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CONDITVS
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per siluas, per rus uenit ad arma uirum.
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enterd his world of love]
Not long in harmony they dwell, their life is drawn away
And wintry woes succeed;
successive
driven into the Void
Where Enion craves: successive drawn into the golden feast
[In beauty love & scorn ?
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Primroses, the Spring may love them--
Summer knows but little of them:
Violets, a barren kind,
Withered
on the ground must lie; 20
Daisies leave no fruit behind
When the pretty flowerets die;
Pluck them, and another year
As many will be blowing here.
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[Burns, when he calls on the bards of Ayr and Doon to join in the
lament for Mailie,
intimates
that he regards himself as a poet.
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It cannot
Be call'd our Mother, but our Graue; where nothing
But who knowes nothing, is once seene to smile:
Where sighes, and groanes, and shrieks that rent the ayre
Are made, not mark'd: Where violent sorrow seemes
A Moderne extasie: The
Deadmans
knell,
Is there scarse ask'd for who, and good mens liues
Expire before the Flowers in their Caps,
Dying, or ere they sicken
Macd.
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Then mounted Mirth, on gleesome wing,
O'er hill and dale she flew, man;
Ilk
wimpling
burn, ilk crystal spring,
Ilk glen and shaw she knew, man:
She summon'd every social sprite
That sports by wood or water,
On th' bonny banks of Ayr to meet,
And keep this Fete Champetre.
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Robert Burns |
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What new life-power it gives me, canst thou guess--
This
conversation
with the wilderness?
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An execrable appetite arose,
He
battened
on them, crunched, and sucked them in.
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Christina Rossetti |
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'Tis true I have not shed
Blood as I might have done, in oceans, till
My name became the
synonyme
of Death--
A terror and a trophy.
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Byron |
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Swans
Night is over the park, and a few brave stars
Look on the lights that link it with chains of gold,
The lake bears up their
reflection
in broken bars
That seem too heavy for tremulous water to hold.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Oh the
trembling
fear!
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Fourth Self: I, amongst you all, am the most miserable, for naught
was given me but odious hatred and
destructive
loathing.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Cradle and grave--
A
limitless
deep---
An endless weaving
To and fro,
A restless heaving
Of life and glow,--
So shape I, on Destiny's thundering loom,
The Godhead's live garment, eternal in bloom.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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When the loose
mountain
trembles from on high,
Shall gravitation cease, if you go by?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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You flaunted the
fragrance
of your blossoms
Through the wide doors of Custom Houses--
You, and sandal-wood, and tea,
Charging the noses of quill-driving clerks
When a ship was in from China.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It seemed to him that Winny was
somewhere
on
the island smiling gently as of old, and when all had gone he swam
in the way the boats had been rowed and found the new-made grave
beside the ruined Abbey of the Holy Trinity, and threw himself upon
it, calling to Oona to come to him.
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Yeats |
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The last
Halloween
I was waukin
My droukit sark-sleeve, as ye ken,
His likeness came up the house staukin,
And the very grey breeks o' Tam Glen!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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That from your first of
difference
and decay
Have followed your sad steps.
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In the _1669_ version it is not easy to see the
relevance of the rhetorical
question
and of the line which follows:
'Nothing for us, we are for nothing fit.
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East and west on fields forgotten
Bleach the bones of
comrades
slain,
Lovely lads and dead and rotten;
None that go return again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Each belongs here or
anywhere
just as much as the well-off, just as
much as you,
Each has his or her place in the procession.
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We sang our songs together by the way,
Calls and recalls and echoes of delight;
So
communed
we together all the day,
And so in dreams by night.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Send me now, and I shall go;
Call me, I shall hear you call;
Use me ere they lay me low
Where a man's no use at all;
Ere the
wholesome
flesh decay,
And the willing nerve be numb,
And the lips lack breath to say,
"No, my lad, I cannot come.
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I deemed our doom afar
In lap of time; but, if a king push forward to his fate,
The god himself allures to death that man
infatuate!
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Aeschylus |
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So, till the
judgment
that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.
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The hills untied their bonnets,
The
bobolinks
begun.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Now, of my
threescore
years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
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He thereat was stung,
Perverse, with
stronger
fancy to reclaim
Her wild and timid nature to his aim:
Besides, for all his love, in self despite,
Against his better self, he took delight
Luxurious in her sorrows, soft and new.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came
Missiues
from
the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title
before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to
the comming on of time, with haile King that shalt be.
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Tennyson |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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And in-to a closet, for to avyse hir bettre, 1215
She wente allone, and gan hir herte unfettre
Out of disdaynes prison but a lyte;
And sette hir doun, and gan a lettre wryte,
Of which to telle in short is myn entente
Theffect, as fer as I can understonde: -- 1220
She thonked him of al that he wel mente
Towardes
hir, but holden him in honde
She nolde nought, ne make hir-selven bonde
In love, but as his suster, him to plese,
She wolde fayn to doon his herte an ese.
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The piano kissed.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The landlord has
reported
me!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Dans quel philtre, dans quel vin, dans quelle tisane
Noierons-nous ce vieil ennemi,
Destructeur
et gourmand comme la courtisane,
Patient comme la fourmi?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Alone she is there:
The white clouds drizzle: her hair falls loose;
Her
shoulders
are bare;
Her tears are mixed with the bearded dews.
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Ill was I then for toil or service fit:
With tears whose course no effort could confine,
By high-way side
forgetful
would I sit
Whole hours, my idle arms in moping sorrow knit.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Chants of the prairies,
Chants of the long-running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea,
Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,
Wisconsin
and Minnesota,
Chants going forth from the centre from Kansas, and thence equidistant,
Shooting in pulses of fire ceaseless to vivify all.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Now what you
question
of my ancient friend,
With truth I answer; thou the truth attend.
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--
To walk
together
to the kirk,
And all together pray,
While each to his great Father bends,
Old men, and babes, and loving friends,
And youths and maidens gay!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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[Illustration]
CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES
WHITTINGHAM
AND CO.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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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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Set not thy foot on graves;
Care not to strip the dead
Of his sad ornament,
His myrrh, and wine, and rings,
His sheet of lead,
And
trophies
buried:
Go, get them where he earned them when alive;
As resolutely dig or dive.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Such
parchments
as remained Chatterton's father carried
away, whole armfuls at a time, using some to cover his scholars' books
and giving others to his wife, who made them into thread-papers and
dress patterns.
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wedenysday
bifore ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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or
unornamented
pillar square
Of fire far shining.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Li comincio con forza e con menzogna
la sua rapina; e poscia, per ammenda,
Ponti e
Normandia
prese e Guascogna.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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That so your
happiness
in the thought of God
Stands, that he open'd man's expense of grief
To give your oars unscrupulous room, to be
The buoyancy of your delighted barges,
Sliding with fortunate lanterns and with tunes
And odorous holiday, O kings, O you
The pleasure of God, richly, joyously launcht
On this kind sea, the tame sorrow of Man?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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This school has been widely discussed by those interested in new
movements in the arts, and has already become a
household
word.
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Imagists |
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No things of air these antics were,
That
frolicked
with such glee:
To men whose lives were held in gyves,
And whose feet might not go free,
Ah!
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"
MENALCAS
"As
moisture
to the corn, to ewes with young
Lithe willow, as arbute to the yeanling kids,
So sweet Amyntas, and none else, to me.
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DIMITRY, the Pretender,
formerly
Gregory Otrepiev.
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Her face, sad and worn,
was in perfect keeping with the deep
mourning
in which she was dressed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
Charlotte
Smith
CXCIII.
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Robert Burns |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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II (part of the
Assyrian
version)
published in HAUPT, _ibid.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Naked, stark,
Her torso writhes enormous, and her knees
Shudder against the
shadowed
Pleiades,
Wrenching the night's imponderable arc.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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By the dim light
of an
accidental
lamp, tall, antique, worm-eaten, wooden tenements were
seen tottering to their fall, in directions so many and capricious that
scarce the semblance of a passage was discernible between them.
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Poe - 5 |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And weary was the long patrol,
The thousand miles of
shapeless
strand,
From Brazos to San Blas that roll
Their drifting dunes of desert sand.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Note: Ronsard's Marie was an
unidentified
country girl from Anjou.
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Ronsard |
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"--This was the
expression
he employed; and Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain
To welcome Him to this His new abode,
Now while the heaven, by the sun's team untrod,
Hath took no print of the
approaching
light,
And all the spangled host keep watch in squadrons bright?
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Golden Treasury |
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DEAD shalt thou lie; and nought
Be told of thee or thought,
For thou hast plucked not of the Muses' tree:
And even in Hades' halls
Amidst thy fellow-thralls
No friendly shade thy shade shall
company!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Se credi bene usar quel c'hai offerto,
di
maltolletto
vuo' far buon lavoro.
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SEA GARDEN
The editors and
publishers
concerned have kindly given me permission to
reprint some of the poems in this book which appeared originally in
"Poetry" (Chicago), "The Egoist" (London), "The Little Review"
(Chicago), "Greenwich Village" (New York), the first Imagist anthology
(New York: A.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Fama di loro il mondo esser non lassa;
misericordia e
giustizia
li sdegna:
non ragioniam di lor, ma guarda e passa>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Since you refuse justice to all my claims,
Sire, let me have my recourse to weapons;
That's how he
perpetrated
his offence,
And that is how I now seek vengeance.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The very
Lutherans
have more true devotion:
See how they strip the shrines!
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Byron |
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With
Charlemagne
I soon will have thee friends;
To Guenelun such justice shall be dealt
Day shall not dawn but men of it will tell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I brake thy
bracelet
'gainst my will, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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But, since an imitation of the Greeks in this particular (the asking of
questions being one chief privilege of freemen) is hardly to be hoped
for, and our
candidates
will answer, whether they are questioned or not,
I would recommend that these ante-electionary dialogues should be
carried on by symbols, as were the diplomatic correspondences of the
Scythians an Macrobii, or confined to the language of signs, like the
famous interview of Panurge and Goatsnose.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Secundus
endeavours to dissuade Maternus from thinking any more
of dramatic composition.
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Tacitus |
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The low grass loaded with the dew,
The twilight stood as
strangers
do
With hat in hand, polite and new,
To stay as if, or go.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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[251]
And what important services do not the birds render to
mortals!
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Aristophanes |
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Mostrata
ho lui tutta la gente ria;
e ora intendo mostrar quelli spirti
che purgan se sotto la tua balia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Even from his own paternal roof expell'd,
Some stranger ploughs his
patrimonial
field.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Title: Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde
including The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Author: Oscar Wilde
Editor: Robert Ross
Release Date:
September
27, 2014 [eBook #1141]
[This file was first posted on November 21, 1997]
Language: English
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SELECTED POEMS OF OSCAR WILDE***
Transcribed from the 1911 Methuen & Co.
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Wilde - Poems |
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But for the full development of Life to its
highest mode of perfection,
something
more is needed.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
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written explanation to the person you
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the work from.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Their villages are laid out, not like ours in rows of adjoining buildings; but every one surrounds his house with a vacant space, 97 either by way of security against fire, 98 or through
ignorance
of the art of building.
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Tacitus |
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O Memory cast down thy
wreathed
shell!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Dost thou
remember
Sicily?
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Wilde - Poems |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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My soul
possesses
more fire than you have ashes!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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LXXVII
Thy glass will show thee how thy
beauties
wear,
Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;
These vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear,
And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Whatever
that
secret is, the charm of it never fails after all these years to keep the
poems preserved with a freshness and vitality, which are the qualities
of enduring genius.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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