, the
subjects
of
Hygelāc, the Geats, 2961.
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each his center basement finds; suspended there they stand {According to Erdman, the word "center" was
originally
deleted by Blake with a strong ink stroke and therefore not easily erased.
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Permit me; is it worth the trouble
For your instruction here to tell
What I by
relatives
conceive?
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The quiet
nonchalance
of death
No daybreak can bestir;
The slow archangel's syllables
Must awaken her.
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I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air, and all
free poems also,
I think I could stop here myself and do miracles,
I think
whatever
I shall meet on the road I shall like, and whoever
beholds me shall like me,
I think whoever I see must be happy.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It was in the manner of the
time, and
doubtless
seemed to them as natural an expression of grief
as the elaborate marble and alabaster tomb which they erected to the
memory of their daughter.
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John Donne |
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As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,
Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,
So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;
And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water;
His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water;
His
youthful
wife, as falls the dew from heaven--
The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Theseus
Your eyes have tamed that
rebellious
heart:
His first sighs resulted from your happy art.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"The above, which was written some time ago,
scarcely
applies to the
Poem, 'Descriptive Sketches', as it now stands.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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On great pied motionless moth-wings borne along,
So effortless and so strong,
Cutting each other's paths, together they glided,
Then wheeled asunder till they soared divided
Two valleys' width (as though it were delight
To part like this, being sure they could unite
So swiftly in their empty, free dominion),
Curved
headlong
downward, towered up the sunny steep,
Then, with a sudden lift of the one great pinion,
Swung proudly to a curve and from its height
Took half a mile of sunlight in one long sweep.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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CCLXXIX
When Tierri sees that battle shall come after,
His right hand glove he
offereth
to Chares.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Death reached out three crooked claws
To still my
clamoring
pain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Remember
Tchaplitzky, who, thanks to
you, was able to pay his debts.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS OF
INNOCENCE
AND SONGS OF
EXPERIENCE***
******* This file should be named 1934-0.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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_70
Would that my life could
purchase
thine!
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Shelley |
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I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an
attendant
lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous--
Almost, at times, the Fool.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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I would not care to reach the moon,
One round
monotonous
of change;
Yet even she repeats her tune
Beyond my range.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The barrow he entered,
sought the cup, and discovered soon
that some one of mortals had
searched
his treasure,
his lordly gold.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I
stumbled
on him with proof sheets before
him.
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William Wordsworth |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He that
ascended
in a cloud shall come, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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Ah, if I seek to
approach
what doth so haunt me,
If from this spot I dare to stir,
Dimly as through a mist I gaze on her!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Auch er bereute seine Fehler sehr,
Ja, und
bejammerte
sein Ungluck noch viel mehr.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And since I must repeat the whole story,
Here now is what he hastened to tell me:
'She's dutiful, and both deserve her hand,
Both are of noble blood, loyal, valiant,
Young, yet it's clear to see in their eyes
The shining virtue of their ancient ties:
Don
Rodrigue
above all: in his visage,
Every trait reveals the heroic image,
His house so rich in soldiers of renown,
They seem born to wear the laurel crown.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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A poet was born in a modern time,
'Neath Saturn and his Rings,
He was a child of the world's prime,
Knew all
beautiful
things.
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Tennyson |
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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
r
CONTEMPORARY
VERSE
offers a particularly remarkable series of the year 1917.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Judith, our fates are closer to one another's
Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:
The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,
And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;
We are both
neighbours
of the silent skies.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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XVII
Such one it was, as that
renowmed
Snake?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And
suddenly
the sultan kneels!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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[3] The name Gilgamish was originally written
_d_Gi-bil-aga-mis, and means "The fire god (_Gibil_) is a commander,"
abbreviated to _d_Gi-bil-ga-mis, and _d_Gi(s)-bil-ga-mis, a form
which by full labialization of _b_ to _u_ was finally
contracted
to
_d_Gi-il-ga-mis.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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102), and Lucian's work seems to have played a rather important
part in the
discussion
of witchcraft.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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For out of Shushan to the ends of the earth
Great news runs, with a hidden
soundless
speed
Through secret channels in the folks' dim mind,
As water races through smooth sloping gutters.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
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Keats - Lamia |
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Spent and o'erpower'd, he barely
breathes
at most;
Yet scarce an army stirs him from his post;
Dangers on dangers all around him glow,
And toil to toil, and woe succeeds to woe.
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Iliad - Pope |
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14 Seeing Off
Administrative
Assistant Yang (6) On a Mission to Tibet Sending you afar, the autumn wind sinks away, the Kokonor weather is cold as you journey west.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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From this place, by the hand of Monzaida, he wrote a
letter to the zamorim, wherein he gave a full and
circumstantial
account
of all the plots of the catual and the Moors.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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the whole company of the
inhabitants
had each but a single
eye and but one hand.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I saw and heard, for such a numerous host
Fled not in silence through the frighted deep
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,
Confusion
worse confounded; and Heav'n Gates
Pourd out by millions her victorious Bands
Pursuing.
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Milton |
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VI
IN Reading gaol by Reading town
There is a pit of shame,
And in it lies a
wretched
man
Eaten by teeth of flame,
In a burning winding-sheet he lies,
And his grave has got no name.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Receive the Law that God to us presents,
Christianity, and then I'll love thee well;
Serve and believe the King
Omnipotent!
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Chanson de Roland |
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And since I must repeat the whole story,
Here now is what he
hastened
to tell me:
'She's dutiful, and both deserve her hand,
Both are of noble blood, loyal, valiant,
Young, yet it's clear to see in their eyes
The shining virtue of their ancient ties:
Don Rodrigue above all: in his visage,
Every trait reveals the heroic image,
His house so rich in soldiers of renown,
They seem born to wear the laurel crown.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Through all our literature your way you took
With modest ease; yet would you soonest pore,
Smiling, with most
affection
in your look,
On the ripe ancient and the curious nook.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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For when these quicker
elements
are gone
In tender embassy of love to thee,
My life, being made of four, with two alone
Sinks down to death, oppress'd with melancholy;
Until life's composition be recur'd
By those swift messengers return'd from thee,
Who even but now come back again, assur'd,
Of thy fair health, recounting it to me:
This told, I joy; but then no longer glad,
I send them back again, and straight grow sad.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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John Masefield is the author of "The Widow in the the Bye Street," "Good Friday," "The
Everlasting
Mercy," "Saltwater Ballads," "The Tragedy of Nan," and other volumes.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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May then those spirits, set free, a
celestial
council obeying,
Move in this rustling whisper here thro' the dark, shaken trees?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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From the root
Of toil and pain and brave endurance
Has sprung at last the perfect fruit,
The
treasure
of a rich assurance
That men who nobly work and live
A greater gift than life may give;
Yielding a promise for all time,
Which other men of newer date
Surely redeem in deeds sublime.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A thought went up my mind to-day
That I have had before,
But did not finish, -- some way back,
I could not fix the year,
Nor where it went, nor why it came
The second time to me,
Nor
definitely
what it was,
Have I the art to say.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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1831 are
identical
with Vols.
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Byron |
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28 what
feelings
are there in this heart?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Because
Helen was wanton, and her master knew
No curb for her: for that, for that, he slew
My
daughter!
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Euripides - Electra |
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The Pomegranate
Once when I was living in the heart of a pomegranate, I heard a seed
saying, "Someday I shall become a tree, and the wind will sing in
my branches, and the sun will dance on my leaves, and I shall be
strong and
beautiful
through all the seasons.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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You know how high my ideal of Art is; and to me my poor casual
little poems seem to be less than beautiful--I mean with that
final
enduring
beauty that I desire.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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_The
Poetical
Works_, etc.
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Byron |
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The
editions
of 1827 and 1832 omit these lines.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I gave it the preliminary spin,
And poured on water (tears it might have been);
And when it almost gayly jumped and flowed,
A Father-Time-like man got on and rode,
Armed with a scythe and
spectacles
that glowed.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And doth
punishment
now give me its place for a home?
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Longfellow |
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But Don Alonzo d'Arcilla is in this, as in every other part
of his poem, greatly inferior to the
poetical
spirit of Camoens.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Each seated on his favourite post,
We chumped and chawed the
buttered
toast
They gave us for our tea.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Today, without presuming anything about what will emerge from this in future, nothing, or almost a new art, let us readily accept that the tentative participates, with the unforeseen, in the pursuit,
specific
and dear to our time, of free verse and the prose poem.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Who are the
infants?
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Whitman |
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Title: The Epic of Gilgamish
A Fragment of the Gilgamish Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform
Author: Stephen Langdon
Release Date: July 23, 2006 [EBook #18897]
Language: EN
*** START OF THIS PROJECT
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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How
excellent
the heaven,
When earth cannot be had;
How hospitable, then, the face
Of our old neighbor, God!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But in the way to this are maladies
And anguish; and as a perilous bridge
Over the
uncontrolled
demanding world,
Virginity, passionate self-possessing,
Must build itself supreme, unbreakable.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Weave, weave, for Manius Curius
The third
embroidered
gown:
Make ready the third lofty car,
And twine the third green crown;
And yoke the steeds of Rosea
With necks like a bended bow,
And deck the bull, Mevania's bull,
The bull as white as snow.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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org (Images generously made
available by the Internet Archive)
POEMS
by
RANIER MARIA RILKE
Translated by Jessie Lamont
With an
Introduction
by H.
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Rilke - Poems |
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'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
When Uricon the city stood:
'Tis the old wind in the old anger,
But then it
threshed
another wood.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The unhappy
churchman resembled Gulliver at the court of
Brobdignag, when the
mischievous
page stuck
him into the marrow-bone.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The harmless rabbit gambols with its young
Across the trampled towing-path, where late
A troop of laughing boys in jostling throng
Cheered with their noisy cries the racing eight;
The gossamer, with ravelled silver threads,
Works at its little loom, and from the dusky red-eaved sheds
Of the lone Farm a
flickering
light shines out
Where the swinked shepherd drives his bleating flock
Back to their wattled sheep-cotes, a faint shout
Comes from some Oxford boat at Sandford lock,
And starts the moor-hen from the sedgy rill,
And the dim lengthening shadows flit like swallows up the hill.
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Wilde - Poems |
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behold
Nature asham'd, or better to express,
Troubl'd that thou should'st hunger, hath purvey'd
From all the
Elements
her choicest store
To treat thee as beseems, and as her Lord
With honour, only deign to sit and eat.
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Milton |
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ORSINO:
'Tis thus
Men cast the blame of their
unprosperous
acts _25
Upon the abettors of their own resolve;
Or anything but their weak, guilty selves.
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Shelley |
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Agricola is not compared to the pyramids, to the Flavian circus, nor to
any works of art and literature: these flights of imagination were
not known to the Ancients; but in a learned modern, I have seen Dante
compared to Wagner's operas, to the
Parthenon
and St.
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Tacitus |
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In the arrangement, the most poetically
effective
order has been
attempted.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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One hears the towering
creature
rend the seas,
Frustrated, cowering, and his pleas ignored.
| Guess: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Who bade you
awake from your sleep
And track me beyond the
cerulean
foam of the
deep?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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YOU AND YOU
EDITH WHARTON
November, 1918
TO THE
AMERICAN
PRIVATE IN THE GREAT WAR
Every one of you won the war--
You and you and you--
Each one knowing what it was for,
And what was his job to do.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Barons of France may not forgetful be
Whence comes the ensign "Monjoie," they cry at need;
Wherefore
no race against them can succeed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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You
understand
me ill, and you do me injustice.
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Petrarch |
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net),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of
exporting
a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The herd approach'd; each guest, with busy brain,
Arriving
at the portal, gaz'd amain,
And enter'd marveling: for they knew the street,
Remember'd it from childhood all complete
Without a gap, yet ne'er before had seen
That royal porch, that high-built fair demesne;
So in they hurried all, maz'd, curious and keen:
Save one, who look'd thereon with eye severe,
And with calm-planted steps walk'd in austere;
'Twas Apollonius: something too he laugh'd,
As though some knotty problem, that had daft
His patient thought, had now begun to thaw,
And solve and melt--'twas just as he foresaw.
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Keats - Lamia |
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wherefore
hast Thou made
In mockery and wrath this evil earth?
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Shelley |
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Silently
shining with a fire sublime,
They said, "O friendly lights, which long have been
Mirrors to us where gladly we were seen,
Heaven waits for you, as ye shall know in time;
Who bound us to the earth dissolves our bond,
But wills in your despite that you shall live beyond.
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Petrarch |
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It is not, so far as my experience goes, very common,
though it may
formerly
have been more so.
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God hath made
us
conquerors
over the evil that was in us.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I alone, for your love, have
preserved
her: 1020
And pitying both her distress and your fears,
Despite myself, I've served to explain her tears.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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SELVA PIANA (where
Petrarch
received the news of
Laura's death) 232
16.
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Petrarch |
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immortal
daughter
of the skies,
Too lyttle known to wryters of these daies,
Teach me, fayre Saincte!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The flames of the Dog Days keep
Far from your green steep,
Because your shade around
Is always close and deep,
For the
shepherds
changing ground,
The weary oxen, the sheep,
And the cattle that wander round.
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Ronsard |
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Marsiliun on my part you shall tell
Against the Franks I'm come to give him help,
Find I their host, great battle shall be there;
Give him this glove, that's
stitched
with golden thread,
On his right hand let it be worn and held;
This little wand of fine gold take as well,
Bid him come here, his homage to declare.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Who would take on such an
adversary?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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It is to be hoped that common
sense, in the time to come, will prefer deciding upon a work of Art
rather by the
impression
it makes--by the effect it produces--than by
the time it took to impress the effect, or by the amount of "sustained
effort" which had been found necessary in effecting the impression.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I will
explicit
all relate.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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His cursed head, that he was wont to hold so high with pride,
Now, like a drunken man's, hung down, and swayed from side to
side;
And when his stout
retainers
had brought him to his door,
His face and neck were all one cake of filth and clotted gore.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Here, where thou seest sundered piles of masonry and rocks
violently torn from rocks, and smoke eddying mixed with dust, Neptune
with his great trident shakes wall and
foundation
out of their places,
and upturns all the city from her base.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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