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Of
stinking
stories; a tale, a dream.
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we have learnt
A
different
lore: we may not thus profane
Nature's sweet voices always full of love
And joyance!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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O revered Mother, O Ether
Revolving
common light to all,
You see me, how unjust things I endure!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the
evidence
ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I said to my heart, my feeble heart;
Haven't we had enough of
sadness?
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They made great wars, they rode like heroes forth,
And, worthy, won broad lands and towers and towns,
So firmly won that thirty years of strife
Made of their
followers
dukes, their leaders kings!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season:
Let us endure an hour and see
injustice
done.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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How rich the wave, in front, imprest
With evening-twilight's summer hues,
While, facing thus the crimson west,
The boat her silent path
pursues!
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It has been thought worth while to explain these
allusions, because they illustrate the
character
of the Grecian
Mythology, which arose in the Personification of natural phenomena, and
was totally free from those debasing and ludicrous ideas with which,
through Roman and later misunderstanding or perversion, it has been
associated.
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Golden Treasury |
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[_Attendants bring in the body of_
AEGISTHUS
_on a bier_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Peaks and ridges
tottered
and broke.
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Li Po |
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This
of course is only a more philosophical and
abstract
statement of the
idea which he expresses in _The Devil is an Ass_ (1.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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not one of all that shining swarm
Will breathe on _thee_ with life-enkindling breath,
Till when, like
strangers
shelt'ring from a storm,
Hope and Despair meet in the porch of Death!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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It's true, though your enemy,
I cannot blame you for fleeing infamy;
And, however strong my
outburst
of pain
I do not accuse you, I only weep again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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[37] The text cannot be correct since it has no
intelligible
sign.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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This also seems a fitting
occasion
to notice the other hard words in
that poem.
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Lewis Carroll |
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How charming Olga's
shoulders
grow!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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To whom arrived, by Dubric the high saint,
Chief of the church in Britain, and before
The
stateliest
of her altar-shrines, the King
That morn was married, while in stainless white,
The fair beginners of a nobler time,
And glorying in their vows and him, his knights
Stood around him, and rejoicing in his joy.
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Tennyson |
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and
brooding
stillnesses which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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All stir and strife and life and bustle
In
everything
around one sees;
The rushes whistle, sedges rustle,
The grass is buzzing round like bees;
The butterflies are tossed about
Like skiffs upon a stormy sea;
The bees are lost amid the rout
And drop in [their] perplexity.
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John Clare |
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When, at high Noon, the blazing sky
Scorched
in his head each haggard eye,
Then keenest rose his weary cry.
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Lewis Carroll |
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know sweet love I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument;
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending
again what is already spent:
For as the sun is daily new and old,
So is my love still telling what is told.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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XIX
A god in wrath
Was beating a man;
He cuffed him loudly
With
thunderous
blows
That rang and rolled over the earth.
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Stephen Crane |
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Light they disperse, and with them go
The summer Friend, the
flattering
Foe;
By vain Prosperity received
To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.
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Golden Treasury |
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Amid the jagged shadows
Of mossy leafless boughs,
Kneeling in the moonlight,
To make her gentle vows;
Her slender palms
together
prest,
Heaving sometimes on her breast;
Her face resigned to bliss or bale--
Her face, oh call it fair not pale,
And both blue eyes more, bright than clear,
Each about to have a tear.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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if my verse is aught of avail, no length of days shall ever
blot you from the memory of time, while the house of Aeneas shall dwell
by the Capitoline's
stedfast
stone, and the lord of Rome hold
sovereignty.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
With witchcraft of his wit, with
traitorous
gifts-
O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
So to seduce!
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Shakespeare |
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NEUTRAL!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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An idle voice the sabbath region fills
Of Deep that calls to Deep across the hills, 355
And with that voice accords the soothing sound [90]
Of drowsy bells, for ever tinkling round;
Faint wail of eagle melting into blue
Beneath the cliffs, and pine-woods' steady _sugh_; [W]
The solitary heifer's
deepened
low; 360
Or rumbling, heard remote, of falling snow.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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said Enion
accursed
wretch!
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Blake - Zoas |
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CIX
At length the supper, which had long been dight,
Nor yet was touched, enjoys each hungry guest;
Nor any further news of errant knight
Them, seated at the festive board, molest;
All, saving Bradamant, enjoy, whose sprite,
As wont, is still
afflicted
and opprest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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org
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited
donations
from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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La Fontaine |
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The
Glossary
is taken from Sir F.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And Apollo, the Song-changer,
Was a
herdsman
in thy fee;
Yea, a-piping he was found,
Where the upward valleys wound,
To the kine from out the manger
And the sheep from off the lea,
And love was upon Othrys at the sound.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Where the wind calls our
wandering
footsteps we go.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
And there right suddenly Lord Raoul gave rein
And galloped
straightway
to the crowded square,
-- What time a strange light flickered in the eyes
Of the calm fool, that was not folly's gleam,
But more like wisdom's smile at plan well laid
And end well compassed.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Two
swimmers
wrestled on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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1075
Theseus by your fury
measures
his own good.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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O'er Heorot he lorded,
gold-bright hall, in gloomy nights;
and ne'er could the prince {2d} approach his throne,
-- 'twas
judgment
of God, -- or have joy in his hall.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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This high-toned and lovely
Madrigal
is quite in the style, and worthy
of, the "pure Simonides.
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Golden Treasury |
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A brighter dwelling-place is here for thee--
* It was entire in 1687--the most
elevated
spot in Athens.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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This done, then to th' enamell'd meads
Thou go'st; and as thy foot there treads,
Thou seest a present God-like power
Imprinted in each herb and flower:
And smell'st the breath of great-eyed kine,
Sweet as the
blossoms
of the vine.
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Robert Herrick |
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XLII
O heart of insatiable longing,
What spell, what
enchantment
allures thee
Over the rim of the world
With the sails of the sea-going ships?
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Sappho |
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Far along,
From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,
Leaps the live
thunder!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And then,
foreseeing
all thy life, I added:
But these thou wilt forget; and at the end
Of life the Lord will punish thee.
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Longfellow |
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"Brother and sister shall they be to ours,
And they will learn to climb my knee at even;
When He shall see these
strangers
in our bowers,
More fish, more food, will give the God of Heaven.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But most, through midnight streets I hear
How the
youthful
harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.
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blake-poems |
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"I have prayed for thee with bursting sob
When passion's course was free;
I have prayed for thee with silent lips,
In the anguish none could see:
They whispered oft, 'She
sleepeth
soft'--
But I only prayed for thee.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
The King
commands
his provost then, Basbrun:
"Go hang them all on th' tree of cursed wood!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Silent and
motionless
we lie;
And no one knoweth more than this.
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Longfellow |
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Lo caldo
sghermitor
subito fue;
ma pero di levarsi era neente,
si avieno inviscate l'ali sue.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
His head he raised--there was in sight,
It caught his eye, he saw it plain--
Upon the house-top,
glittering
bright,
A broad and gilded vane.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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O, fiercely doth it draw
Them to its chasm'd maw,
And against it in vain
They linger and strain;
And as they slip away
Into the
seething
gray
Fill all the thunderous air
With the horror of their despair,
And their wild terror wreak
In one hoarse, wailing shriek.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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'Tis that every mother's son
Travails
with a skeleton.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Says to Rollant: "Fool,
wherefore
art so wrathful?
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Chanson de Roland |
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And every human heart that breaks,
In prison-cell or yard,
Is as that broken box that gave
Its
treasure
to the Lord,
And filled the unclean leper's house
With the scent of costliest nard.
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Wilde - Poems |
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is
condicioun
ne drawe?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Despised
and Rejected
Long Barren
If Only
Dost thou not Care?
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Christina Rossetti |
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It was quite without
ideals, unless indeed the conventions of "good form" may be
dignified
by
that name.
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Alexander Pope |
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backing clouds
Then sleep fell on her eyelids in a Chasm of the Valley
The
Sixteenth
morn the Spectre stood before her manifest ]
The Spectre thus spoke.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven:
A light, which in
yourself
you must perceive:
Jones and Le Notre have it not to give.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Unnatural
vices
Are fathered by our heroism.
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T.S. Eliot |
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What Ship Puzzled at Sea
What ship puzzled at sea, cons for the true
reckoning?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The poems of Sappho so mysteriously lost to us seem to have
consisted
of at
least nine books of odes, together with _epithalamia_, epigrams,
elegies, and monodies.
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Sappho |
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Po himself, soon
realizing
that he was unsuited to Court life, allowed
his conduct to become more and more reckless and unrestrained.
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Li Po |
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THE present version of _The Countess Cathleen_ is not quite the version
adopted by the Irish
Literary
Theatre a couple of years ago, for our
stage and scenery were capable of little; and it may differ still more
from any stage version I make in future, for it seems that my people
of the waters and my unhappy dead, in the third act, cannot keep their
supernatural essence, but must put on too much of our mortality, in
any ordinary theatre.
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Yeats |
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III
Madame se tient trop debout dans la prairie
Prochaine ou neigent les fils du travail; l'ombrelle
Aux doigts; foulant l'ombelle; trop fiere pour elle
Des enfants lisant dans la verdure fleurie
Leur livre de
maroquin
rouge!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But the host stopt to hint when he'd ordered the dray
Sir Barleycorn's order was
purchase
and pay.
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John Clare |
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Meredith - Poems |
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And a gold comb, and girdle,
And
trinkets
of white silver,
And gems are in my sea-chest,
Lest poor and empty-handed
Thy lover should return.
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Sappho |
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er we
schullen
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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He saw Misfortune's cauld nor-west
Lang
mustering
up a bitter blast;
A jillet brak his heart at last,
Ill may she be!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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At the same time it will not in the least
hurt me, should you leave it out altogether, and adhere to your first
intention of
adopting
Logan's verses.
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Robert Forst |
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Better than all measures
Of
delightful
sound,
Better than all treasures
That in books are found,
Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!
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Golden Treasury |
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He came to the green ocean's brim
And saw the wheeling sea-birds skim,
Summer and winter, o'er the wave,
Like
creatures
of a skiey mould,
Impassible to heat or cold.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And we in our turn appeal to English tourists who may chance to see
it, to forego the wish of adding to it, or taking
anything
from it, by
engraving their own names; and to let the Monumental Stone stand, as
the poet wished it might
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William Wordsworth |
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He
has
requested
me to write three or four songs for him, which he is to
set to music himself.
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Robert Burns |
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We let them pass; all
appearing
tranquil;
No soldiers at the port, the city still.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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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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--is there no farther aid
Thou needest,
Jacinta?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Do you understand crime and
innocence
so poorly?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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By Professor Picavet my
attention was called to Bouillet's translation of Plotinus's _Enneads_
with ample notes on the analogies to and
developments
of Neo-Platonic
thought in the Schoolmen.
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John Donne |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And
cigarettes
in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But yit I am in gret affray
Lest thou do not as I say;
I drede thou canst me greet maugree,
That thou emprisoned art for me; 4400
But that [is] not for my trespas,
For thurgh me never
discovered
was
Yit thing that oughte be secree.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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O God, if Orpheus' voice were mine, to sing
To Death's high Virgin and the Virgin's King,
Till their hearts failed them, down would I my path
Cleave, and naught stay me, not the Hound of Wrath,
Not the grey oarsman of the ghostly tide,
Till back to
sunlight
I had borne my bride.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Elle giacean per terra tutte quante,
fuor d'una ch'a seder si levo, ratto
ch'ella ci vide
passarsi
davante.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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was
su_m_del
disseyuable and ful (!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Shall a
beardless
boy,
A cock'red silken wanton, brave our fields
And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
And find no check?
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Shakespeare |
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Lines 585-587 hit off some of the
personal
characteristics of this
hot-tempered critic.
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Alexander Pope |
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And even the Abstract Entities
Circumambulate
her charm;
But our lot crawls between dry ribs
To keep our metaphysics warm.
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T.S. Eliot |
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whose gentle virtues have obtain'd
For thee a dwelling with thy Maker blest,
To sit
enthroned
above, in angels' vest
(Whose lustre gold nor purple had attain'd):
Ah!
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Petrarch |
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Snowballs
burst
About them.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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THE FUTURE
After ten thousand
centuries
have gone,
Man will ascend the last long pass to know
That all the summits which he saw at dawn
Are buried deep in everlasting snow.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Wherever men are staunch and free,
There shall she keep her
fearless
state,
And homeless, to great nations be
The home of all that makes them great.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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) Indeed I hardly knew poor Omar was so
far gone till his Apologist
informed
me.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
"And leave the
children?
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Robert Forst |
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Strange that the termagant winds should scold
The
Christmas
Eve so bitterly!
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Sidney Lanier |
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He had nothing of a more detailed or
accurate
nature to
relate, having been afraid of going too far.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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