the ale-bench gave,
precious gift; and the price {16a} bade pay
in gold for him whom Grendel erst
murdered, -- and fain of them more had killed,
had not wisest God their Wyrd averted,
and the man's {16b} brave mood.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The
variation
of readings, with the fact that she often wrote in
pencil and not always clearly, have at times thrown a good deal of
responsibility upon her Editors.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Crows and hawks peck for human guts,
Carry them in their beaks and hang them on the
branches
of withered
trees.
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Li Po |
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He says
indifferently
and alike, "_How are you, friend_?
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Whitman |
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"
Two early night-winged butterflies together
Be-chase
themselves
from halm to halm in jest,
The balk prepares from out the shrubs and weather,
The balm of evening for the soul distressed.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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SELF-ABANDONMENT
I sat
drinking
and did not notice the dusk,
Till falling petals filled the folds of my dress.
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Li Po |
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"
Now was that people distant far in space
A
thousand
paces behind ours, as much
As at a throw the nervous arm could fling,
When all drew backward on the messy crags
Of the steep bank, and firmly stood unmov'd
As one who walks in doubt might stand to look.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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His eyes he scarcely took,
Throughout
that journey, from the vehicle
(Slow-moving ark of all his hopes!
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William Wordsworth |
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_ Gabriel, thou
Gabriel!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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MARGARETE:
Dahinaus?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The
Princess
of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a gurgling spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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Ronsard |
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195
And, to a natural sympathy resigned,
In that forsaken
building
where they sate
The Woman thus retraced her own untoward fate.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And whether the victory crowns thee, O France the eternal,
Or whether the smoke and the dusk of a nightfall infernal
Gather about thee, and us, and the foe; and all treasures
Run with the
flooding
of war into bottomless measures--
Fall what befalls: in this hour all those who are near thee
And all who have loved thee, they rise and salute and revere thee!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What is this sudden cradle song
That
gradually
lulls my poor being?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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He is about it, the Doores are open:
And the
surfeted
Groomes doe mock their charge
With Snores.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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'
THE POOR GHOST
'Oh whence do you come, my dear friend, to me,
With your golden hair all fallen below your knee,
And your face as white as
snowdrops
on the lea,
And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea?
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Christina Rossetti |
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--Strange
gallants
should not stay
A woman's goings.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Let vs seeke out some
desolate
shade, & there
Weepe our sad bosomes empty
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I much regret my lot was not the same,
Though
doubtless
many will my wishes blame.
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La Fontaine |
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Two years of
speechless
bliss are gone,
I thank thee, dearest, for the dream.
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Shelley |
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The
outlines
of the distant streets grow shorter,
A murmuring bids the wanderer to respite;
Is it the music of some hidden water?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And then her mouth, more
delicate
5
Than the frail wood-anemone,
Brushes my cheek, and deeper grow
The purple shadows.
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Sappho |
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A Noiseless Patient Spider
A noiseless patient spider,
I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever
tirelessly
speeding them.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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What groves or lawns
Held you, ye Dryad-maidens, when for love-
Love all
unworthy
of a loss so dear-
Gallus lay dying?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Doubtless
he will know him.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And whan I was not fer therfro, 1660
The savour of the roses swote
Me smoot right to the herte rote,
As I hadde al
embawmed
[be.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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who stooped his
shoulders
to a father outworn with
age!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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v
Voices
speaking
to the sun.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
So passed they on with even pace:
Yet
gradually
one might trace
A shadow growing on his face.
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Lewis Carroll |
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34
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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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Let's see:
[Reads] 'Integer vitae,
scelerisque
purus,
Non eget Mauri iaculis, nec arcu.
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Shakespeare |
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7 Both they who sing, and they who dance
With sacred Songs are there,
In thee fresh brooks, and soft streams glance
And all my
fountains
clear.
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Milton |
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La lucarne faisait un coeur de lueur vive
Dans la cour ou les cieux bas
plaquaient
d'ors vermeils
Les vitres; les paves puant l'eau de lessive
Souffraient l'ombre des toits bordes de noirs sommeils.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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She was thinking of all this
and a great deal more when the door of her apartment
suddenly
opened,
and Herman stood before her.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And when rolls round
The latest heat mixed with the
earliest
chill--
The time which bears the name of autumn--then
Likewise fierce cold-spells wrestle with fierce heats.
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Lucretius |
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Mamilius smote AEbutius,
With a good aim and true,
Just where the next and shoulder join,
And pierced him through and through;
And brave AEbutius Elva
Fell
swooning
to the ground:
But a thick wall of bucklers
Encompassed him around.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The
wandering
bees cannot bear to leave them;
The sweet birds also come there to roost.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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O renouveau d'amour, aurore triomphale
Ou, courbant a leurs pieds les Dieux et les Heros
Kallipige
la blanche et le petit Eros
Effleureront, couverts de la neige des roses,
Les femmes et les fleurs sous leurs beaux pieds ecloses!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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XLVIII
"No cavalier or lady by that rest
Without some noted scorn and injury goes;
Both of their
coursers
here are dispossest,
And knight his arms and dame her gown foregoes.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Would _1669_: 'tis, would _1633_: 'tis; Would
_1635-54_]
[68 aske _1669_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _JC_,
_L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_,
_W_: lack _1633-54_, _Lec_
comming?
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John Donne |
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10
Why are Selene's white horses
So long
arriving?
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Sappho |
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Mystifier
as he was, he must have suffered
at times from acute cortical irritation.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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By love to thee his
bounties
I repaid,
And early wisdom to thy soul convey'd:
Great as thou art, my lessons made thee brave:
A child I took thee, but a hero gave.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Thus your logic is not mine: however
I speak as a king, you as a soldier;
Whatever you say,
whatever
he believes,
No honour is lost in obeying me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But what
If I expose
beforehand
thy bold fraud
To all men?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And did he give
Some privy
message?
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Euripides - Electra |
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" he cried,
"But in fairness and
vileness
who matcheth the bride?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Thus gentle Lamia judg'd, and judg'd aright,
That Lycius could not love in half a fright,
So threw the goddess off, and won his heart
More pleasantly by playing woman's part,
With no more awe than what her beauty gave,
That, while it smote, still
guaranteed
to save.
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Keats - Lamia |
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[_Some
garlands
are brought out from the house to_ ELECTRA.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Beverley
Chew, New York.
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John Donne |
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7,
expressly
gives the Brahmins the name of
Magi.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Mount Venus, Jupiter, and all the rest
Are finger-tips of ranges
clasping
round
And holding up the Romany's wide sky.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Di lungi n'eravamo ancora un poco,
ma non si ch'io non discernessi in parte
ch'orrevol gente
possedea
quel loco.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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You
bewitched
the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was festering in your blood.
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Ronsard |
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Sometimes
the sacred spot
Hears human sounds profane, when
As from Ophir or from Memphre
Stretches the caravan.
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Hugo - Poems |
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THE SCHOOLBOY
I love to rise in a summer morn,
When the birds sing on every tree;
The distant
huntsman
winds his horn,
And the skylark sings with me:
O what sweet company!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say:
Yes, but where leaves the Rose of
Yesterday?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Fair lords, your fortunes are alike in all
That in your country's service drew your swords;
But safer triumph is this funeral pomp
That hath aspir'd to Solon's happiness
And
triumphs
over chance in honour's bed.
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Shakespeare |
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And I,
beholding
how my consort stood
Beside my tomb, was moved with awe, and took
The gift of her libation graciously.
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Aeschylus |
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is;
his
martirdom
was strong I-wys,
Of sorou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Civilized
lands
Afford few types thereof;
Here is a man who takes his rest
Beside his very Love,
Beside the one who was his wife
In our sight up above!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The camels shall not gall, the sons shall not
fall sick, and the wives shall remain
faithful
while they are away,
of the men who give me place in their caravan.
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Kipling - Poems |
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You bewitched the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was
festering
in your blood.
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Ronsard |
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VESPERS
Last night, at sunset,
The
foxgloves
were like tall altar candles.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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_"
[Burns found this song in English attire, bestowed a
Scottish
dress
upon it, and published it in the Museum, together with the air by
Oswald, which is one of his best.
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Robert Forst |
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Pallid soul--thus didst thou ask--is dead the fire
Forever, that
divinely
in us burns?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The author seems to
have been an honest citizen, proud of the
military
glory of his
country, sick of the disputes of factions, and much given to
pining after good old times which had never really existed.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I'll sing the zeal
Drumlanrig
bears,
Who left the all-important cares
Of princes, and their darlings:
And, bent on winning borough touns,
Came shaking hands wi' wabster-loons,
And kissing barefit carlins.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Chanson de Roland |
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O none may reach by hired speech of neighbour, priest, and kin
Through
borrowed
deed to God's good meed that lies so fair within;
Get hence, get hence to the Lord of Wrong, for doom has yet to run,
And.
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C'est uns hons qui en biaus ostiez
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In
clothing
was he ful fetys,
And lovede wel have hors of prys.
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--The Air of this and the
following
Song by Edward Lear; the
Arrangement for the Piano by Professor Pome, of San Remo, Italy.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Il me
commande
a vous dire que vous faites vous pret; car ce
soldat ici est dispose tout a cette heure de couper votre gorge.
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(Leonor and Page leave)
Just Heaven, whose help I need,
Put an end to the evil that possesses me,
Protect my
tranquillity
and my honour.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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A picture had it been of lasting ease,
Elysian quiet, without toil or strife;
No motion but the moving tide, a breeze,
Or merely silent Nature's
breathing
life.
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Golden Treasury |
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Mein Busen drangt
Sich nach ihm hin,
Ach durft ich fassen
Und halten ihn,
Und kussen ihn,
So wie ich wollt,
An seinen Kussen
Vergehen
sollt!
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Yet I feared this time that I had hurt him, Such
offended
silence long he kept:
On his hand I laid my hand in pity, Penitent, —and softly he began,
"Ah that night in May, do you remember?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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They rush into the deep with eager joy,
Climb the steep surge, and through the tempest fly;
A proud, unpolish'd race--To me belongs
The care to shun the blast of slanderous tongues;
Lest malice, prone the
virtuous
to defame,
Thus with wild censure taint my spotless name:
'What stranger this whom thus Nausicaa leads!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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From finest
sweetest
place I see
No messenger, no word for me,
So my heart can't laugh or rest,
And I don't dare try my hand,
Until I know, and can attest,
That all things are as I demand.
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Troubador Verse |
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I doubt not when our earthly cries are ended,
The
Listener
finds them in one music blended.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"I'll date this dream," he said; "so: `Given, these,
On this, the coldest night in all the year,
From this, the meanest garret in the world,
In this, the greatest city in the land,
To you, the richest folk this side of death,
By one, the hungriest poet under heaven,
-- Writ while his candle sputtered in the gust,
And while his last, last ember died of cold,
And while the mortal ice i' the air made free
Of all his bones and bit and shrunk his heart,
And while soft Luxury made show to strike
Her gloved hands
together
and to smile
What time her weary feet unconsciously
Trode wheels that lifted Avarice to power,
-- And while, moreover, -- O thou God, thou God --
His worshipful sweet wife sat still, afar,
Within the village whence she sent him forth
Into the town to make his name and fame,
Waiting, all confident and proud and calm,
Till he should make for her his name and fame,
Waiting -- O Christ, how keen this cuts!
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Sidney Lanier |
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