How often have you
yourself
been witness of my paleness and my
sufferings!
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1137-1152)
Born apparently in Gascony, his real name unknown, he probably spent most of his career in the courts of William X of
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Then
suddenly
there was a great light--
"Let me into the darkness again.
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Now, Fairfax, seek her
promised
faith ;
Keligion that dispensed hath
Which she henceforward does begin ;
The Nun's smooth tongue has sucked her in.
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For since we are
connected
with body, it is also
* i.
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Themselves within they stand to right and left in front of the towers,
sheathed in iron, the plumes
flickering
over their stately heads: even
as high in air around the gliding streams, whether on Padus' banks or by
pleasant Athesis, twin oaks rise lifting their unshorn heads into the
sky with high tops asway.
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Or ask of yonder argent fields above,
Why Jove's
satellites
are less than Jove?
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O le pauvre amoureux des pays
chimeriques!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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As confirmation of the fact that
vegetation
is but a kind of
crystallization, every one may observe how, upon the edge of the
melting frost on the window, the needle-shaped particles are bundled
together so as to resemble fields waving with grain, or shocks rising
here and there from the stubble; on one side the vegetation of the
torrid zone, high-towering palms and wide-spread banyans, such as are
seen in pictures of oriental scenery; on the other, arctic pines stiff
frozen, with downcast branches.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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sera nos illo referat senectus:
nemo ad id sero uenit, unde numquam,
cum semel uenit, potent reuerti;
quid iuuat durum
properare
fatum?
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Chimene
You should rather take part in all this joy,
Blessing the grace the Heavens employ,
Madame, no one but me
deserves
to suffer.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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With
careless
step I onward stray'd,
My heart rejoic'd in nature's joy,
When musing in a lonely glade,
A maiden fair I chanc'd to spy;
Her look was like the morning's eye,
Her air like nature's vernal smile,
Perfection whisper'd passing by,
Behold the lass o' Ballochmyle!
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Robert Burns |
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An
allusion
to Queen Elizabeth's Pensioners, a band
of the tallest and handsomest young men, of the best families and fortunes,
that could be found (Warton).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Strong, simple, silent, therefore such was he
Who helped us in our need; the eternal law
That who can saddle Opportunity
Is God's elect, though many a mortal flaw
May minish him in eyes that closely see,
Was verified in him: what need we say
Of one who made success where others failed,
Who, with no light save that of common day,
Struck hard, and still struck on till Fortune quailed,
But that (so sift the Norns) a
desperate
van
Ne'er fell at last to one who was not wholly man.
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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blake-poems |
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And the
Albatross
begins to be avenged.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Aught that recalls the daily drug which turned
My sickening memory; and, though Time hath taught
My mind to
meditate
what then it learned,
Yet such the fixed inveteracy wrought
By the impatience of my early thought,
That, with the freshness wearing out before
My mind could relish what it might have sought,
If free to choose, I cannot now restore
Its health; but what it then detested, still abhor.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Symons understands these and other
sentences
to mean that poetry
will henceforth be a poetry of essences, separated one from another in
little and intense poems.
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Yeats |
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In many cases these
verses will seem to the reader like poetry torn up by the roots, with
rain and dew and earth still clinging to them, giving a freshness and
a fragrance not
otherwise
to be conveyed.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Io vidi quello essercito gentile
tacito poscia
riguardare
in sue,
quasi aspettando, palido e umile;
e vidi uscir de l'alto e scender giue
due angeli con due spade affocate,
tronche e private de le punte sue.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Thou'lt quaff love's sweet envenomed stream,
Fantastic images shall swarm
In thy
imagination
warm,
Of happy meetings thou shalt dream,
And wheresoe'er thy footsteps err,
Confront thy fated torturer!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Seeing his narrow walls in such wise vexed with evils, 80
Theseus of freest will for dear-loved Athens his body
Offered a victim so that no more to Crete be deported
Lives by Cecropia doomed to burials burying nowise;
Then with a swifty ship and soft breathed breezes a-stirring,
Sought he Minos the Haughty where homed in
proudest
of Mansions.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Silver and gold he show'rs upon his band,
Chargers
and mules, garments and silken mats.
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Chanson de Roland |
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To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays,
And yet deny the
careless
husband praise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Now it passed into power of the people's king,
best of all that the oceans bound
who have
scattered
their gold o'er Scandia's isle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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At the awful sight
tottered that guest, and terror seized him;
yet the
wretched
fugitive rallied anon
from fright and fear ere he fled away,
and took the cup from that treasure-hoard.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The wings, the
eyebrows
and ah, the eyes!
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When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said--
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, 140
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Now Albert's coming back, make
yourself
a bit smart.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Thus came the
Heritage
to thee.
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Byron |
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The scents of red roses and sandalwood flutter
and die in the maze of their gem-tangled hair,
And smiles are entwining like magical serpents
the poppies of lips that are opiate-sweet;
Their glittering
garments
of purple are burning
like tremulous dawns in the quivering air,
And exquisite, subtle and slow are the tinkle
and tread of their rhythmical, slumber-soft feet.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I am
dishonoured
of you, thrust to scorn!
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Aeschylus |
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Besides, as it is fit for grown and able writers to stand of
themselves, and work with their own strength, to trust and endeavour by
their own faculties, so it is fit for the
beginner
and learner to study
others and the best.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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When the dynasty was falling, tumult and
disorder
arose,
Thieves and robbers roamed like wild beasts.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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) gif to a spryte
Syrr Rychardes forme ys lyped, I'll holde dystraughte
Hys
bledeynge
claie-colde corse, and die eche daie ynn thoughte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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In the
southern
clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.
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blake-poems |
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Unable at the Child to aim her blow,
The lady spent her rage in other part,
And mighty deeds achieved, which fame will earn,
While overhead the
circling
heavens shall turn.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Meredith - Poems |
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XXXVIII
The winds out of the west land blow,
My friends have
breathed
them there;
Warm with the blood of lads I know
Comes east the sighing air.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Series
For the
splendour
of the day of happinesses in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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donations
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any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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La Fontaine |
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No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
Of
perilous
seas, in faery lands forlorn.
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Keats |
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For ever left alone am I,
Then
wherefore
should I fear to die?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And the wrath of Achilles against Agamemnon was
assuaged; and they two were reconciled at a
gathering
of the chiefs.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And the citizen whom the lot has not given a letter showing
where he is to dine will be driven off by
everyone?
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Aristophanes |
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Faire Venus sonne, that with thy cruell dart 20
At that good knight so cunningly didst rove,
That
glorious
fire it kindled in his hart,
Lay now thy deadly Heben bow apart,
And with thy mother milde come to mine ayde;
Come both, and with you bring triumphant Mart,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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For an
Historiographer discourseth of affaires orderly as they were done,
accounting as well the times as the actions; but a Poet
thrusteth
into the
middest, even where it most concerneth him, and there recoursing to the
things forepast, and divining of things to come, maketh a pleasing analysis
of all.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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There was the
semblance
of disgrace, that kept
The youth from dire mischance on whom it fell,
And glory darken'd on the gloom of hell;
Perfidious loyalty, and honest fraud,
And wisdom slow, and headlong thirst of blood;
The dungeon, where the flowery paths decoy;
The painful, hard escape, with long annoy.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Emerson - Poems |
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What a
charming
land!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais,
beautiful
Athenian courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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There was a king reigned in the East:
There, when kings will sit to feast,
They get their fill before they think
With
poisoned
meat and poisoned drink.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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It fanned their temples, filled their lungs,
Scattered
their forelocks free;
My friends made words of it with tongues
That talk no more to me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Epitaph On A
Henpecked
Country Squire
As father Adam first was fool'd,
(A case that's still too common,)
Here lies man a woman ruled,
The devil ruled the woman.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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'Thus are we wholly at the disposal
of His will, and our present and future
condition
framed and ordered
by His free, but wise and just, decrees.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The
flooring
sounds 'neath Eviradnus' tread
Above abysses many.
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Hugo - Poems |
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BEGGAR
Daughter!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast,
Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs;
What careth she for hearts when once
possessed?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I by no means assert that
the
intercourse
would be promiscuous: on the contrary, it appears, from
the relation of parent to child, that this union is generally of long
duration, and marked above all others with generosity and self-devotion.
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Shelley |
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"
Poor Avarice one torment more would find;
Nor could
Profusion
squander all in kind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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'Twas not love's dart,
Or any blow
Of want, or foe,
Did wound my heart
With an eternal smart;
But only you,
My sometimes known
Companion,
My dearest Crew,
That me
unkindly
slew.
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Robert Herrick |
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And if I can speak and do my share,
I've her to thank, who every learning
Granted me, and all understanding,
And made me a singer debonair,
And
anything
I make that's fine,
From her sweet lovely body's mine,
True-hearted thought including.
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Troubador Verse |
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He continues: 'Indeed, no common supply was required; for, besides
what the
Corporation
(great devourers of custard) consumed on the
spot, it appears that it was thought no breach of city manners to
send, or take some of it home with them for the use of their ladies.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But my mind was weary Almost as the
twilight
of the day,
And my soul was sullen, and a little Tired of his everlasting talk.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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" Whereas the early poems were characterized by a
tendency
to turn
away from the turmoil of life--in fact, the concrete world of reality
does not seem to exist--there is noticeable in these two later volumes
an advance toward life in the sense that the poet is beginning to
approach and to vision some of its greatest symbols.
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Rilke - Poems |
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(Er fasst das Buch und spricht das Zeichen des Geistes
geheimnisvoll
aus.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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'Tis mine with food the hungry to supply,
And clothe the naked from the
inclement
sky.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The pigeons from the dove cote cooed over the old lane,
The crow flocks from the oakwood went flopping oer the grain;
Like lots of dear old
neighbours
whom I shall see no more
They greeted me that morning I left the English shore.
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John Clare |
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e whiche
blisfulnesse
as
I haue seid alle mortal folke enforcen hem to geten by
dyuerse weyes.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Soon as the force of that fallacious Fruit,
That with
exhilerating
vapour bland
About thir spirits had plaid, and inmost powers
Made erre, was now exhal'd, and grosser sleep
Bred of unkindly fumes, with conscious dreams 1050
Encumberd, now had left them, up they rose
As from unrest, and each the other viewing,
Soon found thir Eyes how op'nd, and thir minds
How dark'nd; innocence, that as a veile
Had shadow'd them from knowing ill, was gon,
Just confidence, and native righteousness,
And honour from about them, naked left
To guiltie shame: hee cover'd, but his Robe
Uncover'd more.
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Milton |
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O Fosterer of the Helicon Hill, sprung from Urania, who beareth the gentle
virgin to her mate, O
Hymenaeus
Hymen, O Hymen Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Mark by what
wretched
steps their glory grows,
From dirt and seaweed as proud Venice rose;
In each how guilt and greatness equal ran,
And all that raised the hero, sunk the man:
Now Europe's laurels on their brows behold,
But stained with blood, or ill exchanged for gold;
Then see them broke with toils or sunk with ease,
Or infamous for plundered provinces.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not:
I am no summer friend, but wintry cold,
A silly sheep benighted from the fold,
A
sluggard
with a thorn-choked garden plot.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Certys
resou{n}
whan it loke?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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opportunity
to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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One
stratagem
has fail'd, and others will:
Ye find, Achilles is unconquer'd still.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Let song itself, and votaries of verse,
Breathe
mournful
accents o'er our Cino's bier,
Who late is gone to number with the blest!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty
flitches
decorate the walls,
Moore's Almanack where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
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John Clare |
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"
But when it broke its shell
It slipped and
stumbled
and fell about its prison
And tried to climb to the light
For space to dry its wings.
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THE ECHOING GREEN
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells'
cheerful
sound;
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.
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Poi che 'l tripudio e l'altra festa grande,
si del cantare e si del fiammeggiarsi
luce con luce gaudiose e blande,
insieme a punto e a voler quetarsi,
pur come li occhi ch'al piacer che i move
conviene insieme
chiudere
e levarsi;
del cor de l'una de le luci nove
si mosse voce, che l'ago a la stella
parer mi fece in volgermi al suo dove;
e comincio: <
mi tragge a ragionar de l'altro duca
per cui del mio si ben ci si favella.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Or ask of yonder argent fields above,
Why Jove's
satellites
are less than Jove?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Nicolas, whose Edition has
reminded
me of several things, and
instructed me in others, does not consider Omar to be the material
Epicurean that I have literally taken him for, but a Mystic, shadowing
the Deity under the figure of Wine, Wine-bearer, &c.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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At length their expression appeared to flash suddenly
out into the external world, when, with a quick leap, he sprang from his
chair, and falling heavily with his head and shoulders upon the table,
and in contact with the corpse, poured out rapidly and
vehemently
a
detailed confession of the hideous crime for which Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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Wilde - Poems |
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The
violinist
had played it,
or something like it, but had not written it down; but the man with
the wind instrument said it could not be played because it contained
quarter-tones and would be out of tune.
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Yeats |
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Am I not
In truth a
favoured
plant!
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William Wordsworth |
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That fine lyric, beginning "The gloomy night is
gathering
fast,"
was the offspring of these moments of regret and sorrow.
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Robert Forst |
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Stand
With no man
hankering
for a dagger's heft,
No, not for Italy!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays
Those painted clouds that beautify our days;
Each want of
happiness
by hope supplied,
And each vacuity of sense by pride:
These build as fast as knowledge can destroy;
In folly's cup still laughs the bubble, joy;
One prospect lost, another still we gain;
And not a vanity is given in vain;
Even mean self-love becomes, by force divine,
The scale to measure others' wants by thine.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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70
So whan this Calkas knew by calculinge,
And eek by answere of this Appollo,
That Grekes sholden swich a peple bringe,
Thorugh which that Troye moste been for-do,
He caste anoon out of the toun to go; 75
For wel wiste he, by sort, that Troye sholde
Destroyed
ben, ye, wolde who-so nolde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The chosen angels, and the spirits blest,
Celestial
tenants, on that glorious day
My Lady join'd them, throng'd in bright array
Around her, with amaze and awe imprest.
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Petrarch |
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"As I am speaking of poetry, it will not be amiss to touch slightly upon
the most
singular
heresy in its modern history-the heresy of what is
called, very foolishly, the Lake School.
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Poe - 5 |
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Wrinkles where his eyes are,
Wrinkles where his nose is,
Wrinkles where his mouth is,
And a little old devil looking out of every
wrinkle!
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Yeats |
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The two verses were unaltered, but the two
choruses
were
re-written.
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Tennyson |
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Yet, love and hate mee too,
So, these
extreames
shall neithers office doe;
Love mee, that I may die the gentler way;
Hate mee, because thy love is too great for mee; 20
Or let these two, themselves, not me decay;
So shall I, live, thy Stage, not triumph bee;
Lest thou thy love and hate and mee undoe,
_To let mee live, O love and hate mee too.
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John Donne |
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They speak of him
As of one who entered madly into life,
Drinking
the cup of pleasure to the dregs.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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