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she
deems him destroyed in the shock of battle, and, distracted by sudden
anguish, shrieks that she is the source of guilt, the spring of ill, and
with many a mad utterance of
frenzied
grief rends her purple attire with
dying hand, and ties from a lofty beam the ghastly noose of death.
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Said the Kangaroo to the Duck,
"This
requires
some little reflection.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The rite decrees our hands must quench the torch
Against the iron mass of your tomb's porch:
None at this simple
ceremony
should forget,
Those chosen to sing the absence of the poet,
That this monument encloses him entire.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"
"Tears may be ours, but proud, for those who win
Death's royal purple in the foeman's lines;
Peace, too, brings tears; and 'mid the battle-din,
The wiser ear some text of God divines,
For the
sheathed
blade may rust with darker sin.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But if the only competition were my brother, 490
Madame, over him I have
essential
claims,
That I could salvage from the law's domains.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Horace, when he asserted the dependence of
Lucilius
on the old
Attic Comedy, was nearer the truth than Quintilian.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And the admiral calls upon Apollin
And
Tervagan
and Mahum, prays and speaks:
"My lords and gods, I've done you much service;
Your images, in gold I'll fashion each;
Against Carlun give me your warranty!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Self-support should
maintain
strict limits:
More than enough is not what I want.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I heard them twitter and watched them dart
Now
together
and now apart
Like dark petals blown from a tree;
The maples stamped against the west
Were black and stately and full of rest,
And the hazy orange moon grew up
And slowly changed to yellow gold
While the hills were darkened, fold on fold
To a deeper blue than a flower could hold.
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Sara Teasdale |
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This merits not your anger, had it beene,
The Queene of
Chastitie
was naked seene;
And in bed, not to feele, the paine I tooke,
Was more then for _Actaeon_ not to looke.
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John Donne |
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For were these shapes quite infinite, some seeds
Would have a body of
infinite
increase.
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Lucretius |
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The feud she avenged
that yesternight, unyieldingly,
Grendel in
grimmest
grasp thou killedst, --
seeing how long these liegemen mine
he ruined and ravaged.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But, very soon, those
houses were divided by discord, and the city was plunged into all the
evils which it had
suffered
before the existence of the Tribuneship.
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Petrarch |
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A little
distance
from the prow
Those crimson shadows were:
I turn'd my eyes upon the deck--
O Christ!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Then falter not O book, fulfil your destiny,
You not a reminiscence of the land alone,
You too as a lone bark
cleaving
the ether, purpos'd I know not
whither, yet ever full of faith,
Consort to every ship that sails, sail you!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I have seen him stained with blood and powder,
To a whole army
bringing
pain and terror.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Quand tu vas
balayant
l'air de ta jupe large,
Tu fais l'effet d'un beau vaisseau qui prend le large,
Charge de toile, et va roulant
Suivant un rythme doux, et paresseux, et lent.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Earth's newness then
Would rouse no dour spells of the bitter cold,
Nor extreme heats nor winds of mighty powers--
For all things grow and gather
strength
through time
In like proportions; and then earth was young.
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Lucretius |
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" Pope tells an
amusing story of Montague's comments on his
translation
of the 'Iliad'
(Spence, 'Anecdotes', p.
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Alexander Pope |
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Late as those eyes on my sunk cheek inclined,
Whose
paleness
to the world seems of the grave,
Compassion moved you to that greeting kind,
Whose soft smile to my worn heart spirit gave.
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Petrarch |
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I rather fancy, however, that 'call' is right, and is to be taken
in close connexion with the next line, 'You could not cast the
eyes water, and thereby call the malady
desperately
hot or changing
feverously.
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John Donne |
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And if she faintly glimmers here,
And paled is her light,
Yet alway in her proper sphere
She's
mistress
of the night.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Of a' the
thoughtless
sons o' man,
Commen' to me the bardie clan;
Except it be some idle plan
O' rhymin clink,
The devil haet,--that I sud ban--
They ever think.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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So
afterwards
they made sky ladders and hanging bridges.
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Li Po |
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General
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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These
travellers
were mounted on four dromedaries, and having passed through Spain, they went to Norway and from there to Babylon and the Holy Land.
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Appoloinaire |
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The friend
proposed
they should at once decide,
The charge and pleasure 'tween them to divide.
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La Fontaine |
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and John Gould
Fletcher
and F.
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Imagists |
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"
Fortune, who loves her cruel game,
Still bent upon some
heartless
whim,
Shifts her caresses, fickle dame,
Now kind to me, and now to him:
She stays; 'tis well: but let her shake
Those wings, her presents I resign,
Cloak me in native worth, and take
Chaste Poverty undower'd for mine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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What seeks he now of us in our
country?
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Chanson de Roland |
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LX
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all
forwards
do contend.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
Then they followed
Where the vision led,
And saw their
sleeping
child
Among tigers wild.
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blake-poems |
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A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
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blake-poems |
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Till here on the hill, betwixt vill and vill,
He noted a clear
straight
ray
Stretching down from the sky to a spot hard by,
Which shone with the light of day.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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How warm they were on such a day:
You almost feel the date,
So short way off it seems; and now,
They 're
centuries
from that.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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--I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds
With
coldness
still returning.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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On moonlight bushes,
Whose dewy leafits are but half disclos'd,
You may
perchance
behold them on the twigs,
Their bright, bright eyes, their eyes both bright and full,
Glistning, while many a glow-worm in the shade
Lights up her love-torch.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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[Footnote 8: 'Mother, since thou didst bear me to be so short-lived,
Olympian Zeus that thunders from on high should
especially
have bestowed
honour on me.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Dazed,
obsessed
by a deadly memory,
I'd banish myself from this world completely.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Milton is not so
close to his fighting angels as Homer is to his fighting men; but the
war in heaven is an incident in Milton's figurative expression of
something that has become altogether himself--the mystery of individual
existence in universal existence, and the accompanying mystery of sin,
of individual will
inexplicably
allowed to tamper with the divinely
universal will.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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We
flatter ourselves in the Pilgrim Fathers, and the Virginian
offshoot
of
a transported convict swells with the fancy ef a cavalier ancestry.
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" With our modern
and altogether rational ideas of the absurdity and impiety of warfare,
we are not
precisely
in that frame of mind best adapted to sympathize
with the sentiments, and thus to appreciate the real excellence of the
poem.
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415
Or rather stay to taste the mild delights
Of pensive [S] Underwalden's pastoral
heights?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Some have surmised that
it is not the work of Burns; but the parentage is certain: the
original
manuscript
at the time of its composition, in 1785, was put
into the hands of Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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Whan thys man chyllde was borne,
Fayne were here frendys therforne;
Theye bare the chylde to chirche A none, 41
And
crystenyd
hyt in the Font stone.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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_Quel che 'n
Tessaglia
ebbe le man si pronte.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But him, of all forsaken,
Of
creature
and of brother,
Never wilt thou forsake!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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By brooks too broad for leaping
The
lightfoot
boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold
philosophy?
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Keats - Lamia |
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"Whom do you wish to
present?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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After such knowledge, what
forgiveness?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Into how fair a fortune hath man's life
Fallen out of the
darkness!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Its wings beat gently, its note no more calls,
Its flight has been spent by you,
dreaming
Boy!
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Rilke - Poems |
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Amasse les
strideurs
au coeur du clairon lourd.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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FAUST:
In jedem Kleide werd ich wohl die Pein
Des engen
Erdelebens
fuhlen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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But though today valour
deserves
this,
I would prove an enemy to your honour
To grant him now the prize of his valour.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
But I cried out,--"That is a false prophet; for I shall be a
musician, and naught but a
musician
shall I be.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
The
conversation
was interrupted at this point, to the great regret of
the young girl.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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At last you rose and moved the light,
And the long shadow of the chair
Flitted across into the night,
And all the
casement
darken'd there.
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Tennyson |
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But as they come,
Leviathan
sneezes twice .
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Polypheme's white tooth
Slips on the nut if, after
frequent
showers,
The shell is over-smooth,--and not so much
Will turn the thing called love, aside to hate
Or else to oblivion.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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O angle-builders,
Vainly have you
prolonged
your effort,
For I descend amid you,
Past rungs and slopes of curving slippery steel.
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Imagists |
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LE VIN
L'AME DU VIN
Un soir, l'ame du vin chantait dans les bouteilles:
<< Homme, vers toi je pousse, o cher desherite,
Sous ma prison de verre et mes cires vermeilles,
Un chant plein de lumiere et de
fraternite!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The
Countess
(in her own right) of Burlatz, and of Beziers, be-
ing the wife of
The Vicomte of Beziers.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Let me
intrigue
for you.
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Aristophanes |
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"'Rivers to the Sea' is the most charming volume of poetry that has
appeared on either side of the
Atlantic
in a score of years.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Gabriel
promises
to find him out ere morning.
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Milton |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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I say that the real and
permanent
grandeur of these States must be their
religion;
Otherwise there is no real and permanent grandeur;
Nor character, nor life worthy the name, without religion;
Nor land, nor man or woman, without religion.
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Whitman |
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" My day of youth went yesterday;
My hair no longer bounds to my foot's glee,
Nor plant I it from rose- or myrtle-tree,
As girls do, any more: it only may
Now shade on two pale cheeks the mark of tears,
Taught
drooping
from the head that hangs aside
Through sorrow's trick.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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So they both went slowly down,
And walked about the town
With a cheerful bumpy sound
As they toddled round and round;
And
everybody
cried,
As they hastened to their side,
"See!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
I heard nae mair, for Chanticleer
Shook off the
pouthery
snaw,
And hail'd the morning with a cheer,
A cottage-rousing craw.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Peter, where
Petrarch
offered up his crown
of laurel before the altar.
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Petrarch |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Peire Vidal (1175 - 1205)
Reputedly the son of a furrier, he started his career as a troubadour in the court of Raimon V of Toulouse and was also
associated
with Raimon Barral the Viscount of Marseille, King Alfonso II of Aragon, Boniface of Montferrat, and Manfred I Lancia.
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Troubador Verse |
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83
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GOh, marg.
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Latin - Catullus |
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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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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Familiar
with that port before, they push'd 130
The vessel in; she, rapid, plow'd the sands
With half her keel, such rowers urged her on.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Not
Neoptolemus
so mirable,
On whose bright crest Fame with her loud'st Oyes
Cries 'This is he' could promise to himself
A thought of added honour torn from Hector.
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Shakespeare |
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silent years
Tell seemingly no
doubtful
tale;
And yet they leave it short, and fears 10
And hopes are strong and will prevail.
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William Wordsworth |
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Quick visions of
celestial
grace,--
Hither they waft, from earth's broad space,
Kind thoughts for all humanity.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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As long as Phoebus bore unmoved the shield,
Sat doubtful conquest
hovering
o'er the field;
But when aloft he shakes it in the skies,
Shouts in their ears, and lightens in their eyes,
Deep horror seizes every Grecian breast,
Their force is humbled, and their fear confess'd.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Thou
standest
in the van of war this day.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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O lank-eared
Phantoms
of black-weeded pools!
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Keats |
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What though my name stood rubric on the walls,
Or plaistered posts, with claps, in
capitals?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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That way
blocked!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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[Illustration]
By and by the four children came to a country where there were no houses,
but only an incredibly innumerable number of large bottles without corks,
and of a
dazzling
and sweetly susceptible blue color.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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BUT to our lady's humour let's adhere;
Sighs passed for naught: they entered not her ear;
'Twas
speaking
only would the charmer please,
The reader, without doubt, my meaning sees;
Gay Gulphar plainly spoke, and named a sum
A hundred pounds, she listened:--was o'ercome.
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La Fontaine |
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And lately, by the Tavern Door agape,
Came
stealing
through the Dusk an Angel Shape,
Bearing a vessel on his Shoulder; and
He bid me taste of it; and 'twas--the Grape!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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From
chrysanthemums
hung this autumn?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Wilde - Poems |
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