227,
considers
the termination of "Paradise Lost" somewhat similar.
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Then glowed my cloud, and broke and
unveiled
thee.
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"Prisoned on watery shore,
Starry
jealousy
does keep my den
Cold and hoar;
Weeping o're,
I hear the father of the ancient men.
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blake-poems |
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Oh, sharper tangs pierced through this
perfumed
May.
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Sidney Lanier |
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He that loves a rosy cheek
Or a coral lip admires,
Or from star-like eyes doth seek
Fuel to
maintain
his fires;
As old Time makes these decay,
So his flames must waste away.
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Golden Treasury |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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He foresaw how the brave Roman nation,
Impatient of the
blandishments
of pleasure
Once sated with vain amusements' measure,
Would turn to civil war as a distraction.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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MY LADY,
The honour you have done your poor poet, in writing him so very
obliging a letter, and the pleasure the enclosed beautiful verses have
given him, came very
seasonably
to his aid, amid the cheerless gloom
and sinking despondency of diseased nerves and December weather.
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Robert Burns |
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What potent charm
Has drawn thee from thy German farm
Into the old
Alsatian
city?
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Longfellow |
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Driftwood
My
forefathers
gave me
My spirit's shaken flame,
The shape of hands, the beat of heart,
The letters of my name.
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Sara Teasdale |
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It was made from the shell of a tortoise, stuck round with leather, with two horns and a
sounding
board and strings made from sheep's gut.
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Appoloinaire |
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Our
Emperour
has sent you here this brief.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Papa he said, "Oh,
dreadful
man!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Ed elli a me: <
di lor
tormento
a terra li rannicchia,
si che ' miei occhi pria n'ebber tencione.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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L aurel, so sweet, for my cause now fighting,
O live, so noble,
removing
all bitter foliage,
R eason does not wish me unused to owing,
E ven as I'm to agree with this wish, forever,
Duty to you, but rather grow used to serving:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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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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ca, which was
imported
into Athens in large
quantities after the conclusion of a treaty of navigation, which Cleon
made with this country.
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Aristophanes |
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There are two guests at table now;
The king, deposed and older grown,
No longer
occupies
the throne,--
The crown is on his sister's brow;
A Princess from the Fairy Isles,
The very pattern girl of girls.
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Longfellow |
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{17a} That is, these two Danes,
escaping
home, had told the story of
the attack on Hnaef, the slaying of Hengest, and all the Danish
woes.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Darkly he moved on,
A hideous spectre hesitating, white,
And ever as he went, a drop of blood
Implacably
from the darkness broke away
And stained that awful whiteness.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Or ache with tremendous
decisions?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And not for all our questioning 10
Shall we
discover
more than joy,
Nor find a better thing than love!
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Sappho |
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--
Should that morn come, and show thy opened eyes
All that Life's
palpitating
tissues feel,
How wilt thou bear thyself in thy surprise?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The first a native of Apollonia, a natural philosopher; and the beginning of his treatise on Natural Philosophy is as follows: "It appears to me to be well for every one who
commences
any kind of philosophical treatise, to lay down some undeniable principle to start with.
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writes |
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What principle is best to begin with? |
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According to the passage, the principle that is best to begin with in a philosophical treatise is an undeniable principle, as stated by the first Diogenes who was a natural philosopher from Apollonia. |
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Diogenes Laertius |
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75
Oft maie the moone, yn sylverr sheenynge lyghte,
Inne varied
chaunges
varyed blessynges shedde,
Besprengeynge far abrode mischaunces nyghte;
And thou, fayre Birtha!
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shimmering |
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How does Birtha resemble the moon? |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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If there are any who will work with me
In
building
up our country's power and fame,
On equal laws for rich and poor alike,
I shall be pleased to meet them in this room
In two hours' time.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The seeds of
instinct are
preserved
under the thick hides of cattle and horses,
like seeds in the bowels of the earth, an indefinite period.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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We watched the ghostly dancers spin
To sound of horn and violin,
Like black leaves
wheeling
in the wind.
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Wilde - Poems |
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This mighty
consummation
made, the host
Mov'd on for many a league; and gain'd, and lost
Huge sea-marks; vanward swelling in array,
And from the rear diminishing away,--
Till a faint dawn surpris'd them.
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Keats |
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Lady Gregory has written of the people of the
markets and
villages
of the West, and their speech, though less full of
peculiar idiom than that of Mr.
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Yeats |
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" shrieked Enid,
thinking
of the prince's wound and loss of
blood, "do not kill a dead man!
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Tennyson |
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To Beowulf gave the bairn of Healfdene
a gold-wove banner, guerdon of triumph,
broidered battle-flag,
breastplate
and helmet;
and a splendid sword was seen of many
borne to the brave one.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Requests
consolation
CCXCIII.
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Robert Forst |
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This habit it was that brought about perhaps the gravest charge
that has ever been made against Pope, that of
accepting
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Alexander Pope |
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"
To these native
strictures
very little need be added.
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Li Po |
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Fell the rain,
And to the fosses came all that the land
Contain'd not; and, as
mightiest
streams are wont,
To the great river with such headlong sweep
Rush'd, that nought stay'd its course.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
A little space we were remov'd from thence,
When I perceiv'd the
mountain
hollow'd out.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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My punctuation will not probably in the
end quite satisfy either the
Elizabethan
purist, or the critic who
would have preferred a modernized text.
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John Donne |
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It 's far, far treasure to surmise,
And
estimate
the pearl
That slipped my simple fingers through
While just a girl at school!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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What have we to do
With Kaikobad the Great, or
Kaikhosru?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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To yonder spheres I dare no more aspire,
Whence the sweet tidings downward float;
And yet, from
childhood
heard, the old, familiar note
Calls back e'en now to life my warm desire.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A
MANSERVANT
_in his house_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Page 14
And of alle wicked
sarasynes!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
She ceas'd--and buried then her burning cheek
Abash'd, amid the lilies there, to seek
A shelter from the fervour of His eye;
For the stars
trembled
at the Deity.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Profitless
usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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_Visions
of the Evening.
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Imagists |
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"Tell him night
finished
before we finished,
And the old clock kept neighing 'day!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And George's
blue plume has
disappeared!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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--
The rose was plucked when dusk was dim
Beside a
laughing
boy.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The saddle, the gallop, the pressure upon the seat, the cool
gurgling
by the ears and hair.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But if you had a little real love,
A little strength,
You would leave your
nonchalant
idle lovers
And go walking down the white road
Behind the waggoners.
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Imagists |
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No way could he take
to avenge on the slayer slaughter so foul;
nor e'en could he harass that hero at all
with
loathing
deed, though he loved him not.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Knows he who tills this lonely field
To reap its scanty corn,
What mystic fruit his acres yield
At
midnight
and at morn?
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Emerson - Poems |
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--
But it was out of that dread August night
From which all Europe woke to war, that we,
This
beautiful
Dawn-Youth, and I, had come,
He from afar.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Lone from the field the Pasha fled afar,
And, musing, wiped his reeking scimitar;
His two dead steeds upon the sands were flung,
And on their sides their empty
stirrups
hung.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Such fate to
suffering
worth is giv'n,
Who long with wants and woes has striv'n,
By human pride or cunning driv'n
To mis'ry's brink;
Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heav'n,
He, ruin'd, sink!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
Oh, hide thy knotted knees in fern,
And
overlook
the chace;
And from thy topmost branch discern
The roofs of Sumner-place.
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Tennyson |
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XXXVII
"To the same place Jocundo made return,
At the same hour, upon the
following
day;
And, putting on the king the self-same scorn,
Again beheld that dwarf and dame at play:
And so upon the next and following morn;
For -- to conclude -- they made no holiday:
While she (what most Jocundo's wonder moved)
The pigmy for his little love reproved.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Within a hut of stone
To bask the
centuries
away
Nor once look up for noon?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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MARTHE:
Erzahlt mir seines Lebens
Schluss!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Soon spreads the dismal shade
Of Mystery over his head,
And the
caterpillar
and fly
Feed on the Mystery.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Mute the first echo that so
grateful
rung!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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--No need,
I think, to bring up into speech the years
Since in the barley-field
Manasses
lay
Shot by the sun.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Are you not
penitent?
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Longfellow |
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"
Whereupon
a million strove to answer him.
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Stephen Crane |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Young Love
I
I cannot heed the words they say,
The lights grow far away and dim,
Amid the laughing men and maids
My eyes
unbidden
seek for him.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The lady, ever watchful, penetrant,
Saw this with pain, so arguing a want
Of
something
more, more than her empery
Of joys; and she began to moan and sigh
Because he mused beyond her, knowing well
That but a moment's thought is passion's passing bell.
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Keats - Lamia |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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Thine is the
plentiful
bosom that feeds us,
Thine is the womb where our riches have birth.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Now I reform, and surely so will all
Whose happy eyes on thy
translation
fall.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The tears I would retain, I feel them flow;
The past
torments
me, I fear the future so.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire
The buried shrine shows at its sewer-mouth's
Sepulchral slobber of mud and rubies
Some abominable statue of Anubis,
The muzzle lit like a ferocious snout
Or as when a dubious wick twists in the new gas,
Wiping out, as we know, the insults suffered
Haggardly lighting an immortal pubis,
Whose flight roosts according to the lamp
What votive leaves, dried in cities without evening
Could bless, as she can, vainly sitting
Against the marble of Baudelaire
Shudderingly absent from the veil that clothes her
She, his Shade, a protective poisonous air
Always to be breathed,
although
we die of her.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
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with the
rules is very easy.
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Imagists |
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My eyes are dazzled, on seeing the light of day, 155
My knees,
trembling
beneath me, have given way.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Your
thoughts
are yours, too; naked let them stand.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Or,
capriciously
still,
*Like the lone Albatross,
Incumbent on night
(As she on the air)
To keep watch with delight
On the harmony there?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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My only
visitor!
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Keats |
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What we call knowledge is often our
positive
ignorance;
ignorance our negative knowledge.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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At the rising of the Moon,
One after another,
His
shipmates
drop down dead.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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FROM these Calista
presently
made choice,
Of one for whom her father gave his voice;
A handsome lad, and thought good humoured too
Few otherwise appear when first they woo.
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La Fontaine |
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Men's
passions
fawn upon my feet, as waves
That fiercely fawn after the going wind;
But not as the wind, shaking off the foam
Of the pursuing lust of the moaning waves,
And over the clamour of the evil seas'
Monstrous word running lightly, unhurt.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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'
'O
pleasant
maiden,' answered Finn,
'We think on Oscar's pencilled urn,
And on the heroes lying slain,
On Gavra's raven-covered plain;
But where are your noble kith and kin,
And into what country do you ride?
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Yeats |
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Hast heard, he touches now his hundredth year--
And that, defying fate, in face of heaven,
On his invincible peak, no force of war
Uprooting
other holds--nor powerful Caesar--
Nor Rome--nor age, that bows the pride of man--
Nor aught on earth--hath vanquished, or subdued,
Or bent this ancient Titan of the Rhine,
The excommunicated Job?
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Hugo - Poems |
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, _ring-hoard, treasure
consisting
of rings_: gen.
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Beowulf |
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Will men not say
That
insolently
we made of sacred things
A worldly instrument?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The results of this great change were
singularly
happy and
glorious.
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"It is a thing," he says, "incredible, unheard-of, and
unexampled in history, that an invincible hero, the
greatest
king that
ever lived, should have been conquered and made captive by an enemy so
inferior.
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Petrarch |
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Yet only noble womanhood
The wife her dauntless part could teach:
She shared with him the last dry food
And thronged with hopefulness her speech,
As when hard by her home the flood
Of rushing Conestoga fills
Its depth afresh from
springtide
rills!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A battle then
follows, which is
unfavorable
to Ongenþēow's army.
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Beowulf |
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He faced the problem just as Aeschylus
did, and as
Sophocles
did not.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I ask my God if e'en in His sweet place,
Where, by one waving of a wistful wing,
My soul could straightway tremble face to face
With thee, with thee, across the stellar ring --
Yea, where thine absence I could ne'er bewail
Longer than lasts that little blank of bliss
When lips draw back, with recent pressure pale,
To round and redden for another kiss --
Would not my
lonesome
heart still sigh for thee
What time the drear kiss-intervals must be?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Three women were
assisting
at her toilet.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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So she was gently glad to see him laid
Under her favourite bower's quiet shade,
On her own couch, new made of flower leaves,
Dried
carefully
on the cooler side of sheaves
When last the sun his autumn tresses shook, 440
And the tann'd harvesters rich armfuls took.
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Keats |
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_A new edition with
additional poems_, _including Ravenna_, _The Sphinx_, _and The Ballad of
Reading Gaol_, _was first published_ (_limited issues on hand-made paper
and Japanese
vellum_)
_by Methuen & Co.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
Answers Duke Neimes: "God grant us his
consent!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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