No member of the party was at that period aware that
entire or unopened mummies are not
infrequently
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"Forget not that which we found everywhere,
From top to bottom of the fatal stair,
Above, beneath, around us and within,
The weary pageant of
immortal
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I dried my tears, and armed my fears
With ten
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And now where circling hills looked down
With cannon grimly planted,
O'er listless camp and silent town
The golden sunset slanted;
When on the fervid air there came
A strain, now rich, now tender,
The music seemed itself aflame
With day's
departing
splendor.
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
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supplies
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Though not within the kingdom was the peer,
It was his hope (as he assured his guest)
He would, while yet preparing was the band,
Return, and find it
mustered
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But Love constrain'd thee; call it furious rage
To
satisfie
thy lust: Love seeks to have Love;
My love how couldst thou hope, who tookst the way
To raise in me inexpiable hate,
Knowing, as needs I must, by thee betray'd?
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He leaves worth clouded, and youth dolorous,
The world obscure,
shadowed
and in darkness,
Void of all joy, full of despair and sadness.
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Howsoe'er,
I let my
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wait upon their sport.
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II
Who when their powres empaird through labour long, 10
With dew repast they had recured well,
And that weake captive wight now wexed strong,
Them list no lenger there at leasure dwell,
But forward fare, as their adventures fell,
But ere they parted, Una faire besought 15
That straunger knight his name and nation tell;
Least so great good, as he for her had wrought,
Should die unknown, and buried be in
thanklesse?
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When Charles my lord shall come into this field,
Such discipline of
Sarrazins
he'll see,
For one of ours he'll find them dead fifteen;
He will not fail, but bless us all in peace.
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of
isof is of
is
of
of
fit
This book should be
returned
to the Library on or before the last date stamped below.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The
darkness
is Thy mercy, Lord!
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Is that
trembling
cry a song?
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last glimmers of day
A face like all the
forgotten
faces.
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monegum
mǣgðum
meodo-setla of-tēah, 5; w.
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Liue you, or are you aught
That man may
question?
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XIX
There is a medlar-tree
Growing in front of my lover's house,
And there all day
The wind makes a
pleasant
sound.
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Time bring back the order of classic days;
Earth has shuddered with
prophetic
breath.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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BE not so silly,
whispered
t'other Wight;
To stir up noise could ne'er be reckoned right;
Be quiet now: consider where we are;
Keep close, or else you'll all our pleasures mar;
Remember, written 'tis, By others do
The same as you would like they should by you;
'Tis proper in this place we should remain
Till all is hushed in sleep: then freedom gain;
That's my opinion how we ought to act
Are you not half a cuckold now, in fact?
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La Fontaine |
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copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"We have sailed many weeks, we have sailed many days,
(Seven days to the week I allow),
But a Snark, on the which we might
lovingly
gaze,
We have never beheld till now!
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1 This is the
emanation
of Suzong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The phrase 'to take forth their patternes' is somewhat obscure, and
seems to have been forced by the
necessity
for a rhyme.
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Twould soften hearts if they were hard as stone
To see glad
butterflies
and smiling flowers.
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A vizio di
lussuria
fu si rotta,
che libito fe licito in sua legge,
per torre il biasmo in che era condotta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then with eyes to the front all,
And with guns horizontal,
Stood our sires;
And the balls
whistled
deadly,
And in streams flashing redly
Blazed the fires;
As the roar
On the shore,
Swept the strong battle-breakers o'er the green-sodded acres
Of the plain;
And louder, louder, louder cracked the black gunpowder,
Cracking amain!
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had at that port
contracted for
military
stores.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Lave subtly with your waters every line
Potomac!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Beneath the
lightning
and the moon
The dead men gave a groan.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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He at
once put on mourning and left the palace,
surrounded
by his sorrowful
household.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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If so, we live; if not, with
mournful
hum
Toll forth my death; next, to my burial come.
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He told us that he had
traveled
ten
leagues due north into the bush.
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IN former days there were great schools in Ireland where every sort
of
learning
was taught to the people, and even the poorest had more
knowledge at that time than many a gentleman has now.
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"
His lips he writhes, his eyes far round he throws,
And, from his breast, deep hollow groans arose,
Sternly askance he stood: with wounded pride
And anguish torn, "In me, behold," he cried,
While dark-red sparkles from his eyeballs roll'd,
"In me the Spirit of the Cape behold,
That rock, by you the Cape of Tempests nam'd, }
By Neptune's rage, in horrid
earthquakes
fram'd, }
When Jove's red bolts o'er Titan's offspring flam'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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If thou could'st Doctor, cast
The Water of my Land, finde her Disease,
And purge it to a sound and
pristine
Health,
I would applaud thee to the very Eccho,
That should applaud againe.
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XXXIX
I grow weary of the foreign cities,
The sea travel and the
stranger
peoples.
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Soon as her beak had burst through wind-rackt spaces of ocean,
While th'oar-tortured wave with spumy
whiteness
was blanching,
Surged from the deep abyss and hoar-capped billows the faces
Seaborn, Nereids eyeing the prodigy wonder-smitten.
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_When he shifts from side to side
Earthquakes
gape and open wide;_
_When a nightmare makes him snore,
All the dead volcanoes roar.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The Peacock
Juno and the Peacock
'Juno and the Peacock'
Magdalena van de Passe, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 1634, The Rijksmuseun
In
spreading
out his fan, this bird,
Whose plumage drags on earth, I fear,
Appears more lovely than before,
But makes his derriere appear.
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Appoloinaire |
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I only knew what hunted thought
Quickened
his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
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Wilde - Poems |
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And soon may they expire, unblest with
resurrection!
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Robert Burns |
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They blow their golden trumpets
And they shake their
glancing
spears.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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'
_'Tresvolontiers;' _and he
proceeded
to his library, brought me a Dr.
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trembling
cry a song?
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Lucretius |
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The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that renowned Colossus, great in story:
And
whatever
noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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' Jonson ridicules the use of the
word in similar fashion in the Masque of
_Mercury
Vindicated from
the Alchemists_.
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band goes out, and enters
presently
with a
cudgell vpon him.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The volume
penetrated
even into Nithsdale.
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Robert Forst |
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The score is found in Le manuscript di roi, a
collection
of songs copied circa 1270 for Charles of Anjou, the brother of Louis IX.
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Troubador Verse |
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"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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When You and I behind the Veil are past,
Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last,
Which of our Coming and
Departure
heeds
As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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But Jessy's lovely hand in mine,
A mutual faith to plight,
Not even to view the
heavenly
choir
Would be so blest a sight.
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Robert Burns |
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_)
consisting
of General Half-title (_B.
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Byron |
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Tho spak Fals-Semblant right anon,
Al is not gospel, out of doute,
That men seyn in the toune aboute; 7610
Ley no deef ere to my speking;
I swere yow, sir, it is
gabbing!
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t for my
complexion
(and indeed
Too hone?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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_40
And all killing insects and gnawing worms,
And things of obscene and unlovely forms,
She bore, in a basket of Indian woof,
Into the rough woods far aloof,--
In a basket, of grasses and wild-flowers full, _45
The freshest her gentle hands could pull
For the poor
banished
insects, whose intent,
Although they did ill, was innocent.
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Shelley |
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So valiant a warrior
snatched
from you,
Un-avenged, kills the wish to serve you.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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" He
fired, and slightly wounded his opponent,
shouting
"Bravo!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine;
Yet one I would select from that proud throng,
Partly because they blend me with his line,
And partly that I did his sire some wrong,
And partly that bright names will hallow song;
And his was of the bravest, and when showered
The death-bolts deadliest the thinned files along,
Even where the
thickest
of war's tempest lowered,
They reached no nobler breast than thine, young, gallant Howard!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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That's all that's left already of our true play,
Where the pure poet's gesture, humble, vast
Must deny the dream, the enemy of his trust:
So that on the morning of his exalted stay,
When ancient death is for him as for Gautier,
The un-opening of sacred eyes, the being-still,
The solid tomb may rise, ornament this hill,
The
sepulchre
where lies the power to blight,
And miserly silence and the massive night.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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So
thoroughly
and long
Have you now known me,
So real in faith and strong
Have I now shown me,
That nothing needs disguise
Further in any wise,
Or asks or justifies
A guarded tongue.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Wise Death, in token of his happy whim,
Wraps old and young in one
enfolding
sheet.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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>>
Descendez, descendez, lamentables victimes,
Descendez le chemin de l'enfer eternel;
Plongez au plus profond du gouffre ou tous les crimes,
Flagelles par un vent qui ne vient pas du ciel,
Bouillonnent pele-mele avec un bruit d'orage;
Ombres folles, courez au but de vos desirs;
Jamais vous ne pourrez assouvir votre rage,
Et votre
chatiment
naitra de vos plaisirs.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Sweeney shifts from ham to ham
Stirring
the water in his bath.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Exiled from home am I; while, Tityrus, you
Sit
careless
in the shade, and, at your call,
"Fair Amaryllis" bid the woods resound.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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She's torn from her bed by
sorrowful
unquiet.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And then would ask for the
wherewithal
to buy a pair of shoes.
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Aristophanes |
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But always there comes,
Out from the flame of my being Smoke with its wavering fingers Running athwart my joy;
Always the dark fingers weaving Out of the smoke of my sinning
Curtains
to shut me from God.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every inch of space is a miracle,
Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same,
Every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same;
Every spear of grass--the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all
that
concerns
them,
All these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.
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Whitman |
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How they are mixed up, of all species, oak and maple and
chestnut
and
birch!
| Guess: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Were silver pink, and had a soul,
Which soul were shy, which shyness might
A visible
influence
be, and roll
Through heaven and earth -- 'twere thou, O light!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Crouched on the staircase overhead,
Like ghost she gloats, her lean hand laid
On
alabaster
balustrade,
And gazes on and on
Down on that wondrous to and fro
Till finger and foot are cold as snow,
And half the night is gone;
And dazzled eyes are sore bestead;
Nods drowsily the sleek-locked head;
And, vague and far, spins, fading out,
That rainbow-coloured, reeling rout,
And, with faint sighs, her spirit flies
Into deep sleep.
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For One at least there is,--He bears his name
From Dante and the seraph Gabriel,--{136}
Whose double laurels burn with deathless flame
To light thine altar; He {137} too loves thee well,
Who saw old Merlin lured in Vivien's snare,
And the white feet of angels coming down the golden stair,
Loves thee so well, that all the World for him
A gorgeous-coloured
vestiture
must wear,
And Sorrow take a purple diadem,
Or else be no more Sorrow, and Despair
Gild its own thorns, and Pain, like Adon, be
Even in anguish beautiful;--such is the empery
Which Painters hold, and such the heritage
This gentle solemn Spirit doth possess,
Being a better mirror of his age
In all his pity, love, and weariness,
Than those who can but copy common things,
And leave the Soul unpainted with its mighty questionings.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Ripe apples drop about my head;
The
luscious
clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
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Golden Treasury |
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The spiritual world
Lies all about us, and its avenues
Are open to the unseen feet of phantoms
That come and go, and we perceive them not,
Save by their influence, or when at times
A most mysterious
Providence
permits them
To manifest themselves to mortal eyes.
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Iacchus was an epithet of the god Dionysus (Bacchus) and the name of the torch-bearer at the
Eleusinian
mysteries, herald of the child born of the underworld.
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And there was great rejoicing in that distant city of Wirani,
because its king and its lord
chamberlain
had regained their reason.
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How condescending to descend,
And be of
buttercups
the friend
In a New England town!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In its
agreement
and its assent
Two noble lovers love's apart,
For nothing can come of their intent,
If their desire is not mutual.
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His father slew Troy's
thousands
in their pride;
He hath but one to kill.
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Euripides - Electra |
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'T
improved
the whites by savin' 'em from ary need o' workin',
An' kep' the blacks from bein' lost thru idleness an' shirkin';
We took to 'em ez nat'ral ez a barn-owl doos to mice,
An' hed our hull time on our hands to keep us out o' vice;
It made us feel ez pop'lar ez a hen doos with one chicken,
An' fill our place in Natur's scale by givin' 'em a lickin':
For why should Caesar git his dues more 'n Juno, Pomp, an' Cuffy?
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All round the level rim thereof
Perseus, on winged feet, above
The long seas hied him;
The Gorgon's wild and
bleeding
hair
He lifted; and a herald fair,
He of the wilds, whom Maia bare,
God's Hermes, flew beside him.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The son's
destruction
waits the mother's fame:
For, till she leaves thy court, it is decreed,
Thy bowl to empty and thy flock to bleed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Who woot in sooth thus what they
signifye?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Day by day for her
darlings
to her much she added more;
In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,
A door to something grander,--loftier walls, and vaster floor.
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Emerson - Poems |
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This:
The world is yet
unspoiled
for you,
you wait, expectant--
you are like the children
who haunt your own steps
for chance bits--a comb
that may have slipped,
a gold tassel, unravelled,
plucked from your scarf,
twirled by your slight fingers
into the street--
a flower dropped.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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