And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
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THE SONG OF PRINCESS ZEB-UN-NISSA
IN PRAISE OF HER OWN BEAUTY
(From the Persian)
When from my cheek I lift my veil,
The roses turn with envy pale,
And from their pierced hearts, rich with pain,
Send forth their
fragrance
like a wail.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Upon this night no
sentinels
keep watch.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And though thine in the centre sit,
Yet when my other far does roam,
Thine leans and
hearkens
after it,
And rows erect as mine comes home.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The sober lav'rock, warbling wild,
Shall to the skies aspire;
The gowdspink, Music's gayest child,
Shall sweetly join the choir;
The
blackbird
strong, the lintwhite clear,
The mavis mild and mellow;
The robin pensive Autumn cheer,
In all her locks of yellow.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Those grand,
majestic
pines!
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Longfellow |
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Weeds triumphant ranged,
Strangers
strolled
and spelled
At the lone orthography
Of the elder dead.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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what is this separate Nature so
unnatural?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Chanson de Roland |
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You'd better b'lleve ther' 's nothin' like this spendin' days an' nights
Along 'ith a
dependent
race fer civerlizin' whites.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Ripe apples drop about my head;
The
luscious
clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
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Golden Treasury |
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Wie atmet rings Gefuhl der Stille,
Der Ordnung, der
Zufriedenheit!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The general tenor of the closing lines recalls Horace's
treatment
of
the same theme in _Sat.
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John Donne |
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I'm
downright
dizzy wi' the thought,
In troth I'm like to greet!
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Golden Treasury |
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'
The poet who writes best in the
Shakespearian
manner is a poet with
a circumstantial and instinctive mind, who delights to speak with
strange voices and to see his mind in the mirror of Nature; while Mr.
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Yeats |
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Great Destiny the
Commissary
of God
That hast mark'd out a path and period
For every thing .
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John Donne |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Full opposite, before the folding gate,
The pensive mother sits in humble state;
Lowly she sate, and with
dejected
view
The fleecy threads her ivory fingers drew.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
Nay, why
external
for internal given?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Happy as holiday-enjoying face,
Loud tongued, and "merry as a
marriage
bell,"
Thy lightsome step sheds joy in every place;
And where the troubled dwell,
Thy witching smiles wean them of half their cares;
And from thy sunny spell,
They greet joy unawares.
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John Clare |
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We will proceed no further in this Businesse:
He hath Honour'd me of late, and I haue bought
Golden
Opinions
from all sorts of people,
Which would be worne now in their newest glosse,
Not cast aside so soone
La.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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_ The 'am I' of
the _W_ is
probably
what Donne first wrote, and I am strongly tempted
to restore it.
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John Donne |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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II
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now,
Will be a tatter'd weed of small worth held:
Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the
treasure
of thy lusty days;
To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Our neighboring gentry reared
The good old-fashioned crops,
And made old-fashioned boasts
Of what John Bull would do
If
Frenchman
Frog appeared,
And drank old-fashioned toasts,
And made old-fashioned bows
To my Lady at the Hall.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Now happiest,
loveliest
in yon lovely Earth,
Whence sprang the "Idea of Beauty" into birth,
(Falling in wreaths thro' many a startled star,
Like woman's hair 'mid pearls, until, afar,
It lit on hills Achaian, and there dwelt)
She look'd into Infinity--and knelt.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Among the gifted spirits of our time
His name
conspicuous
shines; in every clime
Admired, approved, his strains an echo find.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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XLVIII
For two whole days it seemed a change
To wander through the meadows still,
The cool dark oaken grove to range,
To listen to the
rippling
rill.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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It's so unkind of science
To go and
interfere!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The Works
OF
LORD BYRON
A NEW, REVISED AND
ENLARGED
EDITION
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
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Byron |
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if you care
for poor
Dercetes
of Phyle, anoint mine eyes quickly with your balm of
peace.
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Aristophanes |
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Now the swift sail of straining life is furled,
And through the stillness of my soul is whirled
The
throbbing
of the hearts of half the world.
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Sidney Lanier |
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It is not so marked in the
manuscript
text.
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Blake - Zoas |
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A strange
choice to our mind, but
apparently
the poem was greatly admired as
a masterpiece of wit.
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John Donne |
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And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin
down!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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For me hath he swich
hevinesse?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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They might (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax' self the blessing of a friend;
Or find some doctor that would save the life
Of
wretched
Shylock, spite of Shylock's wife:
But thousands die, without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Your feet cut steel on the paths,
I
followed
for the strength
of life and grasp.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Golden Treasury |
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No
brigadier
throughout the year
So civic as the jay.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I see his messengers
attending
thee.
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Longfellow |
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_80
Thus the
tempestuous
torrent of his grief
Is clothed in sweetest sounds and varying words
Of poesy.
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Shelley |
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And then,
foreseeing
all thy life, I added:
But these thou wilt forget; and at the end
Of life the Lord will punish thee.
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Longfellow |
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I remember well
My games of shovel-board at Bishop's tavern
In the old merry days, and she so gay
With her red paragon bodice and her
ribbons!
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Longfellow |
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Canto XIV
Dal centro al cerchio, e si dal cerchio al centro
movesi l'acqua in un ritondo vaso,
secondo ch'e percosso fuori o dentro:
ne la mia mente fe subito caso
questo ch'io dico, si come si tacque
la gloriosa vita di Tommaso,
per la similitudine che nacque
del suo parlare e di quel di Beatrice,
a cui si cominciar, dopo lui, piacque:
<
ne con la voce ne
pensando
ancora,
d'un altro vero andare a la radice.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
Love's answer soon the truth forgotten shows--
"This high pure privilege true lovers claim,
Who from mere human feelings
franchised
are!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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nonne uidere
nil aliud sibi naturam latrare, nisi utqui
corpore
seiunctus
dolor absit, menti' fruatur
iucundo sensu cura semota metuque?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays
Those painted clouds that beautify our days;
Each want of
happiness
by hope supplied,
And each vacuity of sense by pride:
These build as fast as knowledge can destroy;
In folly's cup still laughs the bubble, joy;
One prospect lost, another still we gain;
And not a vanity is given in vain;
Even mean self-love becomes, by force divine,
The scale to measure others' wants by thine.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,
B
lackbirds
too shake theirs then as they sing,
R eceiving their mates, mingling their plumage,
O, as the desires it lights in me now rage,
I 'd offer you, joyously, what befits the lover.
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Villon |
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Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster, the faster it grows:
But the
rapturous
charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays,
And yet deny the
careless
husband praise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And thus we see
Creatures in many a wise crooked and ugly
The
prosperous
sweethearts in a high esteem;
And lovers gird each other and advise
To placate Venus, since their friends are smit
With a base passion--miserable dupes
Who seldom mark their own worst bane of all.
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Lucretius |
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With oar-strokes timing to their song,
They weave in simple lays
The pathos of remembered wrong,
The hope of better days,--
The triumph-note that Miriam sung,
The joy of uncaged birds:
Softening
with Afric's mellow tongue
Their broken Saxon words.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And whan that he so fer was that the soun
Of that he speke, no man here mighte,
He seyde hir thus, and out the lettre plighte, 1120
`Lo, he that is al hoolly youres free
Him
recomaundeth
lowly to your grace,
And sent to you this lettre here by me;
Avyseth you on it, whan ye han space,
And of som goodly answere yow purchace; 1125
Or, helpe me god, so pleynly for to seyne,
He may not longe liven for his peyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Riddel is remembered, and the absence of fair Clarinda is
lamented
in
strains both impassioned and pathetic.
| Guess: |
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Robert Forst |
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O'er
Cambridge
set the yeomen's mark:
Climb, patriot, through the April dark.
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Sidney Lanier |
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[62] Meaning, the mere
beginnings
of any matter.
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Aristophanes |
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The wealth might disappoint,
Myself a poorer prove
Than this great purchaser suspect,
The daily own of Love
Depreciate the vision;
But, till the
merchant
buy,
Still fable, in the isles of spice,
The subtle cargoes lie.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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)
Note
Not
meaningless
flurries like
Those that frequent the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans Whistler there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Burn, golden globes in leafy sky,
My orange-planets: crimson I
Will shine and shoot among the spheres
(Blithe meteor that no mortal fears)
And thrid the
heavenly
orange-tree
With orbits bright of minstrelsy.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Only three manuscripts have the, to
my mind, most
probably
correct reading in _Satyre I_, l.
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John Donne |
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Now she is a
wandering
man's wife.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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- All this transformation
once
barbarous
and
material
external -
now
moral
and within
21.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"Fair Hermes, crown'd with feathers, fluttering light,
I had a splendid dream of thee last night:
I saw thee sitting, on a throne of gold,
Among the Gods, upon Olympus old,
The only sad one; for thou didst not hear
The soft, lute-finger'd Muses chaunting clear,
Nor even Apollo when he sang alone,
Deaf to his throbbing throat's long, long
melodious
moan.
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Keats - Lamia |
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It's true, though your enemy,
I cannot blame you for fleeing infamy;
And, however strong my
outburst
of pain
I do not accuse you, I only weep again.
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Thus she
lamented
day & night, compelld to labour & sorrow
Luvah in vain her lamentations heard; in vain his love
Brought him in various forms before her still she knew him not
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Still she despisd him, calling on his name & knowing him not
Still hating still professing love, still labouring in the smoke
And Los & Enitharmon joyd, they drank in tenfold joy To come in
From all the sorrow of Luvah & the labour of Urizen {These two lines struck through, but then marked (to the right of the main body of text) with the following: "To come in.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The
genitive
is often thus used to denote measure = by or in
miles; cf.
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Beowulf |
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On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty flitches decorate the walls,
Moore's
Almanack
where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
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John Clare |
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50 net
"Sleep on, 1 lie at heaven's high oriels Over the start that mumur as thye go
Lighting
your lattice window far below:
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof 1 know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The priests were singing, and the organ sounded,
And then anon the great
cathedral
bell.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
The joyful
springtime
pleases me
Ai!
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Troubador Verse |
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So here I'll watch the night and wait
To see the morning shine,
When he will hear the stroke of eight
And not the stroke of nine;
And wish my friend as sound a sleep
As lads' I did not know,
That
shepherded
the moonlit sheep
A hundred years ago.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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[Note 65: Lepage--a celebrated
gunmaker
of former days.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
)
During the four succeeding years he made numerous
excursions
amid
the beautiful countries which from the basin of the Euxine--and
amongst these the Crimea and the Caucasus.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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How dies the
Serpent?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Land where the Spirits of June-Heat
From out their forest-maze
Stray forth at eve with loitering feet,
And fervent hymns upraise
In bland accord and passion sweet
Along the Southern ways: --
"O Darkness, tawny Twin whose Twin hath ceased,
Thou Odor from the day-flower's crushing born,
Thou visible Sigh out of the mournful East,
That cannot see her lord again till morn:
O Leaves, with hollow palms uplifted high
To catch the stars' most sacred rain of light:
O pallid Lily-petals fain to die
Soul-stung by subtle passion of the night:
O short-breath'd Winds beneath the gracious moon
Running mild errands for mild violets,
Or carrying sighs from the red lips of June
What wavering way the odor-current sets:
O Stars wreathed vinewise round yon
heavenly
dells,
Or thrust from out the sky in curving sprays,
Or whorled, or looped with pendent flower-bells,
Or bramble-tangled in a brilliant maze,
Or lying like young lilies in a lake
About the great white Lily of the moon,
Or drifting white from where in heaven shake
Star-portraitures of apple trees in June,
Or lapp'd as leaves of a great rose of stars,
Or shyly clambering up cloud-lattices,
Or trampled pale in the red path of Mars,
Or trim-set quaint in gardeners'-fantasies:
O long June Night-sounds crooned among the leaves;
O whispered confidence of Dark and Green;
O murmurs in old moss about old eaves;
O tinklings floating over water-sheen.
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So all my spirit fills
With pleasure infinite,
And all the
feathered
wings of rest
Seem flocking from the radiant West
To bear me thro' the night.
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The_ PEASANT _is
discovered
in front of the hut_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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They, believing they'd
achieved
surprise,
Fearless, closed, anchored, disembarked,
And then they ran against us in the dark.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Germans speak, I suppose,
bitterly
when they're in love.
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The question that he frames in all but words
Is what to make of a
diminished
thing.
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_Josephine Preston Peabody_
MY SON
Here is his little cambric frock
That I laid by in
lavender
so sweet,
And here his tiny shoe and sock
I made with loving care for his dear feet.
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So whan this Calkas knew by calculinge,
And eek by answere of this Appollo,
That Grekes sholden swich a peple bringe,
Thorugh which that Troye moste been for-do,
He caste anoon out of the toun to go; 75
For wel wiste he, by sort, that Troye sholde
Destroyed
ben, ye, wolde who-so nolde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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And while the old dames gossip at their ease,
And pinch the snuff-box empty by degrees,
The young ones join in love's delightful themes,
Truths told by gipsies, and expounded dreams;
And mutter things kept secrets from the rest,
As sweethearts' names, and whom they love the best;
And dazzling ribbons they delight to show,
And last new favours of some veigling beau,
Who with such
treachery
tries their hearts to move,
And, like the highest, bribes the maidens' love.
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And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky,
Whereunder
crawling coop'd we live and die,
Lift not your hands to It for help--for It
As impotently moves as you or I.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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He was the 'first' troubadour, that is, the first recorded
vernacular
lyric poet, in the Occitan language.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
'Twas in the
seventeen
hunder year
O' grace, and ninety-five,
That year I was the wae'est man
Of ony man alive.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Burger's Pastor's
Daughter
murdered her natural child, but it is her
ghost which haunts its grave, which she had torn
With bleeding nails beside the pond,
And nightly pines the pool beside.
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That soul will hate the ev'ning mist,
So often lovely, and will list
To the sound of the coming
darkness
(known
To those whose spirits hearken) as one
Who, in a dream of night, _would_ fly
But _cannot_ from a danger nigh.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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VESPERS
Last night, at sunset,
The
foxgloves
were like tall altar candles.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
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Meredith - Poems |
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