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Appoloinaire |
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I am your native land who bred
No driven heart, no driven head;
I fly a flag in every sea
Round the old Earth, of
Liberty!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The Holy Land a mountain-summit showed,
At finishing their rough and salvage way;
Where HEAVENLY LOVE a willing
offering
stood,
And washed away our errors with his blood.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I who am not great enough to
Love thee with this mortal body
So
impassionate
with ardour,
But oh, not too small to worship
While the sun shall shine,-- 10
I would build a fragrant temple
To thee, in the dark green forest,
Of red cedar and fine sandal,
And there love thee with sweet service
All my whole life long.
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Sappho |
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Black day he chose for planting thee,
Accurst he rear'd thee from the ground,
The bane of
children
yet to be,
The scandal of the village round.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The little that we see
From doubt is never free;
The little that we do
Is but half-nobly true;
With our laborious hiving
What men call treasure, and the gods call dross,
Life seems a fest of Fate's contriving, 80
Only secure in every one's conniving,
A long account of nothings paid with loss,
Where we poor puppets, jerked by unseen wires,
After our little hour of strut and rave,
With all our pasteboard passions and desires,
Loves, hates, ambitions, and immortal fires,
Are tossed pell-mell
together
in the grave.
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or a fine
Sad memory, with thy songs to
interfuse?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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_), 1335; mid þǣre sorge þē him sīo sār belamp (_with
the sorrow
wherewith
the pain had visited him_), 2469; pl.
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Beowulf |
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Altas ondas que venez suz la mar
Deep waves that roll, travelling the sea,
Gaita be, gaiteta del chastel
Keep a watch,
watchman
there, on the wall,
Kalenda maia
Calends of May
Guillem de Cabestan (1162-1212)
Aissi cum selh que baissa?
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Troubador Verse |
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Returning care
Had roused th'
industrious
hag, with footstep bare,
And loins ungirt, the sleeping fire to light;
And lovers thrill'd that season of despight,
Which wont renew their tears, and wake despair.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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--Of hearts who have been stabbed
By knowledge that their mates were in the earth,
Yet never could come near enough to be healed;
Of those who have gone longing all a life,
Because a voice heard singing or a gesture
Seen from afar gospell'd them of love;
And no more than the mere
announcement
had.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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--
Maugre the fact that in same place and spot
Another's mind is
meditating
things
All far unlike.
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Lucretius |
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"
»s
A CHANGE SONG By Marguerite Wilkinson
0 life, what would you make of me That, turning, I may find no more
A welcome at each
friendly
door
That once stood open wide to me?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Float on the Spring-winds e'en to my home:
And when thou to a rose shalt come
That hath begun to show her bloom,
Say, I send her
greeting!
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Sidney Lanier |
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At this time he was
meditating
to recross the
Alps.
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Petrarch |
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These shall conduct me forth, for well I know
That evil threatens you, such, too, as none
Shall 'scape of all the suitors, whose delight
Is to insult the unoffending guest
Received
beneath this hospitable roof.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Permit me; is it worth the trouble
For your
instruction
here to tell
What I by relatives conceive?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And love gave me great knowledge of the trees,
And singing birds, and earth with all her flowers;
Wisdom I knew and
righteousness
in these,
I lived in their atonement all my hours;
Love taught me how to beauty's eye alone
The secret of the lying heart is known.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I muse my Lord of
Gloucester
is not come.
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Shakespeare |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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LVI
"Nor stands it with our haste, which all delay,
All let forbids, that you beside that tower
Be forced to stop and mingle in the fray:
For grant that you be conquerors in the stower,
(And as your presence warrants well, you may,)
'Tis not a thing
concluded
in an hour.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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LIFE'S ALCHEMY By Abigail Fithian Halsey
For love that came with laughter And left us all in tears,
The sting that followed after
And haunted all our years
With love's
remembered
laughter And unforgotten tears;
For life that came with singing And changed with time to pain, Till years the meaning bringing
Had turned our loss to gain And given back the singing Made sweeter by the pain;
For all that love has taken, For all that life has left,
Say not, "We are forsaken," Nor cry, "We are bereft.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Horse
Pegasus
'Pegasus'
Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509 - 1516, The Rijksmuseun
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy,
My verses, the
patterns
of all poetry.
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Appoloinaire |
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When with closed eyes in autumn's eves of gold
I breathe the burning odours of your breast,
Before my eyes the hills of happy rest
Bathed in the sun's
monotonous
fires, unfold.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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and then
We'll riot, man; for then, at last
"`We'll make with heaven a
contract
fair
To call, each hour, from town to town,
And carry the dead folks' souls up there,
And bring the unborn babies down!
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Sidney Lanier |
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"
Later he saw that each weed
Was a
singular
knife.
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Stephen Crane |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what impossibly flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of
darkened
crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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There's reason, too,
Why clouds make sounds, as through them blow the winds:
We see, borne down the sky, oft shapes of clouds
Rough-edged or
branched
many forky ways;
And 'tis the same, as when the sudden flaws
Of north-west wind through the dense forest blow,
Making the leaves to sough and limbs to crash.
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Lucretius |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Heracles, who rose to tragic rank from a very homely cycle of myth, was
apt to bring other homely
characters
with him.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"I am
suffering
terribly with colic," I told him, "and
am going to the closet.
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Aristophanes |
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The poet himself is never cynical; his
joyousness is all too
apparent
in the very manner and intensity of
expression.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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830
Wher shal I seye to yow "wel come" or no,
That alderfirst me
broughte
in-to servyse
Of love, allas!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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7993), and
_irattutu_
in Zimmern, _Shurpu_, Index.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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WELL-BRED: Ned
Knowell!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
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Ronsard |
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His father
belonged
to a family of praetorian rank; his
mother's father was one of the proscribed.
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Tacitus |
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Not so: a buck was then a week's repast,
And 'twas their point, I ween, to make it last;
More pleased to keep it till their friends could come,
Than eat the sweetest by
themselves
at home.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Oh, thou didst walk in agony,
Hearing thy mother's cry, the cry
Of
wordless
wailing, well know I.
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Euripides - Electra |
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No man doth bear his sin,
But many sins
Are
gathered
as a cloud about man's way.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And this first Summer month that brings the Rose
Shall take Jamshyd and
Kaikobad
away.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The tumult rose and ceased: for Peace is nigh
Where wisdom's voice has found a
listening
heart.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I would have seen it, but I wait here yet:
I was at the
crowning
of the good king of Estampa.
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Troubador Verse |
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Come, Mercury, by whose minstrel spell
Amphion raised the Theban stones,
Come, with thy seven sweet strings, my shell,
Thy "diverse tones,"
Nor vocal once nor pleasant, now
To rich man's board and temple dear:
Put forth thy power, till Lyde bow
Her
stubborn
ear.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
But my Lord Raoul was in the mood, to-day,
Which craves
suggestions
simply with a view
To flout them in the face, and so waved hand
Backward, and stayed the on-pressing sycophants
Eager to buy rich praise with bravery cheap.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Like sorrow came upon me, heavier still,
Than when I wander'd from the poppy hill:
And a whole age of lingering moments crept
Sluggishly
by, ere more contentment swept
Away at once the deadly yellow spleen.
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Keats |
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If I may have it when it's dead
I will
contented
be;
If just as soon as breath is out
It shall belong to me,
Until they lock it in the grave,
'T is bliss I cannot weigh,
For though they lock thee in the grave,
Myself can hold the key.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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(Now, the Clangle-Wangle is a most
dangerous
and delusive beast, and by no
means commonly to be met with.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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--here, in a word, are all
The gods that Varro mentions, great and small;
Each with
innumerable
bonds detain'd,
And Jupiter before the chariot chain'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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6 This describes the plundering of the
imperial
tombs.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Parce que vous fouillez le ventre de la Femme
Vous craignez d'elle encore une convulsion
Qui crie, asphyxiant votre nichee infame
Sur sa poitrine, en une
horrible
pression.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The man who spoke
When we were at the
Scottish
Gate that day.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
countless
blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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But
suddenly
all changed around!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Content with little, I can p----e here
On
broccoli
and mutton, round the year;
But ancient friends (though poor, or out of play)
That touch my bell, I cannot turn away.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Gutenberg is a
registered
trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With
sorceries
sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's mysterious season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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" The better to emphasise my refusal I
struck the ground so
violently
with my foot that my leg was thrust up to
the knee in the recent grave, and I, like a wolf in a trap, was caught
perhaps for ever in the Grave of the Ideal.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But it was a
pincushion
heaven, with hymn-books in all the
pews.
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Kipling - Poems |
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aut quid hic potest
nisi uncta
deuorare
patrimonia?
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Latin - Catullus |
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List to me, O
Madelaine!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Then turn your forces from this paltry siege
And stir them up against a
mightier
task.
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Shakespeare |
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Heaven lit the fatal flame within my breast: 1625
That
detestable
Oenone managed all the rest.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Those hollies of
themselves
a shape
As of an arbour took,
A close, round arbour; and it stands
Not three strides from a brook.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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seest thou how our enemies
Are labouring in
amazement?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Beware the one-eyed Arimaspian band
That tramp on horse-hoofs,
dwelling
by the ford
Of Pluto and the stream that flows with gold:
Keep thou aloof from these.
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Aeschylus |
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That's what I call a genuine art,
To make poor rats with poison
wriggle!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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INCANTATION
When the leaves, by thousands thinned,
A thousand times have whirled in the wind,
And the moon, with hollow cheek,
Staring from her hollow height,
Consolation seems to seek
From the dim, reechoing night;
And the fog-streaks dead and white
Lie like ghosts of lost delight
O'er highest earth and lowest sky;
Then, Autumn, work thy
witchery!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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" remarked one of the
men, addressing a young officer of the
Engineering
Corps.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A rumour, scarcely yet to be
reckoned
sound,
But a pulse quicker or slower, then I know
My plea is granted; death prevails not yet.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The body grows outside, --
The more
convenient
way, --
That if the spirit like to hide,
Its temple stands alway
Ajar, secure, inviting;
It never did betray
The soul that asked its shelter
In timid honesty.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"I engage with the Snark--every night after dark--
In a dreamy delirious fight:
I serve it with greens in those shadowy scenes,
And I use it for
striking
a light:
"But if ever I meet with a Boojum, that day,
In a moment (of this I am sure),
I shall softly and suddenly vanish away--
And the notion I cannot endure!
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Lewis Carroll |
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'Or whether mortal taught or God inspired
The power of
unpremeditated
song?
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Shelley |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Why
Dost thou keep
silence?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Some mortal may inform thee, or a word,[4]
Perchance, by Jove directed (safest source
Of notice to
mankind)
may reach thine ear.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
VIII
"Farewell to barn and stack and tree,
Farewell
to Severn shore.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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_Sophocles
was first,
Euripides second with the Cretan Women, Alcmaeon in Psophis, Telephus and
Alcestis.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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There are enough
soldiers
and cannons
there, and the walls are stone.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_x_2 + 7_x_ + 53 = 11/3
But something
whispered
"It will soon be done:
Bands cannot always play, nor ladies smile:
Endure with patience the distasteful fun
For just a little while!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Green rushes, then, and
sweetest
bents,
With cooler oaken boughs,
Come in for comely ornaments
To re-adorn the house.
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Robert Herrick |
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By the turning, once again,
The moon
thniwfeh
up your visage wan,
And yet too late to call you back.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
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Ronsard |
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The prisoner, being
questioned as to his
whereabouts
on the morning of Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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You must
consider
the next from the native point of view.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Shatter her
beauteous
breast ye may;
The spirit of England none can slay!
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He scampered to the bushes far away;
The shepherd called the
ploughman
to the fray;
The ploughman wished he had a gun to shoot.
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DESTINY
That you are fair or wise is vain,
Or strong, or rich, or generous;
You must add the
untaught
strain
That sheds beauty on the rose.
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Emerson - Poems |
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You know the rest:
How the rebels, beaten and
backward
pressed,
Broke at the final charge, and ran.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium
with your written explanation.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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See me return'd
After long suff'rings, in the
twentieth
year,
To my own land.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Receive, Christ Jesus, these two, and the five that remain, into
thy eternal
habitations!
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Petrarch |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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Here it is used to
reinforce
the sense of a binding love.
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Troubador Verse |
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O how charmingly Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers
blooming
and luxuriant.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Thy voice is as the hill-wind over me,
And all my
changing
heart gives heed, my lover.
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Sappho |
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