But far beneath, beholden
Through shining deeps of air, the fields were golden
And rosy burned the heather where
cornfields
ended.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The
previous
translations
of this passage are erroneous.
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Can I not know,
identify
thee?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Fair and tall
Those
warriors
were, and o'er them all
One king great-hearted,
Whom thou and thy false love did slay:
Therefore the tribes of Heaven one day
For these thy dead shall send on thee
An iron death: yea, men shall see
The white throat drawn, and blood's red spray,
And lips in terror parted.
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Euripides - Electra |
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_Roman de Renart_ and
_Reineke
Fuchs_.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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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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Flower-petals flee;
But, since it once hath been,
No more that
severing
scene
Can harrow me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end;
But who can with fate and quart-bumpers
contend?
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Robert Forst |
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wide is the woe
when the foeman has mounted the wall;
There is havoc and terror and flame,
and the dark smoke broods over all,
And wild is the war-god's breath,
as in frenzy of
conquest
he springs,
And pollutes with the blast of his lips
the glory of holiest things!
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Aeschylus |
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One cannot speak a word
But it
straight
starts you.
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Shakespeare |
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_
FOURTH OPAL
We were alone: the
perfumed
night,
Moonlighted, like a flower
Grew round us and exhaled delight
To bless that one sweet hour.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Thy brother, drowned in daily woe,
Is thankful when thou sleepest;
For if I laugh, however low,
When thou'rt awake, thou
weepest!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Sinfull Macduff,
They were all strooke for thee: Naught that I am,
Not for their owne demerits, but for mine
Fell
slaughter
on their soules: Heauen rest them now
Mal.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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' he cried, looking up a
moment; 'she was
washing!
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Yeats |
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Refuse of Time ripe for
Eternity!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Infanta
My
inclination
has changed its object.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The shadows from yon gentle heights that fall,
Where sparkles my sweet fire, where
brightly
grew
That stately laurel from a sucker small,
Increasing, as I speak, hide from my view
The beauteous landscape and the blessed scene,
Where dwells my true heart with its only queen.
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Petrarch |
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Wie sie die Augen niederschlagt,
Hat tief sich in mein Herz gepragt;
Wie sie kurz
angebunden
war,
Das ist nun zum Entzucken gar!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
II
"O Time," replied the Lord,
"Thou read'st me ill, I ween;
Were all _the same_, I should not grieve
At that late earthly scene,
Now blestly past--though planned by me
With
interest
close and keen!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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To-day I saw the pale much-burdened form
Of Charity come limping o'er the line,
And straighten from the bending of the storm
And flush with
stirrings
of new strength divine,
Such influence and sweet gracious impulse came
Out of the beams of thine immortal name!
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Sidney Lanier |
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All summarised, the soul,
When slowly we breathe it out
In several rings of smoke
By other rings wiped out
Bears witness to some cigar
Burning skilfully while
The ash is separated far
From its bright kiss of fire
Should the choir of
romantic
art
Fly so towards your lips
Exclude from it if you start
The real because it's cheap
Meaning too precise is sure
To void your dreamy literature.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Then go thy way,
remembering
still
The wayside well beneath the hill,
The cup of water in His name.
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Longfellow |
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Life made an end of,
Life but just begun;
Life
finished
yesterday,
Its last sand run;
Life new-born with the morrow
Fresh as the sun:
While done is done for ever;
Undone, undone.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Victory comes late,
And is held low to
freezing
lips
Too rapt with frost
To take it.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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She's gane like Alexander,
To spread her
conquests
farther.
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Robert Forst |
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Describe
Adonis, and the counterfeit
Is poorly imitated after you;
On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,
And you in Grecian tires are painted new:
Speak of the spring, and foison of the year,
The one doth shadow of your beauty show,
The other as your bounty doth appear;
And you in every blessed shape we know.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Then for an hour the water wore a mantle
Of tawny gold and mauve and misted turquoise
Under the tall and
darkened
arches bearing
Gray, high-flung bridges.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Why a Nostril wide inhaling terror trembling & affright
Why a tender curb upon the
youthful
burning boy?
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blake-poems |
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Hope humbly, then; with
trembling
pinions soar;
Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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That way the noise is: Tyrant shew thy face,
If thou beest slaine, and with no stroake of mine,
My Wife and
Childrens
Ghosts will haunt me still:
I cannot strike at wretched Kernes, whose armes
Are hyr'd to beare their Staues; either thou Macbeth,
Or else my Sword with an vnbattered edge
I sheath againe vndeeded.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Gliddon, and, in a peremptory tone,
demanded
in general terms
what we all meant.
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Poe - 5 |
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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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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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_Scandal_
She hastens out and scarcely pins her clothes
To hear the news and tell the news she knows;
She talks of sluts, marks each
unmended
gown,
Her self the dirtiest slut in all the town.
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John Clare |
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That
Emperour
by way of hostage guards it;
Four benches then upon the place he marshals
Where sit them down champions of either party.
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Chanson de Roland |
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90
XI
Dismayed with so desperate deadly wound,
And eke impatient of
unwonted
paine,
He lowdly brayd with beastly yelling sound,
That all the fields rebellowed againe;
As great a noyse, as when in Cymbrian plaine?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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TRIBOULET (_taking the
lifeless
body in his arms and
hugging it to his breast_): I have killed my child!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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While thus the vine its
sprightly
glee inspires,
From whence the fleet, the swarthy chief enquires,
What seas they past, what 'vantage would attain,
And what the shore their purpose hop'd to gain?
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Do not forget these asters that remain,
The scarlet leafage round the
tendrils
twining,
And all the rests of verdant life combining,
Resolve them in the soft autumnal vein.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Light laughs the breeze in her castle of sunshine;
Babbles the bee in a stolid ear;
Pipe the sweet birds in ignorant cadence, --
Ah, what
sagacity
perished here!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I could hear him grunting like a discontented pig in the poppy
field as I waited
shoulder
deep in the dew-dripping Indian corn to catch
him after his meal.
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Kipling - Poems |
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'
Quod
alderfirst
Dame Abstinence, 7505
And thus began she hir sentence:
_Const.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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DEATH BY WATER
Phlebas the Phoenician, a
fortnight
dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In 1811 he entered the Lyceum, an
aristocratic
educational
establishment at Tsarskoe Selo, near St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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" Thus she spake,
Yet
therefore
naught the more remov'd her Sight
From marking them, or ere her words began,
Or when they clos'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Let them enstyle thee fairest fair,
The pearl of princes, yet despair
That so thou art, because thou must
Believe love speaks it not, but lust;
And this their
flattery
does commend
Thee chiefly for their pleasure's end.
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Robert Herrick |
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For this we see forthwith is manifest:
Whatever
the weight, it can't obliquely go,
Down on its headlong journey from above,
At least so far as thou canst mark; but who
Is there can mark by sense that naught can swerve
At all aside from off its road's straight line?
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Lucretius |
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What is it, what is it,
But a
direction
out there,
And the bare possibility
Of going somewhere?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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All that the Greeks endured, and all the ills
Inflicted by the Gods on Troy, we know,
Know all that passes on the
boundless
earth.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But, when he had refused the proffered gold,
To cruel injuries he became a prey,
Sore traversed in whate'er he bought and sold:
His troubles grew upon him day by day,
Till all his
substance
fell into decay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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A
TREATISE
ON THE SITUATION, MANNERS AND INHABITANTS OF GERMANY.
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Tacitus |
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10
Have the laden galleons been sighted
Stoutly
labouring
up the sea from Tyre?
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Sappho |
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She remained in England,
with an interval of travel in Italy, till 1898,
studying
first at
King's College, London, then, till her health again broke down,
at Girton.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Space rolls to-day her
splendour
round!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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For the
transport
in their rhythm
Was the throb of thy desire,
And thy lyric moods shall quicken 35
Souls of lovers yet unborn.
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Sappho |
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" —Chicago Record-Herald
"Its poetry is
admirably
selected
to find any other American magazine verse more notable for originality and imagination.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Among divers opinions of an
art, and most of them contrary in themselves, it is hard to make
election; and, therefore, though a man cannot invent new things after so
many, he may do a welcome work yet to help
posterity
to judge rightly of
the old.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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While Turnus fills the
Rutulian
minds with valour, Allecto on Stygian
wing hastens towards the Trojans.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Wer flicht die
unbedeutend
grunen Blatter
Zum Ehrenkranz Verdiensten jeder Art?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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William Wordsworth |
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The sonnet `On Violet's Wafers' was
addressed
to a member of the same class,
and is similarly conceived.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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'
(For your dear departed wife, his friend) 2
November
1877
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
You moan, O solitary captive of the threshold,
That this double tomb which our pride should hold's
Cluttered, alas, only with absent weight of flowers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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See, every patriot oak-leaf throws
His elfin length upon the snows,
Not idle, since the leaf all day
Draws to the spot the solar ray,
Ere sunset quarrying inches down,
And halfway to the mosses brown;
While the grass beneath the rime
Has hints of the
propitious
time,
And upward pries and perforates
Through the cold slab a thousand gates,
Till green lances peering through
Bend happy in the welkin blue.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The tapestries of paradise
So
notelessly
are made!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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be thou my
jongleur
As ne'er had I other, and when the wind blows,
Sing thou the grace of the Lady of Beziers,
For even as thou art hollow before I fill thee with
this parchment,
So is my heart hollow when she filleth not mine eyes, And so were my mind hollow, did she not fill utterly
my thought.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Contents
Translator's note:
The Ruins Of Rome
Divine spirits, whose powdery ashes lie
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
Newcomer, who looks for Rome in Rome,
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
He who would see the vast power of Nature,
As in her chariot the Phrygian goddess rode,
You sacred ruins, and you holy shores,
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
You cruel stars, inhuman deities,
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
As we pass the summer stream without danger
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
All that the
Egyptians
once devised,
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
That we see nothing but an empty waste
Do you have hopes that posterity
Translator's note:
The text used is from the 1588 edition of Les Antiquites de Rome.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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This then is why you have so
long taken such precautions; your
horoscope
gave you qualms of terror.
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Aristophanes |
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His
beautiful langourous eyes, of a tenebrous and
indefinite
colour, were
like violets still laden with the heavy tears of the storm; his
slightly-parted lips were like heated censers, from whence exhaled the
sweet savour of many perfumes; and each time he breathed, exotic
insects drew, as they fluttered, strength from the ardours of his
breath.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A man who can invent or embellish
an
interesting
story, and put it into a form which others may
easily retain in their recollection, will always be highly
esteemed by a people eager for amusement and information, but
destitute of libraries.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Heorogar was dead,
my elder brother, had
breathed
his last,
Healfdene's bairn: he was better than I!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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With what
mysterious
daring
Didst thou put forth each murmuring, odorous bough
And trust it to the frail support of air?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Yes, here within thy
sanctified
walls there's a soul in each object,
ROMA eternal.
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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To bed, to bed: there's
knocking
at the gate:
Come, come, come, come, giue me your hand: What's
done, cannot be vndone.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Truth is mine, and Genius mine;
The rich man comes, and knocks at my low door:
Favour'd thus, I ne'er repine,
Nor weary out indulgent Heaven for more:
In my Sabine
homestead
blest,
Why should I further tax a generous friend?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The official release date of all Project
Gutenberg
Etexts is at
Midnight, Central Time, of the last day of the stated month.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
Thereat she
vanished
by the Cross
That, entering Kingsbere town,
The two long lanes form, near the fosse
Below the faneless Down.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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How have you changed my life, so tranquil, ere
With the false
witchery
blind,
That alone lured me to his amorous snare!
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Petrarch |
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might such length of days to me be given,
And breath suffice me to rehearse thy deeds,
Nor
Thracian
Orpheus should out-sing me then,
Nor Linus, though his mother this, and that
His sire should aid- Orpheus Calliope,
And Linus fair Apollo.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Erdman indicates that a linking line "must have been dropped in
transcribing
from working notes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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'T was a long parting, but the time
For
interview
had come;
Before the judgment-seat of God,
The last and second time
These fleshless lovers met,
A heaven in a gaze,
A heaven of heavens, the privilege
Of one another's eyes.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Three times circling beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory,
beauteous
above all.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But one confederate
brotherhood
planting
One flag only, to mark the advance,
Onward and upward, of all humanity.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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As one 'scaped
strangely
from captivity,
Have made the chance be painted ; and go now
To hang it in Saint Peter's for a vow*
Digitized by VjOOQIC
OF MARVELL.
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Marvell - Poems |
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be it weeks, months, or years--an armed race is
advancing
to welcome
it.
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Whitman |
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A number of personal references are best pursued by reading a biography of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later
relationship
with the actress Jenny Colon.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Though thou starvest,
Provision
is made:
God gathers His harvest
When our hopes fade!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping
melancholy
mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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his solicitorship took no more notice of my
Poem, or of me, than I had been a
strolling
fiddler who had made free
with his lady's name, for a silly new reel.
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Robert Burns |
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When
landlords
turn the drunken bee
Out of the foxglove's door,
When butterflies renounce their drams,
I shall but drink the more!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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There from the troubled sea had
Evangeline
landed, an exile,
Finding among the children of Penn a home and a country.
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Longfellow |
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" then he handed me his flask,
Saying, "Gal, you're looking shaky; have a drop of old Jamaiky:
I'm afraid there'll be more trouble afore this job is done;"
So I took one scorching swallow;
dreadful
faint I felt and hollow,
Standing there from early morning when the firing was begun.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The general has mastered
tactical
plans, headquarters abounds with talent.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Nor was I hungry; so I found
That hunger was a way
Of persons outside windows,
The
entering
takes away.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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