"
And I noted with joy
Those
sensational
simpers:
And I said "This is scrumptious!
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Whom the grand foe with
scornful
eye askance
Thus answerd.
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Despite the anguish of this sad affair,
When Chimene
Rodrigue
has secured
All my hopes are dead, my spirit cured.
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"
And at the
blindness
of my spirit
They screamed,
"Fool!
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_ What feelings, O great man, thy heart must swell
Thus to receive a people's
veneration!
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And so many
children
poor?
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"Ma di' tu, Musa, come i primi danni
Mandassero
a Cristiani, e di quai parti:
Tu 'l sai; ma di tant' opra a noi si lunge
Debil aura di fama appena giunge.
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Good-morrow to the day so fair,
Good-morning, sir, to you;
Good-morrow to mine own torn hair,
Bedabbled
with the dew.
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Robert Herrick |
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Thus the
relation between lender and
borrower
was mixed up with the
relation between sovereign and subject.
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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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He could
scarcely
believe his eyes.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Death
only consolation
exists, thoughts - balm
but what is done
is done - we cannot
return to the absolute
contained in death -
- and yet
to show that if,
life once abstracted,
the happiness of being
together, all that - such
consolation in its turn
has its root - its base -
absolute - in what
(if we wish
for example a
dead being to live in
us, thought -
is his being, his
thought in effect)
ever he has of the best
that transpires, through our
love and the care
we take
of being -
(being, being
simply moral and
about thought)
there is in that a
magnificent beyond
that rediscovers its
truth - so much
purer and lovelier than
the absolute rupture
of death - become
little by little as illusory
as absolute ( so we're
allowed to seem
to forget the pain)
- as this illusion
of
survival
in
us, becomes absolutely
illusory - (there is
unreality in both
cases) has been terrible
and true
39.
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This object swives
girls enow, and fancies himself a
handsome
fellow, and is not condemned to
the mill as an ass?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
"I'll try him," answered Gareth with a smile that
maddened
Lynette.
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Non avea case di
famiglia
vote;
non v'era giunto ancor Sardanapalo
a mostrar cio che 'n camera si puote.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
Sacred to
ridicule
his whole life long,
And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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Sir, can you tell
Where he bestowes
himselfe?
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As many
farewells
as be stars in heaven,
With distinct breath and consign'd kisses to them,
He fumbles up into a loose adieu,
And scants us with a single famish'd kiss,
Distasted with the salt of broken tears.
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Shakespeare |
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Whoever dies
somewhere
in the world
Dies without cause in the world
Looks at me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The Hill of
Posilipo
is situated to the west of the city of Naples, and is the site of Virgil's tomb.
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= Walking-sticks of various sorts are
mentioned during the
sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Francis
Cunningham's three-volume reissue (with some minor
variations)
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Gifford's edition, 1871; (8) another reissue by Cunningham, in
nine volumes (with additional notes), 1875.
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I trust, in this
matter, to what you may do with the
Cardinal
Sabina.
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Petrarch |
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He
selected
his card and placed upon it his fresh stake.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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XXVIII
THE WELSH MARCHES
High the vanes of
Shrewsbury
gleam
Islanded in Severn stream;
The bridges from the steepled crest
Cross the water east and west.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Virtues
Are forced upon us by our
impudent
crimes.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Acursed may wel be that day,
That povre man
conceyved
is;
For god wot, al to selde, y-wis, 470
Is any povre man wel fed,
Or wel arayed or y-cled,
Or wel biloved, in swich wyse
In honour that he may aryse.
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_mainly, noting all
variations
of importance.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Miss Nancy
Ellicott
smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Long as the wild boar
Shall love the mountain-heights, and fish the streams,
While bees on thyme and
crickets
feed on dew,
Thy name, thy praise, thine honour, shall endure.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Enter the Ghost of Banquo, and sits in
Macbeths
place.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The house
trembles
and creaks.
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Imagists |
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Every
emigrant
who arrives in this
country by way of the St.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or
sharpened
claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Rodomont of this place himself possest;
Which, from its site, as well as lying wide
Of fields, from whence he tidings loathed to hear,
So pleased him, he for it
renounced
Argier.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and brooding
stillnesses
which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
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John Clare |
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"
Still he stood and eyed me hard,
An earnest and a grave regard:
"What, lad,
drooping
with your lot?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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For pryde is founde, in every part, 2245
Contrarie
unto Loves art.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Sparkles from the Wheel
Where the city's ceaseless crowd moves on the livelong day,
Withdrawn
I join a group of children watching, I pause aside with them.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Indulgence
bids the dropsy grow;
Who fain would quench the palate's flame
Must rescue from the watery foe
The pale weak frame.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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They were all
glittering
with rich robes and
arms.
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Keats |
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Why did
AEsculapius
hesitate to heal Sansjoy?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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(To Don Diegue)
You may speak next, I
sanction
her complaint.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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As ouphant faieries, whan the moone sheenes bryghte, 475
In littel circles daunce upon the greene,
All living creatures flie far from their syghte,
Ne by the race of destinie be seen;
For what he be that ouphant
faieries
stryke,
Their soules will wander to Kyng Offa's dyke.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Of this remark
The bearings are
profoundly
dark.
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Lewis Carroll |
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God suffers not His saints and
servants
dear
To have continual pain or pleasure here;
But look how night succeeds the day, so He
Gives them by turns their grief and jollity.
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Robert Herrick |
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Unheeded Night has
overcome
the vales,
On the dark earth the baffl'd vision fails,
If peep between the clouds a star on high,
There turns for glad repose the weary eye;
The latest lingerer of the forest train,
The lone-black fir, forsakes the faded plain;
Last evening sight, the cottage smoke no more,
Lost in the deepen'd darkness, glimmers hoar;
High towering from the sullen dark-brown mere,
Like a black wall, the mountain steeps appear,
Thence red from different heights with restless gleam
Small cottage lights across the water stream,
Nought else of man or life remains behind
To call from other worlds the wilder'd mind,
Till pours the wakeful bird her solemn strains
[viii] Heard by the night-calm of the watry plains.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly Landscape with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob
Gerritsz
Cuyp, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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Appoloinaire |
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The Emperor was so pleased with Po's talent that
whenever
he was
feasting or drinking he always had this poet to wait upon him.
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Li Po |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Thus on Maeander's flow'ry margin lies 65
Th'
expiring
Swan, and as he sings he dies.
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Alexander Pope |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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25
But now to purpos as of this matere--
To rede forth hit gan me so delyte,
That al the day me
thoughte
but a lyte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The
division
of the upper clerks of staunch firms, or of the "steady
old fellows," it was not possible to mistake.
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Poe - 5 |
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if in that high sphere,
From whence the Eternal Ruler of the stars
In this excelling work declared his might,
All be as fair and bright,
Loose me from forth my darksome prison here,
That to so glorious life the passage bars;
Then, in the wonted tumult of my breast,
I hail boon Nature, and the genial day
That gave me being, and a fate so blest,
And her who bade hope beam
Upon my soul; for till then burthensome
Was life itself become:
But now, elate with touch of self-esteem,
High thoughts and sweet within that heart arise,
Of which the warders are those
beauteous
eyes.
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Petrarch |
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The fact that the action of the poem is chiefly made of
single combat with supernatural creatures and that there is not tapestry
figured with radiant gods drawn between the life of men and the ultimate
darkness, gives a
peculiar
and notable character to the way Beowulf
symbolizes the primary courage of life.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Starlight is a usual occurrence
Any
pleasant
night beside the sea.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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At the
beginning
of the period Sh?
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Li Po |
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O
daughter!
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Euripides - Electra |
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or sprung of the
needs of the less
developed
society of special ranks?
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Whitman |
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In the meadow ground the frogs
With their
deafening
flutes begin,--
The old madness of the world 15
In their golden throats again.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Thel is like a watry bow, and like a parting cloud,
Like a
reflection
in a glass: like shadows in the water
Like dreams of infants, like a smile upon an infants face.
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Rilke - Poems |
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He does not know
anything
about anything.
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Yeats |
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Hast thou not the proud report
Heard, how Orestes hath renown acquired
With all mankind, his father's murtherer
AEgisthus slaying, the deceiver base
Who slaughter'd
Agamemnon?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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His last dread
pleasure!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"It
contains
no criticism, no letters, nothing but verse, and that usually of a high order of excellence.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Emerson - Poems |
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for not yet with sacred blood had a victim made
propitiate
the lords of the
heavens.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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" He had an
unassuaged
thirst for the absolute.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Ma quando disse: <
che qui e buono con l'ali e coi remi,
quantunque puo, ciascun pinger sua barca>>;
dritto si come andar vuolsi rife'mi
con la persona, avvegna che i pensieri
mi
rimanessero
e chinati e scemi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Descends ici que je te fouette
En mon giron;
J'ai
degueule
ta bandoline
Noir laideron;
Tu couperais ma mandoline
Au fil du front.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And he had learned to love,--I know not why,
For this in such as him seems strange of mood,--
The helpless looks of blooming infancy,
Even in its
earliest
nurture; what subdued,
To change like this, a mind so far imbued
With scorn of man, it little boots to know;
But thus it was; and though in solitude
Small power the nipped affections have to grow,
In him this glowed when all beside had ceased to glow.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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)
Note
Not
meaningless
flurries like
Those that frequent the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans Whistler there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Within a whyl the hert [y]-founde is,
Y-halowed, and
rechased
faste
Longe tyme; and at the laste, 380
This hert rused and stal away
Fro alle the houndes a prevy way.
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But my mind was weary Almost as the
twilight
of the day,
And my soul was sullen, and a little Tired of his everlasting talk.
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Too pressed to wait, upon her slate
Fame writes a name or two in doubt;
Scarce written, these no longer please,
And her own finger rubs them out:
It may ensue, fair girl, that you
Years hence this
yellowing
leaf may see,
And put to task, your memory ask
In vain, 'This Lowell, who was he?
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These consisted of the _Arzamass_, or French school, to
which Pushkin himself together with his uncle Vassili Pushkin
the "Nestor of the Arzamass" belonged, and their opponents who
devoted themselves to the
cultivation
of the vernacular.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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This rendered him dearer to woman's
heart than all the lyric effusions of his fancy; and when we add to
such allurements, a warm, flowing, and persuasive eloquence, we need
not wonder that woman
listened
and was won; that one of the most
charming damsels of the West said, an hour with him in the dark was
worth a lifetime of light with any other body; or that the
accomplished and beautiful Duchess of Gordon declared, in a latter
day, that no man ever carried her so completely off her feet as Robert
Burns.
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And scathe is, that Fair-Welcoming,
Withouten
any trespassing,
Shal wrongfully in prison be,
Ther wepeth and languissheth he.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,
Hung with the
trophies
of my lovers gone,
Who all their parts of me to thee did give,
That due of many now is thine alone:
Their images I lov'd, I view in thee,
And thou--all they--hast all the all of me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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They look upon his eyes,
Filled with deep surprise;
And
wondering
behold
A spirit armed in gold.
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blake-poems |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
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Yet not to earth's contracted span
Thy goodness let me bound,
Or think Thee Lord alone of man,
When thousand worlds are round:
Let not this weak,
unknowing
hand
Presume Thy bolts to throw,
And deal damnation round the land,
On each I judge Thy foe.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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'17'
The word "wit" has a number of different meanings in this poem, and the
student should be careful to
discriminate
between them.
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The _Chanson d'Antioche_ contains
perhaps the most illuminating
admission
of this difficulty.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Can the spice-rose
drip such acrid fragrance
hardened
in a leaf?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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There is not a bird but
delights
in the place where it rests:
And I too--love my thatched cottage.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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" men shall ask,
When the world is old, and time
Has
accomplished
without haste
The strange destiny of men.
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Sappho |
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No longer the flowers are gay,
The
springtime
hath lost its caress,
Alone I will dream to-day,
Weep in the silent recess.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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