'
I had been talking of the power of
communicating
in states of trance
with the angelical and faery beings,--the children of the day and of the
twilight,--and he had been contending that we should only believe in
what we can see and feel when in our ordinary everyday state of mind.
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{*} This trick, it is said, has been played in America within these
twenty years, where the notion of evil spirits gives the poor Indians
their
greatest
misery.
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rara pruinosis canebat gemma frutetis
ad primi radios
interitura
die.
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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II
The
Babylonian
praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their Pyramids tall;
And that same Greek still boasting will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost labyrinthine hall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Fie, fie,
Sephina!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
II
By the
shrouded
gleam of the western skies,
Brave Keenan looked into Pleasonton's eyes
For an instant--clear, and cool, and still;
Then, with a smile, he said: "I will.
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Hippolyte's
presence
is less fearsome to you now,
And you can see him without guilt on your brow.
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Marshaled down the open coast,
Fearless of that low rampart's frown,
The winter's white-winged,
footless
host
Beleaguers ancient Saybrook town.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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Ronsard |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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e getynge of
blisfulnesse
men ben
maked blysful.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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where we have not
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Lear - Nonsense |
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singet Sawnie, are ye huirdin the penny,
Unconscious
what evils await?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Rude is the tent this
architect
invents,
Rural the place, with cart ruts by dyke side.
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John Clare |
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Elvire
One way or the other, you're satisfied,
You are avenged, or
Rodrigue
has not died;
And whatever destiny ordains for you
You've honour, glory and a husband too.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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For we must be
crucified
by larger
and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Wonderful,
Never to feel thee thrill the day or night
With
personal
act or speech,--nor ever cull
Some prescience of thee with the blossoms white
Thou sawest growing!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Of things below
Most
miserable
I; for Cupid's bow
Has banish'd quiet from this heaving breast.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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That, in the merry months o' spring,
Delighted
me to hear thee sing,
What comes o' thee?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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XXIV
And yet the city's flower was there,
Noblesse and models of the mode,
Faces which we meet everywhere
And
necessary
fools allowed.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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There was a strangeness in the room,
And
Something
white and wavy
Was standing near me in the gloom--
_I_ took it for the carpet-broom
Left by that careless slavey.
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Lewis Carroll |
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But I delay too long, let me seek Chimene,
And in
welcoming
her relieve my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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No, I am ill content with them; thyself
I shall
despatch
to take command of them;
I give authority not to birth, but brains.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And all this to make ""
Una dompna soiseubuda a
borrowed
lady or, as the Italians
translated it,
" Una donna ideale.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The child was but five years, and, close to the lattice, aye
Made a sweet noise with games and with his laughter bright;
And the wan mother, aside this being the livelong day
Carolling joyously, coughed
hoarsely
all the night.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_ 1641
[725] 53 Thorow 1692
Thorough
1716, f.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Marya enters, and seeing
Khlestakov
on his knees, shrieks.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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That very life his learned hunger craves,
He saves from famine, from the savage saves;
Nay, feasts the animal he dooms his feast,
And, till he ends the being, makes it blest;
Which sees no more the stroke, or feels the pain,
Than
favoured
man by touch ethereal slain.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And--surely--
This should leave a man
content?
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Stephen Crane |
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Quivering
grass
Daintily poised
For her foot's tripping.
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Imagists |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Pale, silent, stern, what could I say to that long-accrued
retribution?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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THE SONG-SPARROW
Glimmers
gray the leafless thicket
Close beside my garden gate,
Where, so light, from post to picket
Hops the sparrow, blithe, sedate;
Who, with meekly folded wing,
Comes to sun himself and sing.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
IX
Sir Guido is
besought
of them to say
Why there appear so few of the male race,
And to declare if women there bear sway
O'er men, as men o'er them in other place.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Our lot is a hard lot; the sun himself [30]
Has scarcely been more
diligent
than I;
And I have lived to be a fool at last 240
To my own family.
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--No end, no end,
Wilt thou lay to
lamentations?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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''Twas there I caught from Uncle Reuben's lips,
In
dribbling
monologue 'twixt whiffs and sips, 420
The story I so long have tried to tell;
The humor coarse, the persons common,--well,
From Nature only do I love to paint,
Whether she send a satyr or a saint;
To me Sincerity's the one thing good,
Soiled though she be and lost to maidenhood.
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Suffice that Reason keep to Nature's road,
Subject,
compound
them, follow her and God.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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_Summer Evening_
The sinking sun is taking leave,
And sweetly gilds the edge of Eve,
While
huddling
clouds of purple dye
Gloomy hang the western sky.
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John Clare |
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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
r
CONTEMPORARY
VERSE
offers a particularly remarkable series of the year 1917.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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xlv
even without any acknowledgment on his own
part, that Swift studied and
profited
by the prose
of Marvell.
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Marvell - Poems |
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MAY DAY
THE shining line of motors,
The swaying motor-bus,
The
prancing
dancing horses
Are passing by for us.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Now wounded men with gallant eyes
Go hobbling down the street,
And nurses from the hospitals
Speed by with
tireless
feet.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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IV
Yet when within my heart I gaze
Upon my fair beyond the waters, Meseems my soul within me prays
To pass
straightway
beyond the waters.
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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_15
Why dost thou pass away and leave our state,
This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and
desolate?
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Shelley |
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Note: Ronsard's later
tributes
to 'Marie' were written for the Duke of Anjou (the future Henri III) whose mistress Marie de Cleves died in 1574.
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Ronsard |
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LXXXII
The images below them in their hand
Long scrolls and of an ample size contain,
Which of the
worthiest
figures of that band
The several names with mickle praise explain
As well their own at little distance stand,
Inscribed upon that scroll, in letters plain,
Rinaldo, by the help of blazing lights,
Marked, one by one, the ladies and their knights.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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[_She
suddenly
kisses him_.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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That feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust
Upon unstaid
perverseness!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose:
"Give me a rival, O King Feroz.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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So in
distracted flight Turnus darts afar over the plain, and now this way and
now that crosses in wavering circles; for on all hands the Teucrians
locked him in crowded ring, and the dreary marsh on this side, on this
the steep city
ramparts
hem him in.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I
remember
I said before my leaves sprang at all,
I would raise my voice jocund and strong with reference to consummations.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"Ah, my poor
husband!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And as that Theban Monster that propos'd
Her riddle, and him, who solv'd it not, devour'd;
That once found out and solv'd, for grief and spight
Cast her self headlong from th' Ismenian steep,
So strook with dread and anguish fell the Fiend,
And to his crew, that sat consulting, brought
Joyless
triumphals
of his hop't success,
Ruin, and desperation, and dismay,
Who durst so proudly tempt the Son of God.
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Milton |
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Our ships complete
We thus
supplied
(for twelve were all the fleet).
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I pondered on the woes of lost mankind, _5
I pondered on the ceaseless rage of Kings;
My rapt soul dwelt upon the ties that bind
The mazy volume of
commingling
things,
When fell and wild misrule to man stern sorrow brings.
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Shelley |
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LFS}
Spreading them out before the Sun like Stalks of flax to dry
The infant joy is beautiful but its anatomy
Horrible Ghast & Deadly nought shalt thou find in it
But Death Despair &
Everlasting
brooding Melancholy
Thou wilt go mad with horror if thou dost Examine thus * {added on center right margin, 90 degrees rotated LFS}
Every moment of my secret hours Yea I know
That I have sinnd & that my Emanations are become harlots
I am already distracted at their deeds & if I look
Upon them more Despair will bring self murder on my soul
O Enion thou art thyself a root growing in hell
Tho thus heavenly beautiful to draw me to destruction
Sometimes I think thou art a flower expanding *{This and the following four lines are added evidently in light pencil in the top margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Therefrom your eyes
have remained green and your cheeks
extraordinarily
pale.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
The analogy, which this fable bore to the sedition of the Roman
people, was
understood
and felt.
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Tacitus |
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blue sky and ocean blue,
Thine eagles with one sweep beyond the view--
The sun in golden beauty ever pure,
The distance where rich warmth doth aye endure--
Thy
language
so mellifluously bland,
Mixed with sweet idioms from Italia's strand,
As Baya's streams to Samos' waters glide
And with them mingle in one placid tide.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Those
heavenly
features make my bosom sigh,
To think from earthly praise they mean to fly.
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La Fontaine |
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in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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A weight
Of pitiable weakness thou must bear
And move as it were thine own strength; tell my heart
How not to sicken in abomination,
Show me the way to loathe this vile man's rage,
Now close to seize me into the use of his pleasure,
With the
loathing
that is terrible delight.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"
{19c} "No art is
discovered
at once and absolutely.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Then grant, what here all sons of wine obtain
(For here affliction never pleads in vain);
Be chosen youth prepared, expert to try
The vast
profound
and hid the vessel fly;
Launch the tall back, and order every oar;
Then in our court indulge the genial hour.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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One day this lovely maiden having read,
How certain pious, holy saints were led,
The better to observe religious care,
To seek retirement in some lorn repair,
Where they, like Heav'nly Angels, moved around,
Some here, some there, were in concealment found,
Was quite delighted, strange as it may seem,
And presently she formed the
frantick
scheme,
Of imitating those her mind revered,
And to her plan most rigidly adhered.
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La Fontaine |
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He
promised
'a new start'.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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They weep:--from off their delicate stems
Perennial
tears descend in gems.
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Poe - 5 |
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As Youth and Love with sprightly dance,
Beneath thy morning star advance,
Pleasure with her siren air
May delude the
thoughtless
pair;
Let Prudence bless Enjoyment's cup,
Then raptur'd sip, and sip it up.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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to live content with only one husband,
Praise is and truest of praise ever
bestowed
upon wife.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Some say that bright majority
Of
vanished
dames and men!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
| Guess: |
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Ronsard |
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"
He put on his spectacles and read as follows:--
"_To the
Commandant
of Fort Belogorsk,
"Captain Mironoff, these.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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, _he who is
connected
with another, relation, companion_:
gen.
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Beowulf |
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Here was this atom in full breath,
Hurling defiance at vast death;
This scrap of valor just for play
Fronts the north-wind in
waistcoat
gray,
As if to shame my weak behavior;
I greeted loud my little savior,
'You pet!
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Emerson - Poems |
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We want nothing but an increased supply of members to enable us to give to
a large circle of readers many an equally
interesting
record of Early
English minds.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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King of this happy land, Troezen's his destiny:
And he knows that the law will grant to your son
Those proud
ramparts
of Minerva's creation.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
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blake-poems |
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Behold where Dryden's less
presumptuous
car
Wide o'er the fields of Glory bear
Two coursers of ethereal race
With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace.
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Golden Treasury |
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In the case of the
present author, there was
absolutely
no choice in the matter; she
must write thus, or not at all.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Keats - Lamia |
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7a _uinctos_ BLa1Aah et sic Benoist, Giri: _uictos_ O
9a
_langoribus_
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Latin - Catullus |
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sez he, "I guess
There's human blood," sez he,
"By fits an' starts, in Yankee hearts,
Though 't may
surprise
J.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A grave, on which to rest from
singing?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Ich halt es
wenigstens
fur reichlichen Gewinn,
Dass ich nicht Kaiser oder Kanzler bin.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And why
Doth he himself allow it, nor spare the same
Even for his
enemies?
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Lucretius |
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Respondi id quod erat, nihil neque ipsis
Nec praetoribus esse nec cohorti, 10
Cur
quisquam
caput unctius referret,
Praesertim quibus esset inrumator
Praetor, non faciens pili cohortem.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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