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give thy self the thanks, if aught in me
Worthy perusal stand against thy sight;
For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,
When thou thy self dost give
invention
light?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Quem colent homines magis
Caelitum?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And should we not rate
more cheaply any honor that men could pay us, if we
remembered
that
every day we sat at the table of the Great King?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Whose artful strains have oft delaid
The huddling brook to hear his madrigal,
And sweeten'd every
muskrose
of the dale,
How cam'st thou here good Swain?
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Milton |
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For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I can
repeople
with the past--and of
The present there is still for eye and thought,
And meditation chastened down, enough;
And more, it may be, than I hoped or sought;
And of the happiest moments which were wrought
Within the web of my existence, some
From thee, fair Venice!
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Byron |
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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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Emperour
whan he was brou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The
verses which the poet wrote on the occasion are among the most imperfect
of his pieces, but a few stanzas may perhaps be a matter of curiosity,
both on account of the
character
to which they relate and the light
which they throw on the situation and the feelings of the writer before
his work was known to the public.
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Robert Burns |
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The valiant Brandimart resorts that eve
Thitherward, where their tents the paynims rear;
And parleys, by this noble leader's leave,
With Agramant; for they were friends whilere;
And,
underneath
the banner of the Moor,
He into France had passed from Africk's shore.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Wrinkles where his eyes are,
Wrinkles where his nose is,
Wrinkles where his mouth is,
And a little old devil looking out of every
wrinkle!
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Yeats |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXIV
Now when the sky and when the earth again
Fill with ice: cold hail
scattered
everywhere,
And the horror of the worst months of the year
Makes the grass bristle across the plain:
Now when the wind mutinously prowling,
Cracks the boulders, and uproots the trees,
When the redoubled roaring of the seas
Fills all the shoreline with its wild surging:
Love burns me, and winter's bitter cold
That freezes all, cannot freeze the old
Ardour in my heart that lasts forever.
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Ronsard |
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_ Mother of the world,
Take heart before this
Presence!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The
confusion
of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Gentle night, do thou
befriend
me,
Downy sleep, the curtain draw;
Spirits kind, again attend me,
Talk of him that's far awa!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Beowulf |
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Alexey
Ivanytch
tries to oblige me to marry
him.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Canst hear me through the water-bass,
Cry: "To the Shore,
Sweetheart?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Pushkin alone remained
Closeted
with his host and talked with him
A long time more.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Pursue what Chance or Fate
proclaimeth
best;
Peace waits us on the shores of Acheron:
There no forced banquet claims the sated guest,
But Silence spreads the couch of ever welcome Rest.
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Byron |
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My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Longing
outspeeds
the breeze, I know.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Sidgwick
& Jackson, London, in _19l4, and Other Poems_).
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Gull, gannet, or diver,
But with a man's head, or a fair woman's,
They hover over the
masthead
awhile
To wait their friends; but when their friends have come
They'll fly upon that secret way of theirs.
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Yeats |
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Verum
nescioquid
febriculosi
Scorti diligis: hoc pudet fateri.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Nancy,
presumably
Mrs.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Riches and Poverty, long or short life,
By the Maker of Things are
portioned
and disposed.
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Li Po |
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On meaner beauty never more to dwell,
Whom most I love I left: my mind so well
Its part, to muse on her, is train'd to do,
None else it sees; what is not hers to view,
As of old wont, with
loathing
I repel.
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Petrarch |
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Till noon we silently sail'd on
Yet never a breeze did breathe:
Slowly and
smoothly
went the ship
Mov'd onward from beneath.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And forests did to
pastures
hew ;
Who, of his great design in pain, >
Did for a model vault his brain ;
Whose columns should so high be rais'd,
To arch the brows which on them gaz'd.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Pale ashes of the house of
Lancaster!
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Shakespeare |
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And on a beach we saw a man picking up dead
fish and
tenderly
putting them back into the water.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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But of these five
centuries
only two count.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Neath the willow's wavy boughs,
Dolly, singing, milks her cows;
While the brook, as bubbling by,
Joins in
murmuring
melody.
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John Clare |
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Lastly, before our very eyes is seen
Thing to bound thing: air hedges hill from hill,
And
mountain
walls hedge air; land ends the sea,
And sea in turn all lands; but for the All
Truly is nothing which outside may bound.
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Lucretius |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Imagininge that travaille nor grame
Ne mighte, for so goodly oon, be lorn
As she, ne him for his desir ne shame,
Al were it wist, but in prys and up-born 375
Of alle lovers wel more than biforn;
Thus
argumented
he in his ginninge,
Ful unavysed of his wo cominge.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I have the best of
intentions
toward you who have now dedicated--
I recognize it with thanks--life and writings to me.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Thet is, I mean, it seems to me so,
But, ef the public think I'm wrong,
I wunt deny but wut I be so,--
An' fact, it don't smell very strong; 20
My mind's tu fair to lose its balance
An' say wich party hez most sense;
There may be folks o' greater talence
Thet can't set
stiddier
on the fence.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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Sara Teasdale |
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'Mid the green
mountains
many and many a song
We two had sung, like little birds in May.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It
must be, however, in the
miraculous
fusing of the two.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a
flattering
word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Out of my store I'll give you wealth untold,
Charging
ten mules with fine Arabian gold;
I'll do the same for you, new year and old.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Snowfalls hiss
Fall and how I miss
My beloved in my arms
The Farewell
(Alcools: L'Adieu)
I've gathered this sprig of heather
Autumn is dead you will remember
On earth we'll see no more of each other
Fragrance of time sprig of heather
Remember I wait for you forever
Acrobats
(Alcools:Saltimbanques)
The strollers in the plain
walk the length of gardens
before the doors of grey inns
through villages without churches
And the children gone before
The others follow dreaming
Each fruit tree resigns itself
When they signal from afar
They have burdens round or square
drums and golden tambourines
Apes and bears wise animals
gather coins as they progress
The Bells
(Alcools: Les Cloches)
My gipsy beau my lover
Hear the bells above us
We loved passionately
Thinking none could see us
But we so badly hidden
All the bells in their song
Saw from heights of heaven
And told it everyone
Tomorrow Cyprien Henry
Marie Ursule Catherine
The baker's wife her husband
and Gertrude that's my cousin
Will smile when I go by them
I won't know where to hide
You far and I'll be crying
Perhaps I shall be dying
The Gypsy
(Alcools: La tzigane)
The gypsy knew in advance
Our two lives star-crossed by night
We said farewell to her and then
from that deep well Hope began
Love heavy a performing bear
Danced upright when we wanted
And the blue bird lost his plumes
And the beggars lost their Ave
We knew quite well that we were damned
But hope of love in the street
Made us think hand in hand
Of what the Gypsy did foresee
The Sign
(Alcools: Signe)
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
Parting I love the fruits I detest the flowers
I regret every one of the kisses that I've given
Such a bitter walnut tells his grief to the showers
My Autumn eternal O my spiritual season
The hands of lost lovers juggle with your sun
A spouse follows me it's my fatal shadow
The doves take flight this evening their last one
One Evening
(Alcools: Un soir)
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
And you sustain me
Let them tremble a long while all these lamps
Pray pray for me
The city's metallic and it's the only star
Drowned in your blue eyes
When the tramways run spurting pale fire
Over the twittering birds
And all that trembles in your eyes of my dreams
That a lonely man drinks
Under flames of gas red like a false dawn
O clothed your arm is lifted
See the speaker stick his tongue out at the listeners
A phantom has
committed
suicide
The apostle of the fig-tree hangs and slowly rots
Let us play this love out then to the end
Bells with clear chimes announce your birth
See
The streets are garlanded and the palms advance
Towards thee
Moonlight
(Alcools: Clair de Lune)
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
The orchards and towns are greedy tonight
The stars appear like the image of bees
Of this luminous honey that offends the vines
For now all sweet in their fall from the sky
Each ray of moonlight's a ray of honey
Now hid I conceive the sweetest adventure
I fear stings of fire from this Polar bee
that sets these deceptive rays in my hands
And takes its moon-honey to the rose of the winds
Autumn Ill
(Alcools: Automne malade)
Autumn ill and adored
You die when the hurricane blows in the roseries
When it has snowed
In the orchard trees
Poor autumn
Dead in whiteness and riches
Of snow and ripe fruits
Deep in the sky
The sparrow hawks cry
Over the sprites with green hair the dwarfs
Who've never been loved
In the far tree-lines
the stags are groaning
And how I love O season how I love your rumbling
The falling fruits that no one gathers
The wind the forest that are tumbling
All their tears in autumn leaf by leaf
The leaves
You press
A crowd
That flows
The life
That goes
Hotels
(Alcools: Hotels)
The room is free
Each for himself
A new arrival
Pays by the month
The boss is doubtful
Whether you'll pay
Like a top
I spin on the way
The traffic noise
My neighbour gross
Who puffs an acrid
English smoke
O La Valliere
Who limps and smiles
In my prayers
The bedside table
And all the company
in this hotel
know the languages
of Babel
Let's shut our doors
With a double lock
And each adore
his lonely love
Hunting Horns
(Alcools: Cors de chasse)
Our story's noble as its tragic
like the grimace of a tyrant
no drama's chance or magic
no detail that's indifferent
makes our great love pathetic
And Thomas de Quincey drinking
Opiate poison sweet and chaste
Of his poor Anne went dreaming
We pass we pass since all must pass
Often I'll be returning
Memories are hunting horns alas
whose note along the wind is dying
Vitam Impendere Amori
(Vitam Impendere Amori: To Threaten Life for Love)
Love is dead within your arms
Do you remember his encounter
He's dead you restore the charms
He returns at your encounter
Another spring of springs gone past
I think of all its tenderness
Farewell season done at last
You'll return as tenderly
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Appoloinaire |
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THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM
WHY should this flower delay so long
To show its
tremulous
plumes?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Unto their
lodgings
then his guestes he riddes: 320
Where when all drownd in deadly sleepe he findes,
He to this study goes, and there amiddes
His Magick bookes and artes?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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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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For pryde is founde, in every part, 2245
Contrarie
unto Loves art.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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You
Deem
yourself
safe, as young and brave; but learn
None are secure from desperation, few
From subtilty.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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'Tis with our
judgments
as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
Aunt Helen
Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt,
And lived in a small house near a
fashionable
square
Cared for by servants to the number of four.
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T.S. Eliot |
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_
HE ACKNOWLEDGES THE WISDOM OF HER PAST
COLDNESS
TO HIM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Still, he and his army seemed to reck of no rival: they at once
broke out into the unbridled cruelty,
debauchery
and oppression of
some outlandish court.
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Tacitus |
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Sad case for such a brain to hold
Communion
with a stirring child!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I glide on the surface of seas
I have grown sentimental
I no longer know the guide
I no longer move silk over ice
I am
diseased
flowers and stones
I love the most chinese of nudes
I love the most naked lapses of wings
I am old but here I am beautiful
And the shadow that flows from the deep windows
Each evening spares the dark heart of my stare.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO
OTHER
WARRANTIES
OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Where lambs have nibbled, silent move
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each
sleeping
bosom.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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NIGHT of grief and gloom 1
Black velvet
covering
veils
Footsteps in the room
Wherein thy love travails.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Enough my
punishment
to meet,
You must forgive, I do entreat
With clasped hands praying--oh, come back,
Make peace, and you shall nothing lack.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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To charm your lord give voice, thou spark of
paradise!
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Should love, that's full for them of happiness,
Cause your noble heart this deep
distress?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and
brooding
stillnesses which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Sejanus, Wolsey, hurt not honest Fleury,
But well may put some
statesmen
in a fury.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Little shaver--afore he knew his name
Or the place from
whereabouts
he came--
On a wagon-train the Apaches caught him.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Never, incredible as it may sound in this
clerical
city,
Has any cleric brought me--swear it I will--to his bed.
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But my mind was weary Almost as the
twilight
of the day,
And my soul was sullen, and a little Tired of his everlasting talk.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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s brief period in imperial service after the
recapture
of Chang?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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XIX
Devouring
Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;
Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,
And burn the long-liv'd phoenix, in her blood;
Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets,
And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,
To the wide world and all her fading sweets;
But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:
O!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The troubled plumes of
midnight
were
The plumes upon a hearse:
And bitter wine upon a sponge
Was the savour of Remorse.
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Wilde - Poems |
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My second rank, too small the first,
Crowned, crowing on my father's breast,
A half
unconscious
queen;
But this time, adequate, erect,
With will to choose or to reject.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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That shrinking back, like one that had
mistook!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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LIII
Scarse could he footing find in that fowle way,
For many corses, like a great Lay-stall, 470
Of murdred men which therein strowed lay,
Without remorse, or decent funerall:
Which all through that great Princesse pride did fall
And came to
shamefull
end.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Then from our side swelled up the mingled din
Of Persian tongues, and time brooked no delay--
Ship into ship drave hard its brazen beak
With speed of thought, a
shattering
blow!
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Aeschylus |
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If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such
heavenly
touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The attempt would only hurry me into that sphere of
acute
feelings
from which abstruse research, the mother of self-oblivion,
presents an asylum.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Life is a scavenger's pit--I escape--
I only,
rejecting
it,
lying here on this couch.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Such
universal
sound of lamentation
I heard and felt, fain not to feel or hear;
Nought else there seemed but anguish far and near;
Nought else but all creation
Moaning and groaning wrung by pain or fear,
Shuddering in the misery of its doom:
My heart then rose a rebel against light,
Scouring all earth and heaven and depth and height,
Ingathering wrath and gloom,
Ingathering wrath to wrath and night to night.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Faint cries and
laughter
from men and women
under the tower.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Keats |
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or engaged in
business?
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Whitman |
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XXI
And nearer fast and nearer
Doth the red
whirlwind
come;
And louder still and still more loud,
From underneath that rolling cloud,
Is heard the trumpet's war-note proud,
The trampling, and the hum.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I've seen none so noble, of such beauty,
Or so fine, who grants me such bounty,
For so worthy a friend she does appear,
And if I'd her naked at last beside me,
I'd be more than the lord of Excideuil,
Who maintains his worth where others fail,
For none but
Geoffrey
could so prevail.
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Troubador Verse |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Li Po |
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At length along the flowery sward I saw
So sweet and fair a lady pensive move
That her mere thought inspires a tender awe;
Meek in herself, but haughty against Love,
Flow'd from her waist a robe so fair and fine
Seem'd gold and snow
together
there to join:
But, ah!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I was ushered up a little flight of stairs,
fourteen in all, to a little drawing-room, or
whatever
the reader
chooses to call it.
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William Wordsworth |
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Deborah was great in her prophesying;
But, though her anger moved through the Israelites,
And the loose tribes her indignant crying
Bound into song, fashion'd to an army;
And before the measure of her song went flying,
Like leaves and breakage of the woods
Fallen into pouring floods,
The iron and the men of Sisera and Jabin;
Not by her alone
God's punishment was done
On Canaan
intending
a monstrous crime,
On the foaming and poison of the serpent in Hazor;
Two women were the power of God that time.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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BLITHE Damon for her having felt the dart,
The belle received the offer of his heart;
So well he managed and
expressed
his flame.
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La Fontaine |
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"
Yet, in his triumph, the
chieftain
made wail:
"Slain is the craftsman, the one friend alone
Able to honor the man who creates.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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CCXXXI
"Fair son Malprimes," says
Baligant
to him,
"I grant it you, as you have asked me this;
Against the Franks go now, and smite them quick.
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Chanson de Roland |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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To
conquered
men, some comfort 'tis to fall
By the hand of him who is the general.
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Robert Herrick |
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Elvire, my father's dead; and the first blade
With which
Rodrigue
fought, made him a shade.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And
laughing
is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
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blake-poems |
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