--Now that I have
informed
you in the
knowing of these things, let me lead you by the hand a little farther, in
the direction of the use, and make you an able writer by practice.
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Perhaps some languid summer day,
When drowsy birds sing less and less,
And golden fruit is
ripening
to excess,
If there's not too much sun nor too much cloud,
And the warm wind is neither still nor loud,
Perhaps my secret I may say,
Or you may guess.
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Christina Rossetti |
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15
What trifles wasted he, small
heirlooms
spent?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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From the
forgotten
you call forth dreams; the
child
Reposing on the ground in the corn-clad fields,
In harvest-glow beside the naked mowers.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Ask the inhabitants
respecting any stream, if there is a fall on it, and they will
perchance tell you of something as interesting as Bashpish or the
Catskill, which no traveler has ever seen, or if they have not found
it, you may
possibly
trace up the stream and discover it yourself.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The Night ha's been vnruly:
Where we lay, our Chimneys were blowne downe,
And (as they say)
lamentings
heard i'th' Ayre;
Strange Schreemes of Death,
And Prophecying, with Accents terrible,
Of dyre Combustion, and confus'd Euents,
New hatch'd toth' wofull time.
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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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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
XLIV
Then,
whirling
up his broadsword
With both hands to the height,
He rushed against Horatius,
And smote with all his might.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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They
grappled
with each other
goring like an ox.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"I fear thee, ancient
Mariner!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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There, when the turf in
springtime
flowers,
With downward eye and gazes sad,
Stands amid the glancing showers
A jonquil, not a Grecian lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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There are
maladies
so strange that one has to
pass through them if one seeks to understand their nature.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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now sma' heart hae I to speel
The steep Parnassus,
Surrounded
thus by bolus, pill,
And potion glasses.
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Robert Forst |
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Fifth Self: Nay, it is I, the thinking self, the
fanciful
self,
the self of hunger and thirst, the one doomed to wander without
rest in search of unknown things and things not yet created; it is
I, not you, who would rebel.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"What
occupation
would be to me between
crop and crop?
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Kipling - Poems |
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The temples indeed were impoverished, but the rites
were still
performed
there.
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Tacitus |
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These questions answered, Hispal, quite elate,
Procured the escort, which, without delay,
Though leaving him behind, was sent away:
No dark mistrust retained the noble youth;
But Zarus wished it: such
appeared
the truth.
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La Fontaine |
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373
Brandl,
Professor
A.
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Byron |
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All thy request for Man,
accepted
Son,
Obtain, all thy request was my Decree:
But longer in that Paradise to dwell,
The Law I gave to Nature him forbids:
Those pure immortal Elements that know 50
No gross, no unharmoneous mixture foule,
Eject him tainted now, and purge him off
As a distemper, gross to aire as gross,
And mortal food, as may dispose him best
For dissolution wrought by Sin, that first
Distemperd all things, and of incorrupt
Corrupted.
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Milton |
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105) renders: "he did not heed the head of the
dragon (which Beowulf with his sword had struck without effect), but he
struck the dragon
somewhat
further down.
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Beowulf |
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--Endure and be still:
Thy
lamenting
will not wake her.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Quali si stanno
ruminando
manse
le capre, state rapide e proterve
sovra le cime avante che sien pranse,
tacite a l'ombra, mentre che 'l sol ferve,
guardate dal pastor, che 'n su la verga
poggiato s'e e lor di posa serve;
e quale il mandrian che fori alberga,
lungo il pecuglio suo queto pernotta,
guardando perche fiera non lo sperga;
tali eravamo tutti e tre allotta,
io come capra, ed ei come pastori,
fasciati quinci e quindi d'alta grotta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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s sense here,
particularly
in the context of the more tightly woven ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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the only sound,
The dripping of the oar
suspended!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And we would often at the fall of dusk
Wander
together
by the silver stream, 5
When the soft grass-heads were all wet with dew,
And purple-misted in the fading light.
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Sappho |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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[468] The hero of Thermopylae, where the 300 Athenians
arrested
the
advance of the invading hosts of Xerxes in the same year.
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Aristophanes |
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Quid facis, arctoi charissime
transfuga
cceli^
Ingele, proh sero oognite, rapte citd ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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--Je suis un cimetiere abhorre de la lune,
Ou comme des remords se trainent de longs vers
Qui s'acharnent
toujours
sur mes morts les plus chers.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"Not
marketing
this time, but we'll go into the Parks if
you like.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be,
And Freedom find no
champion
and no child
Such as Columbia saw arise when she
Sprung forth a Pallas, armed and undefiled?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Of
Guenelun
the King for news is fain,
And for tribute from the great land of Spain.
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Chanson de Roland |
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" And, all the time, her subtle criticism is alert, and
this woman of the East marvels at the women of the West, "the
beautiful worldly women of the West," whom she sees walking in the
Cascine, "taking the air so consciously attractive in their brilliant
toilettes, in the brilliant
coquetry
of their manner!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Denying that which mine own spirit guesses
--Our great and ancient fame is also known--
Can I tear off the scarf which veils my tresses,
And with an early
widowhood
atone?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Cloth of bodkin or tissue must be embroidered; as if no
face were fair that were not
powdered
or painted!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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uch a one Sir, I will leaue you 10
To your _God
fathers_
in Law.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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ou hast
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Fool, to stand here cursing
When I might be
running!
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Imagists |
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Escaping their
vigilance
for a moment, he
leapt into a river and was drowned.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_ibsi_,
liturgical
expression, 120, 5.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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He did not wring his hands nor weep,
Nor did he peek or pine,
But he drank the air as though it held
Some
healthful
anodyne;
With open mouth he drank the sun
As though it had been wine!
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Wilde - Poems |
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CXIV
Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this
flattery?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
following
excerpt from H.
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Byron |
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Joyous notes, a
sounding
harpsichord's intrusion.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Hubur,
mythical
river, 197, 42.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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et
quoscumque
meo fecisti nomine uersus,
ure mihi: laudes desine habere meas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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--Sleep at Morpeth, a
pleasant
enough
little town, and on next day to Newcastle.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Up from the South came a great wave of sorrow
That drowned our hearthstones, splashed with blood our
sills;
To-day, that spared, made
terrible
To-morrow
With thick presentiment of coming ills.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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From what book, moral or even
pious, will the susceptible young mind receive impressions more
congenial to humanity and kindness, generosity and benevolence; in
short, more of all that
ennobles
the soul to herself, or endears her
to others--than from the simple affecting tale of poor Harley?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Clifford, who first
appeared
in humble guise,
Was always thought too gentle, meek, and
wise ;
But when he came to act upon the stage,
He proved the mad Cethegus of our age.
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Marvell - Poems |
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e
emperour
he ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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ei ne
conuerten
[hem]
nat of her owe{n} wille to ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The poetry of Coleridge, though it is closely
interwoven
with the
circumstances of his life, is rarely made directly out of those
circumstances.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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When the
officials
come to receive his grain-tribute, he remembers that
he is only giving back what he had taken during his years of office.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Whence is that
knocking?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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We spread our
garments
on the ground!
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Longfellow |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Come, now towards
Chertsey
with your holy load,
Taken from Paul's to be interred there;
And still as you are weary of this weight
Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry's corse.
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Shakespeare |
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O nimm mich auf, der du die Vorwelt schon
Bei Freud und Schmerz im offnen Arm
empfangen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Nor is it difficult to perceive the tendency of this
_abandon-to elevate _immeasurably all the
energies
of mind-but, again,
so to mingle the greatest possible fire, force, delicacy, and all good
things, with the lowest possible bathos, baldness, and imbecility, as to
render it not a matter of doubt that the average results of mind in
such a school will be found inferior to those results in one _(ceteris
_paribus) more artificial.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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how he charm'd us with a flow of sense,
And won the heart with manly
eloquence!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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These triple threads of
threefold
colour first
I twine about thee, and three times withal
Around these altars do thine image bear:
Uneven numbers are the god's delight.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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o toi qui fis ces hommes
saintement!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
"I saw her in a ravaged aisle,
Bowed down on bended knee;
That her poor ghost
outflickers
there
Is known to none but me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Lewis Carroll |
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'
So should my papers, yellow'd with their age,
Be scorn'd, like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And
stretched
metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice,--in it, and in my rhyme.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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CASSANDRA
Ah for thy fate, O shrill-voiced
nightingale!
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Aeschylus |
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to leave naught undared, who have
shifted to every device, I am
vanquished
by Aeneas.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Yet he never would cease
To vex his poor
neighbours
with quarrels ;
And when he was beat,
He still made his retreat
To his Clevelands, his Nells, and his Carwells.
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Marvell - Poems |
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ing_--thinge
525 _from_--fram
_forlete?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Will you be
More
patient?
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| Source: |
Byron |
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As for thy birth and better seeds
(Those which must grow to
virtuous
deeds),
Thou didst derive from that old stem
(Love and mercy cherish them),
Which like a vestal virgin ply
With holy fire lest that it die.
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Robert Herrick |
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You stood by pasture-bars to give the cows good milking,
You persuaded the
housewife
that her dish-pan was of silver
And her husband an image of pure gold.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
|
425
The Priest here ended--
The
Stranger
would have thanked him, but he felt
A gushing from his heart, that took away
The power of speech.
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William Wordsworth |
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_20
If God be good,
wherefore
should this be evil?
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Shelley |
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Many, out of their own obscene
apprehensions, refuse proper and fit words--as occupy, Nature, and the
like; so the curious
industry
in some, of having all alike good, hath
come nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Oh, from out the sounding cells,
What a gush of euphony
voluminously
wells!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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Lewis Carroll |
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]
[Footnote 8:
Alexander
Moodie of Riccarton.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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329
327
_Whether
in sighing winds thou seek'st relief_
328 _Or consolation in a yellow leaf_.
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Byron |
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A Papal Bull also, which, for
obvious reasons,
prohibited
the propagation of the gospel in these
bounds by the subjects of any other state, confirmed this amicable and
extraordinary treaty.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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" asked the chief, as his thumb-point at will
Silently
over the sword's edge played.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Much
wondering
in what fit of crazing care,
Or desperate love, a wanderer came there.
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William Wordsworth |
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But here my fancy's moods admire
The naked levels till they tire,
Nor een a
molehill
cushion meet
To rest on when I want a seat.
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John Clare |
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King Almaris,
Belserne
for kingdom had,
On the evil day he met them in combat.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And now the bickering storm, with sudden start,
In flirting fits of anger carps aloud,
Thee urging to thine end,
Sore wept by
troubled
skies.
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John Clare |
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It came without a
flourish—simply
print ed some very good contributions.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Rude scoffer of the
seething
outer strife,
Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright,
Deem, if thou wilt, such hours a waste of life,
Empty of all delight!
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So always, the
Counsellors
of Kings;
Favour and ruin changed between dawn and dusk!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_History
of Russia_, _v.
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Byron |
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Lemozis, francha terra cortesa,
Ah,
Limousin!
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Troubador Verse |
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-yang[37]
summoned
us, blowing on his jade _sh?
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Li Po |
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Into new hours of
beautiful
delight,
Out of the shadow where she has lain,
Bring the earth awake for glee,
Shining with dews as fresh and clear
As my beloved's voice upon the air.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For
somewhere
in that sacred island dwelt
A nymph, to whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt;
At whose white feet the languid Tritons poured
Pearls, while on land they wither'd and adored.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Who, like the God before whom pales the star,
Has temples, with a prophet for a priest,
Who serves up daily
sacrilegious
feast.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you
something
different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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