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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Each pore and natural outlet shrivell'd up
By ignorance and
parching
poverty,
His energies roll back upon his heart,
And stagnate and corrupt; till changed to poison,
They break out on him, like a loathsome plague-spot;
Then we call in our pamper'd mountebanks--
And this is their best cure!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Ididnotknow One half the
substance
of his speech with me.
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So passed another day, and so the third:
Then did I try, in vain, the crowd's resort,
In deep despair by frightful wishes stirr'd,
Near the sea-side I reached a ruined fort:
There, pains which nature could no more support,
With blindness linked, did on my vitals fall;
Dizzy my brain, with
interruption
short
Of hideous sense; I sunk, nor step could crawl,
And thence was borne away to neighbouring hospital.
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'Father,' I said, ''tis known to Thee
How Thou thy Saints preparest;
But this I see,--Saint Charity
Is still the first and
fairest!
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic
philosopher
(368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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One
venturous
day Love came;
Found us; and bound with a link
Of gold the jewels he prized.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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Judith, we are two upright minds in this
Herd of
grovelling
cowardice.
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Through him the whole system of
Monopolies
is indirectly
criticised.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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ise freres don also; prechen aboute ylome,
ffor of
prechyng
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69 Certain of these animals, milk-white, and untouched by earthly labor, are
pastured
at the public expense in the sacred woods and groves.
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Man's love follows many faces,
My love only one face knoweth;
Towards thee only my love floweth,
And
outstrips
the swift stream's paces.
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= Walking-sticks of various sorts are
mentioned during the
sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The
descent into the valley on the Nashua side is by far the most sudden;
and a couple of miles brought us to the
southern
branch of the Nashua,
a shallow but rapid stream, flowing between high and gravelly banks.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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TRIBOULET:: Obey me,
Blanche!
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Stealthily
I slipped away.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: XLIII
Now fearfulness, and now hopefulness
Pitch camp in every part of my heart:
Neither, in war, can take the victor's part,
Equal in
fortitude
and forcefulness.
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Ronsard |
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In one he doth
accounts
behold,
Here bottles stand in close array,
There jars of cider block the way,
An almanac but eight years old.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast brilliant light
Beneath hideous
centuries
that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"Be silent, darling, you must come--
The wind is off shore blowing;
You only change your prison dull
For one that's splendid,
glowing!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Vers le ciel quelquefois, comme l'homme d'Ovide,
Vers le ciel ironique et cruellement bleu,
Sur son cou convulsif tendant sa tete avide,
Comme s'il adressait des
reproches
a Dieu!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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There Was a Child Went Forth
There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,
And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,
Or for many years or
stretching
cycles of years.
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or in womanly
housework?
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Whitman |
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Was he afraid, or
tranquil?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast
brilliant
light
Beneath hideous centuries that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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There, two gleaming rubies stand erectly,
Whose crimson rays set off that ivory,
Smoothed so
uniformly
on every side:
There all grace abounds, and every worth,
And beauty, if there's any on this earth,
Flies to rest there in that sweet paradise.
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Ronsard |
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Now the court-sins did every place defile,
And plagues and war fall heavy on the isle ;
Pride
nourished
folly, folly a delight.
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Marvell - Poems |
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But first I mean
To
exercise
him in the Wilderness,
There he shall first lay down the rudiments
Of his great warfare, e're I send him forth
To conquer Sin and Death the two grand foes,
By Humiliation and strong Sufferance: 160
His weakness shall o'recome Satanic strength
And all the world, and mass of sinful flesh;
That all the Angels and Aetherial Powers,
They now, and men hereafter may discern,
From what consummate vertue I have chose
This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son,
To earn Salvation for the Sons of men.
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Milton |
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Of all the things I crave,
The
thousand
things, or all that others have,
What should I pray for?
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Euripides - Electra |
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A dust-bin and a lumber-garret,
At most a mock-heroic play[8]
With fine,
pragmatic
maxims teeming,
The mouths of puppets well-beseeming!
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Wenn ihr euch so im Kreise drehen wolltet,
Wie er's in seiner alten Muhle tut
Das hiess' er allenfalls noch gut
Besonders
wenn ihr ihn darum begrussen solltet.
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And even for husbands (whose own wives,
Although
of fertile wombs, have borne for them
No babies in the house) are also found
Concordant natures so that they at last
Can bulwark their old age with goodly sons.
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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And
Goodyere
preserved
his letters and his poems.
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{40d} A hard saying,
variously
interpreted.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The warden of Geats,
with bolt from bow, then balked of life,
of wave-work, one monster, amid its heart
went the keen war-shaft; in water it seemed
less doughty in
swimming
whom death had seized.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The learned man
profits others rather than himself; the good man rather himself than
others; but the prince
commands
others, and doth himself.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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'T was sooner when the cricket went
Than when the winter came,
Yet that pathetic pendulum
Keeps
esoteric
time.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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One morning we set forth with
thoughts
aflame,
Or heart o'erladen with desire or shame;
And cradle, to the song of surge and breeze,
Our own infinity on the finite seas.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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(2) From among these vices we may
distinguish in nearly every play a single
character
as in a preeminent
degree the embodiment of evil.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
The night's
performance
was "King John.
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Lewis Carroll |
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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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You filthy
villainous
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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It is all I need
to make my life perfect, for the very 'Spirit of Delight' that
Shelley wrote of dwells in my little home; it is full of the
music of birds in the garden and
children
in the long arched
verandah.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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_Chiefe_
has put mee here in flesh, [141]
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XVII
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
Bearing the fire of Heaven's menaces,
Heaven feared not the dire audaciousness,
That so stoked the Giants'
reckless
might.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Hard by the Lake Regillus
Our camp was pitched at night:
Eastward
a mile the Latines lay,
Under the Porcian height.
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The idea of Fate 'arose from the
observation
of the
regularity of the sidereal movements'.
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John Donne |
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they need not seem
Brighter
or stiller in my dream.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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This
precipice
is not sloped, nor is the material soft and crumbling
slate as at Montmorenci, but it rises perpendicular, like the side of
a mountain fortress, and is cracked into vast cubical masses of gray
and black rock shining with moisture, as if it were the ruin of an
ancient wall built by Titans.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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See to it that both act honourably,
Once over, bring the
conqueror
to me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Play up thy
flawless
silver flute; 5
Dead ripe are fruit and grain.
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the bystanders started--
His mouth foams, his face
blackens
horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Stroke the cool forehead, hot so often,
Lift, if you can, the listless hair;
Handle the
adamantine
fingers
Never a thimble more shall wear.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Parents and children and
grandchildren
all
Memory's affections in the lists recall.
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Now virgins came bearing
Caskets
securely
locked, richly wreathed with grain.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Tennyson |
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So weeps the wounded balsam ; so
The holy frankincense doth flow ;
The brotherless
Heliades
Melt in such amber tears as these.
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Marvell - Poems |
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'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
When Uricon the city stood:
'Tis the old wind in the old anger,
But then it
threshed
another wood.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Whether there was perfect consistency between this hatred to
the Pope and his thinking, as he
certainly
did for a time, of becoming
his secretary, may admit of a doubt.
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10
Have the laden galleons been sighted
Stoutly
labouring
up the sea from Tyre?
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Yet in the morning fresh afield they hie,
Bidding the last day's
troubles
all goodbye;
When red pied cow again their coming hears,
And ere they clap the gate she tosses up
Her head and hastens from the sport she fears:
The old yoe calls her lamb nor cares to stoop
To crop a cowslip in their company.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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WATTEAU, the
carnival
of illustrious hearts,
Fluttering like moths upon the wings of chance;
Bright lustres light the silk that flames and darts,
And pour down folly on the whirling dance.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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PORTRAIT OF A MACHINE
What nudity is beautiful as this
Obedient monster purring at its toil;
These naked iron muscles
dripping
oil
And the sure-fingered rods that never miss.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Would ye not break out in weeping and confess
yourselves
too weak?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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And said: until thy latest minute
Preserve,
preserve
my Talisman;
A secret power it holds within it--
'Twas love, true love the gift did plan.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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), and others; but so much is uncertain in this field that
the editors have left undisturbed the marking of vowels found in the text
of their original edition, while
indicating
in the appendices the now
accepted views of scholars on the quantity of the personal pronouns (mē,
wē, þū, þē, gē, hē); the adverb nū, etc.
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Beowulf |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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why the man was hanged ten year ago:
Who now that
obsolete
example fears?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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If quicksilver were gold,
And troubled pools of it shaking in the sun
It were not such a fancy of
bickering
gleam
As Ryton daffodils when the air but stirs.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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QUITE terrified, poor lad, he scarcely knew;
Her fury was so great, what best to do;
If he allowed that he had acted wrong,
'Twould wound his
conscience
and defile his tongue.
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La Fontaine |
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e loud & hey,
Sire
Eufemian
he grette, 270
& seyde wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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THE MOON
Time wears her not; she doth his chariot guide;
Mortality
below her orb is placed.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Edardus felle upon the bloudie grounde,
His noble soule came
roushyng
from the wounde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Lear's works, and
state your theory, if you have any, as to the
character
and
appearance of Nupiter Piffkin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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'
_'Tresvolontiers;' _and he
proceeded
to his library, brought me a Dr.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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--2) personal: þanon
untȳdras
ealle on-wōcon (_from him_,
i.
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Beowulf |
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Methinks
he cometh late and tarries long.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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)
Black
Infantry
at that!
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Kipling - Poems |
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and who will fix the site of the pool in Rydal
Upper Park,
immortalised
in the poem 'To M.
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William Wordsworth |
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_The Age of Bronze_ was
reviewed
in the _Scots Magazine_, April, 1823,
N.
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Byron |
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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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At last it enjoys a mood of happy
Contemplation
of
the past with bright prospects for the future.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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IONE:
Dear sister, close thy plumes over thine eyes
Lest thou behold and die: they come: they come _440
Blackening the birth of day with
countless
wings,
And hollow underneath, like death.
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Shelley |
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Livia
and Sejanus are said by Tacitus, to have
restrained
the worst passions
of the Emperor.
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Tacitus |
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If he picked himself and said, "I am ready to die,"
if he gave his name and said, "My country, take me,"
then the baskets of roses to-day are for the Boy,
the flowers, the songs, the steamboat whistles,
the proclamations of the
honorable
orators,
they are all for the Boy--that's him.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not satisfied I see
Until I
languish
in distress.
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Villon |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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XII
NOT in any wise would the earls'-defence {12a}
suffer that slaughterous
stranger
to live,
useless deeming his days and years
to men on earth.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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FAUST (laut):
Gretchen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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_ Thou
speakest
in the shadow of thy change.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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Ye, who would more of Spain and Spaniards know,
Go, read whate'er is writ of
bloodiest
strife:
Whate'er keen Vengeance urged on foreign foe
Can act, is acting there against man's life:
From flashing scimitar to secret knife,
War mouldeth there each weapon to his need--
So may he guard the sister and the wife,
So may he make each curst oppressor bleed,
So may such foes deserve the most remorseless deed!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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For the
egotist is he who makes claims upon others, and the
Individualist
will
not desire to do that.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Au gibet noir, manchot aimable,
Dansent, dansent les paladins,
Les maigres
paladins
du diable,
Les squelettes de Saladins.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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