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CORPORAL
ALEXANDER
ROBERTSON: To an Old Lady
Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers
LIEUTENANT GILBERT WATERHOUSE: The Casualty
Clearing Station
LANCE-CORPORAL MALCOLM HEMPHREY: Hills of Home
XVI.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty flitches decorate the walls,
Moore's
Almanack
where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
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John Clare |
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LADY ALLWORTH: I'm glad my
endeavours
prospered.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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So passed another day, and so the third:
Then did I try, in vain, the crowd's resort,
In deep despair by frightful wishes stirr'd,
Near the sea-side I reached a ruined fort:
There, pains which nature could no more support,
With blindness linked, did on my vitals fall;
Dizzy my brain, with
interruption
short
Of hideous sense; I sunk, nor step could crawl,
And thence was borne away to neighbouring hospital.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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This high-toned and lovely
Madrigal
is quite in the style, and worthy
of, the "pure Simonides.
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Golden Treasury |
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The many men, so
beautiful!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Or ask of yonder argent fields above,
Why Jove's
satellites
are less than Jove?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Now the swift sail of straining life is furled,
And through the stillness of my soul is whirled
The
throbbing
of the hearts of half the world.
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Sidney Lanier |
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We let them pass; all
appearing
tranquil;
No soldiers at the port, the city still.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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behoorden
medegedeelt
te werden,
slaende deze dichter ganschelijck op U.
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John Donne |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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or you yet may sleep too well:
Fly--from the father of your bride,
Her sisters fell:
They, as she-lions
bullocks
rend,
Tear each her victim: I, less hard
Than these, will slay you not, poor friend,
Nor hold in ward:
Me let my sire in fetters lay
For mercy to my husband shown:
Me let him ship far hence away,
To climes unknown.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He bought no ploughs and harrows, spades and shovels, and
such trifles;
But quietly to his rancho there came, by every train,
Boxes full of pikes and pistols, and his well-beloved Sharp's
rifles;
And
eighteen
other madmen joined their leader there again.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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" He
fired, and slightly wounded his opponent,
shouting
"Bravo!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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A Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
With nothing of
language
but
A beating in the sky
From so precious a place yet
Future verse will rise.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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" once a
lightweight
champion.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Are so
superfluous
cold,
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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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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_--The ten
champions, who in the fifth book of Tasso's Jerusalem are sent by
Godfrey for the
assistance
of Armida, are chosen by lot.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Gradually
it became plain to him he could not
finish it.
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Yeats |
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A
princely
lodging.
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Longfellow |
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[_He follows
MESSENGER
out.
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Yeats |
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"
It would be difficult
Application for entry at Second Clan matter at the Post Office i
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and
Liberation
$1.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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_ A
lapidary
wheel.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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For pryde is founde, in every part, 2245
Contrarie
unto Loves art.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The idea of Fate 'arose from the
observation
of the
regularity of the sidereal movements'.
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John Donne |
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THE
DISTRIBUTION
OF FORCES
Such then at Rome was the variety of feeling natural in so vast a 8
population.
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Tacitus |
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_ The 'am I' of
the _W_ is
probably
what Donne first wrote, and I am strongly tempted
to restore it.
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John Donne |
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For I don't know when I may
See her, the
distance
is so far.
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Troubador Verse |
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"I fear thee, ancyent
Marinere!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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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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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Counting
the hours, lest I myself mislead
By blind desire wherewith my heart is torn,
E'en while I speak away the moments speed,
To me and pity which alike were sworn.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"But the good monk, in
cloistered
cell,
Shall gain it by his book and bell,
His prayers and tears;
And the brave knight, whose arm endures
Fierce battle, and against the Moors
His standard rears.
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Longfellow |
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There are of them, in truth, who fear their harm,
And to the
shepherd
cleave; but these so few,
A little stuff may furnish out their cloaks.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Aged men with tears
Have blessed their steps, the
fatherless
retire
For shelter to their banners.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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HOW strange your conduct, cried the sprightly youth:
Extremes you seek, and overleap the truth;
Just now the fond desire to have a boy
Chased ev'ry care and filled your heart with joy;
At present quite the contrary appears
A moment changed your fondest hopes to fears;
Come, hear the rest; no longer waste your breath:
Kind Nature all can cure,
excepting
death.
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La Fontaine |
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Of course I speak subject to correction,
but I believe I am right in saying that China has never
produced
a
poet comparable with Homer, Dante, Virgil, or Milton.
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Li Po |
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And the shy stars grew bold and scattered gold,
And chanting voices ancient secrets told,
And an acclaim of angels
earthward
rolled.
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Sidney Lanier |
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"Here, silent as thou art, I know thy doubt;
And gladly will I loose the knot, wherein
Thy subtle
thoughts
have bound thee.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Fleeing, he sought our South-Dane folk,
over surge of ocean the Honor-Scyldings,
when first I was ruling the folk of Danes,
wielded, youthful, this
widespread
realm,
this hoard-hold of heroes.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
Poor Avarice one torment more would find;
Nor could
Profusion
squander all in kind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Enough--
I have no wish to share with a dead body
A
mistress
who belongs to him; I have done
With counterfeiting, and will tell the truth.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--to tell
The
loveliness
of loving well!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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then if mine had been the painter's hand
To express what then I saw; and add the gleam,
The light that never was on sea or land,
The consecration, and the Poet's dream,--
I would have planted thee, thou hoary pile,
Amid a world how
different
from this!
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Golden Treasury |
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Under his
spurning
feet the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind,
And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace fire,
Swept on, with his wild eye full of ire.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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- All this transformation
once
barbarous
and
material
external -
now
moral
and within
21.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Meredith - Poems |
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See to it that both act honourably,
Once over, bring the
conqueror
to me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The poem entitled "The Sunset"
was written in the spring of the year, while still
residing
at
Bishopsgate.
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Shelley |
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The music has been thus harmonized for four voices by
Professor
C.
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John Donne |
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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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Stephen Crane |
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She
prefaced
half a hint of this
With, "God forbid it should be true!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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For what has Virro painted, built, and
planted?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
'Twas in the
seventeen
hunder year
O' grace, and ninety-five,
That year I was the wae'est man
Of ony man alive.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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For twenty men that you shall now send in
To France the Douce he will repair, that King;
In the rereward will follow after him
Both his nephew, count Rollant, as I think,
And Oliver, that
courteous
paladin;
Dead are the counts, believe me if you will.
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Chanson de Roland |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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if a few nights wrought
In her each change of
suffering
dust below!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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XXVII
But Tania ne'er displayed a passion
For dolls, e'en from her
earliest
years,
And gossip of the town and fashion
She ne'er repeated unto hers.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
XXV
His right hand glove that
Emperour
holds out;
But the count Guenes elsewhere would fain be found;
When he should take, it falls upon the ground.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The official release date of all Project
Gutenberg
eBooks is at
Midnight, Central Time, of the last day of the stated month.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Din filled the room; the Danes were bereft,
castle-dwellers and
clansmen
all,
earls, of their ale.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Yet now, before our sun grow dark at noon,
Before we come to nought beneath Thy rod,
Before we go down quick into the pit, 80
Remember us for good, O God, our God:--
Thy Name will I remember, praising it,
Though Thou forget me, though Thou hide Thy face,
And blot me from the Book which Thou hast writ;
Thy Name will I remember in my praise
And call to mind Thy
faithfulness
of old,
Though as a weaver Thou cut off my days,
And end me as a tale ends that is told.
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Christina Rossetti |
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do not dread thy mother's door,
Think not of me with grief and pain:
I now can see with better eyes;
And worldly
grandeur
I despise
And fortune with her gifts and lies.
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Golden Treasury |
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27, 28 appear as:--
"For that once lost thou _needst must fall
To one, then
prostitute
to all:_
And we then have the transposed passage:--
Nor so immured would I have
Thee live, as dead, _or_ in thy grave;
But walk abroad, yet wisely well
_Keep 'gainst_ my coming sentinel.
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Robert Herrick |
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Timotheus
placed on high
Amid the tuneful quire
With flying fingers touch'd the lyre:
The trembling notes ascend the sky
And heavenly joys inspire.
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Golden Treasury |
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Then, his sad head upon his hands inclined,
He wept; that father-heart all unconfined,
Outpoured
in love alone.
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Hugo - Poems |
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1157-1170)
A townsman's son from the Bishopric of Clermont-Ferrand, Peire d'Alvernhe was a
professional
troubadour.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
CXLI
The count Rollanz, back to the field then hieing
Holds Durendal, and like a vassal striking
Faldrun of Pui has through the middle sliced,
With twenty-four of all they rated highest;
Was never man, for
vengeance
shewed such liking.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
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Golden Treasury |
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The world, for so it thought, 20
Owed him no service; wherefore he at once
With
indignation
turned himself away, [4]
And with the food of pride sustained his soul
In solitude.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And then the rolling thunder gets awake,
And from black clouds the
lightning
flashes break.
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John Clare |
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But yesterday a hundred drums were heard when I went by;
Full forty agas turned their looks respectful on mine eye,
And
trembled
with contracted brows within their hall of state.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The cross which on my arm I wear,
The flag which o'er my breast I bear,
Is but the sign
Of what you'd
sacrifice
for him
Who suffers on the hellish rim
Of war's red line.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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How can they feed him with
intelligence?
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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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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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Starlight is a usual occurrence
Any
pleasant
night beside the sea.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Murmuring
all and singing,
Hark!
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Hugo - Poems |
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to behold again no more, loud charging o'er the plain,
Their squadrons, in the hostile shot
diminished
all in vain,
Burst grandly on the heavy squares, like clouds that bear the storms,
Enveloping in lightning fires the dark resisting swarms!
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Hugo - Poems |
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_uriosque_
G) GD: _uiuosque_ cod.
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Latin - Catullus |
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O Hymen
Hymenaeus
io, O Hymen Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Aux murs des lithographies et des tableaux
signes de son ami Delacroix, pures
merveilles
presque sans importance
alors, mais que se disputeraient aujourd'hui a coups de millions les
princes de la finance americaine.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin
down!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant
For
peaceful
sleep and meditative snores,
To ceaseless din and mindless merriment
And waste of shoes and floors.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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And on the wall, by the seat,
Break the
entangled
ivy,
Scatter buds for a carpet,
Let all be balmy and sweet.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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They might (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax' self the blessing of a friend;
Or find some doctor that would save the life
Of
wretched
Shylock, spite of Shylock's wife:
But thousands die, without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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NIGHT
The night has cut
each from each
and curled the petals
back from the stalk
and under it in crisp rows;
under at an
unfaltering
pace,
under till the rinds break,
back till each bent leaf
is parted from its stalk;
under at a grave pace,
under till the leaves
are bent back
till they drop upon earth,
back till they are all broken.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Oh 1 why did he sing me that song,
I threw him the ring from my hand
Bitter and
treacherous
wrong
That sought me with fetters to brand.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The Drummer
detested
that animal, and the best
of the Band-horses put back their ears and showed the whites of their
eyes at the very sight of him.
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Kipling - Poems |
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4 The
reference
is to Yang Guozhong.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But heaven in thy creation did decree
That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell;
Whate'er thy thoughts, or thy heart's workings be,
Thy looks should nothing thence, but
sweetness
tell.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Yet here must the hand of the henchman peerless
lave with water his winsome lord,
the king and
conqueror
covered with blood,
with struggle spent, and unspan his helmet.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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They
grumbled
aloud, and Iwan Ignatiitch, who
executed the Commandant's orders, heard them with his own ears say
pretty clearly--
"Only wait a bit, you garrison rat!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Sure, sure, if
stedfast
meaning,
If single thought could save,
The world might end to-morrow,
You should not see the grave.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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What strange words, how
grievous
to hear!
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Troubador Verse |
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Ah, better at the elm-tree's
sunbrowned
feet
If he had been content to let life fleet
Its wonted way!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Wilde - Poems |
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