Thou therefore,
chieftain!
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After the Dazzle of Day
After the dazzle of day is gone,
Only the dark, dark night shows to my eyes the stars;
After the clangor of organ majestic, or chorus, or perfect band,
Silent, athwart my soul, moves the
symphony
true.
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A domestic cat, soberly
marching
beside him.
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<
riguarda
qual son io;
tu hai vedute cose, che possente
se' fatto a sostener lo riso mio>>.
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2 Confucius was
supposed
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But still for me 't is the
Celestial
City,
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CHORUS
What pangs are these, what
fruitless
pain,
Sent on thee from on high?
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The Palace that to Heav'n his pillars threw,
And Kings the forehead on his threshold drew--
I saw the solitary
Ringdove
there,
And "Coo, coo, coo," she cried; and "Coo, coo, coo.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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They glided past, they glided fast,
Like
travellers
through a mist:
They mocked the moon in a rigadoon
Of delicate turn and twist,
And with formal pace and loathsome grace
The phantoms kept their tryst.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Not for myself, Lord Warwick, but my son,
Whom I
unnaturally
shall disinherit.
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Perchaunce
yn Vyrtues gare[7] rhym mote bee thenne,
Butt eefte[8] nowe flyeth to the odher syde;
In hallie[9] preeste apperes the ribaudes[10] penne,
Inne lithie[11] moncke apperes the barronnes pryde: 10
But rhym wythe somme, as nedere[12] widhout teethe,
Make pleasaunce to the sense, botte maie do lyttel scathe[13].
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They look on thee and me, a
stricken
twain,
Who have wrought no sin that God should have thee slain.
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So
beautiful
it is to wake at night!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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One man
repentant
is of more esteem, II.
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my love, and
fearless
be, 350
For o'er the southern moors I have a home for thee.
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Keats |
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The _reem_, those great beasts with
eighteen
horns,
Who mate but once in seventy years and die
In their own tears which flow ten stadia high.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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lest the world should task you to recite
What merit lived in me, that you should love
After my death,--dear love, forget me quite,
For you in me can nothing worthy prove;
Unless you would devise some
virtuous
lie,
To do more for me than mine own desert,
And hang more praise upon deceased I
Than niggard truth would willingly impart:
O!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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When I speak of her also
You'll quickly judge I care
Seeing my
laughter
grow.
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Troubador Verse |
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These fellows are but
thoughts
of mine; my whole
Army, that treads down all the earth and breaks
The banks of fending rivers into marsh,
Is nought but my forth-going imagination.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Shulde be therfor fallen in despeyr,
Or be
recreaunt
for his owene tene,
Or sleen him-self, al be his lady fayr?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Every subject was proper ground for
legitimate
study, even the
sombre facts of death and burial, and the unknown life beyond.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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Since after provocation and offence
To numbers giv'n of either sex, I come, 510
Call him Ulysses;[84] and when, grown mature,
He shall Parnassus visit, the abode
Magnificent in which his mother dwelt,
And where my
treasures
lie, from my own stores
I will enrich and send him joyful home.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Since a Norman duke broke your gods of clay,
Eternally, beneath Virgil's laurel spray,
The pale
hydrangea
is wed to the green myrtle.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But from the parlor of the inn
A pleasant murmur smote the ear,
Like water rushing through a weir:
Oft interrupted by the din
Of laughter and of loud applause,
And, in each
intervening
pause,
The music of a violin.
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Longfellow |
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Given at
Mauchline
this twentieth day of November, Anno Domini one
thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.
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thought kills me that I am not thought,
To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
But that so much of earth and water wrought,
I must attend time's leisure with my moan;
Receiving nought by
elements
so slow
But heavy tears, badges of either's woe.
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yes, a
thousand
times in my life.
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Aristophanes |
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Was I not once the son of
Revolution?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Those gods you
endlessly
weep will return!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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--The
strength
of empire is in
religion.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And,
conquering
by her happiness alone,
Shall France compel the nations to be free,
Till Love and Joy look round, and call the Earth their own.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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In the nation that is not
Nothing stands that stood before;
There
revenges
are forgot,
And the hater hates no more;
Lovers lying two and two
Ask not whom they sleep beside,
And the bridegroom all night through
Never turns him to the bride.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Kay, 1, Welbeck Street,
Cavendish
Square_.
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Byron |
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Angels'
breathless
ballot
Lingers to record thee;
Imps in eager caucus
Raffle for my soul.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"Say why are
Beauties
prais'd and honour'd most,
The wise man's passion, and the vain man's toast?
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Alexander Pope |
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We may, if we like,
think that poetry would be more "natural" if it were
composed
by the
folk as the folk, and not by persons peculiarly endowed; and to think so
is doubtless agreeable to the notion that the folk is more important
than the individual.
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but then the whirl of fashion,
The natural
fickleness
of passion,
The torrent of opinion,
And the fair sex as light as down!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
He said; his words the listening chief inspire
With equal warmth, and rouse the warrior's fire;
The troops pursue their leaders with delight,
Rush to the foe, and claim the
promised
fight.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Bring forth Men-Children onely:
For thy
vndaunted
Mettle should compose
Nothing but Males.
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She was a pool the winter paves with ice
That the wild hunter in the hills must leave
With thirst
unslaked
in the brief southward sun.
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Sara Teasdale |
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[49] On the verb _naku_ see the Babylonian Book of
Proverbs
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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For
example an eBook of
filename
10234 would be found at:
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
"I'll give him a lesson, Master
Chvabrine!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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That we
perceived
ourselves erst only .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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by all thy
brethren
blest,
Above, below!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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With visage glad, and yet with heart more gay,
The four united each captive cavalier;
Nor were less
diligent
to free from chains
The prisoned pages, and unload the wains.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Now let the wolf turn tail and fly the sheep,
Tough oaks bear golden apples, alder-trees
Bloom with narcissus-flower, the tamarisk
Sweat with rich amber, and the screech-owl vie
In singing with the swan: let Tityrus
Be Orpheus, Orpheus in the forest-glade,
Arion 'mid his
dolphins
on the deep.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Enough, enough,
conclude
thy lay--
For folly's dues thou hadst to pay.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Blesse you faire Dame: I am not to you known,
Though in your state of Honor I am perfect;
I doubt some danger do's
approach
you neerely.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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ON this, the third with candour interfer'd;
She thought that oft the god of love appear'd,
Good husbands playfully to fret and vex,
Sometimes to rally couples: then perplex;
But warmer as the conversation grew,
She, anxious that each
disputant
might view
Herself victorious, (or believe it so,)
Exclaim'd, if either of you wish to show
Who's in the right, with argument have done,
And let us practise some new scheme of fun,
To dupe our husbands; she who don't succeed
Shall pay a forfeit; all replied, "Agreed.
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La Fontaine |
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The wind as a changed thing
Whispereth
overhead
Of one that of old lay dead
In the water lapping long:
My King, O my King!
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Euripides - Electra |
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e, cowpled hor hounde3,
1140
Vnclosed
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Paris besieged by the
Saracens, Orlando and the other Christian knights
assemble
in aid of
Charlemagne, who are opposed in their amours and in battle by Rodomont,
Ferraw, and other Saracen knights.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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" [_Voila les
arguments
de M.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
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Ronsard |
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Mad, that I see
Thy
brother?
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Beowulf |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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XXX
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up
remembrance
of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
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"
IV
Forgive me,
Freedom!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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sorweful
arm{ur}es 3364
manasyng wi?
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Grishkin is nice: her Russian eye
Is underlined for emphasis;
Uncorseted, her friendly bust
Gives promise of
pneumatic
bliss.
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T.S. Eliot |
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What mischief lies concealed
In this design I know not; but I know
Who thinks of
marrying
hath already taken
One step upon the road to penitence.
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She's coming, and must not be seen by the
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" If Blake hesitated to choose either reading, an editor
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And as to you Life I reckon you are the
leavings
of many deaths,
(No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Denounce who will, who will deny,
And pile the hills to scale the sky;
Let theist, atheist, pantheist,
Define and wrangle how they list,
Fierce conserver, fierce destroyer,--
But thou, joy-giver and enjoyer,
Unknowing war,
unknowing
crime,
Gentle Saadi, mind thy rhyme;
Heed not what the brawlers say,
Heed thou only Saadi's lay.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to
understand
you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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at Acme leuiter caput reflectens, 10
et dulcis pueri ebrios ocellos
illo purpureo ore suauiata,
'sic,' inquit 'mea uita Septimille,
huic uni domino usque seruiamus,
ut multo mihi maior acriorque 15
ignis
mollibus
ardet in medullis.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Pray for God's grace,
confessing
Him your sins!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Kosmos
Who includes diversity and is Nature,
Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of
the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also,
Who has not look'd forth from the windows the eyes for nothing,
or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing,
Who contains believers and disbelievers, who is the most majestic lover,
Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism,
spiritualism, and of the aesthetic or intellectual,
Who having consider'd the body finds all its organs and parts good,
Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body
understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of these States;
Who
believes
not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in
other globes with their suns and moons,
Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day
but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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With introduction and notes by
Alfred Ainger,
reprinted
six times between this date and 1899.
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Tennyson |
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Who is it
clutches
me
By the neck behind?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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on gylpsprǣce (_there was the
champion more silent in his
boasting
speech_), 982;--_in; full of,
representing, something_: on weres wæstmum (_in man's form_), 1353.
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A flowery
kingdom?
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if ye but knew
The least of the all that bluebirds do,
Now in this little godly calm
Yon voice might sing the Future's Psalm --
The Psalm of Love with the
brotherly
eyes
Who pardons and is very wise --
Yon voice that shouts, high-hoarse with ire,
`Fire!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Darius was elected king by the neighing of a horse; sacred white horses were in the army of Cyrus; and Xerxes, retreating after his defeat, was
preceded
by the sacred horses and consecrated chariot.
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Tacitus |
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Take our good meaning, for our
judgment
sits
Five times in that ere once in our five wits.
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6 The wisp in autumn air was a proverbially tiny thing; this suggests the
precision
of the archers.
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There slept Ulysses, then,
On his carv'd couch, beneath the portico,
But in the inner-house
Alcinous
found
His place of rest, and hers with royal state 430
Prepared, the Queen his consort, at his side.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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[6] A musician, belonging to Phrygia, who had composed
melodies
intended
to describe pain.
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Aristophanes |
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Au coeur d'un vieux faubourg, labyrinthe fangeux,
Ou l'humanite
grouille
en ferments orageux,
On voit un chiffonnier qui vient, hochant la tete,
Buttant, et se cognant aux murs comme un poete,
Et, sans prendre souci des mouchards, ses sujets,
Epanche tout son coeur en glorieux projets.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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" In Li
Po and Tu Fu he finds a
deficiency
of "f?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But let them write for you, each rogue impairs
The deeds, and dexterously omits, ses heires;
No
commentator
can more slily pass
O'er a learned, unintelligible place;
Or, in quotation, shrewd divines leave out
Those words, that would against them clear the doubt.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Unnamed Land
Nations ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten
thousand years before these States,
Garner'd clusters of ages that men and women like us grew up and
travel'd their course and pass'd on,
What vast-built cities, what orderly republics, what pastoral tribes
and nomads,
What histories, rulers, heroes, perhaps
transcending
all others,
What laws, customs, wealth, arts, traditions,
What sort of marriage, what costumes, what physiology and phrenology,
What of liberty and slavery among them, what they thought of death
and the soul,
Who were witty and wise, who beautiful and poetic, who brutish and
undevelop'd,
Not a mark, not a record remains--and yet all remains.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Among the smoke and fog of a
December
afternoon
You have the scene arrange itself--as it will seem to do--
With "I have saved this afternoon for you";
And four wax candles in the darkened room,
Four rings of light upon the ceiling overhead,
An atmosphere of Juliet's tomb
Prepared for all the things to be said, or left unsaid.
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T.S. Eliot |
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For as an oak waving its boughs on Taurus' top, or a
coniferous pine with
sweating
stem, is uprooted by savage storm, twisting
its trunk with its blast (dragged from its roots prone it falleth afar,
breaking all in the line of its fall) so did Theseus fling down the
conquered body of the brute, tossing its horns in vain towards the skies.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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But to confine
ourselves
to the maples.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Onward fair Gallia opens to the view
Her groves of olive, and her
vineyards
blue:
Wide spread her harvests o'er the scenes renown'd,
Where Julius[188] proudly strode with laurel crown'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Here no man
treadeth
oft nor loud,
Through casement comes the Autumn balm,
Here to the hopeless, hope is vowed,
To pleadings, tendered words of calm.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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So, through all humors, thou 'rt the same sweet one:
Doubt not I love thee well in each, who see
Thy constant change is
changeful
constancy.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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