Do thou make
offering
for me--for the rite
I know not--as is meet on the tenth night.
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Euripides - Electra |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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what are you
proposing
to do?
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Aristophanes |
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Among those who came to look at him and to listen to him was the
daughter of a little king who lived a great way off; and when he
saw her he loved, for she was beautiful, with a strange and pale
beauty unlike the women of his land; but Dana, the great mother, had
decreed her a heart that was but as the heart of others, and when she
considered the mystery of the hawk feathers she was
troubled
with a
great horror.
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Yeats |
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Light was my sleep; my days in transport roll'd:
With
thoughtless
joy I stretch'd along the shore
My father's nets, or watched, when from the fold
High o'er the cliffs I led my fleecy store,
A dizzy depth below!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Raving winds around her blowing,
Yellow leaves the woodlands strowing,
By a river hoarsely roaring,
Isabella stray'd deploring--
"Farewell, hours that late did measure
Sunshine
days of joy and pleasure;
Hail, thou gloomy night of sorrow,
Cheerless night that knows no morrow!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Unguided hence my trembling steps I bend,
Far hence, before yon
hovering
deaths descend;
Lest the ripe harvest of revenge begun,
I share the doom ye suitors cannot shun.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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the board with cups and spoons is crown'd, 105
The berries crackle, and the mill turns round;
On shining Altars of Japan they raise
The silver lamp; the fiery spirits blaze:
From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide,
While China's earth receives the smoking tide: 110
At once they gratify their scent and taste,
And
frequent
cups prolong the rich repast.
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Alexander Pope |
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The Clown Chastised
Eyes, lakes of my simple passion to be reborn
Other than as the actor who
gestures
with his hand
As with a pen, and evokes the foul soot of the lamps,
Here's a window in the walls of cloth I've torn.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season:
Let us endure an hour and see
injustice
done.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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the only sound,
The
dripping
of the oar suspended!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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As when some heifer, seeking for her steer
Through woodland and deep grove, sinks wearied out
On the green sedge beside a stream, love-lorn,
Nor marks the
gathering
night that calls her home-
As pines that heifer, with such love as hers
May Daphnis pine, and I not care to heal.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Not unknown
To thee, how for three hundred years and more
It dwelt in Alba, up to those fell lists
Where for its sake were met the rival three;
Nor aught unknown to thee, which it achiev'd
Down to the Sabines' wrong to Lucrece' woe,
With its sev'n kings conqu'ring the nation round;
Nor all it wrought, by Roman worthies home
'Gainst Brennus and th' Epirot prince, and hosts
Of single chiefs, or states in league combin'd
Of social warfare; hence Torquatus stern,
And
Quintius
nam'd of his neglected locks,
The Decii, and the Fabii hence acquir'd
Their fame, which I with duteous zeal embalm.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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XXV
All in the open hall amazed stood
At suddeinnesse of that unwarie sight,
And wondred at his
breathlesse
hastie mood.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The Trojan warrior, touch'd with timely fear,
On the raised orb to
distance
bore the spear.
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Iliad - Pope |
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associated
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Stephen Crane |
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That's what I call a genuine art,
To make poor rats with poison
wriggle!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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aut grauibus morbis et lenta corpora tabe
corripit exustis letalis flamma medullis
labentisque rapit populos, totasque per urbis
publica succensis peraguntur iusta sepulcris:
qualis Erechtheos pestis populata colonos
extulit
antiquas
per funera pacis Athenas,
alter in alterius labens cum fata ruebant.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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For he, on roofs ill-starred,
Defiling
and polluting, keeps a ghastly ward!
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Aeschylus |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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for while I sang,
And with poor skill let pass into the breeze
The dull shell's echo, from a bowery strand
Just opposite, an island of the sea,
There came enchantment with the
shifting
wind,
That did both drown and keep alive my ears.
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Keats |
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--
Had any smart gallant
supplied
my place,
Said he, I might put up with this disgrace;
But naught consoles the thought of such a beast;
Dan Cupid wantons, or is blind at least;
A bet, or some such whim, induc'd the god,
To give his sanction to amours so odd.
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La Fontaine |
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No mercenary bard his homage pays;
With honest pride, I scorn each selfish end,
My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise:
To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays,
The lowly train in life's sequester'd scene,
The native
feelings
strong, the guileless ways,
What Aiken in a cottage would have been;
Ah!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Make all our Trumpets speak, giue the[m] all breath
Those
clamorous
Harbingers of Blood, & Death.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Daffodil
bulbs instead of balls
Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
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T.S. Eliot |
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Und mein
Gefangner
warst denn du?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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They tried to use in poetry the language of common speech, the language
of Italy rather than that of Rome, and to bring into
literature
once
again colour and motion.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'
And still they led him onwards, and he still
Looked back towards her
standing
there; and they, content,
Cheered him and praised him that he did their will.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
But the people
kneeling
before the Bishop's chair
Forget the passing over the cobbles in the square.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Not anything you do can make you mine,
For
enterprise
with equal charity
In duty as in love elect will shine,
The constant slave of mutability.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Oft have I seen with solemn funeral games
Heroes and kings
committed
to the flames;
But strength of youth, or valour of the brave,
With nobler contest ne'er renown'd a grave.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Oh the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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blake-poems |
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And if her heart was not at ease,
This was her
constant
cry--
"It was a wicked woman's curse--
God's good, and what care I?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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He
discovers
she's tame, playful and tender and sweet.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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By day she wooes me, soft,
exceeding
fair:
But all night as the moon so changeth she;
Loathsome and foul with hideous leprosy,
And subtle serpents gliding in her hair.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"O thou, who with thy fingers rendest off
Thy coat of proof," thus spake my guide to one,
"And
sometimes
makest tearing pincers of them,
Tell me if any born of Latian land
Be among these within: so may thy nails
Serve thee for everlasting to this toil.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_ You set too high a rate upon
A
shepherdess
so homely.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
(Thus)
Gilgamish
solves (his) dream.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I floated down its
historic
stream in
something more than imagination, under bridges built by the Romans,
and repaired by later heroes, past cities and castles whose very names
were music to my ears, and each of which was the subject of a legend.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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You really will not,
Acharnians?
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Aristophanes |
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Thou hast brought it about that both our peoples,
sons of the Geat and Spear-Dane folk,
shall have mutual peace, and from
murderous
strife,
such as once they waged, from war refrain.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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No--long as life this mortal shall inspire,
Or as my
children
imitate their sire.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Loosed from the yards invite the
impelling
gales.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The Good God and the Evil God
The Good God and the Evil God met on the
mountain
top.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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--No end, no end,
Wilt thou lay to
lamentations?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Round eastward
slanteth
the mast;
As the sleep-walker waked with pain,
White-clothed in the midnight blast,
Doth stare and quake, and stride again
To houseward all aghast.
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Sidney Lanier |
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I shall abide the first blow just as
I sit, and will stand him a stroke, stiff on this floor,
provided
that
I deal him another in return.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the
thistles
and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and compelled to the chaste.
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blake-poems |
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" Will it respond:
"When
battered
helm is doffed, how soft is purple
On which to lay the head, lulled by the praise
Of thousand fluttering fans of flatterers!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
The clock is on the stroke of twelve,
And Johnny is not yet in sight,
The moon's in heaven, as Betty sees,
But Betty is not quite at ease;
And Susan has a
dreadful
night.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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THE crackling embers on the hearth are dead;
The indoor note of industry is still;
The latch is fast; upon the window-sill
The small birds wait not for their daily bread;
The voiceless flowers--how quietly they shed
Their nightly odours; and the household ill
Murmurs
continuous
dulcet sounds that fill
The vacant expectation, and the dread
Of listening night.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Baudelaire
is more human than Poe.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Such an one as women draw away from For the tobacco ashes scattered on his coat And sith his throat
Show razor's
unfamiliarity
And three days' beard:
Such an one picking a ragged Backless copy from the stall,
Too cheap for cataloguing, Loquitur,
"Ah-eh!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Albeytte hee wythe lowes[119] of fyre ybrente[120],
Yett
Bourtonne
woulde agenste hys val[121] advance.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
and he knew that it was mine, --
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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blake-poems |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The morning fluttered, staggered,
Felt feebly for her crown, --
Her
unanointed
forehead
Henceforth her only one.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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This
murtherous
Shaft that's shot,
Hath not yet lighted: and our safest way,
Is to auoid the ayme.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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<< Comme un tout jeune oiseau qui tremble et qui palpite,
J'arracherai ce coeur tout rouge de son sein,
Et, pour rassasier ma bete favorite,
Je le lui
jetterai
par terre avec dedain!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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LXXXI
Hark, love, to the tambourines
Of the
minstrels
in the street,
And one voice that throbs and soars
Clear above the clashing time!
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Sappho |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Through all these
poems there sounds like a subdued accompaniment a note of
gratitude
for
the ability to thus vision the world, to be sunk in the music of all
things.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And would be all or nothing--nor could wait
For the sure grave to level him; few years
Had fixed him with the Caesars in his fate,
On whom we tread: For THIS the
conqueror
rears
The arch of triumph!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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When his sleep was of the
deepest the beggar knelt down and prayed aloud, and said, "O Thou Who
dwellest beyond the stars, show forth Thy power as at the beginning,
and let
knowledge
sent from Thee awaken in his mind, wherein is nothing
from the world, that the nine orders of angels may glorify Thy name";
and then a light broke out of the air and wrapped Aodh, and I smelt the
breath of roses.
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Yeats |
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"
To him
experienced
Nestor thus rejoin'd:
"O friend!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Der Herr der Ratten und der Mause,
Der Fliegen, Frosche, Wanzen, Lause
Befiehlt dir, dich hervor zu wagen
Und diese
Schwelle
zu benagen,
So wie er sie mit Ol betupft-
Da kommst du schon hervorgehupft!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It is
quite the most
engrossing
one in the world.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Henceforth
in my name
Take courage, O thou woman,--man, take hope!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a fascinating comment on the
Classical
Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Seia a goddess of sowing, and Greek σάω σήθω), as though
_sia_ were the imperative of the verb _sio_ (moisten)[22], and as
though, finally,
_berber_
were to be connected with the Greek βόρβορυς
and meant 'loam'?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'Tis
mountain
wolves', not horses' food!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Ma lievemente al fondo che divora
Lucifero
con Giuda, ci sposo;
ne, si chinato, li fece dimora,
e come albero in nave si levo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Why how now Hecat, you looke
angerly?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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5
I who am not great enough to
Love thee with this mortal body
So impassionate with ardour,
But oh, not too small to worship
While the sun shall shine,-- 10
I would build a
fragrant
temple
To thee, in the dark green forest,
Of red cedar and fine sandal,
And there love thee with sweet service
All my whole life long.
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Sappho |
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"
CII
And Berenger, he strikes Estramariz,
The shield he breaks, the hauberk tears and splits,
Thrusts his stout spear through's middle, and him flings
Down dead among a
thousand
Sarrazins.
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Chanson de Roland |
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5
I who am not great enough to
Love thee with this mortal body
So impassionate with ardour,
But oh, not too small to worship
While the sun shall shine,-- 10
I would build a
fragrant
temple
To thee, in the dark green forest,
Of red cedar and fine sandal,
And there love thee with sweet service
All my whole life long.
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Sappho |
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We have not been
discovering what an epic poem ought to be, but roughly examining what
similarity of quality there is in all those poems which we feel,
strictly attending to the
emotional
experience of reading them, can be
classed together and, for convenience, termed epic.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The other, next to me that beats the sand,
Is Aldobrandi, name
deserving
well,
In the' upper world, of honour; and myself
Who in this torment do partake with them,
Am Rusticucci, whom, past doubt, my wife
Of savage temper, more than aught beside
Hath to this evil brought.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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--Je rentre dans la foule
Dans la grande canaille
effroyable
qui roule,
Sire, tes vieux canons sur les sales paves;
--Oh!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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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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Her public is the noon,
Her
providence
the sun,
Her progress by the bee proclaimed
In sovereign, swerveless tune.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Yours, yes,
Retaining alone of the
vanished
sky, this
Trace of childish triumph as you spread each tress,
Gleaming as you show it against the pillows,
Like the helmet of war of a child-empress
From which, to denote you, would pour down roses.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The wind through the white
garments
softly stirred
And they grew vari-coloured in each fold
And each fold hidden blossoms seemed to hold
And flowers and stars and fluting notes of bird,
And dim, quaint figures shimmering like gold
Seemed to come forth from distant myths of old.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Wir mussen gleich verschwinden
Denn schon entsteht ein
morderlich
Geschrei.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Ah, ah,
Heosphoros!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Whose beauty greater seemed by her
distress
i.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Hold me, my love — I know the answer now, O wayward, ever
wandering
feet of man— Always the journey ends where it began !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Because
Helen was wanton, and her master knew
No curb for her: for that, for that, he slew
My
daughter!
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Euripides - Electra |
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[XXVIII 47]
Fufficius LIV 5 [Sufficius LIV 11: _uide_ carmen LIV]
End of the Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Catulli Carmina, by
C.
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Latin - Catullus |
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--cinders, ashes, dust;
Love in a palace is perhaps at last
More grievous torment than a hermit's fast--
That is a
doubtful
tale from faery land,
Hard for the non-elect to understand.
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Keats - Lamia |
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in
mutinous
game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The elements freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Internal
evidence shows
that No.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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ROME
BUILDING A NEW STREET IN THE ANCIENT QUARTER
(_April_, 1887)
THESE numbered cliffs and gnarls of masonry
Outskeleton
Time's central city, Rome;
Whereof each arch, entablature, and dome
Lies bare in all its gaunt anatomy.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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