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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A second arch is a wall
To
separate
our souls from rotted cables
Of stale greenness.
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Imagists |
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_Virgilium vidi tantum_,--I have seen
But as a boy, who looks alike on all,
That misty hair, that fine Undine-like mien,
Tremulous as down to feeling's
faintest
call;--
Ah, dear old homestead!
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James Russell Lowell |
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The theatre grows more elaborate, developing the player at the expense
of the poet, developing the scenery at the expense of the player,
always increasing in importance whatever has come to it out of the mere
mechanism of a building or the interests of a class, specialising more
and more, doing whatever is easiest rather than what is most noble,
and creating a class before the footlights as behind, who are stirred
to excitements that belong to it and not to life; until at last life,
which knows that a specialised energy is not herself, turns to other
things, content to leave it to
weaklings
and triflers, to those in
whose body there is the least quantity of herself.
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Yeats |
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'At certe tamen, inquiunt, quod illic
Natum dicitur esse, conparasti 15
Ad
lecticam
homines.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The apple on the tree,
Provided it do
hopeless
hang,
That 'heaven' is, to me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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It is also in keeping that the contest should
have a half-grotesque and half-ghastly touch, the grapple amid the graves
and the
cracking
ribs.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Behold, the flakes rush thick and fast;
Or are they years, that come between,--
When, peering back into the past,
I search the
legendary
scene?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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16
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Scudder Middleton's poem, 'The Clerk," published in the June number of
Contemporary
Verse, is ranked in "An Anthology of Magazine Verse" as one of the thirty most distinguished poems published in the United States in 1916.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It can't be summer, -- that got through;
It 's early yet for spring;
There 's that long town of white to cross
Before the
blackbirds
sing.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
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blake-poems |
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But Christabel in dizzy trance
Stumbling on the unsteady ground
Shuddered aloud, with a hissing sound;
And
Geraldine
again turned round,
And like a thing, that sought relief,
Full of wonder and full of grief,
She rolled her large bright eyes divine
Wildly on Sir Leoline.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Keats |
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Our guilty head
We turn'd to flight; the
gathering
vengeance spread
On all parts round, and heaps on heaps lie dead.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Alfred de Musset, 1904-7
The New York Public Library: Digital Collections
Song
I said to my heart, my feeble heart:
It's enough surely to love one's
mistress?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And well she knew, to herself
bitterly
smiling,
How the King seated amid his fellow-kings
Devised his grievous rage, feeling himself
Insulted in his dearest mind, his rule
Over the precious pleasure of his women
Wounded: how the man's wrath would hiss and swell
Like gross spittle spat into red-hot coals.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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On, on would I fly, till a charm stopped my way,
A charm that would lead to the bower;
Where the
daughter
of Araby sings to the day,
At the dawn and the vesper hour.
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Hugo - Poems |
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You watch me
I cannot tell you
the truth yet
I dare not, too little one,
What has
happened
to you
-
One day I will tell it
to you
- for as a man
I'd not wish you
not to know
your fate
-
or man
dead child
28.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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148
In
wildernesse
he woned; ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Think, when your
castigated
pulse
Gies now and then a wallop!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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SAS}
Whence is this Voice of Enion that
soundeth
in my ears Porches
Take thou possession!
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Blake - Zoas |
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The latter is
supposed
to
be that which inspired the Prophets and Apostles; and the former to be
the grace of God, which summarily makes known the truth of His
revelation to those whose mind is fitted for its reception by a
submissive perusal of His word.
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Shelley |
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Like rock or stone, it is o'ergrown
With lichens to the very top,
And hung with heavy tufts of moss,
A melancholy crop:
Up from the earth these mosses creep,
And this poor thorn they clasp it round
So close, you'd say that they were bent
With plain and
manifest
intent,
To drag it to the ground;
And all had joined in one endeavour
To bury this poor thorn for ever.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The
scholars
of the preceding line could render the same service now if they were recognized.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Keats - Lamia |
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But as the brain,
Being lord of the body, is served by blood
So well that a hidden canker in the flesh
May send, continuous as a usury,
Its breeding venom upward, till in the brain
It vapour into
enormity
of dreaming:
So man is lord of life upon the earth;
And like a hastening blood his nature wells
Up out of the beasts below him, they the flesh
And he the brain, they serving him with blood;
And blood so loaden with brute lust of being
It steams the conscious leisure of man's thought
With an immense phantasma of desire,
An unsubduable dream of unknown pleasure;
Which he sends hungering forth into the world,
But never satisfied returns to him.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The fleet we feared, entering the estuary,
Seeks to
surprise
the town, scorch the country.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It waits upon the lawn;
It shows the
furthest
tree
Upon the furthest slope we know;
It almost speaks to me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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LVII
If good Rinaldo gathers small supplies
From rents or cities, which his rule obey,
So these he bound by words and courtesies,
And sharing what he had with his array,
Is none that ever from his service buys
Deserter
by the bribe of better pay.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Stroud,
Who was horribly jammed in a crowd;
Some she slew with a kick, some she
scrunched
with a stick,
That impulsive old person of Stroud.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The Portuguese prince even visited the
Kingdoms
of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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I sit me in my corner chair
That seems to feel itself from home,
And hear bird music here and there
From
hawthorn
hedge and orchard come;
I hear, but all is strange and new:
I sat on my old bench in June,
The sailing puddock's shrill "peelew"
On Royce Wood seemed a sweeter tune.
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John Clare |
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Are they panic-struck and
helpless?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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where the mighty sword
Which slew its master
righteously?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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' It was
destroyed
in the Gordon Riots of 1780.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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the boy himself
Was worthy to be sung, and many a time
Hath
Stimichon
to me your singing praised.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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What means this
silence?
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Aristophanes |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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How
mightestow
for reuthe me bigyle?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Ich schwor Euch zu, mit dem Beding
Wechselt
ich selbst mit Euch den Ring!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the
sentence
set forth in paragraph 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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thou little dream'st how grievous 'tis,
Emerging
from the crowd, and at the top
Arrived, to feel that there is _something_ still
Above our heads; something, nothing!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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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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From thee, from thee the hallow'd
transport
flows
That sever'd rages, and for union glows:
Heav'n owns the claim.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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For in a two-fold manner is that wind
Enkindled all: it trembles into heat
Both by its own
velocity
and by
Repeated touch of fire.
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Lucretius |
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It might have been the waning lamp
That lit the drummer from the camp
To purer
reveille!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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160
All afflicts, and harms, and
conspires
to harm me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The outlines of the distant streets grow shorter,
A
murmuring
bids the wanderer to respite;
Is it the music of some hidden water?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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She little dreams, her lover is so near,
The clanking chains, the
rustling
straw can hear;
[_He enters_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But then I
promised
ne'er to tell;
How could I break my word?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I swear by Jove, and by my father's woes, 410
Who either hath deceased far from his home,
Or lives a wand'rer, that I interpose
No
hindrance
to her nuptials.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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wherefore
hath thy mother borne
A child so negligent?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Or if he gave to view of
beauteous
maid
Above the waist with every charm arrayed,
But ending, fish-like, in a mermaid tail,
Could you to laugh at such a picture fail?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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In days when daisies deck the ground,
And
blackbirds
whistle clear,
With honest joy our hearts will bound,
To see the coming year:
On braes when we please, then,
We'll sit an' sowth a tune;
Syne rhyme till't we'll time till't,
An' sing't when we hae done.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Porter
And on her
daughter
200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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As
the Nilghai quaked against his will at the still green water of a lake
or a mill-dam, as Torpenhow
flinched
before any white arm that could cut
or stab and loathed himself for flinching, Dick feared the poverty he
had once tasted half in jest.
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Kipling - Poems |
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A
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Some Imagist Poets, by
Richard
Aldington
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Imagists |
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--If we would
consider
what our affairs are indeed,
not what they are called, we should find more evils belonging to us than
happen to us.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Sara Teasdale |
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In his subsequent poetic work Rilke did not again reach the sustained
high quality of this book, the mood and idea of which he incorporated
into a prose work of
exquisite
lyrical beauty: _The Sketch of Malte
Laurids Brigge_.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The admiral
soon after sent his long-boats to attack a ship
commanded
by one Nehoada
Beeguea.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Fragment
of an Elegy 462
Walton's _Compleat Angler_
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John Donne |
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