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Rilke - Poems |
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She enters a
deserted
yard--
Yelping, a pack of dogs rush out,
But at her shriek ran forth with noise
The household troop of little boys,
Who with a scuffle and a shout
The curs away to kennel chase,
The damsel under escort place.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Sweet was their death--with them to die was rife
With the last ecstacy of satiate life--
Beyond that death no immortality--
But sleep that
pondereth
and is not "to be"--
And there--oh!
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By
smashing
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The first white frost in the meadow will be shining
there to-day
And the furrowed upland
glinting
warm beside the
woodland way;
There, a bright face and a clear hearth will be waiting
when I come,
And my heart is throbbing wildly for those distant
hills of home.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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As none, howe'er, could think the subtle flame
Would lie concealed with such a haughty dame,
Camillus
nothing of the kind supposed.
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La Fontaine |
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XCV
How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Which, like a canker in the
fragrant
rose,
Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Cosi, volgendosi a la nota sua,
fu viso a me cantare essa sustanza,
sopra la qual doppio lume s'addua;
ed essa e l'altre mossero a sua danza,
e quasi
velocissime
faville
mi si velar di subita distanza.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"God looks down from His
judgment
seat, 'Good will on earth' is His message sweet,
Turn your hearts to the Lord.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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They will know how to keep from singing
notes and from prosaic lifeless intonations, and they will always
understand, however far they push their experiments, that poetry and
not music is their object; and they will have by heart, like the Irish
_File_, so many poems and notations that they will never have to bend
their heads over the book to the ruin of
dramatic
expression and of
that wild air the bard had always about him in my boyish imagination.
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"By what amends can I of such a shame
(The
blushing
warrior said) the stain eraze?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And while they fell by hundreds
Upon the bloody plain,
Of us,
fourteen
were wounded,
And only eight were slain.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Was peynted POVERT al aloon, 450
That not a peny hadde in wolde,
Al-though [that] she hir clothes solde,
And though she shulde
anhonged
be;
For naked as a worm was she.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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She turns (O Guardian Angels, stop her
From doing
anything
improper!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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As, for the earth throwne lowest downe of all,
T'were an
ambition
to desire to fall, 50
So God, in our desire to dye, doth know
Our plot for ease, in being wretched so.
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Hinc mihi prseteriti radones atque futuri
Elicit ;
Astrologus
certior Astronomo.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And though thine in the centre sit,
Yet when my other far does roam,
Thine leans and
hearkens
after it,
And rows erect as mine comes home.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Many a bitter hour had he brought me, Loneliness, and
shipwreck
of the heart;
And I loved him.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Bid that heart stay, and it will stay
To honour thy decree;
Or bid it
languish
quite away,
And't shall do so for thee.
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What has dull'd the fire
Of the
Berecyntian
fife?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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why fearing of Time's tyranny,
Might I not then say, 'Now I love you best,'
When I was certain o'er incertainty,
Crowning
the present, doubting of the rest?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Were it not that his art's glory, full of fire
Till the dark
communal
moment all of ash,
Returns as proud evening's glow lights the glass,
To the fires of the pure mortal sun!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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nor from Each other avert their eyes
Eternity appeard above them as One Man infolded
In Luvah robes of blood & bearing all his afflictions
As the sun shines down on the misty earth Such was the Vision
But purple night and crimson morning & [the] golden day descending
Thro' the clear changing
atmosphere
display'd green fields among
The varying clouds, like paradises stretch'd in the expanse
With towns & villages and temples, tents sheep-folds and pastures
Where dwell the children of the elemental worlds in harmony,
[But monstrous delusion ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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I know no other verse in which the effects
of music are so
precisely
copied in metre.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And the host rubbed his hands and smiled at his wife; for his guests
were
spending
freely.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Means I must use thou say'st, prediction else
Will unpredict and fail me of the Throne:
My time I told thee, (and that time for thee
Were better farthest off) is not yet come;
When that comes think not thou to find me slack
On my part aught endeavouring, or to need
Thy politic maxims, or that cumbersome 400
Luggage of war there shewn me, argument
Of human
weakness
rather then of strength.
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Milton |
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InTem- Hesaith:"Redspearsborethewarriordawn Of old
**:
Strange!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Then this
consoling
Angel gave a thwack,
And ten or dozen stripes laid on his back:--
'Tis thy unruly, jealous mind, said he,
Displeases God, and dooms thee here to be.
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La Fontaine |
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The Galli come:
And hollow cymbals, tight-skinned tambourines
Resound around to bangings of their hands;
The fierce horns
threaten
with a raucous bray;
The tubed pipe excites their maddened minds
In Phrygian measures; they bear before them knives,
Wild emblems of their frenzy, which have power
The rabble's ingrate heads and impious hearts
To panic with terror of the goddess' might.
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Lucretius |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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is
tokenyng
bifalle, so doo?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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So shall the drudge in dusty frock
Spy behind the city clock
Retinues of airy kings,
Skirts of angels, starry wings,
His fathers shining in bright fables,
His children fed at
heavenly
tables.
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Emerson - Poems |
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But the
victories of the
Epirotes
were fiercely disputed, dearly
purchased, and altogether unprofitable.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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in ora uulgi uidetur
imitatus
Henricus ["n" non uidetur]
XLVIII.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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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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pouere Men, & begged his mete,
His fadres
sergeaunt?
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[Menelaus]
approaching
near,
The beauteous champion views with marks of fear,
Smit with a conscious sense, retires behind,
And shuns the fate he well deserv'd to find.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Shun him and fear him,
Lest the
Bridegroom
hear him;
Scout him and rout him
With his ominous eye about him.
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p{re}ciouse
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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inges [as wo seith /
thanne rekketh the sowle of no glorye of
renou{n}
of this
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Tacitus |
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As if it could be uttered unfitly, if
devoutly!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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But thilke
chaffare
is wel wors, 5920
There Venus entremeteth nought;
For who-so such chaffare hath bought,
He shal not worchen so wysly,
That he ne shal lese al outerly
Bothe his money and his chaffare; 5925
But the seller of the ware
The prys and profit have shal.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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'
Scarce had he spoken when the
encircling
cloud suddenly parts and melts
into clear air.
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King
Marsilies
and his great host draw round.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Not
honourable
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Spenser's essay on _A View of the Present State of Ireland_ shows that, far
from shutting himself up in a fool's paradise of fancy, he was fully awake
to the social and political condition of that turbulent island, and that it
furnished him with concrete examples of those vices and virtues, bold
encounters and hair-breadth escapes, strange wanderings and deeds of
violence, with which he has crowded the
allegory
of the _Faerie Queene_.
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Yea, man's stubborn lust
To feed his heart upon your beauty, is all
The
strength
your lives have, all that holdeth you
Safe in the world,--propt like a rotten house.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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1_
New South Wales,
insurrection
(1805) in, _v.
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Byron |
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On a sloped sandy beach,
Which the spring-tide billows reach,
Stand a watchful throng
Who have hoped and waited long:
"Fie on this ship, that tarries
With the
priceless
freight it carries.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The scandal
resulted
in his flight (1229) to Provence.
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Troubador Verse |
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"Do
"You know
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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And
corposants*
along the tacklings slide, —
The passengers all wearied out before,
Giddy, and wishing for the fatal shore, —
Some lusty mate, who with more careful eye,
Counted the hours, and every star did spy,
The helm does from the artless steersman strain.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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It
is at once too easy and too
difficult
to be a popular novelist.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Nor can we once suppose
In any way 'tis likely, (seeing that space
To all sides stretches infinite and free,
And seeds,
innumerable
in number, in sum
Bottomless, there in many a manner fly,
Bestirred in everlasting motion there),
That only this one earth and sky of ours
Hath been create and that those bodies of stuff,
So many, perform no work outside the same;
Seeing, moreover, this world too hath been
By nature fashioned, even as seeds of things
By innate motion chanced to clash and cling--
After they'd been in many a manner driven
Together at random, without design, in vain--
And as at last those seeds together dwelt,
Which, when together of a sudden thrown,
Should alway furnish the commencements fit
Of mighty things--the earth, the sea, the sky,
And race of living creatures.
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Lucretius |
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"
exclaimed
Lisa, drying her eyes.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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O most
ambitious
Star!
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backing clouds
Then sleep fell on her eyelids in a Chasm of the Valley
The Sixteenth morn the Spectre stood before her
manifest
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The Spectre thus spoke.
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Blake - Zoas |
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no more have I,
But as the seasons and gravitation, and as all the appointed days
that forgive not,
I
dispense
from this side judgments inexorable without the least remorse.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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I know they think me mad, for all night long
I haunt the sea-marge,
thinking
I may find
Some day the herb he offered unto me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But now, wi' sighs and starting tears,
He strays amang the woods and breirs;
Or in the glens and rocky caves,
His sad
complaining
dowie raves:--
"I wha sae late did range and rove,
And chang'd with every moon my love,
I little thought the time was near,
Repentance I should buy sae dear.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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For wite thou wel,
withouten
were, 2740
In thank that thing is taken more,
For which a man hath suffred sore.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Lo the Lilly pale & the rose reddning fierce
Reproach thee & the beamy gardens sicken at thy beauty {According to Erdman, beneath and below these 2 lines are about 11 erased pencil lines, the first [partially recovered] beginning 'XXX she wails,' the
following
2 the same as the existing lines, and the remainder apparently different from the final text EJC}
I grasp thy vest in my strong hand in vain.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to
understand
you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
CANTO V
She said: the pitying
audience
melt in tears.
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Alexander Pope |
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The
prehistoric
Sumerian dynasties were all transformed into the realm
of myth and legend.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The notion of a visit to the ghosts has fascinated many
poets, and Dante
elaborated
this Homeric device into the main scheme of
the greatest of non-epical poems, as Milton elaborated the other
Homeric device into the main scheme of the greatest of literary epics.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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There
entertain
him all the Saints above,
In solemn troops, and sweet Societies
That sing, and singing in their glory move, 180
And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
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Milton |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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After
pacifying
the border you will again join the entourage, 60 let your deeds and fame fall behind none.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Or sorrow's other madness vex ;
Which
knowledge
forces me to know,
And memory will not forego ;
What but a soul could have the wit
To build me up for sin so fit?
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try thy Arts I also will try mine
For I percieve Thou hast Abundance which I claim as mine
Urizen startled stood but not Long soon he cried
Obey my voice young Demon I am God from Eternity to Eternity
Thus Urizen spoke collected in himself in awful pride
Art thou a visionary of Jesus the soft
delusion
of Eternity
Lo I am God the terrible destroyer & not the Saviour
Why should the Divine Vision compell the sons of Eden to forego each his own delight to war against his Spectre
The Spectre is the Man the rest is only delusion & fancy
So spoke the Prince of Light & sat beside the Seat of Los
Upon the sandy shore rested his chariot of fire
Ten thousand thousand were his hosts of spirits on the wind:
Ten thousand thousand glittering Chariots shining in the sky:
They pour upon the golden shore beside the silent ocean.
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Translator's note:
The Ruins Of Rome
Divine spirits, whose powdery ashes lie
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
Newcomer, who looks for Rome in Rome,
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
He who would see the vast power of Nature,
As in her chariot the Phrygian goddess rode,
You sacred ruins, and you holy shores,
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
You cruel stars, inhuman deities,
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
As we pass the summer stream without danger
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
All that the Egyptians once devised,
As the sown field its fresh
greenness
shows,
That we see nothing but an empty waste
Do you have hopes that posterity
Translator's note:
The text used is from the 1588 edition of Les Antiquites de Rome.
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Through his personality; his pathos and
ethology he has furthermore engendered a new ideal;
a synthesis of
Christian
and Pagan feeling which in
this form has not existed before.
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Such was the wight; the apparel on his back
Though coarse, was reverend, and though bare, was black:
The suit, if by the fashion one might guess,
Was velvet in the youth of good Queen Bess,
But mere tuff-taffety what now remained;
So time, that changes all things, had
ordained!
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Earth - gap gaping and
never to be filled
- but by sky
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indifferent
earth
grave
not flowers
wreaths, our
joys and our life
48.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Let him be fined ten
shillings
for contempt.
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And
microbes
more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
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Appoloinaire |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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I think there's never a man in Christendom
Can lesser hide his love or hate than he;
For by his face
straight
shall you know his heart.
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He became Sergeant in the City of London Regiment
(Royal
Fusiliers)
and was mortally wounded while leading a charge
against the Germans in October, 1916.
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DAMOETAS
"How lean my bull amid the
fattening
vetch!
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My feast's a show, my lights are dim;
Be still, your music is not sweet,--
There is no music more for him:
His lights are out, his feast is done;
His bowl that
sparkled
to the brim
Is drained, is broken, cannot hold;
My blood is chill, his blood is cold;
His death is full, and mine begun.
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Finally, to make things
quite clear, his old father fights him openly, tells him home-truth upon
home-truth, tears away all his
protective
screens, and leaves him with his
self-respect in tatters.
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470
The island left afar, and other land
Appearing none, but sky alone and sea,
Right o'er the hollow bark Saturnian Jove
Hung a
caerulean
cloud, dark'ning the Deep.
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His horse he's spurred, the clear blood issued;
He's
gallopped
on, over a ditch he's leapt,
Full fifty feet a man might mark its breadth.
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