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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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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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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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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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!
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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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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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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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Longfellow |
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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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19th Century French Poetry |
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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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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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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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Troubador Verse |
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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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James Russell Lowell |
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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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370
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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E io, che mai per mio veder non arsi
piu ch'i' fo per lo suo, tutti miei prieghi
ti porgo, e priego che non sieno scarsi,
perche tu ogne nube li disleghi
di sua
mortalita
co' prieghi tuoi,
si che 'l sommo piacer li si dispieghi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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To you, gone emblem of our
happiness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Canto XXVIII
Vago gia di cercar dentro e dintorno
la divina foresta spessa e viva,
ch'a li occhi temperava il novo giorno,
sanza piu aspettar, lasciai la riva,
prendendo
la campagna lento lento
su per lo suol che d'ogne parte auliva.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Endless conjectures all propound
And
secretly
their views expound.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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how appears he in your eyes
This stranger, graceful as he is in port,
In stature noble, and in mind
discrete?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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My soul burns with the
quenchless
fire
That lit my lover's funeral pyre:
Alas!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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172
Zoubof, Plato,
Catherine
II.
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Byron |
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How could I bear my pain all day
Unless I watched to see
The clock-hands
laboring
to bring
Eight o'clock to me.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Perhaps some languid summer day,
When drowsy birds sing less and less,
And golden fruit is
ripening
to excess,
If there's not too much sun nor too much cloud,
And the warm wind is neither still nor loud,
Perhaps my secret I may say,
Or you may guess.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
In Italy she watches the faces of the monks, and at one moment
longs to attain to their peace by renunciation, longs for Nirvana;
"then, when one comes out again into the hot sunshine that warms
one's blood, and sees the eager hurrying faces of men and women
in the street, dramatic faces over which the
disturbing
experiences
of life have passed and left their symbols, one's heart thrills up
into one's throat.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It makes an even face
Of mountain and of plain, --
Unbroken
forehead
from the east
Unto the east again.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The paper intervenes each time as an image, of itself, ends or begins once more, accepting a succession of others, and, since, as ever, it does nothing, of regular sonorous lines or verse - rather prismatic subdivisions of the Idea, the instant they appear, and as long as they last, in some precise intellectual performance, that is in
variable
positions, nearer to or further from the implicit guiding thread, because of the verisimilitude the text imposes.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The more he tried, the ringlet less inclined
To drop the
curvature
so closely twined.
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La Fontaine |
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That dark,
mysterious
name of horrid sound?
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John Clare |
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Yet, go on;
Th'
offences
we have made you do we'll answer,
If you first sinn'd with us, and that with us
You did continue fault, and that you slipp'd not
With any but with us.
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Shakespeare |
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Like kings we lose the conquests gain'd before,
By vain
ambition
still to make them more; 65
Each might his sev'ral province well command,
Would all but stoop to what they understand.
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Alexander Pope |
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, when the first three books of the "Odes" appeared;
and that of the reflective and
literary
"Epistles," which include
the famous "Art of Poetry," and, with sundry official odes, belong
to his later years.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Compare:
I smile to think how fond the Italians are,
To judge their
artificial
gardens rare,
When London in thy cheekes can shew them heere
Roses and Lillies growing all the yeere.
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John Donne |
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Mitchell
Kennerley, New York,
1914.
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Imagists |
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The
mountain
at a given distance
In amber lies;
Approached, the amber flits a little, --
And that 's the skies!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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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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She was thinking of all this
and a great deal more when the door of her apartment
suddenly
opened,
and Herman stood before her.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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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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As wise as Solomon they read the news,
Not with their blind forefathers' simple views,
Who read of wars, and wished that wars would cease,
And blessed the King, and wished his country peace;
Who marked the weight of each fat sheep and ox,
The price of grain and rise and fall of stocks;
Who thought it
learning
how to buy and sell,
And him a wise man who could manage well.
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John Clare |
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Tis but a trial all must undergo;
To teach
unthankful
mortals how to prize
That happiness vain man's denied to know,
Until he's called to claim it in the skies.
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John Clare |
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"--
I turn'd in haste, and saw a fleeting train
Outnumbering
those who pass'd the surging main
By Xerxes led--a naked wailing crew,
Whose wretched plight the drops of sorrow drew
From my full eyes.
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Petrarch |
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"While Trissino," says Voltaire, "was clearing away the rubbish in
Italy, which
barbarity
and ignorance had heaped up for ten centuries in
the way of the arts and sciences, Camoens, in Portugal, steered a new
course, and acquired a reputation which lasts still among his countrymen
who pay as much respect to his memory as the English to Milton.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Since our ftp program has
a bug in it that
scrambles
the date [tried to fix and failed] a
look at the file size will have to do, but we will try to see a
new copy has at least one byte more or less.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Et je les ecoutais, assis au bord des routes,
Ces bons soirs de
septembre
ou je sentais des gouttes
De rosee a mon front, comme un vin de vigueur;
Ou, rimant au milieu des ombres fantastiques,
Comme des lyres, je tirais les elastiques
De mes souliers blesses, un pied pres de mon coeur!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast,
quenching
my fire,
A deity at the gods' ambrosial feast.
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Ronsard |
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We need
No
purifying
here.
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Euripides - Electra |
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It must be frankly
confessed
that these lines do not ring true.
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Alexander Pope |
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Hard by, a Man I met, who, from plain proofs
Of
interfering
Heaven, I have no doubt,
Laid hands upon your Father.
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William Wordsworth |
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But his prepossession for Cicero
prevented him from much
frequenting
the dry and dusty walks of
jurisprudence.
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Petrarch |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Sweet friend, for me now go to the window
And gaze on the stars from earth below
And see how I am your true
messenger!
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Troubador Verse |
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The ivy smothering the armed tower;
The dying wind that mocks the pilot's ear;
The lordly equipage at midnight hour,
Draws into danger in a fog the peer;
The votaries of Satan or of Jove;
The wretched mendicant
absorbed
in woe;
The din of multitudes that onward move;
The voice of conscience in the heart below;
The waves, which Thou, O Lord, alone canst still;
Th' elastic air; the streamlet on its way;
And all that man projects, or sovereigns will;
Or things inanimate might seem to say;
The strain of gondolier slow streaming by;
The lively barks that o'er the waters bound;
The trees that shake their foliage to the sky;
The wailing voice that fills the cots around;
And man, who studies with an aching heart--
For now, when smiles are rarely deemed sincere,
In vain the sceptic bids his doubts depart--
Those doubts at length will arguments appear!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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e
emperour
al-so,
Ac hy ne dorste hem tryne.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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Our swain his marriage vow to this opposed;
At which th'
enchantress
much surprise disclosed.
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La Fontaine |
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Oh garlands on the
doorposts
that I pass,
Woven of asters and of autumn leaves,
I make a prayer for you: Cypris be kind,
That every lover may be given love.
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Sara Teasdale |
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XXXV
So answered those strange horsemen,
And each couched low his spear;
And
forthwith
all the ranks of Rome
Were bold, and of good cheer:
And on the thirty armies
Came wonder and affright,
And Ardea wavered on the left,
And Cora on the right.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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' The reason which Donne gives is that
'They reserve to
themselves
the divers forms, and the secrets, and
mysteries in this latter which they find in the authors whom they
gelde.
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John Donne |
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He said: When I am risen
I will go before you into
Galilee!
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Longfellow |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Imagists |
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Of all
the qualities we assign to the author and
director
of nature, by far
the most enviable is--to be able "to wipe away all tears from all
eyes.
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Robert Forst |
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She looks into me
The unknowing heart
To see if I love
She has
confidence
she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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As an account of the
development
of Chinese poetry these notes are
necessarily incomplete, but it is hoped that they answer some of those
questions which a reader would be most likely to ask.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Nor Peter nor the rest
Or gold or silver of
Matthias
took,
When lots were cast upon the forfeit place
Of the condemned soul.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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What serener palaces,
Where I may all my many senses please,
And by mysterious
sleights
a hundred thirsts appease?
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Keats - Lamia |
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No pangs of ours can change him; not though we
In the mid-frost should drink of Hebrus' stream,
And in wet winters face Sithonian snows,
Or, when the bark of the tall elm-tree bole
Of drought is dying, should, under Cancer's Sign,
In
Aethiopian
deserts drive our flocks.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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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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CHORUS
Say, hath aught
survived
and 'scaped the fray?
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Aeschylus |
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ever have I long'd to slake 770
My thirst for the world's praises: nothing base,
No merely
slumberous
phantasm, could unlace
The stubborn canvas for my voyage prepar'd--
Though now 'tis tatter'd; leaving my bark bar'd
And sullenly drifting: yet my higher hope
Is of too wide, too rainbow-large a scope,
To fret at myriads of earthly wrecks.
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Keats |
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Now, scarce withdrawn the fierce earth-shaking power,
Jove's daughter Pallas watch'd the
favouring
hour.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Exhaustive
reasons can hardly be given for the strangely sudden
appearance of individual genius: but none, in the Editor's judgment, can
be less adequate than that which assigns the splendid national
achievements of our recent poetry, to an impulse from the frantic
follies and criminal wars that at the time disgraced the least
essentially civilised of our foreign neighbours.
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Golden Treasury |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Aldis Wright, and
published
at the Cambridge
University press].
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Milton |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Emerson - Poems |
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What's
demoralized
you?
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Kipling - Poems |
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