You know the
councils
of the ever-living,
And all the tossing of your wings is joy,
And all that murmuring's but a marriage song;
But if it be reproach, I answer this:
There is not one among you that made love
By any other means.
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His locked, letter'd, braw brass collar
Shew'd him the
gentleman
an' scholar;
But though he was o' high degree,
The fient a pride, nae pride had he;
But wad hae spent an hour caressin,
Ev'n wi' al tinkler-gipsy's messin:
At kirk or market, mill or smiddie,
Nae tawted tyke, tho' e'er sae duddie,
But he wad stan't, as glad to see him,
An' stroan't on stanes an' hillocks wi' him.
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How it woke one April morn,
Fame shall tell;
As from Moultrie, close at hand,
And the
batteries
on the land,
Round its faint but fearless band
Shot and shell
Raining hid the doubtful light;
But they fought the hopeless fight
Long and well,
(Theirs the glory, ours the shame!
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"
THE TENANT-FOR-LIFE
THE sun said,
watching
my watering-pot
"Some morn you'll pass away;
These flowers and plants I parch up hot--
Who'll water them that day?
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I know my need, I know thy giving hand,
I crave thy
friendship
at thy kind command;
But there are such who court the tuneful Nine--
Heavens!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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'
_'Tresvolontiers;' _and he
proceeded
to his library, brought me a Dr.
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Then was the German raven seen, disguised,
Echoing the Roman eagle in the skies,
And once again towards Heaven spread
These brave hills once reduced to dust,
No longer fearing
lightning
overhead,
Borne by that eagle on the stormy gust.
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Coleridge, when he was by himself,
was never sure of this; there was his _magnum opus_, the revelation of
all philosophy; and he
sometimes
has doubts of the worth of his own poetry.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Under his
spurning
feet the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind,
And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace fire,
Swept on, with his wild eye full of ire.
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Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning's flagons up,
And say how many dew;
Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the
breadths
of blue!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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[Note 65: Lepage--a celebrated
gunmaker
of former days.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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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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But then the
beauteous
hill of moss
Before their eyes began to stir;
And for full fifty yards around,
The grass it shook upon the ground;
But all do still aver
The little babe is buried there,
Beneath that hill of moss so fair.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Long
conversations
she could rarely get,
And various obstacles the lovers met;
No interviews where they might be at ease,
But ev'ry thing conspired to fret and teaze.
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La Fontaine |
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Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But
microscopes
are prudent
In an emergency!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Wild strain of Scalds, that in the sea-worn caves
Rehearsed
their war-spell to the winds and waves;
Or fateful hymn of those prophetic maids,
That call'd on Hertha in deep forest glades;
Or minstrel lay, that cheer'd the baron's feast;
Or rhyme of city pomp, of monk and priest,
Judge, mayor, and many a guild in long array,
To high-church pacing on the great saint's day.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Only three manuscripts have the, to
my mind, most
probably
correct reading in _Satyre I_, l.
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John Donne |
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Cette mutilation de sa pensee par autorite de justice
avait eu pour
resultat
de rendre les directeurs de journaux et de
revues tres mefiants a son egard, lorsqu'il leur presentait quelques
pages de prose ou des poesies nouvelles; sa situation pecuniaire s'en
ressentit.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Fair Burnet strikes th' adoring eye,
Heaven's
beauties
on my fancy shine;
I see the Sire of Love on high,
And own His work indeed divine!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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700
Its sides I'll plant with dew-sweet eglantine,
And
honeysuckles
full of clear bee-wine.
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Keats |
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That soul will hate the ev'ning mist,
So often lovely, and will list
To the sound of the coming
darkness
(known
To those whose spirits hearken) as one
Who, in a dream of night, _would_ fly
But _cannot_ from a danger nigh.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A strange
choice to our mind, but
apparently
the poem was greatly admired as
a masterpiece of wit.
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John Donne |
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The attempt would only hurry me into that sphere of
acute
feelings
from which abstruse research, the mother of self-oblivion,
presents an asylum.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The Caterpillar
Plants, Caterpillars and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II),
Johannes
Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
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Appoloinaire |
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No more--no more--no more--
(Such
language
holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
Or the stricken eagle soar!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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He uprose in full evening dress,
And with senseless grimaces
endeavoured
to say
What his tongue could no longer express.
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Lewis Carroll |
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[Till they had drawn the Spectre quite away from Enion]
And drawing in the
Spectrous
life in pride and haughty joy
Thus Enion gave them all her spectrous life in dark despair.
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Blake - Zoas |
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After, this way return not; but the sun
Will show you, that now rises, where to take
The
mountain
in its easiest ascent.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_ My heart is
troubled
for my pet.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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[2] Several of the Lakes in the north of England are let out to
different Fishermen, in parcels marked out by
imaginary
lines
drawn from rock to rock.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Chor: That hope would much rejoyce us to partake
With thee; say
reverend
Sire, we thirst to hear.
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Milton |
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Here we perforce shall drag them; and throughout
The dismal glade our bodies shall be hung,
Each on the wild thorn of his
wretched
shade.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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But, has he a friend that would dispute my claim
With this my sword which I have girt in place
My
judgement
will I warrant every way.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Outside the day was one of green and blue,
With touches of a
luminous
glowing red,
Across the quiet pond the small waves sped.
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Rilke - Poems |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
The joyful
springtime
pleases me
Ai!
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Troubador Verse |
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IMPRESSIONS DE THEATRE
FABIEN DEI FRANCHI
TO MY FRIEND HENRY IRVING
THE silent room, the heavy creeping shade,
The dead that travel fast, the opening door,
The murdered brother rising through the floor,
The ghost's white fingers on thy shoulders laid,
And then the lonely duel in the glade,
The broken swords, the stifled scream, the gore,
Thy grand
revengeful
eyes when all is o'er,--
These things are well enough,--but thou wert made
For more august creation!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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_ The 'am I' of
the _W_ is
probably
what Donne first wrote, and I am strongly tempted
to restore it.
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John Donne |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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That shrinking back, like one that had
mistook!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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As we stood by the thirty-two-pounder on the summit of Cape
Diamond, which is fired three times a day, the
commandant
told me that
it would carry to the Isle of Orleans, four miles distant, and that no
hostile vessel could come round the island.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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" He in few
Thus
answering
spake: "Thou deemest thou art still
On th' other side the centre, where I grasp'd
Th' abhorred worm, that boreth through the world.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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With the gusts of April
Rich fruit-tree blossoms fall,
On the hedged-in orchard-green,
From the
southern
wall.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Gentle night, do thou
befriend
me,
Downy sleep, the curtain draw;
Spirits kind, again attend me,
Talk of him that's far awa!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Perhaps, if I the cup should hold awry,
The liquor out might on a sudden fly;
I'm sometimes awkward, and in case the cup
Should fancy me another, who would sup,
The error, doubtless, might unpleasant be:
To any thing but this I will agree,
To give you pleasure, Damon, so adieu;
Then Reynold from the
antlered
corps withdrew.
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La Fontaine |
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Why do I want this,
when even last night
you
startled
me from sleep?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The maiden at her casement sits
As
daylight
glimmers, darkness flits,
But ah!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Are so
superfluous
cold,
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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What are the roots that clutch, what
branches
grow
Out of this stony rubbish?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Some few there from the common road did stray;
Laelius and Socrates, with whom I may
A longer progress take: Oh, what a pair
Of dear
esteemed
friends to me they were!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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For twenty men that you shall now send in
To France the Douce he will repair, that King;
In the rereward will follow after him
Both his nephew, count Rollant, as I think,
And Oliver, that
courteous
paladin;
Dead are the counts, believe me if you will.
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Chanson de Roland |
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230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom assurance sits
As a silk hat on a
Bradford
millionaire.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Free scope he yields unto his glance,
Reviews both dress and countenance,
With all
dissatisfaction
shows.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Albion groand on Tyburns brook
Albion gave his loud death groan The Atlantic Mountains
trembled
Aloft the Moon fled with a cry the Sun with streams of blood
From Albions Loins fled all Peoples and Nations of the Earth Fled {Erdman's notes indicate that "Blake first wrote ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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'Tis now a month
Since,
quitting
Cracow, heedless of the war
And throne of Moscow, he has feasted here,
Your guest, enraging Poles alike and Russians.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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_
HE ACKNOWLEDGES THE WISDOM OF HER PAST
COLDNESS
TO HIM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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When the golden days arrive,
With the swallow at the eaves,
And the first sob of the south-wind
Sighing at the latch with spring, 40
Long hereafter shall thy name
Be
recalled
through foreign lands,
And thou be a part of sorrow
When the Linus songs are sung.
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Sappho |
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Now the swift sail of straining life is furled,
And through the stillness of my soul is whirled
The
throbbing
of the hearts of half the world.
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Sidney Lanier |
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See that very interesting work, _Hearne's Journey from Hudson's
Bay to the
Northern
Ocean_.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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`Corn' will hold a
distinct
interest for those who study
the gathering forces in the author's growth: for it was the first outcome
of his consciously-developing art-life.
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Sidney Lanier |
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In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin
down!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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the tyrant whom I sing, descried
Ere long his error, that, till then, his dart
Not yet beneath the gown had pierced my heart,
And brought a
puissant
lady as his guide,
'Gainst whom of small or no avail has been
Genius, or force, to strive or supplicate.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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That was in May, first summer of the year,
All of his hosts he
launched
upon the sea.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Like one, that on a lonely road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turn'd round, walks on
And turns no more his head:
Because he knows, a
frightful
fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Stephen Crane |
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The leaves that wave against my cheek caress
Like women's hands; the embracing boughs express
A
subtlety
of mighty tenderness;
The copse-depths into little noises start,
That sound anon like beatings of a heart,
Anon like talk 'twixt lips not far apart.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Luvah breaking in the woes of Vala] {Erdman suggests that 'breaking' is a word from an unrelated layer of ms, and 'woes of Vala' as previously
misrecognised
in Ellis' transcription as 'womb of Vala' EJC}
[But soon ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Stephen Crane |
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) On the last page is written, "I carried this Book with me in
my
pedestrian
tour in the Alps with Jones.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And what for waste de vittles, now, and th'ow away de bread,
Jes' for to
strength
dese idle hands to scratch dis ole bald head?
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Sidney Lanier |
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THE
UNIVERSAL
PRAYER.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Too much it seems for those of earthly thrones;
No king, of
consequence
enough could be;
The palace, cried the black, belongs to me.
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La Fontaine |
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Sweet friend, do you wake or are you
sleeping?
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Troubador Verse |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
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Appoloinaire |
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'
The poet who writes best in the
Shakespearian
manner is a poet with
a circumstantial and instinctive mind, who delights to speak with
strange voices and to see his mind in the mirror of Nature; while Mr.
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Yeats |
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Trees
creaking
in the wind (but none are here)
Send forth such noises--and that weary bell!
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Interpretation
of the Allegory
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Quickly he carries the girl as she's clad in chemise of coarse linen--
Just as a
nursemaid
might, playfully up to her bed.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And fain was their war-broken soldier to stay;--
But sorrow return'd with the dawning of morn,
And the voice in my
dreaming
ear melted away.
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Golden Treasury |
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Strange that the termagant winds should scold
The
Christmas
Eve so bitterly!
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Sidney Lanier |
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His long
experience
secured for him the
confidence of his companions, and his hospitality and genial humor
conciliated society.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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To Ireland, I:
Our
seperated
fortune shall keepe vs both the safer:
Where we are, there's Daggers in mens smiles;
The neere in blood, the neerer bloody
Malc.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Harmless and silent as the
pestilence!
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Longfellow |
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Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,
Gold that I never see;
Lie long, high
snowdrifts
in the hedge
That will not shower on me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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but when Urizen frownd She wept
In mists over his carved throne & when he turnd his back
Upon his Golden hall & sought the Labyrinthine porches
Of his wide heaven Trembling, cold in paling fears she sat
A Shadow of Despair
therefore
toward the West Urizen formd
A recess in the wall for fires to glow upon the pale
Females limbs in his absence & her Daughters oft upon
A Golden Altar burnt perfumes with Art Celestial formd
Foursquare sculpturd & sweetly Engravd to please their shadowy mother {"Pleasd" mended to "please.
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Blake - Zoas |
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In
underworld
they waste and are diminished,
The while around them fleet
Dark wavings of my robes, and, subtly woven,
The paces of my feet.
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Aeschylus |
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My
Bridegroom
Death is come o'er the meres
To wed a bride with bloody tears.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Yet am not I the first
mistaken
maid,
By love of Courts to num'rous ills betray'd.
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Alexander Pope |
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Now close, ye Nymphs,
Ye Nymphs of Dicte, close the forest-glades,
If haply there may chance upon mine eyes
The white bull's wandering foot-prints: him belike
Following the herd, or by green pasture lured,
Some kine may guide to the
Gortynian
stalls.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the
abandoned
light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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o
eufemian
was y-war
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Whan fader or moder arn in grave, 4860
Hir children shulde, whan they ben deede,
Ful
diligent
ben, in hir steede,
To use that werke on such a wyse,
That oon may thurgh another ryse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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