XXII
When our two souls stand up erect and strong,
Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,
Until the lengthening wings break into fire
At either curved point,--what bitter wrong
Can the earth do to us, that we should not long
Be here
contented?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In the winter, I stop short in the path to admire how the trees grow
up without forethought,
regardless
of the time and circumstances.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'17-23'
Pope lays down as the basis of his system that all
argument
about man or
God must be based upon what we know of man's present life, and of God's
workings in this world of ours.
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Alexander Pope |
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This Balin graspt, but while in act to hurl,
Through memory of that token on the shield
Relaxed his hold: 'I will be gentle' he thought
'And passing gentle' caught his hand away,
Then fiercely to Sir Garlon 'Eyes have I
That saw today the shadow of a spear,
Shot from behind me, run along the ground;
Eyes too that long have watched how
Lancelot
draws
From homage to the best and purest, might,
Name, manhood, and a grace, but scantly thine,
Who, sitting in thine own hall, canst endure
To mouth so huge a foulness--to thy guest,
Me, me of Arthur's Table.
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Tennyson |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous
mendiants
morts saouls de biere
Vous les aveugles comme le destin
Et vous petits enfants morts en priere
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Seize vpon Fife; giue to th' edge o'th' Sword
His Wife, his Babes, and all
vnfortunate
Soules
That trace him in his Line.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
Here the speaker sat down in his place,
And
directed
the Judge to refer to his notes
And briefly to sum up the case.
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Lewis Carroll |
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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
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Keats - Lamia |
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my father, Petr'
Andrejitch!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_322 assault edition 1822;
assaults
editions 1839.
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Shelley |
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THE
TRAGEDIE
OF MACBETH.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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If she amusements wished, he'd lavish gold,
Convinced
in love or war you should be bold;
The cash ne'er spare:--invincible its pow'rs,
O'erturning walls or doors where'er it show'rs.
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La Fontaine |
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The first
contains
short extracts from two MSS.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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You were my
playmate
by the sea.
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Imagists |
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Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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DER KATER (macht sich herbei und schmeichelt dem Mephistopheles):
O wurfle nur gleich,
Und mache mich reich,
Und lass mich
gewinnen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The 'orse 'e knows above a bit, the bullock's but a fool,
The elephant's a gentleman, the battery-mule's a mule;
But the
commissariat
cam-u-el, when all is said an' done,
'E's a devil an' a ostrich an' a orphan-child in one.
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Kipling - Poems |
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SIEBEL:
Zauberei!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The world does not so exist, no parts palpable or
impalpable
so exist,
No consummation exists without being from some long previous
consummation, and that from some other,
Without the farthest conceivable one coming a bit nearer the
beginning than any.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And when amongst them looking round I came,
A yellow purse I saw with azure wrought,
That wore a lion's
countenance
and port.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The
Macmillan
Co.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Their sister-bosoms surely swell,
Heart with rent heart
according
well
In grief for those who fought and fell!
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Aeschylus |
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It
must be, however, in the
miraculous
fusing of the two.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The singers do not beget, only the Poet begets,
The singers are welcom'd, understood, appear often enough, but rare
has the day been, likewise the spot, of the birth of the maker
of poems, the Answerer,
(Not every century nor every five
centuries
has contain'd such a
day, for all its names.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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A kinde
goodnight
to all.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have
vanished
one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone;
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I would have stood,
and watched and watched
and burned,
and when in the night,
from the many hosts, your slaves,
and warriors and serving men
you had turned
to the purple couch and the flame
of the woman, tall like cypress tree
that flames sudden and swift and free
as with crackle of golden resin
and cones and the locks flung free
like the cypress limbs,
bound, caught and shaken and loosed,
bound, caught and riven and bound
and
loosened
again,
as in rain of a kingly storm
or wind full from a desert plain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Upon the gallows hung a wretch,
Too sullied for the hell
To which the law
entitled
him.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I sometimes have a sentimental lapse
And long for saviours and a
physical
God.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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[_Enter
Agamemnon
in a chariot, accompanied by Cassandra.
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Aeschylus |
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They therefore set up
no statues in their temples, nor even in their cities,
refusing
this
homage both to their own kings and to the Roman emperors.
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Tacitus |
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Don Alonzo was not only
reconciled
to his son, but laboured
by every means to oblige him, and to efface from his memory the injury
and insult he had received.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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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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But since the last
included
both,
It would suffice my prayer
But just for one to stipulate,
And grace would grant the pair.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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4 Yuhua Palace had been
constructed
in 647 for Taizong as a summer palace to escape the heat of Chang?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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In yond' carnation go and seek,
There thou shalt find her lip and cheek;
In that enamell'd pansy by,
There thou shalt have her curious eye;
In bloom of peach and rose's bud,
There waves the
streamer
of her blood.
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Robert Herrick |
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She is strangely ashamed
Of
Holofernes
having evilly used her.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The theory of Cushman and of Eckhardt is
substantially
the same,
and may be stated as follows.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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They
should be regarded in many cases as merely the first strong and
suggestive sketches of an artist, intended to be
embodied
at some
time in the finished picture.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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Appoloinaire |
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Blancs de lunes particulieres
Aux pialats ronds,
Entrechoquez vos genouilleres
Mes
laiderons!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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_Hell_, the "middle den," the
occupants
of which had to catch the other
players.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
His best
critical
work is the Richard Wagner and Tannhauser, as
significant an essay as Nietzsche's Richard Wagner in Bayreuth.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Why these splendid
buskins?
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Aristophanes |
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His "Fair Ines" had always
for me an
inexpressible
charm:--
O saw ye not fair Ines?
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Poe - 5 |
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For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But, Simon, thou wast then in heaven's blest sky,
Ere she, my fair one, left her native spheres,
To trace a
loveliness
this world reveres
Was thus thy task, from heaven's reality.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The notion had
occurred
to her,
The children would be happier,
If they were taught to vary.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Defeat, my Defeat, my shining sword and shield,
In your eyes I have read
That to be
enthroned
is to be enslaved,
And to be understood is to be leveled down,
And to be grasped is but to reach one's fullness
And like a ripe fruit to fall and be consumed.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Instant, you sailors to this task attend;
Swift to the palace, all ye peers ascend;
Let none to strangers honours due disclaim:
Be there
Demodocus
the bard of fame,
Taught by the gods to please, when high he sings
The vocal lay, responsive to the strings.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"Fort
Nijneosern
was
taken this morning.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And
plenteous
funeral tears have washed
The red stains from each brow,
And the proud forms, by battle gashed,
Are free from anguish now.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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It comes from the
barbarous
conception
of authority.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Elle endort les plus cruels maux
Et
contient
toutes les extases;
Pour dire les plus longues phrases,
Elle n'a pas besoin de mots.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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charming fair, said he, be not distressed;
No savage of the woods nor giant 's nigh,
A wand'ring knight alone you now descry,
Delighted thus to meet a
beauteous
belle
Such charms divine, what angel can excel!
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La Fontaine |
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Nicolas)
in order to excite himself to that
pitch of Devotion which others reached by cries and "hurlemens.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Li Po |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Women played a
commanding
role in his life.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I am
eternally
young, and as teacher I still love the young ones.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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In
action the principal amusement of the scene (exclusive of the admirable
burlesque of witchery in the conclusion) was
probably
derived from the
mortification of poor Pug, whose stupid stare of amazement at finding
himself made an _ass_ of on every possible occasion must, if portrayed
as some then on the stage were well able to portray it, have been
exquisitely comic.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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My wars, the copious theme of every tongue,
To you your fathers have
recorded
long.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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_aspen-malady_,
trembling
like the leaves of the aspen-poplar.
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Keats |
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Signor Lazzarino suggests that the name Gisello, or
Girello, which has been
substituted
for that of Israel Bertuccio, is a
corruption of Isarello.
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Byron |
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Up to the time of
discovery
Rush is popular
and successful.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Overcome by their feelings, the four little travellers
instantly
jumped
into the tea-kettle, and fell fast asleep.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And thou, King, for the rest
Of time, be true; be
righteous
to thy guest,
As he would have thee be.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Militant
England (Prince Arthur) is assisted
by the clergy (Squire) with his horn (Bible) and is guided by Truth and
Common Sense (Dwarf).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And, by the Lord,
Katrina!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Balefire
devoured,
greediest spirit, those spared not by war
out of either folk: their flower was gone.
| Guess: |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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For when the
favouring
shades of night arise,
And peaceful slumbers close my mother's eyes,
Me from our coast shall spreading sails convey,
To seek Ulysses through the watery way.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Spenser borrows the story in this stanza from that of Tages, son of Earth,
who was
similarly
found and brought up.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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You're as white as I turned once down by the mill,
When one told me you and ship and crew were lost:
Philip my playfellow, when we were boy and girl
(It was the Miller's Nancy told it to me),
Philip with the merry life in lip and curl,
Philip my
playfellow
drowned in the sea!
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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This Tyrant, whose sole name
blisters
our tongues,
Was once thought honest: you haue lou'd him well,
He hath not touch'd you yet.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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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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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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Appoloinaire |
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Chimene
Still you speak, what more,
Vile
murderer
of that hero I adore!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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XXIII
The lads in their
hundreds
to Ludlow come in for the fair,
There's men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold,
The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there,
And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A wyfe he had, she hyght a gales,
An holey woman
withowten
lees; 20
She louyd god with all her myght,
And seruyd hym bothe daye and nyght;
She was of gode wyll, and hart Free
To all ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Where now is fled that Power whose frown severe
Tamed "sober Reason" till she
crouched
in fear?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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In his own hills each labours down the day,
Teaching
the vine to clasp the widow'd tree:
Then to his cups again, where, feasting gay,
He hails his god in thee.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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At all events, it is not presented as poetry, and it is in no
way
connected
with the Author's judgment concerning poetic diction.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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But only one of these poems, namely the
poem of Amriolkais, could have
immediately
influenced him.
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Tennyson |
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Spotless the oilcloth on the floor,
Limpid as water each glass case,
Each thing
precisely
in its place.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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thou well dost wish me ill," Audiart, Audiart,
THOUGH
Where thy bodice laces start
As ivy fingers clutching through Its crevices,
Audiart, Audiart, Stately, tall and lovely tender
Who shall render,
Audiart, Audiart, Praises meet unto thy
fashion?
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And when Pope had once done a good piece of
work, he had all an artist's
reluctance
to destroy it.
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As I
commence
farmer at Whit-Sunday, you will easily guess
I must be pretty busy; but that is not all.
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And Faith shall come forth the finer,
From
trampled
thickets of fire,
And the orient open diviner
Before her, the heaven rise higher.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A purer Sappho_
OMNES
Sulpiciam
legant puellae,
uni quae cupiunt uiro placere;
omnes Sulpiciam legant mariti,
uni qui cupiunt placere nuptae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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on either hand the list'ning Bard,
The clanging sugh of whistling wings is heard;
Two dusky forms dart thro' the midnight air,
Swift as the gos[62] drives on the
wheeling
hare;
Ane on th' Auld Brig his airy shape uprears,
The ither flutters o'er the rising piers:
Our warlock Rhymer instantly descry'd
The Sprites that owre the brigs of Ayr preside.
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Robert Forst |
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compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But the victor
deigned not to bring down Orodes with the blind wound of his flying
lance as he fled; full face to face he meets him, and engages man with
man,
conqueror
not by stealth but armed valour.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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From murderous
Epigrams
flee,
Cruel Wit and Laughter impure
That brings tears to the high Azure,
And all that base garlic cuisine!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"Never," says Guene, "so long as lives Rollanz,
From hence to the East there is no such vassal;
And proof also, Oliver his comrade;
The dozen peers he cherishes at hand,
These are his guard, with twenty
thousand
Franks.
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Chanson de Roland |
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