230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom
assurance
sits
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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After this we have no trace
whatever
of Mar-
vell for some years ; and his biographers have,
as usual, endeavoured to supply the deficiency
by conjecture — some of them so idly, that they
have made him secretary to an embassy which
had then no existence.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience 330
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of
mudcracked
houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water 350
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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denoting
contrariety: hence 1) _but_ (like N.
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Beowulf |
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XX
Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as
beautiful
again
That in the water are;
The pools and rivers wash so clean
The trees and clouds and air,
The like on earth was never seen,
And oh that I were there.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Hence this good cavalier earns fame and praise,
While others
scornful
hoots and laughter raise.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Lucretius |
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)
The final
draught!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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*
Eternity groand & was troubled at the Image of Eternal Death
The Wandering Man bow'd his faint head and Urizen descended
And the one must have murderd the other if he had not descended *
Indignant
muttering
low thunders; Urizen descended
Gloomy sounding, Now I am God from Eternity to Eternity
Sullen sat Los plotting Revenge.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"Ic wæs ende-sǣta, ǣg-wearde hēold,
"þæt on land Dena lāðra nǣnig
"mid scip-herge
sceððan
ne meahte.
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Beowulf |
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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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'But chief, ambiguous Man, he that can know
More misery, and dream more joy than all; _135
Whose keen sensations thrill within his breast
To mingle with a loftier instinct there,
Lending their power to pleasure and to pain,
Yet raising, sharpening, and refining each;
Who stands amid the ever-varying world, _140
The burthen or the glory of the earth;
He chief
perceives
the change, his being notes
The gradual renovation, and defines
Each movement of its progress on his mind.
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Shelley |
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Verse-nous ton poison pour qu'il nous
reconforte!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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--Sun, who tarries on high,
contemplating
Rome:
Greater never you've nor shall you in future see greater
Than Rome, O sun, as your priest, Horace, enraptured foretold.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Email
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Foundation's web site and
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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(_To know
Also, I've sold myself,--is that so
pleasant_?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Death reached out three crooked claws
To still my
clamoring
pain.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Those gods you
endlessly
weep will return!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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AWAY the Roman flew, Joconde to get,
(So nam'd was he in whom these features met;)
'Midst woods and lawns, retir'd from city strife,
And lately wedded to a
beauteous
wife;
If bless'd, I know not; but with such a fair,
On him must rest the folly to despair.
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La Fontaine |
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Then
suddenly
there was a great light--
"Let me into the darkness again.
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Stephen Crane |
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ou hast
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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We thank your
Lordship
and your loyal city.
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Tennyson |
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I held what I
inherited
in thee
As pawn for that inheritance of freedom
Which thou hast sold for thy despoiler's smile: _5
How can I call thee England, or my country?
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Shelley |
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'
Now is there anythin' on airth'll ever prove to me
Thet
renegader
slaves like him air fit fer bein' free?
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James Russell Lowell |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The starry fable of the milky way
Has not thy story's purity; it is
A constellation of a sweeter ray,
And sacred Nature
triumphs
more in this
Reverse of her decree, than in the abyss
Where sparkle distant worlds:--Oh, holiest nurse!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Keats |
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'
Pitying, I dropped a tear:
But I saw a glow-worm near,
Who replied, 'What wailing wight
Calls the
watchman
of the night?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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This Nizam ul Mulk, in his Wasiyat--or
Testament--which he wrote and left as a Memorial for future
Statesmen--relates the following, as quoted in the
Calcutta
Review,
No.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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He later changed his mind and
incorporated
it into the text.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
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John Clare |
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The meadows mine, the mountains mine, --
All forests,
stintless
stars,
As much of noon as I could take
Between my finite eyes.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Worshipping
then among the depth of things,
As piety ordained; could I submit 185
To measured admiration, or to aught
That should preclude humility and love?
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William Wordsworth |
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Know
therefore
that the sword is a cursed thing
Which the wise man uses only if he must.
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Li Po |
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But, has he a friend that would dispute my claim
With this my sword which I have girt in place
My
judgement
will I warrant every way.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Far hence is every light celestial gone,
That guides mankind through life's perplexing maze;
And those, whom Helicon's sweet waters please,
From mocking crowds receive
contempt
alone.
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Petrarch |
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The fire within the heart so burns us up
That we would wander Hell and Heaven through,
Deep in the Unknown seeking
something
_new_!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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ge-seah hangian (_the
Ruler of men
permitted
me to see hanging .
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Beowulf |
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When the group of people arose at last
And laughed and talked in a merry tone,
As lingeringly through the rooms they passed
I saw that she
followed
alone.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Holy Satyr _151_
Lais _153_
Heliodora _156_
Toward the Piraeus _161_
_Slay with your eyes, Greek_
_You would have broken my wings_
_I loved you_
_What had you done_
_If I had been a boy_
_It was not chastity that made me cold_
CONRAD AIKEN
Seven Twilights _171_
_The ragged pilgrim on the road to nowhere_
_Now by the wall of the ancient town_
_When the tree bares, the music of it changes_
_"This is the hour," she says, "of transmutation"_
_Now the great wheel of
darkness
and low clouds_
_Heaven, you say, will be a field in April_
_In the long silence of the sea_
Tetelestai _184_
EDNA ST.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Emerson - Poems |
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As to trees the vine
Is crown of glory, as to vines the grape,
Bulls to the herd, to
fruitful
fields the corn,
So the one glory of thine own art thou.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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X
Daughter
to that good Earl, once President
Of Englands Counsel, and her Treasury,
Who liv'd in both, unstain'd with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content,
Till the sad breaking of that Parlament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory
At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty
Kil'd with report that Old man eloquent,
Though later born, then to have known the dayes
Wherin your Father flourisht, yet by you 10
Madam, me thinks I see him living yet;
So well your words his noble vertues praise,
That all both judge you to relate them true,
And to possess them, Honour'd Margaret.
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Milton |
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Orient and Occident
together
toil,
Ere such a mighty work man rears on high!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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He was born at Old
Aberdeen
on May 19, 1895.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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My Two Daughters
In
pleasant
evening's fresh-clear darkness,
One seems a swan, the other a dove,
Both joyous, both lovely, O sweetness!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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My boy a
bastard!
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Shakespeare |
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We extract a few lines to justify our
admiration
(50 lines,
62-112, quoted).
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Tennyson |
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[A] This
hanselle
hat3 Arthur of auenturus on fyrst,
492 In 3onge 3er, for he 3erned 3elpyng to here,
Tha3 hym worde3 were wane, when ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Or nobly wild, with Budgel's fire and force,
Paint angels
trembling
round his falling horse?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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This is the consequence
of the habits of a state of society to be produced by resolute
perseverance and indefatigable hope, and long-suffering and
long-believing courage, and the systematic efforts of generations of
men of
intellect
and virtue.
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Shelley |
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bigil, mira clar
tenebras!
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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here the forest ledge slopes--
rain has
furrowed
the roots.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor venerates another so,
Nor is it
possible
to thought
A greater than itself to know.
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blake-poems |
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As whan cause is, and som swich fantasye
With pietee so wel repressed is,
That it unnethe dooth or seyth amis,
But goodly
drinketh
up al his distresse; 1035
And that excuse I, for the gentilesse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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I ought to speak out freely
With words though that will take,
For it can scarcely please me
When the
tricksters
rake
More love in than is at stake
For the lover who loves truly.
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Troubador Verse |
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Tenth, second, or first century before Christ--first, eighth,
fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, or even
eighteenth
century
A.
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Whitman |
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Why, I have seen the fire-flies and fire-worms
Sprinkle
the dusky groves and the green banks
In the dim twilight, brighter than yon world
Which bears them.
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Byron |
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O let her
kindling
bosom hold me!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The
moonlight
bay was white all o'er,
Till rising from the same,
Full many shapes, that shadows were,
Like as of torches came.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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To use the
language
of common speech, but to employ always the _exact_
word, not the nearly-exact, nor the merely decorative word.
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Imagists |
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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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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any
country outside the United States.
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Yeats |
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Nay;
He is my lord;
therefore
I hold my peace.
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Euripides - Electra |
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What wonder if those palms were all too hard
For nice distinctions,--if that maenad throng--
They whose thick atmosphere no bard
Had shivered with the lightning of his song,
Brutes with the memories and desires of men,
Whose chronicles were writ with iron pen,
In the crooked shoulder and the
forehead
low,
Set wrong to balance wrong, 20
And physicked woe with woe?
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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' For the 'Allegory,' though shrewd enough in most
things, had the
reputation
of being 'saift-baked,' i.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Or when little airs arise,
How the merry
bluebell
rings [1]
To the mosses underneath?
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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We were as men who through a fen
Of filthy
darkness
grope:
We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or to give our anguish scope:
Something was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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"
The words of Marya Ivanofna
enlightened
me, and made many things clear
to me.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But I mot
graunten
as it is.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the
stranger
you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Les Odes: O
Fontaine
Bellerie
O Fount of Bellerie,
Fountain sweet to see,
Dear to our Nymphs when, lo,
Waves hide them at your source
Fleeing the Satyr so,
Who follows them, in his course,
To the borders of your flow.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Therefore
thou must
Come with me to the kings of all the nations;
For the whole earth must know of thee.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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3,
VICTORIA
STREET, LONDON, S.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
A
crucifix
whereon to register
This sacred vow?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then,
beauteous
niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Occasional
lines of eight (2.
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Akoulina
Pamphilovna's," answered his wife.
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Thou
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Or, when the weary moon was in the wane,
Or in the noon of interlunar night,
The lady-witch in visions could not chain
Her spirit; but sailed forth under the light _420
Of shooting stars, and bade extend amain
Its storm-outspeeding wings, the Hermaphrodite;
She to the Austral waters took her way,
Beyond the
fabulous
Thamondocana,--
48.
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I know not how significant it is, or how far it is an evidence of
singularity, that an individual should thus consent in his pettiest
walk with the general
movement
of the race; but I know that something
akin to the migratory instinct in birds and quadrupeds,--which, in
some instances, is known to have affected the squirrel tribe,
impelling them to a general and mysterious movement, in which they
were seen, say some, crossing the broadest rivers, each on its
particular chip, with its tail raised for a sail, and bridging
narrower streams with their dead,--that something like the _furor_
which affects the domestic cattle in the spring, and which is referred
to a worm in their tails, affects both nations and individuals, either
perennially or from time to time.
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AH SUNFLOWER
Ah Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller's journey is done;
Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale virgin
shrouded
in snow,
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my Sunflower wishes to go!
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blake-poems |
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Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays
Those painted clouds that beautify our days;
Each want of
happiness
by hope supplied,
And each vacuity of sense by pride:
These build as fast as knowledge can destroy;
In folly's cup still laughs the bubble, joy;
One prospect lost, another still we gain;
And not a vanity is given in vain;
Even mean self-love becomes, by force divine,
The scale to measure others' wants by thine.
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Obvious
typographical
errors have been corrected.
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"At length the monarch, with repentant grief,
Confess'd the gods, and god-descended chief;
His daughter gave, the
stranger
to detain,
With half the honours of his ample reign:
The Lycians grant a chosen space of ground,
With woods, with vineyards, and with harvests crown'd.
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Iliad - Pope |
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* * * * *
THE FAERIE QUEENE
* * * * *
LETTER TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH
A LETTER of the Authors expounding his whole
intention
in the course of
this worke;[1] which, for that it giveth great light to the reader, for the
better understanding is hereunto annexed.
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,
may simply retain the Surname of an
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'Twould wake sad
thoughts
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Strange unto her each
childish
game,
But when the winter season came
And dark and drear the evenings were,
Terrible tales she loved to hear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He wore an ancient long buff vest,
Yellow as saffron,--but his best,
And,
buttoned
over his manly breast,
Was a bright blue coat, with a rolling collar,
And large gilt buttons,--size of a dollar,--
With tails that the country-folk called "swaller.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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--This must, no doubt,
Content me, that we are as wine, and men
By us have senses drunk against his toil
Of knowing himself, for all his
boasting
mind,
Caught by the quiet purpose of the world,
Burnt up by it at last, like something fallen
In molten iron streaming.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
But out of the woods as night grew cool
A brown pig came to the little pool;
It grunted and
splashed
and waded in
And the deepest place but reached its chin.
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What
blessedness
mortals may know!
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