It is
true, many bodies are the worse for the meddling with; and the multitude
of physicians hath
destroyed
many sound patients with their wrong
practice.
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But his
intellectual
outlook was low and sordid.
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Li Po |
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Meet me in the green glen,
By sweet briar bushes there;
Meet me by your own sen,
Where the wild thyme
blossoms
fair.
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Ever new
My after fame shall grow, while
pontiffs
climb
With silent maids the Capitolian height.
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Marie
Francois
Xavier Bichat, b.
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at mote maden much joye,
To apere in his
presense
prestly ?
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FAUST:
Soll ich dir, Flammenbildung,
weichen?
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
THE MOTHER MOURNS
WHEN mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time,
And sedges were horny,
And summer's green
wonderwork
faltered
On leaze and in lane,
I fared Yell'ham-Firs way, where dimly
Came wheeling around me
Those phantoms obscure and insistent
That shadows unchain.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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In the midst of
pleasure
my soul suffers:
I drown in joy, and tremble with my fears.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And here let those
Who boast in mortal things, and wondring tell
Of Babel, and the works of Memphian Kings,
Learn how thir
greatest
Monuments of Fame,
And Strength and Art are easily outdone
By Spirits reprobate, and in an hour
What in an age they with incessant toyle
And hands innumerable scarce perform.
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Milton |
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HUMAYUN TO ZOBEIDA
(From the Urdu)
You flaunt your beauty in the rose, your glory in the dawn,
Your
sweetness
in the nightingale, your whiteness in the swan.
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Index of First Lines
Absence
I speak to you over cities
I speak to you over plains
My mouth is against your ear
The two sides of the walls face
my voice which acknowledges you.
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Hurtle the clouds in deeper darkness piled, 100
Gone is the raven timely rest to seek;
He seemed the only creature in the wild
On whom the elements their rage might wreak;
Save that the bustard, of those regions bleak
Shy tenant, seeing by the
uncertain
light 105
A man there wandering, gave a mournful shriek,
And half upon the ground, with strange affright,
Forced hard against the wind a thick unwieldy flight.
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Now filled with confidence, now doubtfulness,
I promise
deliverance
to my captive heart,
Trying in vain to fool myself by art,
Between hope, and doubt, and fearfulness.
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Ronsard |
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The old
Countess no longer made the
slightest
pretensions to beauty, but she
still clung to all the habits of her youth, and spent as much time at
her toilet as she had done sixty years before.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I am going to my own hearth-stone,
Bosomed in yon green hills alone,--
secret nook in a
pleasant
land,
Whose groves the frolic fairies planned;
Where arches green, the livelong day,
Echo the blackbird's roundelay,
And vulgar feet have never trod
A spot that is sacred to thought and God.
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Emerson - Poems |
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' they cried, 'The world is wide,
But
fettered
limbs go lame!
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Wilde - Poems |
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WHEN thus engaged, the lover near her drew;
At whose approach away the damsel flew,
And tried to hide within the rocky cell;
Cried Cymon, I beneath these waters dwell,
And o'er their course a sov'reign right maintain;
Be goddess of the flood, and with me reign;
Few rivers could with you like pow'rs divide;
My crystal's clear: in me you may confide;
My heart is pure; with flow'rs I'll deck the stream,
If worthy of
yourself
the flood you deem;
Too happy should this honour you bestow,
And with me, 'neath the current, freely go.
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La Fontaine |
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tior_ BRVen:
_expolitor_
OLa1
21 _lotus_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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After a few
moments there enter
stealthily
two armed men,_ ORESTES _and_ PYLADES.
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Euripides - Electra |
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For whanne hir housbonde was in
Iupartye
1530
To dye him-self, but-if she wolde dye,
She chees for him to dye and go to helle,
And starf anoon, as us the bokes telle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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ILLUSIONS
Flow, flow the waves hated,
Accursed, adored,
The waves of mutation;
No
anchorage
is.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
CXXIII
Marvellous is the battle in its speed,
The Franks there strike with vigour and with heat,
Cutting through wrists and ribs and chines in-deed,
Through
garments
to the lively flesh beneath;
On the green grass the clear blood runs in streams.
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Chanson de Roland |
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When I arose and saw the dawn,
I sigh'd for thee;
When light rode high, and the dew was gone,
And noon lay heavy on flower and tree,
And the weary Day turn'd to his rest,
Lingering
like an unloved guest,
I sigh'd for thee.
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Golden Treasury |
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LE BUFFET
C'est un large buffet sculpte; le chene sombre,
Tres vieux, a pris cet air si bon des
vieilles
gens;
Le buffet est ouvert, et verse dans son ombre
Comme un flot de vin vieux, des parfums engageants;
Tout plein, c'est un fouillis de vieilles vieilleries,
De linges odorants et jaunes, de chiffons
De femmes ou d'enfants, de dentelles fletries,
De fichus de grand'mere ou sont peints des griffons;
--C'est la qu'on trouverait les medaillons, les meches
De cheveux blancs ou blonds, les portraits, les fleurs seches
Dont le parfum se mele a des parfums de fruits.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The minister goes stiffly in
As if the house were his,
And he owned all the mourners now,
And little boys besides;
And then the milliner, and the man
Of the
appalling
trade,
To take the measure of the house.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Death reached out three crooked claws
To still my
clamoring
pain.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Of course I speak subject to correction,
but I believe I am right in saying that China has never produced a
poet
comparable
with Homer, Dante, Virgil, or Milton.
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Li Po |
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O what is my
destination?
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Whitman |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And
microbes
more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
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Appoloinaire |
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The Dove
Angels and Holy Spirit (Annunciation)
'Angels and Holy Spirit (Annunciation)'
Nicolas Pitau (I),
Philippe
de Champaigne, 1642 - 1671, The Rijksmuseun
Dove, both love and spirit
Who engendered Jesus Christ,
Like you I love a Mary.
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Appoloinaire |
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They perish'd all
Amid the billowy flood; but Him, the keel
Bestriding
of his bark, the waves at length
Cast forth on the Phaeacian's land, a race
Allied to heav'n, who rev'renced like a God 350
Thy husband, honour'd him with num'rous gifts,
And willing were to have convey'd him home.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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therefore leave my works,
And go lull
yourself
with what you can understand, and with piano-tunes,
For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Am I
deceived
once more,
Or is this my last hope I stand before?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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John Donne |
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Ah, never with a throat that aches with song,
Beneath the white
uncaring
sky of spring,
Shall I go forth to hide awhile from Love
The quiver and the crying of my heart.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Could she not wait to catch their
answering
breath?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Was ever couch
magnificent
as mine?
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Emerson - Poems |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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His
countenance
a billow,
His fingers, if he pass,
Let go a music, as of tunes
Blown tremulous in glass.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Ah treach'rous
servants!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The wavering corn is like gold, still,
Perhaps not so rich nor so hale,
Roses with greetings unfold still,
Be though their bloom
something
pale.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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It is, this
encounter, what you feel in the Greeks, and as in the Greeks, it is a
spiritual waging of
miraculous
forces.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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What page from court with
essenced
hair
Will tender you the bowl you drain,
Well skill'd to bend the Serian bow
His father carried?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Whan they were in hir bedde, in armes folde,
Nought was it lyk tho nightes here-biforn;
For pitously ech other gan biholde,
As they that hadden al hir blisse y-lorn, 1250
Biwaylinge
ay the day that they were born.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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4
THE
SALVATION
ARMY'S SONG By Phoebe Hoffman
"It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time," Echo the feet in the dusty street.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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You'd only hear my voice and see my eyes And the
remembrance
of old ecstasies Awakening within you solemn-grand
Would flood my words; you would forget my hand Lay tremulous on yours, you would arise
And go from me as night when silence dies
And dawn and shouting harrow all the land.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Why be angered if the door
Repulses
fifty suing maids
Who vainly there implore?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Quanti si tegnon or la su gran regi
che qui staranno come porci in brago,
di se
lasciando
orribili dispregi!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And don't go
choosing
your words
Without some confusion of vision:
Nothing's dearer than shadowy verse
Where precision weds indecision.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Besides, if those fine
particles
of things
Which from so deep within are sent abroad,
As light and heat of sun, are seen to glide
And spread themselves through all the space of heaven
Upon one instant of the day, and fly
O'er sea and lands and flood the heaven, what then
Of those which on the outside stand prepared,
When they're hurled off with not a thing to check
Their going out?
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Lucretius |
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I have heard that in hitching up the
imperial
drum carriage, it is not right to use a fine steed.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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They, attained
their aim, he says, "by the avoidance of every word which a gentleman would
not use in dignified conversation, and of every word and phrase which none
but a learned man would use; by the studied position of words and phrases,
so that not only each part should be melodious in itself, but contribute to
the harmony of the whole, each note referring and
conducing
to the melody
of all the foregoing and following words of the same period or stanza; and,
lastly, with equal labour, the greater because unbetrayed, by the variation
and various harmonies of their metrical movement.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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MID-FLIGHT
We rush, a black throng,
Straight
upon darkness:
Motes scattered
By the arc's rays.
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Imagists |
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" My day of youth went yesterday;
My hair no longer bounds to my foot's glee,
Nor plant I it from rose- or myrtle-tree,
As girls do, any more: it only may
Now shade on two pale cheeks the mark of tears,
Taught
drooping
from the head that hangs aside
Through sorrow's trick.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I looked at sunrise once,
And then I looked at them,
And
wishfulness
in me arose
For circumstance the same.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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[Sub-Variant 7: This couplet was
withdrawn
in 1827.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And there
Aegisthus
stayed,
The omens in his hand, dividing slow
This sign from that; till, while his head bent low,
Up with a leap thy brother flashed the sword,
Then down upon his neck, and cleft the cord
Of brain and spine.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The
standard
Assyrian texts regard Enkidu as the subject.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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where man
May gaze on ghastly trophies of the slain,
Nor blush for those who conquered on that plain;
Here Burgundy bequeathed his tombless host,
A bony heap, through ages to remain,
Themselves
their monument;[312]--the Stygian coast
Unsepulchred they roamed, and shrieked each
wandering ghost.
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Byron |
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III
But he her fears to cease,
Sent down the meek-eyd Peace,
She crown'd with Olive green, came softly sliding
Down through the turning sphear
His ready Harbinger,
With Turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing, 50
And waving wide her mirtle wand,
She strikes a
universall
Peace through Sea and Land.
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Milton |
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And right anoon, as he that bold was ay, 795
Thoughte
in his herte, `Happe how happe may,
Al sholde I deye, I wole hir herte seche;
I shal no more lesen but my speche.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Ice-bound, hunger-pinched and dim;
Dormant roots recall their saps,
Empty nests show black and grim,
Short-lived
sunshine
gives no heat,
Undue buds are nipped by frost, 30
Snow sets forth a winding-sheet,
And all hope of life seems lost.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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_Asiatic
Journal_
LES ORIENTALES.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Who hath for joy
Our
Spirits?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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A kinde
goodnight
to all.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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ON THE LATE
MASSACRE
IN PIEMONT.
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Golden Treasury |
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Did not talk of returning,
Alluded to no time
When, were the gales propitious,
We might look for him;
Was
grateful
for the roses
In life's diverse bouquet,
Talked softly of new species
To pick another day.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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e here, so
hetterly
he fnast,
1588 ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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fugit te, inepte:
quamuis sordida res et
inuenusta
est.
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Latin - Catullus |
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For
frequent
tears have run
The colours from my life, and left so dead
And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done
To give the same as pillow to thy head.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I look upon a
monstrous
giant,
as Tityus, whose body covered nine acres of land, and mine eye sticks
upon every part; the whole that consists of those parts will never be
taken in at one entire view.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But pistols twain,
A pair of bullets--nought beside--
His fate shall
presently
decide.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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'328 Fungoso:'
a
character
in Ben Jonson's 'Every Man out of his Humour'.
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Alexander Pope |
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The critics' wrath did darkly frown
Upon thy muse's mighty lay;
But blasts that break the blossom down
Do only stir the bay;
And thine shall flourish, green and long,
With the
eternity
of song.
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John Clare |
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He has
certainly
matched Milton
on his own ground.
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Byron |
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Once more he weltered in despair,
With hands, through denser-matted hair,
More tightly
clenched
than then they were.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm
We had crossed each other's way:
But we made no sign, we said no word,
We had no word to say;
For we did not meet in the holy night,
But in the
shameful
day.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I have never spoken any other
language
to
him, or to my mother, who always speaks to me in Hindustani.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Furi et Aureli, comites Catulli,
Sive in extremos penetrabit Indos,
Litus ut longe resonante Eoa
Tunditur unda,
Sive in Hyrcanos Arabesve molles, 5
Seu Sacas sagittiferosve Parthos,
Sive qua septemgeminus colorat
Aequora Nilus,
Sive trans altas gradietur Alpes,
Caesaris visens
monimenta
magni, 10
Gallicum Rhenum, horribile aequor ulti-
mosque Britannos,
Omnia haec, quaecumque feret voluntas
Caelitum, temptare simul parati,
Pauca nuntiate meae puellae 15
Non bona dicta.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The series
contains
also a reply to one of
Donne's letters.
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John Donne |
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'
`Uncle,' quod she, `your
maistresse
is not here!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I turned my head back to Fengxiang County,1 late in the day its banners
appeared
and faded from view.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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It was not to such a future that the Mayflower's prow was turned,
Not to such a faith the martyrs clung,
exulting
as they burned;
Not by such laws are men fashioned, earnest, simple, valiant, great
In the household virtues whereon rests the unconquerable state.
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James Russell Lowell |
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" However the happy
simplicity of this society may please the man of fine imagination, the
true
philosopher
will view the men of Laish with other eyes.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Let me be clipped of that heritage
And burned for ages through;
Freed and
stripped
of my fear and rage--
But not of you.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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