Then doubt the sun gives light,
Doubt truth to teach thee wrong,
And wrong alone as right;
And live as lives the knave,
Intrigue's
deceiving
guest;
Be tyrant, or be slave,
As suits thy ends the best.
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It felt that, in spite of all possible pains,
It had somehow
contrived
to lose count,
And the only thing now was to rack its poor brains
By reckoning up the amount.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Why, what a wasp-stung and
impatient
fool
Art thou to break into this woman's mood,
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!
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Shakespeare |
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For this, great Bacchus, tigers drew
Thy glorious car, untaught to slave
In harness: thus Quirinus flew
On Mars' wing'd steeds from Acheron's wave,
When Juno spoke with Heaven's assent:
"O Ilium, Ilium,
wretched
town!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Call the game fair,
And pay your
winners!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It
evidently
belongs to the same time, and "mood," as the
previous poem.
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William Wordsworth |
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mount where science guides,
Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides;
Instruct the planets in what orbs to run,
Correct old time, and regulate the sun;
Go, soar with Plato to th' empyreal sphere,
To the first good, first perfect, and first fair;
Or tread the mazy round his
followers
trod,
And quitting sense call imitating God;
As Eastern priests in giddy circles run,
And turn their heads to imitate the sun.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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How can I say
If there were poets in the paths of
Atlantis?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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When Shelley was on board, he had his papers with him; and much of the
"Triumph of Life" was written as he sailed or
weltered
on that sea
which was soon to engulf him.
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Shelley |
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The
fact is, that perseverance is one thing and genius quite another--nor
can all the
Quarterlies
in Christendom confound them.
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Poe - 5 |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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When he left the table, all made way for him to pass; the cards were
shuffled, and the
gambling
went on.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In the budding chestnuts
Whose sticky buds glimmer and are half-burst open
The starlings make their clitter-clatter;
And the
blackbirds
in the grass
Are getting as fat as the pigeons.
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Imagists |
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Since the last day, the
terrible
hour when Fate
This present life of her fair being reft,
From heaven she sees, and hears, and feels our state:
No other hope than this to me is left.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Apropos of Omar's Red Roses in Stanza xix, I am
reminded
of an old
English Superstition, that our Anemone Pulsatilla, or purple "Pasque
Flower," (which grows plentifully about the Fleam Dyke, near
Cambridge,) grows only where Danish Blood has been spilt.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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In
remembrance
of that part of my journey, which was in '93, I began the
verses,--'Five years have passed,' etc.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Too long amused with a pursuit so vain,
Turn, and behold the brave
Euphorbus
slain;
By Sparta slain!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Could they be
ensnared
when
taken?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"The son of a
stranger
came--a chief who loved the white-bosomed Moina.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Donne, I suppose, was such another
Who found no substitute for sense;
To seize and clutch and penetrate,
Expert beyond experience,
He knew the anguish of the marrow
The ague of the skeleton;
No contact
possible
to flesh
Allayed the fever of the bone.
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T.S. Eliot |
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if we dream pale flowers,
Slow-moving pageantry of hours that
languidly
Drop as o'er-ripened fruit from sallow trees.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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_Dirl_, a slight
tremulous
stroke or pain, a tremulous motion.
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Robert Burns |
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See Collier,
_Annals_
3.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Still as a
bloodhound
follows on his track,
Sad he went on.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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when the sweeping storm of time _220
Has sung its death-dirge o'er the ruined fanes
And broken altars of the almighty Fiend
Whose name usurps thy honours, and the blood
Through
centuries
clotted there, has floated down
The tainted flood of ages, shalt thou live _225
Unchangeable!
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Shelley |
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Wave upon wave advancing, then controlled
Beneath the depths a stream the eyes behold
Rolling in the
involved
abyss below!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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XL
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue
remembered
hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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]
OSWALD This is some sudden
seizure!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Bremmil was hard to hold at the best
of times; but he was a
beautiful
husband until the baby died and Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Rilke - Poems |
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And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows
parching
lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The Dalliance of the Eagles
Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)
Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,
The rushing amorous contact high in space together,
The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel,
Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,
In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight
downward
falling,
Till o'er the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull,
A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,
Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight,
She hers, he his, pursuing.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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If you inquire into its truth
it becomes as angry as a begging-letter writer, when you find some hole
in that
beautiful
story about the five children and the broken mangle.
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Yeats |
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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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In the winter dusk,
The
pavements
were gleaming with rain;
There in the lighted window
I left my boyhood.
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Sara Teasdale |
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OSWALD Stoop for a moment; 'tis an act of justice;
And where's the triumph if the delegate
Must fall in the
execution
of his office?
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William Wordsworth |
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The quarterly stipend was paid through various booksellers, but
irregularly, so that the poor poet was
frequently
reduced to great
straits, though ?
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Robert Herrick |
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[Published from the Esdaile
manuscript
book by Dowden,
"Life of Shelley", 1887; dated August, 1812.
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Shelley |
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"
And when
yourself
you come my way
My vision does not cleave, but turns
Without a shiver or salute.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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They are _Two Stories of Prague_,
_The Touch of Life_ and _The Last_; three volumes of short stories; a
two-act drama, _The Daily Life_, points to a strong Maeterlinck
influence, and finally
_Stories
of God_.
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Rilke - Poems |
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1 My shadow is stilled among the
thousand
officials, the heart is healed before the Seven Guard units.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Prom thousand blossoms came a bubbling
'Mid purple sheen of sorcery,
The song of
countless
warblers singing
Broke through the Spring's first cry of glee.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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eoferas cnysedan, _when the
heroes rushed upon each other_, 1329, where eoferas and fēðan stand in the
same
relation
to each other as cnysedan and hniton.
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Beowulf |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Quand avec mes haleurs ont fini ces tapages,
Les Fleuves m'ont laisse
descendre
ou je voulais.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Of waight one center, one of greatnesse is;
And Reason is that center, Faith is this;
For into'our reason flow, and there do end 5
All, that this naturall world doth comprehend:
Quotidian
things, and equidistant hence,
Shut in, for man, in one circumference.
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John Donne |
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Most blessed among nations and most sad,
For whose dear sake the young
Calabrian
fell
That day at Aspromonte and was glad
That in an age when God was bought and sold
One man could die for Liberty!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast, quenching my fire,
A deity at the gods'
ambrosial
feast.
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Ronsard |
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O holy pyre, O flame that's nourished by
A fire divine, may your fierce heart now burn
My
familiar
surface so completely, I,
Free and naked, might with a single flight
Rise, beyond the sky, to adore in turn
That other beauty from which your own derives.
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Ronsard |
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We have lingered in the
chambers
of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Ac domum dominam uoca
coniugis
cupidam noui,
mentem amore reuinciens
Vt tenax hedera huc et huc
arborem implicat errans.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Yet, none the less,
necessity
constrains,
For Zeus, defied, is heavy in revenge!
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Aeschylus |
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When Meggan plucked the thorny rose, 10
And when May pulled the brier,
Half the birds would swoop to see,
Half the beasts draw nigher;
Half the fishes of the streams
Would dart up to admire:
But when
Margaret
plucked a flag-flower,
Or poppy hot aflame,
All the beasts and all the birds
And all the fishes came
To her hand more soft than snow.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Everyone
knows him and ought to adore him,
Herald of Zeus: Hermes, the healing god.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Now, deeply yearning o'er our deathful fate,
With joyful hope of India's shore elate,
We loose the hawsers and the sail expand,
And, upward coast the
Ethiopian
strand.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Let every one believe or deny the same
according
to
his own bent.
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Tacitus |
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" Wherefore speak
Of Scylla, child of Nisus, who, 'tis said,
Her fair white loins with barking monsters girt
Vexed the Dulichian ships, and, in the deep
Swift-eddying whirlpool, with her sea-dogs tore
The trembling
mariners?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Bassaes
adultery
no fruit did Leave,
Nor theirs, which their swollen thighs did nimbly weave,
And with new armes and mouths embrace and kiss,
Though they had issue was not like to this.
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John Donne |
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"
"The friar Alberigo,"
answered
he,
"Am I, who from the evil garden pluck'd
Its fruitage, and am here repaid, the date
More luscious for my fig.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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But if thou canst [som] mirthis make, 2305
That men in gree wole gladly take,
Do it goodly, I
comaunde
thee;
For men sholde, wher-so-ever they be,
Do thing that hem [best] sitting is,
For therof cometh good loos and pris.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Maxwell, on Jessie Staig's Recovery
Epitaph
Epitaph on William Nicol
On the Death of a Lapdog, named Echo
On a noted Coxcomb
On seeing the beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway
On the same
On the same
To the same, on the Author being threatened with his resentment
On a Country Laird
On John Bushby
The true loyal Natives
On a Suicide
Extempore, pinned on a Lady's coach
Lines to John Rankine
Jessy Lewars
The Toast
On Miss Jessy Lewars
On the recovery of Jessy Lewars
Tam the Chapman
"Here's a bottle and an honest friend"
"Tho' fickle fortune has deceived me"
To John Kennedy
To the same
"There's naethin' like the honest nappy"
On the blank leaf of a work by Hannah More,
presented
by Mrs.
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Robert Burns |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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So becomes it a youth to quit him well
with his father's friends, by fee and gift,
that to aid him, aged, in after days,
come
warriors
willing, should war draw nigh,
liegemen loyal: by lauded deeds
shall an earl have honor in every clan.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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But these between a silver streamlet glides,
And scarce a name
distinguisheth
the brook,
Though rival kingdoms press its verdant sides.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I only knew what hunted thought
Quickened
his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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'BUS-TOP
Black shapes bending,
Taxicabs
crush in the crowd.
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Imagists |
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They threw up the filthy rain-water from the hollow lines
And then the water ran back
Full of
brownish
foam bubbles.
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Imagists |
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_
JOURNEYING ALONG THE RHONE TO AVIGNON, PETRARCH BIDS THE RIVER KISS
LAURA'S HAND, AS IT WILL ARRIVE AT HER
DWELLING
BEFORE HIM.
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Petrarch |
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But yet all is not don; Man disobeying,
Disloyal breaks his fealtie, and sinns
Against the high Supremacie of Heav'n,
Affecting God-head, and so loosing all,
To expiate his Treason hath naught left,
But to
destruction
sacred and devote,
He with his whole posteritie must die,
Die hee or Justice must; unless for him 210
Som other able, and as willing, pay
The rigid satisfaction, death for death.
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Milton |
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But never I mind the bridges,
And never I mind the sea;
Held fast in
everlasting
race
By my own choice and thee.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Over the turret, shut in his iron-clad tower,
Craven was conning his ship through smoke and
flame;
Gun to gun he had
battered
the fort for an hour,
Now was the time for a charge to end the game.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Three-Leaves,
instruct
me!
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Sidney Lanier |
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There drew he forth the brand Excalibur,
And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon,
Brightening
the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth
And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt:
For all the haft twinkled with diamond sparks, [3]
Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work
Of subtlest jewellery.
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Tennyson |
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Keats - Lamia |
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"Well I know you,
Hiawatha!
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Longfellow |
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Then was my error when the old way quite
Of liberty was bann'd and barr'd to me:
He follows ill who pleases but his sight:
To its own harm my soul ran wild and free,
Now doom'd at others' will to wait and wend;
Because that once it
ventured
to offend.
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Alban entitle his work _Novum
Organum_; which, though by the most of superficial men, who cannot get
beyond the title of nominals, it is not penetrated nor understood, it
really openeth all defects of learning whatsoever, and is a book
"Qui longum note scriptori
proroget
aevum.
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WATTEAU, the carnival of
illustrious
hearts,
Fluttering like moths upon the wings of chance;
Bright lustres light the silk that flames and darts,
And pour down folly on the whirling dance.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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His ruddy face
shone with genial humor; his eyes
sparkled
and a constant smile hovered
around his lips.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
[Picture: The Thing
standing
by chair]
"I've caught a cold," the Thing replies,
"Out there upon the landing.
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To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears
As salt as mine, and hear the sighing years
Re-sighing on my lips renunciative
Through those
infrequent
smiles which fail to live
For all thy adjurations?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I mind how once we lay such a
transparent
summer morning,
How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me,
And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue
to my bare-stript heart,
And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"Haroun--when all the crowd that wait
Are passed beyond the outer gate,
(Woe to the head whose eye beheld
My child Zuleika's face
unveiled!
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Byron |
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No fear felt he,
stout old Scylfing, but
straightway
repaid
in better bargain that bitter stroke
and faced his foe with fell intent.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The last
speaker's remark that the present China is different from what China is
in Chinese poetry may be true, but I may well retort that the England
as represented in
Shakespeare
is very different from the England of
to-day.
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Li Po |
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His friends
rallied, and they were among the most
distinguished
people in Paris, the
elite of souls.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Little Ellie sits alone,
And the smile she softly uses
Fills the silence like a speech
While she thinks what shall be done,
And the sweetest
pleasure
chooses
For her future within reach.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Her eyes like angels watch them still;
Her brows like bended bows do stand,
Threat'ning with
piercing
frowns to kill
All that approach with eye or hand
These sacred cherries to come nigh,
--Till Cherry-Ripe themselves do cry!
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Golden Treasury |
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No deeper
wrinkles
yet?
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Shakespeare |
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Give me
interminable
eyes--give me women--give me comrades and
lovers by the thousand!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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