The Cat
The Large Cat
'The Large Cat'
Cornelis
Visscher
(II), 1657, The Rijksmuseun
I wish there to be in my house:
A woman possessing reason,
A cat among books passing by,
Friends for every season
Lacking whom I'm barely alive.
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Appoloinaire |
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Something
has been borrowed, however,
from our own old ballads, and more from Sir Walter Scott, the
great restorer of our ballad-poetry.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Are those women of the old
experience
of the earth gone?
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Whitman |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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Laughs at the holy
writings
and the text divine,
O'er which the humble dervish prays and venerates.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Yea, he would change
That shepherd-woman of the earthly cities,
Whose mind is as the clear light of her hills,
Full of the sound of a hundred waters falling;
And poureth his desire out, belike,
Upon that queen the wealth of the world hath clad,
Babylon, for whose golden bed the gods
Wrangle like young men with great gifts and boasts;
Whose mind is as a
carbuncle
of fire,
Full of the sound of amazing flames of music.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I cannot easily
believe that the Gospel of Saint John, which Jacques Cartier ordered to
be read in the Latin tongue to the Canadian savages, upon his first
meeting with them, fell
altogether
upon stony ground.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Madness
laugheth
loud:
Laughter bringeth tears:
Eyes are worn away
Till the end of fears
Cometh in the shroud,
Ah!
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Tennyson |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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_First
published
in_ 1869.
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Lewis Carroll |
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office is located at
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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All vast
possessions
(just the same the case
Whether you call them villa, park, or chase).
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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and och, botheration, wasn't it the gentaalest
and
dilikittest
of all the little squazes that I got in return?
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Poe - 5 |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The
blackbird
sings to him, "Brother, brother,
If this be the last song you shall sing,
Sing well, for you may not sing another;
Brother, sing.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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,
_without
chief_ or _king_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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But though today valour
deserves
this,
I would prove an enemy to your honour
To grant him now the prize of his valour.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Patriarchal
Government,
v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Frost-mellow'd berries and Third-month twigs offer'd fresh to young
persons wandering out in the fields when the winter breaks up,
Love-buds put before you and within you whoever you are,
Buds to be
unfolded
on the old terms,
If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring
form, color, perfume, to you,
If you become the aliment and the wet they will become flowers,
fruits, tall branches and trees.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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He still visits the
hospitals
on Sundays, and often
on other days as well.
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Whitman |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Euery
sonenday
houseled he was,
And shryuen also of vche trespas
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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To the first or ultimate
heaven also
correspond
the forms of man's body, called its members, organs,
and viscera.
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Whitman |
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To think thus, to feel thus much, and then to cease
thinking
and
feeling when a certain star rises above yonder horizon.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And don't go choosing your words
Without some confusion of vision:
Nothing's dearer than shadowy verse
Where
precision
weds indecision.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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You loved me with these
and with the
kindness
of people,
country folk, sailors and fishermen,
and the old lady who had lodged us and supped us.
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Imagists |
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Comfort, content, delight--
The ages' slow-bought gain--
They
shrivelled
in a night,
Only ourselves remain
To face the naked days
In silent fortitude,
Through perils and dismays
Renewed and re-renewed.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_I_ quaff the full cup of a present doom,
And wait till Zeus hath
quenched
his will in wrath.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I've buried myriads by the hour,
And still there
circulates
each hour a new, fresh blood.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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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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Golden Treasury |
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Such
men could not well
flourish
in any other age than
that of Charles II.
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Marvell - Poems |
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You
Japanese
man or woman!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout
populace
is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have flourished here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Thou, thou, who long ere aught of ill was done
Thy child, when
Agamemnon
scarce was gone,
Sate at the looking-glass, and tress by tress
Didst comb the twined gold in loneliness.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
Such was the flow of that pure rill, that well'd
From forth the fountain of all truth; and such
The rest, that to my wond'ring
thoughts
I found.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Many of these ballads still survive, but in all these
traditions it is quite impossible to
disentangle
fact from fiction.
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Keats |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure, whatever is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of
everything
certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
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Villon |
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Nor breathe from combat, nor thy sword suspend,
Till Troy receive her flying sons, till all
Her routed
squadrons
pant behind their wall:
Hector alone shall stand his fatal chance,
And Hector's blood shall smoke upon thy lance.
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Iliad - Pope |
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"Is my face enough in
profile?
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Lewis Carroll |
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The slow
arpeggios
of it, liquid, sibilant,
Thrill and thrill in the dark.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And there the lion's ruddy eyes
Shall flow with tears of gold:
And pitying the tender cries,
And walking round the fold:
Saying: 'Wrath by His meekness,
And, by His health, sickness,
Is driven away
From our
immortal
day.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I called not thee to burial of my dead,
Nor count thy
presence
here a welcome thing.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Remembering lovely eyes now closed with dust "There is no beauty that
outlasts
the breath.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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VII
The stones of that fair hall lie far and wide,
And but a few recall its ancient mould;
Yet when I pass the spot I long to hold
As truth what fancy saith:
"His protest lives where
deathless
things abide!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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the raskall routes appall,
Men into stones
therewith
he could transmew,
And stones to dust, and dust to nought at all;
And when him list the prouder lookes subdew,
He would them gazing blind, or turne to other hew.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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In which hope, move on,
First sinners and first
mourners!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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And since your actions are so nobly meant
Humble, in trembling, my love I phrase,
For there is no lover as
faithful
always
As I to you, Lady, through this world's extent.
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Troubador Verse |
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LIV
"Orlando's absence so far aids, that where
Our troops are few, there haply none would be;
But not through this removed our perils are,
Though it
prolongs
our evil destiny.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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LXXV
So are you to my
thoughts
as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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_House or Window Flies_
These little window dwellers, in
cottages
and halls, were always
entertaining to me; after dancing in the window all day from sunrise
to sunset they would sip of the tea, drink of the beer, and eat of the
sugar, and be welcome all summer long.
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John Clare |
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Janet is sad: her husband is alone,
Wrapped in the black shroud of this bitter night:
His
children
are so little, there is none
To give him aid.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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'Please God, now, night fail us not cruelly,
Nor my friend be parted far from me,
Nor day nor dawn, let the
watchman
see!
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Troubador Verse |
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= Sir John
Suckling
(ed.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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as we have known
In the green dales beside our Rotha's stream,
Greta, or Derwent, or some nameless rill,
To ruminate, with
interchange
of talk,
On rational liberty, and hope in man, 395
Justice and peace.
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William Wordsworth |
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birthplace
of deep Love!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Copyright infringement
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Meredith - Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Whate'er of blessed life there be
For high souls to the
darkness
flown,
Be thine for ever, and a throne
Beside the crowned Persephone.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I had come to a
conclusion
about the
method.
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Yeats |
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Fathomless well of fault and
foolishness!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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An elderly waiter
with trembling hands was
hurriedly
spreading a pink and white checked
cloth over the rusty green iron table, saying: "If the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden .
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T.S. Eliot |
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The night had found (to him a night of wo)
Upon a
mountain
crag, young Angelo--
Beetling it bends athwart the solemn sky,
And scowls on starry worlds that down beneath it lie.
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Poe - 5 |
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The sailors, hearing the female Halycon sing,
prepared
to die, safe however around mid-December, when these birds make their nests, and one knows that then the sea will be calm.
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Appoloinaire |
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Who dares the child's true name outright to
mention?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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THE FUTURE
After ten
thousand
centuries have gone,
Man will ascend the last long pass to know
That all the summits which he saw at dawn
Are buried deep in everlasting snow.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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All the past we leave behind;
We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world;
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labour and the march,
Pioneers!
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Whitman |
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The case of Servia is
interesting
in another way.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And thus, I cannot speak
Of love even, as a good thing of my own:
Thy soul hath
snatched
up mine all faint and weak,
And placed it by thee on a golden throne,--
And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Lawson, whom I
promised
to call for
in Paisley--like old lady W----, and still more like Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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What Place Is
Besieged?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The Phoenix was the
mythical
bird that rose again from the ashes of its own immolation.
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Ronsard |
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Seek out your ancient mother; hence shall the
house of Aeneas sway all regions, his children's
children
and they who
shall be born of them.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The myrrh-hyacinth
spread across low slopes,
violets
streaked
black ridges
through the grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven
That rustle through the unquiet Heaven
Uneasily, from morn till even,
Over the violets there that lie
In myriad types of the human eye--
Over the lilies there that wave
And weep above a
nameless
grave!
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Poe - 5 |
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And befits such an ancient homestead of error,
Where the old
falsehoods
moulder and smoulder,
And yearly by many hundred hands
Are carried away in the zeal of youth,
And sown like tares in the field of truth,
To blossom and ripen in other lands.
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Longfellow |
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In a wooden bowl he placed them,
Shook and jostled them together,
Threw them on the ground before him,
Thus exclaiming and explaining:
"Red side up are all the pieces,
And one great Kenabeek standing
On the bright side of a brass piece,
On a
burnished
Ozawabeek;
Thirteen tens and eight are counted.
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Longfellow |
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All
charming
people are spoiled.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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necdum finis erat: restabant Actia bella
dotali commissa acie, repetitaque rerum
alea, et in ponto quaesitus rector Olympi,
femineum sortita iugum cum Roma pependit,
atque ipsa Isiaco
certarunt
fulmina sistro.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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and alas
The trebly hundred
triumphs!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I heard a cry in the night,
A
thousand
miles it came,
Sharp as a flash of light,
My name, my name!
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Sara Teasdale |
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I feel as I were welcome to these trees
After long months of weary wandering,
Acknowledged by their hospitable boughs;
They know me as their son, for side by side,
They were coeval with my ancestors,
Adorned with them my country's
primitive
times,
And soon may give my dust their funeral shade.
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Emerson - Poems |
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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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T.S. Eliot |
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The Germans
transact
no business, public or private, without being armed: 84 but it is not customary for any person to assume arms till the state has approved his ability to use them.
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Tacitus |
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Love
conquers
all things; yield we too to love!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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er,
296 barlay;
& 3et gif hym respite,
[H] A
twelmonyth
& a day;--
Now hy3e, & let se tite
300 Dar any her-inne o3t say.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Then all the
flatterers
and their squires cried out
Solicitous, with various voice, "Go to,
Old Rogue," or "Shall I brain him, my good Lord?
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Sidney Lanier |
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And equal laws be thine,
And winged words let sail,
Freighted with truth even from the throne of God:
That wealth,
surviving
fate, _100
Be thine.
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Shelley |
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Tasso is
perhaps more
Virgilian
than Camoens; the plastic power of his
imagination is more assured.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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One is accompanied by the following inscription, being two
lines (Hexameter and
Pentameter)
broken into halves:--
"Vive, bibe, obgregare, memor
Fausti hujus et hujus
P?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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