Nearly all the
individual
works in the
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So grievous is the spell, the trance so deep,
Loud though we call, my hope is faint that e'er
She yet will waken from her heavy sleep:
But not, methinks, without some better end
Was this our Rome
entrusted
to thy care,
Who surest may revive and best defend.
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Petrarch |
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Then, bathed and fresh attired,
Penelope
ascended with her train
The upper palace, and a basket stored
With hallow'd cakes off'ring, to Pallas pray'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of the Hague,
Whose ideas were
excessively
vague;
He built a balloon to examine the moon,
That deluded Old Man of the Hague.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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So him and Tom they hitched up the mules,
Pertestin' that folks was mighty big fools
That 'ud stay in Georgy ther
lifetime
out,
Jest scratchin' a livin' when all of 'em mought
Git places in Texas whar cotton would sprout
By the time you could plant it in the land.
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Sidney Lanier |
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are my Emanations Enion [Come Forth,] O Enion
We are become a Victim to the Living We hide in secret*
I have hidden thee Enion, in Jealous Despair Jerusalem in Silent Contrition O Pity Me
I will build thee a Labyrinth also O pity me O Enionwhere we may remain for ever alone
Why hast thou taken sweet Jerusalem from my inmost Soul
Let her Lay secret in the Soft recess of
darkness
& silence
It is not Love I bear to Enitharmon [Jerusalem?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM A
Companion
Piece For Drafter Jia Zhi?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Revivd her Soul with lives of beasts & birds
Slain on the Altar up ascending into her cloudy bosom
Of terrible
workmanship
the Altar labour of ten thousand Slaves
One thousand Men of wondrous power spent their lives in its formation
It stood on twelve steps namd after the names of her twelve sons
And was Erected at the chief entrance of Urizens hall
When Urizen descended returnd from his immense labours & travels
Descending She reposd beside him folding him around
In her bright skirts.
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Blake - Zoas |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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How long, O Lord, how long in my
desperate
pain
Shall I weep and watch, shall I weep and long for Thee?
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Christina Rossetti |
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If thou lovest me then,
Steal forth thy father's house to-morrow night;
And in the wood, a league without the town,
Where I did meet thee once with Helena
To do
observance
to a morn of May,
There will I stay for thee.
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Shakespeare |
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Eftsoones
he perced through his chaufed chest 375
With thrilling point of deadly yron brand,
And launcht his Lordly hart: with death opprest
He roar'd aloud, whiles life forsooke his stubborne brest.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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Seals in all periods
frequently
represent Enkidu in combat
with a lion.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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[Within] A pox o' your
throats!
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Shakespeare |
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E'en chilly Albion admires,
The grand example Europe fires;
America shall clap her hands,
When swiftly o'er the
Atlantic
wave,
Fame sounds the news of how the brave,
In three bright days, have burst their bands!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Jonathan
Cape, Chatto and Windus, R.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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" KAU}
His billows roll where monsters wander in the foamy paths
On clouds the Sons of Urizen beheld Heaven walled round {Irretrievable word
following
"beheld.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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This is the day, when from the dead
Our Lord arose; and everywhere,
Out of their
darkness
and despair,
Triumphant over fears and foes,
The hearts of his disciples rose,
When to the women, standing near,
The Angel in shining vesture said,
"The Lord is risen; he is not here!
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Longfellow |
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What, are your hands still
nerveless?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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_--Confucius
inculcated
the duty of public service.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thus lies the sea-shell
Under the rustling
twilight
of the sea;
No gods remember it, no understanding
Cleaves the long darkness with a sword of light.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It is perhaps the only translation
of the _Odes_ which retains what Dryden calls their 'noble and bold
purity' and at the same time keeps the friendly and
familiar
strokes of
style which lighten Horace's graver moods.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Tu contiens, mer d'ebene, un eblouissant reve
De voiles, de rameurs, de flammes et de mats:
Un port
retentissant
ou mon ame peut boire
A grands flots le parfum, le son et la couleur;
Ou les vaisseaux, glissant dans l'or et dans la moire,
Ouvrent leurs vastes bras pour embrasser la gloire
D'un ciel pur ou fremit l'eternelle chaleur.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Where chiefly shall I look
To feel thy
presence
near?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He has outsoared the envy of gods and men,
False fortune and the dark and
treacherous
way,
--Scatheless: he never lived to pray for death,
Nor sinned--to fear her, nor deserved to die.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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That thou mayst mark more clearly what I trace,
My hand shall stretch forth to inform the lines
With
livelier
colouring.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Can the spice-rose
drip such acrid fragrance
hardened
in a leaf?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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the lotus-buds upon the stream
Are
stirring
like sweet maidens when they dream.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
"What will all the
courtiers
say
When in the place of her they find two men?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thou giv'st the word: Thy creature, man,
Is to
existence
brought;
Again thou say'st, "Ye sons of men,
Return ye into nought!
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Robert Burns |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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Emerson - Poems |
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and they meant the word,
Not as with us 'tis heard,
Not a mere party shout:
They gave their spirits out;
Trusted the end to God,
And on the gory sod
Rolled in
triumphant
blood.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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We would prefer to send you this
information
by email.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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620
Lat not this
wrecched
wo thin herte gnawe,
But manly set the world on sixe and sevene;
And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And with the gipsies there will be a king
And a thousand
desperadoes
just his style,
With all their rags dyed in the blood of roses,
Splashed with the blood of angels, and of demons.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Guerrier of Paris has
exploded
a darling superstition about De Quincey's
opium-eating.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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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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Therefore he
dissolved
himself like a mist and returned to his
gas-plugs without a word of apology.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Elle saigna du nez,
Et se sentant bien chaste et pleine de faiblesse,
Pour
savourer
en Dieu son amour revenant,
Elle eut soif de la nuit ou s'exalte et s'abaisse
Le coeur, sous l'oeil des cieux doux, en les devinant;
De la nuit, Vierge-Mere impalpable qui baigne
Tous les jeunes emois de ses silences gris;
Elle eut soif de la nuit forte ou le coeur qui saigne
Ecoute sans temoin sa revolte sans cris.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But the dead branch spoke from the sod,
And the eggs answered me again: 20
Because we failed dost thou
complain?
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
Yet still her heart, which
torments
tear,
Guards fondly hope's uncertain dream.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And now I go--as others already
crucified
have gone.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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'And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love;
And these black bodies and this
sunburnt
face
Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Of sackcloth was thy wedding garment made:
Thy bridal's fruit is ashes; in the dust
The fair-haired Daughter of the Isles is laid,
The love of
millions!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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In the Greek poets, as also in Plautus, we shall see the
economy and
disposition
of poems better observed than in Terence; and the
latter, who thought the sole grace and virtue of their fable the sticking
in of sentences, as ours do the forcing in of jests.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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They who are at work abroad are not cold,
but rather it is they who sit
shivering
in houses.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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His shrapnel helmet set atilt,
His bombing
waistcoat
sagging low,
His rifle slung across his back:
Poised in the very act to throw.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The variation in printed characters between the dominant motif, a secondary one and those adjacent, marks its importance for oral
utterance
and the scale, mid-way, at top or bottom of the page will show how the intonation rises or falls.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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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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Difficult
is it, alas, to conceal the shame of a monarch;
Hide it can neither his crown, nor a tight Phrygian cap:
Midas has asses ears!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Blessed are you whose
worthiness
gives scope,
Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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- What have you done, O you there
Who
endlessly
cry,
Say: what have you done, there
With youth gone by?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And, with nor pretext nor occasion,
Its wooing redoubles;
And pounds the ground, and bubbles
In
sputtering
spray,
Flinging itself in a fury
Of flashing white away;
Till the dusty road,
Dank-perfumed, is o'erflowed;
And the grass, and the wide-hung trees,
The vines, the flowers in their beds,--
The virid corn that to the breeze
Rustles along the garden-rows,--
Visibly lift their heads,
And, as the quick shower wilder grows,
Upleap with answering kisses to the rain.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Another feature is the
excessive
use of historical allusions.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Toward God a mighty hymn,
A song of collisions and cries,
Rumbling
wheels, hoof-beats, bells,
Welcomes, farewells, love-calls, final moans,
Voices of joy, idiocy, warning, despair,
The unknown appeals of brutes,
The chanting of flowers,
The screams of cut trees,
The senseless babble of hens and wise men--
A cluttered incoherency that says at the
stars;
"O God, save us!
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Stephen Crane |
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The wind and I, we both were there,
But neither long abode;
Now through the
friendless
world we fare
And sigh upon the road.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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UPON LOVE:
BY WAY OF
QUESTION
AND ANSWER
I bring ye love.
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Robert Herrick |
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37 BC
THE ECLOGUES
by Virgil
ECLOGUE I
MELIBOEUS TITYRUS
MELIBOEUS
You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy
Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse
Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,
And home's
familiar
bounds, even now depart.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Blest son of Peleus,
semblance
of the Gods,
At Ilium, far from Argos, fall'n!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
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blake-poems |
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DANSE MACABRE
A ERNEST CHRISTOPHE
Fiere, autant qu'un vivant, de sa noble stature,
Avec son gros bouquet, son mouchoir et ses gants,
Elle a la nonchalance et la desinvolture
D'une
coquette
maigre aux airs extravagants.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Wasna I mony a day living here, and what for
shouldna
I ken the road?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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VI
As in her chariot the
Phrygian
goddess rode,
Crowned with high turrets, happy to have borne
Such quantity of gods, so her I mourn,
This ancient city, once whole worlds bestrode:
On whom, more than the Phrygian, was bestowed
A wealth of progeny, whose power at dawn
Was the world's power, her grandeur, now shorn,
Knowing no match to that which from her flowed.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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' I
wondered
at the words he spake, but I knew that his were
no idle words.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It gazed for a
few seconds, fixedly and sorrowfully, with its decaying and lack-lustre
eyes, full into the
countenance
of Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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Preserve, preserve the sacred purity
Of innocence and proud shamefacedness;
He, who through passion has been wont to wallow
In vicious
pleasures
in his youthful days,
Becomes in manhood bloodthirsty and surly;
His mind untimely darkens.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--what miserable agitation
Seizes this
demigod!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Ev'n godly
meetings
o' the saunts,
By thee inspir'd,
When gaping they besiege the tents,
Are doubly fir'd.
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Robert Forst |
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So, in the man who sings,
All of the voiceless horde
From the cold dawn of things
Have their reward;
All in whose pulses ran
Blood that is his at last,
From the first stooping man
Far in the
winnowed
past.
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Sara Teasdale |
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In three eternal Persons I believe,
Essence threefold and one,
mysterious
league
Of union absolute, which, many a time,
The word of gospel lore upon my mind
Imprints: and from this germ, this firstling spark,
The lively flame dilates, and like heav'n's star
Doth glitter in me.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I would have stood,
and watched and watched
and burned,
and when in the night,
from the many hosts, your slaves,
and warriors and serving men
you had turned
to the purple couch and the flame
of the woman, tall like cypress tree
that flames sudden and swift and free
as with crackle of golden resin
and cones and the locks flung free
like the cypress limbs,
bound, caught and shaken and loosed,
bound, caught and riven and bound
and
loosened
again,
as in rain of a kingly storm
or wind full from a desert plain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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For not the
whispering
south-wind on its way
So much delights me, nor wave-smitten beach,
Nor streams that race adown their bouldered beds.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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He
trembles
for Orestes' wrath?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Royalty
payments should be clearly marked as such and sent to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation at the address specified in
Section 4, "Information about donations to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Ay,
worshipful
sir.
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Longfellow |
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Calais, the wind is come and heaven pales And
trembles
for the love of day to be.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Tell my friends,
Tell Athens, in the
sequence
of degree
From high to low throughout, that whoso please
To stop affliction, let him take his haste,
Come hither, ere my tree hath felt the axe,
And hang himself.
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So, too, they sought the grottos of the Nymphs--
The woodland haunts discovered as they ranged--
From forth of which they knew that gliding rills
With gush and splash
abounding
laved the rocks,
The dripping rocks, and trickled from above
Over the verdant moss; and here and there
Welled up and burst across the open flats.
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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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La forma general di paradiso
gia tutta mio sguardo avea compresa,
in nulla parte ancor fermato fiso;
e volgeami con voglia riaccesa
per
domandar
la mia donna di cose
di che la mente mia era sospesa.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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To me the dialect was native, was
spoken all about me when a boy, at a time when an Irish day-laborer was
as rare as an
American
one now.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The castle seemed the very nest and lair
Of animal,
supplied
with plume and quill.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Even the little sketch of Sir Plume
is
instinct
with life.
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Alexander Pope |
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born in happier days;
Immortal heirs of
universal
praise!
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Alexander Pope |
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He saw them in thir forms of battell rang'd,
How quick they wheel'd, and flying behind them shot
Sharp sleet of arrowie showers against the face
Of thir pursuers, and overcame by flight;
The field all iron cast a gleaming brown,
Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor on each horn,
Cuirassiers all in steel for standing fight;
Chariots or Elephants endorst with Towers
Of Archers, nor of labouring Pioners 330
A multitude with Spades and Axes arm'd
To lay hills plain, fell woods, or valleys fill,
Or where plain was raise hill, or over-lay
With bridges rivers proud, as with a yoke;
Mules after these, Camels and Dromedaries,
And Waggons fraught with
Utensils
of war.
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Milton |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic
work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The neatherd boy that used to tend the cows,
While getting whip-sticks from the dangling boughs
Of osiers
drooping
by the water-side,
Her bonnet floating on the top espied;
He knew it well, and hastened fearful down
To take the terror of his fears to town,--
A melancholy story, far too true;
And soon the village to the pasture flew,
Where, from the deepest hole the pond about,
They dragged poor Jenny's lifeless body out,
And took her home, where scarce an hour gone by
She had been living like to you and I.
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John Clare |
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_ and a flash
Lightens across the
sunlight
to the elm
Where his mate dangles at her cup of felt.
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James Russell Lowell |
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and forbear,
In my short absence, to
unsluice
a tear;
But yet for love's-sake, let thy lips do this,--
Give my dead picture one engendering kiss;
Work that to life, and let me ever dwell
In thy remembrance, Julia.
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Robert Herrick |
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'Twas then in valleys lone, remote,
In spring-time, heard the cygnet's note
By waters shining tranquilly,
That first the Muse
appeared
to me.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Dread Sire and
Guardian
of man's race,
To Thee, O Jove, the Fates assign
Our Caesar's charge; his power and place
Be next to Thine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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So Hermes thought, and a celestial heat
Burnt from his winged heels to either ear,
That from a whiteness, as the lily clear,
Blush'd into roses 'mid his golden hair,
Fallen in jealous curls about his
shoulders
bare.
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Keats - Lamia |
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THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER
DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED
[FROM SCHILLER]
Strongly it bears us along in
swelling
and limitless billows,
Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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How beautiful to wake at night,
Within the room grown strange, and still, and sweet,
And live a century while in the dark
The dripping wheel of silence slowly turns;
To watch the window open on the night,
A dewy silent deep where nothing stirs,
And, lying thus, to feel dilate within
The press, the conflict, and the heavy pulse
Of incommunicable sad ecstasy,
Growing until the body seems outstretched
In perfect
crucifixion
on the arms
Of a cross pointing from last void to void,
While the heart dies to a mere midway spark.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Turning back was vain:
Soon his heavy mane
Bore them to the ground,
Then he stalked around,
Smelling
to his prey;
But their fears allay
When he licks their hands,
And silent by them stands.
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blake-poems |
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