No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer
throughout
next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that mysterious maid.
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Dumoise was wrong in shutting himself from the
world for a year, and he
discovered
his mistake when an epidemic of
typhoid broke out in the Station in the heart of the cold weather, and
his wife went down.
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Charles Farish was the author of 'The
Minstrels
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The
poor girl felt that she had in a sense been an
accomplice
in the death
of her benefactress.
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to my
disciple
plato in his
book of i{n} thimeo.
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Yet its voice ever a murmur resumes, as of
multitudes
praying:
Liturgies lost in a moan like the mourning of far-away seas.
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But most I'll choose that subtler dusk that comes
Into the mind--into the heart, you say--
When, as we look bewildered at lovely things,
Striving
to give their loveliness a name,
They are forgotten; and other things, remembered,
Flower in the heart with the fragrance we call grief.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Melanthius also is
punished
with miserable mutilation.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It can't be summer, -- that got through;
It 's early yet for spring;
There 's that long town of white to cross
Before the
blackbirds
sing.
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paragraph
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--Sun, who tarries on high,
contemplating
Rome:
Greater never you've nor shall you in future see greater
Than Rome, O sun, as your priest, Horace, enraptured foretold.
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Know thou that whether for Aegyptus' race
Thou dost their wish fulfil,
Or for the gods and for each holy place--
Be thy choice good or ill,
Blow is with blow requited, grace with grace
Such is Zeus'
righteous
will.
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Grosart thought this a
useful
description
of the letter: but a clear indication should have
been given that it was not Wordsworth's.
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Leoni's younger brother
Went likewise, and when he
returned
to Spain,
He told Leoni, that the poor mad youth,
Soon after they arrived in that new world,
In spite of his dissuasion, seized a boat,
And all alone, set sail by silent moonlight
Up a great river, great as any sea,
And ne'er was heard of more: but 'tis supposed,
He lived and died among the savage men.
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In the uncritical and boisterous atmosphere of the Satyr-play it was
natural hospitality, not
especially
laudable or surprising.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Their joy was soon
heightened
by his marriage
with Julia, the daughter of Drusus.
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The work of many days so
transitory!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Solo tre passi credo ch'i' scendesse,
e fui di sotto, e vidi un che mirava
pur me, come
conoscer
mi volesse.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Lo, from the shades of Death's deep night,
Departed
Whigs enjoy the fight,
And think on former daring:
The muffled murtherer[101] of Charles
The Magna Charter flag unfurls,
All deadly gules it's bearing.
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Robert Forst |
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"
The words of Marya
Ivanofna
enlightened me, and made many things clear
to me.
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Yet Ennius too in everlasting verse
Proclaims
those vaults of Acheron to be,
Though thence, he said, nor souls nor bodies fare,
But only phantom figures, strangely wan,
And tells how once from out those regions rose
Old Homer's ghost to him and shed salt tears
And with his words unfolded Nature's source.
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
So hort die traurige
Geschicht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The
guardian
waited
ill-enduring till evening came;
boiling with wrath was the barrow's keeper,
and fain with flame the foe to pay
for the dear cup's loss.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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When you did change your ring for mine
My yielding heart to win,
Though mine was of the beaten gold
Yours but of
burnished
tin,
Though mine was all true love without,
Yours but false love within?
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John Clare |
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Those
backwoods
are not far
off then.
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Keats - Lamia |
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It enlivens the dulness of the Universal History,
and gives a charm to the most meagre
abridgements
of Goldsmith.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Me-azag,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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]
[Footnote 64: The banks of Garpal Water is one of the few places in the
West of Scotland, where those fancy-scaring beings, known by the name
of Ghaists, still
continue
pertinaciously to inhabit.
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Robert Forst |
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It isn't just to make a wind you blow,
But to turn red fire into white
quivering
heat.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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All
creation
slept and smiled.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Vigorously
he cantered onward thence.
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Chanson de Roland |
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here the forest ledge slopes--
rain has
furrowed
the roots.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Take a silver minute from your
treasured
time; Listen to it tinkle a little chime
For the poor lost sheep of the Lord.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I pity her pain, her lover enchants me;
Peace vanishes, and desire
inflames
me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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Is Heaven a
physician?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Their
habiliments
belonged to that
order which is pointedly termed the decent.
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Poe - 5 |
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And then a
Princess
I became
To whom men bend their knees;
To princes things are not the same
As those a beggar sees.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
Whereat one witling cries, "'tis monstrous fit,
In sooth, a shaven-pated priest should have
A shaven-eared audience;" and another,
"Give thanks, thou Jacques, to this most gracious Duke
That rids thee of the life-long dread of loss
Of thy two ears, by
cropping
them at once;
And now henceforth full safely thou may'st dare
The powerfullest Lord in France to touch
An ear of thine;" and now the knave o' the knife
Seizes the handle to commence again, and saws
And .
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Sidney Lanier |
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Strangely
you murmur below me,
Strange is your half-silent power.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The Bonapartes, we know their bees
That wade in honey red to the knees;
Their patent reaper, its sheaves sleep sound
In dreamless garners underground:
We know false glory's
spendthrift
race
Pawning nations for feathers and lace;
It may be short, it may be long,
''Tis reckoning-day!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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It may safely, however, be averred that
no
considerations
would have tempted him to visit the Arctic regions.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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]
"The Pot calls a
bystander
to be a witness to his bad treatment.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I
This is the Month, and this the happy morn
Wherin the Son of Heav'ns eternal King,
Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born,
Our great redemption from above did bring;
For so the holy sages once did sing,
That he our deadly forfeit should release,
And with his Father work us a
perpetual
peace.
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Milton |
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80
What word hath pass'd thy lips,
Daughter
belov'd?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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That I can't say; but this
shoulder
is broken, anyhow.
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Aristophanes |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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To the Iliad still greater
obligations are due; and those
obligations
have been contracted
with the less hesitation, because there is reason to believe that
some of the old Latin minstrels really had recourse to that
inexhaustible store of poetical images.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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But the tinker he
grumbled
and cried Fiddle-dee!
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John Clare |
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--how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the
swinging
and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells--
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells--
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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When I
received
your ladyship's letter, I was just in the act of
transcribing for you some verses I have lately composed; and meant to
have sent them my first leisure hour, and acquainted you with my late
change of life.
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Robert Forst |
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in diseased flesh,
Ambition is
engendered
readily.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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By Zeus, she'll take good care she does not, and you will see
her inventing a
thousand
excuses.
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Aristophanes |
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Seated in companies they sit, with
radiance
all their own.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Unless you have removed all
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Iliad - Pope |
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pace mihi liceat, caelestes, dicere uestra:
mortalis uisust
pulcrior
esse deo.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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At which the
universal
host up-sent
A shout that tore Hell's conclave, and beyond
Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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ou
remembrest
wel ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Let's after him,
Whose care is gone before, to bid vs welcome:
It is a
peerelesse
Kinsman.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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XXXI
Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have
supposed
dead;
And there reigns Love, and all Love's loving parts,
And all those friends which I thought buried.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
And at the
blindness
of my spirit
They screamed,
"Fool!
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Stephen Crane |
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When they are come to the
mountain
heights and pathless
coverts, lo, wild goats driven from the cliff-tops run down the ridge;
in another quarter stags speed over the open plain and gather their
flying column in a cloud of dust as they leave the hills.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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TO EVA
O fair and stately maid, whose eyes
Were kindled in the upper skies
At the same torch that lighted mine;
For so I must interpret still
Thy sweet
dominion
o'er my will,
A sympathy divine.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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"
And when
yourself
you come my way
My vision does not cleave, but turns
Without a shiver or salute.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Don't talk such
sentimental
nonsense--
_Katrina_.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Mine arms enfold
That, which
unswayed
by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so infinitely far.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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REMEMBRANCE
Expectant and waiting you muse
On the great rare thing which alone
To enhance your life you would choose:
The awakening of the stone,
The deeps where
yourself
you would lose.
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Rilke - Poems |
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--O forgive me
That all these days
questioning
I have been,
Struggled with doubts.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The armed men more weighty were for that,
Many of them down to the bottom sank,
Downstream
the rest floated as they might hap;
So much water the luckiest of them drank,
That all were drowned, with marvellous keen pangs.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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'And yit of Daunger cometh no blame,
In reward of my
doughter
Shame,
Which hath the roses in hir warde, 3255
As she that may be no musarde.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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A number of personal
references
are best pursued by reading a biography of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later relationship with the actress Jenny Colon.
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The priests were singing, and the organ sounded,
And then anon the great
cathedral
bell.
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Longfellow |
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As
everyone
is crying,
We also, brother, will begin to cry.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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During this
interval, victory
abandons
the army, which for nine years has been
occupied in a great enterprise, upon the successful termination of
which the honour of their country depends.
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Iliad - Pope |
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As I had
promised
I would, long I awaited you there.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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If given my crime you await slow justice,
Honour and my
punishment
both languish.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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punishment {Erdman does not provide this line of
inserted
and struck text, but it appears to be the same text as Blake inserts below.
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Blake - Zoas |
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THE MANDRAKE
FLORENTINE we now design to show;--
A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below;
It seems a prudent woman he had wed,
With beauty that might grace a monarch's bed;
Young, brisk, good-humoured, with
engaging
mien;
None in the town, or round, the like was seen:
Her praises every voice inclined to sing,
And judged her worthy of a mighty king;
At least a better husband she deserved:
An arrant fool he looked, and quite unnerved.
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La Fontaine |
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)
I struck thee dead, then stood above,
With tears that none but
dreamers
weep;'
`Dreams,' quoth Love;
"`In dreams, again, I plucked a flower
That clung with pain and stung with power,
Yea, nettled me, body and mind.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Let the glad lark-song
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That melting lyric
Of molten silver,
Be for a signal
To
listening
mortals,
How I adore thee.
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How much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use,
If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine
Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,'
Proving his beauty by
succession
thine!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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3 The
persuader
Li Yiji told Liu Bang that he could take the seventy cities of Qi without effort.
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The Duke of
Tarentum
swam
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Byron |
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We verily,
that Turnus [371-406]may have his royal bride, must lie scattered on
the plains,
worthless
lives, a crowd unburied and unwept.
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"We would see a sign":
The word within a word, unable to speak a word,
Swaddled
with darkness.
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He met within the
murmurous
vestibule
His young disciple.
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Keats - Lamia |
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I
entremete
me of brocages,
I make pees and mariages,
I am gladly executour,
And many tymes procuratour;
I am somtyme messager; 6975
That falleth not to my mister.
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Five score
thousand
Franks swooned on the earth and fell.
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